REALPOLITIK: Here’s How The Corporations Defeat Political Movements (Part 2)

Source – popularresistance.org – Divide activists into four groups: Radicals, Idealists, Realists and Opportunists. The Opportunists are in it for themselves and can be pulled away for their own self-interest. The Realists can be convinced that transformative change is not possible and we must settle for what is possible.  Idealists can be convinced they have the…

REALPOLITIK: Divide And Conquer, Unpacking Stratfor’s Rise To Power (Part 1) – By Steve Horn

Source – mintpressnews.com – Part 1: The birth of the private intelligence firm’s strategies for winning on the PR battlefield — for the highest bidder.  – This is part one of an exclusive Mint Press News investigation into the story of Stratfor. Don’t miss part 2. On Christmas Day 2011, the hacktivist collective Anonymous ruined…

REALPOLITIK: China retaliates? Massive explosion rips through U.S. military ammunitions facility near Tokyo; sabotage device found on the scene

Source  – naturalnews.com, By Mike Adams – To anyone who still doesn’t believe the world’s largest nations are already engaged in a global covert war involving kinetic weapons, currencies and cyber warfare, add this event to your list of things to ponder: Less than one day after another massive explosion destroyed a portion of Shandong,…

REALPOLITK: Why It Really All Comes Down To The Death Of The Petrodollar

Source – zerohedge.com – Last week, in the global currency war’s latest escalation, Kazakhstan instituted a free float for the tenge. The currency immediately plunged by some 25%. The rationale behind the move was clear enough. The plunge in crude prices along with the relative weakness of the Russian ruble had severely strained Kazakhstan, which…

GLADIO: Pan Am 103 Bombing Redux, Who was Behind It? Libya … or THE CIA? – By Cem Ertür

Source – constantinereport.com – The Western media has embarked on a new wave of disinformation.  After having formally accused Libya for the 1988 Lockerbie bombings, Britain’s tabloids, more than 25 years later, are now pointing their finger at Iran.  According to Gordon Rayner writing in the Daily Telegraph (11 March 2014). “Evidence gathered for the…

REALPOLITIK: “Tianjin explosion carried out by Pentagon space weapon in retaliation for Yuan currency devaluation” – Mike Addams

Source – naturalnews.com – EXCLUSIVE: Mainland Chinese dissidents have handed Natural News the following bombshell story. (Two minor updates / corrections are now included in this story, see below.) The Tianjin explosion was waged as an act of “kinetic retaliation” by the Pentagon in response to China’s currency war Yuan devaluation, according to dissident sources…

REALPOILITK: US Military reveals plans to expand drone program by 50 percent, including broader use of mercenaries

Source – commondreams.org, By Lauren McCauley – According to officials, the Pentagon hopes to expand the use of lethal drone strikes in the years ahead. (Photo: US Air Force) The U.S. Pentagon is poised to dramatically increase the deployment of surveillance drones over “global hot spots” such as Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, the South China Sea,…

REALPOLITIK: Obama, financial war and the elimination of DSK – By Thierry Meyssan (Flashback)

Source – voltairenet.org – It is impossible to understand the downfall of  without linking it to his project for the creation of a new international reserve currency, which was to be launched on 26 May 2011 at the Deauville G-8 summit. The project was paradoxically anticipated as much by the Emerging States as by stateless…

REALPOLITIK: Blood Brothers – When Assad’s Horrific Prisons were the CIA’s Dumping Ground – By David Kenner

Source – foreignpolicy.com  – As Secretary of State John Kerry delivered his opening remarks at the Syria peace talks in Switzerland on Wednesday, he expressed outrage at new revelations of the brutal tactics perpetrated by President Bashar Assad’s regime. Evidence of the execution of thousands of Syrians in Assad’s prisons, Kerry said, represented “an appalling…

REALPOLITIK: Was China Nuked? – Massive Explosion Rocks Chinese Port City, Martial Law Declared

Source – veteranstoday.com – China was recently, officially and publicly kicked in the face by the International Monetary Fund (IMF—Israel/America). Sorry China, you will not be allowed into THE CLUB. Maybe next year…. The inimitable Bill Holter deftly sets the scene in this interview with Greg Hunter of USAwatchdog.com Essentially, we hit China on their…

HIDDEN HISTORY: The secret history of Alaska, How Russia was led to sell its American stronghold

Source – sputniknews.com -There is still a lot of controversy about Alaska’s cession to the United States by Russian Emperor Alexander II; some experts call the treaty in question, suggesting that Alaska may hypothetically be returned to Russia. The real story of the cession of the Russian Possessions in North America — Alaska — by…

WAR IS PEACE: The “US Institute of Peace” is a coven of warmongers – By Justin Raimondo

Source – original.antiwar.com – The Intercept has an article on the “U.S. Institute of Peace,” a government agency founded in 1984 supposedly dedicated to promoting “nonviolent resolution of conflicts”: author Lee Fang is shocked – shocked! – that USIP chairman Stephen J. Hadley, a former national security advisor to George W. Bush, wants to arm…

REALPOLITIK: Former CIA Officer Philip Giraldi Discusses America’s “Deep State”

Source – theamericanconservative.com Former CIA Officer Philip Giraldi Discusses America’s “Deep State” It has frequently been alleged that the modern Turkish Republic operates on two levels. It has a parliamentary democracy complete with a constitution and regular elections, but there also exists a secret government that has been referred to as the “deep state,” in…

REALPOLITIK: The CIA, Maurice Tempelsman, Blood Diamonds, Gilead, Barrick and Mobutu

Source – constantinereport.com – “… Maurice Tempelsman’s diamond interests were established in the Congo in the early 1960’s with the help of the CIA. …”: Templesman and the Mobutu Coup … Belgian business tycoon Viscount Étienne Davignon is chairman of the board of directors of S.N. Brussels Airlines, which he co-founded after the bankruptcy of…

REALPOLITIK: Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US “Created” ISIS As A “Tool” To Overthrow Syria’s President Assad

Source – zerohedge.com – From the first sudden, and quite dramatic, appearance of the fanatical Islamic group known as ISIS which was largely unheard of until a year ago, on the world’s stage and which promptly replaced the worn out and tired al Qaeda as the world’s terrorist bogeyman, we suggested that the “straight to…

REALPOLITIK: The Spanish-American War of 1898 for “Cuba’s freedom” was really all about controlling Asia

Source – tomatobubble.com – High School history fables taught us that the Spanish-American War of 1898 was a meaningless war instigated by the Yellow Journalist William Randolph Hearst. Here’s a typical history-book sample of the retarded drivel that is still being spoon-fed to captive audiences of dumbed down students: “It is arguable that the Spanish-American…

WITH CRIMINAL INTENT: Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Likens Bailout Proposal To 1919 Versailles Treaty

Source – theguardian.com – after a weekend of “gunboat diplomacy”, Yanis Varoufakis was on course on Monday night to sway radical-leftist Syriza MPs to accept the most draconian rescue of a sovereign nation since the second world war. Also Read: Treaty of Versailles – The Road to Hitler http://www.academia.edu/1830319/Treaty_of_Versailles_The_Road_to_Hitler Tsipras, locked in fraught negotiations with…

REALPOLITIK: The Real Cause of the Revolutionary War – Preserving Slavery

Source  – stuartjeannebramhall.com – “The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Black Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America – Professor Gerald Horne”: – In this lecture about his 2014 book, African American history professor Gerald Horne exposes important events that triggered the so-called War of Independence. He makes a compelling case that the decision…

REALPOLITIK: Covert Operations & the CIA’s Hidden History in the Philippines

Source – derechos.org – By Roland G. Simbulan, Convenor/Coordinator, Manila Studies Program, University of the Philippines (Lecture at the University of the Philippines-Manila, Rizal Hall, Padre Faura, Manila, August 18, 2000): For a long time, Manila has been the main station, if not the regional headquarters, of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for Southeast Asia.…

REALPOLITIK: On the Trail of Turkey’s Terrorist Grey Wolves – By Martin A. Lee

Source – consortiumnews.com – Turkey, as a NATO country near Russia’s border, developed a powerful “deep state” where intelligence operatives, terrorists and gangsters crossed paths and shared political alliances, a grim reality that author Martin A. Lee explored in 1997 and a dark legacy that reaches to the present. In broad daylight on May 2,…

REALPOLITIK: Genocide at Srebrenica – The West’s Role In The Worst Massacre In Europe Since The Third Reich – By Ed Vulliamy

Source – theguardian.com – Classified documents and research show that British, American and French governments were negotiating to cede ‘safe area’ town to Serbs The fall of Srebrenica in Bosnia 20 years ago, prompting the worst massacre in Europe since the Third Reich, was a key element of the strategy pursued by the three key…

REALPOLITK: The CIA’s Creation of “Islamic Terrorism” on American/Canadian Soil – By Dr. Paul L. Williams

Source – globalresearch.ca – Islamic paramilitary camps have been set up in the United States and Canada to train African American Muslims in guerilla warfare. After months of training on firing ranges and obstacle courses, the black Muslims are sent to Pakistan where they receive advanced training in explosives. Many never return. Stories about these…

REALPOLITIK: Monsanto Supplied US And Israel With Chemical Weapons According To Declassified Documents

Source – trueactivist.com, By John Vibes – Recently declassified documents reveal that Monsanto has provided both the Israeli and US militaries with white phosphorus as early as 2009. White phosphorus is a chemical weapon, which burns through nearly any surface and creates large clouds of toxic smoke. Exposure to this chemical can be potentially fatal or…

REALPOLITIK: Impending Global Financial Collapse Will Change the World Order – By Bill Holter

Source  – globalresearch.ca – Worse than any disease or even leprosy, anyone spouting Austrian economics or even “common sense” (almost extinct today) has been shoved into the outcast corner by the mass delusional majority. Over the last few years, “theory after theory” has become fact after FACT afterFACT! There can no longer be any question,…

COUP D’ETAT: The Coup and Its Aftermath, Honduras Bleeding – By Eric Draitser and Ramiro S. Fúnez

Source – counterpunch.org – June 28 marked the six year anniversary of the military coup in Honduras – the day that a democratically elected left wing government was ousted by a US-backed, US-trained cabal of generals and right wing politicians and landowners. It could correctly be called a “Quiet Coup” primarily because it took place with…