western imperialism - Forum/Discussions - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T14:03:18Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/feed/tag/western+imperialismWhat's Going On In Africa?https://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/what-s-going-on-in-africa2023-09-28T22:27:43.000Z2023-09-28T22:27:43.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p class="western" style="text-align:center;" align="left"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><strong>What’ Going On In Africa?</strong></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align:center;" align="left"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align:center;" align="left"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}12234312871,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}12234312871,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="401" alt="12234312871?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></span></span></p><p class="western" align="left"> </p><p class="western" align="left">“<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Aug 30 (Reuters) - A group of senior military officers in Gabon announced on national television on Wednesday they had </span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gabonese-military-officers-announce-they-have-seized-power-2023-08-30/"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">taken power</span></span></a></u></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> and election results were annulled, just minutes after President Ali Bongo was declared to have won a third term. If successful the coup would represent the eighth since 2020 in West and Central Africa, a region that in the last decade had made strides to shed its reputation as a "coup belt", only for persistent insecurity and corruption to open the door to military leaders.” </span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/recent-coups-west-central-africa-2023-08-30/"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/recent-coups-west-central-africa-2023-08-30/</span></span></a></u></span></p><p class="western" align="left"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> What is going on in our motherland, why is there so much instability and why have so many coups occurred during the past three years years? Is there something in the air or are there underlying forces fomenting these coups? Since 2020 there have been numerous coups. Here is a list of the successful coups since 2020: Mali 2020, Guinea 2020, Sudan 2021, Chad 2021, Burkino Faso 2022, Niger 2023 and Gabon 2023. There have been failed coup attempts in: Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Soa Tome and Principe in recent years. </span></span></p><p class="western" align="left"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> In addition to these coups there are ongoing regional wars and internal conflicts occurring throughout Africa, “</span></span><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Africa comes second in the number of armed conflicts per region with more than 35 non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) taking place in </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.rulac.org/browse/conflicts/non-international-armed-conflicts-in-burkina-faso" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Burkina Fas</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">so, </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.rulac.org/browse/conflicts/non-international-armed-conflict-in-cameroon" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Cameroon</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, the </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.rulac.org/browse/conflicts/non-international-armed-conflict-in-the-central-african-republic" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Central African Republic (CAR)</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, the </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.rulac.org/browse/conflicts/non-international-armed-conflict-in-democratic-republic-of-congo" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Democratic Republic of the Congo</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.rulac.org/browse/conflicts/non-international-armed-conflict-in-ethiopia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Ethiopia</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.rulac.org/browse/conflicts/non-international-armed-conflits-in-mali" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Mali</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.rulac.org/browse/conflicts/non-international-aarmed-conflicts-in-mozambique" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Mozambique</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.rulac.org/browse/conflicts/non-international-armed-conflict-in-nigeria" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Nigeria</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.rulac.org/browse/conflicts/niac-in-senegal" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Senegal</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.rulac.org/browse/conflicts/non-international-armed-conflict-in-somalia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Somalia</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.rulac.org/browse/conflicts/non-international-armed-conflict-in-south-sudan" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">South Sudan</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> and </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.rulac.org/browse/conflicts/non-international-armed-conflicts-in-sudan" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Sudan</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">. </span></span></span><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Several armed groups – fighting against government forces and/or against each other’s – are involved in these conflicts. Western powers and/or neighbouring countries are intervening in the NIACs that take place in Burkina Faso, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Somalia.” </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis//2022/11/acs-2022-sub-saharan-africa"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis//2022/11/acs-2022-sub-saharan-africa</span></span></span></a></u></span></p><p class="western" align="left"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The recent spate of coups in African differ from the previous coups in past decades. Here is how the new waves of destabilization differ from past coups, “There have been nine attempted or successful</span></span></span><u><a href="https://www.idea.int/blog/explainer-when-do-you-call-seizure-power-coup-and-why-does-it-matter"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#000080;">coups d’état</span></span></span></span></a></u><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">in Africa since 2020. A stereotypical coup d'état involves the most senior members of the military (i.e., generals) overthrowing the government in a short, but potentially violent, incident that causes mass panic in the population. The most recent coups in Africa differ in some key aspects from the coups that were seen on the continent in the past, especially during the immediate post-independence period. What are these differences, and what do they mean for democracy? </span></span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">It seems that a new model of coup is being established, which differs in key ways compared to what has gone before. Coup leaders have been slightly </span></span><u><a href="https://www.cfr.org/blog/recent-flurry-coups-caps-longstanding-push-inclusion-and-belonging-africa"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#000080;">younger</span></span></span></a></u><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, the coups have been less violent, and in some cases they have occurred (with </span></span><u><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/coups-cheered-west-africa-islamist-insurgencies-sap-faith-democracy-2022-02-01/"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#000080;">popular support</span></span></span></a></u><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">) against a background of political stagnation and intense security challenges. The type of foreign involvement in these coups also appear to be changing (but this is more difficult to confirm).</span></span><span style="color:#2d3246;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The age of the coup leaders has been a remarkably consistent element of these most recent coups. With the exception of Sudan, the coup leaders have ranged in age from 34 to 41. They have also been lower in rank than most coup leaders (and have come mostly from special forces units), including two colonels, a lieutenant-Colonel, and a captain. This growing dynamic is certainly not completely unprecedented: Jerry Rawlings was a 31-year old flight-lieutenant when he </span></span></span><u><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://mg.co.za/opinion/2021-11-13-the-coup-that-changed-ghana-forever/">led</a> </span></span></span></u><span style="color:#2d3246;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">his first coup attempt in Ghana, and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo was a 37-year old lieutenant-colonel when he </span></span></span><u><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#000080;"><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40395170?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents">seized power</a> </span></span></span></u><span style="color:#2d3246;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">in Equatorial Guinea. The latter example also highlights a potential negative implication of this element of the current wave of coups: the leaders may try to stay in power for a very long time.” </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis//2022/11/acs-2022-sub-saharan-africa"><span style="color:#2d3246;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis//2022/11/acs-2022-sub-saharan-africa</span></span></span></a></u></span></p><p class="western" align="left"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> During any conflict it is the innocent who suffer the most not the combatants, this is called collateral damage. So what is the impact of coups and conflicts on our people on the African continent? The most obvious outcomes are: massive social upheaval as people flee fighting and devastation creating refugee crises in neighboring areas and countries, disruptions of normal political, economic and social life which exacerbate existing poverty and inequality, the ensuing violence and destruction creates questions regarding stability and governance and uncertainty about how the nation will fare both in the near and distant future? </span></span></span></p><p class="western" align="left"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> Coups and internal conflict also open the doors for opportunistic neocolonialism and debt entrapment by entities like the IMF, World Bank and hegemonic predators like the US and former colonial powers like England and France. But now Russia and China are vying to increase their influence and footholds on the continent and the US is worried. </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-makes-diplomatic-push-in-africa-to-counteract-russian-and-chinese-influence"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-makes-diplomatic-push-in-africa-to-counteract-russian-and-chinese-influence</span></span></span></a></u></span><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://theconversation.com/africa-is-being-courted-by-china-russia-and-the-us-why-the-continent-shouldnt-pick-sides-210516"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">https://theconversation.com/africa-is-being-courted-by-china-russia-and-the-us-why-the-continent-shouldnt-pick-sides-210516</span></span></span></a></u></span></p><p class="western" align="left"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> Some observers believe Western, especially US shenanigans, are at the root of some of these recent coups given the West’s long history of imperialism, exploitation, disadvantageously lop sided commerce, trade and finance agreements. The fact the West is now in stiff competition with Eurasia over the continent’s rich natural resources and allegiances are also factors. </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/15-us-backed-officers-12-west-african-coups/5830252"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">https://www.globalresearch.ca/15-us-backed-officers-12-west-african-coups/5830252</span></span></span></a></u></span><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> ,<a href="https://medium.com/illumination/neocolonialism-how-western-corporations-are-exploiting-africa-d0e197af1950">https://medium.com/illumination/neocolonialism-how-western-corporations-are-exploiting-africa-d0e197af1950</a></span></span></span></p><p class="western" align="left"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The sordid US history on the continent is well documented. </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://theconversation.com/white-malice-how-the-cia-strangled-african-independence-at-birth-176597"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">https://theconversation.com/white-malice-how-the-cia-strangled-african-independence-at-birth-176597</span></span></span></a></u></span> <span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/03/09/intercepted-podcast-africa-coup/"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">https://theintercept.com/2022/03/09/intercepted-podcast-africa-coup/</span></span></span></a></u></span><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> ,</span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/military-coups-in-africa-a-continuation-of-politics-by-other-means/"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">https://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/military-coups-in-africa-a-continuation-of-politics-by-other-means/</span></span></span></a></u></span><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The US’ desire to stop Qaddafi from further partnering with China and his plans to establish a gold backed all African currency led the Obama administration to destroy that rich and stable African nation.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" align="left"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> Keep an eye on Africa it could easily develop into another hot spot of international instability and tension.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="text-align:center;" align="left"><span style="color:#373a3c;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> -30-</span></span></span></p><p class="western" align="left"><br /> </p><p class="western" align="left"> </p></div>Don't Fall for the Flim Flamhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/don-t-fall-for-the-flim-flam2022-03-03T16:38:42.000Z2022-03-03T16:38:42.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10167448456,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}10167448456,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10167448456?profile=RESIZE_400x" width="300" /></a></strong></p>
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<p><em>“The network behind this coup had actually started planning for the coup back in 2011. That’s when <a href="http://washingtonsblog.com/2016/09/three-big-lies-pervade-americas-news-media.html">Eric Schmidt of Google, and Jared Cohen</a>, also now of Google but still continuing though unofficially as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s chief person tasked to plan ‘popular movements’ to overthrow both Yanukovych in Ukraine, and Assad in Syria.”</em> How and Why The US Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup In Ukraine by Eric Zuesse <a href="https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/">https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/</a></p>
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<p> The COVID-19 fear porn, the lies and disinformation about inflation and the growing income inequality in the US and the truckers convey (the media basically ignores them) have all been magically replaced on the front pages and the cable news networks by “coverage” of the Russian assault on Ukraine. The Western spin masters/machine is cranking up their usual disinformation, obfuscations and lies to cover the truth behind what is really going on.</p>
<p> The truth is the United States under President Barack Obama instituted a coup d’état in 2014 in Ukraine to set up a pro-Western quisling government. To see beyond the Western propaganda okey-doke and flim-flam please read the articles on these Websites: <a href="https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/">https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/</a>, <a href="https://mronline.org/2022/02/24/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/">https://mronline.org/2022/02/24/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</a>, <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/19/facebook-posts/united-states-spent-5-billion-ukraine-anti-governm/">https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/19/facebook-posts/united-states-spent-5-billion-ukraine-anti-governm/</a>. These articles offer another perspective on what is really going on in Ukraine and name some of the key people and forces behind the happenings. For another eye opening reality check watch the YouTube audio of a conversation between Assistant US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt talking about their plans for the coup and beyond <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k</a></p>
<p> The US government and their media sycophants lie and demonize leaders to create antipathy towards them to justify the wars, “police actions” and interventions the US ruling class and its allies launch against them to toppled their governments, steal their natural resources or for geostrategic reasons. The US government and the ruling elites’ mind control apparatus are making Vladimir Putin out to the bad guy in the Ukraine situation just as it made Osama bin-Laden a villain (they said he orchestrated 9-11 from a cave in Afghanistan, still no solid proof of that), Saddam Hussein (they said he planned 9-11 and had WMDs, both lies), Muammar al-Qaddafi (NATO bombed his country, savagely murdered him and turned Libya into a failed state) and Bashar al-Assad (the US lied and said he gassed his own people). Do you see a pattern here? Now the US media is saying Vladimir Putin is an unhinged, deranged megalomaniac but say nothing about an obviously cognitively declining Joe Biden!</p>
<p> The US political class and media have been demonizing Putin for years. Hillary Clinton and the Deep State claimed Putin interfered with the 2016 presidential election. A special prosecutor is still investigating that and several Clinton operatives were behind “Russiagate”. There are rumors indictments will be forthcoming; I’ll believe that when it happens. (The ruling class rarely gets indicted or goes to jail.) In contrast nothing was said about Mark Zuckerberg’ Facebook and Cambridge Analytica’s actual attempts to influence the election outcome. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595338116/what-did-cambridge-analytica-do-during-the-2016-election">https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595338116/what-did-cambridge-analytica-do-during-the-2016-election</a> What’s up with that?</p>
<p> We don’t question what the “experts” and government officials say because their pro-war barrage is constant; it unrelentingly repeats the same message over and over again. If you do ask questions, dissent or offer another perspective you are denounced as a traitor, a tin foil hat wearer, “conspiracy theorist” or crazy. They ignore you, marginalize you or unleash the full force of their brainwashing attack machine against you.</p>
<p> But even before the next Hitler de jure is manufactured and paraded before the public 24/7/365, we are prepped, brainwashed and programmed for war. The US loves war. The US has been on a constant war footing since before there was a United States of America.. This country has been at war 93% of its total existence. There have only been only twenty-three years when this country has not been at war during its entire existence!</p>
<p> If you want to know how they do it I suggest you read Mathias Chang’s book <strong>Brainwashed for War, Programmed to Kill: The Military Media Industrial Complex Behind The Cold War, the Vietnam War & The War on Terrorism</strong></p>
<p> What we are being told by the corporate media and their digital platform cohorts is not the truth about Ukraine or much of anything else for that matter. Ukraine is not the victimized fledgling democracy being brutalized by big bad Vladimir Putin. Ukraine has been in the crosshairs of US imperialism for quite some time now. The US facilitated a coup in 2014 that helped Neo-Nazis gain a foothold in the government. <a href="https://marktaliano.net/eight-years-ago-us-nato-installed-a-neo-nazi-government-in-ukraine-by-prof-michel-chossudovsky/">https://marktaliano.net/eight-years-ago-us-nato-installed-a-neo-nazi-government-in-ukraine-by-prof-michel-chossudovsky/</a></p>
<p> Last but not least Joe Biden and his son Hunter are neck deep in Ukraine side hustles. But for the most part the corporate media ignored these facts. You can see an official investigation final report here: <a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf">https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf</a></p>
<p> There is more to this Ukraine situation than meets the eye, don’t fall for the flim-flam! </p>
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