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Selected Articles: The US Is Caught in a Dilemma with Niger. Scott Ritter

17-8-2023 < Global Research 39 970 words
 

The US Is Caught in a Dilemma with Niger. Scott Ritter


By Scott Ritter, August 16, 2023


This time, Nuland was in the African country to respond to the July 26 military coup, which saw the ouster of the constitutionally-elected President Mohamed Bazoum by a group of military officers, operating under the umbrella of the newly-formed National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, led by the commander of the presidential guard, General Abdourahmane Tchiani, who subsequently declared himself to be the new head of state. 



Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity


By Prof. Claudia von Werlhof, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Josefina Fraile, Elana Freeland, Maria Heibel, Claire Henrion, Conny Kadia, Linda Leblanc, and Vilma Rocío Almendra Quiguanás, August 17, 2023


The so-called “climate emergency”  has become a timely and convenient instrument of propaganda which is used to distract people from questioning “the real crisis”, namely the Covid-19 “plandemic” (instigated by the financial elites) which is destroying people’s lives Worldwide.



U.S.-Backed Roll of the Dice Leaves Ukraine in Worse Crisis


By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, August 16, 2023


Ukraine’s fall 2022 counteroffensive left it in a stronger position, yet Biden and his NATO allies still chose the battlefield over the negotiating table. Now the failure of Ukraine’s long-delayed “Spring Counteroffensive” has left Ukraine in a weaker position, both on the battlefield and at the still empty negotiating table.



Theocracy Is Under Attack in Iran. “Joe Biden has friendly relations with the Islamists”


By Prof. Akbar E. Torbat, August 16, 2023


The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq by the U.S. and its European allies in the early 2000s alarmed the clerics in Tehran that they may be next to lose power. Consequently, the clerics heavily invested in manufacturing conventional advanced weapons, which strengthened the country’s military.



U.S. Launched Illegal Invasion of Afghanistan 22 Years Ago: Fantasies About the “Global Wars on Terrorism and Drugs”


By Drago Bosnic, August 16, 2023


When the United States launched its illegal invasion of Afghanistan 22 years ago, it tried to convince the world (and even itself) that it was doing “the right thing” by using the September 11 attacks as the pretext.



Pilot Died in Flight: Aug. 14, 2023 LATAM Flight LA505 (MIA-SCL) Miami to Santiago, Chile


By Dr. William Makis, August 16, 2023


56 year old captain pilot went into the washroom in the 2nd hour of the flight, saying he felt unwell. Noticing that the captain had fallen in the sink, the cabin crew intervened with first aid, but the captain could not be revived.



US-NATO Plans to Prepare Ukraine for Another Doomed Counteroffensive in 2024


By Ahmed Adel, August 16, 2023


The Wall Street Journal reported that Western politicians have begun speculating about Kiev’s preparations for a possible new counteroffensive next spring. The media outlet quoted diplomats saying that the US and other Western officials hoped the Ukrainian military’s much-vaunted summer counteroffensive.



Shocking Audio Recording Played at Ottawa Police Detective’s Trial for Investigating “Sudden Infant Deaths”


By Donald Best, August 16, 2023


Detective Grus is charged with Discreditable Conduct under the Police Services Act for the ‘unauthorized’ re-investigation of nine sudden infant deaths (‘SIDS’), where she sought to know if the mothers’ vaccination status might have been connected with the deaths.



Food, Dispossession and Dependency. Resisting the New World Order


By Colin Todhunter, August 16, 2023


We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agri-food chain. The high-tech/big data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose their model of food and agriculture on the world.



The Biggest Vietnam War Story that Americans Don’t Talk About


By John Summers, August 16, 2023


In February, a district court in Seoul ordered the government of South Korea to pay compensatory damages to Nguyễn Thi Thanh, a Vietnamese woman, in a lawsuit she brought over an event that had taken place 55 years earlier, nearly to the day. On the morning of Feb. 12, 1968, about 100 combat troops from the Republic of Korea’s 2nd Marine Brigade poured into Phong Nhị in Quảng Nam Province.


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