John Whitbeck in COUNTERPUNCH where the title reads “American Obeisance” … & the highlighting emphasis is the work of The Editor, Thuppahi
I have just witnessed the most pathetic and humiliating hour which I, as an American, have experienced in my lifetime.
Netanyahu sketches vague outline for post-war Gaza _ Reuters
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Theodore K
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Observer in a Black Sea Port
This You Tube item serves up an excellent discussion and critical analysis of some of the key clauses of the recent NATO communique. It is entertaining too. There is a vast gap between the intellectual rigour applied in this discussion, compared to NATO’s communique which is a distortion of reality and historical truth, and is sheer propaganda.
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A. K. L. Steinbeck, …. with title and underlining imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
WATCH = https://x.com/DOmowale/status/1805701195366822364 …& … https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/6/25/kenya-protests-live-deadly-anti-tax-protests-after-finance-bill-approved
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Observer in a Black Sea Resort Town
On Sunday 23 June, which was the Orthodox holiday of Trinity, a public holiday in Russia, three coordinated attacks took place.
The first was a Ukrainian-US attack on a popular Black Sea resort near Sevastopol in Russia’s Crimea, which killed four, including two children playing on a beach. Over 150 people were wounded. In this Ukrainian-US strike, five ATACMS ballistic missiles–requiring American servicemen to operate them–were fired at a popular beach near Sevastopol. Four missiles were intercepted but the explosion of the cluster warhead in the fifth missile in the air resulted in many civilian casualties.
Attending to ca
sualities yesterday in a Black Sea resort town near Sevastopol after cluster munitions from a US made ATACMS missile exploded above the beach resort.
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An Observer in a Black Sea Town … with highlighting emphasis being impositions by The Editor, Thuppahi
Sachs discusses why he is never brought on mainstream media to discuss the Ukraine proxy war and the lies of the Western media, how the G7’s growing arrogance is resulting in multiple crises, in Gaza, Ukraine and Taiwan, how the NATO countries’ governments and media continuously use the term ‘unprovoked invasion’ when discussing the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, how the Ukraine proxy war could have easily been avoided and the consequences of NATO expansion and adventurism, the ‘Ukraine peace conference’ in Switzerland, why nothing will change after the November 2024 US Presidential election.
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Theodore K .… commenting thus in sending Thuppahi this Item
WATCH … https://www.youtube.com/live/aOrmFJXyAVI?si=8OyJo8s1Sx2u_u5X
Leading experts speak at the Schiller Institute today on how close the world is to nuclear war. The speakers include the ubiquitous Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector, and Colonel Richard Black, a former Vietnam veteran – both appear on a Ukrainian hitlist which raises the question,Filed under accountability, american imperialism, authoritarian regimes, British imperialism, centre-periphery relations, conspiracies, ethnicity, governance, historical interpretation, life stories, military strategy, Pacific Ocean politics, politIcal discourse, power politics, self-reflexivity, slanted reportage, the imaginary and the real, truth as casualty of war, Ukraine & Its Ramifications, war reportage, world events & processes, World War Three?, zealotry
Daya Gamage, whose chosen title runs thus: “US lawmakers ignorance of civilian casualties in Lanka’s war on terrorism”
Declaring that the government of Sri Lanka, while combating ‘Tamil Organizations’ which were fighting for a Tamil Homeland in the North-East, committed genocide against the Tamil people, a resolution was tabled in the US House of Representatives, on May 15, 2024, to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the conclusion of the LTTE’s terrorist war; it states, “Recognizing the hundreds of thousands of lives lost during Sri Lanka’s almost 30-year armed conflict, which ended 15 years ago on May 18, 2009, and ensuring nonrecurrence of past violence, including the Tamil Genocide, by supporting the right to self-determination of Eelam Tamil people and their call for an independence referendum for a lasting peaceful resolution”.
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Theodore K …. with the underlining in red imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
On 25 May 2024, President Biden gave a speech to new graduates at West Point to prepare them for war. It was a delusional speech in which Biden attempted to assert the right of the US to control the world under the guise of meaningless platitudes such as the US is the “indispensable nation”, “the world’s only superpower”,”and “the leading democracy in the world”. All the evidence of US security, defence and foreign policy over the past 32 years shows these claims are false. Biden fails to recognize the reality of a changing world – a world that has moved on since 1994. US hegemony is declining. We now live in a multipolar world when the emphasis is on international democratization. The US has inflicted terrible damage to the world, especially over the past three decades due to the Neocons.
President Joe Biden delivers the commencement address for the U.S. Military Academy class of 2024, Saturday, May 25, 2024, in West Point, New York.
(Official White House Photo by Erin Scott)
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