US President Joe Biden has boasted about his vast foreign policy experience during a fundraiser for his 2024 re-election campaign, claiming that even veteran diplomat Henry Kissinger, who turned 100 in May, couldn’t surpass him.

“I’m going to say something outrageous. I think I know as much about American foreign policy as anybody living, including Dr. Kissinger,” Biden said during an event in Atherton, California on Monday.

“That’s what I’ve done my whole life, for the last 207 years,” he joked. The US leader, who is actually 80 years old, and has been a politician at the national level for 50 years. He also held the post of vice president in the Obama administration between 2009 and 2017 and was a US Senator for Delaware from 1973 until 2009.

The Pentagon is using leaks as a ‘narrative management tool’ to cover up Nord Stream sabotage and shift blame away from the US. More importantly, to paper over the diplomatic problems within NATO of the US attacking an energy security pipeline of Germany, a NATO member, Mark Sleboda, an international relations and security analyst, told Sputnik.

WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN EXTRACT FROM THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION. 

BUT FIRST AN ANALYSIS BY GUS LEONISKY, CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

IT APPEARS THAT EVEN BY THEN IN 1991 VLADIMIR PUTIN WAS “INVESTIGATING” A PHILOSOPHICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PEOPLE, UNDERSTANDING AND RESOURCES.

FINDING THE RIGHT DOSAGE OF PUBLIC/PRIVATE ADVENTURISM MIGHT HAVE LED THE YOUNG PUTIN IN EXPLORING DEAD-END AVENUES AS WELL AS FORMULATING IN HIS OWN MIND, WITHOUT REVEALING HIS SECRET — THAT OF MANAGING A FUTURE SUCCESSFUL RUSSIA. TO PUTIN, ONE MR LEONISKY WOULD SAY THAT THE UKRAINIAN PROBLEM IS A SIDE-ISSUE. IT IS NOT WITHOUT COMPLICATIONS OF GEOPOLITICAL STRATEGIES, NOR WITHOUT BENEFITS. 

The long-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive, touted both by the regime in Kiev and its Western backers for months, finally began this month, although it seems that it has so far failed to produce the results its masterminds desired.

While Ukrainian forces demonstrated a remarkable aptitude for losing manpower and military hardware by charging across minefields into fortified positions held by Russian forces, they haven’t managed to get close to, let alone breach, the first line of Russian defense.

The European Union will speed up deliveries of weaponry and ammunition to Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict with Russia, EU Internal Markets Commissioner Thierry Breton has said.

Speaking to French daily Le Parisien on Saturday, the EU industry boss said the bloc must ramp up its production to live up to its pledge to supply a million high-caliber munitions over the next 12 months.

“We are going to step up our efforts to deliver arms and ammunition – this is a war of high intensity in which they play a crucial role,” Breton stated.

Asked whether future military aid to Ukraine depends on the success of the ongoing counteroffensive effort against Russia, the official insisted EU support is not conditional and will be provided to prop up Kiev for as long as necessary.

Daniel Ellsberg’s First Leak Helped Prevent War With China

by Ray McGovern Posted on April 12, 2023

Those unaware of Dan Ellsberg’s 2002 Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers may think the leak of the Pentagon Papers was Dan’s first unauthorized disclosure. Not so. Arguably, his first such leak, in March 1968, was even more consequential.

PwC advised Lendlease on the billion-dollar tax scam which is now subject to Australian Tax Office audit. As Lendlease whistleblower Tony Watson fights the giant in court over his dismissal as a tax lawyer, documents obtained by MWM show Watson warned a PwC tax partner and group finance chief Tarun Gupta the tax scheme was a rort. Michael West reports.

In the week before Christmas in 2017, whistleblower Tony Watson met Tarun Gupta, then CFO of Lendlease, and Paul Abbey, a global tax partner of PwC. Watson explained to them in detail how Lendlease was breaching the tax laws on an aggressive retirement village deal. “The ATO will not fall for it,” he advised them subsequently by email.

"It's not me who says it, it's the satellites, the observation networks that feed the IPCC, so the IPCC knows perfectly well that the temperature since 2015 has tended to drop, and he says, he writes the opposite".

WE, ME AND THE ORDINARY MAN/WOMAN/TRANS IN THE STREET HAVE NO IDEA AS WHAT THE WHOLE CAPER OF CLIMATE CHANGE IS ABOUT — UNLESS WE INSPECT THE THEORY AND DIVE DEEP INTO THE HISTORY OF WHAT’S WHAT.

THE QUOTE ABOVE IS UNTRUE AND MISLEADING… SAME WITH THE IMAGE: IT IS A MISREPRESENTATION OF A COSMIC CHANGE AT PLANETARY LEVEL. AND CO2 IS INVISIBLE. SMOKE IS USUALLY SEEN AS A COOLANT.

AS UKRAINE IS BEING DEFEATED ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND AS THE WESTERN NATIONS ARE TRYING TO GIVE IT MORE LETHAL WEAPONS for more people to get killed, THERE HAS BEEN A SHIFT OF SUBJECTS AND FOCUS IN THE WESTERN NARRATIVES — ALL STILL DESIGNED TO DEMONISE PUTIN in particular, and Russia in general…

Say, THERE IS A LIST (OR SUPPOSED LIST) OF the 20,000 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS WHO HAVE DIED IN THE RUSSIAN MILITARY INTERVENTION. THE BBC IS GOOD AT SPELLING IT. BUT IT TELLS US THAT THESE SOLDIERS DIED WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT FOR…

London: Former prime minister Boris Johnson called the report into the so-called partygate scandal a “charade” after a parliamentary inquiry concluded he knowingly misled parliament multiple times in his statements about Downing Street gatherings that breached COVID rules.

Johnson has been under investigation by the Commons privileges committee since last June, after a probe by police and then senior civil servant Sue Gray confirmed a series of gatherings had taken place during lockdowns.

There is no rationality, logic or hope left in the U.S. government’s obsession with war. There is no complexity, awareness or nuance left in the U.S. media and its pundits’ perception of other nations as the enemy. There is only greed, jingoism, hypocrisy and belligerency left to define the current state of affairs, as the proxy war in Ukraine draws nearer to a dreaded nuclear confrontation. Norman Solomon joins host Robert Scheer for this episode of Scheer Intelligence to discuss his new book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, and explain the bipartisan cheerleading for war that goes largely unnoticed.

THE TEXT OF THIS POST KEEPS VANISHING... WILL SEE TO PLACE IT ONCE MORE....

HERE'S THE END:

By the time the conflict in Ukraine is resolved, Kiev will have accepted the loss of its former territories, and Western-led globalization will be dead, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told RT Arabic on Friday.

Speaking on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Lavrov described the West’s proxy war with Russia as “a geopolitical conflict,” in which the US was attempting to eliminate a powerful competitor and “preserve its hegemonic position by all means.”

Since Australia has mortgaged its future to this nation [the USA] it is worth debating the matter.

The preambles to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as statement of ideals are inspiring but the reality is far from these ideals. It is true that the Americans fought a civil war partly based on abolition of slavery but three quarters of a century after landmark civil rights legislation, only one percent of CEOs are black. Anyone who has lived in Washington metropolitan area and travelled on the red line of the metro can attest to the racial divide. Travelling from the affluent suburbs of Bethesda to the city, the clientele is predominantly white. The train loops through the city and back into the poorer suburbs of Maryland where the passengers are mostly black and visibly poorer.

At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the global dynamic of moving toward a multipolar order and away from one dominated by Europe and the United States.

The Russian leader noted that Western sanctions, intended to strangle Russia’s economy, have instead accelerated the process of decentering the West and spurred new relationships between Russia and partners in Africa and Asia. He also pointed to increased trade in rubles and yuan, although he cautioned that Russia has never intended to “de-dollarize” its economy.

Professor Joe Siracusa, a political scientist and dean of Global Futures at Curtin University in Western Australia, told Sputnik on Friday that Putin was “simply registering what is already a reality.”

In this video, watch Professor Jeffrey Sachs speak with Dr. Heinz Gärtner at the International Conference for Peace in Vienna (June 2023). Dr. Sachs' lays out clearly and succinctly how belligerent the foreign policy of the United States is and how a small group of elites keeps dragging the country's diplomacy to the brink of nuclear war—time and again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVMnfNCSGtQ

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