EU Betrays Africa and Fails To Comply With Grain-Export Deal; Russia Will Do Likewise Starting March 18

from thefreeonline Written by Eric Zuesse by South Front

On Saturday, March 4th, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, at the G20 meeting in Delhi, announced that because the EU has refused to comply with its side of the “Grain [and fertilizer] Deal” that the U.N. brokered in Istanbul on 27 July 2022, Russia will likewise not comply with it, starting on March 18th.

2022…‘Sky is the limit’. Russians may blockade Odessa

The results of the decision could be a disaster. Russia will presumably restart its blockade on grain ships out of Odessa, which means all shipping could be stopped, for the danger and for insurance problems.

NATO have huge power in the Black Sea and could assemble a fleet, with missile and air cover to try and protect ships. Russia would try and enforce the blockade, etc..

The US could also retaliate against Russian grain and fertilizer exports and drag in Turkey and other states for a new ‘hair trigger’ confrontation front, with Nuclear bombers again patrolling Russia’s Black Sea coast.

Meanwhile World grain prices would soar even higher, making it impossible for all the countries caught in Western imposed Debt Traps to pay back interest and afford basic food.

On February 8th, Reuters had headlined “Russia: EU not fulfilling promises on grain deal”, and reported that the deal was in jeopardy because of the EU’s continued violations of it that were supplying super-inexpensive food to the EU while continuing to block food going to Africa — for which latter purpose the deal had been mainly designed.

2022.. RUSSIAN BLOCKADE OF ODESSABlack Sea OTMO, Day 124-148. The Russian blockade.

Then, on Saturday March 4th, Russia’s Tsargrad news site headlined “THE REJECTION OF THE GRAIN DEAL WILL FORCE RUSSIA TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE OF ODESSA. AND THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT EVENT.”

By implication, it was interpreting Lavrov’s statement to reflect that Ukraine’s main Black Sea port of Odessa (which has historically been overwhelmingly pro-Russian), which is the port through which Ukraine’s agricultural exports are shipped, might soon be taken over by Russia, because the EU’s using it to provide economic benefits to the EU and to Ukraine while starving and/or soaring food-cost inflation in Africa, will no longer continue to be tolerated by Russia.

In other words: Africa — and Russia were being cheated by the EU and Ukraine, and will cease that, starting March 18th.

On March 3rd, Tsargrad had bannered “AMMONIA INSTEAD OF WHEAT. WHAT WILL RUSSIA GAIN BY BREAKING THE “GRAIN DEAL”, and it explained that:

The grain deal, about the need for which “our Western partners” spoke so much, can be terminated without any possibility of renewal in the near future”.

“If this happens, then Ukraine will lose the opportunity to earn money on dumped wheat exports, Turkey will lose a fair amount of profits from participating in the transit of this grain and a fair amount of political influence as an intermediary between Russia and its opponents. The European Union will lose a significant part of the grain in its market – the very one that it had promised the poorest African countries would be the deal’s primary beneficiaries, but which turned out to be much more necessary for EU bakers and confectioners, instead of going to Africans who need bread and fertilizers.

In general, it will be bad for everyone. Except Russia. Russia will not lose anything, because it didn’t gain anything from the deal”.

If Russia takes over Odessa, then Ukraine could very well become an entirely land-locked country, without its only sea-access, which now is via Odessa. The EU and Ukraine would have — by their refusals to comply with the grain deal — considerably increased that likelihood (which would harm the longer-term interests both of Ukraine and the EU).

In any case, the status of Odessa is now going to be a far more important issue in this war that it had been until now. It will no longer be an issue for Africa, because the July 27th deal didn’t benefit Africa at all (which it had been promised to do). Odessa will instead be purely an issue between Ukraine and Russia.

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.

STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA – Homeless folks trapped in Drug Market – Benzo, tranq, fentanyl, heroin….

from thefreeonline on 7th March 2023 by You Tube /agencies

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More than 100,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2021, the worst year on record.

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The newest wave of the overdose crisis involves man-made chemicals, including animal tranquilizers, that are being combined with fentanyl to make street drugs that are deadlier and more addictive. Drugs like “benzo dope” and “tranq” are ravaging North American communities and U.S. policy is barely affecting the latest flood of synthetic street drugs.

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South Philly has a growing, homeless population — and almost no services to help them…

Homeless encampments form because people on the street crave community and companionship, just like anyone else, said Carol Thomas, the director of homeless services at Project HOME. But amid the opioid crisis — where using drugs alone can mean a fatal overdose — being in community with others is a matter of life and death……..

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The Havana Syndrome Case Cracked

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Declassified: “Havana Syndrome” caused by crickets

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Roger D. Harris

Even before the attack on the homeland of theweather balloons,the Havana Syndrome tested America’s mettle.

The Havana Syndrome was first reported in Cuba in 2016. The mysterious malady initially afflicted US embassy staff in Havana, especially those attached to intelligence missions. It then spread to Canadian embassy officials. The sudden headaches, debilitating dizziness, and hearing excruciatingly painful sounds struck both at work and at home. Oddly, the Cubans themselves appeared immune to the pathology.

Soon other cases of what the US Defense Department called “anomalous health incidents” (AHIs) werereportedin Russia, China, Colombia, Uzbekistan, and then even in the US. This mass psychogenic illness was experienced mostly by US government spies, diplomats, and military personnel all over the world, according toWikipedia. A “government-wide response” wasprecipitatedwith “support groups” established.

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The Acorn, 81 – Slope to Slavery/ STOP the WEF/ Forest Victory/ Chuang Tzu Inspires/ Acorninfo-

from thefreeonline on March 6, 2023 by Winter Oak

Number 81… In this issue:

1. A slippery smart slope to slavery

One of the main aims of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is to herd us all into smart cities, digital concentration camps in which our vastly restricted lives will become products for the speculative greed of the global ruling entity.

Because they know we prefer to live otherwise, this venal clique has to dress up each stage of their long-term plan as something else, so as to fool us into going along with it.

Thus the current phase, that of 15-minute Cities, 20-minute Neighbourhoods and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, is being sold to us as nothing more than urban planning aimed at protecting the environment.

We are assured that our freedom is not at risk, since it is only movements by car that are currently being targeted – with trips on foot, by bike or by public transport unaffected.

The 5G masts that have sprung up everywhere and the calls for vaccine passports and a central digital currency are supposedly mere coincidences and could never be imagined to form part of one and the same scheme.

If Operation Covid had never happened, this deception might have passed generally unnoticed. But having already been exposed to the authorities’ evident desire to limit and track our movements under any invented pretext, large numbers of people have been able to identify the totalitarian agenda behind this supposedly “green” initiative.

They are very aware that in the cash-free digitally-connected “smart” (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) dystopia being planned for us, every move we make would be monitored, analysed and reported in real time and that the geofencing of “human capital” would certainly not stop with private vehicle use.

As a result, there is growing public opposition to the embryonic smart city projects now cropping up everywhere, particularly in the Evil Empire that calls itself The Commonwealth.

For example, in February a very successful public meeting was held in Bath, Somerset, UK, with 350 people cramming into the venue and speakers including former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies. (See videos here and here plus this local media report).

And across country in Oxford there was a huge and impressive protest which promises to be the start of a serious wave of mass resistance.

The game of gangs and counter-gangs has long been a tool of the British state’s political repression and the presence of one or two members of the “far right” in the diverse Oxford protest allowed the usual smear card to be played.

This absurdly exaggerated “threat” was also used to manipulate people who oppose the far right into forming a small “counter-protest”.

As this video reveals, these people were in fact protesting about issues that had nothing to do with the matter in hand, having been whipped up by the ridiculous scaremongering, about “violent” groups supporting “abhorrent genocidal causes”, that deliberately sought to misrepresent the true nature of the demonstration.

The irony, of course, is that the real threat of fascism comes from the digital slavery project of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the metaverse and impact capitalism.

Another claim from the back-to-front “anti-fascist” camp was that anti-technocracy protesters had uttered “anti-semitic tropes”.

As we know, this is now applied to any reference to a threat from globalised central control or any mention of the Great Reset, openly launched by Charles III and yet still described as a “conspiracy theory” by the powers-that-shouldn’t-be.

Over in Commonwealth Canada, the system’s media are likewise desperately trying to depict opposition to 15-minute Cities as unfounded paranoia.

For instance, a piece entitled “15-minute city conspiracy theory reaches Sudbury” by Tyler Clarke, a local hack in Ontario, kicks off in full propaganda mode, declaring: “Fuelled by misinformation, local conspiracy theorists have expanded their scope beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and focused on another convoluted web of misinformation”.

“Misinformation” twice in one sentence! A gold WEF star for you!

The hack rolls out the usual claim that the WEF’s very real Great Reset is a mere “conspiracy theory”, providing the obligatory link to system “fact-checkers”.

Russia’s Deterrent to US’s ‘Preemptive Decapitation’ plan – would destroy USA in One Hour with Hypersonic Nukes..

thefreeonline on 5th March 2023 by Drago Bosnic at South Front 8850 views

Russia Just Announced New Strategy On Deterring NATO Aggression

The new document, published by the “Military Thought” magazine run by the Russian Ministry of Defense, attracted little attention in Western media, although such changes are made only once in several decades or even longer.

Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst

Amid incessant NATO aggression and escalation of hostilities within Russia, now also including US-backed Kiev regime terrorists targeting schoolchildren, Moscow has started revamping the doctrinal approach to the use of its strategic arsenal. Rather curiously, the new document, published by the “Military Thought” magazine run by the Russian Ministry of Defense, attracted little attention in Western media.

It should be noted that such changes are made only once in several decades or even longer. The strategic posturing of countries, particularly superpowers, is usually “set in stone”, meaning that changes are prompted only by major events of historical proportions.

It was only a week ago that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia is suspending its participation in the New START arms control treaty.

Putin cited continuous, blatant US and NATO violations of the agreement as the primary reason for the decision. With the treaty becoming a mere formality, Russia is not bound to honor it anymore, as this would undermine its own strategic security.

With that in mind, the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) started implementing new ways to deter any possible direct US/NATO attacks on Russia, particularly as the belligerent thalassocracy has repeatedly floated the idea of “decapitation strikes” on Moscow in the last several months.

The authors of the document are Deputy Commander of the RVSN Igor Fazletdinov and retired Colonel Vladimir Lumpov.

Russia Hypersonic missiles are 27 times faster and ready to launch … youtube.com

They argue that the US is on a collision course with Russia, as Washington DC and its vassals are becoming increasingly aggressive due to their political elites’ frustration with the loss of the “sole superpower” status.

With America seeing Moscow as the main culprit for this, it plans on defeating Russia in a “single blow”, thus eliminating the main obstacle to total US global dominance. Fazletdinov and Lumpov argue that Washington DC plans to defeat Russia in a “strategic (global) multi-sphere operation”, the primary goal of which will be the elimination of its strategic arsenal.

“[The US believes] this goal is only achievable in the event of an instantaneous nuclear strike against the RVSN or at least with the deployment of ABM [anti-ballistic missile] systems around Russia. The US plan is to destroy at least 65-70% of Russian strategic nuclear forces as part of its Prompt Global Strike concept, with the rest eliminated by American ABM systems. The US would then launch an all-out nuclear attack on the Russian Federation in order to destroy it,” authors warn, further adding: “We aim to repel a potential [US] nuclear strike, preserve our own nuclear capabilities, suppress the deployed US missile defense systems and cause unacceptable damage in case of [US/NATO] aggression.”

Russia certainly has the capability to almost instantly change its strategic doctrine. Unlike its NATO rivals (including the US itself), Moscow leads the world in several key military technologies, which also include at least a dozen operational hypersonic weapons deployed over the last 5-10 years.

And indeed, in early December President Putin stated Russia could adopt a US-style concept of preemptive strikes. The program mentioned by Russian military experts, called PGS (Prompt Global Strike), is a US attempt to develop a capability that enables it to attack enemy strategic targets with precision-guided weapons anywhere in the world within just one hour.

Still, the US is yet to deploy a weapon that can achieve that.

On the other hand, with the Mach 12-capable “Kinzhal” air-launched hypersonic missile carried by modified MiG-31K/I interceptors and Tu-22M3 long-range bombers, the Mach 28-capable “Avangard” HGV (hypersonic glide vehicle) deployed on various ICBMs and the Mach 9-capable scramjet-powered “Zircon” hypersonic cruise missile deployed on naval (both submarines and surface ships) and (soon) on land platforms, Russia is the only country on the planet with the capability to immediately implement such a program.

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And yet, Moscow still refrains from going ahead with such plans, although its justification for this would hold much better than that of the US.

The authors further emphasize “the need to make sure the US was perfectly aware of the impossibility of the complete destruction of our strategic capabilities and the inevitability of a crushing retaliatory nuclear strike”.

However, the problem with this is that the establishment in Washington DC has become so detached from reality that they believe the Kiev regime has the capacity to not only “push Russia back from Donbass”, but also “retake Crimea”, despite relevant reports on the Neo-Nazi junta’s staggering losses.

It can hardly be expected from them to be aware of Russia’s wholly undeniable capability to obliterate the continental US in minutes.

There is No Defense to Hypersonic Missiles & Russia’s Plans to Expand …

American policymakers take advice from former high-ranking generals and officers who somehow managed to lose a war against outnumbered and outgunned AK-wielding insurgents in sandals while wasting trillions of dollars and deploying hundreds of thousands of troops during the two decades of continuous NATO aggression in Afghanistan.

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This is without taking into account the technological disparity which was so overwhelmingly on the side of the aggressors that it can quite literally be measured in centuries rather than decades. Still, delusions and living in parallel reality seem to be a given for the warmongers at the Pentagon.

In addition, considering the fact that Afghanistan became more peaceful and safer after the US and NATO have been soundly defeated and driven out of the country devastated by decades of incessant conflict, this clearly implies that being able to militarily beat the political West is of utmost importance for the safety of any given country.

Russia’s new strategic doctrine will certainly ensure this, not just for itself but also for the entire world, as the Eurasian giant will surely remain the only global power with such a capability in the foreseeable future.

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Turkish Parties whip up hate crimes on Syrian Refugee earthquake victims as Election Looms

from thefreeonline March 6, 2023 by Turkish Minute

Anti-Syrian discrimination mars Turkey’s earthquake response: report

State-linked organizations providing the bulk of relief have denied aid to Syrians in some cases in Turkish provinces affected by devastating earthquakes in early February, according to earthquake survivors and rights organizations, Syria Direct, an independent media organization reporting on Syrians, said on Wednesday, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported.

Xenophobia, hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees are increasing in Turkey as the country prepares for upcoming elections, and politicians from far-right parties have been fueling anti-Syrian sentiment in regions hit by the earthquakes.

Syrians quake — Syrians, displaced as a result of the deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria two days ago, walk in an open field on the outskirts of the rebel-held town of Jindayris on February 8, 2023. A leading United Nations official called for the facilitation of aid access to rebel-held areas in Syria’s northwest, warning that relief stocks will soon be depleted. Rebel-held areas near Turkey’s border — hard hit by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck on Monday — cannot receive aid from government-held parts of Syria without Damascus’s authorization. Bakr ALKASEM / AFP

3 TV stations fined $423K in total for earthquake coverage critical…A total of TL 7,990,000 ($423,000) in fines has been imposed by broadcasting watchdog the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) on three TV…

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck near the Turkish city of Gaziantep – home to around 2 million people and on the border with Syria – as people were sleeping on February 6 was followed by dozens of aftershocks, including a 7.5-magnitude temblor that jolted the region in the middle of search and rescue efforts the same day.

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A large number of Syrians affected by the earthquakes have been temporarily evacuated by authorities to shelters in the southern Turkish province of Mersin.

Speaking to Syria Direct, a Syrian man called “Bilal” said the police escorted his family and a few dozen other Syrians in the shelter, run by the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), out on the grounds that it was reserved for Turkish citizens.

As the Syrians were leaving the shelter in Mersin on February 10, Bilal said he saw a Turkish journalist speaking to the cameras and claiming that Syrians were being expelled because they had destroyed furniture in the shelter.

When they went to an AFAD center in Mersin the next day, “The person from AFAD said, ‘You are Syrian, you already took everything, this help is for Turks. Come back in five days and we’ll see,” Bilal recounted.

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Attitudes about refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria have gradually hardened in Turkey, where they used to be welcomed with open arms, sympathy and compassion, as the number of newcomers has swelled over the past decade.

Tensions between Turks and Syrians flare up on occasion in Turkey, where refugees are blamed for many of the country’s social and economic troubles.

Hate crimes against refugees and migrants have been escalating in recent years as Turkish media, including pro-government and opposition outlets, fuel and exploit the flames of hatred against people who fled their countries and sought refuge in Turkey.

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Anti-migrant sentiment has also been expressed by opposition politicians, including Ümit Özdağ, leader of the far-right Victory Party (ZP). In January, Özdağ launched a new campaign dubbed “Bus to Damascus” aimed at deporting Syrian refugees from Turkey.

In a propaganda video posted on Twitter by Özdağ, who has been at the forefront of anti-refugee propaganda in Turkey, party supporters were asked to share the names of refugees and to donate to the ZP so that refugees could be put on buses they call “Victory Buses” and deported to Syria.