Gordon Duff -- Pompeo: New US Policy Authorized Drones Strikes on Russian, Chinese Leaders

20.01.2020 Author: Gordon Duff

 Pompeo: New US Policy Authorized Drones Strikes on Russian, Chinese Leaders 

Column: Society

Region: USA in the World

President Trump, and not obliquely, has put the assassination of Vladimir Putin “on the table” as part of a new policy, one at direct odds with both American and international law.  This isn’t just a broad policy against those Washington deems enemies, but Russia was specifically listed as a target for highest level assassinations in order to achieve regime change.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during a policy address at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute on January 13, 2020, outlined the new policy. The title of the speech was “The Restoration of Deterrence, the Iranian Example.”

The Hoover institution has a long history of CIA ties and receives secretive private funding from a variety of “strange bedfellows:”

• The Bradley Foundation, cited by the Council of Islamic American relations for Islamophobia and hate mongering.
• The Scaife Family Foundation, long run by now deceased Richard Mellon Scaife, right wing extremist billionaire who employed an army of private security operatives used to threaten members of the press, including involvement in the death of Steve Kangas, founder of America’s independent press.
• The Castle Rock Foundation, a front for Adolf Coors, one of the largest funders of right-wing extremism and Russophobia in the United States
• The Koch Foundation, largest funder for climate denialism through profits from the coal industry

Former President Herbert Hoover, long blamed for failing to address the needs of a starving nation during the first 4 years of the great depression, for whom the Hoover Institution is named, was a powerful advocate for allowing and possibly even supporting Hitler in his war against Russia.

Only recently, after being suppressed for 50 years, has Herbert Hoover’s World War II analysis, “Freedom Betrayed,” been published, by the Hoover Institution.  In that work, the “betrayal” was entering the war against Hitler and fighting alongside Russia.

You see, TDC or “top dead center” for American conservatives has always been the destruction of Russia and the subjugation of the Russian people on behalf of the Deep State.

Gordon Duff -- Lobotomized: Secrecy and the “Dis-enlightenment”

Author: Gordon Duff

Lobotomized: Secrecy and the “Dis-enlightenment”

Column: Society

Region: USA in the World

As we enter 2019, one thing above all others is clear, the mechanisms of human engagement, education, media and information, even what passes for human contact through social media and email, is all subjected to “algorithms,” whatever those are.

It was Snowden that brought it to our attention, from the Guardian back in 2014:

“Increasingly, we are watched not by people but by algorithms. Amazon and Netflix track the books we buy and the movies we stream, and suggest other books and movies based on our habits. Google and Facebook watch what we do and what we say, and show us advertisements based on our behavior. Google even modifies our web search results based on our previous behavior. Smartphone navigation apps watch us as we drive, and update suggested route information based on traffic congestion. And the National Security Agency, of course, monitors our phone calls, emails and locations, then uses that information to try to identify terrorists.”

Documents provided by Edward Snowden and revealed by the Guardian today show that the UK spy agency GHCQ, with help from the NSA, has been collecting millions of webcam images from innocent Yahoo users. And that speaks to a key distinction in the age of algorithmic surveillance: is it really okay for a computer to monitor you online, and for that data collection and analysis only to count as a potential privacy invasion when a person sees it? I say it’s not, and the latest Snowden leaks only make more clear how important this distinction is.”

When we look back on 2014 from where we are today, Edward Snowden’s warnings of an Orwellian nightmare seem innocent. Maybe it was Donald Trump that opened our eyes, if so, whatever contribution history attributes to him, he might well want to hang his hat on this one.

The fake science of intruding into lives in order to recognize and control “influencers” began in the private sector and was “tuned up” for political races, crime and terrorism prevention and more.

By “more,” we mean “dumbing down” the “masses,” as they are called, presenting reality as a consumer product, custom engineered to be believable, to create drama or fear, to raise concerns of imaginary threats, to distract, and, above all, to control.

Armageddon in Idlib

05.09.2018 Author: Gordon Duff

Armageddon in Idlib

Column: Politics

Region: Middle East

Country: Syria

A showdown between the US and Russia is coming over Syria. Our sources inside Syria tell us that Russia began building up capabilities to support the Syrian Arab Army’s retaking of Idlib Province as early as June 2018. Included with new T90 tanks and advanced missile-based artillery are new air defense capabilities as well, along with ECM or electronic countermeasures capabilities.

Russia is arming the Syrian Arab Army to fight not just al Qaeda and ISIS, the primary occupiers of Idlib, but the US, Britain, and France as well.

The real war is between Russia and the US. America has no real ability to defend Idlib other than through the use of advisors, generally private military contractors, and supplying high technology armaments directly to organizations officially deemed terrorist by the US government.

The “dark horse” here, of course, is Turkey. Her military has jointly occupied much of Idlib with the nearly extinct Free Syrian Army, in its latest guise Turkish Army reservists in civilian dress.

Gordon Duff -- The Unseen Victims of America’s War Machine

05.09.2017 Author: Gordon Duff

The Unseen Victims of America’s War Machine

Column: Politics

Region: USA in the World

How many more lives will America’s wars claim?

When the war drums begin, the first victim is reason, this is no secret at all. I recently met with a group of Russian war veterans about this issue, how those who fight wars are victims just like the armies of refugees and the dead strewn across the landscape, now called “collateral damage” that may well represent a countless multitude.

Do remember, the Vietnam War was stopped, not by “peaceniks” but by combat veterans who hit the streets, people like John Kerry or, to a lesser extent, me. That these movements survive in a small way, in reality dissent has been criminalized in a world of fake information and even more fake leadership.

America marched to eternal war after 9/11 despite the fact that any reasonable and informed individual minimally has to brand Saudi Arabia, not “al Qaeda” as the perpetrator. I would go further and say that the partnership we saw in Syria between Saudi Arabia and Israel began well before 2001, but that would make me a conspiracy theorist, and in a time of fake everything, that must be worse somehow, though the difference is increasingly hard to understand.

Gordon Duff -- Coup underway; Turkish military takes over, Erodgan missing (watch for updates)

Coupunderway; Turkish military takes over, Erodgan missing (watch for updates)

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on July 15, 2016

We have suspected for some time that there was a great deal of discontent among the Turkish military due to the belligerent foreign policies and support of ISIS by Erdogan

This is a current event, happening right now as I write, so details are a bit sketchy but the basic narrative seems clear – the Turkish military, or perhaps a faction within it, has launched an uprising against the Erdogan regime.

Gunfire Heard in Turkish Capital; Military Jets, Helicopters Seen Overhead

Update 6:10 pm EST from Sputnik … Jim Dean

America’s leading NATO ally in the Middle East has fractured into pieces following an apparently successful military coup to “restore the rule of law and democracy.”

Controversial President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have lost control of Turkey with military forces seizing control of the state sponsored television station saying that they were forced to seize control due to what they view as dictatorial mandates by the country’s leader.

Calling themselves a “Peace Council” on the TRT news station, the military forces have declared that they will be announcing the country’s new constitution shortly that will provide robust protections for human rights and the rule of law while laying out a transition towards democratic rule.

GORDON DUFF -- Istanbul Airport Attack: Turkey Pays for the Double Game

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      Istanbul Airport Attack: Turkey Pays for the Double Game

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on June 30, 2016

By Sajjad Shaukat

At least 42 persons were killed and more than 230 wounded by the three suicide bombers who carried out simultaneous attacks at the Atatürk International Airport in Istanbul, on June 28, this year. Three militants opened fire to create panic outside the airport, before two of them got inside and blew themselves up.

Although no group claimed responsibility for these terror attacks, yet Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said. “Our thoughts on those responsible for the attack lean toward Islamic State” (Also known as ISIS or ISIL or Daesh). John Brennan, head of the US CIA also stated that the attack bore the hallmarks of Islamic State “depravity.”

Ankara is part of a US-led military coalition against the ISIS in Syria and Iraq. But, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who always follow ambivalent policies has taken steps this week to improve relations with Israel and Russia to strengthen its hand in fighting against militants, said the attack at the airport should serve as a turning point in the global battle against terrorism.

While ignoring any indication regarding the militant outfit Kurdistan Workers’ Party-PKK which also did not claim responsibility for these triple suicide assaults, and which is being assisted by American CIA, including Israeli Mossad, some Jewish-controlled media suggested, “The working theory is that the attackers may have been Chechen jihadists from southwest Russia, who could have links to ISIS.” Speaking in the tone of Jewish media, a Turkish official told the AP that the “three bombers who carried out the attack on Istanbul’s main airport had connections to Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.”

The Turkish government is simultaneously facing two main terrorist organizations PKK and ISIS. Since July 2015, Turkish Special Forces have been launching a counter-terrorism campaign against the PKK. While as part of the anti-ISIS coalition, Ankara carried out numerous airstrikes against ISIS strongholds in Iraq and artillery shelling across the border with Syria.

Gordon Duff -- Pushback:Global Crime Syndicates v Keshe Groups

Pushback:Global Crime Syndicates v Keshe Groups

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on June 24, 2016

Global Corporate Terror Rears Its Ugly Head

     By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

There is a battle going on over technology, but more than that, its about education, about the pseudoscience our universities teach to go along with their imaginary history lessons, their love of GMO crops, so much more.  We live in a world where even the laws of nature are censored and edited.  More than that, those who have profited from ignorance and poverty, generation after generation, crush truth, play war, kill off innovators, like the strangled Tesla whose name even few today know.

Two years ago we published the designs of radiation free nuclear weapons you could hide in a purse, we made it rain on poor Colonel Hanke’s home 7 days running in dry season using our microwave system we got from DARPA and then there is the other stuff, not so funny.  Suffice it to say we can sit up in a C130 or Skyship600 and send a little signal down to earth that makes everyone in a hundred square miles forget where they parked their car (or camel) or even if they just inhaled or exhaled.

We’re going to talk about technology, a bit of how it all could change, all of it, what we are doing to bring that about and how that other business of ours, after all we are military and intelligence scholars, how that can, should and will collapse on itself, if we and those with us are allowed to live long enough to bring that about.

There are others, the current generation or incarnation of those who stopped Tesla, that name is known, but so many others as well.  This is a different universe than we are taught, with different physical laws.  Energy is not only free, we are drowning in it.

Then there are the monsters.

We begin

VT began tracking down pedophile networks here in the US before there was VT, dating back to 1991 and the Franklin Scandal, which we out of idiocy believed was what we were told it was by those next to the White House who needed our help.  Though we still aren’t ready to point fingers at George H.W. Bush, we are convinced that there is a massive security threat against the United States, one that made 9/11 possible, Oklahoma City, all of it.