Morsi In Tehran: Strategic Realignment or A Safe Pair of Hands?/Foreign Meddling in Syria 5Several)
Enrique Ferro
Morsi In Tehran: Strategic Realignment or A Safe Pair of Hands?
By Dan Glazebrook
05 September, 2012
Countercurrents.org
Egypt’s new President Mohammed Morsi was in China last week, putting in an appearance at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Iran on the way home – all before ever having stepped foot in the US. Several commentators have speculated that his movements herald a strategic realignment for Egypt away from Washington and towards Tehran. The Washington Post hailed the trip as “a major foreign policy shift for the Arab world’s most populous nation, after decades of subservience to Washington”. This seems very unlikely, if not disingenuous, for a number of reasons.
Firstly, the importance of foreign visits and their chronology can easily be overstated. Every reactionary from Doha to Downing St goes to China to do business, and China does not demand political allegiance in return; this trip in itself, therefore, signifies nothing about Egypt’s foreign policy. Likewise with Tehran; the Turkish foreign minister and the Emir of Qatar are also attending the summit, yet no one seems to be suggesting that this signifies any “major foreign policy shift” on the part of either of those countries. Neither should it be forgotten that, although Morsi has yet to visit the US, he hosted a visit from Hillary Clinton within a fortnight of coming to power, and his first foreign visit as President was to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia – the West’s number one Arab friend.
Secondly, Morsi’s government looks set to be deepening, not reducing, his country’s economic dependence on the West through a $4.5bn IMF loan currently under negotiation. As has often been discussed in these pages, the IMF do not do free lunches; they demand their pound of flesh in the form of privatisation of industry, the abolition of tariffs and subsidies and other measures to make life easier for foreign capital (and harder for the poor). Not that Morsi’s organisation, the Muslim Brotherhood, have any particular objection to such policies – their economic strategy document al-Nahda (“the renaissance”) is a model of the type of extreme neo-liberalism the IMF so adores. They have already pledged to abolish the £10billion annual food and fuel subsidy that is currently a lifeline for the country’s poor, and are committed to the emasculation of the trade unions which were such a potent force in last year’s uprisings. Opposition to such measures will certainly be blunted if the Brotherhood implement their commitment to end the current reservation of 50% of seats in the Egyptian parliament for workers and farmers. This reform would pave the way to a parliament stacked with corporate-sponsored middle-class career politicians based on the Western model – complete, presumably, with similar levels of subservience to the global neoliberal agenda. Interestingly, the IMF loan currently being negotiated was rejected by Egypt’s military leaders last summer as being politically unwise – in other words, likely to provoke massive popular outrage. In economic terms, the elites of Egypt and the West are definitely singing from the same songsheet.
Finally, Morsi is clearly playing the role of figurehead for the latest incarnation of the West’s regime change strategy for Syria. Long before his outburst against Assad in Tehran this week, Morsi had nailed his colours to the mast, claiming that the Syrian government must “disappear from the scene” because “there is no room for talk about reform”. Now he is proposing a new Contact Group for Syria involving Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran. That this plan was not immediately dismissed by Washington and London – as similar suggestions had been in the past – is indication enough that it has their backing. Morsi’s spokesman Yasser Ali explained that "Part of the mission is in China, part of the mission is in Russia and part of the mission is in Iran". Presumably there will be some kind attempt to win Russian and Chinese acquiescence to some kind of NATO-imposed ‘no-fly zone’, as suggested this week by US general Martin Dempsey, before delivering an ultimatum to Tehran not to intervene.
Rather than a “strategic shift”, what is more likely to be happening is that Morsi is consciously allowing the idea of a “turn from Washington” to take root – with the backing of sections of the Western media – in order to gain credibility, allowing his Syria plan to be presented as an “independent regional initiative”, and thus undermine Russian and Chinese claims of Western imperialism.
We have been here before. Turkish President Erdogan gained huge prestige across the Arab world three years ago for the supposed ‘anti-Zionism’ he demonstrated walking out of Shimon Peres’ speech at the World Economic Forum, and his grandstanding over the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla the following year. Hw went on to use this prestige, however, to garner support for the West’s ongoing proxy war against Syria, the one Arab state that backs up its supportive words with material support for the Palestinian resistance. In so doing, he effectively placed himself at the vanguard of the Israeli-Western policy agenda for the region.
Morsi’s Egypt remains financially dependent on the US, and now also Saudi Arabia. The US famously provides $1.3billion military aid annually, whilst Saudi Arabia has been the only country to provide loans to Egypt – to the tune of $4billion – since last year’s uprising. Meanwhile, the country has been suffering under the double hammer blows of world recession and the loss of tourism. Egypt’s financial stability depends, in the short term at least, on keeping its two backers happy. In this light, Morsi’s comments this week that his commitment to Western-sponsored regime change in Syria was a “strategic necessity” is quite a candid admission. Morsi’s calculated posturing is an attempt to win credibility by appearing to distance himself from the US, whilst in reality working to win support for US goals both in Egypt – through the pursuance of an extreme neoliberal economic agenda – and in the wider region, by spearheading the latest incarnation of the West’s roadmap to Syrian regime change.
Dan Glazebrook is a political writer and journalist. He writes regularly on international relations and the use of state violence in British domestic and foreign policy.. He can be reached at danglaze...@yahoo.co.uk
US senators in Syria mission for Romney
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-senators-in-syria-mission-for-romney.aspx?pageID=238&nID=29417&NewsCatID=358Emine Kart ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News
“Their visit can be described as a fact-finding mission aimed at offering their first-hand information to their colleagues from the Republicans and especially to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who is known with his hawkish approach on Syria,” a Turkish diplomat told the Hürriyet Daily News yesterday.
The pair arrived in Turkey on Sept. 2 as part of a three-country regional tour, holding talks with Syrian activists in Istanbul. The two held talks in Baghdad yesterday and were set to proceed to Milan later in the day.
The two Republicans, described by the Turkish diplomat as “wise men,” visited Turkey in April and held talks with both President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan while also visiting a refugee camp in Hatay.
“Both in a personal capacity, and with their identities of being leading Republican figures, they at the time maintained that the Democrats were not responding appropriately to the humanitarian tragedy in Syria,” the diplomat said, adding that the pair had refrained from “earth-shaking or hawkish statements” and that they were not looking to score domestic political points.
Romney is known to be far more hawkish on the issue of Syria, with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, saying Sept. 2 that Romney was “ready to go to war in Syria and Iran.”
McCain and Lieberman, who are – according to the Turkish diplomat – aware of the need for Washington to develop closer cooperation with Syria’s neighbors, are expected to share their observation of the latest visit to Turkey with the Obama administration.
The two senators did not meet with any Turkish official due to Turkey’s busy domestic agenda. However, while in Istanbul, they conducted a telephone conversation with Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu, who is based at the ministry’s headquarters in Ankara, the Daily News learned.
A Western-based observer, meanwhile, said McCain and Lieberman might have chosen to meet with Syrian activists instead of members of the Syrian National Council (SNC) after seeing read-outs of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s meeting with a group of Syrian activists who avoided talking about their future career in the interests of only offering views on concrete matters. Clinton was reportedly extremely impressed by the activists’ attitude.
Al-Qaeda Leader Strikes Deal With U.S., Saudis To Send 5,000 Fighters to Syria
Yemeni Jihadist personally trained by Bin Laden
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, September 3, 2012
A militant who fought alongside Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and is now the leader of a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda in South Yemen has struck a deal with the United States and Saudi Arabia to send 5,000 Al-Qaeda fighters into Syria according to reports out of the Middle East.
Tariq al-Fadhli, jihadist leader of the Southern Yemen insurgency and a man personally trained by Bin Laden, has successfully negotiated with U.S. and Saudi officials to send 5,000 jihadist fighters via Turkey to aid Syrian rebels in the attempted overthrow of President Bashar Al-Assad, reports AlAlam. The report was also picked up by AdenAlghad.net.
In a newspaper interview, al-Fadhli revealed that he had agreed to transfer 5,000 militants from the southern Yemen cities of Zanzibar and Jaar “to Syria in order to fight in war being waged by armed groups, including the Al Qaeda-linked groups against the Syrian regime.”
The militants, who refer to themselves as “supporters of Shariah,” will join other bands of Al-Qaeda fighters who have swarmed into Syria from Libya, Iraq and Turkey with the aid of NATO powers and Gulf states. In a July 30 report, the London Guardian admitted that Al-Qaeda fighters were commanding Syrian rebels and teaching them how to build bombs.
The Council on Foreign Relations, America’s most influential foreign policy think tank and a close ally of the U.S. State Department, recently praised the presence of Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria, while the RAND Corporation reportedthat the terrorist group had been responsible for suicide attacks and car bombings that have caused more than 200 deaths and 1,000 injuries.
President Barack Obama recently signed a secret order confirming that he would use taxpayer money to support Syrian rebels with “non-lethal aid”. However, the New York Times admits that the CIA is helping steer heavy weaponry to the rebels on the Turkish border paid for by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Indicating his willingness to begin a new alliance with Saudi Arabia, which helped train him during his mujahideen years, Sheikh Fadhli announced “a regional deal for the transfer of al-Qaeda fighters from Yemeni territory to Turkey to the Syrian front, which explains the sudden withdrawal of gunmen from Abyan.”
Yemeni authorities were only able to restore order in Zanzibar and Jaar this past June after battles that killed a number of Al-Qaeda fighters.
AlAlam describes al-Fadhli as “one of the elders of the tribe of Abyan and former leader of al-Qaeda.” According to the New York Times, Yemen has denounced al-Fadhli as “one the country’s most dangerous terrorists.”
However, as observers have highlighted, the Yemeni government is suspected by many to be cultivating jihadi activity by tolerating the presence of Al-Qaeda within its borders.
The Nation’s Jeremy Scahil noted earlier this year that “Since the mujahideen war against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s and continuing after 9/11, Saleh has famously milked the threat of Al Qaeda and other militants to leverage counterterrorism funding and weapons from the United States and Saudi Arabia, to bolster his power within the country and to neutralize opponents.”
Al-Fadhli has attempted to distance himself from claims that the group he spearheads is affiliated with Al-Qaeda, in one You Tube video flying a U.S. flag over his compound while playing the national anthem. However, al-Fadhli fought with the Mujahideen alongside Osama Bin Laden against the Soviets in Afghanistan. At the very least, he has been a useful servant of U.S. geopolitical objectives for decades.
In 2009, leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Nasir Abdul Kareem al-Wahayshi (a.k.a. Abu Basir) released an audiotape expressing vehement support for the South Yemen insurgency led by al-Fadhli. Syrian jihad strategist Abu Musa’ab al-Suri also revealed in his book that al-Fadhli was “chosen and trained by Bin Laden to practice jihad in Yemen.”
The agreement to send militants from Yemen into Syria to aid the west’s hegemonic agenda to topple President Bashar Al-Assad again illustrates how Al-Qaeda is a geopolitical pawn habitually called upon by the military-industrial complex to achieve regime change in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Insurgents kill pro-government demonstrator in Damascus
Foreign-sponsored insurgents have killed a pro-government Syrian citizen
who had joined hundreds of people at a demonstration held on the
outskirts of Damascus to express support for President Bashar al-Assad’s
government. The terrorists gunned down the demonstrator, identified as
Samir Taboud, in the Yabroud neighborhood of Damascus on Tuesday as
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Syrian opposition, Western powers push for regime change in Syria
By Johannes Stern
5 September 2012
The Western powers and the pro-imperialist Syrian opposition are intensifying their campaign for regime change in Syria. On Monday the Syrian opposition reiterated its calls for military intervention in Syria, demanding more weapons to fight the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
In a joint news conference with the Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, Abdel Basset Sayda, the leader of the Syrian National Council (SNC), said: “I am going to be very clear, we are requesting military intervention in order to protect Syrian civilians who have been constantly murdered over the last year and a half. I have the duty of asking for weapons that will allow us to defend against the Syrian armor and weapons that are killing civilians all the time.”
Sayda added that the SNC is “seeking very quick action by the international community” and proposed that “the European Union should take the initiative and pressure Russia … so we can lay down some protected areas for refugees.”
The Syrian opposition wants the NATO powers to establish a no-fly zone over Syria. Syria’s allies Russia and China have so far vetoed resolutions in the Security Council that would set the stage for foreign intervention. While presented as a humanitarian intervention, enforcing a no-fly zone requires military action and would be the starting point of a Libyan-style bombing campaign to oust Assad and install a pro-Western regime in Syria.
Responding to Sayda, Garcia-Margallo pledged to “do all we can to provide humanitarian help to the Syrian people. … In Syria we are clearly talking about a change of the regime, Bashar cannot carry on a moment longer for humanitarian reasons.”
Margallo urged the Syrian opposition to unify as a precondition for regime change. He said that “the disappearance of al-Assad cannot be transformed into a power vacuum that could be used by factions.” He added that “Spain is worried about the unity of the democratic forces. … Our desire: that the democratic forces come together, including all the minorities except for those that opt for violence.”
While all the Western powers support regime change in Syria in principle, some are concerned that the splintered and unpopular Syrian opposition could not form an effective government.
At a meeting with Sayda and the Minister of State of the United Arab Emirates, Reem al-Hashimi, at the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin on Tuesday, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle stressed that a unified platform is urgently needed. He called on the opposition “to create as fast as possible the conditions for ... a transition government.”
The meeting in Berlin is part of a campaign to destroy the Assad regime and install a pro-Western stooge regime. The meeting was held in the framework of the “Economic Reconstruction and Development” working group under the umbrella of the “Friends of Syria group.”
The working group is developing plans to set up a free-market economy after Assad’s overthrow and plunder the country’s resources. Significantly, the former deputy oil and mineral wealth minister of Syria, Abdo Hussameddin, attended the meeting. Hussameddin was a member of Assad’s Baath party until he defected in March 2012 and joined the pro-imperialist opposition.
Germany has been working behind the scenes to unify the opposition and prepare for the post-Assad period. Last Thursday German and American think tanks—the US Institute of Peace (USIP) and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) – revealed that they have been meeting in secret with the Syrian opposition since January to prepare for the time after Assad.
According to a document published by “The Day After Project” group last Thursday, “the group included individuals associated with the Syrian National Council, the Local Coordination Committees, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, and other organized elements of the Syrian opposition” including “individuals with experience in the Free Syrian Army.”
Westerwelle also indicated that Berlin prefers a military intervention sanctioned by the UN Security Council. Asked about Turkish calls for a no-fly zone by the Frankfurter Rundschau on Tuesday, Westerwelle said that he wants “to act very deliberately.” He explained: “A no-fly zone must probably be enforced militarily, and there is no UN mandate for this at the moment.”
Westerwelle expressed his hope that Germany’s strategic partners Russia and China would make a “reappraisal of the situation,” saying: “I call upon China and Russia not to protect Assad any longer.”
Sayda took a more aggressive tone, warning that Assad’s allies could not expect anything under a post-Assad regime. “The Syrian people are not bound by any contract signed by the regime after the beginning of this revolution, or any sale of treasury bonds or purchase of weapons or contracts with any country,” he said.
Westerwelle made clear that the German government wants to see Assad’s fall: “There can be no doubt, the days of the regime are numbered: it has lost all legitimacy to represent the Syrian people, it is crumbling from inside. On the international level it is increasingly isolated. The overwhelming majority of countries reject the massive violation of human rights. There is no future for Bashar Assad in a new Syria.”
The preparations to oust Assad are far advanced. On Monday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius threatened military intervention in an interview on French radio.
Repeating previous warnings by US President Barack Obama about Syrian weapons of mass destruction, he said that if Syria uses chemical or biological weapons “our response … would be massive and blistering.” He stated that Western powers would be ready to “step in” immediately. Fabius added that France is “discussing this notably with our French and English partners.”
France is the former colonial power of Syria and has already bombed Damascus twice, in 1926 and 1945, to suppress mass anti-imperialist struggles and safeguard its interests in the Levant.
As long as intervention plans are not finalized, the imperialist powers continue to rely on their proxy forces inside Syria—the Turkish based Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Sunni extremist groups armed and financed by the Gulf monarchies—to destabilize the Assad regime.
In recent days, terrorist attacks with car bombs increased, mainly targeting the Christian and Druze minorities and members of the Sunni majority reluctant to join the opposition. On Monday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that a car bomb exploded in the mainly Christian and Druze Damascus suburb of Jaramana on Monday, killing at least five people.
Last week 27 people attending a funeral were killed by another bomb. The opposition justified the attack, claiming that the mourners were connected to the regime.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/sep2012/syri-s05.shtml
Article Reveals Syrian ‘Revolt’ Orchestrated by U.S. & UK
By Pete Papaherakles
A new article out on August 26 revealed that the United States and the UK are running the revolution in Syria out of a townhouse in a posh neighborhood in Istanbul. This news comes as another article by The New York Times details how the U.S. dominates global weapons sales, accounting for as much as 78% of the total trade in armaments.
The Syrian situation is presented as part of an “Arab Spring” rebellion. In truth, though, the turmoil is orchestrated by the West for its own geopolitical interests that include the hunt for natural resources like oil as well as making it safe for more Israeli land grabs.
In Istanbul, according to reports, dozens of Syrian dissidents have been brought to Turkey to be trained as leaders of the Assad opposition by the U.S. State Department’s Office of Syrian Opposition Support (OSOS) and Britain’s Foreign Office. They are given satellite communications and computers to act as a local “hub” linking rebels to the outside world.
The OSOS has officially set aside $25M to fund political opponents of Bashar al Assad, and the Foreign Office in the UK has handed out another £5M.
“There are groups inside and outside Syria beginning to plan for the day when Assad goes,” said the British consultant, “because he will go.”
Although this report reveals America and the UK are behind the Syrian insurgency, it does not address where the massive numbers of weapons the rebels use come from. The New York Times reported on August 26 that U.S. arms sales tripled in 2011 with massive sales to Middle Eastern countries. The volume of American weapons sales saw an “extraordinary increase,” the report said, “rising from $21.4B in 2010 to $66.3B in 2011, the largest single-year sales total in the history of U.S. arms exports.”
America is by far the biggest weapons exporter in the world, with 78% of the arms market. Russia is a distant second with only $4.8B in sales. The biggest purchaser by far was Saudi Arabia, with $33.4B. The Arab Emirates spent $4.5B, and Oman bought $1.4B worth of weapons. Hyped threats about an Iranian attack have brought huge profits for U.S. arms merchants. Western-backed Arab Spring “revolutions,” like the one in Syria, have also accounted for the rising demand for U.S. weapons.
There are other geopolitical interests at work in Syria that are eclipsed by the West’s alleged concerns about human rights and democracy. Syria has discovered in Qara one of the largest deposits of natural gas in the world. Russia, whose only military base in the Mediterranean is in Syria, is the world’s biggest natural gas producer and developer.
Control of energy resources is oftentimes the prime motivator for wars and “regime changes.” It was the main reason for the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, and it appears to play a major factor in the saber rattling by the West against Syria and especially Iran. Of course, the Zionist drive for the political conquest of the entire Middle East cannot be overstated.http://americanfreepress.net/?p=5890
SYRIA: Criminal Propagandists: Killing Civilians as Part of a “Humanitarian Mandate”
Claim “UN blames regime forces for Syria massacre ,” admits “neither activists’ claims nor the videos could be independently verified.”
Surely if nothing “activists” have so far said about latest so-called “massacre,” in Tremseh, Syria can be verified, it is impossible to “blame” anyone for the alleged deaths that are said to have occurred. Nevertheless, the Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, and many other mainstays of the West’s corporate-run media machine ran with titles such as, “UN blames regime forces for Syria massacre” (AP), “Syrian regime condemned for Tremseh massacre” (Reuters), “Syria crisis: Tremseh ‘massacre’” (Guardian), and “Syria unrest: Kofi Annan shocked at Tremseh ‘atrocities’” (BBC).
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Unarmed civilians? From the US State Department and outward through its
tentacles across the corporate media, the so-called “Free Syrian Army”
is continuously referred to interchangeably as “civilians” and
“activists.” In reality they are heavily armed, foreign-backed, and
include amongst their ranks a sizable proportion of foreign fighters –
betraying the very name Free “Syrian” Army. Even by “activist” accounts
however, the recent “massacre” in Tremseh, Syria appears to be in fact a
battle militants lost, with the vast majority of the deaths being armed
fighters, not civilians.
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And even below these deceitful titles, clearly implicating the
Syrian government and its security forces in what is portrayed as a
callous act of mass murder against defenseless civilians, each report
concedes, buried toward the end, that Tremseh was in fact the site of a
vicious battle between heavily armed NATO-backed “Free Syrian Army”
militants and the Syrian military. Under the deceitful headlines and
beyond the first several paragraphs purposefully loaded with
manipulative Goebbelsesque propaganda, what the Western corporate-media
is actually reporting is terrorist forces being defeated by the Syrian
military in violence growing SOLELY because the West continues to funnel cash, increasingly advanced arms, and even foreign fighters into the country.
BBC even went as far as literally admitting, after offering up another “Houla-style” narrative, that (emphasis added):
…later, activists told the AFP news agency that rebel fighters had attacked an army convoy, but were beaten back and many were killed in a counter-attack.
“At this stage, though we do not yet have the final count, the number of civilians killed by shelling is not more than seven,” said Jaafar, an activist from the anti-regime Sham News Network.
“The rest were members of the Free Syrian Army.”
So despite even the “activists” themselves admitting they attacked the Syrian military first and simply lost the subsequent battle which appears to have led back to their base of operations in Tremseh, the Western media decided to spin it as a calculated, mass murder of civilians, as the Guardian puts it, “timed” for “boosting morale of Assad’s armed supporters and scuppering attempts to find a political solution,” quoting a member of the overtly Western-backed “Syrian National Council” (SNC).
Perhaps the most ridiculous display put on however, was performed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who claimed, “accounts of the attack on the village of Tremseh, including the use of artillery, tanks and helicopters, provide indisputable evidence that the regime deliberately murdered innocent civilians.” Clinton, unhindered by the fact that she herself used the word “accounts” rather than “documented evidence,” claims that the incident, described by even the rebels as a pitched battle between Syrian troops and FSA militants, was a deliberate mass murdering of civilians.
Clinton is attempting to solicit sympathy from the public over the defeat of her funded, armed, and propped up front of sectarian extremists, the FSA. The FSA who consist of Libyan mercenaries (and here), extremists fresh back from killing US and British troops in Iraq now employing their bombing tactics against the people of Syria (and here), and members of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood who were approached as early as 2007 by the US, then under the Bush administration, to begin creating a violent front with which to overthrow the Syrian government.
These are militants who received Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) commander Abdul Hakim Behaj, and secured from him weapons, cash, and fighters despite to this very day, LIFG being listed by Hillary Clinton’s own US State Department, as a listed Foreign Terrorist Organization (#28) – thus making US funding and support for the FSA a violation of its own anti-terrorism laws.
The aim Clinton hopes to achieve is to stampede the latest US-British backed UN resolution through the Security Council, by shaming Russia and China for defending Syria regarding atrocities it never committed. The trick is to rush this propaganda ploy through before the facts of what actually occurred in Tremseh emerge.
A Threat to World Peace
There is indeed a grievous threat to world peace. It is not the Syrian security forces attempting to restore order for the vast majority of its people not engaged in violence and foreign-funded subversion. It is the West, particularly the governments and corporate-financier interests of the US, UK, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, along with their proxies not only employing a campaign of willful deceit to manipulate public perception, but demonstratively providing weapons, cash, and political support for terrorists they themselves have asked their populations for the last decade to shed their blood and treasure fighting in the so-called “War on Terror.”
As many others have repeatedly said, it is not that the Syrian people, or any other people around the world don’t deserve a better lot in life, it is the fact that this violence in Syrian unfolding now most definitely won’t lead to a better lot. It is a deception conducted by foreign powers seeking regional hegemony merely couched within rhetoric of “human rights,” “freedom,” and “democracy.” It is an orchestrated deception costing thousands of lives on both sides, and as seen in Libya, will leave the nation shattered, divided, destitute, and at the complete mercy of the West’s corporate-financier interests.
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A particularly relevant exhibit at the Washington D.C. Holocaust
Museum. President Obama, has used the museum as a backdrop to set the
stage for the continuation of Wall Street and London’s own crimes
against humanity. Students of history however,
will understand that Hitler’s Nazis weren’t pioneers of genocide and
global domination, but merely clumsy imitators inspired by what the
Anglo-Americans were already in the process of perfecting.
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Joseph Goebbels, a Nazi propagandist whose deception laid the
foundation of Adolf Hitler’s support, enabling him to carry out his
vastly destructive campaign of military aggression stretching out across
Europe, into Russia, and deep into North Africa and the Middle East, is
remembered as a criminal war propagandist – the embodiment of the
dangers of state propaganda. Others who assisted him were convicted
during the Nuremberg trials for war crimes, crimes against humanity,
crimes against peace, and conspiracy to wage aggressive war -many were
given lengthy jail terms, some some sentenced for life, some sentenced
to death.
What the Western media is doing, and above all, what US Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton is promoting, is without a doubt criminal – with a
historical precedent already set leveling serious charges and penalties
against such intolerable activities. Just because a government with the
perception of legitimacy claims something is true, that a war is
necessary, that its intentions are good – doesn’t mean that it is so –
for every brutal imperialist throughout history has in one way or
another attempted to dress its naked military aggression, subjugation,
and exploitation toward others with good intentions and just causes.
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“They have succeeded in dominating us more
through ignorance, than through force”.
Simon Bolivar
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed" - Steve Biko