RT — ‘They are all spies’: Philippines’ Duterte speaks on US ambassador’s ‘destabilization blueprint’

The outspoken president of the Philippines has lashed out at the former US ambassador to the country, who reportedly left a ‘blueprint to destabilize’ the country’s government when leaving his post in November.

President Rodrigo Duterte said all ambassadors play a part in their respective countries' spying operations, but American ambassadors have a "forte" for undermining the government of their host countries.

"Most of the ambassadors of the United States, but not all, are not really professional ambassadors. At the same time they are spying, they are connected with the CIA," Duterte said in an interview with CNN Philippines.

Duterte was commenting on a Tuesday report in the Manila Times, which claimed that Philip Goldberg, who resigned in November his position as the US ambassador to the Pacific nation, has left behind a detailed plan on how to undermine the Philippines government and oust its president....

Duterte has been on bad terms with Goldberg for quite some time. On one occasion he infamously called the American envoy a "gay son of a bitch" for interfering with Philippines politics.…

Harsh.

RT
‘They are all spies’: Philippines’ Duterte speaks on US envoy’s ‘destabilization blueprint’

Andrew Korybko — The US-Saudi Plan To Prompt An Iranian Pullback From Syria

The US and Saudi Arabia have been conspiring with one another to engineer a series of crises that could prompt Iran to pull back its troops in Syria and redeploy them back to the homeland. The modus operandi has been to encourage peripheral insurgencies inside the Islamic Republic’s borderland regions concurrent with a terrorist threat to the interior, all while stirring up Color Revolution commotion. In short, Washington and Riyadh are working hard to wage a multidimensional Hybrid War on Iran, and all indications point to each respective component of this campaign intensifying in the coming months as the US turns up the heat against its decades-long Mideast rival.…

Destabilization as a favorite US strategy. Using Wahhabi and Salafi proxies is an integral part of it.

Katehon
The US-Saudi Plan To Prompt An Iranian Pullback From Syria
Andrew Korybko

Sic Semper Tyrannis — Experiencing the Nemesis of hubric exceptionalism‑Who are we now?

Neocons.

Sic Semper Tyrannis
Experiencing the Nemesis of hubric exceptionalism‑Who are we now?

Robert Parry — How Neocons Destabilized Europe

Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind. (Hosea 8-7)

As Parry points out the pattern extends back decades and there is no reason to think that it is near over yet. The crazies are now in charge of US foreign policy and it is bipartisan.

Parry also reminds that a lot of the migration of Latin Americans to the US over the past several decades has also been due in part to neocon meddling.

There is much faux concern in some US quarters that terrorists are entering among the illegals across the Mexican border, with no evidence and little credibility. But it is hardly farfetched that ISIS is using the refugee crisis to infiltrate terrorists into Europe, and the right-wing in the US is touting it as a sure thing.

Consortium News
How Neocons Destabilized Europe

Robert Parry

Alexrpt — US gets the war it has always wanted…begins bombing Assad forces

This latest US war is so simple. Remove Assad in order to remove Russia’s gas supplies to Europe. Once Assad is gone the US can put its very own, home grown dictator to oversee the construction of a Qatar gas pipeline to Europe.

Red Pill Times
US gets the war it has always wanted…begins bombing Assad forces

Alexrpt

teleSUR — Ecuador's President Correa Warns of Further Destabilization

The South American country has recently been witness to often-violent protests by opposition forces, who are demanding that Correa’s government proposed tax reforms, that would make the wealthiest pay more, should be scrapped. The government has delayed the measures pending a national dialogue and retains strong support according to recent polls.

teleSUR

Ecuador's President Correa Warns of Further Destabilization

Eric Draitser — US Targets Venezuela Using Border Dispute as Pretext

Draitser argues that Venezuela and Guyana’s despute over the Essequibo region is a new front in the destabilization of Venezuela…

In its attempt to stifle Venezuela’s political and economic development as an independent regional actor, the US is using its influence to destabilize the region. The goals are distinct, but intimately connected: enrich US energy corporations at the expense of Venezuela and, simultaneously, both position military assets and shape propaganda that paints Venezuela as an aggressor, thereby providing the pretext for US escalation. In this way, Washington is attempting to reassert by stealth the hegemony it once maintained with brute force. 

TeleSUR
US Targets Venezuela Using Border Dispute as Pretext

Eric Draitser

Yves Smith — The Fed’s Dereliction of Duty and False Capital Flows Morality

On both the military and financial front, America seems to be making things up as it goes along, driven by a toxic mix of bad ideology and domestic priorities. No wonder the rest of the world is so keen to join the Chinese-sponsored Asian Infrastructure Investment Ban. Any means of providing a nexus of power outside the US looks like a step in a better direction.

Shooting yourself in the foot.

Naked Capitalism
The Fed’s Dereliction of Duty and False Capital Flows Morality

Yves Smith

John Feffer — Tomgram: John Feffer, Why the World Is Becoming the Un-Sweden

Today, TomDispatch regular John Feffer, the director of Foreign Policy In Focus, offers a cunning bow to the convergence theorists of the Cold War era, a crew of thinkers who imagined that someday the two superpowers would merge into one conglomerate creature in strangely upbeat ways. In reality, as he points out, “convergence” (even in an era that lacks the Soviet Union) has turned out to be a dismally downbeat process. He does, however, skip the earliest convergence theorist of them all, who happened to be a novelist rather than an economist or a philosopher. I’m talking about George Orwell who, in his novel 1984 (published in 1948 just as the Cold War was ramping up to a low burn), imagined the convergence of the worst of West and East, of capitalist America and communist Russia, in a state so memorably malign that, almost seven decades later, everyone, including Edward Snowden, still remembers Big Brother.

The NSA's global surveillance state, revealed by Snowden, managed to put even the dreams of the totalitarian states of the previous century in the shade (and caused sales of 1984 to spike) -- and it's but one reminder of Orwell’s foresight. So many other details of our moment from black sites and kidnapping schemes to torture and assassination programs remind us that, despite the disappearance of the Soviet Union, convergence of a sort still seems to be in the cards. Here’s the strange thing, though: if a kind of eerie version of convergence is indeed underway, as Feffer so memorably suggests, in the organized precincts of what used to be called the First and Second Worlds -- the U.S., Europe, Russia, and China -- in the former Third World, or at least across vast stretches of the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa, a process that might be called divergence seems to be gaining strength. The power of states is weakening, fragmenting, or simply dissolving amid the growth of extremist organizations, sectarian or sectional militias, and terror groups.

As miraculous as Orwell was -- and in the earliest days of the television age he managed to conjure up a future world in which the screen would be omnipresent and everyone could be surveilled, tracked, and controlled through it -- he had no way of imagining such a strange form of divergence. Its origins seem to lie, at least in part, in a twenty-first-century American urge to take its much-ballyhooed role as the planet’s last remaining superpower to heart and essentially try to rule the world. This desire to create a planetary Pax Americana (and an American Pax Republicana) led the Bush administration to punch a devastating hole in the oil heartlands of the planet, setting off a storm of sectarian chaos within which old systems of control, already frayed, began to collapse and whose endpoint is, at present, beyond our ken.

Convergence and divergence, centralization and fragmentation: it’s a vision of a planet that’s not exactly Orwellian, but certainly represents a nightmare worthy of some still-to-be-discovered Orwell of our moment. In the meantime, while we await the novel 2051, let John Feffer tell you about the dark, converging world of 2015. Tom

Tom Dispatch
Tomgram: John Feffer, Why the World Is Becoming the Un-Sweden
John Feffer

telesur — Correa: Opposition in Ecuador Copying Venezuelan Opposition

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said the opposition is deliberately trying to provoke problems in the country by spreading rumors. Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa denounced efforts by the opposition in his country to copy the strategy of the opposition in Venezuela and try to destabilize his government and the country. “Let's not fool ourselves, what has happened in Venezuela, in Argentina, what they tried to do to Evo (Morales)... is the permanent mobilization, (the strategy of) attrition, trying to create incidents,” said Correa, referring to violent street protests in Venezuela in 2014 and the recent attempt to link Argentine President Cristina Fernandez to the murder of a prosecutor. “But we are going to show, like in Venezuela, we are more, many more,” the president told local media Friday. In an effort to provoke problems in the country, supporters of the Ecuadorean opposition have recently tried to promote rumors that the government was planning to freeze bank accounts in the country. Correa quashed those rumors, saying, “The only problem banks have (right now) is that they're making too much money.” In a deeply unpopular move, the government of Ecuador froze bank accounts in 1999 in an effort to save private banks, causing chaos in Ecuador's financial system.

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Correa: Opposition in Ecuador Copying Venezuelan Opposition

El Telegrafo

Telesur — Correa Accuses CIA of Destabilization Efforts in Ecuador

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has accused the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of being involved in opposition protests in the country with the aim of dragging it into chaos. "There is a CIA presence there [in Ecuador's opposition] which has a goal of weakening the government," Correa said on Saturday during his weekly presidential address....

Opposition mayors of the country’s major cities, Quito and Guayaquil, Mauricio Rodas and Jaime Nebot respectively, recently met, in which they signed a manifesto calling on all Ecuadoreans to join them in “restoring democracy.” Despite the recent destabilization efforts by the Ecuadorean opposition, a recent international survey conducted by the Association of Political Communication found that the president received 79 percent approval making him the world’s second most popular president of Ecuador. In 1963, the U.S. intelligence led a military coup in Ecuador, against the leftist 

President Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, after the leader criticized the U.S. government and showed its support to Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba. In 2013, the Ecuadoran news agency ANDES, reported that the CIA was planning to murder Correa and destabilize the country in retaliation for the removal of a U.S. military base from the country in 2009, as well as his decision to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange.....

Telesur
Correa Accuses CIA of Destabilization Efforts in Ecuador

Also

Bolivian President Evo Morales is expected to discuss current U.S. agression towards Venezuela as well as the ongoing economic blockade against Cuba.

Evo Morales To Give Speech At Latin American People’s Summit

Boniface Musavuli — The US wants war -- on European soil

More geopolitics and geostrategy. Sees the US grand strategy to maintain permanent global hegemony as global destablization and endless war.

Fort Russ
The US wants war -- on European soil
Analysis by Boniface Musavuli
Translated from French by Tom Winter

Published March 6 in AgoraVox

Lucas Koerner — Maduro Voices Solidarity with Argentina’s Kirchner Amid Destabilization Effort

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro voiced support for his Argentine counterpart, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, on Wednesday in the face of what the latter has denounced as a destabilization effort against her government following death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman.…

President Cristina Fernández also received the backing of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Saturday. 

“All of our support for Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who faces a new destabilization effort,” stated the Ecuadorian leader on his television program. 

Correa claimed that accusations against the Argentine President form part of a broader strategy to destabilize the progressive and leftist governments of the region. 

“This is another chapter of the conservative restoration that today utilizes even judicial instances in order to try to destabilize the progressive governments of our America, as they are also trying to do with [Brazilian President] Dilma [Rousseff] in the case of Petrobras,” he stated.

nsnbc international
Maduro Voices Solidarity with Argentina’s Kirchner Amid Destabilization Effort

Lucas Koerner | Venezuelanalysis

Ian Ruskin — The Unquenchable and Endless Thirst for War -- Thomas Paine Warns the NeoCons Are Coming... Again!

"Although the hour is very late, the U.S. still has time to respond unequivocally, staking out a position of strength. Dismembering Ukraine against its wishes is unacceptable. Washington should supply Kiev with weapons and other assistance, while also reviving President George W. Bush's 2008 plan to fast track Ukraine for NATO membership...... even if Obama's flaccid leadership has tragically lost Crimea for good. 

And there is more than just Russia to consider. China, making territorial claims in the South and East China Seas, nuclear-weapons proliferators like North Korea and Iran, regional troublemakers like Venezuela, and terrorists and their state sponsors worldwide all see the same pattern". — John Bolton, Los Angeles Times 

More of John Bolton's saber-rattling. A vision of a world full of more and more enemies who must be put down, the axis of evil on overdrive.

The Huffington Post
The Unquenchable and Endless Thirst for War -- Thomas Paine Warns the NeoCons Are Coming... Again!
Ian Ruskin | Director of The Harry Bridges Project and The Life of Thomas Paine Productions

See also, John Bolton: As ignorant as he is dangerous, at 21st Century Wire