Protesten Hongkong krijgen veel media aandacht, terwijl protesten in landen die westers gezind zijn vaak worden genegeerd…..

Caitlin
Johnstone schreef een artikel over het verschil in media
aandacht voor de protesten in Hongkong en protesten in niet westerse
landen die braaf doen wat het westen (lees; de VS) nodig acht, voor
de eerste is er enorm veel aandacht en voor de tweede is amper of
totaal geen aandacht…….

Niet
verrassend is het feit dat het ministerie van BuZa in de VS gebruik
maakt van deze gespleten aandacht voor protesten, wat zeg ik: die aandacht in de media wordt mede ingegeven door de overheid van de VS*. Zo liet Brian Hook,
een hielenlikker van oorlogsmisdadiger Bolton, in 2017 aan Rex Tillerson (die toen net VS minister van buitenlandse zaken was) weten dat mensenrechtenschendingen in
Rusland, China, Iran, Venezuela en Noord-Korea met extra veel
aandacht veroordeeld moeten worden, terwijl diezelfde schending van
mensenrechten in bijvoorbeeld Saoedi-Arabië, Indonesië, Filipijnen, Honduras en Israël het liefst (zo lang mogelijk) uit de media moeten worden gehouden……… Een en ander bleek uit een gelekt memo……. 

Johnstone stelt terecht dat wanneer er een protestbeweging als de Yellow Vests in de VS tekeer zou gaan, deze zo lang mogelijk verzwegen zou worden door de media en dat men bij wel publiceren woorden voor de demonstranten zou gebruiken als fascisten, antisemieten of Russische pionnen (of Russische trollen)…..

Overigens is er maar weinig aandacht voor het uiterst gewelddadige karakter van de demonstraties in Hongkong, tja dat past niet zo in het plaatje dat men het volk wil voorhouden: een gewelddadig China dat op het punt staat ‘vreedzame demonstraties’ de kop in te drukken……

Het voorgaande, de aandacht die de westerse politici en massamedia wel hebben voor demonstraties in Hongkong, Iran of Venezuela, is ook in Nederland de manier van berichten in de reguliere media (Telegraaf, Volkskrant, NRC, Radio1 enz. enz.). Journalisten van die media hier hebben al te vaak laten
zien zaken te laten liggen als deze niet in het belang van de
Nederlandse regering, de VS of de NAVO zijn, of als ze negatief uitpakken voor de bestaande neoliberale status quo….. 

De volkomen ten onrechte over een
paardendrol getilde hufter Max van Weezel (als was hij een journalist
van formaat), liet een paar jaar geleden op Radio1 geheel parmantig weten
bepaalde zaken zeker niet te zullen brengen (als deze bijvoorbeeld
onrust in de maatschappij zouden kunnen veroorzaken)…….

Vanmorgen
hoorde ik Paul van Gessel, oud-grofgraaier van AT5, op Radio1 zeggen:
“Geef ons brood en spelen”, toen men na 10.00 u. zat te zeuren
over ‘oude formules’ als ‘Man bijt Hond’ dat weer uitgezonden schijnt
te worden…….. Ofwel de zich journalist noemende van Gessel wil ‘brood en spelen’, een uitvinding van waarschijnlijk de Romeinen om
onrust onder het volk te sussen en zo protesten te voorkomen….. ‘Brood en spelen’ houden de mensen weg van wat er echt gebeurt in
de wereld en juist dat, het vertellen wat er werkelijk gebeurt is nu juist precies wat de reguliere media dag in
dag uit zouden moeten brengen……. Maar nee, geef van Gessel en
een heel leger andere Nederlandse ‘journalisten’ maar ‘brood en spelen’, dan kunnen ze daar
de kranten, websites, radio en tv mee vullen……

De NOS
op Radio1, ziet het dan ook als haar taak om in het Radio1 Journaal
‘s morgens zoveel mogelijk sport te proppen, dit nog naast ellenlange
reclameblokken en muziek waar niemand op wacht……… (brood en spelen) De gasten die
te horen zijn in het Radio1 Journaal hebben maar al te vaak weinig of
niets te brengen, waarbij de presentator de onderwerpen zo lang
mogelijk probeert uit te melken (onderwerpen als die ‘Van gewest tot gewest’), niet vreemd dus dat een presentator, zoals Jurgen van den Berg regelmatig vragen stelt waarop
de gast eerder in het gesprek al een antwoord heeft gegeven (niet zelden zelfs al 2 keer)…….. De eerder prima presentatoren van dit programma, Marcel Oosten en Frederique de Jong, moesten het veld ruimen voor minkukel van den Berg en daarmee werd het Radio1 Journaal een orgaan dat de status quo bewaakt en onrust moet voorkomen……**


Kortom: de westerse reguliere media zijn verworden tot propagandaorganen van het grootkapitaal, de neoliberale status quo en voor de illegale oorlogen die de VS met hulp van haar oorlogshond NAVO voert tegen landen waar de VS en de rest van het westen niets te zoeken hebben…… Overigens stelt Johnstone terecht dat er wel degelijk goede redenen kunnen zijn dat men demonstreert, waar je wel op moet letten of protesten niet zijn georganiseerd door de CIA, zoals deze terreurorganisatie dit bijvoorbeeld ook in Iran en Oekraïne heeft gedaan (en dat protest was dan ook in die landen uiterst gewelddadig)

How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings

by Caitlin
Johnstone

The
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, our government-funded media
outlet, has published an article titled “
Australian
expat living in Hong Kong throws off business suit to join protest
movement
“.
The entire story is in the headline: some random guy, who ABC keeps
anonymous but for the name “Daniel”, has joined the
protests in Hong Kong. That’s it. That’s the whole entire bombshell
newsworthy news story.

“In Australia we
have proper democracy but in Hong Kong, democracy is being slowly
eroded away and I’ll try to do whatever I can to try and help the
cause,” the anonymous guy told ABC.

This sort of enthusiastic
empty non-story cheerleading is typical for western media coverage of
the Hong Kong protests so far, while these same media outlets
consistently ignore or downplay protests against the government of
France, Israel, Honduras, India, Indonesia and any other region that
happens to fall within the US-centralized power alliance. It’s an
amazingly reliable pattern: the entire western political/media class
finds protests and uprisings endlessly fascinating when they are in
opposition to governments which haven’t yet been absorbed into the
imperial blob like China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Syria,
pre-collapse Libya, or then-Moscow-aligned Ukraine, but any protests
or uprisings within that empire are ignored at best or demonized at
worst.

If dissidents in the
United States began donning yellow vests and holding aggressive
demonstrations in the current media environment, you could safely bet
your bottom dollar that they would be ignored for as long as possible
and then smeared as fascists, antisemites and/or Russian pawns
thereafter. This would happen with absolute certainty.

Corporate
media’s interest in foreign protests dovetails perfectly with State
Department & Corporate America’s agenda. Protests against rival
regimes get amplified; protests against US-friendly regimes get
blackout. 
https://t.co/m2iouAjS8G

Mark
Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) 
August
26, 2019

This very reliable trend
in the western media is very interesting, because it also happens to
be the known position of the US State Department.

In
2017 
a
memo was leaked to 
Politico
 in
which the sniveling 
John
Bolton lackey
 Brian
Hook explained to DC neophyte Rex Tillerson how to perform his job as
Secretary of State with regard to human rights violations. Hook
explained that the US government must downplay and ignore the human
rights violations of US allies like Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the
Philippines while aggressively targeting unabsorbed governments like
China, Russia, Iran and North Korea for any allegations of human
rights violations on their part.

“In the case of US
allies such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines, the
Administration is fully justified in emphasizing good relations for a
variety of important reasons, including counter-terrorism, and in
honestly facing up to the difficult tradeoffs with regard to human
rights,” Hook explained in the memo.

“One useful
guideline for a realistic and successful foreign policy is that
allies should be treated differently — and better — than
adversaries,” Hook wrote. “Otherwise, we end up with more
adversaries, and fewer allies. The classic dilemma of balancing
ideals and interests is with regard to America’s allies. In
relation to our competitors, there is far less of a dilemma. We do
not look to bolster America’s adversaries overseas; we look to
pressure, compete with, and outmaneuver them. For this reason, we
should consider human rights as an important issue in regard to US
relations with China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.”

This State Department
memo is really all you need to understand what’s going on whenever
there’s any kind of uprising or conflict in a foreign nation. Hell,
it’s almost all you need to understand the dynamics of empire in
general. And, combined with the consistent pattern we’ve seen in
coverage of protests and uprisings against empire-absorbed
governments versus unabsorbed ones, it certainly tells you all you
need to know about the state of the western media.

In theory the US
Department of State was meant to serve as a counterpart to what was
then called the Department of War (later falsely re-titled the
“Department of Defense”). In theory the State Department
was meant to specialize in peace and diplomacy in the same way the
War Department specialized in war. In practice the warmongers just
got two war departments.

Today:
Hong Kong publisher and democracy advocate Jimmy Lai met National
Security Adviser John Bolton in DC. After meetings
with 
@SecPompeo and @VP,
this is meant to send a signal to Beijing. Very unusual for a nongovt
visitor to get that kind of access. 
pic.twitter.com/6rvqsGJzru

Nicholas
Wadhams (@nwadhams) 
July
10, 2019

Understand this one basic
concept and you can understand all the hot topic foreign policy
issues of any given day: there is an alliance of nations, centralized
around US military and economic power, which effectively functions as
a single empire. This empire works tirelessly to either absorb
unabsorbed governments into its blob, or at least to undermine and
marginalize them so they can’t impede the empire’s growth. The goal
of the empire is total global domination without causing a nuclear
war and without the public noticing that they’re living in an empire.
In this sense it’s essentially a silent, slow motion third world war.

I see some of my readers
voicing confusion about the protests in Hong Kong, but if you
understand the basic dynamic I just described you’ll see that this is
really no different from the protests and uprisings we’ve seen in
Venezuela, Iran, Syria, Libya and Ukraine: the western
political/media class are backing an uprising which benefits the
imperial blob and undermines an unabsorbed government. This doesn’t
mean that the protesters don’t have grievances or that none of those
grievances are legitimate, it just means that you’re being told to
cheerlead for an agenda by empire narrative managers solely because
your doing so benefits that empire.

So don’t. Refuse to be a
pro bono CIA propagandist. This doesn’t mean you need to oppose the
protesters in Hong Kong, Venezuela or anywhere else, it just means
that the only people who benefit from westerners cheerleading a
CIA-approved uprising against an unabsorbed government are your
rulers, who work endlessly to manufacture support for pro-empire
agendas.

The
Great Propaganda War on China now turns on the “uprising”
in Hong Kong. Forget that China is surrounded by 400 US bases,
described in Washington as “the perfect noose”. This report
from the excellent Grayzone investigates the illusions of Hong
Kong.
https://t.co/CPWIju42Li

John
Pilger (@johnpilger) 
August
22, 2019

People who don’t get this
sometimes tell me that we should “support” the protesters
in a given unabsorbed region, but they’re always very reluctant to
say what they mean by “support”. Do they mean simply
joining the western mass media in uncritically cheerleading for an
uprising which benefits western power structures? Do they mean send
them money? Weapons? An emotional thumbs-up? Prayers? Getting someone
to say what they mean when they say we should “support” the
Hong Kong protesters or whomever is like pulling teeth, because it
would bring up a lot of cognitive dissonance to actually turn and
examine what’s behind the impulse they’re following: narrative
management. They’re promoting pro-empire narrative management, and
nothing more. 

And they’re doing this because the empire narrative
managers trained them to.

“Centrist”
empire loyalists tend to ignore the protests in places like France
while amplifying and cheerleading the protests in places like Hong
Kong. Right-wing empire loyalists sometimes do it a little
differently, actively conflating the Yellow Vests protests with
protests in places like Hong Kong despite the very different forces
that are at play in those two situations. But in both cases they’re
effectively mirroring the same State Department posture that Brian
Hook tried to educate into Rex Tillerson in 2017.

Don’t subject yourself to
such indignities. If the political/media class is going to
propagandize the masses into supporting the advancement of the
agendas of the empire, at least make them do it without your help.

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*  De massamedia in de VS en de rest van het westen zijn in handen van plutocraten en rechtse investeringsgroepen, ofwel figuren die aandelen hebben in wapenfabrieken (en dan bedoel ik niet alleen wapens en munitie, maar ook rollend, varend en vliegend oorlogstuig) en alle grote bedrijven die belang hebben bij het bewaren van de neoliberale (fascistische) status quo en dat is duidelijk te zien in de berichtgeving…… Uiteraard hebben die eigenaren van media belang bij oorlogsvoering en onderdrukking van alles wat maar naar links ruikt….. Nogmaals: zie de berichtgeving door die media over de illegale oorlogen van de VS tegen landen als Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië, een grote berg fake news, manipulaties en ronduit leugens……..

** Zie: ‘Jurgen van den Berg gaat het Radio1 Journaal presenteren, met hem zullen de luistercijfers omhoog gaan……….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘ (Voor meer berichten over van den Berg, de Jong en van Oosten, klik op het label met de bewuste naam, direct onder dit bericht)

Zie ook:

Hongkongs vrijheid in gevaar, ofwel de vrijheid om te moorden en vernielen….‘ 

Hongkong: Chinese veiligheidswet leidt tot hypocriet westers protest in media en politiek‘ 

Protesten Hongkong krijgen veel media aandacht, terwijl protesten in landen die westers gezind zijn vaak worden genegeerd…..‘ 

Trumps kruistocht tegen Huawei waar GB in de G5 val van de VS is getrapt (en zie de links in dat bericht voor meer artikelen over het G5 netwerk van Huawei)

PS: weet niet waarom, maar kan vandaag geen contact maken met de site van Caitlin Johnstone, het bovenstaand bericht heb ik dan ook per mail ontvangen…… Kan dus geen link naar het originele bericht plaatsen.

White Helmets worden als helden afgeschilderd in propaganda spel

‘Call of
Duty: Modern Warfare’, een ‘videospel’ over oorlogsvoering heeft een nieuwe aflevering, waarin o.a ‘het heroïsche werk’ van de White Helmets wordt weergegeven, een
nieuwe poging om Assad en zijn regering te demoniseren, niet voor
niets ook dat GB onlangs poogde een gifgasaanval in de schoenen van
Assad te schuiven, de zoveelste poging wel te verstaan……

De schrijver van dit spel, Taylor Kurosaki heeft zijn best gedaan om de White Helmets te portretteren
als een organisatie die goed werk verricht in Syrië en is bedoeld om nog meer
steun te genereren voor deze organisatie….. 

De White Helmets, een organisatie die in werkelijkheid overduidelijk is gerelateerd aan terreurgroepen, groepen die het westen
afschildert als gematigde rebellen, terwijl
het moordende, verkrachtende en martelende psychopaten zijn, die bovendien met medeweten van het westen over gifgassen als chlorine en sarin beschikken…… Psychopaten die o.a. met Nederlands belastinggeld van jou en mij werden gesteund……

De White Helmets zijn meermaals betrapt in het bijstaan van de zogenaamde gematigde rebellen en het zelf uitoefenen van terreur……..

De White Helmets werd door een Britse ex-officier en particuliere
‘militaire aannemer’ op poten gezet. Deze figuur, James Le Mesurier,
wilde daarmee het debat over Syrië sturen in de richting van het
afzetten van Assad. ‘Missie geslaagd’, grootschalige terreur met als ‘offer’ meer dan 500.000 vermoorde Syriërs, echter het afzetten van
Assad wilde maar niet lukken…..

Lees het
volgende artikel van
Caitlin Johnstone en zie de begeleidende
video’s. Het artikel werd door mij overgenomen van
Anti-Media:

New
‘Call Of Duty’ Encourages Support for Syria’s White Helmets

June
5, 2019 at 8:49 pm

Written
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) — The official
trailer
 for
the latest 
Call
of Duty
 was
released a few days ago, and it features the Syria narrative
management operation known as the White Helmets depicted in heroic
roles. Characters wearing the organization’s signature headgear are
seen clearing rubble in 
part
of the trailer
 for Call
of Duty: Modern Warfare
.

To
give you an idea how popular the CoD franchise is, as of this writing
the official Youtube version of the trailer has 27 million views.

To
be clear, the characters in the game are most certainly intended to
resemble the White Helmets of Syria, and their presence there is most
certainly intended to increase support for and interest in that
group. How do I know? Its game writer has explicitly said so.

Kurosaki
says he wants ‘Call of Duty’ to be spoken of as on par with the
best war films, and he hopes ‘Modern Warfare’ will inspire fans
to check out the harrowing and eye-opening documentaries ‘The White
Helmets’ or ‘Last Man in Aleppo,” the 
LA
Times
 reports.

The
White Helmets are what legendary journalist John Pilger describes as
a
complete propaganda construct
“,
an operation designed by former British army officer and private
military contractor 
James Le
Mesurier
 to
manipulate the narrative about what’s going on in Syria. 
This
excellent half-hour mini-documentary
 by
James Corbett clearly outlines the way the operation is used to
create footage implicating the Assad government in the slaughter of
civilians via chemical weapons attacks and other camera-friendly war
crimes, the mountain of evidence of their ties to literal terrorist
organizations in Syria, and the western funding and media
manipulations that have been pouring into elevating the outfit.

It’s
a brilliant invention, really. Have a purportedly neutral group
filming on the ground in “rebel”-held areas (where the White
Helmets exclusively operate), and you can ensure an endless supply of
footage which can be used to paint a 
longtime
western target for regime change
 as
a barbarian who needs to be ousted. And indeed, the extremist
jihadist factions which overran Syria with 
the
backing
of the
US
 and its
allies
 nearly
succeeded in toppling Assad 
prior
to Russia’s intervention
,
and we may be certain that the agenda to control who rules over the
geostrategically crucial region remains as intact as ever.

The
pro-White Helmets propaganda is not 
Call
of Duty
‘s
first foray into US military narrative management. As 
noted
by journalist Max Blumenthal
 in
April, an earlier CoD game depicted the assassination of the leader
of Venezuela and, bizarrely, attacking Venezuela’s hydroelectric
dam and energy grid with the goal of causing power outages like the
ones the nation has been struggling with. Citing public information,
Blumenthal documents how such games have been “developed with
substantial input from America’s military intelligence apparatus”,
as well as the CoD designer’s involvement with the Pentagon and the
NATO narrative management firm the Atlantic Council.

People
playing these games, mostly impressionable young men, are manipulated
into desiring to accomplish the goals that are laid out for them in
order to win, all of which involve killing and many of which happen
to align with preexisting US military agendas. They are desensitized
to mass military violence, trained to support and identify with US
military campaigns, and taught that being a member of the military
might just be a fun and noble way to spend one’s future.

Propaganda
in video games doesn’t get the kind of pushback you see against
propaganda in news media and movies, largely because the content in
the games is generally only viewed individually by those who are
engrossed in playing them. It’s this whole closed-off world that is
manipulating minds with very little scrutiny compared to other forms
of media, which is troubling, because the video game industry is so
vast that for many years its earnings 
have
eclipsed those of the movie and music industries combined
.

This
needs more attention. The sane, healthy response to learning
that one’s government and its allies were arming and training
terrorist groups in Syria would have been screaming, earth-shaking
rage for months, accompanied by a demand for an unequivocal apology,
immediate repair of all damage done, and war crimes tribunals for
everyone who was involved. Instead, the news passed by with barely a
whisper, and now when you see Syria mentioned it’s generally to
condemn its president for fighting back against that unforgivably
depraved act of regime change interventionism. This has been
happening because people have been propagandized. Nothing will change
until we find a way to help human minds unplug from the 
narrative
control matrix
 and awaken
to what’s really going on
.

Opinion
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone
 /
Republished with permission / 
Medium / Report
a typo

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

* Zie o.a.: ‘MP Chris Williamson confronts UK government with apparent evidence of ‘staged’ chemical attack in Syria

De gifgasaanvallen die het reguliere Syrische leger zou hebben gepleegd, zijn onderdeel van ‘false flag’ operaties, ofwel men begaat een oorlogsmisdaad en schuift die de vijand in de schoenen, zie o.a.: ‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….

Zie ook:

White Helmets oprichter ‘vermoord door’ vredesactivisten en kritische alternatieve media‘ (voor meer berichten over de White Helemets, klik op de betreffende links in dat bericht)

Massamedia treuren over de dood van een door de CIA gesteunde terrorist

VS terreuraanslag in Syrië op 3 tankwagens: 4 doden

Gifgasaanval Douma in elkaar gezet door ‘gematigde rebellen’

Gifgasaanval Douma: OPCW rapport maakt korte metten met de westerse beschuldiging aan adres Syrië, waar de NOS een meer dan levensgrote bok schoot‘ (de OPCW heeft trouwens later een smerig spel gespeeld in de documentatie over deze zogenaamde gifgasaanval van Assad, dit door zaken weg te laten….)

VS heeft opstand en daarmee de oorlog in Syrië georganiseerd, zo toont WikiLeaks ten overvloede nog eens aan…….

Gifgasaanval Idlib: de komende ‘kindslachtoffers’ worden getraind door terreurgroep White Helmets………

Al Jazeera filmde een onderdeel van de ‘gifgasshow’ in Kahn Sheikhoun………..

Vlaamse pater roept op niet langer de westerse anti-Syrië propaganda te geloven!

Syrische nonnen spreken zich uit tegen de oorlogspropaganda van westerse mogendheden en de reguliere westerse (massa-) media

CNN en andere media met doorzichtige oorlogspropaganda tegen de Syrische regering

VS geeft toe dat er geen bewijs is voor het gebruik van gifgas ‘door Assad’, ofwel: alweer ‘fake news’ van de massamedia doorgeprikt!

Voorbeeld BBC en AD propaganda inzake Idlib (Syrië)

John Bolton geeft terreurgroepen in Syrië de opdracht een false flag gifgasaanval uit te voeren

Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!

Oost-Ghouta, wat je niet wordt verteld

BBC World Service en BNR met ‘fake news’ over Ghouta……..

Syrië: nieuwe gifgasaanval als ‘false flag’ operatie tegen Syrisch bewind in voorbereiding……..

Ghouta: een gifgas false flag en VS chef Guterres eist staakt het vuren van pro-Syrische strijdgroepen op Oost-Ghouta……

Van Kappen (VVD) noemt ‘stapelaanwijzingen’ het bewijs en is blij met raketaanval VS op Syrische basis,  een aanval zonder enig echt bewijs voor Syrische schuld…….

Sico van der Meer (‘deskundige’ Clingendael) weet niet, dat Israël en Egypte grote hoeveelheden gifgas maken en op voorraad hebben……….

Koenders en SOHR melden gifgasaanval, reguliere media als NOS nemen bericht van SOHR (propaganda en ‘fake news’ orgaan) over

Rutte: raketaanval VS tegen Syrische basis was begrijpelijk en proportioneel, ook al is er geen bewijs voor Syrische schuld……..

Haley (VS ambassadeur bij VN) herhaalde in VN, voorafgaand aan raketaanval, het smerige spel van Powell in 2002, aanleiding tot illegale oorlog tegen Irak…….‘  

‘Koenders (PvdA BuZa): Assad is schuldig aan gifgasaanval en is een ‘criminele recidivist……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Esther de Lange (CDA): het afschieten door de VS van raketten op een Syrische basis ‘was even nodig………..’

VS bereid tot militair ingrijpen tegen de regering Assad >> aanleiding: gifgas leugens van o.a. de VS zelf…….‘ (zie de links in dat bericht over de levering van wapens door o.a.de VS (en Nederland) aan terreurgroepen als IS en al-Nusra)

Bernard Hammelburg (BNR): Assad is een monster waar we mee moeten samenwerken………

Van Baalen (VVD) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld….

Sophie in ‘t Veld (D66): het afschieten door de VS van raketten op een Syrische basis ‘was even nodig………..’

Genocidale aanval op sjiitische vluchtelingen uit Foua en Kefraya wordt door massamedia afgedaan als ‘een ongelukje’, of  volgens CNN zelfs als een ‘hiccup………

Exactly how the US trained and armed ISIS

Tulsi Gabbard (VS congres Hawaï): Trump is de beschermende Big Brother van Al Qaida

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, valse beschuldigingen, Big Brother en VS steun voor terrorisme

John
Pilger, o.a. Journalist, documentaire/film maker en schrijver, gaat regelmatig op
bezoek bij Julian Assange in de Ecuadoraanse ambassade in Londen. Hij
beschrijft hoe Assange in feite als een gevangene wordt behandeld,
terwijl er nergens ter wereld aanklachten tegen hem zijn ingediend…….

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor The Prisoner Says No To Big Brother

In het hieronder opgenomen artikel haalt Pilger voorts een aantal zaken aan die zijn onthuld in WikiLeaks,
zoals de geheime besprekingen van Hillary Clinton met de Wall Street bankenmaffia, waar ze deze georganiseerde misdadigers beloofde voor hen te werken, mocht ze tot
president worden verkozen……. Voorts werpt hij licht op de enorme
bedragen die Clinton ontving van terreurstaten Saoedi-Arabië en Qatar, die tegelijk IS van financiën (en militair materieel, Ap) hebben voorzien,
een zaak waarvan Clinton op de hoogte was………

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor The Prisoner Says No To Big Brother

Ook GB
krijgt onder uit de kan, dit i.v.m. de Chagos Eilanden, waar GB de
bevolking evacueerde o.a. van het eiland Diego Garcia, waar de
militaire basis van de VS is gestationeerd….. 50 jaar lang heeft GB
geweigerd de bewoners terug te laten keren naar hun huis….. Verder valt in het artikel van Pilger te
lezen dat de Britse regering de bewoners van deze archipel eigenlijk de toegang
niet meer kon ontzeggen en daarom besloot de Chagos Archipel tot een zeereservaat uit te roepen…… Daarmee kunnen de bewoners bijvoorbeeld niet meer als
vissers voorzien in hun onderhoud…… De Britten verzekerden de VS
in een geheim bericht dat dit voldoende was om de wil tot terugkeer
van de bewoners te breken, een bericht dat ook al terug is te vinden in WikiLeaks……

Gelukkig
heeft het Internationaal Gerechtshof beslist dat GB geen zeggenschap
heeft over de Chagos archipel……

Lees het volgende uitstekende artikel van Pilger, gepubliceerd op Information Clearing House:

The
Prisoner Says No To Big Brother

By
John Pilger


March
04, 2019 “Information
Clearing House
” –  Whenever I visit Julian
Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table
and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase where the
books never change. The curtains are always drawn and there is no
natural light. The air is still and fetid.

This is Room
101.

Before I enter Room 101, I must surrender my passport and
phone. My pockets and possessions are examined. The food I bring is
inspected.

The man who guards Room 101 sits in what looks like
an old-fashioned telephone box. He watches a screen, watching Julian.
There are others unseen, agents of the state, watching and
listening.

Cameras are everywhere in Room 101. To avoid them,
Julian manoeuvres us both into a corner, side by side, flat up
against the wall. This is how we catch up: whispering and writing to
each other on a notepad, which he shields from the cameras. Sometimes
we laugh.

I have my designated time slot. When that expires,
the door in Room 101 bursts open and the guard says, “Time is
up!” On New Year’s Eve, I was allowed an extra 30 minutes and
the man in the phone box wished me a happy new year, but not
Julian.

Of course, Room 101 is the room in George Orwell’s
prophetic novel, 1984, where the thought police watched and tormented
their prisoners, and worse, until people surrendered their humanity
and principles and obeyed Big Brother.

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor The Prisoner Says No To Big Brother

Julian
Assange will never obey Big Brother. His resilience and courage are
astonishing, even though his physical health struggles to keep
up.

Julian
is a distinguished Australian, who has changed the way many people
think about duplicitous governments. For this, he is a political
refugee subjected to what the United Nations calls “arbitrary
detention”.

The
UN says he has the right of free passage to freedom, but this is
denied. He has the right to medical treatment without fear of arrest,
but this is denied. He has the right to compensation, but this is
denied.

As
founder and editor of WikiLeaks, his crime has been to make sense of
dark times. WikiLeaks has an impeccable record of accuracy and
authenticity which no newspaper, no TV channel, no radio station, no
BBC, no New York Times, no Washington Post, no Guardian can equal.
Indeed, it shames them. 

That
explains why he is being punished.

For
example:

Last
week, the International Court of Justice ruled that the British
Government had no legal powers over the Chagos Islanders, who in the
1960s and 70s, were expelled in secret from their homeland on Diego
Garcia in the Indian Ocean and sent into exile and poverty. Countless
children died, many of them, from sadness. It was an epic crime few
knew about.

For
almost 50 years, the British have denied the islanders’ the right to
return to their homeland, which they had given to the Americans for a
major military base.

In
2009, the British Foreign Office concocted a “marine reserve”
around the Chagos archipelago.

This
touching concern for the environment was exposed as a fraud when
WikiLeaks published a secret cable from the British Government
reassuring the Americans that “the former inhabitants would find
it difficult, if not impossible, to pursue their claim for
resettlement on the islands if the entire Chagos Archipelago were a
marine reserve.”

The
truth of the conspiracy clearly influenced the momentous decision of
the International Court of Justice.

WikiLeaks
has also revealed how the United States spies on its allies; how the
CIA can watch you through your I-phone; how Presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton took vast sums of money from Wall Street for secret
speeches that reassured the bankers that if she was elected, she
would be their friend.

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor The Prisoner Says No To Big Brother

In
2016, WikiLeaks revealed a direct connection between Clinton and
organised jihadism in the Middle East: terrorists, in other words.
One email disclosed that when Clinton was US Secretary of State, she
knew that Saudi Arabia and Qatar were funding Islamic State, yet she
accepted huge donations for her foundation from both
governments.

She
then approved the world’s biggest ever arms sale to her Saudi
benefactors: arms that are currently being used against the stricken
people of Yemen.

That
explains why he is being punished.

WikiLeaks
has also published more than 800,000 secret files from Russia,
including the Kremlin, telling us more about the machinations of
power in that country than the specious hysterics of the Russiagate
pantomime in Washington.

This
is real journalism — journalism of a kind now considered exotic: the
antithesis of Vichy journalism, which speaks for the enemy of the
people and takes its sobriquet from the Vichy government that
occupied France on behalf of the Nazis.

Vichy
journalism is censorship by omission, such as the untold scandal of
the collusion between Australian governments and the United States to
deny Julian Assange his rights as an Australian citizen and to
silence him.

In
2010, Prime Minister Julia Gillard went as far as ordering the
Australian Federal Police to investigate and hopefully prosecute
Assange and WikiLeaks — until she was informed by the AFP that no
crime had been committed.

Last
weekend, the Sydney Morning Herald published a lavish supplement
promoting a celebration of “Me Too” at the Sydney Opera
House on 10 March. Among the leading participants is the recently
retired Minister of Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop.

Bishop
has been on show in the local media lately, lauded as a loss to
politics: an “icon”, someone called her, to be
admired.

The
elevation to celebrity feminism of one so politically primitive as
Bishop tells us how much so-called identity politics have subverted
an essential, objective truth: that what matters, above all, is not
your gender but the class you serve.

Before
she entered politics, Julie Bishop was a lawyer who served the
notorious asbestos miner James Hardie which fought claims by men and
their families dying horribly with asbestosis.

Lawyer
Peter Gordon recalls Bishop “rhetorically asking the court why
workers should be entitled to jump court queues just because they
were dying.”

Bishop
says she “acted on instructions … professionally and
ethically”.

Perhaps
she was merely “acting on instructions” when she flew to
London and Washington last year with her ministerial chief of staff,
who had indicated that the Australian Foreign Minister would raise
Julian’s case and hopefully begin the diplomatic process of bringing
him home.

Julian’s
father had written a moving letter to the then Prime Minister Malcolm
Turnbull, asking the government to intervene diplomatically to free
his son. He told Turnbull that he was worried Julian might not leave
the embassy alive.

Julie
Bishop had every opportunity in the UK and the US to present a
diplomatic solution that would bring Julian home. But this required
the courage of one proud to represent a sovereign, independent state,
not a vassal.

Instead,
she made no attempt to contradict the British Foreign Secretary,
Jeremy Hunt, when he said outrageously that Julian “faced
serious charges”. What charges? There were no
charges.

Australia’s
Foreign Minister abandoned her duty to speak up for an Australian
citizen, prosecuted with nothing, charged with nothing, guilty of
nothing.

Will
those feminists who fawn over this false icon at the Opera House next
Sunday be reminded of her role in colluding with foreign forces to
punish an Australian journalist, one whose work has revealed that
rapacious militarism has smashed the lives of millions of ordinary
women in many countries: in Iraq alone, the US-led invasion of that
country, in which Australia participated, left 700,000 widows.

So
what can be done? An Australian government that was prepared to act
in response to a public campaign to rescue the refugee football
player, Hakeem al-Araibi, from torture and persecution in Bahrain, is
capable of bringing Julian Assange home.

Yet
the refusal by the Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra to
honour the United Nations’ declaration that Julian is the victim of
“arbitrary detention” and has a fundamental right to his
freedom is a shameful breach of the spirit of international law.

Why
has the Australian government made no serious attempt to free
Assange? Why did Julie Bishop bow to the wishes of two foreign
powers? Why is this democracy traduced by its servile relationships,
and integrated with lawless foreign power?

The
persecution of Julian Assange is the conquest of us all: of our
independence, our self respect, our intellect, our compassion, our
politics, our culture.

So
stop scrolling. Organise. Occupy. Insist. Persist. Make a noise. Take
direct action. Be brave and stay brave. Defy the thought police.

War
is not peace, freedom is not slavery, ignorance is not strength. If
Julian can stand up to Big Brother, so can you: so can all of
us. 

John
Pilger gave this speech at a rally in Sydney for Julian Assange,
organised by the Socialist Equality Party. 

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

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Julian Assanges vervolging is de genadeklap voor klokkenluiders en (echte) journalisten‘ 

Chelsea Manning blijft voor onbepaalde tijd in de gevangenis

VN heeft eerder de ‘detentie’ van Assange al als onwettig verklaard

Julian Assange gearresteerd, een flagrante schending van de persvrijheid!

Arrestatie Julian Assange: een aanfluiting voor internationale regels en een enorme aanval op onafhankelijke journalistiek

Westerse massamedia lopen aan de leiband van plutocraten, de neoliberale politiek en geheime diensten

Russiagate en Assange: The Guardian wordt nu zelfs door collega’s voor zot uitgemaakt

The Guardian: ondanks een enorme misser (fake news) gaat men door met de valse beschuldigingen t.a.v. Assange……

WikiLeaks belooft The Guardian 1 miljoen dollar als het haar leugens i.z. Assange en Russiagate kan bewijzen…….

Julian Assange gedemoniseerd door media die hem zouden moeten steunen, waren ze bevolkt geweest door echte journalisten……..

WikiLeaks toont aan dat VS en GB een gezamenlijke gewelddadige en bedrieglijke buitenlandpolitiek voeren

De prijs op het hoofd van Julian Assange: 1 miljard dollar…..

Assange kan niet voor spionage worden vervolgd, immers hij is journalist >> aldus Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) in een video

Westerse bevolkingen worden bespeeld door regeringen, massamedia, grote bedrijven, financiële instellingen en geheime diensten……

Media tonen ware gezicht door weigering Julian Assange te verdedigen

Assange is journalist en zou alleen daarom al niet mogen worden vervolgd, een artikel o.a. voor de huidige ‘journalisten’ van de reguliere media en de gebruikers van die media

WhiteHouse: US, Ecuador Coordinating About Future Of Assange Asylum‘ 

Stop de isolatie van Julian Assange!’

JulianAssange (Wikileaks) haalt hypocriete Britse regering onderuit voorwijzen op belang van vrije en onafhankelijke media

Volkskrant en Nieuwsuur Fake News over ‘Russische hacks…..’

VS waarschuwde regering van Zweden voor Wikileaks in aanloop verkiezingen, Assange ‘moest en zou hangen’, ofwel de zoveelste VS manipulatie van verkiezingen elders……

The Guardian bracht anti-Russische propaganda i.v.m. ‘gifgasaanval’ Douma en weigert dit te rectificeren, of te verwijderen…….

The
Guardian bracht afgelopen donderdag het bericht dat 2 Twitteraccounts
niet tot echte mensen behoorden, maar door Russische bot’s werden aangestuurd (of zoals
je wilt: door geautomatiseerde software) werden bediend.

In
die Twitterberichten werd de ‘gifgasaanval’ in Douma neergezet als
een vals bericht (niet een ‘false flag’, dat zou een wel gepleegde
gifgasaanval zijn, die in de schoenen van bijvoorbeeld Assads bewind
werd geschoven, iets dat overigens meermaals wel is gebeurd in Syrië, zoals bij de grote gifgasaanval van 2013…)…..

De
eigenaren van de accounts, wel degelijk bestaande personen, hebben zich kenbaar gemaakt en 
nee, het gaat niet om de gebruikelijke en spreekwoordelijke zwart gemaakte Russische schapen…..

Ondanks
dat The Guardian op de hoogte is van het gelogen bericht, weigert dit
dagblad te rectificeren en het bewuste artikel te verwijderen van het
internet…….

Lees
het volgende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone over een dagblad dat de mond vol
heeft met de woorden ‘fake news’, waar het zelf fake news (of: nepnieuws) brengt, fake news dat
de bevolking op moet zetten tegen Syrië en Rusland……. Waar de waarheid over de
‘gifgasaanval’, namelijk dat deze niet bestaand was en is, wordt geweigerd door The Guardian en de redactie deze zelfs weigert ook maar als mogelijkheid te zien……. ‘Niet vreemd dus’ dat The Guardian de leugen over Russische bots niet wenst te rectificeren, een herhaling van de enorme berg leugens over de Russische bemoeienis met de presidentsverkiezingen in de VS……

Johnstone stelt terecht dat het niet toegeven van fouten (fouten die de politieke situatie verdedigen, dus het illegaal oorlogvoeren in gebieden waar in dit geval GB niets te zoeken heeft) geen probleem is, sterker nog: met het toegeven van dit soort fouten zou men niet alleen de politiek tegen de haren instrijken, maar ook de eigenaar (of eigenaren) van The Guardian, een dagblad dat zich de laatste paar jaar heeft ontpopt als oorlogshitser…….. Dezelfde Guardian die na Douma stelde: “After Douma, the west’s response to Syria’s regime must be military….” En dat voor een mediaorgaan dat zegt onafhankelijk te zijn…….

The
Guardian Is Committing Journalistic Malpractice By Not Retracting
This Claim

caitlin
johnstone

On
the 19th of April, 
The
Guardian
 published
an article making the positive assertion that two Twitter accounts
were run not by real people, but by 
automated
bot software
 based
in Russia. Since the article was published, the owners of both
accounts have stepped forward, on video, demonstrating in no
uncertain terms that they are in fact real human beings and not
software programs.

As
of this writing, days later, there has been neither retraction nor
correction of the false claims made by 
The
Guardian
,
and 
the
article
remains as
published
.

The
article’s author, Heather Stewart, makes the following claim:

“One
bot, 
@Ian56789,
was sending 100 posts a day during a 12-day period from 7 April, and
reached 23 million users, before the account was suspended. It
focused on claims that the chemical weapons attack on Douma had been
falsified, using the hashtag 
#falseflag.
Another, 
@Partisangirl,
reached 61 million users with 2,300 posts over the same 12-day
period.”

Stewart
explicitly asserts that the Twitter account 
@Ian56789 is
a bot. That account’s owner 
appeared
for an interview
 on Sky
News
,
completely disproving this assertion. Stewart also names the Twitter
account 
@Partisangirl as
a bot account. The account’s owner, Maram Susli, is a well-known
Syrian-Australian activist with 
many
publicly available videos
 and
Wikipedia
page
.

This
is an extremely egregious case of journalistic malpractice. A
demonstrable falsehood has been published about two individuals, the
information has been publicly available for days, and there has been
no correction or retraction from a trusted mainstream news source.
When confronted with the obvious and undeniable falsehoods in her
story, Heather Stewart 
tweeted,
“It’s not my analysis – as the piece makes quite clear – it’s
the government’s.”

Wow.
There’s a lot going on in those thirteen words. First of all, a
journalist’s most important job is to question government power and
hold it to account. The fact that mainstream British journos are now
defending the unquestioning advancement of demonstrably false smears
by saying that’s what the government told them to say should disturb
everyone, and the fact that they’re not even correcting it at all is
positively bone-chilling. Even after admitting to being a government
stenographer, there should still be a correction after a claim’s
demonstrably false nature comes to light.

Secondly,
Stewart’s wording explicitly asserts that those accounts are bots as
an absolute fact. It doesn’t say “One alleged bot, 
@Ian56789,”
it says “One bot”. It doesn’t say “Another account the
British government has labeled a bot, 
@Partisangirl,”
it asserts that the account 
is a
bot. Stewart took the British government at its word, repeated what
she was told as absolute fact, and published it in a very widely read
and trusted news outlet, which has refused to retract or correct the
claim.

This
is because both 
The
Guardian
 and
and Stewart know that in today’s political environment there are
never any consequences for these McCarthyite hatchet jobs. It is much
better for them to ignore those speaking dissenting perspectives than
to publicly admit error, because those who question the narratives
which benefit longstanding imperialist agendas do not have power on
their side. 
The
Guardian
 has
arguably become in recent years the single most virulent promulgator
of war propaganda on the planet, and it is protected by the might of
the western empire. Those who get crushed into the dirt by its tank
treads, not so much.

The
legendary Australian journalist John Pilger, whose work on the evils
of war and imperialism has been an inspiration for generations of
journalists like myself, stated in an interview earlier this year
that there was a “purge” of antiwar writers from 
The
Guardian
 some
three years ago.

But
my written journalism is no longer welcome – probably its last home
was 
The
Guardian
,
which three years ago got rid of people like me and others in pretty
much a purge of those who were saying what 
The
Guardian
 no
longer says anymore,” Pilger 
said on
the 
Flashpoint radio
show
.

                  

Since
that time we’ve seen a relentless outpouring of pro-interventionist
propaganda from 
The
Guardian
 with
headlines like “
After
Douma, the west’s response to Syria’s regime must be military
“,
conducting 
fact-free
smear jobs
 on
opponents of Syrian interventionism, and 
deliberately
hiding all evidence
 which
contradicts the pro-interventionist narrative. Day after day after
day this toxic outlet advocates death, destruction and mass murder
over peace and common sense, and 
those
who have been permitted to rise within its ranks
 are
the ones who understand that it is in the interests of their career
advancement to march to the beat of the war drum.

This
is not healthy, and this is not acceptable. But in a way it’s good
that these brazen war propagandists are exposing themselves so
completely, because we can point at what they are doing and present
clear evidence of a mass media campaign to manufacture support for
longstanding
regime change agenda
,
thereby shattering the faith that people have placed in these
deceitful institutions. Hopefully we can do it before they do much
more harm.

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Zie ook: ‘The Guardian met propaganda over Syrië, die zo uit Orwells 1984 zou kunnen komen……

        en: ‘EU wil alleen geld voor wederopbouw Syrië geven na toezegging ‘vrije verkiezingen’, waarvan Assad moet zijn uitgesloten……… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

        en:  ‘BBC verklaart oorlogscorrespondent Vanessa Beeley met haar berichtgeving over Syrië en de gifgasaanval op Douma als staatsgevaarlijk…………

        en: ‘VS en GB brengen propaganda die moet verdoezelen wat er echt gebeurt in Syrië…….. Door VS gebombardeerde ‘gifgasfabriek’ niet bestaand….

Stop de isolatie van Julian Assange!

Afgelopen
maandag hebben Naom Chomsky, Chris Hedges, John Pilger e.a. Ecuador
opgeroepen om de isolatie van Julian Assange op te heffen. Middels
zogenaamde jammers heeft Ecuador het Assange onmogelijk gemaakt nog
te communiceren met de buitenwereld……

Uiteraard
is dit onder druk van de VS gebeurd, die Assange het liefst fiks wil
straffen. Met deze isolatie is het verblijf van Assange in de Engelse Ecuadoraanse ambassade veranderd in een volledige gevangenschap……

Lullig
dat de ondertekenaars van dit pleidooi niet ook Groot-Brittannië
hebben opgeroepen de waanzinnige bewaking van de ambassade in Londen en de
dreiging van Assanges arrestatie in te trekken (arrestatie als Assange één been buiten de ambassade
zet). Assange is een klokkenluider die met het door hem opgerichte Wikileaks juist de wereldbevolking dient….

Zoals gesteld in het volgende artikel: zelfs de VN vindt de
dreiging van arrestatie voor Assange onaanvaardbaar. Assange is in feite een
klokkenluider die het opneemt voor de gewone mens tegen de willekeur
van overheden en dan m.n. die van de grootste terreurentiteit op
aarde, de VS……

Assange
wordt het spreken onmogelijk gemaakt, niet in China of Saoedi-Arabië,
maar midden in het westen dat boogt op de vrijheid van meningsuiting
en waar men keer op keer beweerd klokkenluiders te willen beschermen,
terwijl de praktijk het tegenovergestelde laat zien, een praktijk
waarvan Assange wel het meest sprekende voorbeeld is……..

Vreemd
ook dat men hier niet een internationale petitie van heeft gemaakt,
een paar miljoen handtekeningen maken ‘net iets meer indruk…’

Maar
geen gezeur, deze oproep is alvast een geweldig begin:

APRIL
2, 2018

The
Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop

Photo
by thierry ehrmann | 
CC
BY 2.0

by NOAM
CHOMSKY, CHRIS HEDGES, JOHN PILGER, ET AL
* 

We
call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right
of freedom of speech.

If
it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a
legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights,
it is now.

Citing
his critical tweets about the recent detention of Catalan president
Carles Puidgemont in Germany, and following pressure from the US,
Spanish and UK governments, the Ecuadorian government has installed
an electronic jammer to stop Assange communicating with the
outside world via the internet and phone. As if ensuring his
total isolation, the Ecuadorian government is also refusing to allow
him to receive visitors. Despite two UN rulings describing his
detention as unlawful and mandating his immediate release, Assange
has been effectively imprisoned since he was first placed in
isolation in Wandsworth prison in London in December 2010. He has
never been charged with a crime. 

The Swedish case against him
collapsed and was withdrawn, while the United States has stepped up
efforts to prosecute him. His only “crime” is that of a true
journalist — telling the world the truths that people have a right
to know.

Under
its previous president, the Ecuadorian government bravely stood
against the bullying might of the United States and granted Assange
political asylum as a political refugee. International law and the
morality of human rights was on its side.

Today,
under extreme pressure from Washington and its collaborators, another
government in Ecuador justifies its gagging of Assange by stating
that “Assange’s behaviour, through his messages on social
media, put at risk good relations which this country has with the UK,
the rest of the EU and other nations.”

This
censorious attack on free speech is not happening in Turkey, Saudi
Arabia or China; it is right in the heart of London. If the
Ecuadorian government does not cease its unworthy action, it, too,
will become an agent of persecution rather than the valiant nation
that stood up for freedom and for free speech. If the EU and the UK
continue to participate in the scandalous silencing of a true
dissident in their midst, it will mean that free speech is indeed
dying in Europe.

This
is not just a matter of showing support and solidarity. We are
appealing to all who care about basic human rights to call on the
government of Ecuador to continue defending the rights of a
courageous free speech activist, journalist and whistleblower.

We
ask that his basic human rights be respected as an Ecuadorian citizen
and internationally protected person and that he not be silenced or
expelled.

If
there is no freedom of speech for Julian Assange, there is no freedom
of speech for any of us — regardless of the disparate opinions we
hold.

We
call on President Moreno to end the isolation of Julian Assange now.

List
of signatories (in alphabetic order):

Pamela
Anderson
,
actress and activist

Jacob
Appelbaum
,
freelance journalist

Renata
Avila
,
International Human Rights Lawyer

Sally
Burch
,
British/Ecuadorian journalist

Alicia
Castro
,
Argentina’s ambassador to the United Kingdom 2012-16

Naomi
Colvin
Courage
Foundation

Noam
Chomsky
,
linguist and political theorist

Brian
Eno
,
musician

Joseph
Farrell
,
WikiLeaks Ambassador and board member of The Centre for Investigative
Journalism

Teresa
Forcades
,
Benedictine nun, Montserrat Monastery

Charles
Glass
,
American-British author, journalist, broadcaster

Chris
Hedges
,
journalist

Srećko
Horvat
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* ET AL: en anderen (of: e.a.).

Bron: CounterPunch.

Zie ook:

Julian Assange moet onmiddellijk vrijgelaten worden!‘ 

Assange in de gevangenis: Zweden laat voor de derde keer de aanklacht wegens verkrachting vallen

Sweden drops investigation into bogus sexual misconduct allegations against Julian Assange‘ 

Julian Assange: Speciaal VN rapporteur martelen heeft grote twijfels bij onafhankelijkheid rechter

VN rapport: Assange is gedemoniseerd en psychisch gemarteld

1984 het boek van George Orwell: niet langer fictie…….

Het westen vervolgt journalist Assange, Rusland laat journalist vrij na onrust over diens gevangenschap‘ (en nog hadden de reguliere media een grote bek over Rusland, media die niet anders hebben gedaan dan collega Assange besmeuren…..)

Julian Assange gedemoniseerd door media die hem zouden moeten steunen, waren ze bevolkt geweest door echte journalisten……..


WikiLeaks toont aan dat VS en GB een gezamenlijke gewelddadige en bedrieglijke buitenlandpolitiek voeren

WhiteHouse: US, Ecuador Coordinating About Future Of Assange Asylum

De prijs op het hoofd van Julian Assange: 1 miljard dollar…..

Assange kan niet voor spionage worden vervolgd, immers hij is journalist >> aldus Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) in een video

Assange is journalist en zou alleen daarom al niet mogen worden vervolgd, een artikel o.a. voor de huidige ‘journalisten’ van de reguliere media en de gebruikers van die media

WhiteHouse: US, Ecuador Coordinating About Future Of Assange Asylum‘ 

JulianAssange (Wikileaks) haalt hypocriete Britse regering onderuit voorwijzen op belang van vrije en onafhankelijke media

VS oorlog tegen China bijna onvermijdelijk……….

Information Clearing House (ICH) bracht vannacht een artikel over de onderscheiden journalist en documentaire maker John Pilger. Deze stelt dat een oorlog van de VS tegen China bijna onvermijdelijk is….. E.e.a. naar aanleiding van  de enorme schepen- en daarmee troepenopbouw van de VS in het oostelijk gebied rond China, waar de VS de laatste jaren mee bezig was en nog steeds mee bezig is……. Dit nog buiten de de 400 militaire bases van de VS rond dat gebied en het enorme aantal VS kernraketten die vandaar gericht staan op China……….

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor the coming war on china

Eén van de belangrijkste redenen is de de steeds toenemende macht van China op economisch en militair gebied (al kan dat laatste nog niet in de schaduw staan van de VS, met haar meer dan waanzinnige uitgaven voor oorlogsvoering)……. Door de toenemende macht van China komt de VS dominantie in Azië in gevaar, je snapt dat de VS er alles aan zal doen haar dominantie te bewaren en volgens Pilger is een nucleaire oorlog dan ook niet uit te sluiten….. Vergeet niet dat de VS al onder Obama verklaarde het kernwapen niet langer als afschrikkings- maar als eerste aanvalswapen te zien……..

Pilger noemt het een VS oorlog tegen China i.p.v. met China, juist door het feit dat de VS voor een groot deel al op de drempel van China staat met schepen, kernraketten en troepen….. Omgekeerd staat China niet op de drempel van de VS, sterker nog dit zou China niet eens moeten proberen, de VS zou onmiddellijk een oorlog beginnen…… (neem de Cubacrisis….)

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor the coming war on china

Het is bepaald niet ondenkbaar dat de VS Noord-Korea gebruikt als stok om China mee te slaan, immers China heeft meermaals laten weten dat de VS niet moet ingrijpen in Noord-Korea, waar het leger van China onlangs liet weten, niet afzijdig toe te zullen kijken als de VS overgaat tot een invasie of een andere aanval op Noord-Koreaans gebied…….

Dit alles met een topidioot in het Witte Huis, die zich laat leiden door oorlogszuchtige generaals, doet het ergste vrezen……..

John Pilger heeft over deze zaak een film gemaakt  getiteld: ‘The Coming War on China’, hier de link naar de ICH webpagina waar je deze uitstekende documentaire kan zien (in twee delen).

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor the coming war on china

Zie ook: ‘VS bezig met de voorbereiding van een militaire aanval op Noord-Korea……….

       en: ‘Top VS generaal stelt dat er een grote oorlog met Rusland op komst is, ofwel: WOIII……

       en:  ‘Zuid-Koreaanse president Moon Jae-in buiten spel gezet inzake Noord-Korea…..

       en: ‘Remco Breuker over ‘het Noord-Koreaanse gevaar’ en dwangarbeid in de EU…..

       en: ‘Rusland waarschuwt VS voor oorlog tegen Noord-Korea

       en: ‘VS oorlog tegen China bijna onvermijdelijk……….

       en: ‘Bernhard Hammelburg veegt Nobelprijswinnaar Beatrice Fihn de mantel uit, zelfs voordat hij wist wat ze te berde bracht…….

        en:  ‘NAVO uitbreiding in Oost-Europa is bewezen tegen gesloten overeenkomst met Rusland…….

        en: ‘VS gaat wapens leveren aan Oekraïne, puur en alleen om Rusland te schofferen en verder voet aan de grond te krijgen….

Hillary Clinton en haar oorlog tegen de waarheid…….. Ofwel een potje Rusland en Assange schoppen!

Oorlogsmisdadiger Hillary Clinton* heeft een boek geschreven, het kan u bijna niet zijn ontgaan. In dit boek durft deze leugenaar de schuld voor het verlies van de VS-presidentsverkiezingen bij anderen te leggen, terwijl ze van meet af aan een heel smerige campagne leidde tegen haar mede democratische kandidaat Sanders………

Een lid van haar campagneteam, Seth Rich was het niet eens met deze smerige campagne en hij lekte documenten naar Wikileaks, die aangaven dat Clinton de boel had belogen en bedrogen, dus niet de Russen zoals de reguliere media en het grootste deel van de westerse politici tot op de dag van vandaag volhouden……. Deze Rich werd na het lekken van de documenten ‘toevallig’ vermoord, volgens de politie een roofmoord, hoewel er niets van Rich werd gestolen, zelfs zichtbare sieraden niet……. Je zal begrijpen dat deze moord Clinton wel heel goed uitkwam…….

De reguliere (massa-) media staan voor het overgrote deel nog steeds achter Clinton, ondanks al haar bewezen leugens….. Voorts zou Clinton een kampioen vrouwenemancipatie zijn, dit terwijl het haar geen reet interesseert, dat ze een groot aantal vrouwen in diepe ellende heeft gedompeld en zelfs een groot aantal vrouwen heeft vermoord, middels het vermaledijde en grootschalige terroristische VS buitenlandbeleid…….

Zoals je waarschijnlijk wel weet, gebeurde dit in de illegale oorlogen tegen Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië…… Wat betreft die laatste: van meet af aan, heeft Clinton in haar functie ingezet op het onrust stoken in Syrië, daar Assad moest verdwijnen (een VS plan dat in 2006 weer uit de koelkast werd gehaald). Waar nog aan toegevoegd moet worden, dat Clinton één op één verantwoordelijk was voor de illegale oorlog tegen Libië, een oorlog die aan naar schatting 40.000 mensen het leven heeft gekost (moorden) en waarin de Libische leider Khadaffi gruwelijk werd vermoord…….

Libie is nu één grote chaos en alle ellende die bijvoorbeeld de vluchtelingen uit conflictgebieden in Afrika overkomt (mensen die naar Europa willen vluchten), zoals verkrachting, marteling en slavernij zijn te danken aan het ingrijpen van Clinton…….. Onder Khadaffi was Libië het rijkste land van Afrika en waren huisvesting, energie, gezondheidszorg, scholing en zelfs studie (ook voor vrouwen) in het buitenland, zo goed als gratis…….

Daarnaast was er nog de coup tegen de democratisch gekozen Hondurese regering in 2009, een coup die tot een berg geweld leidde en waarvoor Clinton één van de hoofdverantwoordelijken is………

Mensen ik snap niet waar Clinton het gore lef vandaan haalt, om zichzelf als slachtoffer uit te roepen, ongelofelijk, ongeloofwaardig, onverdraaglijk en ronduit schunnig!!

Mensen lees het uitstekende artikel van John Pilger, die nog meer zaken uit de doeken doet:

Julian
Assange, Hillary Clinton and the War on Truth

October
21, 2017 at 9:03 am

Written
by 
John
Pilger

Australia’s
public broadcasting network gave Hillary Clinton an open mic to
defame WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange as “a tool of Russian
intelligence” without giving him a chance to respond.

(CN— On
Oct. 16, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation aired an interview
with Hillary Clinton: one of many to promote her score-settling book
about why she was not elected President of the United States.

Wading
through the Clinton book, 
What
Happened, 
is
an unpleasant experience, like a stomach upset. Smears and tears.
Threats and enemies. “They” (voters) were brainwashed and herded
against her by the odious Donald Trump in cahoots with sinister Slavs
sent from the great darkness known as Russia, assisted by an
Australian “nihilist,” Julian Assange.

In The New
York Times, 
there
was a striking photograph of a female reporter consoling Clinton,
having just interviewed her. The lost leader was, above all,
“absolutely a feminist.” The thousands of women’s lives this
“feminist” destroyed while in government — Libya, Syria,
Honduras — were of no interest.

In New
York
 magazine,
Rebecca Trainster wrote that Clinton was finally “expressing some
righteous anger.” It was even hard for her to smile: “so hard
that the muscles in her face ache.” Surely, she concluded, “if we
allowed women’s resentments the same bearing we allow men’s
grudges, America would be forced to reckon with the fact that all
these angry women might just have a point.”

Drivel
such as this, trivializing women’s struggles, marks the media
hagiographies of Hillary Clinton. Her political extremism and
warmongering are of no consequence. Her problem, wrote Trainster, was
a “damaging infatuation with the email story.” The truth, in
other words.

The
leaked emails of Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta, revealed
a direct connection between Clinton and the foundation and funding of
organized jihadism in the Middle East and Islamic State (known as
ISIS, ISIL or Daesh). The ultimate source of most Islamic terrorism,
Saudi Arabia, was central to her career.

One
email, in 2014, sent by Clinton to Podesta soon after she stepped
down as U.S. Secretary of State, discloses that Islamic State is
funded by the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Clinton accepted
huge donations from both governments for the Clinton Foundation.

As
Secretary of State, she approved the world’s biggest ever arms sale
to her benefactors in Saudi Arabia, worth more than $80 billion.
Thanks to her, U.S. arms sales to the world – for use in stricken
countries like Yemen – doubled.

This
was revealed by WikiLeaks and published by 
The New
York Times. 
No
one doubts the emails are authentic. The subsequent campaign to smear
WikiLeaks and its editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, as “agents of
Russia,” has grown into a spectacular fantasy known as
“Russiagate.” The “plot” is said to have been signed off on
by Vladimir Putin himself. There is not a shred of public evidence.

Smear
and Omission

The
ABC Australia interview with Clinton is an outstanding example of
smear and censorship by omission. I would say it is a model.

No
one,” the interviewer, Sarah Ferguson, says to Clinton, “could
fail to be moved by the pain on your face at that moment [of the
inauguration of Trump] … Do you remember how visceral it was for
you?”

Having
established Clinton’s visceral suffering, Ferguson asks about
“Russia’s role.”

CLINTON:
I think Russia affected the perceptions and views of millions of
voters, we now know. I think that their intention coming from the
very top with Putin was to hurt me and to help Trump.

FERGUSON:
How much of that was a personal vendetta by Vladimir Putin against
you?

CLINTON:
… I mean he wants to destabilize democracy. He wants to undermine
America, he wants to go after the Atlantic Alliance and we consider
Australia kind of a … an extension of that …

(The
opposite is true. It is a combination of Western armies massing on
Russia’s border for the first time since the Russian Revolution 100
years ago.)

FERGUSON:
How much damage did [Julian Assange] do personally to you?

CLINTON:
Well, I had a lot of history with him because I was Secretary of
State when, ah, WikiLeaks published a lot of very sensitive, ah,
information from our State Department and our Defense Department.

(What
Clinton fails to say – and her interviewer fails to remind her –
is that in 2010, WikiLeaks revealed that Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton had ordered a secret intelligence campaign targeted at the
United Nations leadership, including the Secretary General, Ban
Ki-Moon and the permanent Security Council representatives from
China, Russia, France and the U.K. A classified directive, signed by
Clinton, was issued to U.S. diplomats in July 2009, demanding
forensic technical details about the communications systems used by
top U.N. officials, including passwords and personal encryption keys
used in private and commercial networks. This was known as Cablegate.
It was lawless spying.)

CLINTON:
He [Assange] is very clearly a tool of Russian intelligence. And, ah,
he has done their bidding.

(Clinton
offered no evidence to back up this serious accusation, nor did
Ferguson challenge her.)

CLINTON:
You don’t see damaging negative information coming out about the
Kremlin on WikiLeaks. You didn’t see any of that published.

(This
was false. WikiLeaks has published a massive number of documents on
Russia – more than 800,000, most of them critical, many of them
used in books and as evidence in court cases.)

A
‘Nihilistic Opportunist’

CLINTON:
So I think Assange has become a kind of nihilistic opportunist who
does the bidding of a dictator.

FERGUSON: Lots
of people, including in Australia, think that Assange is a martyr for
free speech and freedom of information. How would you describe him?
Well, you’ve just described him as a nihilist.

CLINTON:
Yeah, well, and a tool. I mean he’s a tool of Russian intelligence.
And if he’s such, ah, you know, martyr of free speech, why doesn’t
WikiLeaks ever publish anything coming out of Russia?

(Again,
Ferguson said nothing to challenge this or correct her.)

CLINTON:
There was a concerted operation between WikiLeaks and Russia and most
likely people in the United States to weaponize that information, to
make up stories … to help Trump.

FERGUSON:
Now, along with some of those outlandish stories, there was
information that was revealed about the Clinton Foundation that at
least in some of the voters’ minds seemed to associate you ….

CLINTON:
Yeah, but it was false!

FERGUSON:
… with the peddling of information …

CLINTON:
It was false! It was totally false!  …..

FERGUSON:
Do you understand how difficult it was for some voters to understand
the amounts of money that the [Clinton] Foundation is raising, the
confusion with the consultancy that was also raising money, getting
gifts and travel and so on for Bill Clinton that even Chelsea had
some issues with? …

CLINTON:
Well you know, I’m sorry, Sarah, I mean I, I know the facts….

Generational
‘Icon’

The
ABC interviewer lauded Clinton as “the icon of your generation.”
She asked her nothing about the enormous sums she creamed off from
Wall Street, such as the $675,000 for speaking to Goldman Sachs, one
of the banks at the center of the 2008 crash. Clinton’s greed
deeply upset the kind of voters she abused as “deplorables.”

Clearly
looking for a cheap headline in the Australian press, Ferguson asked
her if Trump was “a clear and present danger to Australia” and
got her predictable response.

This
high-profile journalist made no mention of Clinton’s own “clear
and present danger” to the people of Iran whom she once threatened
to “obliterate totally,” and the 40,000 Libyans who died in the
attack on Libya in 2011 that Clinton orchestrated. Flushed with
excitement, the Secretary of State rejoiced at the gruesome murder of
the Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi.

Libya
was Hillary Clinton’s war,” Julian Assange said in a filmed
interview with me last year. “Barack Obama initially opposed it.
Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton. That’s
documented throughout her emails … there’s more than 1,700 emails
out of the 33,000 Hillary Clinton emails that we’ve published, just
about Libya. It’s not that Libya has cheap oil. She perceived the
removal of Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state —
something that she would use in her run-up to the general election
for President.

So
in late 2011 there is an internal document called the Libya Tick Tock
that was produced for Hillary Clinton, and it’s the chronological
description of how she was the central figure in the destruction of
the Libyan state, which resulted in around 40,000 deaths within
Libya; jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in, leading to the European
refugee and migrant crisis.

Not
only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the
destabilization of other African countries as a result of arms flows,
but the Libyan state itself was no longer able to control the
movement of people through it.”

This
– not Clinton’s “visceral” pain in losing to Trump nor the
rest of the self-serving scuttlebutt in her ABC interview – was the
story. Clinton shared responsibility for massively de-stabilizing the
Middle East, which led to the death, suffering and flight of
thousands of women, men and children.

Ferguson
raised not a word of it. Clinton repeatedly defamed Assange, who was
neither defended nor offered a right of reply on his own country’s
state broadcaster.

In
a tweet from London, Assange cited the ABC’s own Code of Practice,
which states: “Where allegations are made about a person or
organisation, make reasonable efforts in the circumstances to provide
a fair opportunity to respond.”

Putin’s
Bitch’

Following
the ABC broadcast, Ferguson’s executive producer, Sally Neighbour,
re-tweeted the following: “Assange is Putin’s bitch. We all know
it!”

The
slander, since deleted, was even used as a link to the ABC interview
captioned ‘Assange is Putins (sic) b****. We all know it!’

In
the years I have known Julian Assange, I have watched a vituperative
personal campaign try to stop him and WikiLeaks. It has been a
frontal assault on whistleblowing, on free speech and free
journalism, all of which are now under sustained attack from
governments and corporate Internet controllers.

The
first serious attacks on Assange came from the Guardian, which, like
a spurned lover, turned on its besieged former source, having hugely
profited from WikiLeaks’ disclosures. With not a penny going to
Assange or WikiLeaks, a Guardian book led to a lucrative Hollywood
movie deal. Assange was portrayed as “callous” and a “damaged
personality.”

It
was as if a rampant jealousy could not accept that his remarkable
achievements stood in marked contrast to that of his detractors in
the “mainstream” media. It is like watching the guardians of the
status quo, regardless of age, struggling to silence real dissent and
prevent the emergence of the new and hopeful.

Today,
Assange remains a political refugee from the war-making dark state of
which Donald Trump is a caricature and Hillary Clinton the
embodiment. His resilience and courage are astonishing. Unlike him,
his tormentors are cowards.

John
Pilger is an Australian-British journalist based in London.
 Pilger’s
Web site is: 
www.johnpilger.com.
His new film, “The Coming War on China,” is available in the U.S.
from 
www.bullfrogfilms.com

By John
Pilger
 /
Republished with permission / 
ConsortiumNews.com / Report
a typo

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* Hillary Clinton is o.a. verantwoordelijk voor de illegale oorlog tegen Libië, Syrië en in feite verantwoordelijk voor de oorlog tegen de bevolking in Oost-Oekraïne, daarnaast is ze mede verantwoordelijk voor de in 2009 gepleegde coup tegen de democratisch gekozen regering van Honduras……. Zie wat dat betreft o.a.. ‘Hillary Clinton, huurmoordenaar voor de banken: de ware reden achter de illegale oorlog tegen Libië…..

Zie ook: ‘Russiagate? Britaingate zal je bedoelen!

        en: ‘CIA speelt zoals gewoonlijk vuil spel: uit Wikileaks documenten blijkt dat CIA zelf de verkiezingen manipuleerde, waar het Rusland van beschuldigde……..

       en: ‘‘Russische bemoeienis’ met de Nederlandse verkiezingen….. Waaruit blijkt nu die manipulatie, gezien de verkiezingsuitslag?

       en: ‘CIA malware voor manipulaties en spionage >> vervolg Wikileaks Vault 7

       en: ‘Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)

       en: ‘WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia

       en: ‘Murray, ex-ambassadeur van GB: de Russen hebben de VS verkiezingen niet gemanipuleerd

      en: ‘‘Russische manipulaties uitgevoerd’ door later vermoord staflid Clintons campagneteam Seth Rich……… AIVD en MIVD moeten hiervan weten!!

      en: ‘Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks….!!!!

      en: VS ‘democratie’ aan het werk, een onthutsende en uitermate humoristische video!

      en: ‘Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump

      en: ‘Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump……..

      en: ‘Flashback: Clinton Allies Met With Ukrainian Govt Officials to Dig up Dirt on Trump During 2016 Election

      en: ‘FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information

      en: ‘Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election

      en: ‘Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media

      en: ‘CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

      en: ‘Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence

      en: ‘Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..

       en: ‘‘Russiagate’ een complot van CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton en het DNC………..

       en: ‘Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….

       en: ‘Clinton te kakken gezet: Donna Brazile (Democratische Partij VS) draagt haar boek op aan Seth Rich, het vermoorde lid van DNC die belastende documenten lekte

       en: ‘De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

       en: ‘WannaCry niet door Noord-Korea ‘gelanceerd!’

       en:  ‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….

       en: ‘Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat

VS bereid zich voor op oorlog met Rusland en China >> On the Beach 2017: The Beckoning Of Nuclear War

Information
Clearing House (ICH) bracht gisteren een artikel van John Pilger, een
Australische journalist en documentaire maker.

In zijn
schrijven waarschuwt Pilger voor een komende nucleaire wereldoorlog.
Met een aantal voorbeelden geeft Pilger aan hoe de VS zich voorbereid
op zo’n oorlog…….

Lees dit
(uitstekende) bericht en oordeel zelf (onder het artikel kan u
klikken voor een vertaling):

On
the Beach 2017: The Beckoning Of Nuclear War


By
John Pilger

The
US submarine captain says, “We’ve all got to die one day, some
sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you’re
never ready, because you don’t know when it’s coming. Well, now
we do know and there’s nothing to be done about it.”

He
says he will be dead by September. It will take about a week to die,
though no one can be sure. Animals live the longest.

The
war was over in a month. The United States, Russia and China were the
protagonists. It is not clear if it was started by accident or
mistake. There was no victor. The northern hemisphere is contaminated
and lifeless now.

A
curtain of radioactivity is moving south towards Australia and New
Zealand, southern Africa and South America. By September, the last
cities, towns and villages will succumb. As in the north, most
buildings will remain untouched, some illuminated by the last
flickers of electric light.

                                  This
is the way the world ends

                                  Not
with a bang but a whimper

These
lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem 
The
Hollow Men
 appear at
the beginning of Nevil Shute’s novel
 On
the Beach
, which
left me close to tears. The endorsements on the cover said the same.

Published
in 1957 at the height of the Cold War when too many writers were
silent or cowed, it is a masterpiece. At first the language suggests
a genteel relic; yet nothing I have read on nuclear war is as
unyielding in its warning. No book is more urgent.

I
read 
On
the Beach
 for
the first time the other day, finishing it as the US Congress passed
a law to wage economic war on Russia, the world’s second most
lethal nuclear power.  There was no justification for this
insane vote, except the promise of plunder.

The
“sanctions” are aimed at Europe, too, mainly Germany, which
depends on Russian natural gas and on European companies that do
legitimate business with Russia. In what passed for debate on Capitol
Hill, the more garrulous senators left no doubt that the embargo was
designed to force Europe to import expensive American gas.

Their
main aim seems to be war – real war. No provocation as extreme can
suggest anything else. They seem to crave it, even though Americans
have little idea what war is. The Civil War of 1861-5 was the last on
their mainland. War is what the United States does to others.

The
only nation to have used nuclear weapons against human beings, they
have since destroyed scores of governments, many of them democracies,
and laid to waste whole societies – the million deaths in Iraq were
a fraction of the carnage in Indo-China, which President Reagan
called “a noble cause” and President Obama revised as the tragedy
of an “exceptional people”He was not referring to the Vietnamese.

Filming
last year at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, I overheard a
National Parks Service guide lecturing a school party of young
teenagers. “Listen up,” he said. “We lost 58,000 young soldiers
in Vietnam, and they died defending 
your
freedom
.”

At
a stroke, the truth was inverted. No freedom was defended. Freedom
was destroyed. A peasant country was invaded and millions of its
people were killed, maimed, dispossessed, poisoned; 60,000 of the
invaders took their own lives. Listen up, indeed.

A
lobotomy is performed on each generation. Facts are removed. History
is excised and replaced by what 
Time magazine
calls “an eternal present”. Harold Pinter described this as
“manipulation of power worldwide, while masquerading as a force for
universal good, a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of
hypnosis [which meant] that it never happened. Nothing ever happened.
Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t
matter. It was of no interest.”

Those
who call themselves liberals or tendentiously “the left” are
eager participants in this manipulation, and its brainwashing, which
today revert to one name: Trump.

While
they pursue their fossilised anti-Russia agendas, narcissistic media
such as the 
Washington
Post
,
the BBC and the 
Guardian suppress
the essence of the most important political story of our time as they
warmonger on a scale I cannot remember in my lifetime.

On
3 August, in contrast to the acreage the 
Guardian has
given to drivel that the Russians conspired with Trump (reminiscent
of the far-right smearing of John Kennedy as a “Soviet agent”),
the paper buried, on page 16, news that the President of the United
States was forced to sign a Congressional bill declaring economic war
on Russia.

Unlike
every other Trump signing, this was conducted in virtual secrecy and
attached with a caveat from Trump himself that it was “clearly
unconstitutional”.

A
coup against the man in the White House is under way. This is not
because he is an odious human being, but because he has consistently
made clear he does not want war with Russia.

This
glimpse of sanity, or simple pragmatism, is anathema to the “national
security” managers who guard a system based on war, surveillance,
armaments, threats and extreme capitalism. Martin Luther King called
them “the greatest purveyors of violence in the world today”.

They
have encircled Russia and China with missiles and a nuclear arsenal.
They have used neo-Nazis to instal an unstable, aggressive regime on
Russia’s “borderland” – the way through which Hitler invaded,
causing the deaths of 27 million people.  Their goal is to
dismember the modern Russian Federation.

The
threat is simultaneous. Russia is first, China is next. The US has
just completed a huge military exercise with Australia known as
Talisman Sabre. They rehearsed a blockade of the Malacca Straits and
the South China Sea, through which pass China’s economic lifelines.

The
admiral commanding the US Pacific fleet said that, “if required”,
he would nuke China. That he would say such a thing publicly in the
current perfidious atmosphere begins to make fact of Nevil Shute’s
fiction.

None
of this is considered news. No connection is made as the bloodfest of
Passchendaele a century ago is remembered. Honest reporting is no
longer welcome in much of the media. Windbags, known as pundits,
dominate: editors are infotainment or party line managers. Where
there was once sub-editing, there is the liberation of axe-grinding
clichés. Those journalists who do not comply are defenestrated.

At
the height of the Cold War, the anti-communist hysteria in the United
States was such that US officials who were on official business in
China were accused of treason and sacked. In 1957 – the year Shute
wrote 
On
the Beach 

no official in the State Department could speak the language of the
world’s most populous nation. Mandarin speakers were purged under
strictures now echoed in the Congressional bill that has just passed,
aimed at Russia.

The
bill was bipartisan. There is no fundamental difference between
Democrats and Republicans. The terms “left” and “right” are
meaningless.  Most of America’s modern wars were started not
by conservatives, but by liberal Democrats.

When
Obama left office, he presided over a record seven wars, including
America’s longest war and an unprecedented campaign of
extrajudicial killings – murder – by drones.

In
his last year, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study,
Obama, the “reluctant liberal warrior”, dropped 26,171 bombs –
three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day.  Having pledged to help
“rid the world” of nuclear weapons, the Nobel Peace Laureate
built more nuclear warheads than any president since the Cold War.

Trump
is a wimp by comparison.  It was Obama – with his secretary of
state Hillary Clinton at his side – who destroyed Libya as a modern
state and launched the human stampede to Europe. At home, immigration
groups knew him as the “deporter-in-chief”.

One
of Obama’s last acts as president was to sign a bill that handed a
record $618billion to the Pentagon, reflecting the soaring ascendancy
of fascist militarism in the governance of the United States. Trump
has endorsed this.

Buried
in the detail was the establishment of a “Center for Information
Analysis and Response”. This is a ministry of truth. It is tasked
with providing an “official narrative of facts” that will prepare
us for the real possibility of nuclear war – if we allow it.

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Palestine Is Still The Issue >> De Palestijnen alle menselijkheid ontzeggen, is de volgende stap, zoals de nazi’s met de joden hebben gedaan……

Een uitstekend artikel van John Pilger (op Information Clearing House – ICH) over de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël en de steeds onmenselijker manier waarop deze fascisten omgaan met de Palestijnen. De vergelijking met nazi-Duitsland gaat steeds vaker op, een vergelijking die al begin 90er jaren door officieren van het Israëlische leger werd gemaakt…….

De etnische zuivering door Israël van de door deze apartheidsstaat illegaal bezette gebieden, zou tot de belangrijkste inzet van de VN en het Internationale Strafhof moeten behoren.

Als de wereld nog langer zal toezien zonder in te grijpen, is een volgende gigantische massamoord onontkoombaar en zal de etnische zuivering van de door Israël illegaal bezette gebieden voltooid zijn…..

Onder het artikel kan u klikken voor het volledige artikel, daar (op de webpagina van ICH) kan u onder het artikel klikken voor een vertaling.

Palestine
Is Still The Issue


By
John Pilger

Arabs,”
they said, “nomads.” The words were almost spat out. Israel,
they said, meaning Palestine, had been mostly wasteland and one of
the great feats of the Zionist enterprise was to turn the desert
green.

They
gave as an example their crop of Jaffa oranges, which was exported to
the rest of the world. What a triumph against the odds of nature and
humanity’s neglect.

It
was the first lie. Most of the orange groves and vineyards belonged
to Palestinians who had been tilling the soil and exporting oranges
and grapes to Europe since the eighteenth century. The former
Palestinian town of Jaffa was known by its previous inhabitants as
“the place of sad oranges.”

On
the kibbutz, the word “Palestinian” was never used. Why, I asked.
The answer was a troubled silence.

All
over the colonized world, the true sovereignty of indigenous people
is feared by those who can never quite cover the fact, and the crime,
that they live on stolen land.

Denying
people’s humanity is the next step – as the Jewish people know
only too well. Defiling people’s dignity and culture and pride
follows as logically as violence.

In
Ramallah, following an invasion of the West Bank by the late Ariel
Sharon in 2002, I walked through streets of crushed cars and
demolished houses, to the Palestinian Cultural Centre. Until that
morning, Israeli soldiers had camped there.

I
was met by the centre’s director, the novelist, Liana Badr, whose
original manuscripts lay scattered and torn across the floor. The
hard drive containing her fiction, and a library of plays and poetry
had been taken by Israeli soldiers. Almost everything was smashed,
and defiled.

Not
a single book survived with all its pages; not a single master tape
from one of the best collections of Palestinian cinema.

The
soldiers had urinated and defecated on the floors, on desks, on
embroideries and works of art. They had smeared feces on children’s
paintings and written – in shit – “Born to kill”.

Liana
Badr had tears in her eyes, but she was unbowed. She said, “We will
make it right again.”

A
Dead Infant

Fatima
and Nasser are a couple whose home stood in a village near Jerusalem
designated “Zone A and B,” meaning that the land was declared for
Jews only. Their parents had lived there; their grandparents had
lived there. Today, the bulldozers are laying roads for Jews only,
protected by laws for Jews only.

It
was past midnight when Fatima went into labor with their second
child. The baby was premature; and when they arrived at a checkpoint
with the hospital in view, the young Israeli soldier said they needed
another document.

Fatima
was bleeding badly. The soldier laughed and imitated her moans and
told them, “Go home.” The baby was born there in a truck. It was
blue with cold and soon, without care, died from exposure. The baby’s
name was Sultan.

For
Palestinians, these will be familiar stories. The question is: why
are they not familiar in London and Washington, Brussels and Sydney?

Palestine,”
said Nelson Mandela, “is the greatest moral issue of our time.”

Why
is this truth suppressed, day after day, month after month, year
after year?

On
Israel – the apartheid state, guilty of a crime against humanity
and of more international law-breaking than any other– the silence
persists among those who know and whose job it is to keep the record
straight.

On
Israel, so much journalism is intimidated and controlled by a
groupthink that demands silence on Palestine while honorable
journalism has become dissidence: a metaphoric underground.

A
single word – “conflict” – enables this silence.  “The
Arab-Israeli 
conflict”,
intone the robots at their tele-prompters. When a veteran BBC
reporter, a man who knows the truth, refers to “two narratives”,
the moral contortion is complete.

There
is no conflict, no two narratives, with their moral fulcrum. There is
a military 
occupation enforced
by a nuclear-armed power backed by the greatest military power on
earth; and there is an epic injustice.

The
word “occupation” may be banned, deleted from the dictionary. But
the memory of historical truth cannot be banned: of the systemic
expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. “Plan D” the
Israelis called it in 1948.

The
Israeli historian Benny Morris describes how David Ben-Gurion,
Israel’s first prime minister, was asked by one of his generals:
“What shall we do with the Arabs?”

Mandela
put it this way: “We know only too well that our freedom is
incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”

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het volledige uitstekende artikel zie:

Palestine Is Still The Issue

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VS: China is een gevaar, terwijl China, uh de VS dat land omsingeld heeft met 400 bases………..

Afgelopen vrijdag in de tweede editie van Information Clearing House, een interview met John Pilger, o.a. filmmaker. Zijn nieuwe film, ‘The Coming War on China’, handelt o.a. over de agressie van de VS tegen China en de VS staatspropaganda (inclusief haat- en angstzaaien), die één op één wordt overgenomen door de reguliere media in de VS (en langzaam maar zeker ook die in de rest van het westen), propaganda waarmee China als een bedreiging wordt neergezet……. 

Volgens Pilger en zoals u zelf wellicht al elders heeft gezien of gelezen, wordt zoals gezegd China als een bedreiging afgeschilderd voor de VS, in de reguliere media aldaar……… Terwijl tegelijkertijd, de VS met maar liefst 400 militaire bases China omsingeld houdt, iets wat uiteraard geen aandacht krijgt in diezelfde media. Zoals dat hier gaat, als de reguliere mediaorganen het hebben over Oekraïne en De Krim, de feiten worden welbewust achtergehouden. Zo spreekt men nog steeds over de annexatie van De Krim, terwijl dat land in een door internationale waarnemers goedgekeurd en geldig referendum massaal koos voor aansluiting bij Rusland!*

Hier het artikel (waaronder u voor een vertaling kan klikken >> dutch): 

“Confronting
China”



By
John Pilger

October
28, 2016 “
Information
Clearing House

– 


TJC: Please
tell us about your new film, The
Coming War on China
.


JP: The
Coming War on China
 is
my 60th film and perhaps one of the most urgent. It continues the
theme of illuminating the imposition of great power behind a facade
of propaganda as news.  In 2011, President Obama announced a
‘pivot to Asia’ of US forces: almost two-thirds of American naval
power would be transferred to Asia and the Pacific by 2020.

The
undeclared rationale for this was the ‘threat’ from China, by
some measure now the greatest economic power. The Secretary of
Defense, Ash Carter, says US policy is to confront those ‘who see
America’s dominance and want to take that away from us’.

The
film examines power in both countries and how nuclear weapons, in
American eyes, are the bedrock of its dominance. In its first
‘chapter’, the film reveals how most of the population of the
Marshall Islands in the Pacific were unwittingly made into nuclear
guinea pigs in a programme whose secrets – and astonishing archive
– are related to the presence of a missile base now targeting
China. 
The
Coming War on China
 will
be released in cinemas in the UK on December 1st and broadcast on ITV
(in the UK) on December 6th.


TJC: How
do you assess Australia’s role in America’s ‘Pivot to Asia’?

JP:
Australia is virtually the 51st state of the US.  Although China
is Australia’s biggest trader, on which much of the national
economy relies, ‘confronting China’ is the diktat from
Washington. The Australian political establishment, especially the
military and intelligence agencies, are fully integrated into what is
known as the ‘alliance’, along with the dominant Murdoch media. I
often feel a certain sadness about the way my own country – with
all its resources and opportunities – seems locked into such an
unnecessary, dangerous obsequious role in the world. If the ‘pivot’
proceeds, Australia could find itself fighting, yet again, a great
power’s war.


TJC: With
regards to the British and American media, how can the US get away
with selling China as a 

threat when it is encircling China?

JP:
That’s a question that goes to the heart of modern-day propaganda.
China is encircled by a ‘noose’ of some 400 US bases, yet the
news has ignored this while concentrating on the ‘threat’ of
China building airstrips on disputed islets in the South China Sea,
clearly as a defence to a US Navy blockade.


TJC: Obama’s
visit to Japan, and particularly to Hiroshima, was a really cynical
act. What was your impression of Japan and the political situation
there?

JP:
Japan is an American colony in all but name – certainly in terms of
its relationship with the rest of the world and especially China. The
historian Bruce Cumings explores this in an interview in the film.
 Within the constraints of American dominance, indeed undeterred
by Washington, Japan’s current prime minister Shinzo Abe has
developed an extreme nationalist position, in which contrition for
Japanese actions in the Second World War is anathema and the post-war
‘peace constitution’ is likely to be changed.


Abe
has gone as far as boasting that Japan will use nuclear weapons if it
wants. In any US conflict with China, Japan – which last year
announced its biggest ever ‘defence’ budget – would play a
critical role. There are 32 US military installations on the Japanese
island of Okinawa, facing China. However, there is a sense in modern
Asia that power in the world has indeed moved east and peaceful
‘Asian solutions’ to regional animosities are possible.


TJC:
Do you think the new trade and investment deals like the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and especially
the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) will affect China’s business
operations?

JP:
It’s difficult to say, but I doubt it. What is remarkable about the
rise of China is the way it has built, almost in the blink of an eye,
a trade, investment and banking structure that rivals that of the
Bretton Woods institutions. Unknown to many of us, China is
developing its ‘New Silk Road’ to Europe at an astonishing pace.
China’s response to threats from Washington is a diplomacy that’s
tied to this development, and which includes a burgeoning alliance
with Russia.


T.J.
Coles
 is
the author of 
Britain’s
Secret Wars
 (2016,
Clairview Books).


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* Die internationale waarnemers worden nu meer en meer afgeschilderd als onbetrouwbaar. Zo hoorde ik vorige week een discussie op BBC World Service, waar men sprak over waarnemers als onbetrouwbaar….. Tja, zo kan je alsnog als agressor zeggen, dat democratische verkiezingen in een land dat je toch al wilt aanvallen, ongeldig zijn!!

Zie ook: ‘Deutschland verschärft die Gangart gegen China‘ (Duitsland stopt met toenadering tot China; met grote instemming van de VS terreurentiteit)

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor het label ‘Cumings’.