LInks — 25 Jan 2019

RT

New Integrity Initiative leak: Make Muslims love NATO, target anti-frackers, plan for nuclear war

Sputnik International
Journo [Gordon Dimmack] on Integrity Initiative: We Run Risk of Living in Dystopian Future

Zero Hedge
Watch Live: Yellow Vests Rage For 11th Straight Week; Organizers Plan Night Rallies, Human Chain Of 50,000
Tyler Durden

Strategic Culture Foundation
The Yellow Vests, the Crisis of the Welfare State and Socialism

Michèle Brand

Zero Hedge
China Responds To George Soros [by ignoring him]
Tyler Durden

Sputnik International
MI5 Reportedly Deploys 700 Spies to N Ireland Amid Fears of Hard Border Violence

Zero Hedge

France & Germany [read Macron and Merkel]: "We Are Committed To The Emergence Of A European Army"

Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute

The American Conservative
Pompeo Puts Elliott Abrams in Charge of Regime Change in Venezuela

David Larison

Voltaire Network
Elliott Abrams makes a comeback
Thierry Meyssan
Translated by Anoosha Boralessa

SouthFront

Venezuela Crisis: U.S. Has Painted Itself Into Corner

J. Hawk

The Hill
Pompeo: ‘It's time’ for nations to pick sides in Venezuela

Tal Axelrod

The Economic Times [India]
India refuses to join efforts to recognise self-declared president of Venezuela [This is big. Russia, China, India and Iran, i.e., Global East and South, oppose. Can the US defeat these four when it cannot beat the Taliban? Let's be serious.]
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury

Crooks and Liars
John Bolton Says Ultimate Goal In Venezuela Is To Take Their Oil [At least he is honest about it. This has zero to do with democracy, as longstanding US policy amply demonstrates.]

Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation
Foreign Ministry statement on the developments in Venezuela [short and to the point, sharply]

TASS
US orchestrates demands to call elections in Venezuela within 8 days - foreign ministry [Ultimatum]

The Unz Review

America’s Shameful War [Afghanistan. Again, not about what the US claimed. Now, the US is "trapped" by sunk cost.]

Eric Margolis

Geopolitika
Alain de Benoist: Jair Bolsonaro's [ultra-neoliberal] program is appalling!

TomDispatch
“The Bleeding Wound”— Afghanistan and the Implosion of America  [Sunk cost. The US has already lost, it just can't admit it publicly — yet.]
Tom Engelhardt

Reuters
Foreign troops to quit Afghanistan in 18 months under draft deal: Taliban sources

Abdul Qadir Sediqi, Jibran Ahmad, Rupam Jain

Sic Semper Tyrannis
Is Pentagon Planning To Stay in Syria Despite Trump?
Willy B.

Global Research.ca
Korea: A Brief History Explains Everything

Dana Visalli

The Unz Review

Connecting the Dots in the Huawei Kidnapping [remember David Kelley?]
Anatoly Karlin

Moon of Alabama
Pelosi Aghast - Stone Indictment Proves That Trump Campaign Deliberately Campaigned For Trump