https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/09/22/bulgaria-us-funded-cyber-hub/
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/russian-oil-imports-to-eu-via-bulgaria-surge/
America maneuvers and manipulates the politics in other countries and then if need be it will even finance the build-up of their militaries. The US has many tools in its banking toolbox and a lot of them flow through the State Department and Pentagon.
With all eyes on Gaza and Southern Lebanon, there are other questions to consider. The US is still seething over its failure to oust Assad in Syria and it would seem US policy is to make the Syrian economy scream – once the policy of the US toward Allende's Chile.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/us/politics/jfk-assassination-witness-paul-landis.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66792977
On the sixty year anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, the
debate goes on and while many in the Establishment think the case is closed –
as Gerald Posner would have it, the truth is most of the public doesn't buy it,
and for good reason. While there are many misunderstandings and unfortunate
sidetracks, as time marches on, more and more evidence and testimony emerges
which casts the Warren Commission into doubt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmBOMK_-zcU
Responding to the 7 October attack on Israel, US president
Joe Biden condemned Hamas and rightly so. But then he proceeded to make some
rather astonishing remarks – remarks that should offend anyone who has followed
events for the past several decades, anyone in possession of a conscience.
The story has already faded from the news cycle but it struck me how vigorously the Right was going after the obviously corrupt New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez.
And yet how is Menendez any different from Clarence Thomas?
Or for that matter someone like Donald Trump?
Golden Dawn, Greece's Neo-Nazi Party has suffered significant
setbacks but it hasn't gone away. The Greek Right (as is the case in several
countries) is in a process of re-organizing, but Italy in particular has become
a rallying point with the current Right-wing coalition in power. Meloni's
Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) represent Neo-fascism and with Lega's Salvini,
FDI also has informal ties to political movements like CasaPound and Forza
Nuova – the same folks that consider Golden Dawn to be compatriots and comrades
in arms.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/mayflower-church-pastor-urges-us-to-put-pressure-on-china.html
This is a topic I have revisited on multiple occasions but it
needs to be understood.
We can condemn the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its
bestial and draconian policies that seek to subjugate all religions under the
aegis of the Chinese state. But it is also important to state that the reasons
for condemning China are not on the basis of a 'rights' regime. New Testament
Christianity knows nothing of Enlightenment 'rights' and it is a mistake to
fall into that framework of thinking and argument.
Recently I heard a sermon which I continue to think about. Based on a section of Psalm 119, the visiting speaker did a decent job moving through the passage verse by verse and exhorted the congregation to focus on Scripture, make it central to your life, meditate on it, and so forth. So far so good.
VCY's Crosstalk might as well be called John Birch Radio as figures associated with the far right-wing society regularly appear on the programme and in general terms what is passed off as Biblical Christianity and commentary is in reality little more than thinly veiled Bircher ideology.
And alongside this is just a lot incoherent rubbish. This
message recently sent out by VCY typifies this – the muddled thinking at the
heart of today's Evangelical movement and (in this case) what's left of
Fundamentalism. Consider the following:
The sources cited here are not above scrutiny, but given the
history of the Orthodox world, and the present tensions within Georgia and the
Caucasus in general, the intrigues and attempted assassinations are not
altogether surprising. In fact the Georgian Orthodox Church had a similar
incident in 2017.
