WASHINGTON, February 24 (Sputnik) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that Americans dislike seeing countries bully each other, despite the United States maintaining an armed presence at approximately 750 bases across 80 countries.

"I think viscerally most Americans don’t like to see a big country bullying another, and they just feel it’s wrong and want to do something about it," Blinken said during an interview with CBS. 

The old rat had lived well

Avoiding traps and the poisoned rice

Eating human foods and drinking from their filtered well

But now he was arthritic from over-indulgence 

Of patés, brioches and victuailles imported from La France

About to die, unable to climb to the attic twice, not even once

I better commit suicide and eat those blue wheat pellets

I remember my days with the young female ratlettes

Thin and debonaire

I were suave, full of rat-pong and expertise in my lair

I am becoming blind as well, my beautiful black eyes becoming foggy

This is the price of eating too well, the refined crap from them bourgeois bins

Full of preservatives and nasty chemicals without names

But tasty nonetheless for the really refined palate of Sir James

Obese like the cat next door with whom I shared a plate on Frid’y

My research has led me to conclude that there’s an elite conspiracy to enslave us all and turn us all into brainwashed automatons mindlessly enacting the wishes of our rulers in a cruel dystopia built by the powerful, for the powerful.

Haha, just kidding. That already happened.

BY CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

Step one is learning that the mainstream consensus worldview is a lie, and that we’ve been fed power-serving propaganda since we were children about our society, our nation, our government and our world. Most people haven’t even made it to step one yet.

“Nobody is pushing” the conflict in Ukraine more than US State Department official Victoria Nuland, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday. Nuland, who helped to orchestrate the pro-Western coup in Kiev in 2014, has backed military strikes on the Russian territory of Crimea.

Nuland’s declaration last Thursday that Russian military bases in Crimea are “legitimate targets” for Ukrainian forces was interpreted by the Kremlin as proof of “US involvement in the Ukraine conflict.” In a post on Telegram, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned that Moscow would respond to such attacks “using weapons of any kind.”

HOLLYWOOD AND THE MARVEL COMICS ARE FULL OF INCREDIBLE (NON-CREDIBLE) STORIES. TAKE FOR EXAMPLE THE MOVIE “SPACE COWBOYS”…. NICELY SET UP WITH OLD CHEESE ASTRONAUTS SAVING THE PLANET FROM THE NAUGHTY RUSSIANS WHO IN THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR HAD MADE A NASTY LOOKING SATELLITE DESIGNED TO SEND NUCLEAR BOMBS BACK TO PLANET EARTH.

OF COURSE, THE BENEVOLENT AMERICAN EMPIRE WOULD NEVER HAVE THOUGH OF DOING THE SAME THING.

SO IN THE STORY, BECAUSE IT IS A STORY, ISN’T IT? OUR OLD YANKEE BOYS COOPERATE WITH THE RUSSIANS TO DEFUSE THE AGEING SATELLITE SLOWLY COMING TO CRASH ON OUR LOVELY PLANET. BECAUSE THE RUSSIANS WERE CRAP AT MAKING ELECTRONICS, THE ELECTRONIC DEVICES ABOARD THIS NASTY THING HAD BEEN PROUDLY SUPPLIED BY THE AMERICANS.

ONCE MORE WE ARE FACED WITH A FORMIDABLE FOE: WESTERN PROPAGANDA, EVEN ON THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING CHANNEL THE ABC (AUSTRALIA) AND IT'S GETTING MORE AND MORE RIDICULOUS.

TONIGHT ON THE NEWS WE GOT A SAMPLE OF HOT SHIT CRAP… THERE WERE PICTURES OF A STADIUM FILLED TO THE BRIM OF RUSSIANS WITH RUSSIAN FLAGS SUPPORTERS OF PUTIN THE RUSSIAN DESPOT. 200 SOMETHING THOUSANDS CHEERING PEOPLE WHICH WAS, WE WERE TOLD, THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF DEAD RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN THE DISASTROUS RUSSIAN INTERVENTION IN UKRAINE. 

OUT OF A TWO HOUR SPEECH BY MR PUTIN, WE GOT LESS THAN A THREE SECOND GRAB, EDITED IN A MANNER TO EXCLUDE CONTEXT…

WE STAND WITH UKRAINE AT THE ABC. WE DO. BUT NOT ON THIS SITE, HERE. WE CAN’T. EITHER WE’RE IDIOTS OR WE KNOW TOO MUCH. I GO WITH THE LATTER, I HOPE…

We reason wrongly in thinking that the defeat of President Zelensky in Donetsk and Lugansk, in Kherson and Zaporijjia, could mark the end of the fighting. Faced with the resistance Moscow has encountered in enforcing Security Council Resolution 2202, President Putin has declared that he still has to liberate Odessa and join Transnistria.

This is precisely what the Pentagon has been looking for since 2019. It is already preparing a second round in Moldova. Not that THE PENTAGON wants to defend the Ukrainians, then the Moldavians, but because it intends to strip his own allies.

by Thierry meyssan

Where does Europe go in the wake of the Nord Stream allegations? It is hard to see a Germany-dominated Europe diverging far from Washington. 

“NATO has never been stronger; Russia is a global Pariah; and the world remains inspired by Ukrainian bravery and resilience; in short, Russia has lost, Russia has lost strategically, operationally and tactically – and they are paying an enormous price on the battlefield”.

Roald Dahl is internationally known for penning children's classics such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox and many others. however, it looks like the new editions of his works have been altered.

Critics have lashed out at changes to Roald Dahl's children's books by the British publisher, accusing it of distorting the content of the author’s works.

Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (German: [ˈʊʁzula ˈɡeːɐ̯tʁuːt fɔn deːɐ̯ ˈlaɪən]; née Albrecht, born 8 October 1958) is a German politician who has been serving as the president of the European Commission since 2019.

When I awoke Sunday morning to the news that YouTube had censored a long interview Seymour Hersh did with Democracy Now! on the grounds that it did not meet the Google subsidiary’s “community standards” and was, moreover, “offensive,” my mind went in many directions.

By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi asked the EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, why he was so concerned with Beijing potentially giving weapons to Russia when Brussels is funnelling arms to Ukraine, Borrell told reporters.

Wang and Borrell met at the Munich Security Conference last week, after which the latter warned on Monday that any Chinese assistance to the Russian military would be considered a “red line” by the EU.

Speaking to reporters at a NATO meeting on Tuesday, Borrell said that he and Wang had a “frank conversation” in Munich.

During this conversation, Wang made it clear that “China doesn’t provide arms to countries at war,”and had no plans of providing arms to Russia. This, Wang said, “is the principle of China’s foreign policy,” according to Borrell’s recollection.

With Russia now slowly escalating its ‘special military operation’ against Ukraine on the eve of its first anniversary, I find myself drawn once again to the complex but stark phenomenon of extreme Jewish corruption in the latter nation.

BY ANDREW JOYCE

One would think that the United States military staging an unprovoked “plausibly deniable” covert attack on a nation with which it is not at war would be at least considered newsworthy.

That the attack did grave damage to a country with which the US is closely allied would seem to make the aggression even more unthinkable. And, perhaps worst of all, that the attack was set up by the nation’s chief executive using a political bypass that avoided congressional oversight and adherence to the war powers act which might be most reprehensible of all as it cuts to the heart of the nation’s constitutional balance of powers.

BY Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D.

One did not have to be gay to be gay

Nor mince to join the Yankee army yesterday

One didn't have to be homo to see bent rainbows

One did not have to have pride to have pride

As we had been tenderised 

Not genderised

by our traditional personal array of born appendages, 

Romantically used for sexo-pleasure and proto-reproduction

Though we might need to be gay to be in charge of the arts

Because we, artists of yesteryears, are now rejected old farts

By the rainbow crowd that sees us with zero-minimum advantages

One did not have to sodomise the world to exist

Except bugger our sworn enemies on the long list

Those of the American empire who give us the shits

One didn't have to be a woman to play with a woman’s tush

Nor be from Lesbos to play with her lovely tits