CNN en WaPo eisen van Trump een escalatie van de spanningen met Rusland, ofwel: WOIII

Posted on April 3, 2019June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Gebaseerd
op leugens over Venezuela en haar president Maduro, eisen CNN en de
Washington Post (WaPo) actie van Trump tegen Rusland, daar dit land
nu ook bezig is om Maduro te ondersteunen tegen de terreur van de VS,
dat hoe dan ook een verandering van regime wil doorvoeren in
Venezuela…….

Deze 2
mediaorganen, die als het overgrote deel van de reguliere westerse
media, dag in dag uit leugens brengen over Venezuela en datzelfde de
laatste paar jaar deden met de leugenbrij die men Russiagate is gaan
noemen, willen dat de VS de andere nucleaire grootmacht Rusland
aanvalt, anders kan je niet concluderen gezien wat men op de sites van CNN en WaPo heeft durven schrijven……. Het maakt deze media (plus de rest van de reguliere media) en intussen een groot deel van de westerse politiek niet uit dat een
nucleaire oorlog niet is te winnen en dat de mens voor een enorm deel
zal omkomen in zo’n oorlog…..

Je zou
toch denken dat e.e.a. niet in het belang is van het publiek dat CNN
en WaPo bedienen, het is dan ook niet het publiek dat nog bediend
moet worden door de reguliere media, nee die media bedienen de
westerse neoliberale politiek en het grote bedrijfsleven, waar vooral
het militair-industrieel complex, de oliemaffia en de georganiseerde
misdadigersbende die men de financiële sector noemt, tot de grootste
klanten kunnen worden gerekend waarvoor die media lobbyen….

De
reguliere westerse media zouden onafhankelijk moeten rapporteren,
zeker als je ziet hoe de VS de wereld haar illegale oorlogen heeft
ingelogen met hulp van die media, de enorme berg bewijzen daarvoor liggen bij
wijze van spreken voor het oprapen…… Ondanks dat blijven die
media bezig met het brengen van fake news (nepnieuws) en
desinformatie, zoals in het al genoemde ‘Russiagate’, waarover de
alternatieve media al even lang hebben bericht als zijnde een smerige
truc van het verkiezingscampagne team van Hillary Clinton om haar
misdadig gedrag verborgen te houden (het stelen van de
voorverkiezingen van Bernie Sanders…)… Nogmaals dag in dag uit
hield men de leugen vol, totdat vorige week uit Muellers onderzoek bleek dat er
van het hele Russiagate verhaal niets overeind blijft…..

CNN en WaPo maken geen rectificaties voor al de leugens die men bracht over Russiagate, nee men durft bij deze mediaorganen te stellen dat het niet optreden van Trump tegen Rusland een teken is dat er connecties zijn tussen de Trump administratie en Rusland……. Werkelijk ongelofelijk en totaal ongeloofwaardig…..

Alternatieve
media waren voor een dergelijke zaak al lang door Facebook, Twitter
en YouTube op zwart gezet, maar niet de reguliere media, die zoals
gezegd een enorme berg fake news hebben gebracht en daarmee het volk
in de VS en de rest van het westen hebben gemanipuleerd…….

Media die op basis van leugens een oorlog eisen, de wereld anno 2019……..

Het
volgende uitstekende artikel komt van Caitlin Johnsone’s site:

CNN
And WaPo Demand That Trump Further Escalate Tensions With Russia

by Caitlin
Johnstone

CNN has
aired a segment in
which pundit Fareed Zakaria tells the network’s audience that the US
president has “been unwilling to confront Putin in any way on
any issue” and asks “will Venezuela be the moment when
Trump finally ends his appeasement?”

The
segment is a near-verbatim reading of Zakaria’s Washington
Post column from
a couple of days prior, so that’s two massive prongs through which
this false and pernicious narrative is being driven into mainstream
consciousness claiming that the Trump administration has been far too
dovish toward Moscow, rather than dangerously hawkish as
is actually the case.

Zakaria
begins his segment by describing the Trump administration’s
(completely
illegitimate)
efforts to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, then describing
Russian efforts to counter this agenda as an attempt to “taunt
the United States.” He then spends the rest of the segment
asking if Trump will be brave and patriotic enough to further
escalate tensions against a nuclear superpower. Zakaria concludes by
implying that if Trump fails to increase world-threatening nuclear
tensions to effect yet another US regime change intervention in yet
another oil-rich country, it will be because he is a Kremlin agent.

“The big question
for Washington is: Will it allow Moscow to make a mockery of another
U.S. red line?” Zakaria said. “The United States and Russia
have taken opposing, incompatible stands on this issue. And as with
Syria, there is a danger that, if Washington does not back its words
with deeds, a year from now, we will be watching the consolidation of
the Maduro regime, supported with Russian arms and money.”

Yes
Fareed, there is a real “danger” that if the Trump
administration you liberal pundits claim to oppose doesn’t act like
the reckless madman you claim he is and tempt hot war with a nuclear
superpower in order to effect regime change in a sovereign nation,
that regime change agenda will fail. Very, very dangerous
to not flirt
with nuclear war over US resource control agendas.

“The administration
has been tough on Russian involvement in Venezuela,” said
Zakaria. “Trump himself has even declared, ‘Russia has to get
out.’ But that is an unusual statement from Trump, who has almost
never criticized Putin and often sided with Russia on matters big and
small.”

Zakaria
goes on to cite the Obama administration’s ambassador to Moscow
Michael McFaul, who claimed in a Washington
Post article
that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims of being hawkish
toward Russia, “Even on small issues of little relevance to
American national interests, Trump sides with Putin.”

“I have never
alleged collusion or conspiracy between Russia and Trump, writing
merely that we should wait to see what evidence special counsel
Robert S. Mueller III presented,” Zakaria concludes, trying to
shelter himself from the ridicule that is being directed at the
debunked Russiagate conspiracy while simultaneously promoting it.
“But the real puzzle remains: Why has Trump been unwilling to
confront Putin in any way on any issue? And will Venezuela be the
moment when Trump finally ends his appeasement?”

War
obsessed CNN pushing Trump to destroy Venezuela to prove he’s not
Putin’s bitch.

My
god, this is pure war propaganda. https://t.co/RUQiRHvcYv

— Rania
Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) April
1, 2019

You
could not ask for a more perfect illustration of just how dangerous
and toxic this years-long Russiagate psyop has been. Even after the
Mueller investigation concludedwith
no mass arrests, no sealed indictments, no further indictments and no
evidence of Russian collusion, the mass media war propagandists are
attempting to use the Russia hysteria they’ve already manufactured
via the collusion narrative to manufacture demand for more
escalations against Russia. Fragmenting and undermining
Russia and shoving
it off the world stage has
been an agenda of opaque US government agencies since the fall
of the Soviet Union,
and steps have been taken into a new cold war to effect this
agenda for
more than five years now,
long before liberals in America spent any part of their day thinking
or caring about Vladimir Putin. Mass media outlets like CNN and WaPo
have been actively facilitating this agenda by promulgating these
false narratives, and they are playing an instrumental role in
convincing the US populace to keep their foot off the brake pedal in
an accelerating and world-threatening new cold war.

Trump
has already greatly escalated tensions with Russia by implementing a
Nuclear Posture Review with a much
more aggressive stance against Russia, withdrawing
from the INF treaty,
bombing and illegally occupying Syria, arming Ukraine, staging a coup
in Venezuela, and many,
many other hawkish actions taken
against the interests of Russia’s geostrategic and economic
interests. It is an indisputable fact that Trump has been more
aggressive toward Russia than any other president since the fall of
the Berlin wall. But the Russiagate narrative enables the war
propagandists to not only ignore these escalations and the danger
they pose to all life on earth, but to demand more and more of them.

Stephen
Cohen, one of the foremost experts on US-Russia relations in America,
made the following observation way back in April of 2017 in an
interview with Democracy
Now:

I
think this is the most dangerous moment in American-Russian
relations, at least since the Cuban missile crisis. And arguably,
it’s more dangerous, because it’s more complex. Therefore, we—and
then, meanwhile, we have in Washington these—and, in my judgment,
factless accusations that Trump has somehow been compromised by the
Kremlin. So, at this worst moment in American-Russian relations, we
have an American president who’s being politically crippled by the
worst imaginable—it’s unprecedented. Let’s stop and think. No
American president has ever been accused, essentially, of treason.
This is what we’re talking about here, or that his associates have
committed treason.

Imagine,
for example, John Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis. And for
the viewers who are not of a certain age, the Kennedy administration
was presented—and the evidence, by the way, was presented to us;
they showed us the surveillance photos. There was no doubt what the
Soviets had done, putting missile silos in Cuba. No evidence has been
presented today of anything. Imagine if Kennedy had been accused of
being a secret Soviet Kremlin agent. He would have been crippled. And
the only way he could have proved he wasn’t was to have launched a
war against the Soviet Union. And at that time, the option was
nuclear war.

To
be clear, we came
within a hair’s breadth of
total nuclear annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nobody
likes to think about how close we all came to losing literally
everything, and we didn’t find out exactly
how close we came until
years later, but armageddon came *this* close to happening. The
primary risk of nuclear war isn’t that one will be planned and
carried out in the hope of one side emerging victorious, it’s that
something can go cataclysmically wrong as a result of
miscommunication or misunderstanding in the midst of complex and
confusing escalating tensions. This almost happened during the Cuban
Missile Crisis.

Due
to his extensive knowledge of the dynamics in play, Cohen saw all
this coming long before anyone else, and accurately predicted the
waves of cold war escalations we’ve seen since.

Democratic
congresswoman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard recently
confirmed his prediction, tweeting,
“Short-sighted politicians and media pundits who’ve spent last
two years accusing Trump as a Putin puppet have brought us the
expensive new Cold War and arms race. How? Because Trump now does
everything he can to prove he’s not Putin’s puppet—even if it
brings us closer to nuclear war.”

This is how depraved the
mass media are. They’re willing to lull the populace into complacency
with the formation of a new cold war that threatens everyone they
love, even get them demanding direct confrontation, all to please
their plutocratic owners, their military-industrial complex sponsors,
and the intelligence agencies with which they are aligned. They’re
willing to risk getting us all killed for money and crude oil.

If
we’re going to begin bringing our society and ecosystem into health,
we’re going to have to find
a way to extricate the influence of
these toxic manipulators from the minds of the greater populace. As
long as they’re able to propagandize the majority into consenting to
even the most insane omnicidal agendas, we’ll never be able to use
our superior numbers against the malignant manipulations of the few
who would rule us. Whoever
controls the narrative controls the world,
and right now it’s the evil fingers that are pulling the strings of
empire lackeys like Fareed Zakaria.

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Saoedi-Arabië heeft oorlog nodig om grote tekorten te verdoezelen, de VS en GB helpen graag ‘een handje…’

Posted on November 13, 2017June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Er is al veel gezeur gepasseerd over de crisis in Saoedi-Arabië, waar vooraanstaande personen en leden van de enorme grote koninklijke familie werden vastgezet en van hun eigendommen zijn ontdaan.

Lullig genoeg durft men in het westen te stellen dat kroonprins Mohammed bin Salman het land wil hervormen, dat leidt men af aan het toestaan van autorijden door vrouwen*, wat men volgend jaar wil invoeren als ik me niet vergis.

Volgens Darius Shahtahmasebi is er echter meer aan de hand. In een artikel gaat hij eerst in op de invloed die Saoedi-Arabië uitoefent in andere islamitische landen (soennitisch), waar S-A de laatste 30 jaar miljarden heeft gestoken in de bouw van moskeeën en madrassa’s (‘koran scholen’). Niet vreemd dat in die moskeeën en madrassa’s het wahabisme wordt uitgedragen, het wahabisme dat door de Saoediërs wordt beleden…. Hiervoor voert Shahtahmasebi een Washington Post (WaPo) artikel aan van Fareed Zakaria.

Terecht wijst Shahtahmasebi op het financieren van terreur door Saoedi-Arabië, al is dat niet alleen de reden voor fiks wat islamterroristen om tekeer te gaan tegen anders gelovigen. De grootschalige barbaarse terreur die het westen o.l.v. de VS keer op keer aanricht in het Midden-Oosten, gecombineerd met een ‘strak onderwezen’ uitleg van de islam, zijn minstens, zo niet meer de oorzaak van ellende o.a. op de Europese straten…..

Onder andere volgens Shahtahmasebi verkeert S-A in grote financiële problemen en heeft het de grootste moeite om de met de VS (en Groot-Brittannië) gesloten wapenaankopen te kunnen betalen, daarbij gaat het om miljarden orders……. Dit zou dan ook de reden zijn voor het oppakken van hoogwaardigheidsbekleders en leden van de koninklijke familie, waarbij een gering aantal van hen zelfs werd vermoord……. Het verbeurd verklaren van eigendommen, waaronder miljarden aan banktegoeden, was dan ook de eerste opzet van het dictatoriale bewind in Riyad……

Bin Salman, de kwaadaardig kroonprins, is verder uit op oorlog tegen Iran en Hezbollah in Libanon, niet voor niets dat het fascistische apartheidsbewind in Israël goede banden onderhoudt met het Saoedische bewind. Oorlog leidt bovendien binnenlandse onvrede af van het rampzalige financiële beleid dat de Saoedische dictatuur heeft gevoerd en nog voert……. De agressie van S-A is vooral ingegeven door de haat tegen de andere vorm van islam, die Iran en Hezbollah aanhangen, het sjiisme…… Niet voor niets voert de Saoedische coalitie, gesteund door de VS (ook militair) en GB, een genocide uit op de sjiieten in buurland Jemen……**

Lees de visie van Shahtahmasebi, die hij redelijk heeft onderbouwd:

What
You’re Not Being Told About the Royal Crisis in Saudi Arabia

November
7, 2017 at 4:55 pm

Written
by Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — According
to the Washington
Post’s Fareed
Zakaria, in order to understand how traditionally secular Muslim
countries became hubs of radicalization in recent years, you need
just one example: Saudi Arabia. Zakaria explains:

“In
Southeast Asia, almost all observers whom I have spoken with believe
that there is another crucial cause [behind the ‘cancer’ of
Islamic extremism] – exported money and ideology from the Middle
East, chiefly Saudi Arabia. A Singaporean official told me, ‘Travel
around Asia and you will see so many new mosques and madrassas built
in the last 30 years that have had funding from the Gulf. They are
modern, clean, air-conditioned, well-equipped – and Wahhabi [Saudi
Arabia’s puritanical version of Islam].’ Recently, it was
reported that Saudi Arabia plans to contribute almost $1 billion to
build 560 mosques in Bangladesh. The Saudi government has denied
this, but sources in Bangladesh tell me there’s some truth to the
report.”
As The Week explained two
years ago, Saudi Arabia has spent billions of dollars “investing
heavily in building mosques, madrasas, schools, and Sunni cultural
centers across the Muslim world. Indian intelligence says that in
India alone, from 2011 to 2013, some 25,000 Saudi clerics arrived
bearing more than $250 million to build mosques and universities and
hold seminars.”

The Week made
it quite clear that these “institutions and clerics preach
the specifically Saudi version of Sunni Islam, the extreme
fundamentalist strain known as Wahhabism or Salafism.”

This
isn’t just some unfriendly version of Islam that may or may not be
linked to terror attacks aimed at Western countries – this is
the same
standard of
Islam ISIS and al-Qaeda adhere to. Remember this next time a Donald
Trump supporter accuses you of being an “apologist for Islam”
while their leader sells these puritanical extremists more
arms than they can afford to
buy in the first place.

Not
to mention that since early 2015, Saudi Arabia has been locked in a
brutal quagmire in neighboring Yemen, engaging
in war crimes and
using banned
munitions.

Despite
Saudi Arabia’s documented behavior, everything that moves right now
in the Middle East is somehow purported to be due to Iran’s
“malignant” activities. A missile that was launched into Saudi
Arabia’s capital city, which may
or may not have been intercepted,
was immediately and baselessly blamed on Iran. Saudi Arabia has been
called the event
an act of war (initiated
by Iran). The meltdown of Lebanon’s internal politics has also been
blamed on Iran, yet Saudi Arabia is clearly the one trying
to pull the strings to create internal strife in
the country.

In
actuality, the available
evidence that
has come to light in recent weeks is that it was Saudi Arabia that
actively coordinated an act of aggression on the sovereign nation of
Syria in 2013. It has also come to light that a leaked
cable,
written in Hebrew, allegedly shows Saudi-Israeli collusion to provoke
a war with Lebanon. It should be noted that the mainstream media and
the governments that run in tandem with the media have paid close to
zero attention to this, despite how damning the conclusion is.

So
what can one make of what is happening directly
inside Saudi Arabia even
as we speak?
One can only describe the recent developments as a crackdown that
makes Bashar al-Assad’s pale in comparison given very senior and
royal Saudi figures have already been killed and arrested in just
over a weekend of action. The media has advanced that
this is merely a crackdown by a reformist leader in the hopes of
putting Saudi Arabia on a path to modernity and creating some
domestic social and economic reforms. No one will be willing to admit
it, but the House of Saud is in trouble.

Don’t
listen to the Guardian as
it tries to James Bond-up Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince with
ludicrous titles such as “Saudi arrests show crown prince is a
risk-taker with a zeal for reform.”

According to Bruce
Riedel, director of the intelligence project at the Brookings
Institution, Saudi Arabia is more or less looking at an economic
recession. The country can barely
afford the arms deals it
agreed to with both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and its
expenditures on the illegal war in Yemen are starting to take their
toll. Perhaps this is the real reason the crackdown targeted three of
the Kingdom’s richest profiles, which
will result in the confiscation of
$33 billion for the Saudi Kingdom to use at its leisure. The country
is facing economic hardship, as the Washington
Post explains:

“The
International Monetary Fund said in July that the kingdom would run a
deficit of about 9.3 percent of gross domestic product this year.
Unemployment was running around 12.3 percent. It said that non-oil
growth was projected to pick up to 1.7 percent but that relatively
weak oil prices would keep overall GDP growth ‘close to zero.’”

Saudi
Arabia’s chickens are coming home to roost. The extremist nation
should know this more than anyone considering they have tried
their hand
at overthrowing multiple governments in the region.

Once
a crackdown as blatant as this one begins, there will be no turning
back for the Islamic Kingdom.

While
some may celebrate the fall of Saudi Arabia, the downside is that
desperate times will undoubtedly call for desperate measures in the
face of the Kingdom’s dying status as a regional player.

The
only viable option to maintain the illusion of domestic strength and
international prowess is to find a scapegoat, and the Saudis have had
the perfect scapegoat for years. Even as we speak, the war
rhetoric targeting the
Iranian government and its allies is beating ever louder as it
becomes clear that the oil-rich nation may have no other way of
distracting from its own inner turmoil than to launch further
aggression against Iran.

It
is already somewhat evident that Donald Trump has given
his full support for
this to happen — and that Trump’s sword-dancing meeting with
Saudi Arabia earlier this year set the scene for something far more
sinister than we could
have ever predicted.

As
the Washington
Post explained:

“Mohammed
Bin Salman’s domestic power grabs have often been accompanied by
major foreign policy moves. Many regional observers therefore fear
that Hariri’s resignation, announced in Riyadh with a sharply
anti-Iranian speech, could trigger a political crisis intended to end
with a military campaign against Hezbollah. Such a move would fit the
pattern of bold foreign policy initiatives launched in the
expectation of a rapid, politically popular victory. It would also
very likely follow the pattern of such initiatives rapidly collapsing
into a bloody, destabilizing quagmire.”

Op-ed
/ Creative
Commons / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

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* Het is te hopen voor andere verkeersdeelnemers dat vrouwen die autorijden, niet volkomen gesluierd hoeven rond te rijden:

** Vandaag werd bekend gemaakt, dat de Saoedische coalitie de blokkade van Jemen voor hulpgoederen heeft opgeheven, terwijl ook zonder die blokkade de Saoediërs (met hulp op zee van de VS) maar mondjesmaat hulpgoederen toelaten tot Jemen, een tactiek die is gekopieerd van Israël (de smerige blokkade van openluchtgevangenis Gazastrook….)

Zie ook: ‘Libanon: premier al-Hariri treedt af, ‘toevallig’ tijdens zijn bezoek aan Riyad……‘

en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië beschuldigt Houthi’s en Iran van raketbeschieting en noemt dit een oorlogsverklaring…………‘

en: ‘Jemen, de hel op aarde >> Saoedi-Arabië en de VS (plus hulp van GB) plegen een genocide‘

en: ‘Genocide op Houthi’s in Jemen: daders Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en de Arabische Emiraten………….‘

en: ‘Media Silent As Saudi Arabia Devastates Yemen Into Famine‘

‘Saoedi-Arabië en VS nu ook verantwoordelijk voor difterie in Jemen, aandacht van media alleen voor ‘Houthi raketten……’‘

en: ‘VS senator beschuldigt zijn ‘land’ van oorlogsmisdaden in Jemen…….‘

en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië heeft oorlog nodig om grote tekorten te verdoezelen, de VS en GB helpen graag ‘een handje…’‘

en: ‘Nikki Haley (VS ambassadeur in de VN) bedreigt sjiitisch Iran met militair ingrijpen…..‘

en: ‘Giro 555: honger en oorlog in Jemen: waarom worden Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en GB niet aan de paal genageld wegens enorme oorlogsmisdaden??‘

en: ‘Jemen: hongersnood veroorzaakt door Saoedi-Arabië en VS >> weg de aandacht van westerse reguliere media en politici………‘

en: ‘Mad dog Mattis stuurt nog meer VS militairen richting Jemen, zodat de hongersnood daar nog ‘meer vruchten’ kan afwerpen……‘