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The Chagos Islands and the Dark Soul of the British Labour Party
Even if you think you know all about the Chagos story – an entire population forcibly removed from their island homeland at British gunpoint to make way for a US Air Force nuclear base, the people dumped destitute over a thousand miles away, their domestic animals gassed by the British army, their homes fired and demolished – then I beg you still to read this.
This analysis shows there could be no more startling illustration of the operation of the brutal and ruthless British Establishment in an undisguisedly Imperialist cause, involving actions which all reasonable people can see are simply evil. It points out that many of the key immoralities were perpetrated by Labour governments, and that the notion that either Westminster democracy or the British “justice” system provides any protection against the most ruthless authoritarianism by the British state, is utterly baseless.
Finally of course, there is the point that this is not only a historic injustice, but the injustice continues to the current day and continues to be actively promoted by the British state, to the extent that it is willing to take massive damage to its international standing and reputation in order to continue this heartless policy. This analysis is squarely based on the recent Opinion of the International Court of Justice.
Others have done an excellent job of chronicling the human stories and the heartache of the Islanders deported into penury far away across the sea. I will take that human aspect as read, although this account of one of the major forced transportations is worth reading to set the tone. The islanders were shipped out in inhuman conditions to deportation, starved for six days and covered in faeces and urine. This was not the 19th century, this was 1972.
The MV Nordvaer was already loaded with Chagossians, horses, and coconuts when it arrived at Peros Banhos. Approximately one hundred people were ultimately forced onto the ship. Ms. Mein, her husband, and their eight children shared a small, cramped cabin on the ship. The cabin was extremely hot; they could not open the portholes because the water level rose above them under the great weight of the overloaded boat. Many of the other passengers were not as fortunate as Ms. Mein and shared the cargo compartment with horses, tortoises, and coconuts. Ms. Mein remembers that the cargo hold was covered with urine and horse manure. The horses were loaded below deck while many human passengers were forced to endure the elements above deck for the entirety of the six-day journey in rough seas. The voyage was extremely harsh and many passengers became very sick. The rough conditions forced the captain to jettison a large number of coconuts in order to prevent the overloaded boat from sinking. Meanwhile, the horses were fed, but no food was provided for the Chagossians.
Rather than the human story of the victims, I intend to concentrate here, based squarely on the ICJ judgement, on the human story of the perpetrators. In doing so I hope to show that this is not just a historic injustice, but a number of prominent and still active pillars of the British Establishment, like Jack Straw, David Miliband, Jeremy Hunt and many senior British judges, are utterly depraved and devoid of the basic feelings of humanity.
There is also a vitally important lesson to be learnt about the position of the British Crown and the utter myth that continuing British Imperialism is in any sense based on altruism towards its remaining colonies.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-chagos-islands-and-the-dark-soul-of-the-british-labour-party/5673439
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Venezuelan Constituent Assembly Approves Proceedings Continuation Against Guaido
On Monday, the Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice called on the Constituent Assembly to strip opposition leader Juan Guaido of parliamentary immunity.
Venezuelan Constituent Assembly has approved continuation of proceedings against the country's opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaidó.
On January 5 Guaido was elected the head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, which all other government branches have been refusing to recognize since 2016. Two days after the Venezuelan Supreme Court annulled his election, Guaidó declared himself the country's "interim president." Venezuelan President Maduro, who won the May election and was sworn in for his second presidential term on January 10, said that Guaidó's move was an attempt to stage a coup orchestrated by Washington.
Right after Guaidó proclaiming himself an "interim president", he was supported by the United States and some of its allies. China and Russia, among other states, expressed their support for constitutionally elected Maduro as the only legitimate president of Venezuela and called for dialogue.
https://sputniknews.com/latam/201904031073774870-venezuela-continue-guaido-judicial-process/
Duterte sees China as a menacing friend, ever since US failed to deliver promised arms
Manila seeks to maintain close ties with Beijing despite any potential tensions in the disputed South China Sea, President Duterte said, emphasizing that the Philippines and China have no issues that can’t be resolved politically.
“If I go to war my Navy will be crushed in a matter of minutes. If I wage a war with China, in seven minutes their missile will reach Manila,” Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday, defending his good relationship with Beijing, despite recent tensions over the presence of a large number of Chinese vessels off Thitu Island in the South China Sea.
Speaking in Malabon City the day after the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) kicked off their massive annual military exercise with the United States, Duterte stressed that Beijing also remains committed to friendly relations with Manila. The special bond, Duterte believes, flourished after China (as well as Russia) answered Manila’s calls to supply the country with armaments to fight Islamist insurgency, after Washington halted military shipments over ‘human rights’ concerns.
“China just wants to be friend with us. They gave us arms, ammunition. I went there because America failed to deliver what we ordered,” Duterte said. “It was only when I went there and talked to them and Russia that the Americans started to take notice.”
China, which constantly faces US pressure over its expanding military presence in the South China Sea, continues to focus on diplomacy rather than coercion when it comes to solving territorial disputes with the Philippines.
“You don’t have to worry about whether there would be any kind of outbreak of conflict or not,” Zhao Jianhua, the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines, stressed on Monday, after the Philippines lodged an official protest over the presence of hundreds of Chinese vessels in the disputed waterway in recent months. Furthermore, Beijing promised to investigate Manila’s complaint and offered to solve the issue through the bilateral consultation mechanism.
Washington, in the meantime, has been assuring Manila that it stands ready to “defend” the Philippines against China in the South China Sea. Just on Monday, the Pentagon expressed willingness to “increase interoperability” and to “support” the Philippines’ military modernization plans, in order to ensure a “free and open Indo-Pacific.”
https://www.rt.com/news/455401-duterte-china-friendship-conflict/
Ukraine, Syria and Venezuela: The Price the World Pays for A Failing Unipolar System
The chairman of the Russian Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Konstantin Kosachev, believes that everything that is happening in Ukraine, Syria and Venezuela is a result of the confrontation between the unipolar and multipolar world concepts.
“What happens in Ukraine, Syria or Venezuela is the price the world pays for the unipolar system,” Kosachev wrote on Facebook. The senator recalled the events in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya and stressed that the inability to influence what happened in those countries led to “an increase in the appetite of those who have imposed forced solutions to other countries.”
He also pointed out that some Western countries attribute a certain price to many political issues. “I think this is a fundamental difference between the principles and values on which the foreign policy of Russia and Western countries is based, whose heads tell us constantly about price.”
Kosachev explained that the issue of costs and benefits is central to the foreign policy of Western countries, investing in nations with their eyes on oil, market, territory, military base and other advantages.
“For the Russians, the price does not matter, as it was in the case of the Crimea, because there are people there, not territory, and in Venezuela or Syria, it is not a prospective profit either – international order, the confrontation between the concepts of the law of force and the force of law, the models of the unipolar world and the multipolar world.”
In this context, in commenting on possible US sanctions for Russia’s support for Venezuela, the Russian senator emphasized that “new sanctions are better than new victims.” In late March, US envoy to Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, threatened Moscow with measures if it continued to support the Venezuelan government.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the world was ruled by a unipolar order led by the United States. However, the rise of China and a resurgent Russia has seen a restoration of a multipolar world order that the United States is desperately trying to fight against.
https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/04/ukraine-syria-and-venezuela-the-price-the-world-pays-for-a-failing-unipolar-system/