Rellen op Capitol Hill: burgeroorlog in VS dichterbij dan de laatste 155 jaar en de roep om censuur klinkt harder dan ooit

Terwijl
de wereld hysterisch reageert op de gebeurtenissen die gisteren
plaatsvonden op Capital Hill, misbruiken meerdere politici en
reguliere mediaorganen deze om te pleiten voor censuur op het net en de
sociale media. Zo ook D66 kwaadaardigheid Sigrid Kaag die als was ze
al premier van Nederland de gebeurtenissen in Washington veroordeelde
en vanmorgen in bedekte termen op BNR na 8.00 u. pleitte voor censuur
toen ze stelde dat we op moeten passen voor het woordgebruik op de
sociale media……. Vergeet niet dat haar minister en partijcollega
Ollongren, de gesel van de Nederlandse huurders, meermaals naar
(echt) linkse mensen in ons land, dus niet van PvdA, GL of SP, heeft
gewezen als zijnde Russische trollen, die niet de kans zouden moeten hebben de mening van het publiek te beïnvloeden, zo waarschuwde deze oplichter en grootlobbyist voor het neoliberalisme en het bedrijfsleven ook voor manipulatie van verkiezingen in ons land door Russische trollen……

Zoals
gezegd misplaatste hysterie over de gebeurtenissen in Washington,
immers als je een beetje het nieuws in de gaten hebt gehouden al van
voor de presidentsverkiezingen en zeker daarna, heeft Trump meermaals
aangegeven dat hij zich het presidentschap niet af zou laten nemen
door gestoken en daarmee gestolen verkiezingen, geen woord Spaans in te ontdekken…..
Het voorgaande zeker als je weet dat zijn aanhangers voor een flink
deel lid zijn van bewapende milities, die maar een paar woorden nodig
hebben om in opstand te komen….. Neem de gewelddadige fascistische
groep die zich Proud Boys noemt en die Trump maande waakzaam te
zijn nadat de leden in Washington en elders geweld gebruikten tegen vreedzame
demonstranten van Black Lives Matter (BLM)…… Vooral de reguliere media moeten zich schamen als
ze zeggen totaal verrast te zijn door de gebeurtenissen van
gisteren……

Gisteravond
werd het Oog op Morgen op Radio1 verlengd vanwege de gebeurtenissen
en donderde bijna van m’n stoel toen ik een correspondent in de VS
hoorde zeggen dat hij niets begreep van de ontstane situatie daar
‘hij normaal CNN maar aan hoefde te zetten om te weten wat er
gebeurt in Washington…..’ Inderdaad dat is het niveau van de
zogenaamde journalistiek in ons land en ver daarbuiten…… Een
andere correspondent, volgens mij Lucas Waagmeester, correspondent
van de zogenaamde onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde NOS, ‘moest’ nog even melden dat er ook linkse groepen geweld gebruikten
in Washington…. Geen beeld dat dit bevestigt, maar dat interesseert Waagmeester blijkbaar niet…….

Nog
even terug naar Kaag, o.a. minister Buitenlandse Handel, zij stelde
bij BNR tevens dat ze Biden feliciteerde met zijn presidentschap en
hoopt zaken te kunnen doen met hem…. ha! ha! ha! ha! Kaag hoopt
gewoon dat Biden als de bliksem het TTIP akkoord tekent, zodat ze een
meerderheid van het Nederlandse volk dat tegen dit vrijhandelsverdrag is, een reuzenoor kan aannaaien, immers dit verdrag
is in het belang van de grote bedrijven en niet van de burgers….. Eén en ander door
de ISDS clausule in dit verdrag, daarmee zullen landen als Nederland niet
langer producten uit de VS kunnen weigeren als deze een gevaar zijn voor de
volksgezondheid, vergeet niet dat dit nu al is toegestaan: er worden
hier levensmiddelen als groente en fruit verkocht die behandeld zijn
met een gif dat hier al lang en breed is verboden…… ISDS staat voor een geheime rechtbank waar bedrijven landen kunnen aanklagen voor het weigeren van hun producten….. Bestaande handelsverdragen met zo’n rechtbank laten zien dat de bedrijven in 99% van de gevallen in het gelijk worden gesteld…. Geheime rechtbanken daar het publiek niet mag weten welk bedrijf zo smerig bezig is, immers daarop zou dat publiek kunnen besluiten die producten te boycotten……

‘Terug naar Washington’: Paul
Bril, die volgens eigen zeggen jaren in de VS heeft gewoond stelde vanmorgen op
BNR na 8.00 u. dat Capitol Hill gewijde grond is….. ha! ha! ha! ha! Ja ‘gewijde grond’ waar beslissing werden en worden genomen die miljoenen
mensen het leven hebben gekost en kosten, in de eerste plaats de levens van de
oorspronkelijke bevolking van het VS gebied in Noord-Amerika die met een genocide bijna werden
uitgeroeid…. ‘Gewijde grond……’

Onbegrijpelijk
dat e.e.a. heeft kunnen gebeuren in Washington zeker daar Trump
zoals gezegd, al in december zijn aanhang opriep om 6 januari naar
Washington te komen (de dag dat het congres Biden zou aanwijzen als
opvolger van hem)… Hoe is het mogelijk dat deze gewelddadige
demonstranten zelfs het Capitol konden binnendringen??? Heeft dit
wellicht te maken met politie en troepen van de Nationale Garde die
een machtsoverdracht onmogelijk willen maken?? Het ziet er niet
naar uit dat politie en leger pal achter Trump staan en het mogelijk
zouden maken dat Biden niet kan aantreden als president, maar je
weet maar nooit, pas de 20ste van deze maand is de officiële
machtsoverdracht…. Een burgeroorlog zou lullig genoeg een zegen
zijn voor een groot aantal landen waar de VS de beest uithangt, immers
er zullen dan echt veel troepen terug worden geroepen naar de VS,
zoals Trump beloofde bij zijn aantreden, maar waar weinig van
terecht is gekomen. Eén ding is zeker: een burgeroorlog in de VS dichterbij dan ooit sinds de laatste 155 jaar……..

Overigens dient nog opgemerkt worden dat in het hieronder opgenomen bericht van Caitlin Johnstone een video is opgenomen waarin te zien is hoe de politie de hekken opent voor de gewelddadige demonstranten……..

Misschien
wel de meest belachelijke uitspraak kwam van Boris Johnson, de
uiterst kwaadaardige Britse premier, deze stelde dat de
gebeurtenissen in Washington beschamend zijn, terwijl de VS staat
voor het brengen van democratie over de wereld…. ha! ha! ha! ha!
ha! ha! ha! Democratie brengen middels bommen en granaten, waarna een democratie
zelfs verder weg is dan ooit tevoren!! Niet voor niets dat de VS het
zo goed kan vinden met dictators, neem Saoedi-Arabië dat met hulp
van de VS een genocide uitvoert in Jemen en dat bijna alle moslim
terreurgroepen steunt, inclusief ISIS….. Iets waar de VS overigens volledig
aan meewerkt, zo beschermt de VS diverse terreurgroepen in het gebied
dat het in Syrië illegaal bezet houdt, een belangrijk gebied voor dat land omdat
er veel olie wordt gewonnen (het land moet heropgebouwd worden vanwege de door de VS georganiseerde oorlog, dus elke cent is nodig), naast Al Qaida en minder bekende
terreurgroepen zijn daar ook een groot aantal ISIS strijders die
(nogmaals) worden beschermd door de VS…….

George W. Bush stelde in een reactie dat het gebeuren in Washington thuishoort in een bananenrepubliek…. Een bananenrepubliek waarvoor o.a. hijzelf de fundamenten heeft gelegd!!

In
het volgende artikel merkt Caitlin Johnstone o.a. volkomen terecht op
dat de VS nu een koek van eigen deeg krijgt, ook al is de
machtsoverdracht bijna niet te voorkomen door Trump en zijn misdadige
administratie, die overigens deels tegen de gewelddadige
demonstranten is…… (heb de meeste foto’s en de video in het bericht niet overgenomen zie daarvoor het origineel op de site van Caitlin Johnstone)

MSM
Already Using Capitol Hill Riot To Call For More Internet Censorship

by Caitlin
Johnstone

The
United States received a very small
taste
of its own medicine

today as rioting Trump fanatics temporarily
forced
their way into the nation’s Capitol building
,
and now the whole nation is freaking out.

I
am being generous when I say that America was given a very small
taste of its own medicine; unlike the horrific coups and violent
uprisings the US routinely orchestrates in noncompliant nations
around the world, this one stood exactly zero chance of seizing
control of the government, and only
one
person died
.

I
am also being generous when I say the rioters “forced their way”
in; DC
chose
not to increase its police presence

in preparation for the protests despite knowing that they were
planned, and there’s
footage
of what appears to be cops actively letting them through a police
barricade. There was 
some
fighting

between police and protesters, but contrasted with the
militarized
squadron

which greeted Black Lives Matter demonstrators at the same building a
few months prior it’s fair to say the police response today was
relatively gentle.

the
police opened the fucking gates.
pic.twitter.com/HyDURXfoaB

katie
(@cevansavenger)
January
6, 2021

For
the record this was the US Capitol during the BLM Protestors
pic.twitter.com/hyqneRtqMD

We
have nothing to lose but our chains. Unionize. (@MartyOropeza)
January
6, 2021

Predictably,
this entirely American disruption has
blue-checkmarked
commentariat

shrieking
about
Vladimir Putin

on social media.

Of
course. Of course.
pic.twitter.com/00Xw0eC7Uw

Caitlin
Johnstone (@caitoz)
January
6, 2021

Future
historian: “As right-wing mobs were terrorizing the Capitol,
liberal truth-tellers kept their eyes on the real villain.”
#BlueAnon
pic.twitter.com/VNpLASbD1L

Aaron
Maté (@aaronjmate)
January
6, 2021

Just
as predictably, it’s also got them calling for the censorship of
social media.

The
New York Times

has published two new articles titled “
The
storming of Capitol Hill was organized on social media

and “
Violence
on Capitol Hill Is a Day of Reckoning for Social Media
“,
both arguing for more heavy-handed restrictions on speech from
Silicon Valley tech giants.

In
the former, NYT’s Sheera Frenkel writes “the violence Wednesday
was the result of online movements operating in closed social media
networks where people believed the claims of voter fraud and of the
election being stolen from Mr. Trump,” citing the expert
analysis of think tank spinmeister Renee DiResta of “
Tulsi
Gabbard is a Russian asset

fame. As usual no mention is made of DiResta’s 
involvement
in the New Knowledge scandal

in which a Russian interference “false flag” was staged for
an Alabama Senate race.

These
people are acting because they are convinced an election was stolen,”
DiResta said. “This is a demonstration of the very real-world
impact of echo chambers.”

This
has been a striking repudiation of the idea that there is an online
and an offline world and that what is said online is in some way kept
online,” DiResta adds.

The
storming of the capital hill was organized on social media. Time to
stop acting like things said online don’t translate into real-world
action.
https://t.co/tpEZZ2KfGZ

Sheera
Frenkel (@sheeraf)
January
6, 2021

This
narrative which seeds the idea that unregulated communication on the
internet will lead to violent uprisings is funny coming from Frankel,
who, as a Twitter follower
recently
observed
,
wrote
a
piece in 2018

condemning the Iranian government for restricting protesters’ social
media access during the demonstrations at that time.

“Social
media and messaging apps have become crucial to antigovernment
demonstrators around the world, as a means of both organizing and
delivering messages to other citizens,” Frankel wrote. “Not
surprisingly, restricting access to such technology has become as
important to government crackdowns as the physical presence of the
police.”

In
the
other article
,
co-authored by Frankel, Mike Isaac and Kate Conger, the message is
driven home even less subtly.

“As pro-Trump
protesters stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday and halted
the certification of Electoral College votes, the role of social
media companies such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube in spreading
misinformation and being a megaphone for Mr. Trump came under renewed
criticism,” reads the article, adding, “So when
violence broke out in Washington on Wednesday, it was, in the minds
of longtime critics, the day the chickens came home to roost for the
social media companies.”

The
article reports on the US president’s temporary suspension of social
media privileges for allegedly inciting violence with his posts, then
discusses the various kinds of disinformation and violent ideation
being circulated in Trump discussion forums.

“Those
alternative social media sites were rife with Trump supporters
organizing and communicating on Wednesday,” NYT tells us. “On
Parler, one trending hashtag was #stormthecapitol. Many Trump
supporters on the sites also appeared to believe a false rumor that
Antifa, a left-wing movement, was responsible for committing violence
at the protests.”

We
know the social media companies have been lackadaisical at best” at
stopping extremism from growing on their platforms, Jonathan
Greenblatt, director of the Anti-Defamation League, told NYT.
“Freedom of expression is not the freedom to incite violence. That
is not protected speech.”

Violence
on Capitol Hill Is a Day of Reckoning for Social Media
https://t.co/UqDuAWShfg

Tommy
Vietor (@TVietor08)
January
6, 2021

We
will likely see many more such articles in the coming days, arguing
for increased regulation of internet communication to prevent future
incidents like today.

In
and of itself this won’t sound terribly concerning to the average
citizen. Nothing wrong with taking steps to prevent people from
plotting violence and terrorism on social media, right?

But
how do you predict what protests are going to be “violent”?
How do you decide which protests and what political dissent need to
be censored and which ones should be permitted to communicate freely?
Do you just leave it up to Silicon Valley oligarchs to make the call?
Or do you have them consult with the government like
they’ve
been doing
?
Are either of these institutions you’d trust to regulate what
protests are worthy of being permitted to organize online?

Because
the actual power structures in the United States seem to be
interested in simply censoring the internet to eliminate political
dissent altogether.

In
2017 top officials from Facebook, Twitter and Google were
brought
before the Senate Judiciary Committee

and admonished to come up with policies that will “prevent the
fomenting of discord” in the United States.

Friendly
reminder that last year representatives of Google/Youtube, Facebook
and Twitter were instructed on the floor of the US Senate that it is
their responsibility to “quell information rebellions” so
as to “prevent the fomenting of discord.”
https://t.co/X4Hc56fH0k

Caitlin
Johnstone (@caitoz)
August
6, 2018

World
Socialist Website
reported
the following
 in
2017.

Democratic
Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii demanded, for her part, that the
companies adopt a “mission statement” expressing their commitment
“to prevent the fomenting of discord.”

The
most substantial portion of the testimony took place in the second
part of the hearing, during which most of the Senators had left and
two representatives of the US intelligence agencies testified before
a room of mostly empty chairs.

Clint
Watts, a former U.S. Army officer, former FBI agent, and member of
the Alliance for Securing Democracy, made the following apocalyptic
proclamation: “Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start
with words. America’s war with itself has already begun. We all
must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information
rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily
transform us into the Divided States of America.”

He
added, “Stopping the false information artillery barrage landing on
social media users comes only when those outlets distributing bogus
stories are silenced—silence the guns and the barrage will end.”

That
sounds an awful like government officials and operatives telling
social media corporations that it’s their job to censor communication
which could facilitate any kind of unrest, no matter how justified.

Do
you trust these monopolistic megacorporations to decide whether or
not people’s dissident speech is acceptable? I don’t.

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De hypocrisie van ‘liberale en linkse’ Democratische stemmers

Volgens
Caitlin Johnstone mag men zich inderdaad kwaad maken over het feit
dat Trump de eindzege van de verkiezingen op 4 november jl.
opeiste, echter de volledige reguliere (massa-) media en ‘politieke
klasse’ hebben elke legitimiteit verloren om ook nog maar een letter
van kritiek te leveren op het zich illegaal kronen door Trump, nadat
ze de VS coup in Venezuela hebben gesteund…… (in het schrijven
van Caitlin zit een fout, daar ze zegt dat deze groepen elke
legitimiteit hebben verloren om een leider te veroordelen die henzelf [‘themselves’] kroonde, moet uiteraard zichzelf zijn)

Verder
een mooi kort stuk waarin wordt aangegeven dat we van de Democraten
niets hoeven te verwachten als Biden de nieuwe president zou worden (het artikel van Caitlin is van 5 november jl. en toen was nog niet zeker of Biden werkelijk genoeg kiesmannen zou weten te bemachtigen*). Het voorgaande daar de
grote bedrijven de Biden campagne hebben gesteund en dat moet terugbetaald worden nu hij heeft gewonnen…. Zo kan het arme deel van de VS wel vergeten dat
Biden veel voor hen zal doen, daar dit tegen de belangen indruist van
de grote bedrijven, waar ik een paar groepen apart wil noemen: de
financiële sector, de farmaceutische sector en de wapenfabrikanten
(de laatste in de grootste zin van het woord, dus inclusief de
fabrikanten van rollend, varend en vliegend oorlogstuig….)

Oké
Biden zal iets meer doen voor het milieu en de VS weer binnen de
groep landen brengen, die de klimaatakkoorden van Parijs tekenden,
een verdrag waaruit de VS, ofwel klimaatscepticus Trump, zich op 4 november jl. officieel terugtrok…..
Echter vergeet daarbij niet dat dit waardeloze verdrag volkomen ontoereikend is
om de snelle klimaatverandering zelfs maar enigszins af te remmen, laat
staan dat het leugenachtige doel wordt gehaald, om de stijging van de
wereldtemperatuur tegen het eind van deze eeuw tot 1,5 graad Celsius te beperken, dat is schier
onmogelijk!!

Lees
het schrijven van Caitlin en bedenk dat de wereld een VS president
nodig heeft die echt radicaal de boel wil veranderen, niet alleen
voor het volk van de VS, maar voor de hele wereld, een president ook
die een eind maakt aan de oneindige illegale oorlogen van de VS en
die de meer dan 800 buitenlandse VS bases ontmantelt!! Denken dat
zo’n president uit de kringen van Democraten of Republikeinen zal
komen is als een fata morgana in de woestijn…….

Electoral
Musings: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

by Caitlin
Johnstone

It
is perfectly valid for the American public to express outrage over
Trump’s declaration of victory, but the entire American media and
political class forever lost all legitimacy to condemn a nation’s
leader from illegitimately crowning themselves by backing the
Venezuela coup.

Watching
Democrats’ inability to handily defeat a crazy reality TV host in two
elections is like seeing someone pick a fight with a six year-old
girl and getting their ass kicked, then coming back with a bunch of
their friends and watching them all get carried off on stretchers.

All
the hours of post-electoral analysis you’re about to hear are just
mental gymnastics to avoid confronting one very simple fact: that the
way the Democratic Party has been securing funding is incompatible
with securing votes. That’s the only correct answer to the question
of what went wrong for the Democrats this year. They court wealthy
donors who in exchange demand policies which hurt ordinary Americans.
Ignore all answers besides this one.

It’s
not because of inadequate outreach to this or that demographic. It’s
not because of racism. It’s not because of being too “woke”.
It’s not because of the Electoral College or gerrymandering. It’s
because Democratic donors advance interests which hurt the Democratic
base, which naturally makes the base disinclined to vote for them.

People
simply are not going to support a party which does not advance their
interests. If the Democratic Party were obtaining material benefits
for people, they would dominate the US government. But that would
mean taking things away from the donor class, so it’s been a no-go.
Meanwhile the donor class is never going to support a party which
acts against its interests. Getting enough votes and getting the
support of wealthy elites are therefore mutually exclusive endeavors.
You cannot have both. Dems will keep struggling with votes until they
figure this out.

It
is good that people are criticizing the Democrats’ garbage
performance against a cartoon character opponent. But let’s not kid
ourselves: as soon as they get Biden in the line is going to be
“We’re doing fine; nothing needs to change. Biden beat the
socialist and then beat Trump. Where’s brunch?”

Democrats
ignored the left and courted Republicans instead under the mistaken
belief that there are millions of Americans who want to coddle the
rich, kill the poor, shit on disadvantaged groups and destroy the
environment, but to do so with decency.

Maybe
there are a lot of liberals who are closet Trump voters. This dark,
secret passion they can never admit to publicly, like how all
conservatives secretly love gay sex.

Presidents
are just narrative management ops the US empire uses to explain to
the public why it is doing the things it was always going to do. Like
explaining death to children using puppets.

If
Biden somehow fails to get in, the elites who installed him as the
nominee are responsible for that loss. If Biden secures the election,
the elites who installed him are responsible for his administration’s
evil actions. You don’t get to control everything and then duck
responsibility for your outcomes.

Ignore
everyone who’s bitching about the Electoral College right now. They
only ever complain about it during actual elections and then forget
all about it until the next one.

Leftists
who voted Biden did it with the goal of hopefully later getting a
chance to wake America up. Liberals who voted Biden did it so they
can go back to sleep.

Bush
dropped more bombs than Clinton. Obama dropped more bombs than Bush.
Trump dropped more bombs than Obama. This trend has much less to do
with who’s president than with the nature of global metastatic
imperialism. And it ain’t changing with Biden.

The
idea that everything will be fine once Trump’s gone is more dangerous
than Trump.

The
more desperately aggressive and authoritarian the western empire
becomes, the more the blue checkmarked commentariat who protect it
are going to expose themselves for what they really are.

This
is all you’re ever seeing with those liberals and fauxgressives who
spend all their time on Twitter taking pot shots at anti-imperialists
and finger wagging at people for being too far left. They’re just
protecting an increasingly indefensible world order from its critics.

“Antifascists”
who support Biden should call themselves
Arguably-Slightly-Less-Fascist.

The
dumbest thing about this presidential race has been the narrative
that nations who will be targeted by the US no matter who wins have a
really strong preference for one of the candidates.

Beauty
is just a word for the experience of having truly seen something.

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* Hoewel er nu ook stemmen ‘uit onverdachte hoek opgaan’, dus geen Trump aanhangers, die stellen dat er inderdaad is geknoeid met de verkiezingen…….. (al lijkt het me sterk dat e.e.a. nog tot een andere uitslag zal leiden)

Zie ook: ‘Democratie is meer dan verkiezingen alleen: tijd dat politici dat in hun oren knopen

Met de winst van Biden is het fascisme in de VS bepaald niet weggestemd

Biden (de gekozen VS president) al bezig met aanstelling van door Republikeinse eisen geschikte ‘kabinetsleden’‘ 

Het electorale college in de VS, met ‘kiesmannen’, werd opgetuigd om de slavernij te laten voortbestaan’

VS militarisme marcheert door: geen discussie of media aandacht voor Washingtons oorlog tegen de wereld

VS moordmachine weer in handen van ‘volwassen en bekwame leiding’‘ 

Joe Biden president, echter de peperdure campagne was zo slecht dat de senaat in handen blijft van de Republikeinen……‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

En ter zijde: De EPA heeft toestemming gegeven om dicamba te herintroduceren op de VS markt, leuk vooruitzicht daar Biden TTIP zal tekenen

Bidens puppeteers verwijten Trump slap buitenlands optreden‘ 

Met de winst van Biden is het fascisme in de VS bepaald niet weggestemd

In het
volgende artikel van Pete Dolack (gepubliceerd op CounterPunch)
gaat hij in op ‘de grote winst’ van Biden* t.o.v. Trump en stelt
daarbij dat met de winst voor Biden het fascisme bepaald niet is weggestemd, me
dunkt een open deur inschoppen. Dolack vergeet voor het gemak dat
niet alleen de Republikeinen verantwoordelijk zijn voor het opleven
van het fascisme in de VS, de Democraten hebben daar maar al te
graag aan meegedaan met het haat- en angstzaaien tegen
respectievelijk voor diverse buitenlanden……

Ook de
militarisering van de politie is een zaak die niet alleen is voorbehouden aan de Republikeinen >> al onder Clinton en
later onder Obama werd e.e.a. steeds verder aangekleed (de macht van politie
en geheime diensten uitbreiden is immers één van de eerste zaken
die een fascistische dictator oude stijl als eerste ter hand neemt)

Eén van
de kenmerken van een fascistische staat is bovendien ongebreideld
nationalisme en dat was in de VS al vele decennia aanwezig voordat
WOII uitbrak en ja daaraan deden en doen de Democratische en
Republikeinse Partij maar wat graag aan mee……

Helemaal
vreemd vind ik de constatering van Dolack dat het nieuwe fascisme
niet gepaard gaat met paraderen van het leger als onder de nazi’s in
Duitsland en de fascisten in Italië en daarbij haalt hij de
fascistische regimes in Chili en Argentinië aan**,
echter die fascistische regimes spiegelden zich juist aan de nazi’s,
inclusief de militaire ‘ganzenpas…..’

Voorts
is de agressie van de VS tegen de vele buitenlanden waar deze
terreurentiteit een inval deed (illegale oorlogsvoering) volkomen in lijn met fascistische
regimes, keer op keer stelt men simpel als de VS een Washington niet
welgevallig buitenland binnenvalt, dit is om de VS te beschermen…..
Daarnaast kan de VS het altijd prima vinden met fascistische regimes,
sterker nog, de coup die vooraf gaat aan de installering van een
fascistische junta wordt voor het grootste deel voorbereid door de VS
en meestal uitgevoerd onder regie van de CIA….. Hoe fascistisch wil
je het hebben???

Het
indoctrineren van kinderen op school gaat o.a gepaard met belachelijke nationalistische rituelen, zoals het groeten van de vlag en het
stokstijf stilstaan als het vermaledijde volkslied is te horen (met de hand op het hart… ha! ha! ha!) van
deze op bloed van de oorspronkelijke volkeren gefundeerde vereniging
van terreurstaten……. Het voorgaande is ingevoerd om te laten zien dat de zogenaamde Amerikanen recht hebben op hun middels een enorme genocide gestolen land…… En ook het hersenspoelen van kinderen met
z.g. Amerikaanse waarden en normen, plus hun foute
geschiedenislessen, die geheel in tegenstelling staan tot de
werkelijkheid (zoals het verzwijgen van die genocide op de oorspronkelijke volkeren in de VS) is zonder meer een fascistische indoctrinatie!!

Toch
is er genoeg te leren uit het artikel van Dolack die ook ‘mooie
inzichten’ geeft, als je het voorgaande maar ‘in het achterhoofd
houdt’ (zo geeft Dolack in het kort weer wat de meest bekende 20ste eeuwse dictaturen betekenden voor de lonen en arbeidsvoorwaarden van arbeiders; terwijl de economieën prima draaiden, Ap):    

November
8, 2020

Don’t
Let Up: Fascism isn’t Dead Yet

by Pete
Dolack

Photograph
Source: Anthony Crider – CC BY 2.0

Even if Joe Biden had won the U.S.
presidency by the expected landslide, the threat of fascism would
remain. And not simply because Trumpites are not going away anytime
soon.

Donald Trump doesn’t have the
intelligence, competence or sufficient ruling-class backing to
actually become a fascist dictator. His desire to be one, however,
has been more than sufficient to necessitate the widest possible
movement against him and the social forces he will continue to
represent, and there is no doubt his authoritarian impulses would
have become still worse had he won a second term. What little
democracy is left in the United States’ capitalist formal democracy
would have been further reduced.

It might be better to
understand Trump as the Republican Party’s frankenstein —
the culmination of the Republican “Southern Strategy.” Richard
Nixon was an open racist who developed the strategy of sending dog
whistles to White racists; Ronald Reagan promoted “states’
rights,” well understood code words for supporting racially biased
policies; George H.W. Bush exploited racial stereotypes with his
Willie Horton campaign ads; George W. Bush’s presidency will be
remembered for his callous ignoring of New Orleans and its
African-American population in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina;
and the roster of Republicans hostile to civil rights is too long to
list. Moreover, the Republican Party, with very few exceptions, has
been an eager promoter and enabler of Trump’s virulent pro-big
business policies with most not even bothering to pretend to
challenge Trump’s racism and misogyny.

It was no surprise that a
billionaire con man whose business plan has long been to screw his
real estate empire’s working-class contractors and use every trick
imaginable to not pay taxes or his creditors was going to stick it to
working people.

The Trump administration has been
the worst U.S. presidency in history with an extraordinarily fierce
approach to class warfare. But let us consider what fascism is: At
its most basic level, fascism is a dictatorship established through
and maintained with terror on behalf of big business. It has a
social base, which provides the support and the terror squads, but
which is badly misled since the fascist dictatorship operates
decisively against the interest of its social base. Militarism,
extreme nationalism, the creation of enemies and scapegoats, and,
perhaps the most critical component, a rabid propaganda that
intentionally raises panic and hate while disguising its true nature
and intentions under the cover of a phony populism, are among the
necessary elements.

Despite varying national
characteristics that result in major differences in the appearances
of fascism, the class nature is consistent. Big business is
invariably the supporter of fascism, no matter what a fascist
movement’s rhetoric contains, and is invariably the beneficiary. We
often think of fascism in the classical 1930s form, of Nazis
goose-stepping or the street violence of Benito Mussolini’s
followers. But it took somewhat different forms later in the 20th
century, being instituted through military dictatorships in Chile and
Argentina. Any fascism that might arise in the U.S. would be wrapped
in right-wing populism and, given the particular social constructs
there, that populism would include demands to “return to the
Constitution” and “secure the borders.”

Formal democracy vs.
fascism

United Statesians have indeed
suffered through four years of militarism, extreme nationalism, the
creation of enemies and scapegoats, the imposition of
“constitutionalist” judges and demands to “secure” borders,
complete with open racism and misogyny. But the Trump administration
and its followers constitute a movement with the 
potential to
bring about a fascist dictatorship, not actual fascism. Should the
U.S. ruling class — industrialists and financiers — decide
they would no longer tolerate the country’s limited,
corporate-constrained variety of “democracy,” the militias and
assorted far right street gangs that “stand by” on Trump’s
command would be unleashed without constraint. And they would be
openly joined by police and security agencies in fomenting violence
rather than being tacitly supported as they are at present.

Nonetheless, fascism is the last
resort of any capitalist ruling class. Instituting a fascist
dictatorship is no easy decision even for the biggest industrialists,
bankers and landowners who might salivate over the potential profits.
For even if it is intended to benefit them, these business elites are
giving up some of their own freedom since they will not directly
control the dictatorship; it is a dictatorship 
for them,
not 
by them.
It is only under certain conditions that business elites resort to
fascism — some form of formal democratic government, under which
citizens “consent” to the ruling structure, is the preferred form
and much easier to maintain. Working people beginning to withdraw
their consent — beginning to seriously challenge the economic
status quo — is one “crisis” that can bring on fascism. An
inability to maintain or expand profits, as can occur during a steep
decline in the “business cycle,” or a structural crisis, is
another such “crisis.”

A summary of what happened under
the fascist regimes of the 20th century shows the class nature of
fascism clearly.

*In Germany, corporate profits more
than doubled in five years, while from Hitler’s ascension to power
on January 30, 1933, to the summer of 1935, wages dropped 25 to 40
percent. In 1935, a “labor passport” was instituted in which the
employer wrote reports on the holder. The employer could confiscate
the passport at will, without which employment could not be taken,
effectively making it impossible to change jobs. In 1938, it was
formally made illegal for a worker to change jobs.

*In Italy, from 1926 to 1934,
industrial wages were reduced at least 40 to 50 percent, while
agricultural wages were reduced 50 to 70 percent. Unemployment meant
the specter of starvation, and as a further whip to keep wages down,
children were regularly used in agricultural and factory work as
substitutes for fired adults. From 1935, many factory employees were
placed under direct military discipline; missing more than five days
of work was a penalty subject to nine years’ imprisonment. All
workers had to carry a “labor passport.”

*In Francisco Franco’s Spain,
real wages in 1949 were 50 percent of those in 1936. Rationing lasted
until 1952; the rations alone were insufficient to maintain human
existence. The historian Paul Preston, author of two books that
closely examine Franco and his regime, quoted Hitler aide Heinrich
Himmler as calling the Franco regime “more brutal in its treatment
of the Spanish working class than was the Third Reich in its dealings
with German workers.”

*In Augusto Pinochet’s Chile, the
majority of workers earned less in 1989 than in 1973 (after adjusting
for inflation). Labor’s share of the national income declined from
52 percent in 1970 to 31 percent in 1989. The minimum wage dropped
almost by half during the 1980s, and by the end of that decade,
Chile’s poverty rate reached 41 percent and the percentage of
Chileans without adequate housing was 40 percent, up from 27 percent
in 1972. One-third of the country’s workforce was unemployed by
1983.

*In Argentina, the main union
federation was abolished, strikes outlawed, prices raised, wages
tightly controlled and social programs cut. As a result, real wages
fell by 50 percent within a year. Tariffs were reduced deeply,
leaving the country wide open to imports and foreign speculation,
causing considerable local industry to shut. For the period 1978 to
1983, Argentina’s foreign debt increased to $43 billion from $8
billion, while the share of wages in national income fell to 22
percent from 43 percent.

Capitalists remain firmly in
control

Even with the dramatic rise in
unemployment and the trillions of dollars handed out to large
corporations since the start of the pandemic, the above disasters for
working people, imposed through unrestrained violence, is far beyond
what working people experienced under Trump.

Industrialists and financiers have
an iron grip on U.S. politics (witness the dreadful choice the two
corporate parties have just offered), and the overdue economic
downturn triggered by the pandemic has not hurt profits for most big
corporations, with bailouts provided for those who have
taken a hit to their bottom lines. Financiers and speculators are
doing quite well, and because Wall Street values stability,
financiers likely were more behind Joe Biden than Trump. As the
Democratic Party favors financiers (while the Republicans favor
industrialists), Wall Street will have no problem at all with the
incoming Biden administration. Some industrialists likely have tired
of Trump’s antics, or calculate that they have gotten all the
services they can reasonably expect from him; some among this
grouping probably don’t mind a change. And given Biden’s decades
of loyal service to corporate interests, in particular the banking
industry, little gnashing of teeth is likely to be found in corporate
boardrooms.

There was no need for U.S.
capitalists to institute a fascist dictatorship during the Trump
administration and there won’t be any need in the near future. So,
to circle back to the opening of this article, why should it be said
that the threat of fascism is undiminished with the ouster of Trump?
That is because as long as capitalism exists, the threat of fascism
exists.

The system is called capitalism
for a reason — it is the rule of capital. The owners of capital.
Those who have capital generally divide into two camps,
industrialists and financiers, as alluded to above. Industrialists
own or are the top managers of enterprises that produce tangible
goods and services, while financiers trade, buy and sell stocks,
bonds and other securities, continually inventing new instruments to
profit off virtually every aspect of commercial activity. The two
compete fiercely for the bigger half of the profits and thus have
sometimes conflicting interests, but there is considerable overlap
between the two sectors of capitalists. Crucially, their class
interests are completely aligned.

Employees are paid far less
than the value of what they produce; this is the source of
corporate profit. The bloated salaries and profits generated by
exploitation of employees is far greater than can be thrown into
spending on luxuries or used for business investment, so these
massive piles of money are diverted into financial speculation,
swelling an already bloated financial sector, which grabs large
amounts of this speculative money for itself. Top managers of
industrial firms in turn are paid largely in stock so that their
interests are “aligned” with that of finance capital, to use Wall
Street lingo.

Elections dont
decide who gets to rule

This is the ordinary and routine
working of capitalism. As long as people consent to this arrangement
— and thus consent to their ongoing exploitation — all is
well for industrialists and financiers. But what if consent begins to
be withdrawn? What if an economic downturn is so severe and sustained
that it becomes difficult to extract profits? This is when
capitalists begin to think about putting an end to formal democracy
and instituting authoritarian rule. At the most extreme, this
authoritarian rule can slide into fascism. Such a scenario is always
a possibility because capitalism is inherently unstable. Twenty years
into the 21st century, we’re already living through a third
economic downturn, each worse than the previous one.

United Statesians, for now, have
pushed back against a potential slide toward fascism by ousting
Trump, albeit only by a narrow margin. But the recent global trend is
unmistakable: Far right authoritarian ideologues remain in office in
countries around the world, among them Brazil, Turkey, Hungary,
Poland and the Philippines, and the U.S. has a history stretching
back to the 19th century of installing right-wing dictators and
overthrowing democratically elected governments. Capitalists have a
variety of economic tools at their disposal to maintain their rule,
the armed force of governments to enforce their rule, and a variety
of institutions and control of the mass media to reinforce ideologies
upholding their rule. Elections in capitalist countries decide who
gets to govern, not who gets to rule.

Formal democracy is the preferred
method of ruling, but if violence, ranging all the way to fascism, is
the only way to maintain their power, that is what industrialists and
financiers will insist their governments impose. Fascism can’t
arise or be raised to power without a social base, a badly confused
bloc that supplies support and the shock troops. This social base has
to be maleducated enough to believe the obvious lies spewed by the
leader and be enthused by the permission granted to openly display
their hatreds, be those racism, misogyny, nativism, homophobia or
anti-Semitism, permission wrapped in virulent nationalism. The
millions of fanatical Trump followers are a monument to the lack of
education in the U.S., a pervasive propaganda system and the product
of decades of relentless Republican Party ideology. There can be no
potential fascist movement without such a social base.

Given this fanatical support of
Trump despite the massive failures and undisguised class warfare of
his administration, both the followers and the shock troops will
remain when Trump soon leaves the White House. Will they be called on
in the future? If you don’t want the threat of fascism to hover in
the background, you’ll have to get rid of capitalism.

Pete Dolack writes
the Systemic
Disorder
 blog and has been an activist with several groups.
His first book, It’s
Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment
, is available
from Zero Books and he has completed the text for his second book,
What Do We Need Bosses For?

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*  Biden haalde weliswaar een grote winst, maar in het congres gaan de Democraten hoogstwaarschijnlijk terug in het aantal zetels voor het lager huis. (waardoor regeren zeer moeilijk zal worden, daar de senaat in handen zal blijven van de Republikeinen……)

**
De fascistische dictatuur in Chili begon op 11 september 1973 (de
eerste 9/11) en eindigde op 11 maart 1990, die in Argentinië begon
op 24 maart 1976 en eindigde 10 december 1983)

Zie ook: ‘Biden (de gekozen VS president) al bezig met aanstelling van door Republikeinse eisen geschikte ‘kabinetsleden’‘ 

Het electorale college in de VS, met ‘kiesmannen’, werd opgetuigd om de slavernij te laten voortbestaan’

VS militarisme marcheert door: geen discussie of media aandacht voor Washingtons oorlog tegen de wereld

VS moordmachine weer in handen van ‘volwassen en bekwame leiding’‘ 

Joe Biden president, echter de peperdure campagne was zo slecht dat de senaat in handen blijft van de Republikeinen……‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

En ter zijde: De EPA heeft toestemming gegeven om dicamba te herintroduceren op de VS markt, leuk vooruitzicht daar Biden TTIP zal tekenen

Bidens puppeteers verwijten Trump slap buitenlands optreden‘ 

VS moordmachine weer in handen van ‘volwassen en bekwame leiding’

Nu
het wel zeker is dat Biden de VS presidentsverkiezingen heeft
gewonnen, zullen de Democraten met geen letter meer reppen dat
Rusland de presidentsverkiezingen heeft gemanipuleerd, zoals de
Democraten en de regulere (massa-) media 4 jaar lang hebben geschreeuwd en dat gesteund door een groot deel van andere westerse politici en de media in die landen…….. Nog maar een paar
maanden geleden liet Kamala Harris, de nieuwe vicepresident van de
VS, op CNN weten dat Russische bemoeienis Biden de verkiezingen zou
kunnen kosten….. Zonder enig bewijs deed Harris haar uitlatingen,
maar zoals Aaron Maté in een Twitterbericht opmerkte: wie
wil de details nog kennen? Nu Biden heeft gewonnen zullen we met geen
letter meer horen over Russische manipulaties, zo vervolgde Maté…… (in
mijn woorden, maar daar komt het wel op neer)

CaitlinJohnstone, de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, stelt
dat elke Russische agent in de VS, elke trol in Sint Petersburg, elke
Russische hacker die het met z’n allen de klokrond hadden voorzien op
de zogenaamde democratie in de VS, ‘poef’ plotseling niet meer bestaan…… Russiagate werd in de lucht gehouden en dat in weerzin van alle bewijzen dat dit een opgeklopte leugen was…… Een leugen waarmee Hillary Clinton haar misadige handelen wilde verdoezelen >> het op een smerige (beter gezegd: misdadige) manier stelen van de voorverkiezingen in 2016 ten koste van Bernie Sanders…..)

Als
de Russen werkelijk de verkiezingen zouden hebben gemanipuleerd,
zoals het VS volk (en ook ons) 4 jaar lang werd voorgehouden door
politici en media en waar dit in de VS zelfs als een oorlogsdaad werd bestempeld,
vergelijkbaar met 9/11 en Pearl Harbor, zou het niet uit hebben moeten maken wie
de verkiezingen had gewonnen, een dergelijke grote en grove inmenging
in binnenlandse politiek van de VS (en andere landen*) zou een grote zaak blijven, echter nu Biden heeft gewonnen hoor
je zelfs geen piep meer die daarnaar verwijst, zo vervolgt Caitlin
volkomen terecht……

Wel
is Chinagate nu in opkomst en wacht maar, als Trump eindelijk zal
toegeven de verkiezingen te hebben verloren, zal hij China de schuld
geven, zoals een aantal van de Republikeinen nu al doen……
Benieuwd of Ollongren, de AIVD en de MIVD binnenkort ook komen
met China als nieuwe manipulator van de Nederlandse verkiezingen, al maken ze zichzelf dan nogmaals
volkomen belachelijk niet alleen omdat het een leugen is, maar vanwege een al eerder geuite beschuldiging aan het adres van Rusland dat de Nederlandse verkiezingen in maart volgend jaar al zou manipuleren…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Hoe gek moet je zijn om met
dergelijke onzin het volk te manipuleren, want dat is het, i.p.v. de
Russen die onze verkiezingen manipuleren, zijn het juist de roepers
van die valse boodschap die met hun leugens plus hun angst- en
haatzaaierij de boel manipuleren, iets waar de reguliere media hier maar al te graag
aan aan meedoen…….. (als Rusland
hier werkelijk de boel manipuleert, zouden het ook de Russen moeten zijn die van
de disfunctionerende VVD leugenaar en premier Rutte een held hebben
gemaakt [althans dat is hij volgens de zogenaamd onafhankelijke
media], ofwel Rutte is een Russische agent!! ha! ha! ha! ha!)

Met
het verlies van Trump wordt er nu gesteld dat de kinderen het Witte
Huis zullen verlaten en volwassenen die plek weer zullen innemen….
Caitlin is het eens met deze uitspraak en stelt (heerlijk
sarcastisch) dat het nu gelukkig volwassenen zullen zijn die oorlogen
beginnen tegen landen waar de VS niets te zoeken heeft….. Vergeet de woorden van Biden niet die Trump zwakte verweet in het
optreden tegen landen als Venezuela en Iran…… Biden heeft dan
ook beloofd dat hij een meer assertieve (lees: agressieve) buitenlandpolitiek zal voeren tegen de twee genoemde landen,
uiteraard weer in totaal andere bewoordingen dan ik hier gebruik…… W
aaruit
je kan concluderen dat een nog agressievere aanpak van Iran en Venezuela maar
één ding kan betekenen: weer twee illegale oorlogen van de VS tegen landen waar deze terreurentiteit, ofwel het Vierde Rijk, niets te zoeken heeft……..

Lees
het artikel van Caitlin en zie wie de volgende president van de VS
werkelijk is, een uiterst gevaarlijke man, die af en toe bijna
dementerend bezig is, een man die straks achter de grote knop van een
kernoorlog zit…….

US
Murder Machine Now Under Competent Management

by Caitlin
Johnstone

ha! ha! ha! Met die maskers (zonder afstand te houden en zelfs met vastpakken van handen) lijken de twee wel boeven die net succesvol een bank hebben beroofd.

Joe
Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the United States is
now
all
but certain
.

In
order to have any chance of successfully advancing his legal
narrative of electoral shenanigans President Trump would have to both
(A) really want to remain president and (B) have the backing of
sufficiently large power structures,
neither
of which

appear to be the case. When you’re a Republican president and
Murdoch
is actively fighting against you
,
it doesn’t matter what the facts are. The narrative war is lost.
Trump is done.


Aaron Maté



@aaronjmate

Two months ago, Kamala told CNN that Russian interference — undefined, of course, because who needs details? — could cost Biden the election. Since Biden won, expect us to now hear zilch about “Russian interference.” It’s outlived its partisan utility. 

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[Forrest
Gump voice:] And just like that, the Russians were gone.

Every
Kremlin agent hiding under every bed, every Saint Petersburg troll
lurking around every corner, every Russian hacker we’ve been told was
working around the clock to destroy America’s imaginary
democracy–poof! We’re not hearing a word about them anymore.

If
the Russians had really been trying to influence this election, as
we’ve been
told
for years they most definitely would
,
and if foreign election interference really is an act of war
comparable to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, as
we’ve
been told for years that it is
,
then it should be just as big a deal regardless of which candidate
win. Yet we’re not hearing a peep on the subject from the
blue-checkmarked commentariat who’ve been shrieking about the Russian
menace for four years.

We
have,
oh
so very predictably
,
been hearing a fair bit about China though.


Raheem Kassam



@RaheemKassam

The Chinese Communist Party is celebrating.

Because they interfered in this election and think they’ve won. https://twitter.com/chenweihua/status/1324686280366690307  

Chen Weihua (陈卫华)



@chenweihua

China state-affiliated media

I believe I won’t tweet nearly as much as in the past two years starting Jan 20 because I don’t have to reply to Trump and Pompeo’s daily slander on China. I don’t expect Biden and his future Secretary of State (whoever he/she is) to be that type of lowlife.

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Nick Adams



@NickAdamsinUSA

President Trump puts America first.

Joe Biden puts China first.

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Caitlin Johnstone 


@caitoz

If Biden Wins, Russiagate Will Magically Morph Into Chinagate

“Ohhh god. It’s happening again.”https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/if-biden-wins-russiagate-will-magically-morph-into-chinagate-bbb7484c58d6 

If Biden Wins, Russiagate Will Magically Morph Into ChinagateOhhh god. It’s happening again. 

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Liberals
are heaving a sigh of relief around the country, not because their
actual lives have gotten much worse as a result of Trump’s presidency
(
they
have not
),
but because it means at long last they’ll stop being psychologically
abused by the mass media who’ve been screaming hysterical nonsense in
their faces and making them feel crazy.

Bit
by bit cautious celebrations are beginning to erupt from coast to
coast (okay maybe just the coasts) as Biden’s January inauguration
becomes less of a possibility and more of a certainty. It’s not the
thunderous rejoicing it will be when they make it official, but
little expressions of glee are popping up everywhere. Kids are being
hugged. Parents are being called.
Bold
tie choices are being made
.


David Corn



@DavidCornDC

When Trump was elected, I decided I’d only wear black ties. It was a personal and private act of mourning. I didn’t say anything about it. And almost no one noticed over these past four years.

Today….

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“At
long last there will be adults in the White House again!” goes
the common refrain.

And
I couldn’t agree more! I think we’re all breathing a lot easier
knowing that the US government will now be run by grown-ups who
murder people instead of emotionally stunted children who murder
people. We’ll all sleep so much better knowing that there are adults
in the room who murder people, and that the insatiable US murder
monster is under competent management once more.

And
make no mistake, murdering people
is
what the Biden administration will be doing
.

This
will in fact be the only president in recent memory who actually
campaigned on being 
more
interventionist and attacking his opponent for not being hawkish
enough.
Trump
ran
on a platform

of scaling back US interventionism, as did
Obama,
as did
even
Bush
,
but Biden
did
the opposite
.
He is beginning from a much more hawkish position than he
predecessors right off the bat.

Add
to this the
bloodthirsty
ghouls who appear likely to wind up in Biden’s cabinet

and the
hawkish
rhetoric

of his foreign policy advisors, and you’re likely looking at a
president who will serve as an empty vessel for whatever the US war
machine wants to pour into him. Mass murders are being planned, and
it’s going to get ugly.


Caitlin Johnstone 


@caitoz

Vote Biden, for a Competent Imperialism. https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1318180765000060928 


Ben Rhodes



@brhodes

The Trump-Rubio doctrine of Incompetent Imperialism is a strong wind in the sails of the Latin American left. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/19/bolivia-election-exit-polls-suggest-thumping-win-evo-morales-party-luis-arce 

237

It’s
odd, you know. US political leaders are so revered by the media
and so normalized on our screens that it’s easy to forget how many
children they’ve killed. You see the doddering old man eating ice
cream enough times and it becomes difficult to marry him in your mind
with the butcher who
played
a crucial leading role

in advancing the Iraq invasion which killed a million people and
ushered in an unprecedented new age of military expansionism.

But
the important thing is that he won’t be making rude tweets and
bungling
coup attempts

in the Global South. He will be a Competent Grown-Up, like the daddy
we always wanted. He will pilot the insatiable death machine with
grace and decency, right into the homes of the world’s most
vulnerable.

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* De
Russen zouden immers, om er een paar te noemen, ook de Brexit, het Oekraïne referendum in ons
land en het onafhankelijkheidsreferendum in Catalonië hebben gemanipuleerd….. Als je alles
op een rijtje zet en daarbij voor wat Nederland betreft de woorden
van D66 minister en volksoplichter Ollongren, de AIVD en de MIVD weer leest en
beluistert, moet je oppassen niet in een lachstuip van een uur te
belanden, wat een immense flauwe kul!!

Zie ook: ‘Joe Biden president, echter de peperdure campagne was zo slecht dat de senaat in handen blijft van de Republikeinen…….

Joe Biden de nieuwe president van de VS

EU
politici stil na Trumps claim dat hij de verkiezingen heeft gewonnen,
zoals ze ook stil waren toen hij dreigde maatregelen te nemen als hij de
verkiezingen zou verliezen

Jemen: Biden zal als president de genocide niet stoppen‘ 

Democraten hebben de wereld ‘geshockeerd’ met hun waardeloze campagne tegen Trump

Joe Biden (Democratisch presidentskandidaat): Rusland trekt bondgenootschappen uit elkaar

Trump of Biden, een amper bestaand verschil‘ 

Kamala
Harris, vicepresidentskandidaat voor de Democraten, geeft aan dat China
ook onder Biden te maken zal hebben met een koude oorlog
‘ 
 

De VS is een fascistische (politie-) staat

‘Working-Class Joe’ (Biden) gevloerd door Bernie Sanders

10 jaar geleden werden de Irak oorlogs-logboeken van de VS vrijgegeven, voor de oorlogsmisdaden daarin vermeld moeten niet de daders Bush en Blair boeten, maar journalist Julian Assange

Vorige week zaterdag was het precies 10 jaar geleden dat Wikileaks de door
Chelsea Manning gelekte documenten publiceerde over de illegale oorlog van de VS
tegen Irak. Op die dag kon de wereld zien hoe smerig en
groot de VS terreur was (en deels nog is) die op het volk van Irak werd
uitgeoefend…….. Een oorlog die in 2003 begon en in feite nog
steeds gaande is, vandaar ook dat er niet 1 miljoen mensen zijn
omgekomen door die terreur (zoals in het artikel hieronder wordt gesteld), maar eerder 2 miljoen Irakezen het leven
hebben gelaten……. Ofwel die mensen zijn vermoord door
de 2 grootste verantwoordelijken destijds: VS president George W. Bush en de Briste premier Tony Blair en dat met hulp van een
aantal andere NAVO-lidstaten, waaronder Nederland…..

Oorlogsmisdaden,
misdaden tegen de menselijkheid en grove mensenrechtenschendingen
begaan in Irak staan sinds die tijd tot ieders beschikking. Totaal onbegrijpelijk dan ook dat de reguliere westerse (massa-) media niet
de 2 grootste verantwoordelijke terroristen in deze, George W. Bush
en Tony Blair aan de spreekwoordelijke paal hebben genageld, maar
klokkenluider Chelsea Manning en de boodschapper:
onderzoeksjournalist Julian Assange…… Alsof die 2
verantwoordelijk zijn voor dat enorme aantal doden en niet de 2
eerder genoemde bloedige rotschoften……

De
reguliere westerse media hebben in deze de VS gevolgd, waar men
keihard loog dat Assange en Manning mensen in gevaar hebben gebracht
met hun openbaringen, terwijl diezelfde VS een enorm dossier aan
leugens heeft opgebouwd, zoals de leugen dat Irak
massavernietigingswapens zou hebben en daar de VS en Groot-Brittannië
mee zou willen aanvallen (als je dat weer in ogenschouw neemt snap je
zelfs niet dat er ook maar één persoon met een goed stel werkende
hersenen deze baarlijke en meer dan belachelijke nonsens heeft
geloofd…)…. Ook deze leugen werd door de westerse media uit en te
na verdedigd, zelfs de NRC bij monde van de ‘beste journalist van de
20ste eeuw’, Henk Hofland droeg deze leugen ‘met passie’ uit……
Ondanks dat iedereen al jaren weet dat e.e.a een enorme leugen is, heeft geen
mediaorgaan een rectificatie geplaatst voor de enorme diarree aan
leugens die men voorafgaand aan en tijdens die oorlog heeft gebracht (en nog brengt),
integendeel deze leugen wordt verzwegen en men doet in die media nog steeds of die oorlog
gerechtvaardigd en onvermijdelijk was….. (de Nederlandse verantwoordelijke CDA oorlogsmisdadiger de Hoop Scheffer mag zelfs les geven aan een universiteit….)

Met
de openbaringen in Wikileaks is zelfs niet 1 persoon in gevaar
gebracht en toch worden Manning en Assange gedemoniseerd in die
westerse media, waar men Assange zelfs durft uit te maken voor
charlatan……. Als er 1 journalist is die de afgelopen 10 jaar de
ene na de andere persprijs zou hebben moeten ontvangen is het Assange
wel!!

Voor
het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) worden vooral figuren uit Afrika
veroordeeld, terwijl de grootste terreurstaten die de vreselijkste
misdaden hebben begaan, de VS en haar trouwe oorlogshond in de vorm
van NAVO-lidstaten met rust worden gelaten, terwijl die landen deze
eeuw al 2,5 miljoen mensen over de kling hebben gejaagd…… (al zou
het ICC nu wel bezig zijn met onderzoek naar oorlogsmisdaden door de
VS begaan in Afghanistan)

Lees
het relaas van Tommy Sheridan, waarin hij o.a. over de vader van
Julian Assange spreekt die onvermoeid de wereld rondreist om de
waarheid over zijn zoon te vertellen. De westerse media moeten zich
doodschamen dat ze een zo voortreffelijke collega hebben
gedemoniseerd en dat alweer op basis van leugens…… Terecht merkt
Sheridan dan ook op, dat er geen onafhankelijke media zijn, ze zijn
in handen van plutocraten die geen belang hebben bij de waarheid als
het om mensenrechten, misdaden tegen de menselijkheid en
oorlogsmisdaden gaat……. (behalve als deze worden begaan door
staten die men niet mag, waar ook daarover in de dagelijkse
‘werkelijkheid’ keihard wordt gelogen zie de berichtgeving over Iran,
Rusland en China…..) Wat betreft politici die deze westerse terreur
steunden en steunen: deze zouden ook vervolgd moeten worden door het ICC, immers
zij zijn mede verantwoordelijk voor de enorme ellende die het westen
elders heeft aangericht en aanricht……… Echter je snapt het al: dat zal niet gebeuren, zelfs niet als pinksteren, pasen en de kerst op één dag vallen!!

Het volgende artikel van Tommy Sheridan werd eerder geplaatst op Sputnik en werd door mij overgenomen van Wikileaks: (onder het artikel kan je klikken voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’, dit neemt wel enkele tientallen seconden in beslag):

On
The 10 Anniversary Of Iraq War Logs: Bush & Blair Should be in
Prison Not Assang

By
Tommy Sheridan

US President George W. Bush (R) and British Prime Minister Tony Blair attend a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington November 12, 2004.

(Blair
is katholiek geworden, zo kon hij via de biecht absolutie krijgen voor
zijn vreselijke oorlogsmisdaden en leugens die tot die misaden hebben
geleid……)

October 24, 2020
Information
Clearing House

– Ten years ago today the courage of two individuals changed the way
millions view the world. A US soldier disgusted at the communications
they were reading about their country’s conduct after illegally
invading and occupying the sovereign nation of Iraq in 2003 leaked
thousands of communications confirming US war crimes to Wikileaks.

The
site had been set up in 2006 to precisely shine a light on the dark
manoeuvres of powerful nations. Chelsea Manning risked imprisonment
by exposing war crimes. Julian Assange risked imprisonment by
publishing those leaked files and exposing the lies and heinous
crimes against humanity committed by the United States government and
military.

Yesterday I had the
honour and privilege of interviewing
the father of Julian Assange
in Edinburgh for Sputnik radio on
the eve of this tenth anniversary of the release of the Iraq war
logs. John Shipton was articulate and passionate in defence of his
son who has been in enforced incarceration within the Ecuadorian
embassy for seven years and is now locked up in the maximum-security
prison HMP Belmarsh while awaiting the outcome of a rigged
extradition show trial that was conducted in London’s High Court
over five weeks last month.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's father John Shipton is seen outside the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court ahead of a hearing to decide whether Assange should be extradited to the United States, in London, Britain September 8, 2020. © REUTERS / HENRY NICHOLLS
WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange’s father John Shipton is seen outside the Old
Bailey, the Central Criminal Court ahead of a hearing to decide whether
Assange should be extradited to the United States, in London, Britain
September 8, 2020.
 

John sat through that
travesty of justice and witnessed his son’s incredible stoicism and
bravery as a cacophony of manufactured lies was presented as the US
State case to justify forcibly transferring Julian to America to face
charges under the never used 103-year-old law called the Espionage
Act. Given the Niagara Falls of lies and distortions about Julian
Assange promoted and promulgated by the US, UK, Australian and
Swedish governments over the last decade a fair trial in America is
impossible. Julian Assange would inevitably be found guilty in a
biased US courtroom and sentenced to 175 years in a dangerous
high-security prison where his personal safety would never be
guaranteed.

Julian
Assange Exposed Government Crimes Not Government Secrets

The Espionage Act was
introduced in 1917 to deter traitors from revealing government
secrets which endangered the security of America. Julian Assange is
not guilty of exposing US government secrets, he is ‘guilty’ of
exposing US government war crimes. He and Chelsea Manning do not
deserve prison sentences, they deserve awards for performing
essential humanitarian and journalistic duties. They revealed to the
world the brutal truth of US Military behaviour in Iraq, in
Afghanistan and in other sovereign nations targeted for regime
change. The nation which parades across the world with pious lectures
about human rights, the rule of law, and the importance of democracy
is graphically exposed as the biggest abuser of human rights, the
enemy of democracy and serial sponsor of war crimes. Many peoples
suffered from US war crimes and human rights abuses, but the US
denied guilt. Wikileaks exposed both their lies – and their crimes.

After years of denying
civilian casualties in Iraq, the Wikileaks Iraq war logs ten years
ago covering the period 2005-2009 and running into almost 400,000
army field reports revealed the atrocious truth that civilian deaths
constituted more than two-thirds of all recorded casualties in Iraq.
Many thousands of deaths were deliberately not recorded but of those
that were 66,081 of 109,000 deaths were civilians. The Iraq Body
Count Project (IBC) used the published war logs to credibly estimate
civilian deaths as a minimum
of 183,249 to 205,785
while other population and family
interview-based studies estimate the civilian death toll is well over
one million
.

A computer screen shows a WikiLeaks logo (File) © AP Photo / Yves Logghe Iraqi
People Owe Big to Julian Assange for Exposing US War Crimes, Scholar
Says

Up to one million
unarmed, innocent civilians murdered on the back of a concocted lie
about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) and Iraq’s readiness to
use them. There was no threat from Iraq’s WMDs as she had none and
there was no link to the terrible 9/11 attacks in America in 2001 as
Iraq had not a single Taliban or al Qaeda operative within its
territory. Iraq was illegally invaded, destroyed and over a million
people were slaughtered on the basis of lies and deceit and the
October 22nd, 2010 Wikileaks document publication revealed the US as
the biggest war criminal on the planet.

Wikileaks
Exposures Reveal US Working With Terrorists Not Against Them

The US and the world
were still reeling from the Wikileaks publication of the Afghanistan
war logs on 25th July 2010 which revealed American complicity in
arbitrary civilian assassinations, systematic torture of
non-combatants and extreme lies to cover up their crimes in
Afghanistan. Wikileaks has continued its crusade to uncover powerful
states and companies who lie and deceive and commit crimes in pursuit
of their objectives in breath-taking displays of hypocrisy. The Syria
leaks illustrate the extent the US and its allies will go to in
pursuit of global domination with clear evidence of funding and
supporting the very Daesh* terrorists and brutes within Syria to
conduct a proxy war against the Assad government despite wholesale
condemnations and declared hatred of such groups publicly. The world
is led to believe the US is at war with Islamic terror groups like
Daesh when in fact they are in
cahoots with allies
who are arming them and fighting alongside
them in Syria.

John Shipton should be
enjoying his retirement years but instead, he is campaigning across
the world to raise awareness of his son’s terrible mistreatment by
the UK and US governments and demanding his immediate release. He
highlighted how Julian’s Wikileaks exposures have actually led to
government actions to expel US troops from their soil and thereby
saving lives. Despite empty headlines and accusations to the contrary
not a single individual has ever been harmed as a result of Wikileaks
publications and all the evidence shows Julian Assange worked
assiduously to redact the names of any potential targets in the war
logs while Guardian journalists who revelled in days of high profile
swoops and money spinning books actually betrayed details Julian
desperately worked to keep hidden.

George
Bush and Tony Blair Should be Behind Bars Not Julian Assange

The absence of
bitterness from John’s conversation with me is remarkable and
testimony to his compassion and understanding of world affairs. His
admiration for his son’s courage and strength is huge. Julian
Assange committed no crimes. He is in a prison cell while real war
criminals like George Bush and Tony Blair escape justice. They are
the ones who lied and bullied and bribed and blackmailed the UN to
try and get a second resolution justifying invading Iraq. They
failed.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's father John Shipton speaks outside the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court on the final day of a hearing to decide whether Assange should be extradited to the United States, in London, Britain October 1, 2020. ©
REUTERS / PETER NICHOLLS
John
Shipton: ‘Don’t Underestimate the Consequence of the Bravery of My
Son Julian Assange’

The invasion and
subsequent occupation were illegal and they should be held
responsible for the one million civilian deaths which resulted. The
fact Chelsea Manning spent seven years behind bars before her
thirty-five-year sentence was commuted by Barack Obama is a disgrace.
She was sentenced again last March because she refused to testify
against Julian Assange. She spent a year in jail between March 2019 –
March 2020. She is the epitome of courage and integrity. Refusing to
turn on Assange revealed her inner strength and dignity.

Julian
Assange is a Victim of Psychological Torture in UK Custody

Julian Assange’s
father drew attention to the numerous investigations of his son’s
incarceration by the United Nations rapporteur on torture and
arbitrary detention. Through visits and detailed assessments
Professor Nils Melzer compiled damning evidence which showed Julian
was indeed a victim of systematic psychological torture for which the
UK bears a heavy responsibility:

The case
falls into my mandate in three different ways: First, Assange
published proof of systematic torture. But instead of those
responsible for the torture, it is Assange who is being persecuted.
Second, he himself has been ill-treated to the point that he is now
exhibiting symptoms of psychological torture. And third, he is to be
extradited to a country that holds people like him in prison
conditions that Amnesty International has described as torture. In
summary: Julian Assange uncovered torture, has been tortured himself
and could be tortured to death in the United States. And a case like
that isn’t supposed to be part of my area of responsibility? Beyond
that, the case is of symbolic importance and affects every citizen of
a democratic country”

Please read
these words from Professor Nils Melzer
over and over again and
acquaint yourself with his various reports. Exactly ten years to the
day after exposing heinous US war crimes, systematic torture and
flagrant breaches of international law it is the man who exposed the
crimes who is behind bars when it should be the organisers,
facilitators and perpetrators of those crimes.

Plague
of Malice

During our interview,
I reminded John Shipton of an incredibly apt phrase he used recently
when interviewed during Julian’s trial in London. He said his son
was subject to a “plague
of malice
”. I suggested it should be the title of a book
detailing how Julian has not been criminally prosecuted – he has been
politically persecuted. Persecuted by powerful nations in a vengeful
act of revenge for being exposed by Julian as the practiced
criminals, liars, and murderers they are. Should Julian Assange be
handed over by a British Court to face a life sentence in America for
publishing evidence of US government war crimes it is the death knell
of investigative journalism and the most serious undermining of free
speech and freedom of expression in hundreds of years. The world will
be propelled back to the dark ages of medieval dynasties and the
denial of democratic rights and freedoms should America be allowed to
demand the release of a journalist into their custody for harsh
punishment for doing no more than revealing war crimes. It was the
celebrated author and forensic social commentator George Orwell
who said that 
journalism
is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else
is public relations.

But he also advised us that:

In a time of
deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Please get involved in
the various campaigns and online petitions and support groups
demanding the release of Julian Assange. His state-sponsored
political persecution has no association with justice and everything
to do with spite, revenge, and stark warnings to the rest of us.
Don’t you dare speak the truth or speak out or stand up against
injustices and wicked crimes committed by your governments lest you
face the same personal mauling and destruction of character meted out
to Julian Assange.

The cause of Julian
Assange is the cause of free speech, the rule of law and the right of
the public to know when their governments and the powerful commit
crimes. If they get away with extraditing Assange today it could be
any one of us tomorrow. Say it loud and say it clear – Exposing war
crimes is not a crime – Free Julian Assange.

*Daesh (also known
as ISIS/ISIL/IS/Islamic States) is a terrorist group banned in Russia
and many other countries

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Assange
and the media: How speculative media reports play a role in
extradition hearings in London

 

Marking
10 Years since the Iraq War Logs

 Zie het
origineel
voor commentaar op dit artikel zoals dat van:

notwistalemon
80p
·
2
days ago

You summed it up as well as it
could be. At 75 and a former pilot in the USAF, I am thoroughly
ashamed to call myself an American. Something must be done to secure
the release of Julian Assange. What the hell has happened to us that
we have allowed people to be tortured in our name! The whole world
knows that the British government is a mere puppet of the US State.
Julian is being imprisoned and tortured at the direction of the US
Government. Yes, our nation is, and has been, run for many years by a
government filled with war criminals!

=============================================

Zie wat betreft westerse wapenleveringen aan terreurgroepen als ISIS: ‘Rutte en Koenders verantwoordelijk voor wapenleveranties aan IS!!

CIA valt nogmaals door de mand als wapenleverancier van IS…….

US weapons supplied to Syrian rebels ended up with Islamic State: report

Tracing ISIS’ Weapons Supply Chain—Back to the US

ISIL weapons traced to US and Saudi Arabia

Al Qaida de bondgenoot van de VS in de strijd tegen…… terrorisme! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘ 

VS centraal commando werkt in Syrië samen met IS en verklaarde Rusland de oorlog………

U.S Caught Red Handed Selling Arms to ISIS/AL-Qaeda (Part 1 of 2)

US TRAINED REBELS GIVE WEAPONS TO TERROR GROUP

Made in America: US-Trained ‘Moderate’ Rebels, With Blessing Of Americans, Seling US Weapons to ISIS

Exactly how the US trained and armed ISIS

Lt. General McInerney says Obama helped build ISIS with Weapons from Benghazi

Tulsi Gabbard (VS congres Hawaï): Trump is de beschermende Big Brother van Al Qaida‘Zie voor meer berichten over Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Wikileaks, Irak, Afghanistan, klokkenluiders en/of ISIS, klik op het desbetreffende label, direct onder dit bericht.

‘Vote Shaming, ‘progressieve Amerikanen’ demoniseren kiezers die niet Democratisch of Republikeins stemmen

In de VS
hebben figuren als Bill Maher hun progressieve masker afgeworpen en
hun pijlen gericht op burgers die weigeren te stemmen op het
tweekoppige monster bestaande uit de Republikeinse en Democratische Partij…. Maher c.s hebben het gore lef te stellen dat deze stemmers de meest
giftige wereldburgers zijn……. Echter deze stemmers hebben groot
gelijk, immers of je nu door de hond of de kat wordt gebeten, het
blijft bijten en het gevoerde beleid wijkt in de praktijk amper
af…….

De
Democraten zetten zich af tegen de ongelijke behandeling van de grote
onderlaag in de VS echter de praktijk laat zien dat ook de Democraten
zich amper inzetten voor deze grote groep……

Wat
betreft de grootschalige VS terreur over de wereld voeren deze 2
partijen hetzelfde agressieve beleid, waar velen denken dat de
Democraten meer vredelievend zijn, heeft Obama laten zien dat het
geen bliksem uitmaakt: hij was de volledige 2 termijnen in oorlog
verwikkeld en dat als de eerste president sinds de VS onafhankelijk
is….. (terwijl Obama Nobelprijs voor de Vrede winnaar is…..)

Caitlin Johnstone* heeft een artikel geschreven over deze zaak en ze noemt
daarbij 21 punten die aangeven dat de stemmers die op een derde
partij stemmen, groot gelijk hebben. Zo voert ze bijvoorbeeld aan dat
de Republikeinse partij als het aan de macht is, een zo rechts
mogelijk beleid voert, echter als de Democraten daarna aan de macht
komen, wordt er niets teruggedraaid, hoe onrechtvaardig bepaalde
zaken ook zijn…..

Zoals je
begrijpt richt Johnstone vooral haar kritiek op de Democraten, daar
deze het van de daken schreeuwen dat zaken niet eerlijk verlopen,
maar eenmaal aan de macht hetzelfde doen. Neem de persvrijheid: de
Democraten vinden dat de persvrijheid heilig is, echter als het om
Julian Assange gaat willen ze deze, zoals Trump dat wenst, uitgeleverd hebben aan
de VS, terwijl Assange niets anders heeft gedaan dan z’n werk (en dat uitstekend!!) en
gebruik maken van de persvrijheid, terwijl de leugen dat hij mensen
in gevaar heeft gebracht al lang en breed is doorgeprikt…… 

 

Voorts beschuldigen de Democraten de alternatieve media van het brengen van fake news (nepnieuws), terwijl de reguliere (massa-) media zich daar keer op keer schuldig aan maken, neem alleen al de aanloop naar- en het verloop van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voerde en voert…..

 

Kortom
de Democraten willen in feite dat de echte media (de alternatieve media) aan banden worden
gelegd en dat ten gunste van de reguliere media die over het algemeen het beleid steunen (m.n. het bloedige buitenlandbeleid) van: -de zittende administratie, -het militair-industrieel complex, -de financiële sector en -het andere grote bedrijfsleven…… (de eerste twee, of eigenlijk drie overlappen elkaar gedeeltelijk)

Lees het
artikel van Johnstone (van 29 september jl.) en denk daaraan als je bijvoorbeeld het volgende debat tussen Trump en Biden kijkt of beluistert (Joe Binden wil dat alleen als Trump virusvrij is….. ha! ha! ha! Kortom hij is bang voor Trump), Trump en Biden, 2 oorlogsmisdadigers en lobbyisten voor de wapenfabrikanten, het verdere grote bedrijfsleven en de financiële
sector……..

On
Vote Shaming: 21 Ways Supporting The US Establishment Is Worse Than
Voting Third Party


by Caitlin
Johnstone

The
vote-shaming engines have predictably kicked into high gear in
America as the presidential election approaches, with
shitlib
pundits like Bill Maher

doing their part to paint third-party voters as the most toxic people
in the world.

Which
is of course ridiculous. I have no strong opinions about how
Americans should vote in November, but it’s obvious that in terms of
toxicity third-party voters are not on the list of people who are
worthy of criticism. The dire situation humanity now finds itself in
under the leadership of the US hegemon is not the fault of a small
fringe faction which doesn’t want to support oligarch-coddling
ecocidal warmongers, it’s the fault of those who help preserve
America’s oligarchic ecocidal warmongering status quo.

Contrary
to the stock template lines that establishment spinmeisters are
regurgitating to bully the left into submission, here are 21 things
which are in fact a lot more crazy, selfish, stupid and privileged
than voting third party:

1.
Supporting a two-headed one-party system in the most powerful
government on earth which has plagued our planet with endless war and
ecocide and marched humanity to the brink of extinction.

2.
Continuing to support a political system which is wholly owned and
operated by the wealthy, leaving zero effective influence over US
policy in the hands of ordinary Americans and immense influence in
the hands of the very rich.

3.
Continuing to support a system which consistently deceives the
American people into consenting to oppressive neoliberal exploitation
at home and bloodthirsty neoconservative warmongering abroad, both of
which always hurt the most impoverished and disadvantaged groups
worst.

4.
Continuing to support a two-headed one-party system where one head
always pushes as far to the right as possible when in power and the
other head never moves things back leftward even one iota when it is.

5.
Continuing to support a political establishment which rehabilitates
war criminals like George W Bush, Bill Kristol, David Frum and John
Bolton while demonizing anyone who refused to vote for a warmonger.

6.
Supporting a political party which has been consistently attacking
Donald Trump from the right on foreign policy, pushing him to
escalate cold war tensions with Russia further and further and
shrieking hysterically if he makes the slightest move toward
deescalation anywhere.

7.
Supporting a political party which is designed to co-opt all leftward
populism and railroad it into support for an establishment which
promotes war and oligarchy while depriving Americans of the same
social safety nets afforded to everyone in every other major country
on earth.

8.
Supporting a party which claims to support press freedoms while
cheerleading Trump’s extradition of Julian Assange, a move which if
successful will cripple press freedoms around the globe and make it
impossible to hold the world’s most powerful government to account.

9.
Supporting a political party which has spent Trump’s term galvanizing
its base around the psychopathic CIA and J Edgar Hoover’s
minority-oppressing, left-punching FBI while doing everything it can
to stamp out any leftist zeitgeist within its ranks.

10.
Continuing to support a mass media structure which works every day to
deceive Americans into supporting their own impoverishment while
weapons of war are spread across the planet at massive expense.

11.
Supporting a political establishment which promises slow, incremental
change and actually delivers no change whatsoever while our species
slides off the cliff of extinction, taking out the most impoverished
and marginalized first.

12.
Pretending foreign policy just doesn’t exist, or if it does exist
pretending Joe Biden isn’t a lifelong warmonger who has spent his
entire campaign attacking Trump for being insufficiently hawkish in
most spheres of international conflict.

13.
Ignoring the fact that both parties are working in support of
world-threatening cold war escalations against both Russia and China,
a multifront campaign whose complexity increases the probability of
something going cataclysmically wrong even more than the last cold
war.

14.
Pretending a party that’s done exactly nothing for America’s
disempowered communities isn’t directly responsible for the poverty,
police brutality, mass incarceration, exploitation and oppression
those communities face today.

15.
Pretending a return to how things were before Trump’s presidency
wouldn’t just be a return to the conditions which created Trump’s
presidency.

16.
Pretending Obama, who destroyed Libya, devastated Syria, facilitated
the rape of Yemen, intervened in Ukraine, maintained and expanded all
of Bush’s most depraved policies and did nothing for the people who
elected him, was a good president.

17.
Continuing to support a political system where everything keeps
getting worse no matter which oligarchic puppet Americans elect.

18.
Putting your head in the sand and pretending everything will be fine
once a Democrat is in charge,
again.

19.
Supporting a novelty joke party with fake primaries which are always
rigged to ensure victory for the safest oligarchic puppet instead of
pushing for something resembling actual democracy.

20.
Promoting the lie that if you just keep doing something that has
never, ever worked, this time it might produce different results.

21.
Lulling people back to sleep when the only thing that can help
ordinary people is for them to start waking up and using the power
of their numbers to force drastic, revolutionary change.


 

It’s
easy to advocate incrementalism when you’re not living hand to
mouth. It’s selfish to think that acting on climate change can be
rolled out over many decades so as not to upset the corporate donors
of your favorite politicians. It’s the height of entitlement to
close the door to progressives inside the Democratic Party and then
throw a shit fit when they vote for another party. It’s
hypocritical to hyperventilate about election-rigging Russians while
secretly, and then openly, rigging primaries against progressives.


Supporting
the continued existence of a fake two-party system which advances
exploitative agendas hurts the most vulnerable populations in America
and in the entire world. Acting self-righteous because you actively
support that system while spitting on the people who are trying to
change it is selfish, is stupid, is hypocritical, and is a mark of
extreme privilege.

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Samenzweringstheorie paniek wordt juist gevoed door ‘tegenstanders’ daarvan

Nicholas
Levis heeft op CounterPunch een artikel geschreven waarin hij betoogt
dat juist de figuren die complotten uitwerken, mensen aanwijzen als de makers van
samenzweringstheorieën (of complot
theorieën, wat je wilt), als deze het complot blootleggen die zij de
rest van de bevolking willen opdringen. Het is als met de hysterie
over fake news in de reguliere media (en politiek), waar journalisten
zelfs durven te eisen dat er censuurmaatregelen moeten worden genomen tegen bepaalde sites op de
sociale media, daar men fake news zou verspreiden……. Terwijl diezelfde media keer op keer fake news (nepnieuws)
brengen, sterker nog: fake news brengen op basis waarvan illegale
oorlogen zijn aangegaan door de VS, weliswaar aantoonbaar ingegeven door leugens van de
geheime diensten van de VS, maar met grote graagte overgenomen door die reguliere (massa-) media…… 

Levis
wijst dan ook niet voor niets naar de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen
Irak, waar het volk (ook in de EU) werd voorbereid op deze oorlog met
de hersenspoeling van het volk door politici en media met leugens als
zou Saddam Hoessein, destijds president van Irak, geheime voorraden
massavernietigingswapens in bezit hebben gehad….. Een enorme
leugen waartegen VN-wapeninspecteur Blix als een Don Quichot
tegen vocht, keer op keer liet hij de wereld weten dat Irak zelfs
geen massavernietigingswapens kon hebben, al deze wapens waren
vernietigd en men had bij wijze van spreken elke vierkante meter van
het land onderzocht……

Ook Henk Hofland, die door de Nederlandse pers als belangrijkste journalist van de 20ste eeuw wordt vereerd, geloofde deze leugen en ventileerde die op de NRC, de ‘slijpsteen van de
geest’ (eerder de overdosis morfine voor de geest)….. Let wel,
ik zeg ‘geloofde’, echter Hofland moet dondersgoed geweten hebben dat
dit een pertinente leugen was en toch stelde hij zich achter de
illegale oorlog tegen Irak, wat hij tot zijn dood is blijven doen,
ondanks dat deze leugen werd doorgeprikt….. (Hofland, de Nederlandse journalist van de
20ste eeuw… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!)

Alle
terechte ontkenningen van Blix konden niet op tegen de leugens die de geheime diensten en de Bush administratie de wereld inbrachten, dit met grote hulp van de
reguliere media die het volk opzweepten….. Gezien het voorgaande kan je
deze zaak niet anders zien dan de grootste samenzweringstheorie van
deze eeuw, waar belachelijk genoeg de tegenstanders van die illegale
oorlog destijds complottheoriedenkers werden genoemd!!!!! Kortom de
wereld op de kop…….

Dave Granlund – Editorial Cartoons and Illustrations » Bush & Cheney at  9-11 panel

Voorts merkt Levis nog op dat Irak werd beschuldigd van het deelnemen aan de 9/11 aanslagen en zonder
enig bewijs herhaalden Bush en vooral Dick Cheney deze leugen….. Na
verloop van tijd was het grootste deel van de bevolking in de VS ervan
overtuigd dat deze leugen de waarheid was (en ook in de rest van het
westen
begon men deze leugen te geloven….) Belachelijk, daar de VS Al Qaida als organisatie had aangewezen die verantwoordelijk was voor de 9/11 aanslagen en als er iemand was die de schurft had aan Al Qaida was het Saddam Hoessein wel!!

Lees het
uitstekende artikel van Levis en laat je nooit meer foppen met
leugens als zouden mensen die de overheid en reguliere media kritisch
volgen complottheoriedenkers zijn, niet voor niets kan je een groot
deel van de beste journalistiek op de sociale media vinden….. De reguliere (massa-) media zijn organisaties die de belangen van de eigenaren
van die media moeten behartigen, plutocraten die belang hebben bij oorlog,
ziekten en het in stand houden van de huidige status quo (en daarmee
de huidige neoliberale politiek) >> goed voor de
aandelenportefeuilles en daarmee voor de winsten en nog grotere bankrekeningen!!!

September
16, 2020

Conspiracy
Panic

by Nicholas
Levis

The most consequential false
conspiracy theory of the last twenty years in the United States
centered on fabricated accusations raised against the Iraqi state in
2002-3. These claimed that Iraq maintained secret stores of “weapons
of mass destruction” and intended to use them against the West,
perhaps imminently. Most versions also insinuated the Saddam regime
was involved in some vague manner in perpetrating the 9/11 attacks
together with its sworn enemies, the jihadi movements then doing
business as al-Qaeda. That is what the vice-president running the
regime, Cheney, repeatedly said. His president, Bush, just repeated
the magic words 9/11-Saddam-9/11-Saddam-9/11 for months, until it was
taken to be true by enough people to allow a smooth start to the
carnage. The claims were actively fabricated by officials and agents
at several agencies of the U.S., UK and other national security
states, by various client groups and allied journalists, and by
freelance assholes looking to get a piece of the action. The
fabricators knew they were lying, and they knew that they lied so as
to sell a planned, unprovoked war of aggression to the American, UK,
and other western publics. The resulting war destroyed a nation, led
to more than a million deaths, and accelerated the establishment of
an archipelago of torture centers under U.S. control.

In short, the “Saddam-WMD-9/11”
conspiracy theory was a top-down psychological operation conducted by
state-based agents against the public, and freely trumpeted by nearly
all organs of the U.S. corporate media. It has been completely
discredited, but rarely will you here it called a conspiracy theory.
None of the perpetrators of the campaign have been prosecuted, and
most have continued their career trajectories unhindered by their
participation in this well-known crime. Today many of them have been
embraced by the Democratic establishment as heroic fighters against
Trump — the same Democratic establishment that always seeks
distance from actual fighters against Trump.

The most consequential American
conspiracy theories ever were the Red Scares of 1919-21 and the late
1940s and early 1950s. Both met with a degree of popular enthusiasm
and broad fear-based assent, but both were initiated and run by state
and corporate-based elements as top-down psychological operations
against the public, specifically targeting the left, labor
organizers, and journalists, celebrities or teachers who showed
insufficient anti-Communist fervor. Both campaigns succeeded in
transforming American society and politics in a right-wing direction,
and helped in partly dismantling the progressive, leftist and
honestly liberal movements of their times.

A recent conspiracy panic campaign,
#Russiagate, presented a mythic (and facially laughable) explanation
for how the Democrats managed to lose the unloseable 2016 election.
It appears to have been intended to weaken or to knock Trump out of
office. If so, it backfired completely, presenting a fictional
distraction from the far-worse realities of the regime’s violent
policies and incipient fascism. Every time that the ludicrous and
byzantine accusations fell apart (predictably, in every case),
Trump’s position was strengthened, and that of real opposition to
Trump’s barbarities was weakened.

Given their failure to actually
fight Trump on policy, and given the Democrats’ embrace of Bushian
politics and Bush-era war criminals, austerity, and imperialism, and
given their propping-up of a right-wing candidate who has his own
degree of involvement in Trump-style nepotism and is visibly
suffering from cognitive impairment, Trump would be cruising to
reelection. Cruising, that is, except for the unpredictable factors
of Covid, the Depression, and the open outbreaks of organized fascist
street violence that he praises. And because a real opposition to
this regime’s particular horrors exists, and has not surrendered.
(If they lose, the Democrats will blame the real opposition, and are
already doing so preemptively.) 

Thus, for the moment, Trump is well
behind in the polls, despite the four-year favor to him delivered by
the #Russiagate operation with its demand for 24/7 coverage and
predictable serial failures.

However, the #Russiagate conspiracy
panic operation also succeeded, insofar as it has functioned to
condition most Democratic-type liberals (and some of the left) to
uncritically accept a xenophobic explanation for the rise of an
all-American fascism, and insofar as it has gained much support among
them for a bellicose, new-Cold War stance and widepread favor for
censorship measures (run by private mega-corporations) to combat
“propaganda” and “conspiracy theory.”

It cannot be known at this time,
but the QAnon narrative appears likely to have also originated with
an intel operation, or the action of a Trump-friendly outfit, with
the design of casting noise over a story that sounds just like it,
but is actually true. Trump, Bill Clinton and various celebrities and
intellectual hooligans were all tied to the long-time human
trafficking and rape-ring run by likely intelligence asset and
“billionaire” Jeffrey Epstein. He was convicted, and his
co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell stands accused. The operation’s
apparent purpose was to gain material for political blackmail.
Trump’s former labor secretary, Acosta, was formerly the Florida
prosecutor who made a deal to allow the convicted Epstein to walk
free in 2008, and to seal the records of his clients. It’s fine to
condemn QAnon, but when you spend your hours talking about how
ridiculous and hateful and wrong the story is, you are not talking
about Epstein and Trump and Clinton (and the various other Epstein
“friends”). You are not talking about or acting on a million
other things that matter. From the perspective of the QAnon
propagators, you are helping to promote and reinforce the ruse.

America, like many places, is home
to fantastically, facially false grand conspiracy narratives positing
that the political economy (so evidently managed by a ruling class of
owners and corporations and policy-makers reigning over large
instituions, who act mostly in the open) is secretly run by a single,
smaller, invisible cabal of satanically-inclined mystery men who just
want to do evil because they hate America, or maybe because they want
to destroy Trump’s beautiful white race. There are many varieties
of grand-global conspiracy theories, but they often pander to odious,
hateful, and exterminationist politics. The latter are often modeled
on the old European anti-Semitic blood libel, or, in fact, repeat the
old European anti-Semitic blood libel.

Grand-global conspiracy narratives
can appeal to a common socio-psychological make-up that hankers for
denial and magic and simplicity, for stories that attribute social
ills and human troubles to a corruption that can be theoretically
excised, restoring a normality that never really existed as it is now
imagined. In this they are akin to other quick-fix narratives, many
of them based in religious dogmas (e.g. bad things happen because
people reject Jesus and commit acts the Bible supposedly prohibits;
or, to take a now-abandoned version, alcohol consumption is the true
primary cause of social ills and prohibition can fix it). For most,
the reality that their society is systematically rotten to the core,
burning the planet, and heading for a predictable fall, and that any
change to this reality must be revolutionary or will be nothing, is
much harder to process, above all emotionally. It also subjects one
to the accusation of radicalism, extremism, or “conspiracy theory.”

I dispute that very many people
change their politics or prejudices or world-view as a result of
exposure to one of the global-type conspiracy theories. On the
contrary, these are devised to aggrandize and manipulate
already-existing political tendencies. People tend to believe what
they were long-ago conditioned to believe, and they tend to see what
they believe. And remember, the most effective and consequential
conspiracy theories in the modern milieu are rarely products of
autopoeitic convergences of mass psychology. They almost always have
original authors who know that they are inventing this shit, like
QAnon. 

They are the products of modern public relations and popular
mood management.

Granting that grand-global
conspiracy narratives exist, the use of the phrase “conspiracy
theory” in American discourse has always been rotten as fuck.
Whether true or not, whether or not believable or grounded in
evidence, any claims that attribute malfeasance to the American
ruling class and policy-making power elite, or to the actual owners
and runners of a system in which high-level crime was long ago
legalized, is derided as “conspiracy theory” by the very same
ruling class, power elite, corporate media, punditry, and
liberal-authoritarian establishment. However, claims that mirror the
same narratives, but allege them against an officially designated
enemy, are never called conspiracy theory. In fact, once the latter
tales are circulated within the corporate news media, to question
them comes itself to be classified as conspiracy theory. You are a
conspiracy theorist if you reject the outlandish #Russiagate
conspiracy theories. And, once called a conspiracy theorist, you are
supposed to be automatically and forever discredited from
participating in public discourse. Increasingly, you are seen as the
bearer of a dangerous and contagious disease, associated loosely with
all other persons categorized as “conspiracy theorists,” and
treated as fair game for censorship.

Conspiracy panic is a propaganda
weapon that props up an overall portrayal of the mass of the people
(and especially critics of the ideological hegemony, of whatever
stripe, good or bad) as ipso-facto stupid, preemptively discredited,
crazy, unworthy of participation in discourse, and dangerous.
Conspiracy panic nowadays is a go-to for liberals to deny and
distract and divert to incremental bullshit, and not have to think
about systemic irrationality, falsehood, evils and failures, and how
most of the unfolding disasters — including Trump himself — are
not aberrations or surprises but predictable and systemic. It’s
easier and more comforting to affect being appalled at the stupidity
of QAnon (or the supposed millions who were moved to vote for Trump
only because they saw a “Russian” post online), and to
virtue-signal that you are different from the dumb right-wing patsies
who eat that shit up, than to spend too much time being aware that
the billionaire and corporate and ensconced policy-making ruling
class as a whole — their names are known and plastered in the
headlines — is by definition a predator class, professionally
incapable of mercy, with overwhelming power over the rest of us,
acting in ways that guarantee capitalism and its “ways of life”
will continue burning the planet, literally, until the ecosystem’s
capacity to sustain the present human civilization and population
collapses. Which, speaking in historical lengths, is imminent, and
possibly no longer reversible. Fight this anyway.

To respond to this piece,
complain about the omission of citations to Jack Bratich, Liz
Franczak or Karl Marx, or to remind Nicholas Levis that he ought to
follow his own advice, write to N24CP2020@gmail.com
. (wat een maffe toevoeging!! waarom heeft CoutnerPunch dit niet voor publicatie overlegd met Levis??)

=======================================

Zie ook:

9/11 werd mede georganiseerd door Israël‘ 

Opname van 100 kinderen en andere kwetsbare mensen is een schandelijke doek voor het bloeden (en dat op de herdenking van 9/11)‘ 

Echte democratie is onbestaanbaar zolang de reguliere media de bevolking manipuleren met fake news, andere leugens en (neoliberale) propaganda‘ 

VS propagandamachine onder de loep genomen door schrijver Nick Schou‘ 

‘Respectabele burgers’ vs. samenzweringstheoretici‘ 

De onderbroekbom-leugen ten behoeve van onveilige body scanners

Voor meer berichten over complottheorie, Irak, 911, Bush, Cheney en/of Blix, klik op het betreffende label, direct onder dit bericht.

9/11 werd mede georganiseerd door Israël

De aanslagen van 9/11 (2001) werden niet door Al Qaida georganiseerd, iedereen die de officiële lezing nog steeds gelooft kan hiervan overtuigd worden mits deze enige tijd steekt in het lezen van rapporten en onderzoeken door
onafhankelijke organisaties, of door verklaringen van deskundigen, politeagenten en brandweermensen >> deze
aanslagen werden minstens gepleegd met medeweten en organisatie van
de federale overheid van de VS…….

Lauren
Guyénot schreef een artikel voor The Unz Review, dat door mij werd
overgenomen van Information Clearing House (ICH). Hierin betoogt hij dat
Israël de grote dader is achter de 9/11 aanslagen in 2001, uiteraard
met de toevoeging dat e.e.a niet mogelijk was zonder de hulp van de
VS overheid…..

Eén van de grootste bewijzen dat hier enorm is gelogen is wel het feit dat de vliegtuigen onmogelijk het instorten van de WTC torens konden hebben veroorzaakt…… Over die vliegtuigen gesproken: het was destijds onmogelijk om boven de stad te vliegen zonder dat de luchtmacht in zou grijpen en oh toevel die dag waren er geen straaljagers paraat om in te grijpen, daarnaast stellen ervaren piloten dat het bijzxonder moeilijk is om met een verkeersvliegtuig zo precies de toren in te vliegen (de piloten zoude de daders zijn geweest die trainig hadden gekregen in kleine vliegtuigen, maar die niet eens wisten hoe te moeten landen…)

Moet
wel opmerken dat Gyénot vooral Israël ziet als het land dat het
meest heeft geprofiteerd van deze aanslag, echter daar ben ik het
niet mee eens, immers de werkelijke grote profiteur van deze
aanslagen is de VS zelf en daarmee bedoel ik ook het Pentagon en de
rest van het militair-industrieel complex. De oorlog tegen terreur
deed de kassa’s van de wapenindustrie hard rinkelen, terwijl
het instorten van de Sovjet-Unie er op z’n zachts gezegd voor zorgde dat de winsten
van die industrie in de tien voorgaande jaren onder druk stonden…. Als gevolg van 9/11 kreeg het Pentagon er fiks wat geld bij, terwijl de geheime diensten (meer dan 25 in de VS!!) extra geld en bevoegdheden kregen…….

Bovendien was oorlog voeren, het ultieme
gevolg van die aanslagen (zoals de illegale oorlogen tegen Afghanistan
en Irak), ook een garantie voor extra geld in de kluizen van de
oliemaatschappijen (immers de koersen van oliemaatscfhappijen gaan dan omhoog), die daarnaast zelfs toestemming kregen voor het
winnen van olie op niet eerder geziene plekken (en dan bedoel ik niet alleen in Irak), gevolgd door de
peperdure en milieu-verrampenerende schaliegas, en -oliewinning)…. 

George W. Bush, destijds president,
stond in de peilingen over zijn populariteit lager dan
in vele decennia was gezien bij een zittende president, 9/11, de oorlog tegen terreur en de illegale oorlog tegen Afghanistan zorgden ervoor dat zijn populariteit als een speer de lucht inging……

Voorts verdween op 11 september 2001 een fiks deel van de VS
overheidsschuld, daar bepaalde servers in het WTC werden
vernietigd….. Dit nog naast het verdwijnen van een flinke voorraad goud…… Me dunkt alles bij elkaar fikse belangen voor de VS
zelf……

Al is het wel zo dat naast andere belangrijke figuren in Israël, ook Netanyahu blij was met de aanslag, daar de VS nu wist wat het betekende terreur op eigen grondgebioed te hebben (al had men daar al veel eerder meerdere terreuraanslagen), terwijl Israël al decennia te maken had met terreuraanslagen (vooral zelf uitgevoerd tegen het verdrukte Palestijnse volk…)…. Netanyahu stelde dan ook dat dit de banden tussen de twee landen verder zou versterken……. Het is wel zeker dat Israël, in de vorm van de Mossad, de geheime dienst van dat land, heeft meegeholpen aan de aanslagen…… Moet je nagaan: na de aanslagen beschuldigde men de Palestijnen er onterecht van feest te hebben gevierd n.a.v. die aanslagen….. (in New York werden 5 Joodse Israëliërs betrapt die feestvierden terwijl ze aan de overkant van een rivier de rokende puinhopen bekeken van de Twin Towers….)

Bij de aanslagen op het
WTC zouden 3.000 mensen zijn omgekomen, echter in de ‘war on terror’ die
de Bush administratie daarna ontketende zijn minstens 2 miljoen mensen
omgekomen en hebben de grote wapenfabrikanten en die van vliegend-,
varend- en rollend oorlogstuig zich helemaal scheel verdiend…… Dit
nog naast de zoals gezegd enorme budgetverhogingen voor leger en geheime diensten,
waar de laatsten ook nog eens veel meer bevoegdheden kregen, o.a.
middels de Patriot Act, die nu weer in het nieuws is daar een federale
rechter heeft bepaald dat het bespioneren van VS burgers illegaal is, dit bespioneren werd geopenbaard
door Edward Snowden in 2013…..*

Kritiek en weerlegging van de leugens over de aanslagen van 9/11 worden gezien als een complottheorieën, echter het echte complot is juist het neerhalen van de torens** middels deze ‘aanslagen’ en de aanslag op het Pentagon waarvan het vliegtuig niet werd gevonden…. Een ander vliegtuig dat gekaapt was, zou elders in een natuurgebied zijn neergestort, maar ook daarvan werd geen spoor gevonden…….
 

Lees het uitgebreide artikel van Guyénot, het is meer dan de moeite
waard en geeft ten overvloede nog eens aan dat 9/11 een false flag
operatie was ten dienste van wat mij betreft vooral de VS!! (vergeet
niet dat Osama bin Laden bij herhaling stelde dat Al Qaida niet
betrokken was bij deze aanslagen, terwijl terreurgroepen als Al Qaida
maar al te graag de verantwoording opeisen van geslaagde aanslagen,
zelfs als ze er niets mee te maken hebben….. Niet voor niets werd
Osama bin Laden onmiddellijk vermoord door speciale VS (terreur) commando’s toen men hem aantrof in Pakistan, het was uiteraard
niet de bedoeling dat bin Laden uit de school zou klappen tijdens een proces….

9/11
Was an Israeli Job
How
America was neoconned into World War IV
By
Laurent Guyénot

 

Technical
impossibilities

September
13, 2020 “
Information
Clearing House

–  Thanks to courageous investigators, many anomalies in the
official explanation of the events of 9/11 were posted on the
Internet in the following months, providing evidence that this was a
false flag operation, and that Osama bin Laden was innocent, as he
repeatedly declared in the Afghan and Pakistani press and on Al
Jazeera.[1] The proofs of this appalling fraud have been accumulating
ever since, and are now accessible to anyone willing to spend a few
hours of research on the Web. (Although, while preparing this
article, I noticed that Google is now making access to that research
more difficult than it was five years ago, artificially prioritizing
anti-conspiracy sites.)

For
example, members of Architects
and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
have demonstrated that it was
impossible for plane crashes and jet fuel fires to trigger the
collapse of the Twin Towers. Even Donald
Trump understood this
. In fact, speaking of “collapse” is
perhaps misleading: the towers literally exploded, pulverizing
concrete and projecting pieces of steel beams weighing several
hundred tons hundreds of meters laterally at high speeds. The
pyroclastic
dust
that immediately flooded through the streets, not unlike the
dust from a volcano, indicates a high temperature mixture of hot
gasses and relatively dense solid particles, an impossible phenomenon
in a simple collapse. It is also impossible that WTC7,
another skyscraper (47 stories), which had not been hit by a plane,
collapsed into its own footprint at near free-fall speed, unless by
“controlled demolition.”

Testimonies
of firefighters
recorded shortly after the events describe
sequences of explosions just before the “collapse”, well below
the plane impact. The presence of molten metal in the wreckage up to
three weeks after the attack is inexplicable except by the presence
of incompletely burned explosives. Firefighter Philip Ruvolo
testified before Étienne Sauret’s camera for his film
Collateral
Damages

(2011): “You’d get down below and you’d see molten steel—molten
steel running down the channelways, like you were in a foundry—like
lava.”

Aviation
professionals
have also reported impossibilities in the behavior
of the planes. The charted speeds of the two aircraft hitting the
Twin Towers, 443 mph and 542 mph, exclude these aircraft being Boeing
767s, because these speeds are virtually impossible near ground
level. In the unlikely event such speeds could be attained without
the aircraft falling apart, flying them accurately into the towers
was mission impossible, especially by the amateur pilots blamed for
the hijacking. Hosni
Mubarak, a former pilot, said he could never do it
. (He is not
the only head of state to have voiced his doubts: Chavez
and Ahmadinejad
are among them.) Recall that neither of the black boxes of the
jetliners was ever found, an incomprehensible situation.

And
of course, there are the obvious anomalies of Shanksville and
Pentagon crash sites: no plane or credible plane debris can be seen
on any of the numerous photos easily available.

Inside
Job or Mossad Job?

Among
the growing number of Americans who disbelieve the official version
of the 9/11 attacks, two basic theories are in competition: I called
them “inside job” and “Mossad job”. 

The first one is the
dominant thesis within the so-called 9/11 Truth movement, and blames
the American government, or a faction within the American Deep State.
The second one claims that the masterminds were members of a powerful
Israeli network deeply infiltrated in all spheres of power within the
US, including media, government, military and secret services.

This
“Mossad job” thesis has been gaining ground since Alan Sabrosky,
a professor at the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Military
Academy, published in July 2012 an
article entitled “Demystifying 9/11: Israel and the Tactics of
Mistake”
, where he voiced his 

conviction that September 11th
was “a classic Mossad-orchestrated operation.”

We
can notice from the outset that incriminating Israelis or Arabs are
both “outside job” theories (in fact, they are mirror images of
each other, which is understandable in light of what Gilad Atzmon
explains about Jewish “projected guilt”).[2] Before even looking
at the evidence, “outside job” sounds more credible that “inside
job”. There is something monstrous in the idea that a government
can deceive and terrorize its own citizens by killing thousands of
them, just for starting a series of wars that are not even in the
nation’s interest. By comparison, a foreign power attacking the
U.S. under the false flag of a third power almost seems like fair
play. Indeed suspicion of Israel’s role should be natural to anyone
aware of the reputation of the Mossad as: “Wildcard. Ruthless and
cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a
Palestinian/Arab act,” in the words of a report of the U.S. Army
School for Advanced Military Studies quoted
by the
Washington
Times
,
September 10
th,
2001
— the day before the attacks.

This
is an important point, because it raises the question of how and why
the 9/11 Truth movement has been led to endorse massively the
outrageous “inside job” thesis without even considering the more
likely thesis of an attack by a foreign power acting under an Islamic
false flag—and what foreign power but Israel would do that?

Of
course, the two dissenting theses do not necessarily exclude each
other; at least, no one incriminating Israel denies that corrupted
elements from the American administration or deep state were
involved. The “passionate
attachment”
between Israel and the U.S. has been going on for
decades, and 9/11 is one of its monstruous offsprings.

I
can think of no better symbol of that reality than the marriage of
Ted and Barbara
Olson
. Ted Oslon, after having defended Bush in the disputed 2000
election, had been rewarded with the post of Solicitor General (he
also defended Dick Cheney when he refused to submit to Congress
Enron-related documents). Barbara was a famous CNN reporter, but
before that, she was born Barbara Kay Bracher of Jewish parents,
educated at Yeshiva University School of Law, and hired by the legal
firm WilmerHale, of which Jamie Gorelick, a future member of the 9/11
Commission, was also a member, and whose clients include powerful
Israeli firms like Amdocs, a digital communication company charged
with spying for
Israel in the United States
. On September 11, 2001, Barbara Olson
alledgedly was on flight AA77, from which she made two telephone
calls to her husband. Her calls were reported on CNN in the
afternoon, and contributed to crystallize some details of the
official story, such as the “box cutters” used as only weapons by
the hijackers. Repeatedly invited on television shows after 9/11, Ted
Olson frequently contradicted himself when questioned about the calls
from his wife. In a 2006 report, the FBI identified only one call
from Barbara Olson, and it was an unconnected call lasting 0 seconds.
Like all other reported phone calls from desperate passengers
(including the famous “Hi, Mom. This is Mark Bingham”), Barbara’s
call was simply impossible, because the technology required to make
high-altitude phone calls was not developed until 2004.[3]

9/11
was made possible by an alliance between secret worshippers of Israel
and corrupted American elements. The question is: who, of the two,
were the masterminds of this incredibly daring and complex operation,
and for what “higher purpose”?

Another
question is: why do those who keep repeating as a mantra “9/11
was an inside job”
ignore totally the compelling evidence
pointing to Israel? In other words, to what extent do they constitute
a “controlled opposition” intended to cover up for Israel? Asking
this type of question does not mean suspecting anyone who defends an
erroneous or incomplete theory of being a hypocrite. Most people
defending one theory or the other do so sincerely, based on the
information to which they have access. I have myself been a believer
in the official theory for 7 years, and in the “inside job”
theory for 2 years, before progressively moving on to the present
argument from 2010. On the other hand, we can assume that those who
lead the public into error on a long term are not just mistaken but
lying. In any case, it is legitimate to investigate the background of
opinion makers, and when they are caught lying or distorting the
truth, we can speculate on their motivation. I will come back to this
issue at the end of the article.

The
dancing Israelis

Researchers
who believe Israel orchestrated 9/11 cite the behavior of a group of
individuals who have come to be known as the “dancing Israelis”
since their arrest, though their aim was to pass as “dancing
Arabs.” Dressed in ostensibly “Middle Eastern” attire, they
were seen by various witnesses standing on the roof of a van parked
in Jersey City, cheering and taking photos of each other with the WTC
in the background, at the very moment the first plane hit the North
Tower. The suspects then moved their van to another parking spot in
Jersey City, where other witnesses saw them deliver the same
ostentatious celebrations.

One
anonymous call to the police in Jersey City, reported the same day by
NBC News, mentioned “a white van, 2 or 3 guys in there. They
look like Palestinians and going around a building. […] I see the
guy by Newark Airport mixing some junk and he has those sheikh
uniforms. […] He’s dressed like an Arab.” The police soon
issued the following BOLO alert (be-on-the-look-out) for a “Vehicle
possibly related to New York terrorist attack. White, 2000 Chevrolet
van with New Jersey registration with ‘Urban Moving Systems’ sign
on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of
first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center. Three individuals
with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent
explosion.”

By
chance, the van was intercepted around 4 pm, with five young men
inside: Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner, and Omer
Marmari. Before any question was asked, the driver, Sivan Kurzberg,
burst out: “We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your problems
are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem”.The Kurzberg
brothers were formally identified as Mossad agents. All five
officially worked for a moving company (a classic cover for
espionage) named Urban Moving Systems, whose owner, Dominik Otto
Suter, fled the country for Tel Aviv on September 14.[4]

This
event was first reported the day after the attacks by journalist
Paulo
Lima in the New Jersey newspaper
The
Bergen Record
,
based on “sources close to the investigation” who were convinced
of the suspects’ foreknowledge of the morning’s attacks: “It
looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at
Liberty State Park”.The 579-page FBI
report on the investigation
that followed (partially declassified
in 2005) reveals several important facts. First, once developed, the
photos taken by the suspects while watching the North Tower on fire
confirm their attitudes of celebration: “They smiled, they hugged
each other and they appeared to ‘high five’ one another”. To
explain their contentment, the suspects said they were simply happy
that, thanks to these terrorist attacks, “the United States will
take steps to stop terrorism in the world”. Yet at this point,
before the second tower was hit, most Americans believed the crash
was an accident. The five Israelis were found connected to another
company called Classic International Movers, which employed five
other Israelis arrested for their contacts with the nineteen presumed
suicide hijackers. In addition, one of the five suspects had called
“an individual in South America with authentic ties to Islamic
militants in the middle east”. Finally, the FBI report states that
the “The vehicle was also searched by a trained bomb-sniffing dog
which yielded a positive result for the presence of explosive
traces”.

After
all this incriminating evidence comes the most puzzling passage of
the report: its conclusion that “the FBI no longer has any
investigative interests in the detainees and they should proceed with
the appropriate immigration proceedings”. In fact, a letter
addressed to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, dated
September 25, 2001, proves that, less than two weeks after the
events, the FBI federal headquarter had already decided to close the
investigation, asking that “The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service should proceed with the appropriate immigration proceedings”.
The five “dancing Israelis”, also known as “the high fivers”
,
were detained 71 days in a Brooklyn prison, where they first refused,
then failed, lie detector tests. Finally, they were quietly returned
to Israel under the minimal charge of “visa violation.” Three of
them were then invited on an Israeli TV talk show in November 2001,
where one of them ingenuously declared: “Our
purpose was simply to document the event.”

The
Israeli spy network

The
five “dancing Israelis,” the only suspects arrested on the very
day of the 9/11 attacks, were just the tip of an iceberg. In
September 2001, the federal police were busy dismantling the largest
Israeli spy network ever uncovered on American soil. In the summer
preceding the attack, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) compiled a
report which would be revealed to the public by the
Washington
Post
on
November 23
rd,
2001, followed by a Carl
Cameron’s four-part documentary broadcast on Fox News
from
December 11
th,
2001. On March 14
th,
2002, an article in French newspaper
Le
Monde

signed by Sylvain Cypel also referred to the report, shortly before
the French magazine
Intelligence
Online

made it fully
accessible on the Internet
.[5] It said that 140 Israeli spies,
aged between 20 and 30, had been arrested since March 2001, while 60
more were arrested after September 11. 

Generally posing as art
students, they visited at least “36 sensitive sites of the
Department of Defense.” “A majority of those questioned have
stated they served in military intelligence, electronic signal
intercept, or explosive ordnance units. Some have been linked to
high-ranking officials in the Israeli military. One was the son of a
two-star general, one served as the bodyguard to the head of the
Israeli Army, one served in a Patriot mission unit.” Another, Peer
Segalovitz, officer in the 605 Battalion of the Golan Heights,
“acknowledged he could blow up buildings, bridges, cars, and
anything else that he needed to.”[6]

Of
special interest is the mention that “the Hollywood, Florida, area
seems to be a central point for these individuals.”[7] More than 30
out of the 140 fake Israeli students identified before 9/11 lived in
that city of 140,000 inhabitants. And this city also happens to be
the place where fifteen of the nineteen alleged 9/11 Islamist
hijackers had regrouped (nine in Hollywood, six in the vicinity),
including four of the five supposed to have hijacked Flight AA11.
What was the relationship between the Israeli spies and the Islamist
terrorists? We were told by mainstream
news
that the former were monitoring the latter, but failed to
report suspicious activities of these terrorists to American
authorities. From such a presentation, Israel comes out clean, since
a spy agency cannot be blamed for not sharing information with the
country it is spying in. At worst, the Israeli Intelligence can be
accused of “letting it happen”—a guarantee of impunity. In
reality, the Israeli agents were certainly not just monitoring the
future “hijackers,” but financing and manipulating them, before
disposing of them. We know that Israeli Hanan Serfaty, who rented two
flats near Mohamed Atta, had handled at least $100,000 in three
months. And we also learned from the
New
York Times

on February 19, 2009
, that Ali al-Jarrah, cousin of the alleged
hijacker of Flight UA93 Ziad al-Jarrah, had spent twenty-five years
spying for the Mossad as an undercover agent infiltrating the
Palestinian resistance and Hezbollah.

Israeli
agents apparently appreciate operating under the cover of artists.
Shortly before September 11, a group of fourteen Jewish “artists”
under the name of Gelatin
installed themselves on the ninety-first floor of the north tower of
the World Trade Center. There, as a work of “street art,” they
removed a window and extended a wooden balcony. To understand what
role this piece of scaffolding may have played, it must be remembered
that the explosion supposedly resulting from the impact of the Boeing
AA11 on the North Tower took place between the ninety-second and the
ninety-eighth floors. With the only film of the impact on the North
Tower being that of the Naudet brothers, who are under suspicion for
numerous reasons, many researchers are convinced that no aircraft hit
this tower, and that the explosion simulating the impact was provoked
by pre-planted explosives inside the tower.

Floors
ninety-three to one hundred of the North Tower were occupied by Marsh
& McLennan, whose CEO was Jeffrey Greenberg, son of wealthy
Zionist (and financier of George W. Bush) Maurice Greenberg, who also
happens to be the owner of Kroll Inc., the firm in charge of security
for the entire World Trade Center complex on 9/11. The Greenbergs
were also the insurers of the Twin Towers and, on July 24, 2001, they
took the precaution of having the contract reinsured by competitors.
In November 2000, the board of directors of Marsh & McLennan was
joined by (Lewis) Paul Bremer, the chairman of the National
Commission on Terrorism, who, on September 11, 2001, two hours only
after the pulverization of the North Tower, would appear
on NBC to name bin Laden as prime suspect
, perfectly calm as 400
of his employees are missing (295 will finally be declared dead). “It
is the day that will change our lives,” he said. “It is the day
when the war that the terrorists declared on the US [. . .] has been
brought home to the US.” In 2003, Bremer would be appointed
administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq to level
the Iraqi state to the ground and oversee the theft of almost a
trillion dollars intended for its reconstruction.

The
super-sayanim

With
Goldberg and Bremer, we have reached the upper level of the
conspiracy, comprising a number of influential Jewish personalities,
working inside and outside the U.S. government — super-
sayanim,
so to speak. The most representative of those outside government is
Larry Silverstein, the real estate shark who, with his partner Frank
Lowy, leased the Twin Towers from New York City in the spring of
2001. The head of the New York Port Authority, who granted
Silverstein and Lowy the lease, was none other than Lewis Eisenberg,
another member of the United Jewish Appeal Federation and former
vice-president of AIPAC. It appeared that Silverstein had made a
disastrous deal, because the
Twin Towers had to be decontaminated for asbestos
. The
decontamination process had been indefinitely postponed since the
1980s because of its cost, estimated at nearly $1 billion in 1989. In
2001, the New York Port Authority had been all too happy to shift
responsibility to Silverstein.

Immediately
after acquiring the Twin Towers, Silverstein renegotiated the
insurance contracts to cover terrorist attacks, doubling the coverage
to $3.5 billion, and made sure he would retain the right to rebuild
after such an event. After the attacks, he took his insurers to court
in order to receive double compensation, claiming that the two planes
were two separate attacks. After a long legal battle, he
pocketed $4.5 billion
. Silverstein is a leading member of the
United Jewish Appeal Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York,
the biggest fundraiser for Israel (after the US government, which
pays about $3 billion per year in aid to Israel). Silverstein also
maintained “close ties with Netanyahu,” according to
Haaretz
(November
21, 2001)
: “The two have been on friendly terms since
Netanyahu’s stint as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations.
For years they kept in close touch. Every Sunday afternoon, New York
time, Netanyahu would call Silverstein.” Besides being a powerful
man, Larry is a lucky man: as
he explained in this interview
, every morning of the week, he had
breakfast at the
Windows
on the World

on top of the North Tower, but on September 11th, he had an
appointment with his dermatologist.

Accomplices
to the 9/11 false flag attack with strong Israeli connections should
also be tracked at the other end of the trajectory of the planes
reported to have crashed into the Twin Towers. Flights AA11 and UA175
took off from Logan Airport in Boston, which subcontracted their
security to International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS),
a firm based in Israel and headed by Menachem Atzmon
, a treasurer
of the Likud. So did Newark Airport where flight UA93 reportedly took
off before crashing in Shanksville.

A
serious investigation would follow many other trails, such as the
Odigo instant messages received by employees at the WTC two hours
before the plane crashes, as reported by
Haaretz
on
September 27
th,
2001. The first plane hit the WTC at the precise time announced,
“almost
to the minute,”
admitted Alex Diamandis, vice-president of
Odigo, headquartered in Israel. Also disturbing is the behavior of
the American branch of
Zim
Israel Navigational,

a maritime shipping giant 48% owned by the Jewish state (occasionally
used as a cover for the Israeli secret services), which moved its
offices from the WTC, along with its 200 employees, September 4
th,
2001, one week before the attacks —“like an act of God, we
moved”
,
said
the CEO Shaul Cohen-Mintz when interviewed
by
USA
Today
,
November 17
th,
2001
.

But
of course, none of these trails were ever pursued. That is because
the most powerful conspirators were at the highest level of the
Justice Department. Michael Chertoff was head of the Criminal
Division of the Department of Justice in 2001, and responsible, among
many other things, for securing the release of the Israeli agents
arrested before and after 9/11, including the “dancing Israelis.”
In 2003, this son of a rabbi and of a Mossad pioneer would be
appointed Secretary of Homeland Security, in charge of
counter-terrorism on the American soil, which allowed him to control
dissenting citizens and restrain access to the evidence under the
pretext of Sensitive Security Information.

Another
chief of the cover-up was Philip Zelikow, the executive director of
the 9/11 presidential Commission established in November 2002.
Zelikow is a self-styled specialist in the art of making “public
myths” by “‘searing’ or ‘molding’ events [that] take on
‘transcendent’ importance and, therefore, retain their power even
as the experiencing generation passes from the scene” (Wikipedia).
In December 1998, he co-signed an article for
Foreign
Affairs

entitled “Catastrophic Terrorism,”
in which he speculated on
what would have happened if the 1993 WTC bombing (already attributed
to bin Laden) had been done with a nuclear bomb: “An act of
catastrophic terrorism that killed thousands or tens of thousands of
people and/or disrupted the necessities of life for hundreds of
thousands, or even millions, would be a watershed event in America’s
history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented for
peacetime and undermine Americans’ fundamental sense of security
within their own borders in a manner akin to the 1949 Soviet atomic
bomb test, or perhaps even worse. … Like Pearl Harbor, the
event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The
United States might respond with draconian measures scaling back
civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention
of suspects and use of deadly force.” This is the man who
controlled the governmental investigation on the 9/11 terror attacks.
Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, who nominally led the commission,
revealed in their book
Without
Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission
(2006),
that the commission “was set up to fail” from the beginning.
Zelikow, they claim, had already written a synopsis and a conclusion
for the final report before the first meeting. He controlled all the
working groups, prevented them from communicating with each other,
and gave them as sole mission to prove the official story; Team 1A,
for example, was tasked to “tell the story of Al-Qaeda’s most
successful operation—the 9/11 attacks.”

A
tight control of mainstream media is perhaps the most delicate aspect
of the whole operation. I will not delve into that aspect, for we all
know what to expect from the MSM. For a groundbreaking argument on
the extent to which 9/11 was psy-op orchestrated by MSM, I recommend
Ace
Baker’s 2012 documentary
9/11
The Great American Psy-Opera
,
chapters
6, 7 and 8.

Machiavellian
meta-Zionists

If
we move up to the very highest level of the conspiracy, we find
ourselves in Tel Aviv. The preparation for 9/11 coincided with the
coming to power of Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996, followed by Ehud Barak
in July 1999, and Ariel Sharon in March 2001, who brought back
Netanyahu as minister of Foreign Affairs in 2002 (with Netanyahu
again becoming prime minister in 2009). It must be noted that both
Netanyahu and Ehud Barak were temporarily out of the Israeli
government in September 2001, just like Ben-Gurion at the time of
Kennedy’s assassination (read
my article on JFK
). A few months before 9/11, Barak, a former
head of Israeli military intelligence, was “recruited” as a
consultant to a Mossad front company, SCP Partner, specializing in
security and located less than seven miles from Urban Moving
Systems.[8] One hour after the explosion of the North Tower, Barak
was on BBC World
to point the finger at bin Laden (the first to
do so), and concluded: “It’s a time to launch an operational,
complete war against terror.”

As
for Netanyahu, we are not surprised to hear him boast, on CNN
in 2006
, of having predicted in 1995 that, “if the West doesn’t
wake up to the suicidal nature of militant Islam, the next thing you
will see is militant Islam bringing down the World Trade Center.”
Netanyahu is exemplary of the ever closer “special relationship”
between the US and Israel, which started with Truman and blossomed
under Johnson. Netanyahu had lived, studied, and worked in the United
States from 1960 to 1978, between his 11
th
and his 27
th
year—except during his military service—and again after the age
of 33, when he was appointed deputy ambassador to Washington and then
permanent delegate to the United Nations. Netanyahu appeared
regularly on CNN in the early 1990s, contributing to the
transformation of the world’s leading news channel into a major
Zionist propaganda tool. His political destiny was largely planned
and shaped in the United States, under the supervision of those we
now call neoconservatives, and the only thing that distinguishes him
from them is that, for public relations reasons, he does not possess
American nationality.

What’s
a neocon?” once asked Bush 43 to his father Bush 41, after more
than three years in the White House. “Do you want names, or a
description?” answered 41. “Description.” 

“Well,” said 41,
“I’ll give it to you in one word: Israel.”[9] That anecdote,
quoted by Andrew Cockburn, sums it up. The neoconservative movement
was born in the editorial office of the monthly magazine
Commentary,
which had replaced the
Contemporary
Jewish Record

in 1945 as the press organ of the American Jewish Committee. “If
there is an intellectual movement in America to whose invention Jews
can lay sole claim, neoconservatism is it,” wrote Gal
Beckerman in the
Jewish
Daily Forward
,
January
6, 2006. “It is a fact that as a political philosophy,
neoconservatism was born among the children of Jewish immigrants and
is now largely the intellectual domain of those immigrants’
grandchildren.”

The
founding fathers of neoconservatism (Norman Podhoretz, Irving
Kristol, Donald Kagan, Paul Wolfowitz, Adam Shulsky) were
self-proclaimed disciples of Leo Strauss, a German Jewish immigrant
teaching at the University of Chicago. Strauss can be characterized
as a meta-Zionist in the sense that, while an ardent supporter of the
State of Israel, he rejected the idea that Israel as a nation should
be contained within borders; Israel must retain her specificity,
which is to be everywhere, he said in essence in his 1962 lecture
“Why
We Remain Jews.”
Strauss would also approve of being called a
Machiavellian, for in his
Thoughts
on Machiavelli
,
he
praised the “the intrepidity of his thought, the grandeur of his
vision, and the graceful subtlety of his speech” (p. 13).
Machiavelli’s model of a prince was Cesar Borgia, the tyrant who
after having appointed the cruel Ramiro d’Orco to subdue the
province of Romania, had him executed with utter cruelty, thus
reaping the people’s gratitude after having diverted their hatred
onto another. Machiavelli, writes Strauss, “is a patriot of a
particular kind: He is more concerned with the salvation of his
fatherland than with the salvation of his soul” (p. 10). And that
happens to be exactly what Jewishness is all about, according to
Jewish thinkers such as Harry Waton: “The Jews that have a deeper
understanding of Judaism know that the only immortality there is for
the Jew is the immortality in the Jewish people” (read
more here
). As a matter of fact, in the
Jewish
World Review

of June 7, 1999
, Michael Ledeen, a neocon and founding member of
the
Jewish
Institute for National Security Affairs

(JINSA), assumed that Machiavelli must have been a “secret Jew,”
since “if you listen to his political philosophy you will hear
Jewish music.”

The
neoconservatives of the first generation originally positioned
themselves on the far left. Irving Kristol, one of the main editors
of Commentary, had long claimed to be a Trotskyist. It was
soon after the 1967 successful annexation of Arab territories by
Israel that the Straussians experienced their conversion to
right-wing militarism, to which they owe their new name. Norman
Podhoretz, editor-in-chief from 1960 to 1995, turned from anti-war
activist to defense budget booster in the early 70s. He gave the
following explanation in 1979: “American support for Israel
depended upon continued American involvement in international
affairs—from which it followed that an American withdrawal into the
kind of isolationist mood [. . .] that now looked as though it might
soon prevail again, represented a direct threat to the security of
Israel.” (Breaking Ranks, p. 336). Leading the U.S. into war
for the benefit of Israel is the essence of the Machiavellian
crypto-Zionists known deceptively as neoconservatives.

The
Project for a new (((American))) Century

The
story of how the neoconservatives reached the position of influence
they held under George W. Bush is a complicated one, which I can only
outline. They entered the state apparatus for the first time in the
baggage of Rumsfeld and Cheney, during president Ford’s cabinet
reshuffle known as the “Halloween Massacre,” following Nixon’s
resignation. When the Cold War calmed down after America evacuated
its troops from Vietnam in 1973, and the CIA produced reassuring
analyses of the USSR’s military capabilities and ambitions,
Rumsfeld (as Secretary of Defense) and Cheney (as Chief of Staff)
persuaded Ford to appoint an independent committee, known as Team B,
to revise upward the CIA estimates of the Soviet threat, and
reactivate a war attitude in public opinion, Congress, and
Administration. Team B was chaired by Richard Pipes and co-chaired by
Paul Wolfowitz, both introduced by Richard Perle.

During
the Democratic parenthesis of the Carter presidency (1976–80), the
neoconservatives worked at unifying the largest number of Jews around
their policies, by founding the Jewish Institute for National
Security Affairs (JINSA), which became the second-most powerful
pro-Israel lobby after AIPAC. According to its “mission
statement”
, it is “dedicated to educating Congressional,
military and civilian national security decision-makers on American
defense and strategic interests, primarily in the Middle East, the
cornerstone of which is a robust U.S.-Israeli security cooperation.”
In 1980, the neocons were rewarded by Ronald Reagan for their support
by a dozen posts in national security and foreign policy: Richard
Perle and Douglas Feith to the Department of Defense; Richard Pipes
at the National Security Council; Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis “Scooter”
Libby, and Michael Ledeen in the State Department. They helped Reagan
escalate the Cold War, showering billions of dollars on the
military-industrial complex.

The
long term planning of 9/11 probably started then. Isser Harel,
founder of Israeli secret services (Shai in 1944, Shin Bet
in 1948, Mossad until 1963) is reported as prophesizing in 1980, in
an interview with Christian Zionist Michael Evans, that Islamic
terrorism would end up hitting America in their “phallic symbol”:
“Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest
building will be the phallic symbol they will hit”.[10]  (A
whole article would be needed to document and explain the revival of
the Jewish gift of apocalyptic prophecy in recent decades.)

In
1996, during the Clinton years, the neoconservatives threw all their
weight into their ultimate think tank, the Project for the New
American Century (PNAC), directed by William Kristol and Robert
Kagan. PNAC recommended taking advantage of the defeat of communism
to reinforce American hegemony by preventing the emergence of any
rival. Their
Statement
of Principles
vowed
to extend the current
Pax
Americana
,
which entailed “a military that is strong and ready to meet both
present and future challenges.” In its September 2000 report
entitled
Rebuilding
America’s Defenses
,
PNAC anticipated that US forces must become “able to rapidly deploy
and win multiple simultaneous large-scale wars.” This required a
profound transformation, including the development of “a new family
of nuclear weapons designed to address new sets of military
requirements.” Unfortunately, according to the authors of the
report, “the process of transformation […] is likely to be a long
one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl
Harbor.” It is certainly no coincidence that the three-hour-long
blockbuster
Pearl
Harbor
was
released in the summer 2001, conveniently entrenching the “New
Pearl Harbor” meme into the minds of millions.

PNAC’s
architects played the American hegemony card by draping themselves in
the super-patriotic discourse of America’s civilizing mission. But
their duplicity is exposed in a document brought to public knowledge
in 2008: a report published in 1996 by the Israeli think tank
Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS),
entitled
A
Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm
,
written
specifically for the new Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
The team responsible for the report was led by Richard Perle, and
included Douglas Feith and David Wurmser, who figured the same year
among the signatories of PNAC. As its title suggests, the
Clean
Break

report invited Netanyahu to break with the Oslo Accords of 1993,
which officially committed Israel to the return of the territories it
occupied illegally since 1967. The new prime minister should instead
“engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism” and reaffirm
Israel’s right to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

In
November 2000, Bush Jr. was elected under conditions that raised
protests of electoral fraud. Dick Cheney, who had directed his
campaign, named himself vice-president and introduced two dozens
neoconservatives in foreign policy key positions. The State
Department was entrusted to Colin Powell, but he was surrounded with
neocon aides such as David Wurmser. As National Security Adviser,
Condoleezza Rice, a specialist of Russia with no expertise in the
Middle East, was entirely dependent on her neocon adviser Philip
Zelikow. William Luti and Elliott Abrams, and later Eliot Cohen, were
also tasked with steering Rice. But it was mainly from within the
Defense Department under Donald Rumsfeld that the most influential
neocons were able to fashion US foreign and military policy. Richard
Perle occupied the crucial position of director of the Defense Policy
Board, responsible for defining military strategy, while Paul
Wolfowitz became the “soul of the Pentagon” as deputy secretary
with Douglas Feith as under secretary.

The
Hanukkah miracle to start WWIV

After
eight months in the presidency, Bush was confronted with the
“catastrophic event,” the “new Pearl Harbor” that PNAC had
wished for a year earlier. 9/11 was a real “Hanukkah
miracle”
for Israel, commented Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy and
Israeli National Security Council chairman Uzi Dayan. Netanyahu
rejoiced: “It’s very good
[…] it will generate immediate
sympathy […], strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because
we’ve experienced terror over so many decades, but the United
States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror.” On
September 21, he published an op-ed in the
New
York Post

entitled “Today, We Are All Americans,” in which he delivered his
favorite propaganda line: “For the bin Ladens of the world, Israel
is merely a sideshow. America is the target.” 

Three days later the
New
Republic

responded with a headline on behalf of the Americans: “We are all
Israelis now.” Americans experienced 9/11 as an act of hatred from
the Arab world, and they felt an immediate sympathy for Israel, which
the neoconservatives relentlessly exploited. One of the aims was to
encourage Americans to view Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians
as part of the global fight against Islamic terrorism.

It
was a great success. In the years preceding September 11, Israel’s
reputation had bottomed out; condemnations had been raining from
around the world for its policy of apartheid and colonization, and
its systematic war against Palestinian command structures. Increasing
numbers of American voices questioned the merits of the special
relationship between the United States and Israel. From the day of
the attacks, it was all over. As Americans now intended to fight Arab
terrorists to the death, they would stop demanding from Israel more
reasonable, proportionate retaliation against Palestinian suicide
bombers and rockets.

Instead,
the president’s speeches (written by neocon David Frum)
characterized the 9/11 attacks as the trigger for a world war of a
new type, one fought against an invisible enemy scattered throughout
the Middle East. First, vengeance must come not only against bin
Laden, but also against the state harboring him: “We will make no
distinction between those who committed these acts and those who
harbor them” (Sept. 11). Second, the war extends to the world: “Our
war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It
will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been
found, stopped and defeated” (Sept. 20). Third, any country that
does not support Washington will be treated as an enemy: “Either
you are with us, or you are with the terrorists” (Sept. 20).

In
an article in the Wall Street Journal dated November 20, 2001,
the neoconservative Eliot Cohen dubbed the war against terrorism as
“World War IV,” a framing soon echoed by other American Zionists
(the odd choice of the name WWIV rather than WWIII comes, I suspect,
from the neocons’ ethnocentric worldview, in which every world war
is a step toward Greater Israel; since one major step was
accomplished in 1967, the Cold War counts as WW3). In September 2004,
at a conference in Washington entitled “World War IV: Why We Fight,
Whom We Fight, How We Fight,” Cohen said: “The enemy in this war
is not ‘terrorism’ […] but militant Islam.” Like the Cold
War, the imminent world war, according to Cohen’s vision, has
ideological roots, will have global implications, and will last a
long time, involving a whole range of conflicts. The self-fulfilling
prophecy of a new World War centered in the Middle East has also been
popularized by Norman Podhoretz, in “How to Win World War IV”
(Commentary, February 2002), followed by a second article in,
“World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, and Why We Have to
Win,” (September 2004), and finally a book titled World War IV:
The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism
(2007).[11]

The
hijacked conspiracy and the controlled opposition

In
the case of 9/11 as in the case of Kennedy, controlled opposition
operates on many levels, and many honest scholars now realize that
the 9/11 Truth movement itself is partly channeled by individuals and
groups secretly aiming at drawing suspicions away from Israel. Such
is certainly the case of the three young Jews (Avery, Rowe, and
Bermas) who directed the film
Loose
Change

(2005), the most widely watched 9/11 conspiracy film since its first
version in 2005. They hitched their whole thesis on a comparison with
the never carried-out false flag project Operation Northwoods (timely
revealed to the public in May 2001 in James
Bamford
’s book
Body
of Secrets
,
written with the support of former NSA director Michael Hayden, now
working for Michael Chertoff), but they failed to mention the attack
on the USS Liberty, a well-documented false flag attack by Israel on
its U.S. ally. 

They did not breathe a word about the
neoconservatives’ loyalty to Israel, and treat anyone who cited the
Israeli role in 9/11 as anti-Semitic. The same can be said of
Bermas’s more recent film
Invisible
Empire
(2010),
also produced by Alex Jones: a compilation of anti-imperialist
clichés focusing on the Bushs and the Rockefellers, without a single
hint of the (((Others))).

It
is interesting to note that the 9/11 scenario put forward by
Loose
Change

had actually been prewritten by Hollywood: on the 4
th
of March, 2001, Fox
TV broadcast the first episode of the series
The
Lone Gunmen
,
watched
by 13 million Americans. The plot is about computer hackers working
for a secret cabal within the U.S. government, who hijack a jet by
remote control with the intent to crash it into one of the Twin
Towers, while making it appear to have been hijacked by Islamic
terrorists. At the last seconds, the pilots manage to regain control
of the plane. The purpose of the failed operation was to trigger a
world war under the pretext of fighting terrorism. Truthers of the
“inside job” school fancy that this episode must have been
written by some whistleblower inside Fox. Unlikely!

There
is, of course, some truth in the “inside job” theory, as I said
at the beginning. Israel (in the wider sense) would not be able to
pull such an operation and get away with it, without complicity at
the highest level of U.S. government. How does that work? Pretty much
like for the Kennedy
assassination
, if you consider that the country was then ruled by
its vice-president Dick Cheney, the president being a mere dummy (see
Lou Dubose and Jake Bernstein,
Vice:
Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency,
Random
House, 2006). In my book
JFK-9/11,
I have proposed a plausible scenario of how Israel had in fact
hijacked a smaller false flag attack on the Pentagon fabricated by
the American Deep State, for the limited purpose of justifying the
overthrow of the Talibans in Afghanistan, a goal fully supported by
such “Great Gamers” as Zbigniew Brzezinski, but which didn’t in
itself interest the neocons.

What
the neocons wanted was a new war against Iraq and then a general
conflagration in the Middle East leading to the crumbling of all the
enemies of Israel, with Syria and Iran high on the list. So they
outbid everyone and gave the operation the scale they wanted with the
help of their New York super-sayan Silvertein. George W. Bush,
Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and other goyim who had been kept out
of the loop, finding themselves embroiled in geopolitical
machinations of global scope, could merely try to save face. On
September 19 and 20, Richard Perle’s Defense Policy Board met in
the company of Paul Wolfowitz and Bernard Lewis (inventor of the
self-fulfilling prophecy of the “clash of civilizations”) but in
the absence of Powell and Rice. They prepared a letter to Bush,
written on PNAC letterhead, to remind him of his historic mission:
“Even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any
strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must
include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in
Iraq. Failure to undertake such an effort will constitute an early
and perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international
terrorism.” [12] This was an ultimatum. Bush was certainly aware of
the leverage that the neocons had acquired over the major print and
television media. He was obliged, under penalty of ending in the
proverbial trash bin of history, to endorse the invasion of Iraq that
his father had refused the Zionists ten years earlier.

As
for Brzezinski and other genuine U.S. imperialists, their support for
the invasion of Afghanistan made their timid protests against the
Iraq war ineffective. It was a little late in February 2007 when
Brzezinski denounced before the Senate “a historical, strategic and
moral calamity […] driven by Manichaean impulses and imperial
hubris.” In 2012 he declared, regarding the risk of conflagration
with Iran, that Obama should stop
following Israel like a “stupid mule.”
He soon disappeared
from the MSM, as a useful idiot no longer useful.

The
“half truth” of the exclusively “inside job” theory, which
denounces 9/11 as a false flag operation perpetrated by the American
state on its own citizens, functions like a secondary false flag
hiding the real masters of the operation, who are in fact agents in
the service of a foreign nation. One of the aims of this
inside-jobish controlled opposition is to force American officials to
maintain the “bin Laden did it” masquerade, knowing that tearing
apart the fake Islamic flag would only reveal the U.S. flag, not the
Israeli flag. No longer controlling the media, they would not have
the means to raise this second veil to expose Israel. Any effort to
get at the truth would be political suicide. Everyone understands
what is at stake: if one day, under mounting pressure from public
opinion or for some other strategic reason, the mainstream media
abandons the official bin Laden story, the well-rehearsed slogan
“9/11 was an inside job” will have prepared Americans to turn
against their own government, while the neocon Zionists will remain
untouchable (Machiavelli’s method: make another accomplish your
dirty ends, then turn popular vengeance against him). And God knows
what will happen, if the government has not by then succeeded in
disarming its citizens through Sandy Hook-type psy-ops. Government
officials have little choice but to stick to the Al-Qaeda story, at
least for the next fifty years.

After
reaching this conclusion in
JFK-9/11,
I had the satisfaction of finding that Victor Thorn, in a book that
had eluded me (
Made
in Israel: 9-11 and the Jewish Plot Against America,
Sisyphus
Press, 2011
), had already expressed it in harsher terms: “In
essence, the ‘9-11 truth movement’ was created
prior
to
Sept. 11, 2001 as a means of suppressing news relating to Israeli
complicity. By 2002–2003, ‘truthers’ began appearing at rallies
holding placards that read ‘9-11 was an inside job.’ Initially,
these signs provided hope for those who didn’t believe the
government and mainstream media’s absurd cover stories. But then an
awful realization emerged: The slogan ‘9-11 was an inside job’
was quite possibly the greatest example of Israeli propaganda ever
devised. […] The mantra, ‘9-11 was an inside job’ is only
partially true and is inherently damaging to the ‘truth movement’
because it shifts all attention away from Israel’s traitorous
assault against America. […] Leaders of these fake 9-11 groups know
the truth about Israel’s 9-11 barbarity. Their willingness to
perpetuate or cover it up ultimately makes them as guilty and vile as
those who launched the attacks. 

There are no degrees of separation in
this matter. It’s a black-and-white issue. Tell the entire truth
about Israel’s Murder, Inc. cabal, or sleep in the same infected
bed as these murdering dogs lie in. […] Faux conspiratologists
complain about the government and news sources not telling the truth,
yet they’ve erected an utter blackout on data regarding Israel and
9-11.”

The
missing .3 trillion

Some
readers will complain that I am making a very complex operation
appear too simple. I plead guilty: I have merely tried here to
outline the case against Israel in the short scope of an article. But
I am fully aware that creating Greater Israel through a world war
fought by the U.S. might not have been the only consideration in the
preparation of 9/11. Many private interests had to be involved. Yet I
believe none of them interfered with Israel’s plan, and most of
them supported it.

There
is, for example, the missing
gold in the WTC basement
: $200 million were recovered from the
estimated $1 billion stored: who took the rest? But that is nothing
compared to the $2.3 trillion that were missing from the accounts of
the Department of Defense for the year 2000, in addition to $1.1
trillion missing for 1999, according to a televised declaration made
on September 10
th,
2001, the day before the attacks, by Donald Rumsfeld. Just for
comparison, this is more than one thousand times the colossal losses
of Enron, which triggered a chain of bankruptcies that same year. All
this money evaporated into thin air under the watch of William Cohen,
Defense Secretary during Bill Clinton’s second term. In 2001, the
man who was tasked to help track down the missing trillions was Under
Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Dov Zakheim, a member of PNAC and
an ordained rabbi. 

Practically, the mystery had to be resolved by
financial analysts at Resource Services Washington (RSW).
Unfortunately, their offices were destroyed by “al-Qaeda” the
following morning. The “hijackers” or Flight AA77, rather than
hitting the command center on the eastern side of the Pentagon, chose
to attempt a theoretically impossible downward spiral at 180 degrees
in order to hit the west side of the building precisely at the
location of the accounting offices. The 34 experts at RSW perished in
their offices, together with 12 other financial analysts, as is noted
in the biography of the team leader Robert Russell for the National
9/11 Pentagon Memorial
: “The weekend before his death, his
entire office attended a crab feast at the Russell home. They were
celebrating the end of the fiscal-year budget completion. Tragically,
every person that attended that party was involved in the Pentagon
explosion, and are currently missing”.

By
an incredible coincidence, one of the financial experts trying to
make sense of the Pentagon financial loss, Bryan Jack, was reported
to have died at the precise location of his office, not because he
was working there that day, but because he was on a business trip on
Flight AA77. In the words of the
Washington
Post

database
: “Bryan C. Jack was responsible for crunching
America’s defense budget. He was a passenger on American Airlines
Flight 77, bound for official business in California when his plane
struck the Pentagon, where, on any other day, Jack would have been at
work at his computer”. Yahweh must have a sense of chutzpah! 

Laurent
Guyénot is the author of JFK-9/11:
50 years of Deep State, Progressive Press, 2014
, and From
Yahweh to Zion: Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land … Clash
of Civilizations
, 2018. (or $30 shipping included from Sifting
and Winnowing, POB 221, Lone Rock, WI 53556). –
Source

Footnotes

[1]
Philippe Broussard, “En dépit des déclarations américaines, les
indices menant à Ben Laden restent minces,” Le Monde, September
25, 2001.

[2] Gilad Atzmon, Being in Time: a Post-Political
Manifesto, Interlink Publishing, 2017 , p. 142.

[3] David Ray
Griffin, 9/11 Contradictions, Arris Books, 2008, pp. 170-182; Webster
Griffin Tarpley, 9/11 Synthetic Terror Made in USA, Progressive
Press, 2008, pp. 321-324.

[4] Christopher Bollyn, Solving
9-11: The Deception That Changed the World, C. Bollyn, 2012, pp.
278–280.

[5] It is quoted here from Bollyn’s book and from
Justin Raimondo, The Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection,
iUniverse, 2003.

[6] Christopher Bollyn, Solving 9-11: The
Deception That Changed the World, C. Bollyn, 2012, p. 159.

[7]
Justin Raimondo, The Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection,
iUniverse, 2003, p. 3.

[8] Christopher Bollyn, Solving 9-11:
The Deception that Changed the World, 2012 , pp. 278-280.

[9]
Quoted by Andrew Cockburn, who claims to have heard the anecdote from
“friends of the family”, in Rumsfeld: His Rise, His fall, and
Catastrophic Legacy, Scribner, 2011, p. 219.

[10] Michael
Evans told of this prophecy in an interview with Deborath Calwell and
in his book The American Prophecies, Terrorism and Mid-East Conflict
Reveal a Nation’s Destiny), quoted in Christopher Bollyn, Solving
9-11: The Deception That Changed the World, C. Bollyn, 2012, p.
71.

[11] Stephen Sniegoski, The Transparent Cabal: The
Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National
Interest of Israel, Enigma Edition, 2008, p. 193.

[12] Stephen
Sniegoski, The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in
the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel, Enigma Edition,
2008, p. 144.

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*  Zie: ‘Tell Congress: Stop the Patriot Act!‘ >>de volgende tekst is een deel van het schrijven bij deze petitie: A federal judge ruled that
all the government spying that Edward Snowden revealed back in 2013
was illegal.1

But that doesn’t mean the NSA,
FBI, and other Trump-controlled intelligence agencies will suddenly
stop spying on Americans’ phone records, internet searches, and web
browser history. Far from it.

Congress could still
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** Waarbij gebouw 7 van het WTC al niet kan zijn ingestort als reactie op het instorten van de torens……

Voor meer berichten over 9/11 (en dat zijn er heel wat) klik op het label 911, direct onder dit bericht.

Mijn excuus, maar vanwege het beperkte aantal labels dat je mag gebruiken in blogger, ontbreken er wel ‘een paar’ belangrijke labels. (maar nogmaals: door te klikken op 911 zie je genoeg berichten waarin je de belangrijkste figuren en labels ‘tegenkomt’, waarvan er een aantal in het bovenstaande artikel worden genoemd)

De militarisering van de VS gaat ten koste van de eigen bevolking, van sociale rechtvaardigheid en van gelijkheid

Melvin
Goodman heeft op CounterPunch een artikel geschreven over de
militarisering van de VS. Daarvoor haalt hij de woorden aan van
Martin Luther King, die precies een jaar voordat hij werd vermoord op
4 april 1967, in een toespraak de volgende zaken met elkaar en racisme verbond:
-de politieke, economische en sociale crisis, -het militarisme plus de Vietnam Oorlog, -de ongelijkheid en
-het materialisme van de VS economie. Daarvoor stelde hij dat er een
beweging nodig was die de VS maatschappij naar sociale
rechtvaardigheid zou leiden, iets wat tot op de dag van vandaag nog
steeds niet is gebeurd…… (in feite tekende Martin Luther King met dergelijke toespraken zijn eigen doodvonnis…..)

Leiders
van burgerrechten van het politieke ‘midden’, zoals Ralph Bunch
vroegen King zijn toespraak radicaal aan te passen: en racisme niet
lange te verbinden aan de Vietnam Oorlog. Ter verduidelijking: in
verhouding werden meer zwarte jongeren uitgezonden naar Vietnam,
jongeren ook uit arme gezinnen die naast de dienstplicht ook werden gelokt met
‘ronselpraatjes…..’ De grote dagbladen van die tijd, zoals de New
York Times en de Washington Post bagatelliseerden de toespraak van
King en stelden dat het een stevige versimpeling was van de problemen
en dat deze de burgerrechtenbeweging en de anti-oorlog beweging
schade zouden toebrengen….. (ha! ha! ha! ha! het gore lef!!) 53 jaar later wordt er nog steeds
gestreden om sociale rechtvaardigheid te bewerkstelligen voor zaken die
racisme, militarisme en materialisme teweegbrengen…… (materialisme dat mede verantoordelijk is voor de klimaatverandering en daarmee voor de vernietiging van een fiks deel van de aarde…..)

King
stelde destijds al dat de VS de grootste leverancier is van geweld in
de wereld, zoals op deze plek vaak neergezet met de constatering dat
de VS de grootste terreurentiteit op onze planeet is, een entiteit
die vanaf het eind van WOII verantwoordelijk is voor de dood van ruim
meer dan 22,5 miljoen mensen…… De laatste 2 decennia is de
VS in feite continu verwikkeld in (illegale) oorlogen die het zelf is begonnen en waarbij meer dan 2,5 mensen zijn omgekomen,
ofwel vermoord door de VS met hulp van haar hielenlikkende
NAVO-partners (waaronder Nederland….)…. Vergeet hierbij niet dat
de VS onder Nobelprijswinnaar voor de Vrede, Obama niet alleen de
eerste licht gekleurde president was van de VS, maar hij was tevens de eerste
president die de VS de volledige 2 termijnen in illegale oorlogen
vasthield, ‘een prestatie vanjewelste…..’ (ter verduidelijking: een
walgelijke prestatie en nogmaals: dat werd bewerkstelligd door een
Nobelprijswinnaar, met de hulp en onder verantwoording van
oorlogsmisdadigers Hillary Clinton en Joe Biden als ministers van
buitenlandse zaken….)

King zei volkomen terecht dat de enorme hoeveelheid geld die
werd gespendeerd aan oorlogen zou moeten worden gebruikt om
sociaal welzijn te bewerkstelligen in de VS. In feite was
oud-president Eisenhower het eens met King, toen hij in 1953 in een
toespraak stelde dat elk wapen dat wordt gefabriceerd en elk
oorlogsschip dat van stapel loopt, diefstal is van degenen die
hongeren maar geen eten hebben en van hen die kou lijden maar geen
kleding hebben. Voorts liet hij in deze toespraak weten, enkele weken
na de dood van Stalin, dat de kosten voor de rivaliteit tussen de VS
en Rusland veel te groot waren, waarbij hij in feite doelde op de
onzinnige expres opgeklopte rivaliteit* (Ap). Eisenhower was ook degene die het militair-industrieel complex gebruikte om aan te geven dat dit een groot gevaar was voor de democratie. Wat
dat betreft is er weinig veranderd, gezien de verhoudingen van de VS
met China (en Rusland, al noemt Goodman in deze die rivaliteit niet),
waarvoor het ‘defensiebudget’ (lees: oorlogsbudget) volkomen uit de
klauwen is gelopen en nu zelfs meer dan 750 miljard dollar groot
is…….

Belachelijk
genoeg is het budget voor buitenlandse zaken uitgekleed ten koste van
dat oorlogsbudget, ofwel; de VS heeft lak aan diplomatie en dicteert
met het geweer in de hand, waarbij voor het grootste deel regeringen
onder druk worden gezet met economische sancties, waar de volkeren
die het aangaat zwaar lijden en waarbij alleen de laatste 23 jaar al
minstens een miljoen mensen zijn omgekomen (waaronder een groot aantal kinderen….)….. Als de opvolgende VS
administraties daarop werden (en de Trump administratie wordt) gewezen liegt men keihard dat
humanitaire goederen als voedsel en medicijnen niet onder de sancties
vallen, terwijl juist daardoor zoveel mensen omkomen….. Zo zijn in
Venezuela al minstens 50.000 mensen omgekomen door die sancties en
lijdt de bevolking in Syrië nu zelfs honger……

De
leugen dat humanitaire goederen niet onder sancties vallen is zo
overduidelijk dat het totaal belachelijk is, immers de bedoeling van
die sancties is de bevolking op te zetten tegen de regering die de VS
wil wippen…….

Goodman stelt dat het wel uiterst cynisch
is dat de militarisering van de VS pas goed van start ging na het
inklappen van de Sovjet-Unie, waar militairen meer politieke macht
kregen ten koste van beambten die zich bezig hielden met ontwapening
en het zoeken naar politieke oplossingen voor problemen elders. Ben het in
deze niet eens met Goodman, immers de VS heeft ook voor het omvallen
van de Sovjet-Unie op grote schaal (illegaal, dus zonder toestemming van een VN resolutie) oorlog gevoerd tegen een groot aantal
landen…..

Om
nog maar te zwijgen over de CIA organisatie van geheime militaire
acties in diverse buitenlanden, het organiseren van (veelal
gewelddadige) opstanden in landen die de VS niet welgevallig waren en
zijn, met zoals gezegd de bedoeling om het volk op te zetten tegen
haar veelal democratisch gekozen regering en uiteindelijk zelfs met
een door het Pentagon georganiseerde militaire inval in dat soort
landen, mochten voorgaande zaken niet lukken, zie bijvoorbeeld Irak,
Libië en Syrië…. (de opstand in Libië lukte doordat troepen van
terreurorganisatie NAVO, o.l.v. de VS de stellingen van het Libische
leger bombardeerden en daarmee o.a. de al inferieure luchtmacht van
Khadaffi aan de grond hielden…… Waar een inval in Irak en Syrië
volgde nadat de VS alweer zoals gezegd het wapen van sancties (en
opstanden) heeft geprobeerd te gebruiken, maar waar dat wel
mislukte…. 

Tot
slot nog dit: Trump heeft met zijn herhaalde oorlogsverklaring aan
‘the left’ in de VS nog eens laten zien dat Goodman met zijn artikel
het gelijk volkomen aan zijn kant heeft….. (een oorlogsverklaring
tegen burgerrechten organisaties als Black Lives Matter, milieu-actie
organisaties en vredesactivisten, al dan niet georganiseerd in organisaties die zich verzetten tegen het VS
imperialisme…)…. In feite heeft Trump met zijn uitlatingen de lont
aangestoken, die een burgeroorlog in de VS heel dichtbij heeft
gebracht…… (één voordeel mocht dat gebeuren: de VS zal dan een
groot deel van haar troepen uit het buitenland terug moeten trekken,
waardoor de wereld eindelijk wat adem kan halen, bevrijd van de
enorme terreur die de VS over een flink deel van de wereld heeft
gebracht en brengt)

Lees
het volgende artikel waarin je veel meer kan lezen over het
imperialisme van de VS dat ten koste gaat van de eigen bevolking en
vorm je eigen mening over e.e.a. Vergeet daarbij niet dat er intussen met meer dan voldoende bewijs kan worden aangetoond dat de
VS het Vierde Rijk is…… Een ‘rijk’ met bijvoorbeeld meer dan 800 militaire bases
over de wereld….. Voorts kan je ook aan het politie apparaat van de
VS zien dat de militarisering letterlijk doorsijpelt in de dagelijkse
‘burgerpraktijk…..’

July
1, 2020

De-Militarizing
the United States

by Melvin
Goodman

Photograph
by Nathaniel St. Clair

More than a half-century ago,
exactly one year before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr.
brilliantly identified the keys to the American political, economic,
and social crisis that has worsened over the years.  At the
Riverside Church in New York City, King linked the militarism of the
Vietnam War; the racism of American society; and the inequality and
materialism of the American economy to demand a movement toward
social justice that we seek today.  The central civil rights
leaders of the time, including Ralph Bunch, asked King to radically
alter the speech and to dissociate racism from the Vietnam War. 
The central newspapers of the time, including the 
New
York Times
 and
the 
Washington Post,
maligned the speech, terming it an “oversimplification” that
would hurt both the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement.
Fifty-three years later, we are still trying to solve the ills of
racism, militarism, and materialism that beg for social justice.

King courageously referred to the
United States as the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world,”
and today we face two decades of permanent war that have cost blood
and treasure.  King believed the resources spent on the Vietnam
War should have been devoted to social welfare at home. 
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his Cross of Iron speech in 1953,
argued similarly that “every gun that is made, every warship
launched” is “theft from those who hunger and are not fed—those
who are cold and are not clothed.”  Eisenhower gave the speech
several weeks after the death of Joseph Stalin, warning of the
tremendous costs associated with the rivalry with the Soviet Union. 
We continue to exaggerate the threats from overseas (see China) to
justify bloated defense budgets that restrict economic and social
investment.

The reliance on military
instruments of power to implement foreign policy has expanded the
role of the Department of Defense at the expense of the Department of
State.  The State Department’s budget is less than one-tenth
of the defense budget, and smaller than the budget of the
intelligence community.  There are more soldiers and sailors in
military marching bands than there are Foreign Service Officers. 
The decline of the Agency for International Development, and
President Bill Clinton’s dissolution of the Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency and the United States Information Service have
contributed to the overall decline of civilian influence in national
security policy. John Quincy Adams warned against going abroad
“in search of monsters to destroy,” which is exactly what we have
done in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Ironically, the increased
militarization of U.S. policy began in the wake of the collapse of
the Soviet Union, which should have inspired a debate on the need for
a new national security strategy.  Instead, the administrations
of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama  catered to
the military, appointed too many general and flag officers to
positions that should be in the hands of civilians, and failed to
control spending on weapons of war.  Donald Trump went further
than his predecessors in this regard, although it turned out that his
generals became the “adults in the room,” and were replaced by
such civilian “Chicken Hawks” as John Bolton and Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo.  Trump’s hands-off style toward the
military has been worsened by his “war cabinet.”

Pompeo and former national security
adviser Bolton killed arms control and disarmament and thus provided
a tremendous boost to militarization of national security policy. 
They successfully lobbied for the destruction of the Iran nuclear
accord, the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and the Open
Skies Treaty (OST); they dragged their heels on renewing the New START
Treaty, which expires in January 2021.  Their legacy may
eventually include the death of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in
view of Trump’s interest in conducting the first U.S. nuclear test
since 1992, when Washington followed Moscow’s lead and joined a
moratorium on nuclear-weapons testing.  A U.S. resumption of
testing would be the death knell for the Nonproliferation Treaty,
which finds the non-nuclear signers impatient with the failure of
nuclear powers to disarm.

The militarization of the
intelligence community, particularly the Central Intelligence Agency,
has contributed to the misuse of force.  The CIA helped to make
a specious case for war against Iraq, citing nonexistent weapons of
mass destruction and nonexistent links between Saddam Hussein and
Osama bin Laden.  The CIA cherry-picked intelligence to support
the use of force and  corrupted the intelligence process to
convince Congress and the American people of the need for war. No
senior CIA official protested, let alone resigned, in the wake of the
misuse of intelligence or in response to the sadistic torture and
abuse program of the war on terror.  Meanwhile, the CIA has
become a paramilitary organization, and has stepped up its
recruitment of military veterans.  The hiring of military
veterans by the police is similarly noteworthy.

When the Pentagon ended up with
weapons of war that were no longer needed, the Clinton administration
found a way to distribute armored personnel carriers, submachine
guns, and even grenade launchers to urban police departments, which
began to look like forces of occupation and not community support.
The use of tear gas, which was developed by the U.S. Army for riot
control in 1919 and is prohibited by various international treaties,
was widely used against protestors in the wake of the murder of
George Floyd. National Guard helicopters were used in Washington to
rout peaceful protestors by using low flying techniques to create
dangerous downdrafts, a technique developed to rout insurgents in
such places as Iraq. Recent studies indicate that police departments,
which were given sophisticated military equipment in the 1990s, were
more likely to have violent encounters with the public, regardless of
local crime rates.  Militarized police units, moreover, were
more frequently deployed to African-American communities, even after
controlling for local crime rates.

In addition to the use of military
weapons and techniques to implement domestic security, there has been
police misuse of intelligence surveillance at home.  In January
2020, an African-American man in Detroit became the first U.S.
citizen to be arrested as a result of a false facial recognition
match.  Police departments have used facial recognition systems
for the past two decades, but recent studies have demonstrated that
the technology is not accurate for people of color due to a lack of
diversity in the images used to develop the underlying databases. 
The case in Detroit involved a combination of flawed technology and
poor police work.  Fortunately, the American Civil Liberties
Union is working to end the use of invasive surveillance technologies
as the Congress grapples awkwardly with police reform in the wake of
mindless police killings in Minnesota, Colorado, and Kentucky.

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks,
the New York police department hired a former deputy director for
operations at the CIA, David Cohen, as a deputy police commissioner
for intelligence.  Cohen immediately initiated police
surveillance of public events, and declared that the police
department was not required to have a “specific indication” of a
crime before investigating.  In granting the city’s
surveillance requests, a federal judge ruled that the dangers of
terrorism “outweigh any First Amendment cost.”  As a result,
the police department was authorized to conduct investigations of
political, social, and religious groups. The Pentagon and the
Department of Homeland Security orchestrated the use of drones in
fifteen cities to collect intelligence against peaceful protests
after the Floyd murder.  In a violation of the 1878 Posse
Comitatus Act, this information was passed to the FBI for law
enforcement purposes.

King’s voice was prescient in
linking the costs of overseas military adventurism; social and
economic inequality; and institutional racism.  His voice had
support over the past century.  

When Franklin D. Roosevelt
assumed the presidency in 1933, he told advisors that the United
States needed a new vision of domestic security, that we were
“trapped in the ice of our own indifference.”  When
Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961, he warned about the dangers
of unchecked and unmonitored congressional support for defense
spending, intelligence spending, and homeland security.  And in
1999, George F. Kennan, the author of our Cold War containment
strategy against the Soviet Union, warned about over-reliance on the
military in U.S. decision making. The sooner we grapple with the
militarization of our society at home and abroad, the sooner we will
be able to address the ills that militarism has wrought.

 

More articles by:Melvin
Goodman

Melvin A. Goodman is
a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a
professor of government at Johns Hopkins University.  A former
CIA analyst, Goodman is the author of Failure
of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA
 and National
Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism
. and A
Whistleblower at the CIA
. His most recent book is “American
Carnage: The Wars of Donald Trump” (Opus Publishing), and he is the
author of the forthcoming “The Dangerous National Security State”
(2020).” Goodman is the national security columnist
for counterpunch.org.

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* Al was e.e.a. behoorlijk hypocriet, immers ook Eisenhower hield zich bezig met illegale oorlogsvoering en een fiks aantal kernproeven…..

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De ‘top priority items’ voor Trumps tweede termijn

Hier een Twitterbericht dat ik via Walter van der Cruijsen vond. Hierin geeft Trump antwoord op de vraag van FOX presentator Sean Hannity, wat zijn prioriteiten zullen zijn als hij in november een tweede termijn wint. Dat laatste is welhaast zeker, maar wat wil je met een demente kraai als Joe Biden, de kandidaat van de Democratische Partij, overigens een figuur die qua gepleegde (oorlogs-) misdaden niet onderdoet voor Trump…..

Let wel: pas op dat je niet in een lachstuip blijft als je het antwoord van de psychopathische fascist Trump leest!

Walter van der Cruijsen Retweeted

Scott E. Bartner

@SBartner RT@SBartner: What the “reelected” 45th President has to say. Brace yourself—it’s profound:

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8:01 AM · Jun 26, 2020 from Maastricht, The NetherlandsTwitter for iPhone

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Nee inderdaad je hoeft geen mensen te vermoorden, echter Trump is intussen al lang een massamoordenaar en een oorlogsmisdadiger gezien het grote aantal mensen dat bijvoorbeeld in het Midden-Oosten werd vermoord onder zijn presidentschap……. Hij zou dan ook als Bill Clinton, George W. Bush en Barack Obama moeten worden vervolgd door het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) voor oorlogsmisdaden en misdaden tegen de menselijkheid…… Dat laatste bijvoorbeeld voor de illegale sancties tegen Venezuela, Iran en Syrië , die intussen in totaal al aan meer dan 70.000 mensen het leven moet hebben gekost (door honger en/of gebrek aan medicijnen), alleen in Venezuela zijn door die illegale sancties al meer dan 50.000 mensen om het leven gekomen, ofwel zijn zijn vermoord middels sancties…… Daarnaast doet de VS ‘fysiek mee’ aan de zeeblokkade voor Jemenitische havens in handen van Houthi rebellen, wat intussen aan zo’n 500.000 mensen het leven moet hebben gekost……. (vorig jaar werd al bekend gemaakt dat minstens 88.000 kinderen daar het leven hebben gelaten door die blokkades, onderdeel van een door de Saoedische terreurcoalitie gevoerde genocide in Jemen…..)

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