<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" > <channel> <title>World politics – Dangerous Intersection</title> <atom:link href="https://dangerousintersection.org/category/politics/world-politics/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org</link> <description>Human Animals at the Crossroads of Science, Religion, Media and Culture</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:01:24 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2851851</site> <item> <title>Basic Facts About USAID</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/12/19/basic-facts-about-usaid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=basic-facts-about-usaid&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=basic-facts-about-usaid</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/12/19/basic-facts-about-usaid/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:01:24 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[World politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Complacency]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ignorance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Secrecy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United States foreign policy]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=41373</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Today I post this on FB, where am constantly smacked like a pinata by people who are completely ignorant about how U.S. foreign policy works.</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">If you are not following key people on Twitter, you are living in abject ignorance. You are missing real facts and real conversation. You are inviting corporate media to take over your brain so that you think and mouth corporate propaganda. You might hate what I’ve written above because you think of yourself as intelligent, but intelligence depends on being well informed by people who speak freely, without censorship. You are not getting that with corporate media. It’s time to break out and learn important things that the giant U.S. propaganda machine is hiding from you. Case in point: USAID. You probably know nothing about USAID. You are probably completely ignorant about the damage we have done to dozens of other countries through USAID. We do this in the name of democracy, but that is complete bullshit. Mike Benz explains.</p> <p><a href="https://x.com/benz_pilled/status/1869791109716815931" target="_blank"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-41374" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-19-at-11.49.51 AM.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 12 19 at 11.49.51 AM" width="453" height="458" title="Basic Facts About USAID 1" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-19-at-11.49.51 AM.png 453w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-19-at-11.49.51 AM-297x300.png 297w" sizes="(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px"/></a>…</p>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/12/19/basic-facts-about-usaid/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41373</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson Discuss Ukraine and Propaganda</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/11/22/glenn-greenwald-and-tucker-carlson-discuss-ukraine-and-propaganda/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=glenn-greenwald-and-tucker-carlson-discuss-ukraine-and-propaganda&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=glenn-greenwald-and-tucker-carlson-discuss-ukraine-and-propaganda</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/11/22/glenn-greenwald-and-tucker-carlson-discuss-ukraine-and-propaganda/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:39:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Secrecy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Silence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spying]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Warmongering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World politics]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=41117</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>What follows is an excerpt from a Nov 20, 2024 <a href="https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-glenn-greenwald-2?utm_campaign=202411020_nov20dailybriefsubs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable&utm_content=glenngreenwald" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion between Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson.</a> This is a critically important discussion regarding recent developments in the Ukraine War and related U.S. Propaganda:</p> <p><a href="https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-glenn-greenwald-2?utm_campaign=202411020_nov20dailybriefsubs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable&utm_content=glenngreenwald" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-41118" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-11.34.51 AM.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 11 22 at 11.34.51 AM" width="396" height="266" title="Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson Discuss Ukraine and Propaganda 2" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-11.34.51 AM.png 1690w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-11.34.51 AM-300x202.png 300w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-11.34.51 AM-1024x688.png 1024w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-11.34.51 AM-768x516.png 768w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-11.34.51 AM-1536x1032.png 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px"/></a></p> <p>Glenn Greenwald [00:18:53] Tucker, there’s nobody I’m certain of this in the United States, just an average, ordinary American voter who believes that their life is affected in any way by the question of who rules various provinces in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine. Nobody thinks about Ukraine, let alone the Donbass, let alone eastern Ukraine. It’s an incredibly complex situation there in terms of the people’s allegiances, which are far closer to Moscow than they are to Kiev. The question of what that territory should be, should it be somehow autonomous, should it be used as a buffer against the West? The whole framework, as you well know, and as other people have pointed out, when Russia agreed to the reunification of Germany, which was obviously an extraordinary thing for the Russians to agree to, given the Russian history in the 20th century with respect to Germany, when they opened, the Berlin Wall fell and they allowed the eastern and the western parts of Germany to reunite and to become part of the West and become part of the EU. The only concession they extracted in exchange for that was with reunification. NATO’s now moving eastward, closer to our border in a country that has devastated our country twice in two world wars, invaded Russia …</p>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/11/22/glenn-greenwald-and-tucker-carlson-discuss-ukraine-and-propaganda/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41117</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Biden Advocates for Impeaching Biden</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/11/20/biden-advocates-for-impeaching-biden/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biden-advocates-for-impeaching-biden&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biden-advocates-for-impeaching-biden</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/11/20/biden-advocates-for-impeaching-biden/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:23:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United States foreign policy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World politics]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=41108</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1859265474095165541" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-41109" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-20-at-1.14.11 PM.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 11 20 at 1.14.11 PM" width="444" height="411" title="Biden Advocates for Impeaching Biden 3" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-20-at-1.14.11 PM.png 444w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-20-at-1.14.11 PM-300x278.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px"/></a></p> <p>Joe Biden in 2007: “I was chairman of the Judiciary Committee for 17 years, as a ranking member. I teach separation of powers and constitutes law. This is something I know. So I got together and brought a group of constitutional scholars together to write a piece that I’m going to deliver to the whole United States Senate, pointing out the President has no constitutional authority to take this nation to war against the country of 70 million people, unless we’re attacked or unless there is proof that we are about to be attacked. And if he does, if he does, I would move to impeach him. The house obviously has to do that, but I would lead an effort to impeach him. The reason for my doing–and I don’t say it lightly. I don’t say it lightly. I say it because they should understand that what they were threatening, what they were saying, what was adding up to be, what looked like to the rest of the world what we’re about to do would be the most disastrous thing that could be done at this moment in our history that I can think of.”…</p>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/11/20/biden-advocates-for-impeaching-biden/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41108</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Someone Please Explain These Developments on FISA and the Non-Stop Funding of Wars</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/23/someone-please-explain-these-development-on-fisa-and-the-non-stop-funding-of-wars/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=someone-please-explain-these-development-on-fisa-and-the-non-stop-funding-of-wars&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=someone-please-explain-these-development-on-fisa-and-the-non-stop-funding-of-wars</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/23/someone-please-explain-these-development-on-fisa-and-the-non-stop-funding-of-wars/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:15:50 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cancel Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corporatocracy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Orwellian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Secrecy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Silence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spying]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United States foreign policy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Warmongering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World politics]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=39763</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.racket.news/p/saturday-massacre-in-congress?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1042&post_id=143804578&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=8wdgq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-39764" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-23-at-5.33.10-PM.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 04 23 at 5.33.10 PM" width="503" height="310" title="Someone Please Explain These Developments on FISA and the Non-Stop Funding of Wars 4" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-23-at-5.33.10-PM.png 1132w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-23-at-5.33.10-PM-300x185.png 300w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-23-at-5.33.10-PM-1024x631.png 1024w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-23-at-5.33.10-PM-768x474.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px"/></a></p> <p>Matt Taibbi is flummoxed. So am I. Any curious person would be. Matt tries to explain what happened in he recent article: “<a href="https://www.racket.news/p/saturday-massacre-in-congress?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1042&post_id=143804578&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=8wdgq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Saturday Massacre in CongressOn a Saturday to mark and remember, congress funds two wars and hands the intelligence agencies sweeping new surveillance power, getting nothing in return</a>.”</p> <p>Please. Someone tell me who is moving the levers of power in DC and how? <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/saturday-massacre-in-congress?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1042&post_id=143804578&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=8wdgq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Taibbi offers this:</a></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">Mike Johnson is now <em>Winston Churchill. </em>All he had to do was give the NSA unlimited spying power, overrule constituents about funding two wars, and support allowing government to block a platform used by 60 million Americans.</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">In return he got: nothing. No immigration reform, no articulation of benchmarks or a plan for success in Ukraine, no accounting for past spending, no insistence on warrants to spy on Americans, no concession that FISA can only be reauthorized by Congress, no claw-back of a major new “Everybody is a Spy” surveillance ask. Johnson traded his starting lineup for the proverbial bag of balls.</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">History will look back at a moment below from April 12th, just before the House passed FISA, and wonder about a last comment from Johnson. The Speaker talks about being originally horrified by the “terrible abuses, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/adb47f54-b772-4099-b0c9-adf24ef64faa.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">hundreds of thousand</a>s of abuses” of FISA by the FBI.</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">But “then when I became Speaker, I went to the [secure briefing room] and got a confidential briefing” from intelligence officials, and heard “sort of the other perspective on that.” …</p>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/23/someone-please-explain-these-development-on-fisa-and-the-non-stop-funding-of-wars/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">39763</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Mike Benz Defines and Describes “The Blob”</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/21/mike-benz-defines-and-describes-the-blob/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mike-benz-defines-and-describes-the-blob&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mike-benz-defines-and-describes-the-blob</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/21/mike-benz-defines-and-describes-the-blob/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 02:22:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corporatocracy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election Integrity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United States foreign policy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World politics]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=39753</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Mike Benz often speaks of “the Blob.” To what is he referring? I created the following transcript <a href="https://twitter.com/mikebenzcyber/status/1780994844980072950?s=43&t=aZGZvucCijgkAtbapNBvqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Drew’s interview of Mike Benz</a>:</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/mikebenzcyber/status/1780994844980072950?s=43&t=aZGZvucCijgkAtbapNBvqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-39754" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-21-at-9.19.57 PM.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 04 21 at 9.19.57 PM" width="371" height="396" title="Mike Benz Defines and Describes "The Blob" 7" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-21-at-9.19.57 PM.png 502w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-21-at-9.19.57 PM-281x300.png 281w" sizes="(max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px"/></a></p> <blockquote><p>“The Blob” is actually a term from President Obama’s Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, who was opining on the difficulty within the White House of getting things done because they seem to be up against an impenetrable force, an a amorphous alien monster that was more powerful than even even the Obama White House. And so he sort of coined this phrase, out of exasperation, in a certain sense, but it’s been adopted in Washington. It refers to the foreign policy establishment and I’ll sketch out what that is, and it’s not just the foreign policy establishment within the government. It is the external stakeholders in the corporate and financial worlds who are the donor draftor class off of the government activity.</p> <p>So I’ll sketch that out a little bit here. The foreign policy establishment is the side of our government that faces outward rather than inward to manage the American empire, rather than the American homeland. We have government agencies that manage the American homeland, like Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Labor. They all face inward. They don’t do international business, so to speak with, you know, Ukraine or Moldova, or Sub Saharan Africa.</p> <p>We have three sides of our government–three departments or constellations of entities that face outward and those are the Pentagon, the State Department and </p></blockquote>…]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/21/mike-benz-defines-and-describes-the-blob/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">39753</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>