REALPOLITIK: ‘Blowback’, Abu Sayyef and the CIA – By Edmundo Santuardio III

Source – constantinereport.com – “…Abu Sayyaf members, Pimentel said, were initially recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency as mujahideens to fight the U.S. proxy war in Afghanistan in the ‘80s. Before their deployment, they were trained by AFP officers in Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Basilan and other remote areas in Mindanao. But the arms and funds came…

AMERIKA: The Fat Lady Sings – The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

Source – lewrockwell.com – “…The elite work through others – hundreds of thousands of others – trained in proper universities, trained in proper methods of diplomacy, manipulation, and control.  They work through others who are trained to react to incentives – money and power. These hundreds of thousands of people are programmed to act in…

MIND GAMES: Will the Pentagon’s Effort to Whip Up War Fever Work in This Internet Era?

Source – thedailybell.com – “… Increasingly, the Pentagon’s manipulative behavior is being questioned – and by the alternative media in particular. Perhaps this time the scheming of the military-industrial complex will not be so richly rewarded as usual. (Will the Pentagon’s Effort to Whip Up War Fever Work in This Internet Era?) In the past…

REALPOLITIK: ‘The Broken Chessboard’, Brzezinski Gives Up on Empire – By Mike Whitney

Source – counterpunch.org – “…The first of these verities is that the United States is still the world’s politically, economically, and militarily most powerful entity but, given complex geopolitical shifts in regional balances, it is no longer the globally imperial power.” (Toward a Global Realignment, Zbigniew Brzezinski, The American Interest)”: (‘The Broken Chessboard’, Brzezinski Gives…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Colonization by Bankruptcy’, The High-stakes Chess Match for Argentina – By Ellen Brown

Source – globalresearch.ca – “…The deeper implications of that infernal debt cycle were explored by Argentine political analyst Adrian Salbuchi in an August 12th article titled “Sovereign Debt for Territory: A New Global Elite Swap Strategy.” Where territories were once captured by military might, he maintains that today they are being annexed by debt” (‘Colonization…

KILL THE MESSENGER: Nicolas Sarkozy ordered the assassination of Hugo Chavez (Flashback)

Source – voltairenet.org –  “…During his trial, Mr. Bouquet admitted he had been trained in Israel and was an agent of French military intelligence service (DGSE). He admitted planning an attack to assassinate Constitutional President Hugo Chavez”: Nicolas Sarkozy ordered the assassination of Hugo Chavez – By The Venezuelan Minister of Correctional Services, Iris Varela,…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Covert WW3’, Russian FSB Foiled CIA-Ukraine Terror Attempt in Crimea, Militaries on Full Combat Status

Source – geopolitics.co – “…This latest attempt to start a war inside Crimea is CIA’s response to the recent pivot of Turkey towards Russia, most notably, the revival of the Turkish Stream, after Erdogan survived what he believes to be a CIA-instigated coup to topple him”: (Covert WW3: Russian FSB Foiled CIA-Ukraine Terror Attempt in…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Sick Man of Asia No More’, China & the Battle for Commodities – By Caleb Maupin

Source – journal-neo.org – “…The reason western leaders constantly demonize China is because the most populous country in the world is no longer an impoverished semi-colony. Unlike most of the “third world,” China now stands before the world stronger than ever. The international bankers of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are watching…

REALPOLITIK: Ukraine’s ‘October Surprise’ (…may be coming in September) – By Justin Raimondo

Source – original.antiwar.com – “…In short, the leaders of Ukraine hate Trump, have continually denounced him, and are openly rooting for a Clinton victory in November: by launching a terrorist attack on Crimea, and before that trying to assassinate the President of the rebellious Luhansk Republic in eastern Ukraine – they put a bomb under…

REALPOLITIK: Why Washington is Terrified by the Prospects of the Upcoming Putin-Erdogan Meeting – By Martin Berger

Source – journal-neo.org – “…We must not forget that Ankara’s abrupt turn towards Russia occurred when Turkey recognized that it was being prepared for the “future US president and her wars.” Turkey was the last state that was to be brought down by US intelligence services in order to collapse the whole region. It is…

REALPOLITIK: ‘The New Fundamentalism’, Understanding the U.S. War State – By Prof. John McMurtry (Flashback)

Source – informationclearinghouse.info – “..The U.S. state military invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in under two years are expressions of this new supra-market policy. Before we pass over the pattern of facts at work as merely realpolitik, we should note that this armed-state project resembles fascism: not only in war criminal attacks on other countries…

REALPOLITIK: 5 Explosive Secret Intelligence Memos on Systematic ‘Rape’ of Libya

Source – thecanary.co – “…France wanted control over Gaddafi’s billions in gold and silver bullion as revealed in Hillary Clinton’s 27 March 2011 confidential intelligence brief – According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion….This was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Thinking Through the Unthinkable’, RAND Corporation Lays out Scenarios for US War with China – By Peter Symonds

Source – globalresearch.ca – “…The new study indicates that such a shift in thinking is underway in Washington. And while the RAND Corporation study dismisses the possibility of nuclear war, other imperialist strategists are planning for such an eventuality”: (‘Thinking Through the Unthinkable’, RAND Corporation Lays out Scenarios for US War with China – By…

REALPOLITIK: The NATO War Machine and the Exoneration of the ‘Butcher of the Balkans’ – By Neil Clark

Source – neilclark66.blogspot.ca – “…As John Pilger noted in 2008, the bombing of Yugoslavia was the “perfect precursor to the bloodbaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.”  Since then we’ve also had the NATO destruction of Libya, the country which had the highest living standards in the whole of Africa and the backing of violent ‘rebels’ to try and achieve…

REALPOLITIK: The ‘Gülen Movement’ and the CIA Islam Strategy of Destabilization

Source – journal-neo.org – “…As they were deploying Osama bin Laden’s Arab Mujahideen “holy warriors” into Chechnya and the Caucasus during the 1990s, the CIA, working with a network of self-styled “neo-conservatives” in Washington, began to build their most ambitious political Islam project ever – It was called the Fethullah Gülen Movement, also known in…

COUP D’ETAT: Did the U.S. Pay $2 Billion to Finance the Coup in Turkey?

Source – stuartjeannebramhall.com – “…According to the paper, “Millions of dollars of money has been transferred from Nigeria to Turkey by a group of CIA personnel. The money, which has been distributed to an 80-person special team of the CIA, was used to convince pro-coup generals. After taking money from their bank accounts, the CIA…

REALPOLITIK: Imperial Washington and the Power Of “Nyet” – By Dmitry Orlov

Source – cluborlov.blogspot.ca – “…The way things are supposed to work on this planet is like this: in the United States, the power structures (public and private) decide what they want the rest of the world to do. They communicate their wishes through official and unofficial channels, expecting automatic cooperation. If cooperation is not immediately…

REALPOLITIK: Credible Evidence Indicates Russia Really Is Behind Massive Breach of DNC

Source – undergroundreporter.org – “…After the DNC first suspected tampering with its systems in April — officials called in security firm CrowdStrike to investigate. The firm quickly identified two serious threats within the DNC network, both of which were traced back to Russian agencies — the FSB, Russia’s state security agency, and GRU, their branch…

REALPOLITIK: Armageddon Approaches – By Paul Craig Roberts

Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…Washington might intend the military buildup as pressure on President Putin to reduce Russian opposition to Washington’s unilateralism. However, it reminds some outspoken Russians such as Vladimir Zhirinovsky of Hitler’s troops on Russia’s border in 1941”: (Armageddon Approaches — Paul Craig Roberts) The Western public doesn’t know it, but Washington and…

OILIGARGHY: ‘The CIA’s Frankenstein’ – SAVAK, the Shah of Iran’s Brutal Secret Police (Flashback)

Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – “…Kermit Roosevelt, the Mossadegh coup-master turned Northrop salesman, admitted in his memoirs that SAVAK was 100% created by the CIA and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency that acts as appendage of the CIA.  For the next 20 years the CIA and SAVAK were joined at the hip when it came to…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Seeing Red’, Nixon and the Presidential Election in Chile, 1970 – By Mateo Pimentel (Flashback)

Source – countercurrents.org – “…The election alone was enough to make Nixon holler “that sonofabitch … that bastard Allende” deep inside of White House walls…Rockefeller and his team advised working with dictators, especially in recognition of “the specific forms or processes by which each nation moves toward a pluralistic system will vary with its own…

REALPOLITIK: FBI Director James B. Comey – Inside Man for the Bush-Clinton Crime Family?

Source  themillenniumreport.com – “…Both POTUS Obama and SOS Clinton conspired to set up a home server and private email account in order for her to effectively run a parallel government to covertly conduct their brand of gunboat diplomacy and promote disaster capitalism through naked warmongering, financial terrorism and economic sabotage”: (James B. Comey: Inside Man…

REALPOLITIK: Claims Emerge that Erdogan Faked his own Coup in order to Wield More Power

Source – sputniknews.com – “…Turkey’s government has already wrangled together over 2,8000 soldiers and 2,745 judges who are claimed to have conspired against the Erdogan regime and who now all face treason charges….the prison doors have now shut on the leaders primary political opponents”: (Claims Emerge that Erdogan Faked his own Coup in order to Wield More Power) What…

REALPOLITIK: Political Dirty Tricks for the Digital Age, How Sophisticated Digital Gerrymandering Undermines Democracy – By Jeff Schechtman

Source – whowhatwhy.org – “…They use a program called Maptitude, which comes preloaded with all the census information, so it’s amazing demographic detail on ethnicity and economics and religion, everything you might imagine. And then you can add all the public record datasets into this; so voter registration numbers, voter turnout numbers, election results, precinct…

REALPOLITIK: Barack Hussein Obama II, The Greek God of War?

Source – journal-neo.org – “…It’s enough to just mention that Barack Obama has been at war longer than any president in United States history and he will be remembered as the only president who ever served two full terms in office while constantly being at war”: (Obama: The War God in Disguise? – Martin Berger)…

REALPOLITIK: US-Funded Textbooks Taught Afghan Kids The ABCs of Jihad

Source – anonhq.com – “…To understand just how horrible these old textbooks were, aid workers who reviewed the books found that 43 pages of a 100-page book contained violent images or passages. Chris Brown, head of book revision for AID’s Central Asia Task Force admitted that the textbooks were a form of extremely effective anti-soviet propaganda”: (Day…