US Special Forces Command Issues New Guide For Overthrowing Foreign Governments

No kidding - this is not our headline, but Newsweek's: "US Special Forces School Publishes New Guide For Overthrowing Foreign Governments" - and as far as we can tell they are the only major mainstream outlet to have picked up on the fact that the US military is now essentially openly bragging on past and future capabilities to foster covert regime change operations.

The 250-page study entitled “Support to Resistance: Strategic Purpose and Effectiveness” was put out by the Joint Special Operations University under US Special Operations Command, which is the Army's official unified command center which overseas all joint covert and clandestine missions out of MacDill AFB, Florida.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-11/us-special-forces-command-issues-new-guide-overthrowing-foreign-governments

Guaido tells supporters he wants ‘direct relationship’ with Pentagon

Juan Guaido has asked his envoy in the US to meet with Pentagon officials to request “cooperation” in resolving Venezuela’s political crisis, the Washington-backed opposition leader said at a rally in Caracas after a failed coup.

"We have instructed our ambassador Carlos Vecchio to meet immediately … with the Southern Command and its admiral to establish a direct relationship," Guaido said at a rally in Caracas on Saturday as he apparently sought to raise the spirits of his supporters after his attempt to seize power failed last week. "We have said from the beginning that we will use all the resources at our disposal to build pressure."

The US Southern Command said in a tweet that it is “looking forward to discussing how we can support the future role” of those Venezuelan Navy commanders who would “make the right decision, put the Venezuelan people first & restore constitutional order” by siding with the US-backed self-proclaimed 'interim president'. SOUTHCOM also said that it “stands ready” to act as soon as it is “invited by Guaido and the legitimate government of Venezuela.”

https://www.rt.com/news/459089-guaido-direct-cooperation-us-pentagon/

Drugmaker Teva and others allegedly inflated prices over 1,000% and 44 states are now suing

U.S. states filed a lawsuit accusing Teva Pharmaceuticals USA of orchestrating a sweeping scheme with 19 other drug companies to inflate drug prices — sometimes by more than 1,000% — and stifle competition for generic drugs, state prosecutors said on Saturday.

Soaring drug prices from both branded and generic manufacturers have sparked outrage and investigations in the United States. The criticism has come from across the political spectrum, from President Donald Trump, a Republican, to progressive Democrats including U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running for president.

The 20 drug companies engaged in illegal conspiracies to divide up the market for drugs to avoid competing and, in some cases, conspired to either prevent prices from dropping or to raise them, according to the complaint by 44 U.S. states, filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut.

A representative of Teva USA, a unit of Israeli company Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, said it will fight the lawsuit.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/72620/drugmaker-teva-and-others-allegedly-inflated-prices-over-1000-and-44-states-are-now.html

Israeli company TEVA surprise!

The Zionist Idea Has Never Been More Terrifying than It Is Today

On this seventy-first annual commemoration of Palestine’s Jewish-state Nakba, let’s resolve not to continue to oversimplify things.

Whether you believe the American rabbi and historian Arthur Hertzberg’s assessment of the Zionist idea as “unprecedented … an essential dialogue between the Jew and the nations of the earth”, rather than a matter between Jews and God, or you believe the assessment of Ass’ad Razzouk, researcher and contributor to the PLO Research Center’s 1970 Arabic translation of Hertzberg’s book, that Zionism, at its heart, emerged naturally from Jewish religious sources and is thoroughly influenced and motivated by traditional Jewish religious ideas, both conscious and unconscious, the fact remains that there exists a complex picture of the relationship between Judaism and Zionism.

To Palestinians, the intersection between Judaism and Zionism has always been considered the most dangerous aspect of Israel’s existence as a Jewish state in Palestine today.

The focus today among the international activist community advocating for Palestine is on Zionism’s modern European political and ideological roots, a focus that represents Zionism as no different from any other form of European colonialism, as a settler-colonial movement foreign to the Middle East.

This “narrative”, if you will, has made great inroads in concentrating international attention, especially through the human rights formulations of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. But I believe, by itself, such a theoretical framework for the Palestinian decades-long struggle for justice and liberation is insufficient to effect change, not only because of the ongoing complicity of Western powers in the Nakba, but also because, by itself, this narrative cannot sufficiently move the hearts and minds of Israelis and Jews worldwide.

Only a resurgence of the progressive and developed principles of Reform Judaism, as expressed in a series of rabbinical conferences in German lands in the 1840s and in the U.S. in the second half of the 19th century, will have the necessary ideological power to defeat Zionism.

Upon the partitioning of Palestine and the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state, Herzl’s expectation that rabbis would devote their energies in the service of Zionism came to fruition; Zionism has long gained the great masses of religious Jews around the world and “redirected their love of Zion from its spiritual and longing sense and its traditional supplicatory character” to political Zionism, as Ass’ad Razzouk expressed it in his book al-Dawla wa-l-Din (Religion and the State).

https://www.globalresearch.ca/zionist-idea-more-terrifying-today/5677171

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The lawsuit filed on Friday is parallel to an action brought in December 2016 by the attorneys general of 45 states and the District of Columbia. That case was later expanded to include more than a dozen drugmakers.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/11/us-states-accuse-teva-and-other-drugmakers-of-colluding-to-inflate-prices-over-1000percent.html

Senior Israeli Officer Says Syrian Crews Completed Training On S-300 System, Vows To Destroy It

Syrian crews have completed their training on the advanced Russian S-300 long-range air defense system, Tomer Bar, a senior officer in the Israeli Air Force (IAF), claimed in a recent interview with the Maariv newspaper.

“The training course for Syrian staff to deal with the system, which lasted several months, has ended … The situation may require the training of other crews,” Bar said in the interview, that was released on May 9.

Russian delivered several S-300 batteries to the Syrian Arab Air Defense Forces (SyAADF) in the wake of the downing of the Il-20 spy plane last year. Moscow held Tel Aviv responsible for the incident, arguing that Israeli warplanes used the Il-20 as a cover during the September 17 airstrikes on Syria’s Lattakia.

In the interview, Bar said that the IAF will destroy any air-defense system, including S-300, that would pose a threat to its freedom of activity or to any of its missions over Syria.

“It is not correct to stop at the issue of whether the S-300 system is managed by the Syrians, or under the control of the Russians. In all cases, we have to believe that the system is ready to repel our operations tomorrow morning,” the Israeli officer said.

Bar’s threat indicates that Israel is willing to target the Syrian S-300 systems, even if they were manned by Russian advisors, or located near Russian bases. Such move could lead to a serious crisis between Moscow and Tel Aviv.

https://southfront.org/senior-israeli-officer-says-syrian-crews-completed-training-on-s-300-system-vows-to-destroy-it/