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Georgië: demonstraties in Tbilisi: alweer onder leiding van VS op weg naar oorlog…..

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

(On the top right hand side of this page you can choose for a translation in the language of your choice in Google Translate)

In het hieronder opgenomen Substack artikel van Scott Ritter (een echte Oost-Europa deskundige en voormalig wapeninspecteur van de VN) geeft hij aan dat wanneer het westen zo doorgaat met het ophitsen van een deel van de bevolking in Georgië, de kans groot is dat dit land in oorlog zal worden gedompeld…..

De VS en haar slaafse NAVO-partners, inclusief de EU, proberen een ‘zachte coup’ uit te voeren in Georgië, zodat dit land zich zal afwenden van Rusland en haar lucratieve deals met dat land zal inruilen voor zogenaamde EU welstand >> ofwel het inleveren van heel veel soevereiniteit, plus een verarming van het grootste volksdeel…. 

Het meest smerige is wel dat de VS en de rest van het westen zullen eisen dat Georgië de gebieden Abchazië en Zuid-Ossetië weer onder eigen beheer zal brengen, iets wat Rusland niet zal toestaan, gezien de ervaringen uit 2008 toen het Georgische leger deze gebieden aanviel, gebieden die al vele generaties lang voornamelijk worden bewoond door etnische Russen….. Daarbij werden zelfs Russische troepen vermoord die de vrede moesten bewaren, het grootste deel van deze troepen werden in hun slaap vermoord…. 

Na deze barbaarse misdaad greep Rusland in en vernietigde het Georgische leger, daarover wordt door de reguliere westerse media en het overgrote deel van de westerse politici nog steeds gesteld dat dit een agressie-oorlog was van Rusland, eenzelfde enorme leugen als die over de Russische inval in Oekraïne….. Als het Rusland inderdaad te doen was geweest om gebiedsuitbreiding had het de hoofdstad Tbilisi ingenomen wat het zonder probleem had kunnen doen, maar niet deed, het Russische leger heeft alleen de door etnische Russen bewoonde gebieden veilig gesteld en doet dat tot op de dag van vandaag zoals je ongetwijfeld al had begrepen.  

Tbilisi (foto: Wikipedia)

Als met de oorlog in Oekraïne was ook het westen in 2008 de grote oorlogshitser op de achtergrond en gebood de Georgische regering om onderhandelingen over Abchazië en Zuid-Ossetië te stoppen en deze gebieden aan te vallen…. 

Middels wetgeving op buitenlandse inmenging, wil men het opjutten van de bevolking tegengaan. Het gaat om eenzelfde soort wetgeving als de VS heeft geïntroduceerd onder de noemer Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), een wet die dateert uit 1938. De VS en andere westerse landen jutten de boel op in Georgië, om zo de bevolking op te zetten tegen de vriendschappelijke banden die de grootste (democratische) partij van het land onderhoudt met Rusland, banden die zeer voordelig zijn voor het Georgische volk >> al zou het alleen maar om leveringen van gas gaan, geeft dit het land ongelofelijk veel voordeel op landen die gas importeren uit andere landen….. Dit opjutten tegen de zittende regering doet men via NGO’s die worden gesubsidieerd door landen of organisaties uit het buitenland, waarbij de VS vooraan staat, maar dat zal de regelmatige lezer van dit blog waarschijnlijk niet verbazen.

Nogmaals: het is een zelfde weg die de  VS heeft gevolgd in Oekraïne, al heeft de VS middels terreurorganisatie CIA daar middels 5 miljard dollar in 2013 een opstand georganiseerd met de gelukte opzet om een coup te kunnen plegen tegen de democratisch gekozen president Janoekovytsj die dan ook in 2014 plaatsvond…. Janoekovytsj had een uitstekend handelsverdrag gesloten met Rusland, wat het land heel veel voordeel zou hebben opgeleverd, maar de VS en haar slaafse NAVO-partners wilden dat Oekraïne een zelfde soort verdrag met de EU sloot en zich bij die ondemocratische organisatie zou aansluiten, een deelname die de Oekraïense bevolking veel ellende zal bezorgen en dat gaat dan ook gebeuren als Oekraïne toetreedt tot de EU (wat overigens ook ons een bak belastinggeld zal kosten)…..

Vannacht op CBC Radio 1 en vanmorgen in het NOS Radio1 Journaal (rond 8.24 u.) berichten over de demonstratie van gisteravond in de Georgische hoofdstad Tbilisi. Op Radio1 had men contact met de NOS correspondent voor Rusland Geert Groot Koerkamp, een ‘geheel onafhankelijke journalist’ (niet dus). Hij sprak met gespleten tong over de demonstratie in Tbilisi, zoals gezegd wetgeving tegen subsidiëring van NGO’s die zich verzetten tegen banden met Rusland en deze zullen ontdoen van hun subsidiegelden…. De totaal anti-Russische correspondent Koerkamp stelde dat die voorgenomen wetgeving een groot gevaar vormt voor NGO’s die afhankelijk zijn van buitenlandse subsidies….. Met geen woord sprak hij over dezelfde wetgeving in de VS (FARA) die in 2017 weer uit de kast werd getrokken door de Trump administratie, nee hem horend zou dit een Russische wetgeving zijn (terwijl Rusland eenzelfde wet aannam nadat de VS deze gebruikte tegen de mediaorganen RT en Sputnik….)

Koerkamp gaf een voorbeeld van wat de door hem gewenste NGO’s willen bereiken in Georgië >> volgens hem onder andere het bevorderen van de democratie in het land…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Georgië is een democratie sukkel!! Hij bedoelde dan ook de democratie zo aanpassen dat partijen als Georgian Dream (de regerende en verreweg grootste politieke partij in dat land) niet meer mogen deelnemen aan verkiezingen, immers deze partij is een hele slag te groot voor de oppositie….. Het is al met de partij van de Oekraïense president Janoekovytsj die veel te groot was in het oog van de VS en die dan ook werd verboden na de coup van 2014, zoals alle oppositiepartijen werden verboden die achter goede banden met Rusland stonden….. 

Oekraïne is dan ook geen democratie meer, de meeste oppositiepartijen van voor 2014 zijn verboden, verkiezingen worden niet meer gehouden ofwel nu zit Zelensky zelfs helemaal zonder mandaat (al had hij dat in feite al niet gezien het verbod op veel politieke partijen), vakbonden zijn verboden, het is verboden om je mening te uiten als je kritiek hebt op dictator Zelensky en zijn corrupte boevenbende en het is verboden om te verklaren dat je achter de etnische Russen in het land staat en/of achter Rusland staat….. Nog even en ook Russisch en Hongaars spreken wordt verboden in Oekraïne, dat heeft de Zelensky junta al bekend gemaakt….

Lees het prefecte overzicht dat Scott Ritter geeft over Georgië en zegt het voort, daar de kans groot is dat dit land door het westen wordt gedwongen een volgende oorlog met Rusland uit te vechten…. En let op de zwaar gekleurde eenzijdige berichtgeving over Georgië in de westerse massamedia, maar trap in godsnaam niet nog eens in de zwaar anti-Russische propaganda, die nu al zover gaat dat men ook hier de bevolking waarschuwt voor een oorlog met dat land…. Een oorlog waar de NAVO-lidstaten met hun handelen om smeken en dat onder ‘bezielende leiding’ van de grootste terreurentiteit ter wereld >> de VS, het land dat alleen deze eeuw al verantwoordelijk is voor de moord op meer dan 5 miljoen mensen!!

(als je het Engels niet machtig bent, zet dan de tekst om in Nederlands met behulp van Google translate dat je rechts bovenaan deze pagina ziet staan, klik eerst in het menu op ‘Engels’, waarna je weer kan klikken op die vertaalapp, daarna zie je bovenaan in het menu ‘Nederlands’ staan >> klik daarop en de hele tekst staat vervolgens in het Nederlands, de vertaling is van een redelijk goede kwaliteit.)

Dream,
Georgia…Dream

Scott
Ritter

April
25, 2024.


Pro-European
Union Georgians protest in Tbilisi (2023)

For
the Georgian people, Georgia Dream’s second try at passing the
foreign agent registration law proved the charm.

It
is a battle of the “playbooks.”

On
the one side you have the so-called “Russian playbook,” where an
authoritarian government uses threats of violence and oppression to
intimidate a population into passivity, denying the people any voice
when it comes to the shaping of society and defining the soul of a
nation.

On
the other hand, there is the “American playbook,” where secret
money buys misplaced loyalty, allowing fantasy-laced scenarios of
wealth and prosperity to drown out the practical matters of
sovereignty, where false promises of freedom shout down the voices
who cry out in defense of traditional values.

Whose
playbook is in play all depends on which side of the argument one
resides.

Today,
the streets of Tbilisi, the capital of the southern Caucasus nation
of Georgia, are jammed with thousands of protesters lamenting the
probable passage of a bill—”on transparency of foreign
influence”—they call “the Russian law.”

Thirteen
months ago, similar crowds of angry young Georgians, many of whom
carried the blue and gold banner of the European Union alongside the
red and white flag of the Republic of Georgia, pressured the Georgian
Parliament to withdraw from consideration the initial draft of this
law, which would require non-governmental organizations to declare
the sources of their funding, and mandated that those organizations
that took in more than 20 percent of their funding from foreign
sources register as foreign agents.

Scott
will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep.
154 of Ask
the Inspector.

Similar
Russian legislation passed in 2012 (and subsequently modified in 2019
and 2021) proved to be the death knell for US, UK, and EU-funded
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that had spent more than two
decades trying to, according to their leaders, shape Russian civil
society along western lines.

But
the Russian government saw things differently. These same NGOs, the
Russian government maintained, were involved in fomenting a
soft-power coup by tearing down public confidence in government while
simultaneously promoting so-called political opposition that, by
receiving money and instructions from abroad, was less a product of
Russian democracy, and more a tool of malign foreign interests.

The
Russian legislation succeeded in its objective—with few exceptions,
those political oppositionists who took foreign money were rooted out
and expelled from Russian political life.

This
was the “Russian law.”

For
the leaders of the ruling Georgian political party, Georgia Dream,
the failure to pass the foreign registration legislation represented
more than a political setback—it opened the door for a renewed push
by the US and EU to seize control of the Georgian socio-political
agenda, paving the way for pro-EU/NATO political parties to defeat
Georgia Dream in elections scheduled for October 2024.

In
short, the US and EU were succeeding in accomplishing in Georgia—a
soft-power coup—what they failed to accomplish in Russia.

Because
Russia passed the “Russian law.”

The
narrative painted by the pro-EU/NATO Georgians was one that blames
Russia for all that ails Georgia today, and portrays the West (i.e.,
the US/EU/NATO) as Georgia’s saviors. But a quick review of the
relevant history provides a completely different reality.

For
most of the 20th Century Georgia enjoyed peace and prosperity as part
of the Soviet Union, where Georgians lived in harmony with their
Russian neighbors.

In
1991 Georgian nationalists led Georgia down a path of national
suicide, prematurely declaring independence from the Soviet Union,
and foregoing the normalization of relations with Russia in the false
pursuit of western prosperity.

The
West ignored Georgia.

In
1991-92 Georgian nationalists instigated a Civil War in South Ossetia
which tore Georgia apart, leading to civil conflict and ethnic
cleansing.

Russia
intervened as a peacekeeper.

The
West ignored Georgia.

In
1992-93 Georgian nationalists instigated a Civil War in Abkhazia
which led to the loss of that territory, the deaths of tens of
thousands, and more than 250,000 Georgians ethnically cleansed.

Russia
offered to intervene to save Abkhazia. The Georgian government
rebuked the Russian offer.

The
West ignored Georgia.

In
1993 Georgian nationalists started a Civil War that threatened to
tear Georgia apart.

Russia
offered to intervene to save Georgia.

Georgia
accepted the Russian offer.

Georgia
was saved.

The
West ignored Georgia.

In
2003 the West pushed Georgia to overthrow its government (the
so-called “Rose Revolution”), tempting Georgia with promises of
EU and NATO membership.

In
2003 the West had Georgia deploy troops to Iraq.

In
2004 the West had Georgia deploy troops to Afghanistan.

In
both conflicts Georgian boys were killed and wounded fighting in a
war that had nothing to do with Georgia, and everything to do with
preserving western hegemony.

The
Russians did nothing to Georgia.

In
2008 Russia was engaged in active negotiations with Georgia for the
return of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

That
same year the West ordered the Georgian government to stop
negotiations, and instead use the Georgian army, which the West had
helped build, to invade South Ossetia.

Georgia
invaded, killing Russian peacekeepers in their sleep.

Russia
counterattacked, destroying the Georgian army.

Russia
stopped short of taking Tbilisi, which was left undefended.

The
West did nothing to help Georgia.

In
2014 the West provoked a war with Russia in Ukraine.

The
West promised to stand by Ukraine forever.

The
West promised Ukraine EU and NATO membership.

In
2022 Russia counterattacked.

Ukraine
is being destroyed.

There
is no EU membership,

There
is no NATO membership.

There
is only death and destruction.

In
2024 the West is trying to buy Georgian politicians in an effort to
open a second front against Russia.

The
West offers EU membership.

The
West offers NATO membership.

Russia
offers peace and co-prosperity.

Georgia,
the choice is yours:

A
path of peace and prosperity that leads through Moscow.

Or
a path of war and destruction that leads through Brussels.

Choose
wisely.

It
appears that the ruling Georgia Dream Party is heeding this advice.
On April 17 the Georgian Parliament adopted the bill on transparency
of foreign influence in its first reading with 83 votes in favor and
none against. According to Georgian parliamentary procedure, the bill
was sent to committee, where each paragraph will be considered, and
the opportunity for debate and amendment provided. This process takes
about two weeks, after which the bill will be brought up for reading
again and voted on.

Parliamentary
wisdom dictates that one doesn’t bring up a vote on a controversial
issue unless the outcome is predetermined.

Georgia
Dream has a super majority in the Georgian Parliament, meaning that
it can override a Presidential veto (and one is expected).

The
only way to prevent the bill on transparency of foreign influence
from becoming law is if enough Georgian parliamentarians are
intimidated by either the threat of violent protests at home, or
political sanctions abroad.

The
Georgian Prime Minister has made sure that there is sufficient police
power present to hold in check the emotions of the opposition
protestors.

And
the threat of EU sanctions is mitigated by the reality that awaits
Georgia Dream and the Georgian nation if they are not able to pass
the foreign influence bill—a war with Russia, and all that entails.

Georgian
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze emphasized this reality in a
statement made to the Georgian people about the importance of the
foreign influence bill. “If the NGOs had achieved what they were
actively trying to do between 2020 and 2022,” Kobakhidze said,
“which was to change the Government through a revolution, today
Georgia would have been in a worse situation than Ukraine, which
means that both peace [in the country] and the European integration
would have been left behind.”

Kobakhidze
went on the explain that, “The bill is primarily aimed at
protecting Georgia from Ukrainization, strengthening the sovereignty
and ensuring [the country’s] stable development, which is a
necessary condition for Georgia’s integration into the European
Union. Avoiding Ukrainization is a necessary condition for Georgia’s
integration into the European Union, and this is the main goal of
this bill.”

The
Ukrainian government decried Kobakhidze’s use of the term
“Ukrainization,” but there simply isn’t a more apt word
available to describe the fate of Georgia should the foreign
influence bill fail to become law.

Opposition
parties, such as Droa! (“It’s Time!”), have accepted money, in
violation of the Georgian Constitution and Georgian law, from foreign
sources—Elene Khoshtaria, the head of Droa!, which operates both as
a political party and an NGO, recently admitted receiving money from
the European Foundation for Democracy (EFD), an off-shoot of the
US-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a State
Department-supported NGO. The EFD is largely funded by State
Department grants, grants from the FDD, and fundraising done by the
FDD on behalf of the EFD. In short, the EFD is a money-laundering
front for US government-directed funds used to promote regime change
in the name of democracy.

If
the FDD were operating in the United States as an adjunct of a
foreign nation, it would be required to register under the US foreign
agent registration act, or FARA.

But
the demonstrators gathered outside the Georgian parliament do not
decry the “American law,” which would be an apt description of
the bill before the Georgian Parliament, but rather the “Russian
law,” a fictional construct drawn from their own propagandistic
imaginations.

The
battle lines have been drawn. The future of the Georgian nation is on
the line. Right now, the Georgian government appears to be committed
to making this foreign registration legislation law. All that is
needed now is for enough Georgian politicians to hold firm to their
principles, which argue against Georgia taking the dark path toward
“Ukrainization.”

Georgians
need to avoid the nightmare of war, and instead dream of peace.

Dream,
Georgia…dream.

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Visitors who can’t read Dutch for the articles under the links other than from this blog: on the web you can find free translation apps with reasonable quality, which can do the job (sometimes you have to do it 2 or more times >> with lengthy articles). Some browsers give a pop up with the question if you want a translation.

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Zie ook: ‘Duitsland op oorlogspad tegen Rusland: permanente Duitse basis in Baltisch gebied en pure oorlogshitserij van bondskanselier Scholz‘ En zie de berichten onder de links in dat artikel!! Verder ook met de redenen waarom Rusland Oekraïne is binnengevallen, redenen die men in het westen niet alleen verzwijgt maar in een aantal landen zelfs verbiedt, zoals in Frankrijk, Duitsland en Groot-Brittannië, waar journalisten die daarover hebben bericht worden vervolgd en geen gebruik meer kunnen maken van hun bankrekening (wat ons straks ook wacht met de digitale EU pas en de digitale euro, als we kritiek hebben op de regering, of op antidemocratische maatregelen zoals die tijdens de COVID-hysterie werden genomen….)….

‘Georgië: de VS bezig met de herhaling van de Oekraïne truc‘ (13 maart 2023) De video’s in dit bericht zijn intussen gecensureerd door YouTube >> tja je kan het westerse publiek natuurlijk niet de waarheid laten zien, veronderstel….. (het is alsof we al in een dictatuur leven….) 

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Wat betreft de oorlog in Oekraïne zie: ‘Oekraïense leger misbruikt geestelijk gehandicapten als militairen: hoe lang nog blijft het westen deze fascistenstaat steunen‘ (9 april 2024) Zie ook de berichten onder de links in die blogpost!!

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Let
op!!
De ruimte om reacties weer te geven werkt niet altijd. Als je
commentaar hebt en het lukt niet op de normale manier, doe dit dan
via het mailadres trippleu@gmail.com, ik zal deze dan opnemen
onderaan in het bewuste artikel, althans als je geen geweld predikt,
voorts plaats ik jouw reactie ook al staat deze diametraal tegenover
dat bericht. Alvast mijn dank voor jouw eventuele reactie, Willem.

Bolsonaro 8 maanden president: nu al 84% meer bosbranden in het Amazonewoud……

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Bolsonaro stelde het al in zijn verkiezingscampagne, wat hem betreft worden de longen van de wereld vernietigd, ofwel vrijbaan voor commerciële activiteiten in het Amazonewoud…….

Fascist Bolsonaro is sinds 1 januari dit jaar aan het bewind en het aantal bosbranden in het Amazonewoud is in die tijd tijd gestegen tot 74.155, een stijging met 84%….. NASA stelt dat het aantal branden en de daarmee gepaard gaande CO2 uitstoot in 2016 hoger was, echter het ‘bosbrandseizoen’ in Brazilië is nog maar net begonnen……. Je behoeft geen wetenschapper te zijn om te bedenken dat dit samen met alle andere bosbranden wereldwijd, de klimaatverandering onevenredig hard aanjaagt, niet in de laatste plaats door het vrijkomen van CO2 en methaangas, waar de laatste één van de sterkste broeikasgassen op onze kleine aarde is…. Ook in Indonesië worden jaarlijks grote gebieden met oerwoud in brand gestoken…..* (om over de geproduceerde luchtvervuiling door die branden nog maar te zwijgen……)

BNR’s ‘buitenlanddeskundige’, Bernard Hammelburg zei vanmorgen op die zender dat er niets veranderd is wat betreft het aantal bosbranden in Brazilië, volgens deze levende oliebol dus veel tamtam om niets……

Bolsonaro heeft het gore lef om te stellen dat ngo’s de branden hebben aangestoken, terwijl hij zoals gezegd zelf al bij de verkiezingen aangaf het Amazonewoud open te willen stellen voor commerciële activiteiten, waarbij hij stelde dat het een zaak van Brazilië is en dat het geen probleem is als het grootste deel van het Amazonewoud in Brazilië zou verdwijnen………

Uiteraard zijn de oorspronkelijke volkeren die in het Amazonewoud leven nu helemaal de klos, eerder werden ze al op fikse schaal uitgemoord door investeerders en boeren die stukken oerwoud kapten voor hout of in brand staken om daar bijvoorbeeld soja te telen…….

Benieuwd of Nederland Brazilië nog steeds steunt ondanks het fascistische bewind, het zou me alweer niet verbazen, immers: ‘Geld geht über alles…….’

Vergeet voorts niet: ‘Halve graad opwarming van de aarde zal 150 miljoen mensen het leven kosten……‘

* Dit nog naast de enorme bos- en veenbranden in het Arctisch gebied, waar in Siberië enorme gebieden in brand staan, met rookvorming die bijna zo groot is als het totale EU gebied……

Zie ook:

‘Amazonegebied in brand, Black Rock verdient daar vele miljoenen mee‘

‘Braziliaanse natuurbeschermer vermoord door illegale houthakkers‘

‘Boris Johnson (Britse premier) liegt keihard dat de branden in Amazonegebied hem aan het hart gaan‘

‘Het beschermen van de planeet is verworden tot een misdaad, veelal bestraft met moord‘

‘Niet eerder getoonde satellietfoto’s laten zien dat grote delen van Arctisch gebied in brand staan >> klimaatkantelpunt gepasseerd‘

‘Grote Arctische gebieden in Siberië, Groenland, Canada en Alaska branden: klimaatkantelpunt nadert met rasse schreden‘

‘‘Methaangasboer’ ontsnappend uit de Oost-Arctische Plaat kan de wereld zoals wij die kennen vernietigen‘

‘Aantal CO2 deeltjes in de atmosfeer op voor de mens nooit eerder vertoond hoog niveau‘

‘Cruiseschip Zuiderdam urenlang tegengehouden van afvaren door milieuactivisten‘

‘Australië geeft toestemming tot uitbaten enorm grote kolenmijn‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht over het Grote Barrièrerif)

‘Klimaatverandering: inwoners Bratsk (Siberië) stikken in de rook van bosbranden…….‘

‘Apocalyptisch smeltproces in (ant)arctisch gebied, na alweer een jaar dat tot de 3 warmste zal worden gerekend…….‘

Amnesty claimt zonder bewijs 13.000 moorden middels massa executies in ‘gevangenis Assad………’

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Amnesty International maakte vorige week bekend, dat in de gevangenissen ‘van Assad’ mensen zijn vermoord, middels massa executies. Echter het bewijs voor die zaken ontbreekt…..

Amnesty ontpopt zich de laatste jaren meer en meer als een organisatie, die het uiterst agressieve neokolonialisme van de VS (met de NAVO aan de hand), steunt……. AI is een organisatie die ook op subsidie van overheden draait, dan wel bevolkt wordt door aankomende politici of ex-politici, tja, wiens brood men eet of at………

Waar was AI toen de ‘gematigde’, door het westen gesteunde terreurgroepen tekeer gingen op de straten en in de huizen van de bewoners in Oost-Aleppo?? Een terreur waarvan AI allang de getuigenissen had kunnen optekenen in Oost-Aleppo en de vluchtelingenkampen……..

Afgelopen woensdag op Information Clearing House het volgende artikel over de beschuldigingen van Amnesty International, geschreven door Moon of Alabama (onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een ‘Dutch’ vertaling, dit neemt wel wat tijd in beslag):

Amnesty
Claims Mass Executions In Syria, Provides Zero Proof

By
Moon Of Alabama

February
07, 2017 “Information
Clearing House”
– “Moon
Of Alabama” -A new Amnesty International report claims
that the Syrian government hanged between 5,000 and 13,000 prisoners
in a military prison in Syria. The evidence for that claim is flimsy,
based on hearsay of anonymous people outside of Syria. The numbers
themselves are extrapolations that no scientist or court would ever
accept. It is tabloid reporting and fiction style writing from its
title “Human Slaughterhouse” down to the last paragraph.

But
the Amnesty report is still not propagandish enough for the
anti-Syrian media. Inevitably only the highest number in the range
Amnesty claims is quoted. For some even that is not yet enough. The
Associate Press agency, copied by many outlets, headlines: Report:
At least 13,000 hanged in Syrian prison since 2011:

BEIRUT
(AP) — Syrian authorities have killed at least 13,000 people since
the start of the 2011 uprising in mass hangings at a prison north of
Damascus known to detainees as “the slaughterhouse,”
Amnesty International said in a report Tuesday.


How
does “at least 13,000” conforms to an already questionable
report which claims “13,000” as the top number of a very
wide range?

Here
is a link
to the report.

Before
we look into some details this from the “Executive Summary”:

From
December 2015 to December 2016, Amnesty International researched the
patterns, sequence and scale of violations carried out at Saydnaya
Military Prison (Saydnaya). In the course of this investigation, the
organization interviewed 31 men who were detained at Saydnaya, four
prison officials or guards who previously worked at Saydnaya, three
former Syrian judges, three doctors who worked at Tishreen Military
Hospital, four Syrian lawyers, 17 international and national experts
on detention in Syria and 22 family members of people who were or
still are detained at Saydnaya.

On the basis of evidence
from people who worked within the prison authorities at Saydnaya and
witness testimony from detainees, Amnesty International estimates
that between 5,000 and 13,000 people were extrajudicially executed at
Saydnaya between September 2011 and December 2015.


There
are several difficulties with
this report.


1.           Most of the witnesses are identified as opposition figures and “former” officials who do not live in Syria. Some are said to have been remotely interviewed in Syria but it is not clear if those were living in government or insurgent held areas. Page 9:  

The
majority of these interviews took place in person in southern Turkey.
The remaining interviews were conducted by telephone or through other
remote means with interviewees still in Syria, or with individuals
based in Lebanon, Jordan, European countries and the USA.


It
is well known that the Syrian insurgency is financed with several
billion dollars per years from foreign state governments. It runs
sophisticated propaganda operations. These witnesses all seem to have
interests in condemning the Syrian government. Not once is an attempt
made to provide a possibly divergent view. Amnesty found the persons
it questioned by contacting international NGOs like itself and known
foreign financed opposition (propaganda) groups:

These
groups include Urnammu
for Justice and Human Rights, the Syrian Network for Human Rights,
and the Syrian Institute for Justice and Accountability.

2.         The numbers Amnesty provides are in a very wide range. None
are documented in lists or similar exhibits. They are solely based on
hearsay and guesstimates of two witnesses:

People
who worked within the prison authorities at Saydnaya told Amnesty
International that extrajudicial executions related to the crisis in
Syria first began in September 2011. Since that time, the frequency
with which they have been carried out has varied and increased. For
the first four months, it
was usual for between seven and 20 people
to be executed every
10-15 days.
For the following 11 months, between
20 and 50 people were
executed once a week, usually on Monday nights. For the subsequent
six months, groups of between 20 and 50 people were executed once
or twice a week,
usually on Monday and/or Wednesday nights. Witness testimony from
detainees suggests that the executions were conducted at a similar –
or even higher – rate at least until December 2015. Assuming that
the death rate remained the same as the preceding period, Amnesty
International estimates that
between 5,000 and 13,000 people were extrajudicially executed at
Saydnaya between September 2011 and December 2015.

From
“between x and y”, “once or twice a week”,
“suggests” and “assuming” the headline numbers
are simply extrapolated in footnote 40 in a 
back-of-the-envelope calculation; “If A were true then B would
be X”:


These
estimates were based on the following calculations. If between
seven and 20 were killed every 10-15 days from September to December
2011, the total figure would
be between
56 people and 240 people for that period. If between
20 and 50 were killed every week between January and November 2012,
the total figure would
be between
880 and 2,200 for that period. If between
20 and 50 people were killed in 222 execution sessions (assuming the
executions were carried out twice a week twice a month and once a
week once a month) between December 2012 and December 2015, the total
figure would
be between
4,400 and 11,100 for that period. These calculations produce a
minimum figure of 5,336, rounded down to the nearest thousand as
5,000, and 13,540, rounded down to the nearest thousand as 13,000.


3.         I will not go into the details of witness statements on which
the report is build. They seem at least exaggerated and are not
verifiable at all. In the end it is pure hearsay on which Amnesty
sets it conclusions. One example from page 25:

“Hamid”,
a former military officer when he was arrested in 2012, recalled the
sounds he heard at night during an execution:
“There was a
sound of something
being pulled out –
like a piece of wood, I’m
not sure –
and then you would hear the sound of them being strangled… If
you put your ears on the floor, you could hear the sound of a kind of
gurgling. This
would last around 10 minutes… We were sleeping on top of the sound
of people choking to death. This was normal for me then.”

A
court might accept ‘sound of “I’m not sure” “kind of
gurgling” noise through concrete’ as proof that a shower was
running somewhere. But as proof of executions?


Of
all the witnesses Amnesty says it interviewed only two, a former
prison official and a former judge, who describe actual executions
(page 25). From the wording of their statements it is unclear if they
have witnessed any hangings themselves or just describe something
they have been told of.

4.       The
numbers of people Amnesty claims were executed are – at best – a
wild ass guess. How come that Amnesty can name only very few of
those? On page 30 of its report it says:


Former
detainees from the red building at Saydnaya provided Amnesty
International with the names of 59 individuals who they witnessed
being taken from their cells in the afternoon, being told
that they were being transferred to civilian prisons in
Syria. The evidence contained in this report strongly suggests that
in fact, these individuals were extrajudicially executed.


and:

Former
prison guards and a former prison official from Saydnaya also
provided Amnesty International with the names of 36 detainees who had
been extrajudicially executed in Saydnaya since 2011.


Those
95, some of whom may have been “executed” – or not, are the
only ones Amnesty claims to be able to name. That is less than 1-2%
of the reports central claim of 5,000 to 13,000 executed. All those
witnesses could provide no more details of persons allegedly killed?

Amnesty
acknowledges that its numbers are bogus. Under the headline
“Documented Deaths” on page 40 it then adds additional
names and numbers to those above but these are not from executions:

the
exact number of deaths in Saydnaya is impossible to specify.
However, the Syrian Network for Human Rights has verified and shared
with Amnesty International the names of 375 individuals who have died
in Saydnaya as
a result of torture and other ill-treatment between
March 2011 and October 2016. Of these, 317 were civilians at the time
of their arrest, 39 were members of the Syrian military and 19 were
members of non-state armed groups. In the course of the research for
this report, Amnesty International obtained the names of 36
additional individuals who died as a result of torture and other
ill-treatment in Saydnaya. These names were provided to Amnesty
International by former detainees who witnessed the deaths in their
cells


The
“Syrian Network for Human Rights” (SNHR)
is a group in the UK probably connected to British foreign
intelligence and with dubious monetary sources. It only says:

SNHR
funds its work and activities through unconditional grants and
donations from individuals and institutions.


Now
that is true transparency.

SNHR
is known for
rather ridiculous claims about casualties caused by various sides of
the conflict. It is not know what SNHR qualifies as civilians – do
these include armed civil militia? But note that none of the mostly
civilians SNHR claims to have died in the prison are said to have
been executed. How is it possible that a organization
frequently quoted in
the media as detailed source of casualties in Syria has no record of
the 5,000 to 13,000 Amnesty claims were executed?

5.        The
report is padded up with before/after satellite pictures of enlarged
graveyards in Syria. It claims that these expansions are a sign of
mass graves of government opponents.  But there is zero
evidence for that. Many people have died in Syria throughout the war
on all sides of the conflict. The enlargement, for example, of the
Martyrs Cemetery south of Damascus (p.29/30) is hardly a sign of
mass killing of anti-government insurgents. Would those be honored
as martyrs by the government side.


6.       The
report talks of “extrajudicially executed”
prisoners but then describes (military) court procedures and a
necessary higher up approval of the judgement. One may not like the
laws that govern the Syrian state but the courts and the procedures
Amnesty describes seem to follow Syrian laws and legal processes.
They are thereby – by definition – not extrajudicial 

7.        In its Executive Summary the Amnesty report says that “Death
sentences are approved by the Grand Mufti of Syria and …”.
But there is no evidence provided of “approval” by the
Grand Mufti in the details of the report. On page 19 it claims,
based on two former prison and court officials:

“The judgement is sent by military post to the Grand Mufti of
Syria and to either the Minister of Defence or the Chief of Staff of
the Army, who are deputized to sign for Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad and who specify the date of the execution”.

It
is very doubtful that the Syrian government would “deputize”
or even inform the Grand Mufti in cases of military or criminal legal
proceedings. Amnesty International may dislike the fact but Syria is
a secular state. The Grand Mufti in Syria is a civil legal authority
for some followers of the Sunni Muslim religion in Syria but he has
no official judiciary role. From the 2010 Swiss dissertation Models
of Religious Freedom: Switzerland, the United States, and
Syria quoted here:

In
Syria a mufti is a legal and religious expert (faqih and ‘alim)
who has
the power to give legally non-binding recommendations (sing.
fatwa, pl. fatawa) in matters of Islamic law. 

…
Queries
which are either sought by a shari‘a judge or private
individuals regard
the personal status laws of the Muslim community only. In
the Arab Republic fatawa are given neither to public authorities nor
to individual civil servants, ..


Neither
the Syrian
constitution nor any Syrian law I can find refers to a role
of the Grand Mufti in any military or civil criminal court proceding.
The Amnesty claim “approved by the Grand Mufti of Syria”is
not recorded anywhere else. It is very likely false. The Grand Mufti,
Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, is a
moderate, recognized and
accomplished scholar. He should sue Amnesty for this slander.

Syrian
law includes a death penalty for certain severe and violent crimes.
Before 2011 actual executions in Syria were
very rare, most death sentences were commuted. Allegedly the laws
were amended in
late 2011, after the war in Syria had started, to include the death
penalty as possible punishment for directly arming terrorists.

It
is quite likely that the Syrian military and/or civil judiciary hand
out some death penalties against captured foreign and domestic
“rebels” it finds them guilty of very severe crimes. It is
fighting the Islamic State, al Qaeda and other extreme groups well
known for mass murder and other extreme atrocities. It is likely that
some of those sentences are applied. But the Syrian government has
also provided amnesty to ten-thousands of “rebels” who
fought the government but have laid down their arms.

The
claims in the Amnesty report are based on spurious and biased
opposition accounts from outside of the country. The headline numbers
of 5,000 to 13,000 are calculated on the base of unfounded
hypotheticals. The report itself states that only 36 names of
allegedly executed persons are known to Amnesty, less than the number
of “witnesses” Amnesty claims to have interviewed. The high
number of claimed execution together with the very low number of
names is not plausible.

The
report does not even meet the lowest mark of scientific or legal
veracity. It is pure biased propaganda.

Note:
An earlier version of this piece mixed up the Syrian Network for
Human Rights (SNHR) and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
(SOHR). Both are registered in the UK and claim to provide accurate
casualty data from Syria. Only SNHR is referenced in this Amnesty
report.

Syria
carried out mass hangings at military prison: Amnesty International:
The Syrian government has executed up to 13,000 prisoners in mass
hangings and carried out systematic torture at a military jail near
Damascus, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

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Zie ook: ‘Amnesty claimt zonder bewijs 13.000 moorden middels massa executies in ‘gevangenis Assad………’ Deel 2‘


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PS: in de kop stond per abuis ‘gevangenissen’, waar ‘gevangenis’ moet staan, hersteld op 21 februari 2017.

Obama maakt ministerie van Waarheid mogelijk en geeft ministerie van Oorlog $ 611 miljard……..

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Nobelprijs voor de Vrede winnaar Obama (ha! ha! ha!) heeft een wet getekend, waarmee een Ministerie van Waarheid (ministry of Truth) zoals door Orwell beschreven in het boek 1984) is gecreëerd……… Niet alleen dat, maar deze wet geeft het Ministerie van Oorlog in 2017 een slordige $ 611 miljard te verbrassen, zodat de onwettige, zwaar terroristische VS houdgreep op de wereld, kan worden versterkt……….

‘Uiteraard’ zal e.e.a. gepaard gaan met het tegenwerken, of uit de lucht halen, dan wel van het internet verwijderen, van VS onwelgevallige media (lees: media die kritiek durven te leveren op terreurentiteit VS….)………

Laat ook uw haren te berge rijzen en lees het volgen de artikel van Tyler Durden, zoals eerder geplaatst op ZeroHedge:

Obama
Quietly Signs The “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act”
Into Law

by Tyler
Durden

Dec
26, 2016

Late
on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and
oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama
quietly signed into law the 2017 National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for
the military in 2017.

In
a statement, Obama
said that:

Today,
I have signed into law S. 2943, the “National Defense Authorization
Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017.” This Act authorizes fiscal year 2017
appropriations principally for the Department of Defense and for
Department of Energy national security programs, provides vital
benefits for military personnel and their families, and includes
authorities to facilitate ongoing operations around the globe. It
continues many critical authorizations necessary to ensure that we
are able to sustain our momentum in countering the threat posed by
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and to reassure our European
allies, as well as many new authorizations that, among other things,
provide the Departments of Defense and Energy more flexibility in
countering cyber-attacks and our adversaries’ use of unmanned
aerial vehicles.”

Much
of the balance of Obama’s statement blamed the GOP for Guantanamo’s
continued operation and warned that “unless the Congress changes
course, it will be judged harshly by history,” Obama said. Obama
also said Congress failed to use the bill to reduce wasteful overhead
(like perhaps massive F-35 cost overruns?) or modernize military
health care, which he said would exacerbate budget pressures facing
the military in the years ahead.

But
while the passage of the NDAA – and the funding of the US military –
was hardly a surprise, the biggest news is what was buried deep
inside the provisions of the Defense Authortization Act.

Recall
that as we
reported in early June, “a
bill to implement the U.S.’ very own de
facto Ministry
of Truth had been quietly introduced in Congress.
As with any legislation attempting to dodge the public spotlight the
Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016 marks a
further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify
avenues of accurate information. Introduced by Congressmen Adam
Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a “whole-government
approach without the bureaucratic restrictions” to counter “foreign
disinformation and manipulation,” which they believe threaten the
world’s “security and stability.”

Also
called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when
introduced in March by Sen. Rob Portman, the legislation represents a
dramatic return to Cold War-era government propaganda battles. “These
countries spend vast sums of money on advanced broadcast and digital
media capabilities, targeted campaigns, funding of foreign political
movements, and other efforts to influence key audiences and
populations,” Portman explained, adding that while the U.S. spends
a relatively small amount on its Voice of America (VOA), the Kremlin
provides enormous funding for its news organization, RT.

“Surprisingly,”
Portman continued, “there is currently no single U.S. governmental
agency or department charged with the national level development,
integration and synchronization of whole-of-government strategies to
counter foreign propaganda and disinformation.”  

Long
before the “fake news” meme became a daily topic of
extensive conversation on such discredited mainstream portals as CNN
and WaPo (Washington Post), H.R. 5181 would task the Secretary of State with
coordinating the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National
Intelligence, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to “establish
a Center for Information Analysis and Response,” which will
pinpoint sources of disinformation, analyze data, and — in true
dystopic manner — ‘develop and disseminate’ “fact-based
narratives”
to counter effrontery propaganda.

In
short, long before “fake news” became a major media topic,
the US government was already planning its legally-backed crackdown
on anything it would eventually label “fake news.”

* *
*

Fast
forward to December
8, when
the “Countering
Disinformation and Propaganda Act”
passed in the Senate, quietly
inserted inside the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
Conference Report.

And
now, following Friday’s Obama signing of the NDAA on Friday
evening, the
Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act is
now law.

* *
*

Here
is the full
statement issued
by the generously
funded Senator
Rob Portman (R- Ohio) on the singing into law of a bill that further
chips away at press liberties in the US, and which sets the stage for
future which hunts and website shutdowns, purely as a result of an
accusation that any one media outlet or site is considered as a
source of “disinformation and propaganda” and is shut down
by the government.

President
Signs Portman-Murphy Counter-Propaganda Bill into Law

Portman-Murphy
Bill Promotes Coordinated Strategy to Defend America, Allies Against
Propaganda and Disinformation from Russia, China & Others

U.S.
Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) today announced
that their Countering
Disinformation and Propaganda Act – legislation
designed to help American allies counter foreign government
propaganda from Russia, China, and other nations – has
been signed into law as part of the FY 2017 National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report. The bipartisan bill,
which was introduced by
Senators Portman and Murphy in March, will improve the ability of the
United States to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation from
our enemies by establishing an interagency center housed at the State
Department to coordinate and synchronize counter-propaganda efforts
throughout the U.S. government. To support these efforts, the bill
also creates a grant program for NGOs, think tanks, civil society and
other experts outside government who are engaged in
counter-propaganda related work. This will better leverage existing
expertise and empower our allies overseas to defend themselves from
foreign manipulation. It will also help foster a free and vibrant
press and civil society overseas, which is critical to ensuring our
allies have access to truthful information and inoculating people
against foreign propaganda campaigns.

“Our
enemies are using foreign propaganda and
disinformation against us and our allies, and so far the U.S.
government has been asleep at the wheel,” Portman said. “But
today, the United States has taken a critical step towards
confronting the extensive, and destabilizing, foreign propaganda and
disinformation operations being waged against us by our enemies
overseas. With
this bill now law, we are finally signaling that enough is enough;
the United States will no longer sit on the sidelines. We are going
to confront this threat head-on. I am confident that, with the help
of this bipartisan bill, the disinformation and propaganda used
against us, our allies, and our interests will fail.”

“The
use of propaganda to undermine democracy has hit a new low. But
now we are finally in a position to confront this threat head on and
get out the truth. By building up independent, objective journalism
in places like eastern Europe, we can start to fight back by exposing
these fake narratives and empowering local communities to protect
themselves,” said Murphy. “I’m proud that our bill was signed
into law, and I look forward to working with Senator Portman to make
sure these tools and new resources are effectively used to get out
the truth.”

NOTE: The
bipartisan Countering
Disinformation and Propaganda Act is
organized around two main priorities to help achieve the goal of
combatting the constantly evolving threat of foreign disinformation
from our enemies:

  • The
    first priority is developing a whole-of-government strategy for
    countering THE foreign propaganda and disinformation being wages
    against us and our allies by our enemies    .
    The bill would increase the authority, resources, and mandate of the
    Global Engagement Center to include state actors like Russia and
    China as well as non-state actors. The Center will be led by the
    State Department, but with the active senior level participation of
    the Department of Defense, USAID, the Broadcasting Board of
    Governors, the Intelligence Community, and other relevant agencies.
    The Center will develop, integrate, and synchronize
    whole-of-government initiatives to expose and counter foreign
    disinformation operations by our enemies and proactively advance
    fact-based narratives that support U.S. allies and interests.

  • Second, the legislation
    seeks to leverage expertise from outside government to create more
    adaptive and responsive U.S. strategy options. The legislation
    establishes a fund to help train local journalists and provide
    grants and contracts to NGOs, civil society organizations, think
    tanks, private sector companies, media organizations, and other
    experts outside the U.S. government with experience in identifying
    and analyzing the latest trends in foreign government disinformation
    techniques. This fund will complement and support the Center’s
    role by integrating capabilities and expertise available outside the
    U.S. government into the strategy-making process. It will also
    empower a decentralized network of private sector experts and
    integrate their expertise into the strategy-making process.

* *
*

And
so, with the likes
of WaPo having already primed the general public to
equate “Russian Propaganda” with “fake news”
(despite admitting after
the fact their own report was essentially “fake“),
while the US media has indoctrinated the public to assume that any
information which is not in compliance with the official government
narrative, or dares to criticize the establishment, is also “fake
news” and thus falls under the “Russian propaganda”
umbrella, the scene is now set for the US government to legally crack
down on every media outlet that the government deems to be “foreign
propaganda.”

Just
like that, the US Ministry
of Truth is
officially born.

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BBC World Service misleidt de luisteraar voor de 10.000ste keer…….. Dit keer TTIP en CETA!!

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

In het radionieuws van BBC World Service van afgelopen vrijdag (13.00 u. CET), de mededeling dat er EU overleg plaatsvond over de vrijhandelsverdragen met de VS en Canada (TTIP en CETA).

De nieuwslezer stelde, dat daar vooral veel bezwaren zijn vanuit de politiek en van demonstranten………  ‘Demonstranten’ is voor de reguliere afhankelijke westerse media, ook in ons land, een woord met een duidelijk negatieve bijklank…… Zo onbeschoft en overduidelijk mensen in een ‘zwart daglicht’ zetten, is van een niveau waar je broek van afzakt…… Terwijl er in de EU een paar miljoen burgers zijn, die zich volkomen legitiem en terecht verzetten tegen deze verdragen, verdragen die louter en alleen ten gunste werken van de grote bedrijven, waar de consument het nakijken heeft……. Een groot deel van deze EU burgers heeft nooit deelgenomen aan wat voor demonstratie dan ook………..

Over het verzet in de VS en Canada tegen deze verdragen, wordt al helemaal met geen woord gerept in de reguliere media…….

Het is overigens uitermate wrang, als je hoort hoe die media, inclusief de BBC omgaan met de informatie over die verdragen, meestal komt men niet verder, dan wat de voorstanders van deze verdragen te zeggen hebben, of dat nu politici, woordvoerders van multinationals, of zogenaamde deskundigen zijn…… Het feit, dat de onderhandelingen over dit verdrag geheim zijn, waar bedrijven voor meer dan 90% van de tijd aan mogen deelnemen, terwijl kritische ngo’s amper 5% van de tijd mogen aanzitten, zal u niet, of zeer zelden terugvinden in de reguliere media……

Lullig genoeg is er één uitzondering: de intensieve martelveehouderij krijgt de laatste maanden aandacht in de reguliere media, met kritiek uit deze sector op deze verdragen……. Kritiek als dat hun ‘diervriendelijke omgang met hun vee’, onder druk komt te staan met deze verdragen….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Waarom die extra aandacht van mijn kant voor de BBC World Service? Dit daar deze radiozender wereldwijd wordt beluisterd door een enorm aantal mensen. (hetzelfde geldt overigens voor BBC W.S. tv)

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Ploumens ontwikkelingsbeleid volgens Oxfam Novib één grote mislukking……….

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Het ‘nieuwe ontwikkelingsbeleid’, ingezet door hare PvdA kwaadaardigheid Ploumen, het verstrekken van ontwikkelingsgelden aan Nederlandse bedrijven, zodat deze bedrijven in ontwikkelingslanden het verschil kunnen maken, is uitgedraaid op een totale mislukking…… Deze mislukking is volkomen volgens de voorspellingen van een groot aantal (echte) deskundigen en NGO’s.

Oxfam Novib deed onderzoek naar dit neokoloniale ontwikkelingsbeleid van Ploumen en kwam tot bovenstaande conclusie, die deze organisatie gisteren publiceerde.

Benieuwd naar het aantal miljarden aan belastinggeld, dat door het beleid van Ploumen door het putje, hup in de zakken van foute ondernemers is gelopen, dat zal niet misselijk zijn……..

De resultaten van het Oxfam Novib onderzoek, vormen een volkomen gelegaliseerde reden tot een parlementair onderzoek naar Ploumens ontwikkelingsbeleid en het direct schorsen van bedrijvenlobbyist Ploumen op ontwikkelingssamenwerking!!

Het trieste van dit alles is, dat bestaande succesvolle ontwikkelingsprojecten, of de aanzet daartoe, door het inzetten op dit waardeloze ontwikkelingsbeleid, een vroegtijdige dood zijn gestorven…….

Hieronder een aantal berichten over dit desastreuze ontwikkelingsbeleid, dat zoals gezegd niets anders is, dan een neokoloniaal beleid:

             ‘Ploumen, de nieuwe gouverneur van de wingewesten!!‘

       en: ‘Vluchtelingen uit Bangladesh moeten terug om onze kleding in elkaar te naaien! En snel een beetje!‘

       en: ‘Ploumen en Rutte naar Libanon, maar niet om vluchtelingen op te halen, dat spreekt voor zich……..‘

       en: ‘Ploumen met fooi voor noodhulp Rwanda, Hoebink verdedigt haar totale wanbeleid………‘

       en: ‘Ontwikkelingshulp: geld verdienen in Afrika, het nieuwe kolonialisme!!!‘

       en: ‘Ploumens ‘ontwikkelingswerk’: Oeganda, 30 scholen platgegooid voor buitenlandse investeerders………‘

       en: ‘Nederland en EU weigeren anno 2016 VN verdrag te tekenen, waarin bedrijven verantwoordelijk worden gehouden voor moord………..‘

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Arco Timmermans (‘hoogleraar’): “Ngo’s en actiegroepen hebben de TTIP discussie gekaapt…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Ja mensen er valt genoeg te lachen, als je naar ‘nieuws & actualiteiten’ zenders luistert. Zoals vanmorgen op BNR na 10.00 u. Aan het woord ‘hoogleraar’ Timmermans (Universiteit Leiden in Den Haag). Deze drollenpoetser verdedigde het vrijhandelsverdrag TTIP, o.a. door te zeggen, dat ngo’s en actiegroepen de TTIP discussie hebben gekaapt…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Volgens lobbyist Timmermans komen regeringen door TTIP dichter tot elkaar en kunnen constructies zoals die van Apple in Ierland voorkomen worden……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Daar is wat betreft verdragen als TTIP van de VS met andere werelddelen totaal niets te merken, integendeel: de grote bedrijven krijgen juist veel meer macht (dan ze nu al hebben)!! Het bewijs is wel de overheid van de VS, die de EU heeft gedreigd niets te doen tegen de schandalige belastingontduiking (want dat is het in feite en daarmee een grote misdaad!) van Apple in Ierland, met een belasting van 1%!!!

De ‘TTIP discussie’ gekaapt?? We mogen niet eens weten wat er achter gesloten deuren besproken wordt, grote bedrijven mogen voor meer dan 90% van de tijd aanzitten bij de onderhandelingen, terwijl ngo’s amper 5% van diezelfde tijd mogen aanzitten!! Logisch dat ngo’s en actiegroepen de media proberen te zoeken met diverse acties, zoals protestdemonstraties en petities.

Opvallend ook, dat voorstanders minder de openbaarheid zoeken, daar de argumenten voor TTIP zo makkelijk als grote onzin zijn af te wijzen. Timmermans gaf daar vanmorgen zelf weer een mooi voorbeeld van, zoals u hierboven kon lezen……

Nogmaals: Timmermans is hoogleraar…….. Ongelofelijk!!

Zie wat betreft de ‘Apple constructie’: ‘Tim Cook: Apple doet altijd goed…… ha! ha! ha! ha! Ja, zoals de arbeiders uitbuiten!!‘

Zie ook: ‘Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (VVD) vindt het normaal dat bedrijven misdadig weinig belasting betalen………‘

       en: ‘Dijsselbloem hekelt Apple voor belastingontduiking……… tssssss‘

Klik voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht aantreft, zie ook de berichten onder de labels: CETA, TPP en (‘lobbyprofessor’) Arco Timmermans.

‘Syrische bombardementen op twee ziekenhuizen’, althans volgens de westerse media en politici……

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Het volgende artikel over de twee ziekenhuizen in Aleppo, die onlangs werden gebombardeerd, vond ik 6 mei jl. op Information Clearing House. Het eerste ziekenhuis zou door het reguliere Syrische leger, dan wel de Russische luchtmacht zijn gebombardeerd.

Dit verhaal werd heel even in de reguliere Nederlandse media gebracht, met het commentaar, dat dit het werk van Assad en Rusland was……. Niet vreemd, dat dit bericht (overigens zonder correctie) uit het nieuws verdween, daar het ziekenhuis, niet eens bekend bleek te zijn. Wie het provisorische ziekenhuis, dat in woonhuis was gevestigd, heeft gebombardeerd is nog steeds niet bekend, zowel Rusland, Syrie, plus de VS en haar hielenlikkers, ontkennen. Overigens wordt het hele bestaan van dit ziekenhuis betwist, ook door artsen uit Aleppo………

Lees het verhaal en ook dat over het tweede ziekenhuis. Dit ziekenhuis werd door de door het westen gesteunde ‘gematigde’ terreur oppositie bestookt met raketten, die ze via Saoedi-Arabië, dan wel Turkije geleverd kreeg, uiteraard onder (welwillend) toeziend oog van….. de VS!!

Voorts een fikse bak kritiek op MSF, ofwel Artsen Zonder Grenzen, dat zich blijkbaar voor een groot deel laat financieren door de financiële maffia en zich laat gebruiken door de ‘gematigde terroristische oppositie’, waarbij MSF zelfs akkoord ging eerst gewonde terroristen op te lappen en daarna pas de burgers………

Onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een vertaling in ‘Dutch’, dit neemt wel wat tijd in beslag:

A
Tale Of Two Hospitals

Potentially
Fabricated Bombing Incident VS Open Terrorist Targeting Of Facilities
In Aleppo


May
05, 2016 “Information
Clearing House”
– “Activist
Post”
–  Over the past few days, the Western corporate press has
kicked into overdrive with reports of hospital bombings, dead
civilians, and war crimes all blamed predictably on the secular
government of Bashar al-Assad. According to Western governments and
their media mouthpieces, Assad’s forces have targeted civilian
hospitals in order to . . . well . . . no one knows why Assad’s
forces would logically target civilian hospitals. Still, the Western
harpies – both media and “human rights NGOs” – continue to
hammer the unsubstantiated claims and misinformation at the tops of
their lungs that the SAA is dropping bombs on civilian medical
facilities.

The
First “Hospital” : al-Quds

The
bombing being attributed to the Syrian military is the destruction of
the “al-Quds” hospital, an alleged Medicines Sans Frontieres
hospital located in Aleppo. Even officially, however, it is important
to note that the alleged “hospital” was not an MSF facility but
one which was “supported” by MSF. This might seem like a small
technicality but it is actually an important difference since MSF
(aka Doctors Without Borders) is well known to be anything but an
impartial observer in the Syrian crisis. As Tony Cartalucci wrote in
his article, “’Doctors’
Behind Syrian Chemical Weapons Claim Are Aiding Terrorists,” in
2013,

While
it is often described by the Western media as “independent,”
nothing could be further from the truth.

To
begin with, Doctors Without Borders is fully funded by the very same
corporate financier interests behind Wall Street and London’s
collective foreign policy, including regime change in Syria and
neighboring Iran. Doctors Without Borders’ own
annual report (2010
report can be accessed here), includes as financial donors,
Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg,
Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital, and a myriad of other
corporate-financier interests. Doctors Without Borders also features
bankers upon its Board of Advisers including Elizabeth Beshel
Robinson of Goldman Sachs.

Complicating
further Doctors Without Borders so-called “independent” and “aid”
claims is the fact that their medical facilities are set up in
terrorist held regions of Syria, especially along Syria’s northern
border with NATO-member Turkey. In
an interview with NPR, Doctors Without Borders’ Stephen Cornish
revealed the nature of his organization’s involvement in the Syrian
conflict, where he explains that aid is being sent to regions outside
of the Syrian government’s control, and that his organization is in
fact setting up facilities in these areas. Cornish admits [emphasis
added]:

Over
the past months, we’ve had a surgery that was opened inside a cave.
We’ve had another that was opened in a chicken farm, a third one in
a house. And these structures, we’ve tried to outfit them as best
as we can with enough modern technology and with full medical
teams. They
originally were dealing mainly with combatant injuries and people who
were – civilians who were directly affected by the conflict.

In
other words, the Wall Street-funded organization is providing support
for militants
armed and funded by the West and its regional allies, most of
whom are revealed to be foreign fighters, affiliated with or directly
belonging to Al Qaeda and its defacto political wing, the Muslim
Brotherhood. This so-called “international aid” organization is
in actuality yet another cog in the covert military machine being
turned against Syria and serves the role as a medical battalion.

In
a telling interview
with NPR, which Cartalucci partially quotes in his own article,
the Executive Director of DWB, Stephen Cornish, admitted
the fact that the organization largely has provided medical
aid to the death squads not just as a matter of unbiased Hippocratic
Oath-based treatment, but what appears to be a “rebel”-based
program.

Again,
Cornish revealed,

Over
the past months, we’ve had a surgery that was opened inside a cave.
We’ve had another that was opened in a chicken farm, a third one in
a house. And these structures, we’ve tried to outfit them as best
as we can with enough modern technology and with full medical
teams. They
originally were dealing mainly with combatant injuriesand
people who were – civilians who were directly affected by the
conflict. [emphasis added]

Even
assuming that the “civilians” Cornish mentions are truly
civilians, Cornish’s team has also been focused largely on
“combatant injuries” which is an interesting focus considering
that the teams are mainly located within death squad controlled
territory.

Indeed,
Cornish removes all doubt about whether or not the death squads are
receiving priority care as the interview continues. Cornish states,

So
it is very difficult for civilians to find care. And one of the
difficulties also is that a number of smaller
surgeries that have been set up are either overwhelmed with
combatants or primarily taking care of combatants. And
what we would certainly urge is that all surgeries and all health
posts also are accommodating the civilian population.

BLOCK:
You mean, in other words, that the
fighters are getting priority for medical care and
the civilians are suffering for that.

CORNISH: Unfortunately,
that is sometimes the reality on the ground. Some of the surgeries we
visited, you could tell that because not only there were no civilians
on the wards, but there were also no beds or toilet facilities for
women. So it’s kind of a dead giveaway. [emphasis
added]

Returning
to the question of the al-Quds hospital, however, it should be noted
that the facility has been reported to be nothing more than a “field
hospital” for terrorists trapped in Aleppo in the past, the bombing
of which allegedly killed over 50 death squad fighters, at least
according to reports by Ziad
Fadel of Syrian
Perspective.
After all, the hospital
was being run in the “rebel”-held area of Sukkari.

Some,
however, dispute whether or not the hospital was ever actually
bombed. Both the Syrian and Russian governments denied
bombing the hospital to begin with. The
Russians suggested that the “anti-ISIL coalition” was
operating fighter jets in the area around the time of the bombing,
implying that the bombing may have been conducted by the American
forces, but the U.S. denies the Russian claim.

In
addition to the question of whether or not the bombed “hospital”
was a civilian operation or a combatant one, there is even question
as to whether or not the field hospital that was bombed was actually
al-Quds and, strangely enough, whether or not al-Quds ever actually
existed.

For
instance, Dr. Nabil Antaki, a doctor based in western Aleppo called
into question the existence of al-Quds. After viewing
the Channel
4 video showing the hospital moment before the attack, he
responded that “This hospital [Al Quds] did not exist
before the war started. It must have been installed in a building
after the war began. I don’t know anyone in the East of Aleppo who
could confirm this hospital is Al Quds.”

The
Second Hospital: al-Dhabeet

Yet
if the pinnacle of war crimes and brutality is the bombing of
hospitals, the United States was forced to eat its own words when,
after only a few days of propagandizing the Western public with
reports of SAA hospital bombing, its very own terrorist pets would
begin openly firing missiles at another hospital in Aleppo.

Obviously,
the United States made no mention of
its own bombing of a MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan
earlier this year.

Still,
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was forced
to condemn the rocket attacks aimed at the Syrian hospital
by Western-backed terrorists, albeit in a manner which would not
directly attribute blame to the U.S. proxy forces.

Indeed,
on May 3, SANA news
agency reported that,

terrorists
fired 65 rocket shells on the neighborhoods of al-Neel Street,
al-Siryian, al-Khalidyia, al-Mocambo, al-Sabeel and the surroundings
of al-Rahman mosque leaving 11 civilians killed and 37 injured. A
source at Aleppo Health Directorate said that most of the wounded
civilians are children and women and their injuries are severe as the
number of the killed civilians might increase.

Eva
Bartlett chronicles the report in her own article “Hospitals
Bombed: Aleppo Burning Under ‘Moderate’ Terrorist Bombs,”
by writing,

Later,
SANA’s correspondent in Aleppo reported that three women were
killed, 17 other women and children were wounded and extensive
material damage was caused by terrorist organizations’ attack with
a rocket shell on al-Dhabeet Hospital in al-Mouhafaza neighborhood.”

SANA
listed the attacked districts as: al-Midan, al-Furqan, Nile Street,
al-Mukambo, al-Khalidiye, Jami’et al-Zahra’a, al-Ameriye,
al-Ramousa, al-Masharqa, al-Muhafaza, al-Meridian, al-Serian,
al-Sabeel, and al-Jamiliye in Aleppo city.

SANA’s
Facebook update included
numerous photos of the bombed al-Dhabeet Hospital, noting the number
of dead had risen to at least 14, a number which will no doubt rise
in the coming hours.

According
to SAMA tv, the number of murdered has risen to 28.

Ruptly
TV raw footage shows the disastrous impacts of the bombings,
and–uncensored–some of the mutilated victims.

A
tale of two hospitals indeed, at least from the point of the view
of the West and the Anglo-Americans. In the Western media, one
hospital bombing (if it actually took place) equals a war crime
that warrants the condemnation of the world while the other
warrants merely a forced, hesitant, and tepid complaint. Even the
painful admission that bombing civilians and civilian hospitals is
wrong was barely uttered out of Kerry’s mouth before it was
accompanied by the requisite condemnation of the Syrian government
and the elected President Bashar al-Assad.Yet the recent bombing
of al-Dhabeet is nothing new in Syria. Western-backed terrorists
have been launching assaults on hospitals since the beginning of
the crisis. As
Prof. Tim Anderson pointed out,

Over
the past five years the al Qaeda groups have attacked 2/3 of all
Syria’s hospitals and clinics, plus pharmaceutical factories,
many of which were in Aleppo. [Most recent one should read ‘al
Dabit’] Al Razi General Hospital (state) was also hit by the al
Nusra coalition, just days ago.”

Anderson
also pointed out a number of other attacks on hospitals such as
those listed below.

“al
Watani hospital in Qusayr bombed by Farouq FSA, back in 2012.”
(Video)

-“al
Nusra-FSA suicide bomb al Kindi hospital Aleppo, December 2013.”
(Video)

-“al
Qaeda groups bombed Ibn Rushd hospital also in Aleppo, on 26
April.” (Video)

-“al
Razi general hospital was also hit, just days ago.” (Link)

“Unsurprisingly,” Eva
Bartlett writes, “instead of reporting on these documented
instances of terrorists (filming themselves) attacking Syrian
hospitals, corporate media and propagandizing “human
rights” groups are instead filling front pages and tv
screens with screaming accusations of the Syrian army and/or
Russia having bombed a so-called MSF hospital in Aleppo.”

Conclusion

Obviously,
the Western indignation over the alleged bombing of the al-Quds
non-hospital was never anything more than propaganda aimed at
drumming up support for greater U.S. military involvement in Syria
and the increased attempt at destroying the secular Syrian
government. At best, the information repeated to Western audiences
was misconstrued. At worst, it was entirely made up.

Brandon
Turbeville – article
archive here – is the author of seven books, Codex
Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7
Real Conspiracies, Five
Sense Solutions and Dispatches
From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume
2, The
Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria, and The
Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never
Be President. Turbeville has published over 650 articles on a
wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government
corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s radio show
Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST
at UCYTV.
His website isBrandonTurbeville.com He
is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact
activistpost (at) gmail.com.

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Zie ook: ‘Honderden burgerslachtoffers in Mosul door VS bombardementen, ofwel grootschalige terreur……‘

       en: ‘Kinderen in Irak vermoord middels VS terreur…….‘

       en: ‘Koenders steunt ‘gematigde Syrische terreur-oppositie’ via Saoedi-Arabië‘
       en: ‘Koenders wil zich bij illegale oorlogvoering in Syrië wel aan het oorlogsrecht houden….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

       en: ‘Ash Carter’s (VS BuZa) leugens over IS olieleveranties aan Turkije‘

       en: ‘Syrië, de vuile oorlog en alles wat u niet zou moeten weten. Een boek van Tim Anderson‘

       en: ‘Syrië, de leugens die u op de mouw worden gespeld….. Ofwel: Syrië, de vuile oorlog en…….. deel 2‘

       en: ‘Syrië, o.a. het waarom van de voortgaande strijd (en de onderhandelingen), plus leugens van Voordewind……..‘

       en: ‘VS rekende op IS voor de verovering van Damascus en omverwerping bewind Assad…….‘

       en: ‘John Kerry beschuldigt IS van genocide en andere misdaden tegen de menselijkheid…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ‘

      en: ‘Palmyra ontzet, westerse media geven Rusland schoorvoetend ‘de eer…..‘

      en: ‘VS voorziet terreurgroepen in Syrië van ‘high tech’ wapens en bedreigt Syrië en Rusland daarmee…….‘

      en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië roept terreurgroepen in Syrië op, de wapenstilstand te schenden……….‘

      en: ‘John Kerry dreigt Syrië met totale oorlog……..‘

     en: ‘‘Syrische bombardementen op twee ziekenhuizen’, althans volgens de westerse media en politici……‘

     en: ‘Falluja en Aleppo, twee belegerde steden, een opvallend verschil in berichtgeving door de reguliere media………‘

     en: ‘VS steunt ‘gematigde oppositie’, die door Amnesty als barbaarse terreurgroepen worden aangemerkt……‘

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Syrië, de vuile oorlog en alles wat u niet zou moeten weten. Een boek van Tim Anderson

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

De volgende bespreking en recensies van het boek ‘The Dirty War on Syria van Tim Anderson, vond ik op het blog van Stan van Houcke, hij nam het over van Global Research. Anderson schrijft in dit boek over de smerige machinaties van het westen, bij de illegale oorlog tegen Syrië. Want zo kan je de smerige oorlog die het westen, o.l.v. de VS tegen Syrië voert, gerust noemen.

The
Dirty War on Syria: Washington, Regime Change and Resistance

By Prof.
Tim Anderson

Global
Research, January 29, 2016

                                                                            Tim-Anderson-Photo

Image:
 Professor
Tim Anderson, distinguished
author and senior lecturer of political economy at the University of
Sydney, Australia

Global
Research Publishers is launching Professor Tim Anderson’s timely
and important book on Syria. 

The
E-book is available for purchase from Global Research 

Tim
Anderson has written the best systematic critique of western
fabrications justifying the war against the Assad government. 

No
other text brings together all the major accusations and their
effective refutation.

This
text is essential reading for all peace and justice activists.
 –James
Petras,
Author
and Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton
University, New York, Research Associate of the Centre for Research
on Globalization.

Tim
Anderson’s important new book, titled “The Dirty War on Syria”
discusses US naked aggression – “rely(ing) on a level of mass
disinformation not seen in living memory,” he explains.

ISIS
is the pretext for endless war without mercy, Assad the target,
regime change the objective, wanting pro-Western puppet governance
replacing Syrian sovereign independence.

There’s
nothing civil about war in Syria, raped by US imperialism, partnered
with rogue allies. Anderson’s book is essential reading to
understand what’s going on. –Stephen
Lendman, Distinguished
Author and Research Associate of the Centre for Research on
Globalization (CRG), Host of the Progressive Radio News Hour on the
Progressive Radio Network.


Professor
Anderson demonstrates unequivocally through carefully documented
research that America’s “Moderate Opposition” are bona fide Al
Qaeda affiliated terrorists created and protected by the US and its
allies, recruited  and trained by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, in
liaison with Washington and Brussels.

Through
careful analysis, professor Anderson reveals the “unspoken truth”:
the “war on terrorism” is fake, the United States is a “State
sponsor of terrorism” involved in a criminal undertaking. Michel
Chossudovsky,
Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Professor of
Economics (Emeritus), University of Ottawa.

Excerpts
from the Preface of Professor Anderson’s book

Although
every war makes ample use of lies and deception, the dirty war on
Syria has relied on a level of mass disinformation not seen in living
memory. The British-Australian journalist Philip Knightley pointed
out that war propaganda typically involves ‘a depressingly
predictable pattern’ of demonising the enemy leader, then
demonising the enemy people through atrocity stories, real or
imagined (Knightley 2001). Accordingly, a mild-mannered eye doctor
called Bashar al Assad became the “new evil” in the world and,
according to consistent western media reports, the Syrian Army did
nothing but kill civilians for more than four years. To this day,
many imagine the Syrian conflict is a ‘civil war’, a ‘popular
revolt’ or some sort of internal sectarian conflict. These myths
are, in many respects, a substantial achievement for the big powers
which have driven a series of ‘regime change’ operations in the
Middle East region, all on false pretexts, over the past fifteen
years.

This
book is a careful academic work, but also a strong defence of the
right of the Syrian people to determine their own society and
political system. That position is consistent with international law
and human rights principles, but may irritate western sensibilities,
accustomed as we are to an assumed prerogative to intervene. At times
I have to be blunt, to cut through the double-speak. In Syria the big
powers have sought to hide their hand, using proxy armies while
demonising the Syrian Government and Army, accusing them of constant
atrocities; then pretending to rescue the Syrian people from their
own government. Far fewer western people opposed the war on Syria
than opposed the invasion of Iraq, because they were deceived about
its true nature.


In
2011 I had only a basic understanding of Syria and its history.
However, I was deeply suspicious when reading of the violence that
erupted in the southern border town of Daraa. I knew that such
violence (sniping at police and civilians, the use of semi-automatic
weapons) does not spring spontaneously from street demonstrations.
And I was deeply suspicious of the big powers. All my life I had been
told lies about the pretexts for war. I decided to research the
Syrian conflict, reading hundreds of books and articles, watching
many videos and speaking to as many Syrians as I could. I wrote
dozens of articles and visited Syria twice, during the conflict. This
book is a result of that research.

I
would go so far as to say that, in waging the Dirty War on Syria,
western culture in general abandoned its better traditions: of
reason, the maintenance of ethical principle and the search for
independent evidence at times of conflict; in favour of its worst
traditions: the ‘imperial prerogative’ for intervention, backed
by deep racial prejudice and poor reflection on the histories of
their own cultures. That weakness was reinforced by a ferocious
campaign of war propaganda. After the demonisation of Syrian leader
Bashar al Assad began, a virtual information blockade was constructed
against anything which might undermine the wartime storyline. Very
few sensible western perspectives on Syria emerged after 2011, as
critical voices were effectively blacklisted.

In
that context I came to write this book. It is a defence of Syria.
This is a resource book and a contribution to the history of the
Syrian conflict. The western stories have become self-indulgent and I
believe it is wasteful to indulge them too much. Best, I think, to
speak of current events as they are, then address the smokescreens
later. I do not ignore the western myths, in fact this book documents
many of them. But I lead with the reality of the war.

Chapter
Overview:

Chapter
1, ‘Syria and Washington’s ‘New Middle East’’ puts
Syria in context of the US plans for a ‘New Middle East’, the
latest chapter in a longer history of US attempts to dominate the
region.

Chapter
2, ‘Barrel Bombs, Partisan Sources and War Propaganda’ addresses
the problem of reporting and reading the Syrian crisis. Media
channels have shown a hyperreliance on partisan sources, committed to
the war and denigrating the Syrian Army. This is the key barrier to
understanding the controversies around chemical weapons, civilian
massacres and the levels of support for or opposition to President
Assad.

Chapter
3, ‘Daraa 2011: Another Islamist Insurrection’ reconstructs,
from a range of sources, the Saudi-backed Islamist insurrection in
Daraa in March 2011. Those armed attacks were quite distinct from the
political reform rallies, which the Islamists soon drove off the
streets.

Chapter
4, ‘Bashar al Assad and Political Reform’ explains
the political reform movement from the time Bashar assumed the
presidency in the year 2000 to the beginning of the crisis in 2011.
From this we can see that most opposition groups were committed to
reform within a Syrian context, with virtually all opposing attacks
on the Syrian state. The chapter then reviews the role of Bashar as a
reformer, and the evidence on his popularity.

Chapter
5, ‘The Empire’s Jihadis’ looks
at the collaboration between Salafist political Islam and the
imperial powers in the Middle East. Distinct from the anti-imperial
Islamic currents in Iran and south Lebanon, Salafist political Islam
has become a sectarian force competing with Arab nationalism across
Egypt, Palestine and Syria, and drawing on long standing
collaborative relations with the big powers. This history provides
important background to the character of Syria’s Islamist
‘revolution’, and its various slogans.

Chapter
6, ‘Embedded Media, Embedded Watchdogs’ identifies
the propaganda techniques of media channels and the network of ‘human
rights’ bodies (Human Rights Watch, Avaaz, etc) which function as
megaphones and ‘moderators’ for the Washington agenda. Many have
become fierce advocates for ‘humanitarian war’. A number of newer
western NGOs (e.g. The Syria Campaign, The White Helmets) have been
created by Wall Street agencies specifically for the dirty war on
Syria. A number of their fabrications are documented here.

Chapter
7, ‘The Houla Massacre Revisited’ considers
in detail the evidence from the first major massacre designed
(following success of the technique over Libya) to influence UN
Security Council consideration of military intervention. While the
first UN inquiry group, actually in Syria, found contradictory
evidence on this massacre, a second UN group outside Syria and
co-chaired by a US diplomat, tried to blame the Syrian Government.
Yet more than a dozen witnesses blamed Farouq FSA Islamists, who
killed pro-government villagers and took over the area, holding it
for some months. Several other ‘false flag’ massacres are noted.

Chapter
8, ‘Chemical Fabrications: the East Ghouta Incident’ details
the second major ‘false flag’ incident of international
significance. This incident in August 2013, which nearly sparked a
major escalation involving US missile attacks on Syria, was used to
accuse the Syrian Government of killing hundreds of civilians,
including children, with chemical weapons. Within a fairly short time
multiple sources of independent evidence (including North American
evidence) disproved these accusations. Nevertheless, Syria’s
opponents have repeated the false accusations, to this day, as though
they were fact.

Chapter
9 , ‘A Responsibility to Protect and the Double Game’ addresses
a recent political doctrine, a subset of ‘humanitarian
intervention’ popularised to add to the imperial toolkit. The
application of this doctrine in Libya was disastrous for that little
country. Fortunately the attempts to use it in Syria failed.

Al
Kindi hospital (Aleppo) as it was being demolished by two truck
bombs, December 2013. The operation was carried out by Jabhat
al Nusra (see logo top right) and its FSA partners. Afterwards
the Islamist-linked ‘Physicians for Human Rights’ tried to
blame the Syrian Government for this destruction. Photo: Jabhat al
Nusra

Chapter
10, ‘Health and Sanctions’ documents
the NATO-backed Islamist attacks on Syria’s health system, linked
to the impact of western economic sanctions. These twin currents have
caused great damage to Syrian public health. Such attacks carry no
plausible motive of seeking local popular support, so we must
interpret them as part of an overall strategy to degrade the Syrian
state, rendering it more vulnerable to outside intervention.

Chapter
11 ‘Washington, Terrorism and ISIS: the evidence’,
documents the links between the big powers and the latest peak
terrorist group they claim to be fighting. Only evidence can help
develop informed opinion on this contentious matter, but the evidence
is overwhelming. There is little ideological difference between the
various Salafi-Islamist groups, and Washington and its allies have
financed and armed every one of them.

Chapter
12, ‘Western Intervention and the Colonial Mind’ discusses
the western cultural mindset that underlies persistent violations of
the rights of other peoples.

Chapter
13 ‘Towards an Independent Middle East’,
considers the end-game in the Syrian crisis, and its implications for
the Middle East region. At tremendous cost the Syrian Arab Republic,
its army and its people, have successfully resisted aggression from a
variety of powerful enemies. Syria’s survival is due to its
resilience and internal unity, bolstered by support from some strong
allies. The introduction of Russian air power in late September 2015
was important. So too were the coordinated ground forces from Iran,
Iraq and Lebanon, in support of an independent Syria.

When
the attacks on Syria abate the Middle East seems set to be
transformed, with greater political will and military preparedness on
the part of an expanded Axis of Resistance. That will signal the
beginning of the end for Washington’s 15 year spree of bloodshed
and ‘regime change’ across the entire region.

Click here to purchase Tim Anderson’s Book PDF

The
original source of this article is Global Research

Copyright
© Prof.
Tim Anderson,
Global Research, 2016


Zie ook: ‘Syrië, de leugens die u op de mouw worden gespeld….. Ofwel: Syrië, de vuile oorlog en…….. deel 2‘ 

       en: ‘Palmyra ontzet, westerse media geven Rusland schoorvoetend ‘de eer…..’‘

     en: ‘Mosul ‘zal met precisie ontdaan worden van de terroristen, inclusief een minimum aan burgerslachtoffers…….’‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

     en: ‘Mosul, waar zijn de burgerslachtoffers in de media….?‘

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het voorgaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terugvindt, dit geldt niet voor het label ‘Anderson’.

Shell en andere oliemaatschappijen lopen deur Europese Commissie plat………

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

In de Ondernemer gisteren het bericht, dat de Europese lobbywaakhond Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) hoogst ongerust is over het feit dat vertegenwoordigers (lobbyisten, dan wel topgraaiers) van energiereuzen als Shell, BP, E-on en Statoil de deur platlopen bij de Europese Commissie, waar lobbyisten van ngo’s amper toegang hebben……. Miguel Arias Cañete (klimaat en energie) en Maros Sefcovic (Energie-unie), beiden zitting hebbend in de Europese Commissie en intussen een jaar aan het bewind, hadden 4 van de 5 gesprekken in dat jaar, met vertegenwoordigers van grote energiebedrijven (zoals hiervoor genoemd). De lobbyisten van milieuorganisaties, vakbonden en andere ngo’s komen amper aan bod bij de Europese Commissie…….

Volgens het afgelopen donderdag uitgebrachte rapport van CEO, hadden de voornoemde twee figuren, die voorheen grote oliebedrijven hebben geleid (!!!!), amper contact met lobbyisten die hernieuwbare energie propageren…… Volgens CEO is dat in strijd met de belofte van commissievoorzitter Juncker, die eerder stelde dat ‘balans en proportionaliteit’ bij dit soort ontmoetingen voorop moeten staan……….

CEO stel verder dat zij die verantwoordelijk zijn voor vervuiling, niet degenen moeten zijn, die besluiten over de oplossingen……. Tijdens de klimaattop zal dit ook weer gebeuren, de grote oliemaatschappijen mogen ook daar aanschuiven……..

Tja, wat wil je met de vals emotionele PvdA kleuter en volksverlakker Timmermans als rechterhand van Juncker???

Welke idioten zijn er verantwoordelijk voor het aanstellen van het corrupte stel Arias Cañete en Sefcovic???? Ongelofelijk!!!!!

Moet u nagaan, hetzelfde geldt voor het geheime TTIP verdrag, daar mogen de grote bedrijven (waaronder oliemaatschappijen), voor 90% van de tijd aanzitten, terwijl de consumentenorganisaties en andere ngo’s daar nog niet voor 10% van de tijd worden uitgenodigd hun visie te geven……… Zoals gezegd: ook aan de komende klimaattop in Parijs, mogen de grote oliemaatschappijen deelnemen………

Dat stelt nog eens extra vraagtekens bij beweringen van o.a. CDA knuppelkut Schreijer-Pierik, die afgelopen zondag (Buitenhof) nog stelde, dat de (grote) bedrijven, boeren en EU burger belangenorganisaties, gelijke aandacht krijgen, als zij lobbyen in Brussel……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Uiteraard wist zij toen al van het rapport dat CEO uitbracht, je kan dan ook gerust stellen, dat deze ‘christelijke’ dierenbeul (ze is ook ‘boerin’), alweer keihard zat te liegen!! Uiteraard hebben bedrijven veel meer macht, immers zij kunnen politici achteraf belonen voor de bedreven lobbyactiviteiten……

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