LIBYA - EXPOSING THE LIBYAN AGENDA:

ALL ABOUT MONEY, BANKING, AND PREVENTING AFRICAN ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY?

Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in LIBYA. HILLARY CLINTON’S recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing AFRICAN economic sovereignty.

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AFRICAN ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY

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WAS LIBYA GETTING A TOO POWERFUL PLAYER IN AFRICA FOR WESTERN ENTITIES?

IT’S ALL ABOUT WATER, OIL AND

THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

LIBYA HAS BASICALLY BEEN “FAILED” BY WESTERN ENTITIES

The brief visit of then-Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON to LIBYA in October 2011 was referred to by the media as a “victory lap.” “We came, we saw, he died!” she crowed in a CBS video interview on hearing of the capture and brutal murder of LIBYAN leader MUAMMAR EL-QADDAFI.

But the victory lap, was premature. LIBYA was relegated to the back burner by the State Department, “as the country dissolved into chaos, leading to a civil war that would destabilize the region, fueling the refugee crisis in EUROPE and allowing the Islamic State to establish a LIBYAN haven that the UNITED STATES is now desperately trying to contain.”

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US STRATEGY IN LIBYA

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WASHINGTON’SAL QAEDA ALLY NOW LEADING ISIS IN LIBYA

DOOMED FROM DAY ONE

US-NATO intervention was allegedly undertaken on humanitarian grounds, after reports of mass atrocities; but human rights organizations questioned the claims after finding a lack of evidence. Today, however, verifiable atrocities are occurring. As DAN KOVALIK wrote in the Huffington Post, “the human rights situation in LIBYA is a disaster, as ‘thousands of detainees [including children] languish in prisons without proper judicial review,’ and ‘kidnappings and targeted killings are rampant’.”

Before 2011, LIBYA had achieved economic independence, with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned bank. It had arisen under QADDAFI from one of the poorest of countries to the richest in AFRICA. Education and medical treatment were free; having a home was considered a human right; and LIBYANS participated in an original system of local democracy. The country boasted the world’s largest irrigation system, the Great Man-made River project, which brought water from the desert to the cities and coastal areas; and QADDAFI was embarking on a program to spread this model throughout AFRICA.

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LIBYA - A THRIVING COUNTRY BEFORE WESTERN INTERVENTION 

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THINGS WERE LOOKING GOOD FOR LIBYA – TOO GOOD?

  

VOLATILE SAHEL REGION

But that was before US-NATO forces bombed the irrigation system and wreaked havoc on the country. Today the situation is so dire that President OBAMA has asked his advisers to draw up options including a new military front in LIBYA, and the Defense Department is reportedly standing ready with “the full spectrum of military operations required.”

The Secretary of State’s victory lap was indeed premature, if what we’re talking about is the officially stated goal of humanitarian intervention. But her newly-released emails reveal another agenda behind the LIBYAN war; and this one, it seems, was achieved.

Mission Accomplished?

Of the 3,000 emails released from HILLARY CLINTON’S private email server in late December 2015, about a third were from her close confidante SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL, special adviser for the CLINTON'S during the MONICA LEWINSKY scandal. One of these emails, dated April 2, 2011, reads in part:

CENTRAL BANK OF LIBYA

“QADDAFI’S government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver . . . . This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-AFRICAN currency based on the LIBYAN golden DINAR. This plan was designed to provide the FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN Countries with an alternative to the FRENCH franc (CFA).”

In a “source comment,” the original declassified email adds:

“According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. FRENCH intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President NICOLAS SARKOZY’S decision to commit FRANCE to the attack on LIBYA. According to these individuals SARKOZY’S plans are driven by the following issues:

A desire to gain a greater share of LIBYA oil production,

Increase FRENCH influence in NORTH AFRICA,

Improve his internal political situation in FRANCE,

Provide the FRENCH military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world,

Address the concern of his advisers over Qaddafi’s long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa.”

Conspicuously absent is any mention of humanitarian concerns.

THE OBJECTIVES ARE MONEY, POWER AND OIL.

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GRAB FOR LIBYA’S MONEY AND GOLD RESERVES 

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GRAB FOR THE CENTRAL BANK OF LIBYA BY INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

OVER$100 BILLION UNDER THE GOVERNOR OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF LIBYA

Other explosive confirmations in the newly-published emails are detailed by investigative journalist ROBERT PARRY. They include admissions of rebel war crimes, of special ops trainers inside LIBYA from nearly the start of protests, and of AL QAEDA embedded in the US-backed opposition. Key propaganda themes for violent intervention are acknowledged to be mere rumors. Political analysts suggest they may have originated with BLUMENTHAL himself. They include the bizarre claim that QADDAFI had a “rape policy” involving passing Viagra out to his troops, a charge later raised by UN Ambassador SUSAN RICE in a UN presentation. These analysts ask rhetorically:

“So do you think it would it be easier for the OBAMA administration to rally American support behind this “regime change” by explaining how the FRENCH wanted to steal LIBYA’S wealth and maintain FRENCH neocolonial influence

over AFRICA – or would AMERICANS respond better to propaganda themes about GADDAFI passing out Viagra to his troops so they could rape more women while his snipers targeted innocent children? Bingo!”

Toppling the Global Financial Scheme

QADDAFI’S threatened attempt to establish an independent AFRICAN currency was not taken lightly by WESTERN interests. In 2011, SARKOZY reportedly called the LIBYAN leader a threat to the financial security of the world. How could this tiny country of six million people pose such a threat? First some background.

It is banks, not governments, which create most of the money in Western economies, as the BANK OF ENGLAND recently acknowledged. This has been going on for centuries, through the process called “fractional reserve” lending. Originally, the reserves were in gold.  In 1933, President FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT replaced gold domestically with central bank-created reserves, but gold remained the reserve currency internationally.

In 1944, the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND and the WORLD BANK were created in BRETTON WOODS, NEW HAMPSHIRE, to unify this bank-created money system globally. An IMF ruling said that no paper money could have gold backing. A money supply created privately as debt at interest requires a continual supply of debtors; and over the next half century, most developing countries wound up in debt to the IMF. The loans came with strings attached, including “structural adjustment” policies involving austerity measures and privatization of public assets.

After 1944, the US dollar traded interchangeably with gold as global reserve currency. When the US was no longer able to maintain the dollar’s gold backing, in the 1970s it made a deal with OPEC to “back” the dollar with oil, creating the “petro-dollar.”  Oil would be sold only in US dollars, which would be deposited in Wall Street and other international banks.  

In 2001, dissatisfied with the shrinking value of the dollars that OPEC was getting for its oil, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein broke the pact and sold oil in euros. Regime change swiftly followed, accompanied by widespread destruction of the country.

In LIBYA, QADDAFI also broke the pact; but he did more than just sell his oil in another currency.

NATIONALIZING OIL COMPANIES AND CREATING A PAN AFRICAN CURRENCY BROKE QADDAFI’S BACK. FROM THIS MOMENT, QADDAFI WAS ONCE AGAIN THE BAD DICTATOR

Post 2011 relations with LIBYA

For decades, LIBYA and other AFRICAN countries had been attempting to create a pan-AFRICAN gold standard.  LIBYA’S AL-QADHAFI and other heads of AFRICAN STATES had wanted an independent, pan-African, “hard currency.”

Under AL-QADHAFI’S leadership, AFRICAN nations had convened at least twice for monetary unification.  The countries discussed the possibility of using the LIBYAN dinar and the silver dirham as the only possible money to buy AFRICAN oil.

Libyan Gold Dinar 

Until the recent US/NATO invasion, the gold dinar was issued by the CENTRAL BANK OF LIBYA (CBL).  The LIBYAN bank was 100% state owned and independent.  Foreigners had to go through the CBL to do business with LIBYA.  The CENTRAL BANK OF LIBYA issued the dinar, using the country’s 143.8 tons of gold.

LIBYA’S QADHAFI (AFRICAN Union 2009 Chair) conceived and financed a plan to unify the sovereign STATES OF AFRICA with one gold currency (UNITED STATES OF AFRICA).  In 2004, a pan-AFRICAN Parliament (53 nations) laid plans for the AFRICAN Economic Community – with a single gold currency by 2023.

AFRICAN oil-producing nations were planning to abandon the petro-dollar, and demand gold payment for oil/gas.

SHOWING WHAT IS POSSIBLE

QADDAFI had done more than organize an AFRICAN monetary coup. He had demonstrated that financial independence could be achieved. His greatest infrastructure project, the Great Man-made River, was turning arid regions into a breadbasket for LIBYA; and the $33 billion project was being funded interest-free without foreign debt, through LIBYA’S own state-owned bank.

That could explain why this critical piece of infrastructure was destroyed in 2011. NATO not only bombed the pipeline but finished off the project by bombing the factory producing the pipes necessary to repair it. Crippling a civilian irrigation system serving up to 70% of the population hardly looks like humanitarian intervention.

AFRICAN SELF-RELIANCE - AT ODDS WITH THE GEO - STRATEGIC AND POLITICAL ECONOMIC AMBITIONS OF WESTERN ENTITIES

The goal of US military intervention was to disrupt an emerging pattern of independence and a network of collaboration within AFRICA that would facilitate increased AFRICAN self-reliance. This is at odds with the geostrategic and political economic ambitions of extra-continental EUROPEAN powers, namely the US.

MYSTERY SOLVED – GLOBAL MONETARY SYSTEM AFTER LIBYA'S MONEY RESERVE

Hilary Clinton’s emails shed light on another enigma remarked on by early political observers. Why, within weeks of initiating fighting, did the rebels set up their own central bank? Robert Wenzel wrote in The Economic Policy Journal in 2011:

This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising.

It was all highly suspicious, but as Alex Newman concluded in a November 2011 article:

Whether salvaging central banking and the corrupt global monetary system were truly among the reasons for Gadhafi’s overthrow . . . may never be known for certain – at least not publicly.

LIBYAN INTERVENTION

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LIBYAN INTERVENTION IS AND WAS ALL ABOUT WATER, OIL AND

THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

· LIBYA possessed more than us$150 billion in overseas financial assets and had one of the largest sovereign investment funds in the world at the start of 2011

·        In 2008 GOLDMAN SACHS was given us$1.3 billion dollars by the LIBYAN investment authority.

·  Then, in an blink of an eye, GOLDMAN SACHS had effectively appropriated us$1.3 billion dollars from TRIPOLI

· GOLDMAN SACHS was not alone in filching LIBYAN investment funds: SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE S.A., CARLYLE GROUP, J.P. MORGAN CHASE, OCH-ZIFF CAPITAL MANAGEMENT GROUP, and LEHMAN BROTHERS holdings were also all in possession of vast LIBYAN investments and funds.

·  NATO’s war on LIBYA and the freeze of LIBYAN financial assets profited all the INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.

·   While LIBYAN energy reserves and geopolitics played major roles in launching the 2011 war, it was also waged in part to appropriate TRIPOLI’S vast financial holdings and to supplement and maintain the crumbling financial hegemony of Wall Street and other financial centers.

·    WALL STREET COULD NOT ALLOW TRIPOLI TO BE DEBT-FREE, to continue accumulating international financial possessions, and to be a creditor nation giving international loans and investing funds in other countries, particularly in AFRICA.

·         The NUBIAN SANDSTONE AQUIFER SYSTEM

·     LIBYAN government had spent about us$19.6 billion dollars on the water project

·   Huge water multinationals in the US, FRANCE were salivating at the idea of privatizing LIBYAN fresh water and controlling the NUBIAN SANDSTONE AQUIFER SYSTEM.

·        NUBIAN SANDSTONE AQUIFER SYSTEM is the world’s largest fossil aquifer system and will be “the biggest and in some cases the only future source of water to meet growing demands and development” among CHAD, EGYPT, LIBYA, and SUDAN

·         Was LIBYA getting a too powerful player in AFRICA for the liking's of western powers?

There the matter would have remained – suspicious but unverified like so many stories of fraud and corruption – but for the publication of Hillary Clinton’s emails after an FBI probe. They add substantial weight to Newman’s suspicions: violent intervention was not chiefly about the security of the people. It was about the security of global banking, money and oil.

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written by Ellen Brown, who  is an attorney, founder of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books including the best-selling Web of Debt. Her latest book, The Public Bank Solution, explores successful public banking models historically and globally. Her 300+ blog articles are at EllenBrown.com. Listen to “It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown” on PRN.FM.

RUSSIA AND A KURDISH STATE IN SYRIA

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RUSSIA BACKS SELF-RULING KURDISH BUFFER STATE AT TURKEY’S BACK DOOR

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Just four days after drawing down the bulk of RUSSIAN forces in SYRIA, President VLADIMIR PUTIN was quietly redrawing the SYRIAN map on federal lines, and planting RUSSIAN influence in its first semiautonomous region. DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report that the RUSSIAN leader's hand was behind the establishment of the SYRIAN KURDISH FEDERAL REGION, at a meeting of KURDISH Democratic Union Party leaders in the SYRIAN town of RMEILAN.

The new self-ruling entity covers three KURDISH-controlled enclaves: JAZIRA, HASSAKEH and QAMISHLI and the two cities of KOBANI and AFRIN, they include areas captured in battle from the Islamic State.

One of the DUP leaders, NAWAF KHALIL, noted the presence at the ceremony of representatives of the three enclaves, some parts of which are still controlled either by the SYRIAN army, SYRIAN rebel groups or ISIS.

The SYRIAN KURDS are expected next to fight, with RUSSIAN backing, to connect the three enclaves into a contiguous self-ruled territory 500-kilometer long, adjacent to the TURKISH border.

TURKISH President TAYYIP ERDOGAN has warned repeatedly that ANKARA would not tolerate the establishment of KURDISH self-rule in SYRIA and would send his army across the border to prevent it. Our sources report that PUTIN has assured KURDISH leaders that the RUSSIAN air force would be there to defend the new region if TURKEY invaded.

ERDOGAN tried to enlist the OBAMA administration for action to deter the KURDS from its step.

But the State Department only responded to the KURDISH initiative after the event. "We don't support self-ruled, semiautonomous zones inside SYRIA,” said State Department spokesman JOHN KIRBY. “Whole, unified, nonsectarian SYRIA -- that's the goal."

The new KURDISH federal region turns out to be the first no-fly zone over northern SYRIA, which the US, TURKEY and SAUDI ARABIA long advocated, but which has finally comes into being under the RUSSIAN aegis.

President BASHAR ASSAD, MOSCOW’S ally, strongly opposes the KURDISH move, as the first step in the country’s breakup into ethnic or religious federal entities. But ASSAD is helpless to fight back or bomb the KURDISH enclaves when MOSCOW stands behind them and some RUSSIAN warplanes remain in SYRIA for any contingencies.

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DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources find significance in the location of the KURDS’ ceremonial declaration of their semiautonomous region: The only US base in SYRIA is located outside RMEILAN. It houses US and allied special operations forces with helicopters for fighting the Islamic State.

Clearly, PUTIN was perfectly willing to show the AMERICANS what he was about.

In any case, US officials, such as Secretary of State JOHN KERRY, have been talking freely to MIDDLE EAST leaders about a federal solution for SYRIA as WASHINGTON’S Plan B, should the current talks between the warring sides in Geneva fail to reach an accord on a political solution for ending the calamitous five-year war.

THE ARGENTINE ELECTION DILEMMA

ARGENTINA REVISITED –THREE MONTH ON

ARGENTINA – a new dictator is born. Actually no, he has just been elected. – Or, was he? – It appears like the newly elected MAURICIO MACRI is the most fascist and dictatorial President since the VIDELA military era. 

Unlike VIDELA, MACRI hasn’t murdered people (yet); not by traditional weapons, but may do so by economic strangulation – the weapon of choice of neoliberalism.

At a young age, MACRI, now a multi-billionaire has had dealings with DONALD TRUMP, the Republican front runner for the US Presidency. That, of course, doesn’t make him a ‘bad guy’. But it does characterize him as someone who would rather turn favors to the rich than to the needy. That should rather be telling for the ARGENTINIANS, who elected him – or did they?

REPRESSION BACK ON TRACK

Since day one, MAURICIO MACRI has started repressive socio-economic measures – when he let the peso float on the day of his inauguration on 10 December 2015. It devalued by about 50%, then recovered somewhat. The bottom line is, though, the people at large will suffer purchasing power losses, so that dollar investments may flood the country – as he says and hopes – to privatize once more ARGENTINA’S economy to foreign investors. It’s all so reminiscent of the MENEM years. – And the ARGENTINIANS elected him – did they really?

At the time of writing this article at least 12,000 state employees in BUENOS AIRES were dismissed, starting the New Year with unemployment – no individual warnings; the contracts of another 62,000 government employees country-wide since then have been examined – and were since terminated. Many of them may have voted for him — really?

Millions of people took to the streets throughout the plazas of the major cities in ARGENTINA recently, demanding social justice, like freedom of expression and the right of work – and for most the respect for human rights – and defending democracy over the dictatorial rule of a right wing demagogue.

What justice? – Macri by decree decided that Supreme Court judges he appointed did not need the Senate’s approval, as the country’s Constitution prescribes. Within the first 72 hours of MACRI’S ascent to power, he issued 29 Presidential Decrees, so as to impose his program without parliamentary approval. And that’s the way he will rule, at least the first 100 days; a neo-fascist dictator par excellence.

MACRI’S other upsetting controversy was –the removal of the Presidential painting of President KIRCHNER from the walls of the Casa Rosada, the Presidential Mansion.

And why are ARGENTINIANS so upset and even outraged? – After all MACRI told them in advance what he would do when becoming President, things so outrageous, nobody probably believed him. Not unlike most Presidents who forget their campaign promises once elected – MACRI actually carries them through – and he has just started. There is a long list of measures he intends to take – all of them against the well-being of the majority of the people, but in favour of Big Business, in favour of his northern allies in WASHINGTON, those who helped him to power.

THE MEASURES MACRI ‘PROMISED’ HE WOULD CARRY OUT INCLUDE:

Negotiate with the Vulture Funds, as well as renegotiate ARGENTINA’S debt with the IMF. This is reopening a bloody scar, as the KIRCHNER Governments had successfully negotiated and agreed with 97% of the creditors to debt payments on average of about 25 cents to the dollar. Payments are being made on schedule.

Among the 3% who didn’t agree were the Vulture Funds, managed by the vulture fund billionaire PAUL SINGER. SINGER wants it all.

Having bought ARGENTINA’S debt on the cheap – very cheap – he followed ARGENTINA’S last fifteen years of recovery and accumulation of reserves and ‘bought’ a NEW YORK judge to intervene in ARGENTINA’S sovereign affairs, ordering THE SOUTH AMERICAN country to pay Mr. vulture SINGER in full.

This aberration was overruled by last year’s UN General Assembly adopting overwhelmingly a new global framework for sovereign debt restructuring, in favour of nations’ rights to seek protection from minority creditors, such as the US SINGER hedge funds, which refuse to go along with the majority in mutually agreed debt restructurings. Despite this ruling, MACRI intends to renegotiate and possibly give away some of the people’s hard-earned reserves to greedy US vulture funds. – Bravo! – And ARGENTINIANS elected him – hard to believe; did they really?

Substantially increasing gas and electricity tariffs – already started.

Repeal the Memorandum of Agreement with IRAN regarding the investigation and the Truth Commission in the case of AMIA; the car bomb attack on the Asosiacion Mutual Iraelita Argentina which caused the death of 85 people in July 1994. Prosecutor  NIESMAN, in charge of the investigation appeared dead in his apartment a few hours before he was to disclose his findings in an ARGENTINE Court. According to Wikileaks the investigation was directed by WASHINGTON.

Closing down Public TV Stations 6, 7 and 8 which had the tendency to be critical of Government politics.

Removing the Attorney General, whose function according to the Constitution is sustained as long as it is carried out according to the norms of the law – which according to all records it is. MACRI wants to replace her by one of his cronies.

Restructuring the Central Bank – replacing the current President, whom MACRI reproaches of being a KIRCHNERITE – and replacing him with one of his buddies; and this despite the fact that the Charter of the Central Bank allows removal of its President only for serious professional or ethical infractions – none of which is the case with the current President of the Central Bank.

ARGENTINE'S CLASS STRUGGLE

Increasing taxes for the lowest income earners ‘in the name of justice’.

These are just a few of the measures he announced – and people either didn’t listen, or didn’t believe him. ARGENTINIANS voted for MAURICIO MACRI – or did they? – With a slim margin of about 3% over his center-left opponent, DANIEL SCIOLI; a slim margin but enough not to justify a recount. Why would the majority of people vote for a candidate who told them in so many words that he would undo what the previous KIRCHNER Governments have done for them?

ARE ARGENTINES MASOCHISTS?

Then there are the so-called progressive ARGENTINIAN economists who argue about an ardent class struggle between the entrepreneurs who have been short-changed during the KIRCHNER years and the average working citizen. What a baloney! – What class struggle – when 80% of the people benefitted from the KIRCHNERS’ social programs and highly distributive GDP growth? – Would they vote as masochists for the neoliberal, neo-colonial multi-billionaire MAURICIO MACRI – who said he would undo many of these social gains?

ELECTION COUP – TARGET LATIN AMERICA

This would indeed be strange. Just open your eyes and the crimes of WASHINGTON’S secret hand will be revealed; the ‘invisible’ hand which once again – and again – has carried out what ARGENTINA journalist ESTELA CALLONI calls an ‘election coup’.

Comment by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring :

ARGENTINES elections were won because the largest ARGENTINE Media Conglobate, the CLARIN Group (The group is associated with GOLDMAN SACHS)  in association with the “WASHINGTON CONSENSUS” – Financial Institutions and leading Hedge Funds owner PAUL SINGER   funded MACRI’S presidential campaign in order to push through their eco – political agenda in ARGENTINA.

Background Information:  MACRI’S CONNECTION TO THE CLARIN GROUP

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CLARIN SPONSORS MACRI

MAIN STREAM MEDIA INFLUENCE INARGENTINA

MAURICIO MACRI AND THE CLARIN GROUP

Not to forget the ones in EASTERN EUROPE and CENTRAL ASIA, called ‘Color Revolutions’, of which the most notorious one, the fascist coup in UKRAINE, has already left tens of thousands dead and denigrated millions into homelessness and hapless refugees – or in the MIDDLE EAST and NORTH AFRICA – the infamous ‘Arab Springs’ – not to forget, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, LIBYA, SYRIA, SOMALIA, YEMEN – all of them causing millions of deaths and social victims of wars of injustice, so-called ‘refugees’; many of the conflicts turning into endless wars against western-invented and western fabricated and spread ‘terror’.

Only time will tell what’s in store for ARGENTINA and the rest of what we proudly called the ‘free’ LATIN AMERICA – now gradually turning into what it was for most of the 20th Century – WASHINGTON’S Backyard.

Adapted by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring from the article originally written by Peter Koenig via Information Clearing House