En direct de Lampedusa : mais où sont passés les migrants ?

Le Courrier des Stratèges est en reportage à Lampedusa, pour examiner de près l’image désormais mythique de cette île battue par les vents… et submergée par les migrants. Si la préoccupation migratoire est bien partout sur ce bout du monde, les migrants sont en revanche… invisibles ! et l’île n’est certainement pas submergée en personne par des arrivées de survivants. Pour le coup, une certaine propagande joue habilement des peurs et des fantasmes.

Le narratif a très bien fonctionné dans l’esprit collectif… Demandez à n’importe quel Français à quoi Lampedusa lui fait penser. Très peu vous parleront du pourtant célèbre roman le Guépard. Beaucoup vous diront que cette île de 5.000 habitants et de 20 km² au large de la Tunisie est devenue le principal point de passage des migrants africains vers l’Europe. Et, dans la croyance générale, ce lieu ressemblerait à une fuite dans un tuyau : une source d’écoulement permanent, un flux ininterrompu.

La réalité est bien différente quand on arrive sur place : pas un migrant n’est visible sur ce petit bout de Sicile où la vie s’écoule à l’italienne, avec ses petites rues chargées de voitures et ses restaurants qui s’animent le soir venu. Et pas une embarcation de fortune n’est visible dans le port, où les bateaux des garde-côtes sont sagement alignés.

Pourtant, quand on embarque à Palerme dans l’ATR 72 qui relie Lampedusa, on sent bien une atmosphère particulière. Une escouade de policiers mobiles occupe une partie du petit avion, avec des employés de la Croix-Rouge, des fonctionnaires munis de badges… Un tiers, la moitié de l’avion peut-être, transporte ces personnels dépêchés en mission, et les touristes ou les insulaires sont plus rares. Dans Lampedusa, on croise un nombre anormalement élevé de fourgons de police munis de grilles de protection. Il doit bien se passer quelque chose ici.

Mais… les rues sont vides et tranquilles. Jusqu’à vingt heures, les gens travaillent. Les magasins ouvrent tard. Les terrasses sont encore peu fréquentées. Et nulle part on ne voit les migrants. Le port semble somnoler. La vie est calme. Rien ne se passe.

Le voyageur scrute l’horizon en attendant ces barques chargées de hères dépenaillés qui viennent se jeter sur le sol européen pour fuir leur pays après une arrivée périlleuse. Mais la mer est vide, et ici personne ne semble sur le qui-vive.

Les habitants vous le disent simplement : rares sont les migrants qui arrivent “seuls”, c’est-à-dire à bord de leur embarcation. Les trafiquants à qui ils paient le passage ne leur laissent pas assez de carburant pour faire une traversée complète. Donc, oublions ce mythe terrifié d’une submersion migratoire qui déferlerait sur les plages de l’île (au demeurant peu nombreuses). Les choses se passent autrement.

Là aussi, les habitants vous l’expliquent. Les migrants arrivent grâce à des missions de “récupération” menées par les garde-côtes. Ceux-ci sont rapidement prévenus lorsque des bateaux passent. D’ordinaire, les traversées se font lorsqu’il fait beau. Lorsque la mer est agitée ou impraticable, les embarcations ne partent pas.

Le phénomène migratoire semble donc relativement organisé. Les passeurs préviennent les garde-côtes qui partent à la recherche des migrants. Ils les ramènent ensuite au port, où des formalités d’accueil, comme une identification photographique, est réalisée. Il est donc évident qu’il existe une économie spontanément organisée de la migration : depuis le départ au pays jusqu’à l’arrivée en Europe, des intermédiaires sont à la manoeuvre pour gagner de l’argent, dans une relative confiance avec les autorités locales.

Le jour où j’étais à Lampedusa, la presse italienne s’est fait l’écho de six arrestations de migrants qui n’avaient pas respecté leur arrêté d’expulsion. Ils ont été reconnus grâce à l’identification faciale… Personnellement, je n’ai pas été témoin de cette semaine, et on peut se demander dans quelle mesure ces informations ne sont pas diffusées à destination des complices des passeurs installés en Sicile. Rien dans la petite ville de Lampedusa ne laissait en tout cas transparaître la moindre agitation à ce sujet. Et tout laisse à penser qu’en Italie même, des réseaux s’agitent pour faire venir les migrants.

Et c’est un peu le point essentiel qu’il faut retirer d’un passage à Lampedusa.

Oui, il y a un phénomène migratoire. Comme le disent les habitants, c’est un flot continu, c’est-à-dire que chaque jour où la mer est praticable, des migrants arrivent.

Non, ce n’est pas le chaos migratoire à Lampedusa. Des centaines de migrants ne débarquent pas chaque jour. L’île n’est pas submergée par le phénomène. Les autorités italiennes tiennent la situation en main. Les rues sont calmes et sûres. Les touristes viennent. L’atmosphère est paisible.

Non, Lampedusa n’est pas en proie à l’anarchie. Les Européens ne s’y font ni agresser, ni insulter, ni voler, ni poignarder. Des bandes errantes ne mettent pas le village à feu et à sang. Les habitants ne vivent pas dans la peur. Ils sortent normalement, font la fête, se montrent aux terrasses et sur la via Roma.

Je reviendrai ce week-end dans le Courrier sur cette peur agitée dans les masses, qui ne correspond nullement à la réalité.

La résurgence des intimidations nucléaires et la pression qui en découle sur les stratégies de dissuasion nucléaire. R. Gottemoeller

Les propos nucléaires de Poutine depuis le début de la guerre d'agression en Ukraine ont pour but d'orienter les décisions aux États-Unis et dans les capitales de l'OTAN : c'est une forme d'influence que l'on appelle la dissuasion intra-guerre. R. Gottemoeller en présente la grammaire.

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Imran Hosein on Iran

Two short videos.

1. Judaism on Trial. Rabbis have to answer for how Iranian Embassy was struck, like a thief in the night! Is this consistent with moral law?
2. The honorable position of Iran in Islamic civilization and their vanguard position in Armageddon, alongside Russia and China. And chess grandmaster Iran finessed the nuclear-weapon card…

Les exportations russes vers l’Afrique dépassent désormais celles vers les deux Amériques

Depuis 2023, l’Afrique est devenue une destination d’exportation plus importante pour la Russie que l’Amérique du Nord et l’Amérique du

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Les sionistes d’Israël en sursis : «entre le marteau et l’enclume»

«Le conseil militaire israélien n'a que deux options ; soit lancer une guerre ouverte, qui se terminera par la destruction d'Israël, soit avaler l'attaque iranienne, battre en retraite et cesser le feu dans la bande de Gaza».

Iran – Israel on the Brink of a “Safe Abyss”

when is it no longer “safe” ?? A free article by Elijah Magnier. Presciently published 2-3 days PRIOR to the Iranian retaliation. Iran moved from Patience to direct Power. Henceforth, there will be consequences for Zio-USUK, as in Novorossiya!

By Elijah J Magnier on 11/04/2024.

In a calculated move of retaliation, Iran has decided to respond to Israel’s actions by earmarking several targets from its extensive list for initial and, if deemed necessary, subsequent more destructive reprisals. Reliable sources reveal that Iran’s strategic planning includes the Israeli Chief of Staff’s headquarters among the range of potential targets. This decision is a direct consequence of Israel’s targeted assassinations of Iranian generals on Monday, 1 April 2024, which targeted the Iranian diplomatic consulate in Damascus, Syria. This attack destroyed the consulate and the death of seven senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers, including a brigadier general and general, his second in command. In the light of these events, Iran has vowed to retaliate.

Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, proposed a joint attack on Israel. However, reliable Iranian sources report that Sayyed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, rejected the proposal. Sayyed Khamenei’s refusal is based on a desire to prevent harm to Iran’s allies and a belief that retaliation should be an exclusively Iranian response, especially after the attack on its diplomatic consulate. The purpose of Iran’s planned retaliation is not necessarily to effectively harm Israel by destroying its diplomatic mission but to send a warning. This serves as a deterrent message to Israel and the international community to refrain from similar actions in the future. Iran’s strategy is not aimed at escalating the situation into a wider conflict unless Israel retaliates. Instead, Iran is trying to navigate out of the position it has been placed in by Israel’s actions against its diplomatically and legally protected consulate in Syria.

Israel’s conduct violates essential norms protecting the inviolability of diplomatic premises and representatives, as enshrined in the Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961), the Convention on Consular Relations (1963), and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents (1973).

Invoking Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which sanctions the right of individual or collective self-defence in response to an armed attack against a UN member state, Iran is in a position to retaliate against Israel without the option of restraint. This stance is based on the need to protect its diplomatic missions around the world. Iran has notified the United States of its intention to retaliate by international legal frameworks while at the same time preparing for possible further escalation by Israel by preparing additional countermeasures in the event of significant Israeli retaliation.

Delaying a retaliatory strike does not put Iran at a disadvantage, as strategic depth and patience define its approach to conflict. This stance emphasises that time serves Iran’s interests by allowing it to respond to any aggression in a calculated manner and by draining Israel’s resources and nerves in anticipation of Iranian retaliation. The notion that the explicit intent of a “damaging strike” would typically come from the “Axis of Resistance” that aims to underscore a strategy of surprise and direct engagement. On the other hand, Iran’s primary goal isn’t just tit-for-tat but to prevent future provocations and maintain established limits of engagement.

Iran’s decision-making process is not hasty or impulsive but deliberate and methodical. It is based on a thorough assessment of the immediate facts, strategic evaluations, and broader implications on the regional and international stage. This approach instils confidence, as it shows that Iran’s actions are not driven by the clamour of public opinion on social media but by a complete understanding of the potential consequences.

The leadership’s emphasis on strengthening the resilience of the Iranian people, increasing national enthusiasm, and reinforcing ideological cohesion is not just a prelude to military action but a testament to Iran’s commitment to its citizens. The Iranian leadership considers this internal fortification more important than the act of retaliation itself, highlighting the depth of their commitment.

The symbolic gesture of Sayyed Khamenei appearing with a Russian Dragunov semi-automatic sniper rifle during the Eid al-Fitr sermon, an action usually reserved for Friday sermons, is a deliberate display of readiness for conflict. This act is not just a message of defensiveness but a declaration of Iran’s readiness and resolve, reinforcing its strategic position and ideological steadfastness.

In sum, Iran is a nation that approaches the prospect of conflict with caution, strategic planning and a deep-seated commitment to preserving its sovereignty and principles rather than being swayed by external pressures or immediate provocations.

Iran’s measures

Iran has upgraded security measures around more than 91 Iranian sites deemed ‘sensitive’ as a defensive measure. These measures included its infrastructure, nuclear facilities and military installations, underlining its comprehensive approach to hardening its critical infrastructure against potential Israeli threats. This strategy appears to mirror tactics seen elsewhere, including by Israel and highlights a trend towards multi-layered defence systems that combine physical interception measures with electronic warfare capabilities.

Indeed, Iran’s deployment of anti-aircraft and interceptor missiles at critical sites, including nuclear facilities and military bases, represents a direct approach to countering air threats such as human-crewed aircraft, drones and missiles. These systems range from short-range air defence (SHORAD) systems designed to engage targets at lower altitudes to advanced long-range missile defence systems capable of intercepting high-altitude threats and fighter jets.

Furthermore, the Iranian deployment of GPS jamming systems throughout Iran indicates a significant emphasis on countering precision-guided munitions and navigation-dependent drones and missiles. By degrading the accuracy of GPS-guided weapons, Iran aims to reduce the effectiveness of potential attacks on its territory, particularly on sites critical to its national security and infrastructure. GPS jamming can create a defensive buffer, making planning and executing air strikes more challenging.

By publicly demonstrating the enhancement of its defensive capabilities, Iran seeks to deter potential adversaries from considering direct attacks by projecting a willingness to defend its critical assets. This move reflects the ongoing technology race in military capabilities, where corresponding improvements match advances in offensive weapon systems in defensive technologies. Also, strengthening Iran’s defensive posture may have implications for regional security dynamics, potentially affecting the calculus of NATO, Israel and other regional actors regarding their security strategies and policies.

Using GPS jamming on a national scale highlights the growing importance of electronic warfare in modern defence strategies. It not only complicates adversaries’ operational environment but also represents an investment in non-kinetic means of warfare.

Israel measures

Israel’s approach to missile defence is indeed multi-layered and highly sophisticated, designed to counter a wide range of threats from short-range rockets to medium-range ballistic missiles. This defence strategy includes several key components to provide a comprehensive shield. In addition, the involvement of NATO, particularly with naval assets equipped with missile interceptors, provides an international dimension to regional missile defence efforts.

Israel’s missile defence architecture consists of several layers, each designed to engage different types of threats at various ranges and altitudes:

Iron Dome: Primarily aimed at intercepting short-range rockets and artillery shells. It is known to have been effective in intercepting projectiles from Gaza.

David’s Sling: Targets medium- to long-range rockets and cruise missiles, filling the gap between the Iron Dome and Arrow systems.

Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 systems: Designed to intercept ballistic missiles at high altitudes, including outside the Earth’s atmosphere, providing a last line of defence against long-range threats.

Role of Patriot Missiles in Israel’s Air Defense: Israel’s inclusion of the Patriot missile system in its air defence arsenal is a significant component of its multi-layered defence strategy aimed at countering various aerial threats. Initially developed by the United States, the Patriot missile system is designed to detect, track, and engage incoming ballistic missiles at high altitudes, as well as aircraft and drones.

GPS jamming and non-GPS-guided threats: The Israeli army uses GPS jamming to mitigate the threat posed by precision-guided munitions, including missiles and drones that rely on GPS for navigation. By jamming or spoofing GPS signals, defenders can degrade the accuracy of incoming threats, potentially diverting them from their intended targets. However, as noted above, not all missiles and drones deployed by Iran and its allies rely on GPS for guidance. Many systems may use alternative navigation methods, such as inertial guidance, which uses gyroscopes and accelerometers to maintain a course without external references. Others may use Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) or optical or radar-based homing technologies that are not susceptible to GPS jamming.

Furthermore, NATO’s deployment of missile interceptors around Israel and in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean demonstrates a high level of cooperation and commitment to Israel’s defence. These ships will likely be equipped with Aegis combat systems capable of tracking and shooting down enemy missiles and aircraft, enhancing Israel’s national missile defence capabilities.

Countermeasures

However, missile guidance systems, especially those used by countries such as Iran and its allies (Hezbollah, Iraqi Resistance), have evolved to incorporate a variety of technologies aimed at improving accuracy and reliability while evading countermeasures. One such technology is using gyroscopes in the missile’s guidance system. Let’s look at the basics of how these systems work, their advantages and their potential limitations.

A gyroscope in a missile guidance system performs a critical function: it provides inertial navigation data. This means that it can measure and maintain the orientation and angular velocity of the missile without external references. It tells the rocket whether it has rolled, pitched or yawed during flight and by how much.

How it works? A gyroscope maintains its orientation using the principle of angular momentum. In the context of missile guidance, it can provide a stable reference that indicates the missile’s orientation relative to the Earth’s surface. By integrating data from gyroscopes with accelerometers (which measure acceleration), the missile’s inertial navigation system (INS) can calculate its position, orientation and velocity without needing external references such as GPS.

One of the main advantages of using a gyroscopic guidance system is its independence from external signals such as GPS. This makes the missile less susceptible to jamming and spoofing techniques, which are common electronic countermeasures used to disrupt the guidance of GPS-guided weapons. Relying on an internal guidance system allows the missile to be guided to its target even in environments where GPS signals are compromised.

Gyroscopes make missiles more resistant to jamming and spoofing. They do not rely on external updates and can operate in GPS-denied environments. When combined with accelerometers in an INS, gyroscopes can provide precise navigation capabilities.

However, Inertial navigation systems, including gyroscopes, can accumulate errors over time. The longer the missile is in flight, the greater the potential error in its calculated position. Thus, implementing a robust gyroscopic guidance system can be complex and expensive compared to simpler GPS-based systems. Still, it is necessary when facing an advanced enemy with a GPS jamming system. Gyroscopic missile guidance systems offer significant advantages regarding autonomy and resistance to electronic countermeasures, making them particularly useful for countries such as Iran that can anticipate GPS jamming techniques.

Legal approach

The attack on the consulate of a nation, which caused both material damage and fatalities, is a severe violation of international norms, in particular the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which stipulates the inviolability of diplomatic premises and the protection of diplomatic personnel. In response, Iran lodged a formal protest with the United Nations, highlighting the international condemnation by entities such as the United Arab Emirates, the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (except Bahrain), Russia and China, all of which emphasised the sanctity of diplomatic premises and condemned the violation of these principles.

The collective condemnation by the 121 countries of the Non-Aligned Movement demonstrates global solidarity with Iran and highlights the significant geopolitical implications of disregarding diplomatic norms. Yet the Western response has been muted, with minimal public condemnation, reflecting a polarised global perspective on the incident.

Iran’s efforts to rally international support to isolate Israel diplomatically, coupled with Israeli Minister Benny Gantz’s call for a coalition against Iran, reflect the complex global dynamics at play. Iran is criticising the United States, Britain and France for not supporting a UN Security Council condemnation of the Israeli attack on its consulate in Damascus, which Iran blames on US-supplied weapons. This position is being portrayed as a tacit endorsement of the aggression, risking further instability in West Asia. Iran asserts its right to seek legal redress and retaliation under international law for this affront.

In solidarity, Ansar Allah in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon expressed their unwavering support for Iran and condemned the attack on the consulate. The support of Iran’s powerful allies was manifested during Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s talks in Muscat, Oman, which focused on sending the right message and soft warning to the US administration to remain neutral.

Since 7 October, the United States has already sent four indirect messages to Iran, urging Tehran to remain in control and not to be provoked into joining Netanyahu’s conflict. The messages stressed that the US administration would do everything in its power to contain the conflict. However, Iran perceives that the US has not lived up to its commitments and points to Israel’s actions, which have further antagonised Iran, including the destruction of its consulate in Damascus, as evidence of this failure.

Iran is aware that the US will not abandon Israel, just as Israel and the US know that Iran’s main allies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen will stand by it. This mutual recognition is what led Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to believe that he could carry out a strike on the Iranian consulate with impunity and expect no retaliation from Iran.

The US is limited to intercepting missiles and drones aimed at Israel and using its diplomatic clout to defuse tensions and prevent Israel from escalating the situation, given the potential for full-scale conflict. The prospect of the US becoming embroiled in a Middle East conflict, especially one it could start but find difficult to end, is particularly unappealing as President Joe Biden faces a presidential election in two months. The US administration, already unhappy with Israel’s conduct in the Gaza conflict, is putting pressure on Netanyahu to cease hostilities and facilitate humanitarian aid. As a result, there is little appetite for escalation, which could only benefit Netanyahu by prolonging his tenure and aiding his domestic political survival while significantly undermining Biden’s re-election ambitions. This precarious situation encourages all parties to remain vigilant and avoid Netanyahu’s potentially dangerous strategies, especially as he faces declining domestic and regional support due to various failures.

Covid chez les sujets âgés : une étude américaine confirme l’inefficacité des injections COVID

Si le Covid-19 peut toucher tout le monde, ses formes graves sont plus courantes chez les personnes âgées ou déjà affaiblies par une autre maladie. Une nouvelle étude menée par l’équipe de chercheurs dirigée par l’Université de Californie (San Francisco) a révélé pourquoi les personnes âgées ont un risque plus élevé de développer la forme grave du Covid-19. Ils ont découvert que cela est lié à une charge virale très élevée et à une faiblesse des cellules immunitaires qui les empêchent d’éliminer le virus SRAS-CoV-2. Les auteurs ont également souligné que malgré les doses de rappel, les adultes de plus de 75 ans étaient 140 fois plus susceptibles de mourir de la maladie du COVID.

La pandémie de COVID-19 a mis en évidence des disparités importantes dans la gravité de la maladie, les personnes âgées étant plus susceptibles de développer des formes graves de la maladie et de décéder. Une étude dirigée par l’Université de Californie et publiée dans Science Translational Medicine a examiné les mécanismes sous-jacents à cette vulnérabilité accrue chez les personnes âgées.

« Comme tous les pouvoirs coloniaux, Israël ne veut pas d'une société éduquée »

Près de 4,5 millions de salariés gagnent moins de 1.100€ nets par mois

C’est une information choc que la DARES vient de publier aujourd’hui : 16% des travailleurs, soit 4,5 millions de personnes, perçoivent une rémunération inférieure à 1.100€. Toute la question est de savoir pourquoi tant de millions de personnes en France vivent si mal de leur travail…

Il faut absolument lire l’étude de la DARES sur les travailleurs à bas revenus d’activité, qui montre qui, depuis la crise de 2008, encaisse les chocs de précarité les plus durs. Nous vous en donnons un résumé ici :

• la situation des hommes s’est dégradée alors que celle des femmes s’est améliorée
• ce sont les plus de 50 ans qui subissent le plus le choc des faibles revenus
• les deux catégories socioprofessionnelles où les bas revenus progressent le plus sont celles des artisans, commerçants et chefs d’entreprise (+ 4 points) et des ouvriers (+ 4 points également). Les employés ont vu leur situation s’améliorer
• ce sont les plus diplômés qui subissent le choc le plus violent (+ 4 points) alors que la situation des sans diplômes s’est améliorée sensiblement
• les personnes seules se sont précarisées (+ 4 points)
• la proportion d’étrangers touchés par les bas revenus d’activité a doublé, quand celle des Français diminuait
• le phénomène touche les urbains hors quartiers politique de la ville

Au total, le volume de personnes percevant des bas revenus d’activité a augmenté de 300.000.

On sent bien que ce mouvement de précarisation touche fortement les classes moyennes et produit des effets psychologiques désastreux.

Iran Destroyed Israel’s Calculations

Game of drones

Alors qu’au début des années 2000, une poignée seulement de pays étaient capables d’en fabriquer et d’en utiliser, les drones armés sont aujourd’hui en dotation dans quatre-vingt armées dans le monde.

Les USA s’appuient sur la Russie et l’Iran pour maîtriser Netanyahu

Les Etats-Unis ont eu besoin de la Russie et de la connivence de l’Iran pour empêcher Netanyahu de déclencher une guerre majeure au Proche-Orient. Telle est la thèse défendue par Seymour Hersh, qui s’appuie sur des sources internes au Pentagone. Le récit des militaires américains sur la mise en scène de l’attaque iranienne est trop bien léché pour être complètement crédible. D’une part, les analyses militaires sérieuses montrent que l’Iran a eu un impact limité mais réel. D’autre part, si on lit l’article de Hersh avec un grain de sel, il signifie que Washington a eu besoin de Moscou et de Téhéran pour maîtriser Netanyahu. Depuis le début de la semaine, nous vous avons expliqué la complexité du décryptage de l’attaque iranienne du 14 avril 2024 (ne manquez pas, en particulier le long entretien d’Eric Verhaeghe avec Thierry Meyssan). Avec Seymour Hersh, le dossier devient de mieux en mieux étayé. D’un côté, il est rassurant de penser que le parti de la raison d’Etat semble avoir la main aux USA. Mais le clan des néo-conservateurs n’a certainement pas dit son dernier mot.

Vous ne rêvez pas en lisant ce que nous écrivons: le Pentagone a, selon le journaliste américain Seymour Hersh, eu besoin de Moscou pour s’entendre avec Téhéran pour éviter une guerre entrer Israël et l’Iran.

L’Ukraine n’a aucune chance de gagner cette guerre, la politique de la France va à l’encontre de ses intérêts nationaux

Régis Chamagne est un colonel de l’aviation française, il fut commandant de l’escadron Mirage F1C à Cambrai, puis commandant de

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De l’armée française à l’armée russe : Le soldat Sergei Munier appelle à l’unité franco-russe en Ukraine

Serge Munier révèle que des Français se battent à ses côtés, comprenant que la Russie lutte pour son existence et pour les valeurs européennes traditionnelles menacées en France. Il identifie les ennemis communs des peuples français et russe : les États-Unis, la Grande-Bretagne et les mondialistes, et appelle à l’unité dans cette lutte existentielle.

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Lagarde avertit contre toute confiscation des avoirs russes

La présidente de la Banque centrale européenne (BCE), Christine Lagarde, a déclaré que toutes les propositions visant à transférer des

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La Russie retire ses troupes de maintien de la paix du Haut-Karabagh

Les troupes de maintien de la paix russes quittent le Haut-Karabagh plus tôt que prévu. L’information parue la veille sur

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La France est devenue le principal pays acheteur de gaz russe en février

La France est devenue en février le principal acheteur de gaz russe parmi les pays de l’UE, à la place

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France : les cas de diabète de type 2 ont progressé durant le COVID

Les indicateurs épidémiologiques ont révélé que les cas de diabète de type 2 (DT2) ont diminué depuis 2010. Cependant, la crise sanitaire de 2020 a stoppé net cette tendance, avec des conséquences potentiellement durables sur l’incidence, la mortalité et la prévalence du DT2. Le constat est là, les systèmes de santé ont été universellement touchés et mis en péril par la pandémie et les politiques enfermistes.

Depuis 2010, les indicateurs épidémiologiques du diabète de type 2 (DT2) étaient en baisse, grâce aux efforts de prévention en matière d’alimentation et d’activité physique. Mais cette tendance favorable a été stoppée par la pandémie du Covid-19.En 2020, on a constaté une hausse des cas de DT2 et de décès liés à cette maladie. La question qui se pose est : y a-t-il un lien entre la crise sanitaire du Covid-19 et ce grand changement du bilan concernant le diabète de type 2 ?

Audience du sous-comité spécial COVID : les revues scientifiques accusées de connivence avec Washington sur les sujets COVID

Aux Etats-Unis, l’audience intitulée « Faute professionnelle académique : examen de la relation entre les revues scientifiques, le gouvernement et l’examen par les pairs » a été mise en place par le sous-comité spécial sur la pandémie de coronavirus. Elle a révélé l’influence potentielle exercée par le gouvernement fédéral sur les recherches et le processus d’évaluation par les pairs. Les Américains étaient témoins de tout cela, ce qui a détérioré leur confiance. Cette audience semble apporter la preuve que l’administration Biden avait tout fait pour diffuser la fable du pangolin et supprimer la thèse de plus en plus étayée d’une origine accidentelle de la diffusion du virus.

L’origine du Covid-19 continue à susciter de nombreuses interrogations, avec des théories divergentes concernant la transmission du virus à l’homme ou une possible fuite de laboratoire. L’audience du sous-comité spécial sur la pandémie de coronavirus a révélé des préoccupations quant à une éventuelle influence inappropriée du gouvernement fédéral sur les publications de recherche liées au COVID-19. Alors que certains rédacteurs en chef ont décliné l’invitation à témoigner, le rédacteur en chef de Science Magazine, M. Holden Thorp, a souligné les défis du processus d’évaluation par les pairs et l’importance de maintenir un débat scientifique ouvert et transparent. Voici les différents points qu’il faut retenir à l’issue de cette audience.

Le Brésil révèle quelques aspects de la censure sur X qu’Elon Musk a arrêtée

Entre Elon Musk et la justice brésilienne, le torchon brûle, et c’est une bonne occasion de comprendre comment les gouvernements loyalistes utilisent les réseaux sociaux pour mener des guerres de contre-insurrection pour rester au pouvoir. Ainsi, la justice brésilienne a exigé d’Elon Musk qu’il fasse taire des comptes liés à la contestation qui a suivi les élections présidentielles controversées au Brésil, où la défaite de Bolsonara avait ému une partie de la population. Où l’on découvre que, avant d’être racheté par Musk, Twitter avait banalisé des pratiques de censures…

Un juge de la Cour Suprême du Brésil, Alexandre de Moraes, a ordonné à Elon Musk de procéder à la fermeture de comptes X liés à l’insurrection contre l’élection de Lula l’an dernier, à la tête du Brésil. Dans le bras de fer qui oppose Musk à la justice brésilienne, on découvre un certain nombre d’exigences gouvernementales concernant les réseaux sociaux qui n’étaient pas forcément claires jusqu’aujourd’hui :

• des gouvernements demandent autoritairement la clôture de certains comptes
• le prétexte invoqué est celui de l’appel à la haine
• les réseaux obéissent aux injonctions des gouvernements
• les réseaux disposent de la faculté de “réactiver” les comptes à volonté
• il existe un volant de comptes censurés sur les réseaux, une sorte de cimetière ou d’enfer des réseaux sociaux
• pour les gouvernements, la censure des réseaux sociaux est un enjeu politique majeur
• les Etats n’hésitent pas à exercer des pressions judiciaires et pécuniaires sur ces dossiers

Elon Musk a annoncé qu’il se plierait aux décisions de la justice brésilienne.

Iran’s ‘New Equation’ Soars Beyond The Holy Land

‘Anything that was good and true about Western civilization is preserved and thriving in Russia.’ And after a millennium of playing catch-up, she now has the dominant military heft and osmotic alliance with Iran and China to help craft new civilizational calculations.

By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik International.

A Holy of the Holies was shattered in the Holy Land as Iran staged a quite measured, heavily choreographed response to the Israeli terror attack against its consulate/ambassador residence in Damascus, a de facto evisceration of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic immunity.

This game-changer will directly interfere on how the Anglo-American system manages its simultaneous conflagration with Russia, China and Iran – three top BRICS members.

The key problem is escalations are already built in – and will be hard to remove. The Total Cancel War against Russia; the genocide in Gaza – with its explicit policy masterfully decoded by Prof. Michael Hudson; and the decoupling/shaping the terrain against China won’t simply vanish – as all communication bridges with the Global Majority keep being torched.

Yet the Iranian message indeed establishes a “New Equation” – as Tehran christened it, and prefigures many other surprises to come from West Asia.

Iran wanted to – and did send – a clear message. New equation: if the biblical psychopathic entity keeps attacking Iranian interests, from henceforth it will be counter-attacked inside Israel. All that in a matter of “seconds” – as the Security Council in Tehran has already cleared all the procedures.

Escalation though seems inevitable. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak: “Netanyahu is influenced by his [fundamentalist] political partners to go into an escalation so he can hold onto power and accelerate the coming of the Messiah.”

Compare it to Iranian President Raisi: “The smallest act against Tehran’s interests will be met with a massive, extensive, and painful response against all its operations.”

Goodbye to Your ‘Invincible’ Defense Maze

For Tehran, regulating the intensity of the clash in West Asia between Israel and the Axis of Resistance while simultaneously establishing strategic deterrence to replace “strategic patience” was a matter of launching a triple wave: a drone swarm opening the path for cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.

The performance of the much-vaunted Iron Dome, Arrow-3 and David’s Sling – aided by F-35 fighter jets and the US and the UK naval force – was not exactly stellar. There’s no video of the “outer-layer” Arrow-3 system shooting down anything in space.

At least 9 ballistic missiles penetrated the dense Israeli defense network and hit the Nevatim and Ramon bases. Israel is absolutely mum on the fate of its Golan Heights intel installation – hit by cruise missiles.

Amidst classic fog of war, it’s irrelevant whether Tehran launched hundreds or dozens of drones and missiles. Regardless of NATOstan media hype, what’s proven beyond the shadow of a doubt is that the supposedly “invincible” Israeli defense maze – ranging from US-made AD/ABM systems to Israeli knockoffs – is helpless in real war against a technologically advanced adversary.

What was accomplished by a single operation did raise quite a few professional eyebrows. Iran forced Israel to furiously deplete its stock of interceptors and spend at least $1.35 billion – while having its escalatory dominance and deterrence strategy completely shattered.

The psychological blow was even fiercer.

What if Iran had unleashed a series of strikes without a generous previous warning lasting several days? What if US, UK, France and – traitorous – Jordan were not ready for coordinated defense? (The – startling – fact they were all directly dispensing firepower on Tel Aviv’s behalf was not analyzed at all). What if Iran had hit serious industrial and infrastructural targets?

Establishing an Equation Without Disturbing a Pivot

Predictably, there has been less than zero debate across NATOstan about the sudden collapse of the Fortress Israel Myth – which underpins the larger myth of Zionism offering Impregnable Security for those living in Israel. No more. This narrative spin is D.O.A.

Iran, for its part, could not care less about what NATOstan spins. The shift towards the New Equation in fact was generous enough to offer Tel Aviv a de-escalation escape route – which will not be taken, at Israel’s peril.

For Tel Aviv, everything that happened so far spells out Strategic Defeat across the spectrum: in Gaza, in Lebanon, with the economy tanking, totally losing legitimacy around the world, and now with the added painful loss of deterrence.

All eyes are now on what may happen next: will it finally become clear whether the Hegemon prevails or whether Israel runs the “wag the dog” show?

It’s essential to consider the Russia-China strategic partnership view. The consensus among Chinese scholars is that the Hegemon prefers not to commit too many resources to West Asia, as this would affect the – already collapsing – Project Ukraine and the strategic planning to counter China in the Asia-Pacific.

When it comes to Russia, President Raisi personally called President Putin and they discussed all relevant details over the phone. Cool, calm and collected.

Additionally, later this week Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani – who said Iran will respond “within seconds” to any new Israeli attack – visits Moscow for the Conference on Nonproliferation and will also meet with the top echelons of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

It’s quite remarkable that Iran managed to establish the New Equation without disturbing its own pivot to Eurasia – after the collapse of the 2015 nuclear deal – while protecting the complex framework engaged in the defense of Palestine.

The Hegemon’s options are dire. They run from being eventually expelled from West Asia and the Persian Gulf to an unwinnable existential clash against three civilization-states – Russia, China, Iran.

What’s left as the number one feasible scenario is a carefully calculated retreat to an easily controlled backyard: Latin America, especially South America, manipulating new, convenient, sovereign-deprived asset Argentina.

And of course maintaining control over a de-industrialized and sovereignty-deprived Europe.

That does not change the fact that US power projection on the wane, globally, is the way the wind is blowing. The Straussian neocon psycho-dementia is unsustainable. The question is whether they can be progressively purged from the US power structure before they attempt to plunge the Global Majority into their irrational depths of doom.

And Don’t Forget the New BRICS Equation

By contrast, on the Global Majority front, over 40 nations want to join BRICS – and counting, according to the head of the Russian Council Committee on International Affairs, Grigory Karasin.

After a meeting of the chairmen of the international affairs committees of BRICS Parliaments last week in Moscow, Karasin noted how many BRICS member-nations understand that they should not rush to create a rigid charter, “seeing how counterproductive and even provocative the European Union is acting.” The name of the game is flexibility.

Alastair Crooke has touched on a key theme that runs through my new book, Eurasia v. NATOstan: “Anything that was good and true about Western civilization is preserved and thriving in Russia. This is the unspoken insight that so infuriates the western elites. And it is also why, in part, BRICS states so evidently look to Russia for leadership.”

The New Equation established by Iran, a sovereign BRICS member, will do wonders to solidify this – multilateral, multicultural – state of cooperation as the Empire and its “aircraft carrier” in West Asia, except in the covert ops department, are increasingly reduced to the role of a paper tiger.

Pourquoi la présence de troupes françaises en Ukraine est peu probable

Hier, nous avons incité à la prudence concernant les informations sur la présence – et l’élimination – d’une centaine de soldats français en Ukraine – à Slaviansk. Il nous semblait, en effet, que cette information relevait plus de la guerre psychologique menée par la Russie que de la réalité. Après vérification, il est peu probable que l’unité de la Légion Etrangère mentionnée dans les articles russes soit impliquée.

Rappelons d’abord de quoi il s’agit. Selon certains médias russes!

The West begs Iran for a Face-saver

Israel is now vowing to respond to Iran’s retaliatory attack, and while the Biden regime claims to have told Netanyahoo that the U.S. won’t aid in any offensive action, they are still promising to provide air defense… just like they did when Tehran retaliated for Israel’s deadly attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria.

Journalist and Editor-in-Chief of The Cradle, Sharmine Narwani, reported that an Iranian military security official revealed exclusively to The Cradle that the U.S. reached out and asked Iran to allow Israel “a symbolic strike to save face,” which was “outright rejected” and met with warnings that any attack from Israel targeting Iran will be met with immediate action.

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Choreographed retaliations impacting Iran proper, or its interests anywhere else, as during the mild and lawful Round One Iranian barrage, were rejected by Iran for Round Two.

Iran warned ANY support of Zion’s aggression by the deranged West (such as needed aerial refueling and air defense) will bring retaliation on their bases throughout the region, and closing Hormuz, perhaps selectively a la Houthis?!

Zion is committed to regaining permanently lost deterrence. F-UKUS is committed to Zion. The circle is about to be squared

« L’Italie sous occupation militaire américaine »

Souveraine et libre l’Italie ? comme de nombreux pays européen, l’Italie se voit toujours largement sous la botte de l’occupation militaire par les troupes américaines. C’est ce que montre cette communication de camarades communiste transalpin. Rappelons que la France est, tout particulièrement en raison de l’action des communistes français dans la suite de leurs actions dans la résistance, l’un des rares pays européens à ne pas comprendre de base américaine sur son sol. Toutefois notre armée reste sous le joug du commandement intégré de l’OTAN

L’article « L’Italie sous occupation militaire américaine » est apparu en premier sur Strategika.

Le FMI relève les prévisions de croissance du PIB russe pour 2024

Le Fonds monétaire international (FMI) a relevé ses prévisions de croissance du PIB russe en 2024 à 3,2 % (2,6

L’article Le FMI relève les prévisions de croissance du PIB russe pour 2024 est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.

La partie d’échec de l’Iran : le rôle des BRICS et de la présidence russe

par Danielle Bleitrach. Il ne faut pas oublier que l’Iran est membre des BRICS. Notons également que c’est l’année de la présidence de la Russie qui se montre très active sur le plan diplomatique.

Comment contrer la propagande d’Israël

Salt Cube Analytics. Deuxième partie de notre discussion avec le rabbin émérite Yaakov Shapiro sur la manière dont la propagande d'Israël peut être contrée à un niveau fondamental et structurel.

Tsahal protège les exactions des colons israéliens en Cisjordanie

Shane Bauer explique comment les colons qui ont été récemment condamnés par les États-Unis sont soutenus directement par l’État d’Israël.

Source : Truthout, Amy Goodman
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

S’appuyant sur une vague de violence inédite déclenchée par des colons en 2023, les attaques israéliennes contre les Palestiniens de Cisjordanie occupée se sont intensifiées depuis le 7 octobre, avec plus de 400 Palestiniens tués par les forces israéliennes et les colons au cours des cinq derniers mois. La semaine dernière, l’administration Biden a imposé des sanctions à l’encontre de trois colons israéliens et de deux avant-postes israéliens en Cisjordanie occupée pour avoir agressé, harcelé et menacé des Palestiniens et avoir violemment expulsé un grand nombre d’entre eux de leurs terres. Le journaliste d’investigation Shane Bauer s’est rendu sur place pour dresser la carte de la violence contre les Palestiniens, laquelle a connu une recrudescence depuis le 7 octobre, et s’est en particulier intéressés aux avant-postes illégaux de « deux hommes très dangereux » visés par les sanctions : Neria Ben-Pazi et Moshe Sharvit. « La réalité est que (Moshe Sharvit), tout comme Neria Ben-Pazi, sont soutenus directement par l’État d’Israël, déclare Bauer. Selon le libellé des sanctions, cela voudrait dire que tant l’État d’Israël lui-même que toutes les organisations qui le soutiennent devraient être sanctionnés, ce qui, bien sûr, n’a pas été le cas. » Bauer décrit comment « la ligne de séparation entre les colons et l’armée a pratiquement disparu après le 7 octobre », alors que les membres du cabinet israélien d’extrême droite font pression pour « une officialisation de l’apartheid » en Cisjordanie.

Amy Goodman : Ici Democracy Now. Je suis Amy Goodman. L’administration Biden a imposé la semaine dernière des sanctions à l’encontre de trois colons israéliens et de deux avant-postes israéliens en Cisjordanie occupée pour leur implication dans l’agression, le harcèlement et les menaces envers des Palestiniens, et l’expulsion par la violence de nombre d’entre eux de leurs terres. Les sanctions du département d’État américain visent Moshe Sharvit, propriétaire des avant-postes de Moshe’s Farm, Zvi Bar Yosef, fondateur de Zvi’s Farm, et Neria Ben-Pazi.

Au cours des cinq derniers mois, la violence des colons israéliens s’est intensifiée en Cisjordanie, les groupes de défense des droits humains accusant le gouvernement israélien d’encourager les attaques contre les Palestiniens. Selon les autorités de santé, plus de quatre cents Palestiniens ont été tués en Cisjordanie par Tsahal et les colons depuis le 7 octobre.

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« Les déplacés veulent rentrer chez eux »

Les livraisons d'armes à Israël font voir rouge à Marseille

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Iran’s ‘Strategic Patience’ lifts to Serious Deterrence

Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israel were not conducted alone. Strategic partners Russia and China have Tehran’s back, and their role in West Asia’s conflict will only grow if the US doesn’t keep Israel in check.

By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.

La Russie frappe un aérodrome ukrainien qui doit recevoir des F-16

L’armée russe a attaqué la zone de l’aérodrome des Forces armées ukrainiennes dans la banlieue de Starokonstantinov, dans la région

L’article La Russie frappe un aérodrome ukrainien qui doit recevoir des F-16 est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.

Le Japon décide de conserver ses parts dans les projets pétro-gaziers en Russie

Le Japon a décidé de conserver ses parts dans les projets Sakhalin-1 et Sakhalin-2 car il les considère comme importants

L’article Le Japon décide de conserver ses parts dans les projets pétro-gaziers en Russie est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.

Kiev a attaqué le territoire russe avec… un ballon

L’Ukraine a tenté d’attaquer la Russie à l’aide d’un ballon qui a été détruit par la défense aérienne au-dessus du

L’article Kiev a attaqué le territoire russe avec… un ballon est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.

La guerre des devises et l’avenir du dollar

 Dans la guerre entre l’alliance occidentale et l’axe asiatique, les médias se concentrent sur le champ de bataille ukrainien. La vraie guerre est celle des devises, avec une Russie capable de détruire le dollar.

L’article La guerre des devises et l’avenir du dollar est apparu en premier sur Strategika.

The Boys from the School of the Americas

Sweet coordinated moves in our Juntaland, West African Sahelian branch, among the Axes of Resistance! 

Little noticed, just after Niger officially kicked out US troops (turning on the ticking clock, as with Frenchie earlier), and right after Russian advance troops arrived in town, China swooped in to provide sanctions-busting liquidity and lucrative deals. This effectively seals off Plunder Inc from one of most stupendous resource-rich regions on earth, easily to rival Russia itself. And Niger is projected to be Africa’s top growth economy this year….

 @Arab_Africa:  
 The day after Russian troops arrived, Niger signed a $400 million oil deal with China. China asked for $400 million for the sale of crude oil. The official signing ceremony of the agreement between Niger and CNPC took place on April 12. It was attended by the Prime Minister of Niger, Mahamane Zein Lamin, and the Chinese Ambassador to Niamey. |video|

 @Africa Intel: 
Hundreds rally in Niger’s capital to push for U.S. military departure

Hundreds took to the streets of Niger’s capital on Saturday to demand the departure of U.S. troops, after the ruling junta further shifted its strategy by ending a military accord with the United States and welcoming Russian military instructors.

Marching arm in arm through central Niamey, the crowd waved Nigerien flags in a demonstration that recalled anti-French protests that spurred the withdrawal of France’s forces from Niger last year after the army seized power in a coup. |media|

Oh, the Chinese fan the flames. And the key Junta leaders were trained in the famous USA torture academy AKA “School of the Americas,” located in Georgia, LOL!!!!

« Mon cerveau brûlait » : le combat d'un homme hyper sensible aux ondes face à l'État

Électrohypersensible, Philippe Tribaudeau vit illégalement depuis des années dans une forêt de l'ONF. Il demande à pouvoir habiter dans une vraie « zone blanche », loin des ondes.
Entrepierres (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), reportage
Au fur et à mesure que l'on suit la route tortueuse de la forêt domaniale du Vanson, les barres de réseau sur le téléphone portable s'évanouissent, et un message d'erreur s'affiche : « Pas de connexion ».
Et pour cause : cette forêt de pins, située sur la commune d'Entrepierres, (...)

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« Mon cerveau brûlait » : le combat d'un homme hyper sensible aux ondes face à l'État

Électrohypersensible, Philippe Tribaudeau vit illégalement depuis des années dans une forêt de l'ONF. Il demande à pouvoir habiter dans une vraie « zone blanche », loin des ondes.
Au fur et à mesure que l'on suit la route tortueuse de la forêt domaniale du Vanson, les barres de réseau sur le téléphone portable s'évanouissent, et un message d'erreur s'affiche : « Pas de connexion ».
Et pour cause : cette forêt de pins, située sur la commune d'Entrepierres, dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, abrite l'une des (...)

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Média public israélien : Netanyahou reporte l’invasion de la ville de Rafah

par Said Amori. Benyamin Netanyahou a décidé de reporter l’opération au sol contre la ville de Rafah, dans le sud de la bande de Gaza, à la suite de l'attaque de représailles sans précédent lancée par l'Iran contre Israël.

L’armée russe frappe des mercenaires français à Slaviansk

Les forces armées russes ont frappé l’emplacement des mercenaires français à Slaviansk, contrôlé par les Forces armées ukrainiennes, a déclaré

L’article L’armée russe frappe des mercenaires français à Slaviansk est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.

Les métaux non ferreux se renchérissent après l’introduction de nouvelles sanctions antirusses par Washington

Le prix des métaux non ferreux à la Bourse des métaux de Londres (LME) a fortement bondi dans la nuit

L’article Les métaux non ferreux se renchérissent après l’introduction de nouvelles sanctions antirusses par Washington est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.

Royaume-Uni : les autorités sanitaires poussent les groupes vulnérables à la vaccination

En dépit de la baisse des cas de contamination COVID, le gouvernement britannique a annoncé que la campagne de vaccination continue. À partir de ce lundi, les personnes de plus de 75 ans et celles souffrant de certains problèmes de santé sous-jacents peuvent recevoir leur dernière série de rappel COVID. Alors que le débat sur une corrélation potentielle entre le vaccin Covid-19 et la surmortalité fait rage au Royaume-Uni, le pays lance sa dernière campagne de rappel Covid-19 pour les personnes vulnérables. Pour la première fois également, des vaccins privés sont disponibles en marge de la campagne publique.

Selon les autorités sanitaires britanniques, tant que le Covid-19 sera présent, le risque d’apparition de nouveaux variants existe. Un discours de peur qui est rabâché depuis 2021 par les organisations internationales et les gouvernements d’un certain nombre de pays occidentaux .Ainsi, l’Agence britannique de sécurité sanitaire souligne l’importance pour les personnes à risque de se faire vacciner afin de renforcer leur immunité. Bien que les effets secondaires de la vaccination Covid  soient particulièrement à risque, les autorités sanitaires britanniques poursuivent leur politique sanitaire qui repose sur le déni de réalité.

Les injections gratuites pour les plus vieux et payantes pour les jeunes

Déjà en 2022, le ministre Michael Gove avait déclaré que le Royaume-Uni est en train d’arriver à un stade où il est possible de « vivre avec le Covid ». Cependant, le climat de peur propre à justifier les contraintes d’ordre sanitaire, comme la vaccination, n’en finit pas.

Dernièrement, le ministre de la santé, Maria Caulfield a déclaré que le gouvernement s’engage à protéger les plus vulnérables contre le Covid-19. En parallèle, le Dr Mary Ramsay de l’Agence britannique de sécurité sanitaire, en rajoute une couche en déclarant : « le Covid- continue à se propager chez les personnes âgées et celles qui ont un système immunitaire affaibli… le vaccin offre la meilleure protection alors ne le remettez pas à plus tard ».

Selon l’Agence britannique de sécurité sanitaire, à compter de ce lundi, les personnes éligibles pourront réserver un vaccin gratuit auprès du système national de réservation du NHS (National Health Service). Selon le NHS, cette campagne se poursuivra jusqu’au 30 juin

Notons que pour la première fois, des vaccins privés sont également disponibles en marge de la campagne publique. Les personnes âgées de plus de 12 ans disposant des moyens nécessaires peuvent désormais se faire vacciner en privé, moyennant un coût variant entre 45 £ (52.5 euros) et 99 £ (115.8 euros). Ces vaccins privés sont proposés dans des pharmacies et cliniques privées.

Toujours des préoccupations sur les vaccins

Les vaccins de rappel sont offerts aux personnes de 75 ans ou plus, aux résidents des maisons de soins pour personnes âgées et aux individus de 6 mois et plus dont le système immunitaire est affaibli.

La liste des personnes éligibles à ces injections gratuites sera publiée par le système de santé publique. Elles pourront recevoir le vaccin auprès des médecins de famille, des pharmacies et des centres sans rendez-vous.

Selon le directeur national des vaccinations et du dépistage du NHS, Steve Russel, ce rappel a été conçu pour prévenir le risque de complications majeures, d’hospitalisation et de décès causés par le Covid-19.

Pour autant, un rapport met en lumière une préoccupation croissante liée à la surmortalité due aux maladies cardiovasculaires au Royaume-Uni. Les données, couvrant la période de 2010 à 2022, montrent une augmentation significative, atteignant 44% en 2022, suggérant une accélération inquiétante des décès et des handicaps dans cette tranche d’âge.

L’enquête publique Covid-19 actuelle, présidée par l’ancienne magistrate Heather Hallett, traite différents sujets et elle a été divisée en plusieurs phases . La troisième phase portant sur le développement des vaccins anti-Covid, leur efficacité et leur sécurité, était censée débuter au cours de l’été 2024, mais elle sera sans doute reportée. Pour le moment, aucun calendrier des audiences n’a été publié.

« Je regarde les visages, et je vois que les gens ont vieilli »

Le momentum crash a encore été évité !

Ceux qui manipulent les marchés financiers et la géopolitique mondiale ont déjà évité deux fois de provoquer le momentum crash …

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Roots of Gaza Genocide

Prof. Hudson discusses his early career with Herman Kahn (the real Dr. Strangelove) alongside Mossad agents. 

The roots of current annihilation of Palestinians lies in alliance between Anglo-Americans and Zionists, an alliance of convenience.

An agreed Grand Strategy, developed from lessons of Vietnam, includes targeted assassination of journalists to minimize exposure of extermination; destruction of hospitals to expedite the same; targeting of aid workers, UNRWA, green houses, farms, stores warehouses, fishing boats, etc.. to ensure comprehensive civilian starvation — and so on.

A systematic planning designed decades ago, steadily implemented piecemeal, and waiting for the right opportunity to roll out en masse “to tip over” the captive Palestinian population into absolute collapse.

Key point: USUK is not a hostage to messianic Judaism. The Empire actively ensures and supports implementation of the Policy at all levels. The merciless de-arabization ethnic cleansing objective of the zionists is supported at all costs, both to ensure the hegemonic proxy survival of the settler state (“our aircraft carrier”) and to introduce Chaos into the entire world, rolling back the modern International Law derived from post-Westphalian Treaty norms. And there is no Plan B.

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TRANSCRIPT

Gaza: The Strategic Imperative
By Michael Sunday, April 14, 2024

​PROF. MICHAEL HUDSON, THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF GAZA. – Ania K

ANIA: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my channel. Today I have with me for the fourth time, I’m still counting, a very, very special guest, one of the best professors in economics and financial analysts in the world. And I’m very glad we are reconnecting with Professor Hudson again.

I want to start this live stream with asking all of you to check all my links down below this live stream, because being on other platforms, especially nowadays, is very important. So you have my locals there, you have mailing lists, and every other link if you choose to support my work as well.

Also, Professor Hudson’s three links. You have the website (michael-hudson.com), Patreon (patreon.com/michaelhudson), and all the books that Professor Hudson has published so far, you can order. It’s all the way down below this live stream. I’m sure this video will bring you immense value, and I would like you to hit this like, because it helps other people to see it, since YouTube recommends videos with a lot of likes. Leave the comments and also share the video, because the knowledge that you will be hearing today, it’s priceless.

Welcome back, Professor Hudson. Thank you so much for joining me today for this conversation.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Thanks for having me back again.

ANIA: And I would like to say to the audience as well that this video is dedicated to what is taking place, especially in Gaza and Israel. Of course, we will address other countries related to this situation, but Professor Hudson has sent me a very in-depth email after our last live stream a week ago, also on Friday, and we actually decided after we ended that live stream to have this particular topic to be the main topic of this video. So, I give this to you, Professor Hudson, where would you like to start this conversation, please?

MICHAEL HUDSON: I think I should start with my own background, because 50 years ago, in 1974, I was working with the Hudson Institute, with Herman Kahn, and my colleagues there were a number of Mossad agents who were being trained. Uzi Arad was there, and he became the head of Mossad and is currently the main advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu.

So, all of what is happening today was discussed 50 years ago, not only with the Israelis, but with many of the U.S. defense people, because I was with the Hudson Institute, which was a national security agency, because I’d written Super Imperialism, and I was a balance of payments expert, and the Defense Department used my book Super Imperialism not as an expose, but a how-to-do-it book. And they brought me there as a specialist in the balance of payments. Herman brought me back and forth to the White House to meet with cabinet members and to discuss the balance of payments. He also brought me to the War College and to the Air Force think tanks.

So, all of what is happening now was described a long time ago, and Herman was known as a futurist. He was Dr. Strangelove in the movie. That was all based for him on his theories of atomic war, but he was also the main theorist behind Vietnam. And nobody seems to have noticed that what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank now is all based on what was the U.S. strategy during the Vietnam War. And it was based on the “strategic hamlets” idea, the fact that you could cut back, you could just divide all of Vietnam into little parts, having guards at all the transition points from one part to another. Everything that Israel is doing to the Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere throughout Israel was all pioneered in Vietnam.

And Herman had me meet with some of the generals there to explain it. And I think I mentioned I flew to Asia twice with Uzi Arad. We had a chance to [get to] know each other very much. And I could see that the intention from the very beginning was to get rid of the Palestinians and indeed to use Israel as the basis for U.S. control of Near Eastern oil. That was the constant discussion of that from the American point of view. It was Israel as a part of the oil.

So, Herman’s analysis was on systems analysis. You define the overall aim and then you work backward. How do you do it? Well, you can see what the Israeli policy is today. First of all, you isolate the Palestinians and strategic hamlets. That’s what Gaza had already been turned into for the last 15 years. It’s been carved up into districts requiring electronic passes from one sector to another to go into Israel, to go to Jerusalem, or to go to Israel for jobs to work.

The aim all along has been to kill them. Or first of all, to make life so unpleasant for them that they’ll emigrate. That’s the easy way. Why would anyone want to stay in Gaza when what’s happening to them is what’s happening today? You’re going to leave. But if they don’t leave, you’re going to have to kill them, ideally by bombing because that minimizes the domestic casualties. Israel doesn’t want its soldiers to die any more than Americans do. So, the American form of war, as it was in Vietnam, is bombing them. You don’t want person-to-person contact because people fighting for their lives and liberty tend to be better fighters because for them it’s really essential. For the others, they’re just doing soldier’s work.

So, the genocide that you’re seeing today is an explicit policy, and that was a policy of the forefathers, the founders of Israel. The idea of a land without people was a land without Arabs in it, the land without non-Jewish people. That’s really what it meant. They were to be driven out starting even before the official funding of Israel, the first Nakba, the Arab Holocaust. And the two of the Israeli prime ministers were members of the Stern gang of terrorists. The terrorists became the rulers of Israel. They escaped from British jail and they joined to found Israel. So, what you’re seeing today is the final solution to this plan. And the founders of Israel were so obsessed with the Nazis, essentially, they wanted to do to them what they did to us, is how they explained it to people.

For the United States, what they wanted was the oil reserves in the Middle East. And again and again, I heard the phrase, ‘you’re our landed aircraft carrier in Israel’. Uzi Arad, the future Mossad head, would be very uncomfortable at this because he wanted Israel to be run by the Israelis. But they realized that for Israel to get by with the money that it needed for its balance of payments, it had to be in a partnership with the United States.

So, what you’re seeing today isn’t simply the work of one man, of Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s the work of the team that President Biden has put together. It’s the team of Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, Lincoln, and the whole deep state, the whole neocon group behind them, Victoria Nuland, and everyone. They’re all self-proclaimed Zionists. And they’ve gone over this plan for essentially America’s domination of the Near East for decade after decade.

But as the United States learned in the Vietnam War, populations protest, and the U.S. population protested against the Vietnam War. What the Biden administration wants to avoid is the situation that President Johnson had in 1968. Any hotel, any building that he went to, to give a speech for his re-election campaign, there were crowds shouting, LBJ, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today? President Johnson had to take the servants entrance to get away from the press so that nobody would see what he was doing. And essentially, he went on television and resigned.

Well, to prevent this kind of embarrassment, and to prevent the embarrassment of journalists who were doing all this, Seymour Hersh described the [Mai Lai] massacre, and that helped inflame the opposition to Johnson. Well, President Biden, who’s approved Netanyahu’s plan, the first people you have to kill are the journalists. If you’re going to permit genocide, you have to realize that you don’t want the domestic U.S. population or the rest of the world to oppose the U.S. and Israel. You kill the journalists. And for the last, ever since the October 2nd Al-Aqsa event, you’ve had one journalist per week killed in Israel. That’s part of it.

The other people you don’t want, if you’re going to bomb them, you have to start by bombing the hospitals and all of the key centers. That also was part of the idea of the Vietnam War. How do you destroy a population? This was all worked out in the 1970s, when people were trying to use systems analysis to think, how do you work back and see what you need? And the idea, if you bomb a population, you can’t really hide that, even if you kill the journalists. How do you kill a population passively? So you minimize the visible bombing. Well, the line of least resistance is to starve them. And that’s been the Jewish, the Israeli policy since 2008.

You had a piece by Sarah Roy in the New York Review, citing a cable from 2008, from Tel Aviv to the embassy saying, as part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed to the embassy officials on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gaza economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge. Well, now they’re pushing it over the edge.

And so Israel has been especially focusing after the journalists, after the hospitals, you bomb the greenhouses, you bomb the trees, you sink the fishing boats that have supplied food to the population. And then you aim at fighting the United Nations relief people.

And you’ve read, obviously, the whole news of the last week has been the attack on the seven food providers that were not Arabs. And this was, again, from a systems analyst point, this is exactly what the textbook says to do strategically. If you can make a very conspicuous bombing of aid people, then you will have other aid suppliers afraid to go, because they think, well, if these people, aid suppliers, are just shot at, then we would be too.

Well, the United States is fully behind this. And to help starve the Gazan people, Biden immediately, right after the ICJ finding of plausible genocide, withdrew all funding from the United Nations relief agencies. The idea, again, the hope was to prevent the United Nations from having the money to supply food.

So when the United States is now trying to blame one person, and Biden goes on a television recorded call with Netanyahu saying, please be humane when you’re dropping your bombs, do it in a humane way. That’s purely for domestic consumption. It’s amazing how nakedly hypocritical all this.

And ever since the Al-Aqsa Mosque was raided by Israeli settlers on October 2, leading to Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood retaliation on October 7, it was closely coordinated with the Biden administration. All the bombs have been dropped day after day, week after week, with the whole of the US. And Biden has said on a number of occasions, the Palestinians are enemies.

So I think I want to make it clear that this is not simply an Israeli war against Hamas. It’s an American-backed Israeli war. Each of them have their own objectives. Israel’s objective is to have a land without non-Jewish population. And America’s aim is to have Israel acting as the local coordinator, as it has been coordinating the work with ISIS and the ISIS commanders to turn them against targets provided by the United States.

Basically, that’s the duopoly that’s been created.

And I think Alastair Crooke has cited Trita Parsi, one of the Israeli political leaders, saying the objective really in all this, of Israel’s conflict and Biden’s acquiescence to it, is that Israel is engaged in a deliberate and systematic effort to destroy existing laws and norms about warfare. And that’s really it.

You have people, you have reporters, such as Pepe Escobar, saying that the United States is a chaos agent. But there’s a logic in this. The United States is looking forward to what it’s going to be doing in the Near East, in Ukraine, and especially in the China Sea and Taiwan. Looking forward, the United States says, how do we prevent other nations moving against us in the international court or suing or somehow putting sanctions against us? Israel is the test case, not simply for what’s happening there in Israel and Palestine itself, but against anything that the United States will be doing through the rest of the world.

That’s why the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., echoed by Lincoln and other U.S. officials, said there’s no court of justice ruling against genocide, that it was a non-binding ruling. Well, of course it was binding, but it has no means of enforcement. And both Lincoln and yesterday, the head of the army said, there is no genocide taking place in Gaza. Well, what that means is you have to go to a court, and that’s going to take years and years. And by the time the court case is over and there’s any judgment of reparations due, then you’re going to, by then the Gazans will all be dead. So the U.S. aim is to end the rule of international law that is why the United Nations was founded in 1945.

And in fact, this international law goes way back to 1648 with the peace of Westphalia in Germany to end the 30 years war. All the European nations agreed not to interfere with the internal affairs of other countries. Well, that also was part of the United Nations principle.

And yet you have the United States explicitly advocating regime change in other countries, and most specifically in Russia and throughout the Middle East. So if you can end the whole kind of rule of law, then there’s really no alternative to the United States rules-based order, which means we can do whatever we want, chaos.

And if you look at what’s happening in Gaza is facilitating a transition from a orderly world of the United Nations to chaos, then you’re going to understand basically what the whole, the big picture, the long range picture that’s been put in place really over a series of decades. That’s why the United States, and the United States has no plan B. It only has the plan A to do this. It’s not taking into account the counter reactions and the feedback. Maybe we can discuss that a little later. I’d better leave the questions up to you.

ANIA: Thank you. You actually have already answered many of my questions in that intro, but I want to ask you this now. I will jump a little bit now. I have a question about something that you wrote to me in your email.

I believe looking at many, many situations that are taking place in the world, that sometimes all you really need to do is to follow the money and it will give you a lot of answers. So as you said in your email that, let me check, where is it? The Israeli developers already are planning to turn Gaza into luxury beachfront properties.

So let me ask you here, Professor Hudson, What is really the main goal for Israel’s existence? And in this case, is this really about their luxurious properties, oil? What else is this region really about? Why is it so crucial?

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, it’s not just about beach properties. It’s what’s off the beach, the gas, the natural gas that they’ve discovered right offshore the Mediterranean that belongs to Gaza. So the Israelis are after the gas.

But your basic question, you’d sent me a list of questions you were going to go through. And I think if you keep to that sequence, it’s good. What you’re really asking is, you know, what’s the main goal for Israel’s existence? And I think if people don’t really, their sense of justice is so strong that they can’t believe what the original goal was. And the initial goal in the 19th century was formed in a period where Europe was anti-Semitic. The most anti-Semitic part of all was Ukraine. If you read Leon Trotsky’s autobiography of growing up in Odessa, he described the pogroms there. And so the Zionists, the first wave of Zionists, were looking for how can the Jewish people escape from this anti-Semitism.

Here’s the problem. By 1947, when Israel was formed, anti-Semitism was passé. Most Jews in the United States, certainly who I grew up with, they were all assimilated. Of course, they had well wishes for Israel. There was very little talk of the Arabs. But you had two arms of Judaism.

The one arm were the people who remembered with a vengeance what was done for them against them in Ukraine and Russia, and especially by Hitler and the Holocaust. They wanted to be separate and to have just to be protected.

But most of the Jewish population in America and Europe was thoroughly assimilated. And the last thing they wanted was to be separate. They wanted just the opposite. They wanted anti-Semitism to end.

But the Zionists who were in charge of Israel, the Stern Gang leaders, were obsessed with the old antagonisms. And in a way, they were obsessed with Nazism and said, well, we want to do to them what they did to us.

And again, the idea of a land without a people meant a land— we intend to make Israel into a land without non-Jewish people. That’s what a land without people, their slogan, meant. And from the very beginning, they started by driving Arabs out of Palestine, destroying their olive trees, destroying their orchards, taking their houses, and just killing them. That’s why the English threw them in jail before turning around and said, well, it’s true that we’ve thrown all the leaders in jail, but let’s recognize Israel and make Israel a whole country to do what these leaders that we were before throwing in jail were doing.

ANIA: Thank you.

You said also in your email that ISIS is part of America’s foreign legion. Can you please elaborate on that?

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, ISIS was organized originally to fight in Afghanistan against the Russians. And al-Qaeda, which was the parent of ISIS, was simply the roster of people who were willing to fight under the U.S. command.

Well, part of al-Qaeda turned against America on 9-11, but most, especially the Sunni followers of Wahhabi theology, were very eager to fight against the Shiites. Islam is divided into two parts, the Sunni Islam of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Republics, and much of the Near East, and the Shiites from Iran and maybe half of Iraq and parts of Syria also.

So you had these two sectarian groups fighting each other, and the United States provided the funding and the organization to them and essentially delegated to Israel much of the organization of organizing ISIS to fight against Assad, to fight against whomever the United States designated as our enemies, meaning we want to take their oil lands. America has taken Iraqi oil and won’t leave, is taking Syrian oil and won’t leave.

So essentially, the U.S. has used ISIS to fight against all of the Shiites on the theory that the Shiite Islam is all controlled by Iran, and they want to essentially wipe out the Shiites as they’re doing in Gaza, even though I think the Palestinians are mainly Sunni, but you should think of the ISIS as America’s foreign legion. They’ve hired them, they pay them, and they recruit from them.

You’ve just seen in what happened in Russia from the Ukrainians, Oregon recruited Sunni terrorists from Tajikistan. You’ve seen the United States trying to use ISIS to recruit, to fight in Russia’s southern periphery in Central Asia and to fight in the Uyghur territories of Xinjiang in Western China. They’re using ISIS to try to essentially attack the integrity of China, Russia, and Syria and any other area where the United States wants a regime change to put in the usual client oligarchy.

ANIA: So interesting, and they sell it under the description that this is the enemy and terrorist, and they are founding it. And the public is still buying this, Professor Hudson. How is this possible?

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, this is hypocritical. Everybody throughout the world is appalled by the cruelty and the barbarism of ISIS. The United States is not going to come right out and say, hey, that’s us that they’re fighting. We’re directing ISIS from the presidential office. We love ISIS.

Well, Biden loves ISIS, and Blinken loves ISIS, and the entire neocons, the CIA loves ISIS because they’re all running it, but they can’t say it to the American public. They have to pretend just like they’re pretending with Netanyahu that, oh my heavens, look at [what] ISIS is doing. We’ve really got to fight against it.

And for instance, when it put in the white helmets in ISIS, these were the American supplied public relations unit to essentially do false propaganda, false images, make false flag attacks. All of these false flag attacks, all of the white helmets and the propaganda has all been coordinated by the United States.

ANIA: I want to ask you now a question that to some extent you actually answered already. Does Israel make any independent decisions that are not consulted with the United States in regards to bombing Gaza?

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, the question is, what is the United States or what do you mean by the United States? They don’t need official approval. There’s already a broad agreement in principle. Do whatever you have to do.

The United States has given them a free hand saying, we’re not going to interfere. You’re our managers on site. Just as you’re managing ISIS, you can manage certainly your own country. The U.S. has given blanket approval for Israel’s genocide. That’s why it says there’s no genocide there.

And it shares the aim of extending the war to fight Iran. Again and again, what Netanyahu is saying, we’re not going to be safe until we defeat Iran. Well, the United States has, that’s America, that’s the neocon plan outlined in the 1990s. It was spelled out, I think, by General Petraeus of first Afghanistan, then Iraq, then Syria, and then Iran. All of this was worked out from the beginning. The United States is trying to figure out, how do we do it?

Well, there’s a general expectation that one way to do it is to have Israel mount a false flag attack, something Iran does that is so bad that Israel retaliates and then, as it just bombed the Iranian embassy in Syria, that Iran is going to then do something to Israel and the United States will come to protect our Israeli brothers and world peace and prevent the genocide that the Gazans are trying to do against Israel and that Iran is trying to do against the rest of the world and bomb Iran.

Back in 1970s, there were discussions of what do you do? What will Iran do to fight back? Well, there’s one thing that Iran can do, that it doesn’t have to bomb American troops in Syria or Iraq. It doesn’t have to bomb Israel. All it has to do is sink a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. That’s the big strait. You’ve seen what happened, what the Houthis have done with the Red Sea. The big traffic is the Strait of Hormuz. That’s where Saudi Arabian oil and we could call it the oil gulf. It’s called the Persian Gulf, but it’s really the oil gulf. That’s where all the oil trade is. If you sink a ship or two in the oil gulf, that’s going to push oil prices way, way up because that’s going to cut most of the world off for as long as Iran wants from the Middle Eastern oil supply.

Well, that’s what really terrifies Biden because he’s pretending that there’s no inflation in the United States and that the economy is quite heavy. The inflation that would follow from Iran sinking a ship in Hormuz will essentially be crowning the American opposition to Biden, which is growing.

It’s one thing to be against genocide and killing people, but much more important is if your gas prices go up, the American people think that that’s really much more important than the fact of genocide and crimes against humanity. That’s really what is frightening the US.

The question is right now, how do they make the Israeli provocation against Iran— an excuse for the United States to come in with all of NATO’s and European support and somehow prevent Iran from having the power to close down the Straits of Hormuz. That’s what they’re trying to figure out now. I don’t know what they’re going to do, but when Blinken has said, Israel has not broken any rules. It’s all okay. What the United States really is [saying], if they can get away with this, they can say there are really no rules at all for the whole world. We can do whatever we want. Right now is coming to a peak. It’s the follow-up that was all thought in advance of the whole Israeli movement against Gaza.

ANIA: Thank you, Professor Hudson.

Next question that is about targeting civilians, journalists, and workers. Again, you’ve addressed this already, but I will ask you this. Why is the Israeli army targeting all those groups?

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, it’s targeting everyone. It’s targeting all civilians because it wants a land without Palestinian people. It’s targeting the most critical people necessary for a Gazan society to survive. It targets the journalists because it doesn’t want the world to see what it’s doing, because Israel has already lost its standing in the world. The United States tells them, especially, you’ve got to kill the journalists because if you don’t kill them, we, the Biden administration, are going to look bad. We already have the Americans turning against the war.

There’s only one anti-war candidate running in the presidential elections for this November. That’s Jill Stein. Every other candidate is completely backing Israel in the war, but the American people, the majority of Americans look at what’s happening in Israel as genocide and as a crime against humanity. They’re not going to vote for Biden. Biden is going to lose the election or certainly not win it. It may go into the House of Representatives if nobody wins it.

In order to drive the rest of the Gazan populations out, you have to, number one, get rid of the journalists. Number two, you want to get rid of the hospitals. As you’re bombing the people, a lot of them are going to get injured. You want all the injured people from the bombs to die. For that, you have to bomb the hospitals. You especially have to target the doctors for killing. Not only will there not be doctors to heal the wounded people, but other doctors, doctors without borders from other countries, will be afraid to go into Gaza because if you go there, you know that if you’re a food worker bringing aid or a doctor or an aid worker, you’re going to get shot because you’re at the top of the target list.

ANIA: It’s horrible. Just listening to this, you know, it’s very hard to…

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, imagine how I used to feel sitting in meetings and all of this was just said as if this is part of a game and this is how we’re planning it all out. All of this was what was discussed. How do we do evil? I mean, this…

ANIA: Yeah, but those are not humans to me. They are not humans to me.

MICHAEL HUDSON: That’s right.

ANIA: Soulless beings that are not humans. That’s all I say here.

Professor Hudson, next question is about those Israeli developers who, as you said in your email, are already planning to turn Gaza into luxury beachfront properties. So what do you really know about this? They are already planning this? Like they have plans for those properties?

MICHAEL HUDSON: The Americans made a start. They began by building docks. You not only want beachfront property, you want docks for the buyers to have a place to tie up their yachts or their sailboats.

And so the United States is building these piers. One reason it’s doing it is it can pretend that it can say, we’re not building the piers for Israeli property owners to have yachts, we’re going to deliver food. But by the time we finish building the piers, there’ll be no more Gazans. I mean, that’s the whole point. By building the piers, they’ve enabled Israel to prevent the food trucks from coming in from the south. So building the piers is a means of pretending to help without doing anything at all to help actually [deliver] food to Israel.

So yes, all throughout the news, there have been statements by the Israeli real estate companies saying, Gaza could have been a nice place to live if there weren’t Arabs in it. And now if we can clear the land of Arabs, make it a land without those people, then this is a wonderful property. And it has natural gas to help the Israeli balance of payments. So the whole idea is to make this a center of Israel luxury development.

ANIA: Again, absolutely disgusting to me, just listening to this. I want to ask you now about, were Gaza [to cease] to exist completely, what will happen to all the Palestinians who survived?

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, the land is going to be there, and it’ll be beachfront property. Alastair Crooke has been, I think, the clearest writer. He was one of the negotiators between Israel and the Palestinians. He’s explained that there cannot be a two-state solution anymore.

The Israelis say, we are going to kill all of the Palestinians. The Palestinians say, well, we can’t exist with the Israelis, and we have to defend ourselves. If we don’t kill them, they’re going to kill us. So Israel has to be either Palestinian or Israeli. It can’t be both. That is ended forever. So anyone who talks of a two-state solution, they’re just not looking it up.

So the question is, how is Gaza going to exist? Either it’s going to be all Israeli, and the Gazans will be forced to flee. The Israelis want them to flee by boats and to be sunk, most of them will be sunk in the Mediterranean, just like after America and France destroyed Libya. The Libyans tried to flee in boats, and they were sunk.

So either they will drown, or they will somehow work their way into a prison camp that Egypt and its leader is setting up for Gazan refugees. And then the Gazans will somehow try to gain entry into Europe or other countries. So you can expect a huge influx of Gazans into Europe.

Some people have suggested, well, now that Ukraine is turning into a land without a people, maybe either the Gazans can turn Ukraine over to the Palestinians, or we could give it to the Israelis, saying, well, this is your ancestral land, this is where all of the pogroms that started Zionism began. Now you can go back and there are no more Ukrainians. They have programs against you. Maybe the Israelis should go to Ukraine. One population or the other has to emigrate.

Well, Israelis already have been losing a huge chunk of their population, especially their working age population, especially those who have jobs in information technology or highly paying jobs. So, you’re already seeing a population outflow.

So, Gaza will exist geographically, but we have no idea about what is going to be the demographic composition.

And I think the Israeli Defense Forces Chief, Herzi Halevi, said just last Sunday that Israel, he announced Israel knows how to handle Iran, just as they’re handling Gaza, that they’ve prepared for this. They have good defensive systems. And he said, we are operating and cooperating with the USA and strategic problems partners in this region. So, the US is going to be putting pressure on Egypt to expand the concentration camps that it’s setting up and to pressure the Europeans. Maybe so many Germans are leaving their country now that there’s no more work for them. Maybe the Palestinians will go to Germany and other European countries, and wherever they can find some kind of refuge.

America was willing to give the Jewish population refuge as long as the Jewish population served European imperialist aims of controlling the Near Eastern oil. But what can Palestine offer to be protected? If the Palestinians don’t have anything to offer the Europeans or the Americans, their governments simply do not care. They’ve done absolutely nothing to protect the Palestinians because they don’t care if there’s no money in it for them. And the Arab countries with money, the Saudi Arabians, the United Arab Republics have not really lifted a hand to help this. Even though a large labor force in Saudi Arabia is already Palestinian, they don’t need more Palestinians there. So, that’s basically what’s happening.

ANIA: Thank you, Professor Hudson. You know, before I ask you my last question, you know, people’s beliefs that the governments care about them. This is the most… I don’t understand how people can still believe that any government really cares about them in the world, looking at the situation like this. It’s heartbreaking. Just listening to what you said is a lot for me to take in.

The last question is when the bombing will stop and who is going to rebuild Gaza Strip?

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, the bombing will stop when there are no more Palestinians to bomb. Israel doesn’t have the money to rebuild it or the intention of rebuilding. And even if Israel wants to rebuild it with nice homes all the way to the beachfront, who is going to do the building?

Well, already Israel has made a deal with India to get a lot of Indian construction workers from the poorest provinces of India coming over there. But again, who’s going to pay them? You can give them work permits, but the answer is who will pay them will be the contractors who are given the contracts to rebuild homes and offices and the new Israeli compound in Gaza, unless the world works and says, no, the Israelis have to give back all the land and it’s Israel that will be a minority under a Palestinian government.

You cannot have an Israeli government that is over the whole region because its policy is to kill the Palestinians. So I don’t see that, again, you can’t have a two-state solution. It doesn’t look like anyone’s supporting the Palestinians right now.

Who would help rebuild it? Well, the Turkish builders might come in and build it. Other Middle Easterners would rebuild it. Saudi Arabia could finance huge developments there. The United Arab Republics could buy land. American investors, maybe Blackstone could help develop there, but it’ll be foreign investment.

And if you look at the fact that the foreign investors of all these countries are looking for what they can get out of the genocide against Palestinians, you realize why there’s no real opposition to the genocide that’s taking place.

And the great benefit to the U.S. of all this is that as a result of this absence of any kind of the moral feeling that you’ve just expressed, no claims can be brought against the United States for any of the warfare, any of the regime change, interference that it’s planning for Iran, China, Russia, and as it’s been doing in Africa and Latin America. So Israel and Gaza and the West Bank should be seen, I think, as an opening of the new Cold War. And whatever you see happening in Gaza after the Gazans are driven out, you see this is really the plan for what the United States wants to do in China, in Russia, in Africa, in the whole rest of the world. You’re seeing a plan for basically how to financialize and make money out of genocide and the destruction of society. And in order to do that, you have to prevent anything like the United Nations of having any authority at all.

And the irony in all this is that the United States is creating just the opposite of what it wanted to do. I mean, obviously, while this is happening in Gaza, most of the global majority that we’ve spoken before, the world outside of NATO, America and Europe, are appalled. And the only way of stopping what’s happening in Gaza happening in the rest of the world is to create an alternative to the United Nations, an alternative to the World Bank, to the IMF, an alternative to all the organizations that the United States has controlled to turn the whole rest of the world into Gaza, if it can.

ANIA: Dr. Hudson, Professor Hudson, I want to thank you for coming back. I want to thank you for telling me after our last live stream to address this, because you shared it with me and with the audience. And I really hope that you will spread this video, guys, you will share it.

So I personally believe that we are fighting evil. And the way that I feel I am in a small way contributing to this is to trying to seek the truth and bring people who have knowledge and understanding and can share the facts and the truth with the world. Because if you don’t know what you’re fighting against, what you’re fighting with, then you’re like Don Quixote. You have to know what is the problem. And I am immensely grateful for guests like yourself to be on my channel and to share your knowledge with the audience. I can only imagine knowing all of this, what you shared with us today, living with this for so many years and watching the [unfolding] of those events in the world. For someone who has feelings and emotions, it’s very hard to bear. I can only imagine. So thank you for your contribution.

MICHAEL HUDSON: I’m on your show, Ania, because you see that this is evil, and it is evil.

ANIA: Yes. Thank you so much. I know you have to go. And I want to invite you again, of course, in the near future. Hopefully, you find time for our next conversation. To everyone who’s watching, make sure to check all the links to Professor Hudson that are already attached down below this live stream. And like I said, please share the video. Hit this like. It’s free of charge, and it helps the channel also. And more people can hear this information in the world. Thank you, everyone. And until next time.

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