VoA: Militants attack train, take hostages in Pakistan’s Balochistan
Militants attacked a cross-country passenger train Tuesday in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province, taking many hostages.
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Despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Ecuador’s violent crime problem is such an incredible disaster that it manages to attract international attention. Criminals have recently taken over live newscasts. Supporters of the rightwing governments that created the disaster (for example, The Economist) have declared Ecuador to be the deadliest country in the Americas. It’s difficult for Ecuador to get international news coverage. In recent years, it generally has to be something very bad (or sports-related).
David Villamar interviewed about Ecuador’s violent crime disaster
Related:
How Did Ecuador Spiral into This Nightmare? It Was the Neoliberal Dismantling of the State
Small team of Canadian special ops deployed to Israel-
JTF2 is a secretive military unit. Largely engaged in acts of terrorism, the west describes as counter terrorism. Most people wouldn’t understand that reality. Think of terrorism ops and counter terrorism ops as opposite sides of the same coin.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has informed the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of any postwar scenario, underscoring the deep divisions between the close allies three months into Israel’s assault on Gaza that aims to eliminate the territory’s Hamas rulers
Netanyahu States the Obvious- No Palestinian State- No 2 State Solution
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Los Choneros is tied to the Mexican drug Sinaloa Cartel and Los Lobos to Jalisco. Ecuador itself, together with Bolivia and Colombia, is part of the so-called cocaine triangle, which is the world’s largest producer of the drug. From Ecuador, it travels overland to Brazil and Peru and by sea to Mexico, European countries, and the African market.
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Finally, and thirdly, another version of the reason for the current conflict outbreak is the activation of the CIA and their agents who want to destabilize the entire Andean region (after all, the situation in Peru and Chile is also complicated). Although it sounds like a conspiracy, given the skills of US intelligence agencies and their networks in Latin America, it should not be dismissed, but more attention should be paid to the activities of State Department agents who do not want to lose the region.
Interestingly, when I highlight and look up, ‘cocaine triangle’, Apple brings up the Wikipedia page for ‘CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking’. 🤔
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Read More »The U.S. will support the fight against drug trafficking by granting Ecuador military equipment in exchange for the delivery of Russian equipment to Ukraine.
Ecuadorian Armed Forces Arrest 329 Terrorists and Kill 5
Related:
Ecuador Declares War on Gang Violence
Ecuador in crisis: five points to understand a country broken by neoliberalism
Read More »I’m getting the impression the US is managing this war on Israel’s behalf. Some of the quotes from Blinken leave one with that impression.
Blinken’s Window Dressing Tour of Arab Capitals
About 2,500 wounded and displaced Palestinians are at the mercy of the invading troops as concerns grow that the Israeli army is preparing an ‘artificial scene’ inside the hospital.
Al-Shifa Hospital under Israeli control, turned into center for ‘detention and torture’
H/T: Unorthodox Truth
Britain’s Conservative government has issued notices to the media to suppress reports of the operations of the Special Air Service (SAS) in Gaza.
UK issues D-Notices to suppress reports of SAS special forces operations in Gaza
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