State of the Nation
Whistleblower David Goldberg, a resident of New York City, has reportedly died of unknown causes.
Yesterday, the governmentslaves.news site
reported that the White House insider who was quoted — David Goldberg
(59 years old) — has since been found dead in his New York apartment on
June 8th. His death is being investigated and no cause of death has yet
been disclosed.
Goldberg also said that a false flag attack would
be used to escalate the situation, which appears to be what we’ve seen
take place in the Gulf of Oman with the two attack of two oil tankers. (Source: False Flags, Cooked Intelligence and the ‘War on Terror’ Con)
In
April of 2019, Goldberg warned the world of a false flag attack planned
by the U.S. Military and Intelligence Community working in concert with
Israel’s Mossad.
What follows is the original Alt Media news report that explains the entire black operation.
Since
Goldberg first issued his warning to the world community of nations,
there have been two sets of obvious false flag attacks: one in the Gulf
of Hormuz and a second one in the Gulf of Oman. See: Gulf of Oman False Flag Bombing Obvious Pretext for US Attack on Iran.
Each
of these attacks was immediately blamed on Iran without a shred of
evidence or any type of meaningful investigation. Both the Trump
administration and Israel falsely accused Iran of attacks that were in
fact orchestrated by US-Israeli operatives and/or proxies. See: NSA Bolton Conspires With Israel to Trigger War with Iran Based on False Flags
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Tommy Sheridan
Sputnik
It was the Spanish philosopher, poet and novelist, George Santayana (1863-1952), who warned us all:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Watching the unfolding US promoted narrative in the Persian Gulf seas
over this past few days and weeks those words should ring loudly in the
ears of everyone who values peace and opposes the carnage, destruction
and horrific waste of life delivered by war.
If you swallow the American propaganda plastered across newspaper front
pages and dominating news bulletins on every Western TV news channel
then you really are as bright as a dark night.
On the morning of Thursday, June 13th, two oil tankers were allegedly attacked in the Gulf of Oman, just off the coast of Iran. The US government immediately blamed Iran for the incident, without providing any evidence.
The vessels happened to be en route to Japan at precisely the
same time that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Tehran. The
first Japanese leader to visit Iran since its revolution 40 years ago,
Abe was holding a historic meeting with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei when the
incident took place.
What a great plan. It must have taken months of intense thought and
deliberation amongst the smartest cookies at the very top of the Iranian
government.
Let's get this Japanese dude over here for groundbreaking talks
about peace and trade in the region and while he's here we should attack
two oil tankers on their way to his country... It's ingenious. It will
really endear us to Japanese hearts and show the world just how
committed to peace we really are... Oh and while he is here we will take
him to an Elvis Pressley concert and transport him around Tehran on a
flying carpet.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John
Bolton have honed their skills in deceit and downright lies over many
years dedicated to promoting scenarios to justify wars and US Military interventions regardless of the truth and subsequent loss of lives.
Bolton was such a strong advocate of the US war in Vietnam that he
supported it from afar in the safe confines of Yale Law School. He was
also convinced Iraq had to be invaded to destroy their weapons of Mass
Destruction no matter the cost in lives or the amount of blood spilt.
Pompeo and Bolton lie incessantly about Venezuela, Iran and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, North Korea and now the tanker incidents in The Gulf of Oman. They are as credible as Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men and their lying abilities make Pinocchio rage with jealousy.
Those with even a morsel of brain matter between their ears can see
right through the two chancers selling wars like a second-hand car
salesman would be punting cars with doctored miles and baldy tyres.
The fact they are given media platforms and space to spout their
horror fantasies makes them dangerous individuals. They are however
only following the well-trodden US path of inventing incidents to
justify wars.
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See also: Gulf of Oman Tanker attack: War Scripted By Washington
Craig Murray
I really cannot begin to fathom how stupid you would have to be to
believe that Iran would attack a Japanese oil tanker at the very moment
that the Japanese Prime Minister was sitting down to friendly,
US-disapproved talks in Tehran on economic cooperation that can help
Iran survive the effects of US economic sanctions.
The Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous was holed above the water line. That rules out a torpedo attack, which is the explanation being touted by the neo-cons.
The second vessel, the Front Altair, is Norwegian owned and 50%
Russian crewed (the others being Filipinos). It is owned by Frontline, a
massive tanker leasing company that also has a specific record of being helpful to Iran in continuing to ship oil despite sanctions.
It was Iran that rescued the crews and helped bring the damaged vessels under control.
That Iran would target a Japanese ship and a friendly Russian crewed
ship is a ludicrous allegation.
They are however very much the targets
that the USA allies in the region – the Saudis, their Gulf Cooperation
Council colleagues, and Israel – would target for a false flag. It is
worth noting that John Bolton was meeting with United Arab Emirates
ministers two weeks ago – both ships had just left the UAE.
The USA and their UK stooges have both immediately leapt in to blame
Iran. The media is amplifying this with almost none of the scepticism
which is required. I cannot think of a single reason why anybody would
believe this particular false flag. It is notable that neither Norway
nor Japan has joined in with this ridiculous assertion.
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Michael Welch, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Pepe Escobar, and Yves EnglerGlobal Research
“America’s declared policy should be ending Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution before its 40th anniversary…Recognizing a new Iranian regime in 2019 would reverse the shame of once seeing our diplomats held hostage for 444 days.” – John Bolton (January 15, 2018) [1]
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Coincidentally or not, America’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran began within a month of John Bolton’s installment as National Security Advisor. On May 8th of 2018, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. was backing out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the U.S. under President Barrack Obama along with the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, Germany and the EU in July of 2015. Consequently, the sanctions imposed on Iran previous to the JCPOA were reinstated, and additional sanctions imposed by the end of the year.
In April of this year, the Trump Administration took the unprecedented step of declaring the Middle East country’s military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to be a terrorist organization.
Two weeks later, the Trump Administration ended the waivers it had extended to other countries which had to that point allowed them to escape sanctions for purchasing Iranian oil. The aim of this manoeuvre being to strangle the Iranian economy by preventing its ability to profit from the sale of its main source of revenue.
Two weeks after that, Bolton announced the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group and Air Force Bombers to the Middle East as part of an effort to “send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force.”
The following week, four tankers were attacked in the Persian Gulf. Bolton and Secretary of State Pompeo blamed Iran for the attacks.
America’s choke-hold on Iran’s economy continued to tighten with further sanctions on May 8th of this year, the anniversary of Trump’s JCPOA pull-out.
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See also: Gulf of Oman: Unconvinced EU foreign ministers call for independent investigation after US claim Iran is behind tanker attack
Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture
For the first time in over half a century, an American President has
actually come out attacking the Military Industrial Complex. Of course,
everyone knows of President Dwight D. Eisenhauer’s famous outgoing 1961 speech warning the world (and the incoming President Kennedy)
what sort of monster had arisen at the heart of America’s defense
institutions. Very little on the matter was said on the frightening
topic by decades of political leaders who rose to prominence in the
shadow of JFK’s corpse. Instead, the beast grew like a malignant cancer
over the ensuing years as a major branch of the British-run deep state
that carried out a coup with Sir Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech
in 1946 and the MI6-directed re-organization of American intelligence with the creation of the CIA in 1947.
After John F. Kennedy’s assassination, networks of neoconservative
contaminated all branches of government in both parties bringing the USA
into a frenzied military doctrine centered on regime change wars,
oil-centered geopolitics and unipolarism totally uncharacteristic with
the better constitutional traditions of the nation. This geopolitical
doctrine nearly drove the west into a full military confrontation with Russia and China in recent years.
The Tide Begins to Turn
On May 20 speaking to Fox News,
President Trump echoed Eisenhauer’s warnings. Under a coterie of
Trump’s war-mongering advisors such as John Bolton, Gina Haspel,
Terrence O’Shaughnessy and Mike Pompeo, America has recently been
brought to the brink of war with Iran. While Trump has too often
accommodated this hive of neocons, his recent statements and repeated
calls for cooperation with Russia and China demonstrate a sound push
back which should be taken very seriously. In that Fox interview Trump
said:
“With all of everything that’s going on, and I’m not
one that believes—you know, I’m not somebody that wants to go in to war,
because war hurts economies, war kills people, most importantly—by far
most importantly.”
You know, in Syria, with the caliphate, so I wipe out 100 percent
of the caliphate. That doesn’t mean you’re not going to have these
crazy people who run around blowing up stores and blowing up
things—these are seriously ill people. I don’t want to say, ‘Oh, they’re
wiped,’ you know, ISIS. But, I wiped out 100 percent of the caliphate. I
say, ‘I want to bring our troops back home.’ The place went crazy. You
have people here in Washington, they never want to leave.”
‘You know what I’ll do, I’ll leave a couple hundred soldiers
behind,’ but if it was up to them, they’d bring thousands of soldiers
in. Someday people will explain it, but you do have a group, and they
call it the military-industrial complex. They never want to leave. They
always want to fight.”
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NIAC Action
In light of President Trump and John Bolton’s dangerous
escalations against Iran and a forthcoming intelligence briefing on
Capitol Hill this afternoon, 62 organizations – including J Street,
Indivisible, NIAC Action and Win Without War – sent a letter calling on
Congress to pass legislation to halt a march to war with Iran.
The combined groups, representing millions of Americans concerned
about renewed threats of war with Iran, signals a strong desire for
Congress to step up and block Trump from leading America into yet
another war of choice.
“Last Fall, Americans voted for a new Congress to act as a
co-equal branch of government that would finally serve as a check on
this president and his reckless impulses,” said NIAC President Jamal Abdi.
“Now Trump and his National Security Advisor John Bolton are taking
this country to the brink of a completely avoidable military
confrontation. It’s time for Congress to turn its words into action by
passing legislation to stop Trump and Bolton from starting an illegal
war.”
“President Trump’s chaos-first foreign policy centers around his penchant for turning challenges into crises,” said Win Without War Advocacy Director Erica Fein.
“His Iran policy is no different: President Obama took us off the path
to war, but now Trump and Bolton have put us back on it. It’s time for
Congress to put the brakes on a Trump-Bolton war with Iran.”
“If the Trump administration were to launch a war of choice against
Iran it would have devastating consequences for the United States,
Israel and the entire region,” warned J Street head of government affairs Dylan Williams.
“Congress must fulfill its constitutional responsibility by making
absolutely clear that the president is not authorized to trigger a new
conflagration in the Middle East.”
According to the letter,
“As the drumbeat for war grows louder, Congress must
fulfill its Constitutional duty and enact further constraints to
unequivocally prevent the administration from launching an unauthorized
war.” The letter concludes, “The American people do not want another
disastrous war of choice in the Middle East. Congress has the chance to
stop a war before it starts. Please take action before it is too late.”
Please see full text here.
Caitline Johnstone
Activist Post
Journalist Whitney Webb recently tweeted a
2010 video clip I’d never seen before featuring US National Security
Advisor John Bolton defending the use of deception in advancing military
agendas, which highlights something we should all be paying attention
to as Trump administration foreign policy becomes increasingly Boltonized.
On a December 2010 episode of Fox News’ Freedom Watch, Bolton and the show’s host Andrew Napolitano were debating about recent WikiLeaks publications, and naturally the subject of government secrecy came up.
“Now I want to make the case for secrecy in government when it comes
to the conduct of national security affairs, and possibly for deception
where that’s appropriate,” Bolton said.
“You know Winston Churchill said during World War Two that in wartime
truth is so important it should be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.”
“Do you really believe that?” asked an incredulous Napolitano.
“Absolutely,” Bolton replied.
“You would lie in order to preserve the truth?”
“If I had to say something I knew was false to protect American national security, I would do it,” Bolton answered.
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ZeroHedge
As Michael Pompeo travels to Brussels to discuss the Iranian threat amid
a flare-up in tensions that has brought the US to the brink of an armed
conflict, the New York Times has published details from a confidential
military plan presented to top national security officials that
envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East should
Iran attack American forces or start ramping up work on nuclear weapons (something it has promised to do if its European partners don't meet their commitments under the Iran deal).
Though the revised plan - it had been modified to incorporate
suggestions from John Bolton - doesn't include plans for a land
invasion, it does reflect "the influence of Mr. Bolton, one of
the administration's most virulent Iran hawks, whose push for
confrontation with Tehran was ignored more than a decade ago by
President George W Bush."
It's unclear whether Trump himself has seen, or been briefed on, the plan. Asked about it, Trump said "we'll see what happens with Iran. If they do anything, it would be a very bad mistake."
Here are a few key details from the plan according to more than a half-dozen senior administration officials who spoke with the NYT:
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The Millennium Report
U.S. Military fighting yet another war to advance the Greater Israel project
If there is one cataclysmic train wreck happening in slow motion on
the global geopolitical chessboard, it’s the Neocon-instigated war being
waged by the Trump administration against Iran. The financial
terrorism and economic sabotage already inflicted on Iran by the U.S.
have themselves been egregious acts of war.
Truly, it does not get any more serious than this colossal foreign policy fiasco.
Once again, the apartheid state of Israel has successfully hijacked
the U.S. Military, State Department and Intelligence Community in order
to wage an unprovoked war of naked aggression against a sovereign state
in the Middle East.
It’s of paramount importance to understand that this war-in-the-making is the culmination of a covert plan to advance the Greater Israel project. As follows:
Only with this critical understanding will such a transparently
illegal, reckless and catastrophic war make any sense. Catastrophic
because such misguided warmongering by the Neocons is guaranteed to
trigger the hot phase of World War III. Of course, the New World Order cabal is counting on exactly that eventuality. See: The Only Remaining Option for the NWO Globalist Cabal is: World War III
The global crime syndicate known as the International Banking Cartel, which runs the perpetual war economy across the planet, knows that the end is very near for them. The entire Global Economic & Financial System
is teetering on the precipice of a total and final collapse. Their
only way out is war—a Third World War with which to implement the last
stage of the NWO agenda—the establishment of a totalitarian One World Government.
Iran is the lynchpin in this insane scheme to plunge the world
community of nations into chaos out of which the NWO cabal will
fabricate a draconian communist order not too unlike the 20th century’s
Soviet Union. This is precisely why President Trump was ordered by his
Neocon Zionist masters to form his stone-cold war cabinet of Bolton,
Pompeo, Pence, Haspel, Abrams and Shanahan. Each inveterate warmonger
was hand-picked by Israel to develop and implement the war plans
necessary to conquer Iran.
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Scott Ritter
Global Research
Recently dispatched B-52s and ships are an act of theatrical bravado that ignore the real threat.
National Security Advisor John Bolton’s announcement this week that the U.S. is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region seemed perfectly framed to put America on a war footing with Iran. And it is.
Claiming that the decision was made in response to “a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings,” Bolton declared that “the United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime.” But, he added, “we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces.”
It took the Defense Department a full day to respond to Bolton’s statement, with acting Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan finally tweeting that the
“announced deployment of the @CVN_72 and a @USAirForce bomber task force to the @CENTCOM area of responsibility…represents a prudent repositioning of assets in response to indications of a credible threat by Iranian regime forces.”
Shanahan followed with another tweet:
“We call on the Iranian regime to cease all provocation. We will hold the Iranian regime accountable for any attack on US forces or our interests.”
The USS Abraham Lincoln battle group had deployed a month ago from its Norfolk, Virginia, home port and was recently engaged in maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea. The Pentagon acknowledged that the Abraham Lincoln was scheduled to support CENTCOM during its deployment, but that its arrival was being “accelerated” due to intelligence indicating an imminent Iranian threat.
The fact that Bolton chose to repurpose routine deployments of U.S. military forces into the Middle East as an emergency response to an unspecified threat from Iran is in and of itself a curiosity. Bolton is an advisor to the president, a non-statutory (i.e., not confirmed by the Senate) member of the White House staff who is not in the military chain of command and lacks any command authority.
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Martin Sieff
Strategic Culture
Now that US President Donald Trump has finally been cleared of the ridiculous Russia Collusion charge, his top priority should be to reduce tensions with Moscow sensibly - and the place to start doing that is to fire John Bolton, his national security adviser at once.
The case for this is urgent and the preservation of world peace will depend upon whether Trump renews his courage and acts accordingly or lets himself once more be passively manipulated along the road to new endless wars and war crimes as the previous Republican President George W. Bush was by Bolton and his neocon friends.
All the signs are that, on the contrary, Bolton - along with his lifelong close friends Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Special Envoy to Restore Democracy in Venezuela Eliot Abrams have Trump still completely in their pockets. And that they remain determined to topple the legitimate democratically elected government of Venezuela, despite the grave warnings from Moscow to stop doing so.
On March 20, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov met Abrams In Rome and flatly warned him Moscow would not tolerate any direct US military intervention in Venezuela to topple President Nicolas Maduro and replace him with America’s farcical puppet fake President Juan Guaido. As Finian Cunningham wrote in the columns of Strategic Culture Foundation, “The encounter in Rome… was described as ‘frank’ and ‘serious’ – which is diplomatic code for a blazing exchange.”
Ryabkov said after the meeting, “We assume that Washington treats our priorities seriously, our approach and warnings.”
But did Abrams honestly and accurately give his boss, the President of the United States an accurate and honest report of Ryabkov’s very serious warning?
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Venezuela is America’s current target for mass destabilization in the hope of installing a puppet government.
America has for years been waging an economic war against Venezuela, including debilitating sanctions
which have dramatically affected the state’s ability to purchase
medicines, and even mundane replacement parts needed in buses,
ambulances, etc. Alongside the economic war there has been a steady
propaganda war, but in recent months, the propaganda has escalated
dramatically, from corporate media to US political figures.
Venezuela is described as “the country pilots are refusing to fly to,” as per a March 18, 2019, AP article on American Airlines cancelling all flights to Venezuela, containing scary phrases like “safety concerns” and “civil unrest.”
On March 9, American cancelled my
Miami-Caracas flight on the basis that there wasn’t enough electricity
to land at Caracas airport. Strangely enough, the Copa flight I took the
following day after an overnight in Panama had no problem landing, nor
did Copa flights on the day of my own cancelled flight, according to
Copa staff.
The cancellation of flights to Venezuela
then lends legitimacy to the shrill tweets of Marco Rubio, Mike Pence,
John Bolton, and the previously unknown non-president, Juan Guaido.
I’ve been in various areas of Caracas
since March 10, and I’ve seen none of this “civil unrest” that corporate
media are talking about. I’ve walked around Caracas, usually on my own,
and haven’t experienced the worry for my safety corporate media is
telling Westerners they should suddenly feel more than normal in
Venezuela.
Michel Chossoudovsky
Global Research
The main objective of the US-supported military coup in Chile was
to impose the neoliberal economic agenda. “Regime change” was enforced
through a covert military intelligence operation. Sweeping
macro-economic reforms (including privatization, price liberalization
and the freeze of wages) were implemented in early October 1973.
Author’s
Introduction
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More than forty-five years ago on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military led by General Augusto Pinochet, crushed the democratically elected Unidad Popular government of Salvador Allende.
The objective was to replace a progressive, democratically elected government by a brutal military dictatorship.
The military coup was supported by the CIA. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger played a direct role in the military plot.
Is Washington’s ongoing initiative directed against Venezuela modelled on Chile?
In early 1970s, in a note to the CIA in relation to Chile, Henry
Kissinger recommended “Make the economy scream.” Visibly the same
concept has been applied to Venezuela, with advanced techniques of
financial warfare, which were not available in the 1970s.
Today it’s Mike Pompeo and John Bolton who are calling the shots, in tandem with the CIA.
Bolton has gone far beyond the Nixon-Kissinger agenda formulated at
the height of the Cold War. Bolton refers to “The Troika of Tyranny”.
The US sponsored coup against Venezuela is also directed against Cuba.
And from Washington’s standpoint “after Venezuela, Cuba is next”.
“The troika of tyranny in this hemisphere—Cuba,
Venezuela and Nicaragua—has finally met its match. In Venezuela, the
United States is acting against the dictator Maduro, who uses the same
oppressive tactics that have been employed in Cuba for decades.” (John Bolton)
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Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro might be forgiven for thinking there's a foreign-backed conspiracy against him in repeatedly accusing the US of engineering a "coup" and waging "economic war" against his regime, especially given that US advisers are now quite openly admitting this is precisely the case. In fact just after Maduro's contested reelection and swearing in to a second six-year term, his foreign minister Jorge Arreaza told Democracy Now that "Nothing that the opposition does is without the permission or authorization of the State Department... They say, 'We have to make consultations with the embassy. We have to make consultations with the Dept of State.'"
While that broad brush assertion could remain over-simplistic, White House officials aren't making it any easier for the opposition in terms of Maduro painting it as tainted by a foreign hand. As a prime example, Trump's national security advisor John Bolton recently admitted to Fox Business that the US has a "lot at stake" amidst the ongoing Venezuela crisis given the fact that it has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. Bolton told host Trish Regan:
It will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela.
