How Russia rescued Georgia

Putin's decree banning passenger flights from Russia to Georgia came into force on July 8. On the evening of July 7, Russian airlines made the last flights to Georgian airports and back. There were six airlines that maintained air communication between Russia to Georgia: Aeroflot, S7, Ural Airlines, Pobeda, Red Wings, Nordavia. Georgian airlines Georgian Airways and MyWay Airlines completed flights to Russia on July 7 as well.

Russia may impose more restrictions on Georgia and ban imports of Georgian wine and other products.

On July 9, the State Duma of the Russian Federation unanimously passed a statement on additional economic measures that Russia could possibly take in connection with anti-Russian provocations in Georgia. The statement says that Russian MPs strongly condemn ongoing anti-Russian provocations in Georgia. "Open attacks on the part of radical forces of this country cause the Russian-Georgian relations to degrade further," the statement said.

Historians believe that Georgia's incorporation into the Russian Empire saved the country from destruction. Russia assisted Georgia in solving one of its main problems - the slave trade. Back in the day, noblemen accounted for 15 percent of the population of Georgia. They mostly profited from selling peasant children to neighbouring countries.

The Caucasus used to be an unprofitable region that the Russian Empire was subsidizing.  Oleg Ayrapetov, Candidate of Historical Sciences at the Moscow State University, talks about historical processes in Georgia after 1801.

"It appears that smaller countries are traditionally drawn to bigger neighbours. If they can not get along with each other, smaller states start looking for new patrons. Georgia quickly switched to the United States as soon as its relations with Russian became problematic. They turned to the Americans and set forth numerous claims to Russia. Why does it happen so?"

"Yes, this is exactly what happens. In 1801, Russia did not have a goal to liberate Georgia - Russia had to rescue the country, because the people of Georgia were on the brink of extermination. Liberated nations are not grateful - they are demanding, and one can only imagine what rescued nations are like.

"The Russian Empire rescued Georgia. There were 12 million Georgians in the 12th century. When the Russian Empire came to Georgia in1801, there were only 800,000 of them left. Georgia had sought Russia's support and protection on a number of times throughout history. They wanted Russia's protection for the hereditary power of Georgian kings. In other words, Georgia wanted to live under Russia's sovereignty, without any independent foreign policy, while preserving independence in all other areas.

"When Georgia became part of the Russian Empire, many Georgian lands united. Russia also banned the slave trade. In Georgia, 15 percent of the population were noblemen. For comparison, there were only four percent of noblemen in Russia. When Georgia was incorporated into the Russian Empire, nearly 70 percent of all noble names in the Russian Empire were Georgian names. Georgian noblemen used to make their living by selling peasants' children to other countries. They treated their peasants as breeding animals. Children were expensive on the slave market, so they could live for up to six months after selling one child into slavery. Slave trade used to be a highly privileged business."

"Why did Russia need all that?"

"If you raise someone for a long time, he may eventually become a good man. Russia was dealing with barbarians in a civilised country with ancient culture, but that culture was in a terrible state when Russia came to Georgia."

"What pluses can large countries gain from such relationships? Is it a matter of markets?"

"Adam Smith said once that colonies are like apples. As soon as they ripen, they immediately fall off the tree. Colonialism has different versions. In order to be able to govern, one needs to invest first. The Caucasus was unprofitable before the discovery of possibilities of the industrial use of oil.

"I believe that Russia has nothing to be ashamed of as far as its policies in the Caucasus are concerned. I do not mean, of course, that when the Russians came to Georgia they were like angels with beautiful white wings. The main question is what Georgia gained from becoming part of the Russian Empire, and it gained a lot. First of all, Russia united disintegrated Georgian lands within one state. Russia gave Georgia protection from various raids and attacks, and Georgia could take a breath of relief. That period lasted for nearly 100 years."

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Donald Trump, Antichrist-In-Chief at the Whore of Babylon

by Buck Williams

Word is spreading around Latin America that Donald Trump is the Antichrist. So, I did a survey of Latin Americans plus some Biblical research.

300 people in Latin America (i.e. Central America and South America, every country except French Guyana) were asked:

1. Have you heard other Latin Americans say that Donald Trump (Donal Trump in Spanish) is the Antichrist?
2. Do you believe that Donald Trump is the Antichrist?

92% of Latin Americans surveyed said yes, that they indeed have heard other Latin Americans say that Donald Trump is the Antichrist and 87% said they believe Trump is the Antichrist.

Many people envision a wicked being of the West with evil supernatural powers. (Picture a reddish beast with horns and talons on its tiny little hands.) An evil being that is indestructible for a little while and which must come just before Jesus Christ returns.

Donald Trump is of course not reddish. He's orangish! Like an Oompa Loompa from some Willy Wonka movie. Although his hands are indeed rather small, who's seen any talons on them? And no horns, at least none that have been reported about previously. And how many people have groped Donald's head to probe for horns? Or look for three 6's.

No doubt, yet more Communist Eastern European whores can do a grope and search of Donald Trump's scalp for horns. And three sixes.

His hair does indeed have an otherworldly quality, some have said, while yet others have speculated he has fake hair. From the Hair Club for Men, a fake hair network.

Without a doubt, there is a very otherworldly aura to Donald and Melania Trump together. A few survey respondents noted that Melania looks (and sounds) like she "just stepped off the mothership."

Although that appearance - fake face plus other fake features - may also be because of too much plastic surgery.

More than a few survey respondents decried that Melania, Trump's third wife, is an illegal alien and Trump's anti-immigrant stance is obvious hypocrisy in light of the truth about his third (and still current) wife, Melania, who was born Melanija Knavs on April 26, 1970 in Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia.

Melanija remained barren and unmarried until she was 35 years old. Why did she wait so long to get married and to have a child? She worked as a $500 an hour "model" in New York City until her mid-30's, perhaps that's a factor.

Melanija Trump nee Knavs was raised Communist. Donald Trump's first wife, Ivana (named after Ivan the Great), was also raised Communist in Eastern Europe. What a coincidence!

Mr. Trump has been seduced, totally seduced, by Communist women from Eastern Europe. Hide in plain sight!

A Latino survey respondent who appeared to be well educated and highly intelligent dryly noted that Gorbachev was to the USSR as Trump is to the USA, before adding on that if Trump truly is the antichrist, perhaps he will claw and climb his way up to UN Secretary General from the White House. Or from Mordor Tower Trump Tower.

(The United Nations is on East 48th Street, a short claw and climb from Trump Tower on East 56th Street.)

A Mexican respondent, who lived in LA a few years, recited a famous Mexican saying 'So far from Heaven, so close to the United States.' Then he added, 'one nation under the antichrist, totally divisible, CalExit first then TexExit, with liberty and justice for none. '

In a one-on-one interview with former Mayor Ed Koch, earlier this century, Mr. Koch stated that his publicly declared depiction of Donald Trump as "piggy, piggy, piggy" was a vast understatement of Trump's greed, pride and vanity (all deadly sins antithetical to Christ's teachings).

Many older people recall the depiction of the antichrist from the 'Don't Get Left Behind' series of New York Times bestselling books from the turn of the century as well as that 1970's hollywood classic 'The Omen' which depicts a younger, more photogenic Antichrist living in shameless luxury in the American Embassy in London.

The Hollywood coven-in-chief back then in the 70's, rather tastefully, omitted any graphic depictions of the sexual immorality, the bestiality, that went down between Fredsie the antichrist's daddy and a jackal resulting in the jackal's pregnancy and the subsequent spawning of the baby Donald the baby antichrist.

The word 'Antichrist' appears four times in the Holy Bible. 'Antichrists' is written about once. All in First John and Second John, two short books (quick reads) just before Revelations. The Holy Bible mentions that there is not one, but many Antichrists and that they do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as having come in the flesh.

It is very simple for Mr. Trump (and Mr. Pompeo, his right hand man who's obviously a fat spoiled greedy glutton, a fake Christian) to disprove the widely held Antichrist belief by simply stating publicly an acknowledgment that Jesus Christ did indeed come to our planet in the flesh.

Interestingly, Latin America has a Muslim minority just like North America. Muslims who responded to survey questions let me know that Muslims love and adore Jesus and that Muslims also believe that Jesus is the Messiah (al-Masih in Arabic).

Mahdi was mentioned. Mahdi, according to Muslims, rids the world of evil and rules for several years before Judgement Day.

Isa is the Arabic name for Jesus. Several Muslims let me know that Dabiq, a town in Syria, is to Islam as Megiddo (Armageddon) is to Christianity.

Several Muslims also mentioned the belief that Jesus will return through a door in the Middle East. Of eight people who completed the survey and identified themselves as Muslim, three said Jesus will return through a door in Iraq (in the Karbala area, maybe this year is the year and perhaps it will coincide with Ashura on September 10th, 10-9-thisyear. Who knows? Only God knows the day and the hour) and two said that they think Jesus will return through a door in Palestine. (Three other Muslims made no mention of how they think the Second Coming will commence. And I didn't ask, Doing surveys in Latin America includes many people giving an abundance of information in addition to answering yes or no to survey questions.)

One Shia Muslim stated the wars in Iraq and Syria are wars to try to control the real estate with the door that Jesus will return through (in Iraq) and the real estate in Dabiq, Syria.

One Sunni Muslim stated that one aspect (of many) to the lingering Israeli-Arab conflict is who controls the land with the door through which Jesus will return.

Two Imams verified that Muslims believe Jesus is the Christ, that Muslims love, absolutely love Jesus and that Muslims too have the concept of Antichrist (al-Masih-ad-Dajjal in Arabic).

News to many is that while the number of Christians has dropped to 2.1 billion people, the number of Muslims has risen to 1.8 billion people. Islam is on track to become the #1 religion. (Islam simply means submission to God.) Together, Muslims and Christians are about half of the world's population.

Dozens of reporters have routine access to the White House and to Donald Trump (and to Mr. Pompous). Any one of these reporters can pop the question to Trump (and Pompeo) and then report on the response.

Mr. Pompeo instituted mandatory Bible study groups at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). (Who wouldn't want to be a fly drone, a fly on the wall, so to speak, for such CIA study groups!) Many of the CIA Bible study group leaders still have access to Pompeo.

Trump sometimes has a group of greedy spoiled filthy rich Evangelical preachers over to the White House. Hell, anyone coming in contact with Trump (and Pompeo) can pop the question to them: do you acknowledge that Jesus Christ came in the flesh?

(And anyone bold enough to pop that question to Trump and Pompeo can also ask a bonus question, what do you think about The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, yet another New York Times bestseller from just about the turn of the century.)

And that'll be that. That will confirm or deny the word which has spread so rapidly all across Latin America that Trump in an Antichrist.

A couple books (a couple pages) past First John and Second John is Revelations, which in Chapters 17, 18 and 19, give a description of the whore of babylon as being a slut of a nation, a smug, arrogant, sexually immoral bully of a nation jam packed full of spoiled greedy filthy rich people living in shameless luxury. One which committed sexual immorality with Kings (Prime Ministers, Presidents, leaders) of this world, who made many people drunk with the wine of its sexual immorality and made the merchants and cargo ship people rich.

Beyond any shadow of a doubt, the US government people are the sluttiest, smuggest, most spoiled, most arrogant, biggest bully of an empire that ever crawled the face of the Earth.

(And way beyond any shadow of a doubt, Washington is a swamp full of swamp creatures. Brownie points to any nation making mention publicly of this obvious fact which strikes such a cord with the vast majority of Americans.)

The CIA has (literally) tens of millions of agents all across America and all around the world. And most of them are prostitutes. Male prostitutes and female prostitutes. CIA agent prostitutes had sex (committed sexual immorality) with most of the leaders of this world long before they even became leaders. And with many of them even after they became leaders.

Hollywood music, porn videos, shows, video games and movies are what made billions of people drunk with the wine of the passion of its filth, smut and sexual immorality. Hollywood, the American governments #1 propaganda machine, is a cesspool of violence, killing and sexual immorality, which doesn't ever make mention that there is something (obviously) bad about violence and killing.

Without ever making mention of the diseases (gonorrhea, syphilis .....), the unwanted pregnancies, the abortions and the unwanted unloved children (who then become adults) ..... that result from sexual immorality.

And Hollywood forbid ever using words like slut, wench, skank, jezebel, scumbucket, resevoir of diseases, gonorrhea, syphilis, HIV virus, AIDS, hoe, scum of the earth, hooker, prostitute, whore or whore of babylon.

Hollywood is also the undisputed #1 source globally of porn, kiddie porn and bestiality porn. Yet more hollywood smut and filth to make so many drunk with the wine of the passion of its sexual immorality.

Bad Hollywood, bad.

And yes, the CIA could a shown Trump the vast collection of American whores they "recruited" and "trained" (wink wink) and should a done more to keep him from the Communist Eastern European women he so obviously has become hooked on these past seven decades.

(Trump was born on June 14, 1946 in Jamaica. Jamaica Queens that is.)

(Note: one survey respondent, from way out in left field, stated Trump may be playing the role of Francisco D'Anconia from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged just as someone else may be playing the role of James Spader from Just in the Nick of Time to warn Don and Melania about an evil plot brewing within the beltway.)

Note also, most CIA agents work part time or occasionally for "the" agency. The CIA is not part of the military; it is an "executive" agency, part of the executive branch of US government. The President is the Chief Executive Officer of the executive branch.

The buck stops with Donald Trump (not the queen of torture) for every felony committed by CIA people. (And for every family insulted by CIA people and the myriad of felonies they commit every day against a seemingly ever increasing number of Americans and non-Americans alike.)

And if the CIA has metastasized into some rogue agency then it's time for it to be dissolved. Like Alka Seltzer. Plop plop. Like the wicked witch of the west.

The CIA was hatched in the late 1940s to be the google of its pre-internet day to provide honest accurate information to the President and Congress.

The Frankenstein monster that the CIA has metastasized into was not made to be the biggest pimp on Earth with the largest ever stable of whore prostitutes (male and female) in human history. Nor to be the largest ever criminal gang of mass murderers and serial killers terminating more people (Americans and non-Americans alike) each decade (decade after decade after decade ...) than any criminal gang that has ever existed.

The CIA was not made to become the largest ever drug cartel with a near monopoly on cocaine from Colombia (source of 80% of the world's cocaine) and a total monopoly on heroin from US occupied Afghanistan (source of 90% of the world's heroin, heroin being the real reason for the war in Afghanistan and the real reason why the War in Afghanistan is lingering on for so long).

All the tens of thousands of CIA Officers and CIA Contractors plus their hundreds of thousands of senior CIA agents, millions of mid-level CIA agents and tens of millions of junior CIA agents have bribed or seduced hundreds of millions of people. Or, stated another way, they sold their souls to the devil for a little power, a little money, a little pleasure for a little while (and that little while is just about up) and have likewise gotten hundreds of millions of people to sell their souls to the devil.

And we all know what happens after that.

The devils bargain is an age-old well known parable to believers and non-believers alike.

The CIA bosses have most of their very own agents rubbed out, murdered within 15 years of recruitment. Dead whores tell no tales. Ever wonder why so many CIA agents are so young. Logan's Run.

The CIA (and NSA) were never intended to be rolling out a global zersetzung state (aka global surveillance state) which they are currently rolling out. But, they want absolute power over absolutely everyone absolutely everywhere in this world.

They have enough profiling data (mostly from your use of phones and computers) to target billions of people for either recruitment or zersetzung.

Pick poison or pick freedom and liberty.

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American agenda toward Russia: Annihilation through containment

By Emanuel Pietrobon

During the G20 which took place in Osaka, Donald Trump shown apparent conciliar wills with his Russian and Chinese counterparts, despite the fact the two countries are considered the main threats for the US national security according to the most updated version of the National Defense Strategy.

Vladimir Putin invited Trump to the celebrations of next year's Victory Day. Yet, despite the proclaims of esteem and mutual respect, relations between Russia and the United States keep being very cold.

It is clear that Russia is a secondary objective compared to China on Trump's foreign agenda, because it is unable - for structural reasons difficult to resolve, to return to the Soviet greatness, and therefore it is less dangerous on a global level. It is equally true that Russia is, and will always be, an existential geopolitical rival for the US due to its extension over Mackinder's Heartland.

Trump kept repeating that he would like to have good relationship with Russia, but it is precisely his administration that further exacerbated the escalation born during the Obama era by increasing the military presence of US personnel in Eastern member countries of NATO, extending and prolonging the Ukraine-related sanctioning regime, and providing Ukraine with millions of dollars of lethal weapons. But still, it is not utopian to think that Trump could make some concessions to Russia in the event of a second mandate, for example the recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea. But even if this event is going to happen, it won't be because of the will of building a friendly partnership but because of the presence of an urgent contingent interest: the need to turn away Russia from Beijing's sphere of influence.

The American agenda has only one purpose toward Russia: annihilation through a multidimensional, increasingly suffocating and neverending containment. To understand the origins of the so-called "Cold War 2.0" is mandatory to resume "The Grand Chessboard", a niche book published in 1997 by American strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the main directors of the USSR collapse.

The book is structured like a testament in which the strategist exposed the guidelines to follow for the years to come to properly exploit the victory in the Cold War and avoid the resurrection of Russia as a great Eurasian power during the 2000s. The most important suggestions were the following: enlargement of the European Union and NATO to the former Communist East, removal of Ukraine, Moldova and the Caucaus countries from Russia's sphere of influence, constant pressure over European and Central Asian Russian borders, and a farsighted work of diplomacy to avoid the rise of an anti-hegemonic coalition formed by Russia, China and Iran, and the realization of the Mackinderian nightmare of a Russia-friendly Germany-led Europe.

According to Brzezinski's vision, it was a primary interest to turn away Ukraine from Russia and incorporate it into the Euro-Atlantic community, because "Russia without Ukraine ceases to be a Eurasian empire". Consequently, Moscow would be forced to change its focus on the ever-problematic Central Asian neighborhood, an inevitable source of troubles rising from the re-appearance of anti-Russian feelings and Islamist insurgency, and on China, the main competitor of Russia in the continent.

22 years after the publication of the book it is self-evident that Brzezinski's suggestions were carried out gradually, clearly and intelligently, and that today Russia finds itself more encircled than ever.

Despite the promises given by Manfred Woerner, general secretary of the Atlantic Alliance from 1988 to 1994, to Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Communist countries have been gradually incorporated to NATO. The Caucasus has been shaken up by US-backed coloured revolutions. Central Asia and Muslim-majority regions within Russia have been invested by a dangerous Islamist insurgency with no signs of extinguishing that pose a serious threat to domestic security, as shown by the cases of Chechnya and Dagehstan.

Furthermore, the Eurasian Economic Unions is far from being a truly cohesive geopolitical player, because the Russian attempts to keep the former Soviet states under Moscow's influence are challenged by other important players with hegemonic interests over Central Asia, such as the US, China, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran.

Moldova and Belarus remain Russia's last two strongholds in Eastern Europe, but control over them is exercised in a myopic manner: the Kremlin ignores completely the needs and desires of the populations of economic prosperity, and the increasingly frequent popular protests that are shaking the two countries are a bad sign that Moscow should not underestimate. In the first case, the discontent could favor and accelerate the path of adhesion to the EU (and then to Nato), also because of the strong influence exercised by Romania, in the second case there is the after-Lukashenko dilemma, because the power vacuum could be exploited by Russia's rivals to provoke colored revolutions which have been already successfully tested in other former Soviet countries.

Ukraine was transported out of Russian orbit with the so-called Euromaidan, and the nowadays political class is making of the confrontation with Russia a useful means through which building a new national identity, more European and liberal and less tied to its own history and Russia. The country's adhesion to the EU is likely to happen in the coming years.

As for the last two points, namely the Mackinderian fears of potential anti-hegemonic coalitions, it is clear that they have been partially averted, partly because the France-Germany axis is completely prone to Washington, especially on foreign policy. Anyway, the US foreign policy for Eurasia has caused an inevitable partnership between Russia, China and Iran.

But the three countries are very far fromg being allies or really close partners united by anti-American purposes, they are considerable as natural-born rivals forcibly driven to cooperate by contingent interests, but they did not show any will to take the decisive step. Chinese banks, for instance, are carefully avoiding in incurring US secondary sanctions, letting Russia and Iran with no liquidity in all the sanctioned sectors. Not even the Trump-led trade war, over time extended to technology, convinced the Chinese to circumvent the sanctions and help its closest partners.

Post-Soviet Russia's strategy is based on counter-balancing, and the Stalin-made encirclement theory has been buried and no one is thinking about updating it. Basically, it is matter of stopping US plans through the outbreak of frozen conflicts or disturbing actions: Transnistria in Moldavia, Abchasia and South Ossetia in Georgia, Crimea and Donbass in Ukraine, military intervention in Syria, or logistical and diplomatic support to Nicaragua and Venezuela.

The strategy allowed Russia not to completely lose control over areas of geostrategic interest, but at the same time it does not provide absolute guarantees for the future: the frozen conflicts did not stop the process of Euro-Americanization of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova; Nicaragua and Venezuela are economically strangled and Russia cannot intervene from that point of view, Belarus is showing signs of weakness, former Soviet Central Asia countries are increasingly exposed to non-Russian influence, and the NATO military expansionism proceeds at a fast pace.

It is clear that Russia, which is a diplomatic giant but an economic dwarf, will not be able to support the counter-balancing in the long-term, and Trump's Reagan-like hard-line is one of the reasons: the US aims at bringing the Putin-built system to collapse. The sanctions act on the background of similar pressures on Russia's main partners, and the launch of a new space race, with the ambitious targets of the human-landing on Mars and the militarization of the Earth's orbit, and a new arms race. Trump's announcement of the next creation of the so-called Space Force is very reminiscent of Reagan's Star Wars and the risk is that Russia may fall into the trap, again, retracing the same fatal mistakes that led to the implosion of the Soviet Union.

In such a highly competitive and conflictual context, Russia needs a global rethinking of its strategy, in particular from an economic point of view - perhaps looking at the ambitious Made in China 2025 and other Xi's projects focused on the pursuit of diversification and self-sufficiency, because the rise of Trump has shown the world that the American empire is not declining at all and in Eurasia the US is a few steps away from checkmate, for Brzezinski's happiness.

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India should clearly demarcate its fundamental interests

By Sawraj Singh

There were several international meetings in the last few days such as the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Before these, there was International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg in Russia. In all these meetings the world leaders met one and other and extensively discussed their bilateral relations as well as the world situation. All these indicate that fundamental changes are coming in the world. What can be the changes that are likely to come?

The present era can be called the era of globalization. However, this globalization is not a new phenomenon. It is the highest state of the capitalist system and imperialism. Lenin called imperialism the highest state of capitalism. I have called the present globalization the highest state of imperialism. It is evident that the present globalization is the highest state of capitalism.

After the Second World War, the present financial and commercial global institutions came into existence. They were based upon the Bretton Woods system. Basically, this system divides the world in two parts; the developed capitalist countries and the developing third world countries. This system favors the developed countries and protects their interests.

However, the main trend of the present world is the decline of the West and the rise of the East. Therefore, we are facing a contradiction that the declining West wants to maintain its hold on the world when it has no longer the economic and military strength to maintain that hold.

America, the leading country of the West, is trying very hard to maintain its hegemony. On the other hand, China and Russia, the leading countries of the East, are seriously challenging it. America primarily wants to maintain the present global institutions whereas, China and Russia want to bring fundamental changes in these institutions so that the gap between the developed and the developing countries can be decreased and they become more equal. Whereas, China and Russia seem to be clear in their goals, India seems to be wavering and confused and unable to clearly demarcate its fundamental interests.

It seems that India, so far, has not been able to clearly decide whether its fundamental interests are with the East or with the West. On one hand, India is being bullied by America. On the other hand, it sees a commonality of interest with America in containing China. However, if we look at the recent events then it becomes clear that India's fundamental economic and military interests are threatened more by America than any other country.

America has forced India to stop buying oil from its adversaries; Iran and Venezuela. Both these countries consider India their friend and were selling oil to India at a very cheap rate. Moreover, they would accept payment in the rupees. America has forced India to buy oil at much higher price as well as to make payment in dollars. It is obvious that this decision goes against the fundamental economic interests of India.

Similarly, India decided to acquire S-400 Russian missile systems. India felt that this decision is in the fundamental military interest of India for its defense needs. This is the most advanced missile defense system in the world. However, America is forcing India to cancel the agreement with Russia to buy the system. Clearly this will be against the fundamental military interest of India.

India has a long history of close and warm relations with Russia. We have some differences with China. However, it is clear that in spite of the differences with China, there is a big commonality of interests of both countries. Both countries very well understand that under the present Western dominated world order, they will be unable to develop to their full capability and they will never be treated at par with the Western countries. Therefore, to protect their fundamental interests, to reach maximum potential of development and to get an equally respectable status like the Western countries, they have to bring fundamental changes in the existing world order.

However, if we see the coverage of the recent G-20 summit by the Indian media then it gives the impression that for India the main issue is terrorism. It is true that terrorism is a big problem. However, to give the impression that it is the main problem of the world and the biggest priority of India is difficult to understand. The reality is that this problem was created by the West. It created the terrorists to use them for its interests and to harm its adversaries.  We can look in our neighborhood and see that the Taliban were created by America to bring down the Soviet Union.

Western countries have always pursued double standards as far as terrorism is concerned. If terrorism goes against their adversaries then they do not hesitate to encourage and support it. If the terrorists hurt their interests then they raise hue and cry against it.                                     

India should join Russia to change the present world order, global institutions and the present globalization so that they become fair and more equal. Benefits of the present globalization have been mostly usurped by Western developed countries and the developing countries of the third world have been mostly left out. This globalization has mostly proved to be an exclusive rich boy's club for the developed Western countries.  Instead of this exclusive globalization, we need an all inclusive globalization where all countries are treated equally, fairly and with respect. It is in India's fundamental interest to work with Russia and China to achieve such globalization.

Sawraj Singh

Chairman Washington State Network for Human Rights
Chairman Central Washington Coalition for Social Justice

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Global peace and security: World leaders betray canons of truth, wisdom and humanity

By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.

Today's Political World at a Glance

Global politics is overwhelmingly becoming robotic when question of safeguard of the mankind comes up. Global political leaders are fast becoming actors on stage - issuing abstract statements of outrage and phony sense of grief when thousands and millions of human lives are constantly bombarded by the weapons they manufacture and sell to crush the human soul and to support the war economies. The UNO and its Secretary General and the UN Security Council - all are just debating clubs engaged in time killing exercises to deceive the mankind and to betray the ideals of the Charter to "safeguard the humanity from the scourge of wars." Many top UN officials are paid employees with no sense of accountability to the global community. The reality of man-made catastrophic conflicts enhanced by national interests and war-led economies are ingrained in the war racketeering plans across the globe. The 21^st century knowledge-based informed mankind is the net victim of the global political monsters. Millions of human beings are forcibly displaced, evicted by plans and charcoaled by forbidden chemical weapons across the Middle East yet; most global leaders do nothing to prevent the aggressive catastrophes except statements of fake 'outrage' reaction as if others were inhuman casualties. We are witnessing abnormal political culture of human bloodbath as being normal.

The global community - a divided and dispersed mankind is unable to challenge the war racketeers and global hangmen who claim to be political leaders. They are egoistic professionals with big mouth without wisdom and full of self-engineered false democratic clichés, contradictions, distortions and misrepresentation of the rights of common citizens in modern democracies. These are frightening trends for the present and future generations to survive. Most of the economically influential actors occupy the political platforms - either through backdoor conspiracies or entrenched political intrigues. They profess to be intelligent and outspoken for the rights of the people but in reality are offensive to truth and listening to voices of reason and honesty. How do we call for a balancing act in a world terribly imbalanced by nationalism, political and economic ideologies of supremacy and shallow imaginations and practices of human equality, human rights, peace and harmony amongst all the diverse segments of the living humanity?

We cannot abandon the search for a better and more rational world of systematic mechanism to protect the peace and security of the mankind on this One Planet. We, the People, We the Humanity and conscientious thinkers and scholars must wake-up to the immense sophisticated and technologically advanced challenges to disconnect us from the Nature of Things and to dehumanize us by global scenarios of ethnicities, nationalism, state borders and cultural superiorities and ruling class distinctions. William Godwin (Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Moral and Happiness, 1793), said it right:

Men of genius must rise up....to analyse the machine of society to demonstrate how the parts are connected together... and point out the defects and remedy. It is thus only that important reforms can be produced...He who is a friend to general happiness will neglect no chance of producing in his pupil or his child, one of the long-looked for saviours of the human race.

Do We, the People, Realize to be One Humanity on One Earth?

We are One Humanity on One Planet and we have a right to be here in peace and harmony, not in conflicts, not collaborators to kill the mankind and destruction of the human environment and habitats. This will be contrary to our Nature and inhuman if we cannot come to terms with our peaceful co-existence, identity and responsibility being the chief guardians of the living planet in a living Universe.  We, the humanity lives on a balanced Planet - Earth located at a measured distance from the Sun and Moon and other stars. God created the Universe and blessed it with all functionalities and provisions for life-sustaining factors since millions and billions of years. Do you realize if there was no water, no oxygen or hydrogen and other gases or sun light to support all the living creations - what would have been the shape and form of life on Earth? 

Could we the human kind count the blessings of God to maintain life for millions and billions of years on this planet?  All things exist in a mathematical order, whether we recognize it or deny it. So strange, we know all about other material things and scientific - technological developments but we are ignorant and arrogant to learn about our own origin and existence on a living planet. We are born from mother's tummy - one and the same all over the globe - One Humanity. Yet, we dare to challenge each other with nationalism and ethnic superiorities and indulge in wars and deaths and destruction of our own beings. Are we the human being intelligent enough to know about our own existence and Purpose of Life?  How could we imagine peace and harmony amongst ourselves when we bomb and destroy each others with weapons of destruction as if we were not the human kind but some kind of animals without any sense of rational thinking?

 We, the People of Conscience can only correct the political fallacies if we are united and blended together with reason and accountability to be the savior of our own world. We must awaken the minds and soul of the 21^st century humanity to synthesize the vitality of peace and human security in a world of time and opportunities for political justice, equal rights and participation to be part of the change phenomenon for a better and more promising world of tomorrow.  The voices of reason will echo across the globe if we together are committed and united for this idea and human ideals. We strongly believe that knowledge-based wisdom, plans and actions will lead to benevolence and global harmony, peace and justice and will nullify the malignity and political tyranny from the 21^st century highly challenging and competitive world. When We, the People articulate cooperation and understanding in societal diversity, it will replace the impulse and urge for competition and unjust indulgence to destroy fellow human beings.

Political Propaganda:   War as "Noble" but Truth and Peace are Offensive

Strangely enough, warmongers hire war propagandists to classify wars as "noble", "good", necessity of the ruling nobility and to protect the flag, borders and national interests. George Bush claimed being "Man of God" who started the day with the Bible, to orchestrate the bogus war on terrorism. These are cynical notions implied to enforce the monstrous viewpoints of the few warlords in every age.  Professor Camillo "Mac" Bica, School of Visual Arts, New York City and an activist of Peace and Justice ("Atrocity and War", OpenedNews), offers a penetrating insight on the inequality criterion and falsification of information and facts of human life.

Having been indoctrinated by the propaganda of those whose militarism and warist agenda requires acceptance of the mythology of the "good war" and the "noble warrior," the uninitiated and unaffected most civilians and many non warrior members of the military fail to realize this truth, that all war is barbarism in which cruelty and brutal atrocity is the norm rather than the exception. During World War II, for example, often cited and celebrated as the "good war," over 50 million civilians were murdered by both Axis and Allied Nations. The American servicemen in the Wikileaks video who so nonchalantly "engaged the target" slaughtering some 12 human beings are no different from the pilots and bombardiers from the "greatest generation" who with equal nonchalance, incinerated millions of civilians during the terror bombings of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc. Despite the moral depravity of their actions, these individuals were not born killers. Rather they were created to do our bidding, first conscripted or lured into the military with promises of employment, a college education, or U.S. citizenship, then subjected to sophisticated indoctrination techniques of value manipulation, moral desensitization, and psychological conditioning, aimed at destroying/overriding their humanity, their moral aversion to killing, reinforced by the violence and horrors of the battlefield environment.

Blame Games of Distortion and Prejudice against the Informed Humanity

To be united in global political diversity, We, the People must exercise forbearance, canons of rationality and strive for blended unity of mankind - the core of human understanding and harmony. Leaders who want to lead must have rational thinking and followers to claim leadership effectiveness. Most contemporary leaders are devoid of REASON as the focal point of policy formulation and decision-making in global human relationships. Often they use blame game and popularity numbers to score fictitious rating in public eyes. Most leaders are infected with this syndrome and egoistic sickness to remain influential and powerful.

To protect the mankind from further dehumanization and annihilation, People of new ideas (Idea Men) are needed to take initiatives for political change - indeed a navigational change at  this critical moment: a New UNO with people's leadership, New Global Political Systems of Governance planned and developed by the people of knowledge and integrity and rejecting Hobbesian "wars of all against all"; and producing a rational rebuttal to the war of insanity, torture, political tyranny, inept global leadership and offer a balanced new vision of a world enriched with learning knowledge of rational policy-making and decision-making, human equality, fairness, protection of life and its natural support systems, and the Universe and equal justice for all the living beings on this planet. The leaders have not learned from the imposed deaths and destruction of the Two World Wars. The Third World War is already in progress in Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and soon to engulf many self-made tribal Arab kings, princes and authoritarian dictators.

Surely, We, the People could create a better and more sustainable world of today and tomorrow. A natural sense of piety and political wickedness cannot co-exist in one human character as most of the world leaders pretend to be. We must THINK and ACT outside the global box of political wickedness and cult of political allegiance to the few and sickening political minds of egoistic leadership. Time and history are not going to wait for the few insane outrage, phony statements on human deaths and destruction unless we take this challenge in its time and opportunity to make things happen  for change and for the best of all mankind. The Divine Revelation (Al-Qur'an) states clearly: "Intelligent people always readily accept advice." 

American historian Harry Elmer Barnes ("Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and It's Aftermath"), offered this stern warning to American politicians if the US led wars continue leading to man's annihilation from this planet:

"If trends continue as they have during the last fifteen years, we shall soon reach this point of no return, and can only anticipate interminable wars, disguised as noble gestures for peace. Such an era could only culminate in a third world war which might well, as Arnold J. Toynbee has suggested, leave only the pygmies in remote jungles, or even the apes and ants, to carry on 'the cultural traditions' of mankind."

Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs - global security, peace and conflict resolution and IR with keen interests in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications including the latest: Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution: Approaches to Understand the Current Issues and Future-Making. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, October 2017.

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