ROBERT PARRY, Harvard recipient of the 2015 I.F. Stone Investigative Journalist Award, speaks out on the “Bogus Russia Narrative that NATO Reaffirms” — despite the facts showing untruths in each accusation.

Consortium News
June 11, 2016

President Obama and NATO leaders signed on to the false narrative of a minding-its-own-business West getting sucker-punched by a bunch of Russian meanies, a storyline that suggests insanity or lies, reports Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

It’s unnerving to realize that the NATO alliance – bristling with an unprecedented array of weapons including a vast nuclear arsenal – has lost its collective mind. Perhaps it’s more reassuring to think that NATO simply feels compelled to publicly embrace its deceptive “strategic communications” so gullible Western citizens will be kept believing its lies are truth.

But here were the leaders of major Western “democracies” lining up to endorse a Warsaw Summit Communiqué condemning “Russia’s aggressive actions” while knowing that these claims were unsupported by their own intelligence agencies.

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Following is an article written by Pepe Escobar who is often ahead of the international “news train”––this time regarding the Russia-China trade alliances which are taking place alongside the showdown in Ukraine, Crimea and Syria. I haven’t followed the jumble of trade acronyms listed below, but have come to respect Pepe’s insights and predictions.

His latest piece takes me back to the 90s and early 2000s when I urged Dick Gephardt, Newt Gingrich and other congress members, to drop the Jackson-Vanik Amendment trade restrictions regarding Russia. The rationale was simple: if Washington refused to become trade partners with Russia, her leaders would eventually be forced to seek China and other less desirable partners for trade alliances.

They didn’t heed––and the predictions have now come true. If even half of Pepe’s forecasts below materialize, we in the US will be the greatest international net losers. Nothing can be done now; it’s too late. Washington has literally forced these unintended trade agreements into being by refusing Russia’s attempts to partner.

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Dear CCI Friends,

At last America’s Mayors speak out against President Obama’s decision to spend $1,000,000,000,000 (trillion) on advanced American nuclear weapon systems in the near future.

Unfortunately our mainstream media don’t cover this kind of material today, perhaps believing that it’s better not to alarm Americans? Or simply wishing not to be stopped in their tracks?

If Americans across the country learn of this, it could help spearhead a nationwide rejection of the dangerous position in which we find ourselves in 2016.

Please call your Mayor and learn his/her position on this resolution. Let us know your response. Let’s find ways to buttress this effort and increase its momentum.

Since they’re not likely to hear about the Mayors’ action through the mainstream media, please consider letting your friends and colleagues know about this blog post.

Together we might make a difference.

Sharon

theAntiMedia.org

1,400 US Mayors Just Slammed the White House for Risking Nuclear War With Russia

Everett Numbers

(ANTIMEDIA) Indianapolis, IN — War games and nuclear policy perpetuated by the Obama administration are “fueling growing tensions”with Russia and putting the world at risk of a nuclear war, according to an official nonpartisan organization consisting of 1,407 mayors and other leaders of cities with 30,000 or more inhabitants.

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