Terecht veel ophef in de media over de aanslag op twee moskeeën in het Nieuw-Zeelandse Christchurch, waar in een fascistische terreuraanslag 49 mensen werden vermoord (al zouden er nog zwaargewonden op de IC liggen, die wellicht zullen overlijden…..)…..
‘Vreemd genoeg’ noemden de Nederlandse, Duitse, Belgische en Britse landelijke radiozenders het wel een aanslag, maar het woord ‘terreur’ werd gemeden, terwijl daar geen enkele twijfel over kan bestaan….. Ach ja, het gaat om witte (fascistische) figuren en dan mijden die media het woord terreur meestal……
Het fascisme groeit wereldwijd met de dag en daarvoor kan je de reguliere westerse media verantwoordelijk houden….. De berichtgeving over de ‘vluchtelingencrisis’ was ronduit ontluisterend in die media en daarmee werd de fascisten een grote dient bewezen, hetzelfde geldt voor de berichten over terreuraanslagen die in Europa werden gepleegd…..
Zonder dat de reguliere westerse media en politiek hebben gewezen op de grootschalige westerse terreur, o.l.v. de VS in veelal islamitische landen, westerse terreur die ‘islamitische terreur’ op de straten van de EU heeft uitgelokt (je behoefde bepaald niet de intelligentie van Einstein te bezitten om te bedenken dat er wraakacties zouden volgen voor de westerse slachtingen in landen waar dat westen helemaal niets te zoeken heeft….)…..
Ook in Nederland hebben de media fiks meegedaan aan het belazeren van het volk over westerse terreur, die godbetert werd en wordt verkocht als het brengen van democratie en hulp aan de volkeren, die deze terreur NB over zich heen hebben gekregen middels bombardementen enz…..
Het demoniseren van minderheidsgroepen in Nederland, wordt al jaren gepropageerd in de zogenaamde onafhankelijke media….
Neem Marokkanen die als uitvreters werden en worden weggezet, terwijl zij in dezelfde positie verkeren als de witte bevolking in de achterstandswijken van de 60er en 70er jaren van de vorige eeuw, mensen die destijds ook werden gedemoniseerd, terwijl de kinderen van die mensen, als de jonge Marokkanen van nu, amper of geen kansen hadden op de arbeidsmarkt…….
Terug naar Christchurch: de Australische premier heeft zoals gebruikelijk is in deze gevallen, zijn afschuw over de aanslagen uitgesproken. Onder de daders zou zich een rechts-extremistische (ofwel: fascistische) Australiër bevinden, ene Brenton Tarrant, hij zou de aanslagen ook hebben gepland…. De Australische premier Scott Morrison kan beter eens kijken hoe het mogelijk is dat er uitermate gewelddadige fascisten in Australië leven. Het fascisme in Australië werd en wordt gevoed door de Liberal Party of Australia*, waar deze partij, gesteund door de reguliere media, vluchtelingen afschildert als gelukzoekers die banen van Australische burgers komen inpikken…….
Verder is de behandeling van vluchtelingen door Australië ronduit schandalig….. Waar men ook nog eens fiks angstzaait tegen moslims als potentiële aanslagplegers, zonder (als in de EU) te wijzen op westerse terreur elders, terreur die altijd door Australië wordt gesteund, ook militair……
Laten we hopen dat de politiek en de reguliere media nu eindelijk eens echt actie onderneemt tegen fascisten en welhaast fascistisch geregeerde landen als Hongarije, Polen, Roemenië, Oostenrijk en Italië…… In plaats van zich druk te maken over ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws, dat die media NB zelf brengen), zouden de reguliere westerse media eens de waarheid moeten vertellen over de illegale westerse oorlogen en het groeiende fascisme….. Wat dat laatste betreft: bij elke verkiezing waarin fascisten niet de grootste partij zijn geworden, zijn die media in hosanna stemming, vergetend dat de fascistische partijen bij elke verkiezing groeien, met één uitzondering, Ukip in Groot-Brittannië…… Lullig genoeg moet ik dan nogmaals wijzen op de berichtgeving in de reguliere westerse media, die het fascisme alleen maar voeden…….
* De Liberal Party of Australia is al jaren de regerende rechtse partij en zoals je begrijpt de partij van Morrison en de voormalige premier Turnbull.
De show
van Stephen Colbert is een propaganda orgaan voor de rechtse
democraten en is dat in feite al heel lang. Daarmee staat Colbert ook achter de
illegale oorlogen die onder de democratische ‘vredesduif’ Obama werden aangegaan, dit onder regie van zijn rechterhand destijds Hillary Clinton
(minister van BuZa), een oorlogsmisdadiger van formaat…..
Colbert
had onlangs de democraat Tulsi Gabbard in zijn show en in
tegenstelling tot de omgang met andere politici van de Democratische Partij,
was dit geen gesprek met opgeklopte ‘humor’.
Colbert
probeerde Gabbard zelfs in het kamp te duwen van fascist David Duke
(voormalig Ku Klux Klan top), en dat van rechtse rotzakken als Steve Bannon en Matt
Gaetz……
Wat
betreft de illegale oorlogen van de VS, liet Colbert ten overvloede in zijn gesprek
met Gabbard blijken dat hij die volledig steunt, ondanks het enorme
aantal doden en landen die in puin achterblijven als de VS klaar is
met haar grootschalige terreur tegen in feite de bevolking van de
landen die het illegaal aanvalt…..
Ook de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen het bewind van Assad kwam ter sprake, waar Gabbard Colbert fijntjes liet weten dat de CIA in 2011 de ‘opstand’ tegen Assad heeft georganiseerd en geregisseerd en dat de oorlog van de VS in dat land niet gericht was tegen IS, maar tegen het bewind van Assad, waar ze ook de wapenleveringen aan terreurgroepen als IS en militaire training door de VS aan die terreurgroepen noemde…..
Jammer dat ze Assad wel een dictator noemt, terwijl hij met grote meerderheid democratisch tot president werd verkozen in 2014, een verkiezing die door internationale waarnemers als eerlijk en goed werd beoordeeld……
Vergeet voorts niet dat onder Assad alle geloven hand in hand naast elkaar leefden, een zaak die door handelingen van de VS bijna de nek werd omgedraaid…. Gelukkig leven de teruggekeerde vluchtelingen, in de gebieden die door het reguliere Syrische leger worden gecontroleerd, weer vreedzaam naast elkaar, ongeacht het geloof dat men aanhangt……
Helaas
voor Colbert, maar hij is geen partij voor Gabbard die hem flink bij
de lurven had >> lezen en zien mensen!!
Hawaii
Congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi
Gabbard recently
appeared on The
Late Show with Stephen Colbert,
where instead of the light, jokey banter about politics and who she
is as a person that Democratic presidential candidates normally
encounter on late night comedy programs, the show’s host solemnly ran
down a list of textbook beltway smears against Gabbard and made her
defend them in front of his audience.
Normally
when a Democratic Party-aligned politician appears on such a show,
you can expect jokes about how stupid Trump is and how badly they’re
going to beat the Republicans, how they’re going to help ordinary
Americans, and maybe some friendly back-and-forth about where they
grew up or something. Colbert had no time to waste on such things,
however, because this was not an interview with a normal Democratic
Party-aligned politician: this was a politician who has been loudly
and consistently criticizing US foreign policy.
After
briefly asking his guest who she is and why she’s running for
president, Colbert jumped
right into it by
immediately bringing up Syria and Assad, the primary line of attack
employed against Gabbard by establishment propagandists in American
mainstream media.
Colbert:
Do you think the Iraq war was worth it?
Gabbard:
No.
Colbert:
Do you think that our involvement in Syria has been worth it?
Gabbard:
No.
Colbert:
Do you think that ISIS could have been defeated without our
involvement and without our support of the local troops there?
Gabbard:
There are two things we need to address in Syria. One is a regime
change war that was first launched by the United States in 2011,
covertly, led by the CIA. That is a regime change war that has
continued over the years, that has increased the suffering of the
Syrian people, and strengthened groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS,
because the CIA was using American taxpayer dollars to provide arms
and training and equipment to these terrorist groups to get them to
overthrow the government. So that is a regime change war that we
should not have been engaging.
Colbert:
So, but if it is someone like Bashar al-Assad, who gasses his own
people, or who engages in war crimes against his own people, should
the United States not be involved?
Gabbard:
The United States should not be intervening to overthrow these
dictators and these regimes that we don’t like, like Assad, like
Saddam Hussein, like Gaddafi, and like Kim Jong Un. There are bad
people in the world, but history has shown us that every time the
United States goes in and topples these dictators we don’t like,
trying to end up like the world’s police, we end up increasing the
suffering of the people in these countries. We end up increasing the
loss of life, but American lives and the lives of people in these
countries. We end up undermining our own security, what to speak of
the trillions of dollars of taxpayer money that’s spent on these wars
that we need to be using right here at home.
Like
I said, this is not a normal presidential candidate. How often do you
see a guest appear on a network late night talk show and talk about
the CIA arming terrorists in Syria and the fact that US military
interventionism is completely disastrous? It just doesn’t happen. You
can understand, then, why empire propagandist Stephen Colbert spent
the rest of the interview informing
his TV audience that Tulsi Gabbard is dangerous and poisonous.
This was unwatchable. Colbert just went down the list of scripted Gabbard smears (Assad, David Duke) then sermonized about how US military intervention is a force for good in this world. All without telling a single joke. Late night “comedy” shows are propaganda for livestock.
Caitlin Johnstone ⏳added,
Suzann@cmputrwiz
Colbert twice interjected the State Dept.’s line about the alleged Assad chemical attack on his own people; Tulsi then corrected him saying several of the groups, including al Qaeda & ISIS, had been trained by the US and had been reported as being a part of those alleged chemical https://twitter.com/DraftTulsi/status/1105323025489121280…
3:33 PM – 12 Mar 2019
Colbert:
You got some heat for meeting with Bashar al-Assad. Do you not
consider him a war criminal? Why did you meet with that man?
Gabbard:
In the pursuit of peace and security. If we are not willing to meet
with adversaries, potential adversaries, in the pursuit of peace and
security, the only alternative is more war. That’s why I took that
meeting with Assad. In pursuit of peace and security.
Colbert:
Do you believe he is a war criminal? Do you believe he gassed his own
people or committed atrocities against his own people?
Gabbard:
Yes. Reports have shown that that’s a fact.
Colbert:
So you believe the intelligence agencies on that. Because I head that
you did not necessarily believe those reports.
The
reason I call Colbert a propagandist and not simply a liberal empire
loyalist who happens to have been elevated by billionaire media is
because these are carefully constructed narratives that he is
reciting, and they weren’t constructed by him.
Trying
to make it look to the audience as though Gabbard is in some way
loyal to Assad has been a high-priority agenda of the mainstream
media ever since she announced her presidential candidacy.
We
saw it in her
recent appearance on The
View,
where John McCain’s sociopathic daughter called her an “Assad
apologist” and demanded that Gabbard call Assad an enemy of the
United States. We saw it in her recent CNN
town hall,
where a consultant who
worked on Obama’s 2008 campaign was
presented as an ordinary audience member to help CNN’s Dana Bash
paint Gabbard’s skepticism of intelligence reports about an alleged
chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government as something that is
weird and suspicious, instead of the only sane position in a
post-Iraq invasion world. We saw it in her
appearance on
MSNBC’s Morning
Joe last
month, where the entire panel piled on her in outrage that she
wouldn’t call Assad an enemy of the United States. It’s such a common
propaganda talking point that the New
York Times‘
Bari Weiss famously made
a laughingstock of herself by
repeating it as self-evident truth on The
Joe Rogan Experience without
having the faintest clue what specific facts it was meant to refer
to, just because she’d heard establishment pundits saying it so much.
This
is an organized smear by the mass media attempting to marry Gabbard
in the eyes of the public to a Middle Eastern leader whom the
propagandists have already sold as a child-murdering monster, and
Colbert is participating in it here just as much as the serious news
media talking heads are. It’s been frustrating to watch Gabbard fold
to this smear campaign by
acting like it’s an established fact that Assad “gases his own
people” and not the hotly contested empire-serving narrative she
knows it is.
Gabbard
is being targeted by this smear because she challenges US political
orthodoxy on military violence (the glue which holds the empire
together), so no amount of capitulation will keep them from trying to
prevent the public from trusting her words.
(de video in het volgende Twitterbericht kan ik niet overnemen, zie hiervoor het origineel)
The journalist interrogating Tulsi seems to believe that US forces in Syria are fighting Assad. Tulsi corrects her, says those troops were deployed there to fight ISIS. These people don’t even know what’s happening in the places they want the US to occupy
“I
don’t know whether America should be the policemen of the world,”
Colbert said after
Gabard defended her position.
“It
is my opinion that we should not be,” Gabbard replied, causing
Colbert to launch into a stuffy, embarrassing sermon on the virtues
of interventionism and US hegemony that would make Bill Kristol
blush.
“If
we are not, though, nature abhors a vacuum, and if we are not
involved in international conflicts, or trying to quell international
conflicts, certainly the Russians and the Chinese will fill that
vacuum. And we will step away from the world stage in a significant
way that might destabilize the world, because the United States,
however flawed, is a force for good in the world in my opinion. Would
you agree with that?”
Again,
this is a comedy show.
Gabbard
explained that in order to be a force for good in the world the
United States has to actually do good, which means not raining fire
upon every nation it dislikes all the time. Colbert
responded by
reading off his blue index card to repeat yet another tired
anti-Gabbard smear.
“You’ve
gotten some fans in the Trump supporter world: David Duke, Steve
Bannon, and, uh, Matt, uh, Gaetz, is that his name? Matt Gaetz? What
do you make of how much they like you?”
This
one is particularly vile, partly because Gabbard
has repeatedly and unequivocally
denounced David Duke, who has a long-established
and well-known history of
injecting himself into the drama of high-profile conversations in
order to maintain the illusion of relevance, and partly because it’s
a completely irrelevant point that is brought up solely for the
purpose of marrying Tulsi Gabbard’s name to a former Ku Klux Klan
leader. Colbert only brought
this up (and made Newsweek totally
squee)
because he wanted to assist in that marrying. The fact that there are
distasteful ideologies which also happen to oppose US interventionism
for their own reasons does not change the undeniable fact that US
military interventionism is consistently disastrous and never helpful
and robs the US public of resources that are rightfully theirs.
This
interview was easily Colbert’s most blatant establishment rim job
I’ve ever seen, surpassing even the time he
corrected his own audience when
they cheered at James Comey’s firing to explain to them that Comey is
a good guy now and they’re meant to like him. Colbert’s show is
blatant propaganda for human livestock, and the fact that this is
what American “comedy” shows look like now is nauseating.
When
Tulsi Gabbard first announced her candidacy I
predicted that
she’d have the narrative control engineers scrambling all over
themselves to kill her message, and it’s been even more spectacular
than I imagined. I don’t agree with everything she says and does, but
by damn this woman is shaking up the establishment narrative matrix
more than anybody else right now. She’s certainly keeping it
interesting.
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De sabotage van het elektriciteitsnet door oppositionele groepen (met hulp en advies van de VS) in Venezuela, heeft intussen aan 16 mensen het leven gekost, waaronder 15 mensen die afhankelijk waren van nierdialyse……. Eerder werd al bekend gemaakt dat een vrouw die werd geopereerd overleed, daar de noodstroomgenerator van een ziekenhuis niet opstartte, nadat de elektriciteit in een groot deel van Venezuela was uitgevallen……..
Nadat de elektriciteit een dag lang plat lag, stelde VS couppleger Guaidó dat er nog veel meer stroomstoringen zouden plaatsvinden als Maduro niet zou aftreden als president….. Ofwel Guaidó gaf in feite toe dat deze sabotage door zijn aanhangers met hoogstwaarschijnlijk VS steun werd uitgevoerd……. Een zaak die amper of niet werd genoemd in de reguliere westerse (massa-) media, sterker nog: nadat de stroomvoorziening uitbleef begon men al te suggereren dat e.e.a. lag aan het ‘wanbeleid’ van Maduro……
Guaidó en de VS zijn zonder meer verantwoordelijk voor de doden die vallen door de stroomuitval!!
Hoe is het mogelijk dat men in de reguliere westerse media en politiek fascist Guaidó steunt en zelfs alle leugens uit het VS en Guaidó kamp herhaalt, men durft zelfs te beweren dat men honger lijdt in Venezuela, een leugen van gigantische proporties…….* Hier nogmaals de hilarische video, waarin Lee Camp o.a. de leugen van honger in Venezuela totaal belachelijk maakt.
Er is al vele keren meer humanitaire hulp verstrekt in Venezuela dan de VS klaar heeft staan over de Venezolaanse grens in Colombia en Brazilië……. Toen die hulp daar net stond, was er zelfs al een voorraad aan humanitaire hulpgoederen in Venezuela, die 20 keer zo groot was dan de hulp van de VS, waar zich bovendien wel medicijnen e.d. tussen bevonden, i.t.t. de hulp uit de VS……* De VN en het Rode Kruis hebben de VS zelfs beschuldigd van het politiseren van humanitaire hulp en dat zij allang bezig waren met de verdeling van humanitaire hulpgoederen in Venezuela……..
Ook het feit dat de VS eerder humanitaire hulp had ingevlogen in Venezuela, waartussen zich wapens bevonden**, werd en wordt nog steeds niet gemeld door de reguliere westerse media en politici, terwijl dat de reden was waarom Venezuela de hulp uit de VS weigerde……. (geeft tevens aan hoe ‘vreedzaam’ de Venezolaanse oppositie werkelijk is…..) Nee men stelde doodleuk dat Maduro liever zijn volk liet omkomen dan humanitaire hulp toe te laten, alweer een leugen van enorme proporties, zoals je zal begrijpen…..
Het voorgaande, terwijl diezelfde reguliere media en politici de VS en Saoedi-Arabië niet aanvallen voor de genocide die zij uitvoeren in Jemen, een genocide die gepaard gaat met opzettelijk veroorzaakte (echte) honger door deze 2 terreurstaten, niet alleen een enorme oorlogsmisdaad, maar ook ongehoorde misdaad tegen de menselijkheid…….. Hoe is het gvd mogelijk??!!!
(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onderdoet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging is totaal geen bewijs…)
Het
is alweer zover: de VS heeft afgelopen maandag minstens 50 mensen,
voornamelijk burgers, vermoord bij een luchtaanval op het Syrische
dorp Baghouz……. De Koerdische SDF heeft de aanval veroordeeld
daar het middels overleg met IS (= ISIS) probeerde zoveel mogelijk
burgerslachtoffers te voorkomen en mensen toestond het bewuste gebied
te verlaten…..
Bij
de aanval van maandag kwamen voornamelijk vrouwen en kinderen
om…… Ach, dergelijke massamoorden, tevens oorlogsmisdaden, kan je verwachten van de
grootste terreurentiteit op aarde: de VS, immers het is de zoveelste
keer dat de VS een dergelijke massamoord aanricht………
‘Fijn weer dat ook de reguliere massamedia dit bericht hebben gebracht….’ Zoals gewoonlijk hebben die media dit niet gedaan….. Wel bericht men over de verrichtingen van het reguliere Syrische leger op dit laatste IS bolwerk. Je hoeft je niet af te vragen wat deze media aan nieuws hadden gebracht, als dit bombardement door het reguliere Syrische leger was uitgevoerd… Juist, de westerse massamedia en politiek hadden weer op de kop gestaan en wraakacties geëist!
Het
volgende artikel van Jason Ditz werd eerder gepubliceerd op ANTIWAR en werd door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:
US
Airstrikes Kill at Least 50, Mostly Civilians, in Eastern Syria
(ANTIWAR.COM) — Amid
talk of a never-ending
exodus of civilians from
underground in the Syrian village of Baghouz, the Kurdish SDF is
waiting on a final push into the last ISIS-held village. The US,
however, is not so patient.
On
Monday, US warplanes attacked Baghouz, killing
at least 50 people.
Details on what the intended target was is unclear, but the reports
suggest that the dead were mostly women and children.
The
attack came after the latest deadline set by the SDF for ISIS to
surrender passed on Sunday, but with many thousands having left the
village in the past few days, the SDF seemed fine just extending the
deadline and getting more people out.
In
the past few months, US airstrikes backing the SDF offensive have
killed hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians. With thousands of
civilians still believed to be in Baghouz, the US strikes are
undermining the SDF’s effort to convince them to leave, by showing
that those who try to leave may be targeted.
Lee
Camp de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, eerder
gepubliceerd op Truthdig en door mij overgenomen van Information Clearing House, stelt in zijn openingszin dat het
niet de eerste keer is dat de VS regering en de massamedia het volk
van de VS een oorlog in sleept, dan wel een staatsgreep organiseert die
onherroepelijk desastreuze gevolgen zal hebben….. Die uitspraak
gaat wel op voor het eufemisme van het jaar, immers de VS
geschiedenis vanaf 1945 staat er bol van!*
Met
een terugkijk op zijn leve ten tijde van de tweede illegale oorlog
van de VS tegen Irak in 2003 en hoe hij toen de zaken bekeek, waar
hij het gevoel kreeg dat de argumenten voor die oorlog niet klopten,
ontleedt Camp 4 illegale oorlogen van de VS die op valse gronden
werden gevoerd.
Camp
begint met de Spaans-Amerikaanse oorlog, waar de reden voor een VS aanval het zinken was van oorlogsschip USS Maine in de
haven van Havanna. Daarna haalt hij de Vietnam oorlog aan en het
conflict in de Golf van Tonkin, waar VS oorlogsschepen ‘schoten op
weersverschijnselen die ze op de radar zagen……’ Oorlogsmisdadiger Robert McNamara wist op grond van deze in feite
false flag operatie**, president Johnson te bewegen de strijd
tegen Noord-Vietnam te intensiveren tot een ‘totale oorlog……’ Later gaf McNamara toe dat het Golf van Tonkin incident nooit
plaatsvond…… Let wel: deze oorlog kostte miljoenen het leven, deze slachtoffers werden niet alleen in Vietnam vermoord (3,8 miljoenmensen), maar ook in buurlanden Laos en Cambodja……
Vervolgens
komt de oorlog tegen Irak aan bod, een illegale oorlog waarvan
iedereen kan weten dat deze op basis van leugens werd aangegaan door
de VS, een oorlog die intussen aan meer dan 2 miljoen Irakezen het
leven heeft gekost (Camp noemt overigens een aantal van 1 miljoen
Irakese slachtoffers, nogal een verschil met schattingen die in Irak
werden gemaakt door deskundigen, al blijft een aantal van 1 miljoen
doden, een verschrikking waar je je amper iets bij voor kan
stellen….)
Camp
komt als eerste (hij begint vanaf het vierde voorbeeld) met het
bombarderen van Syrië. Jammer dat hij niet wijst op het feit dat de
VS al in 2006 heeft besloten dat Assad weg moest, niet in de laatste
plaats daar hij pijpleidingen over de grond van Syrië weigerde,
gaspijpleidingen van de Golfstaten richting Zuid-Europa…… (waarmee 2 vliegen in 1 klap worden
geveld, immers met dat gas zou Rusland een afzet probleem krijgen in
Europa…..). De VS heeft de opstand in Syrië georganiseerd en geregisseerd, waar deze terreurentiteit gewapende figuren van buiten Syrië als provocateurs heeft ingezet tijdens
die ‘opstand…’ Helaas voor de VS, maar deze keer mislukte de
opzet……
Camp
noemt veel meer feiten en zaken die de reguliere (massa-) media niet
brengen. Het verhaal eindigt tenslotte bij Venezuela, waarover Camp
o.a. vertelt dat oorlogsmisdadiger Bolton zonder blikken of blozen
stelde dat de VS uit is op de enorme olievoorraad van Venezuela (de
op 1 na grootste voorraad ter wereld, volgens Camp de grootste maar dat klopt m.i. niet). Deze bekentenis van Bolton werd niet eens gebracht door de massamedia, nee zij houden vol dat de arme
Venezolanen geholpen moeten worden, daar het hen aan alles ontbreekt,
‘zelfs aan tandpasta…’ (zie daarvoor ook de video van Lee Camp, die onder het artikel is weergegeven, waar hij ook op de ‘honger’ in Venezuela ingaat)
Niet
genoemd door Camp, maar de VN en het Rode Kruis hebben de VS terecht
gewezen met haar poging humanitaire hulp te politiseren,
daar deze organisaties al lang humanitaire hulp verstrekken in
Venezuela, er zijn zelfs 20 keer meer humanitaire hulpgoederen in
Venezuela (waaronder medicijnen) dan de VS heeft klaarstaan…..
Humanitaire hulpgoederen die zoals gezegd wel medicijnen bevatten, in
tegenstelling tot de humanitaire hulp uit de VS, terwijl de westerse massamedia en het grootste deel van de westerse politici in navolging van hun collega’s in de VS, dat keer op keer wel
stellen……. Nota bene USAID, de organisatie die de VS zendingen gereed maakt, heeft zelf toegegeven
dat zich geen medicijnen tussen die VS hulpgoederen bevinden….. Alweer een feit dat de westerse reguliere media niet hebben gemeld……
Lees
het volgende artikel en zegt het ajb voort, tijd dat de massamedia ook in
ons land eindelijk de waarheid brengen over Venezuela…..
We
Are Being Lied Into War Again
This
is not the first time our government and our media have conspired to
drag the American people into war with another country—or helped
create a coup that will inevitably have disastrous results
By
Lee Camp
March
08, 2019 “Information
Clearing House” – I was 23 when we invaded Iraq,
and I wasn’t sure it was based on lies, but something deep down in
me—just behind the spleen—told me it was based on lies. Kinda
like if your blind date shows up and you notice he has a 2004 flip
phone. It seems vaguely worrisome, and no explanation he can
haltingly supply will put you at ease. Plus, anyone else who acts
like it’s normal also becomes suspect.
The
invasion of Iraq just felt like it was a lie to me. And it turned out
that I was right, that it was a lie, and that the entirety of the
mainstream media and our government were either wrong or lying and,
most of the time, both.
Now
our government and our media are trying their damnedest to lie us
into another war, this one with Venezuela. They tell us the
Venezuelan people are desperate for necessities like toothpaste,
while independent journalists show
piles of affordable toothpaste in
Caracas.
And
even if they didn’t have toothpaste, that hardly seems like a good
reason for America to be dropping our long-range bad decisions on the
heads of innocent people. Turning a town into an impact crater for
the sake of a battle to stop gingivitis seems a bit extreme.
The
mainstream media and nearly the entirety of the U.S. government tell
us Juan Guaido is the “interim president,” even though he was
never elected to that position and the current president is still
leading the Venezuelan government and military. So I guess this
“interim” is the time between Guaido being a nobody and the time
when he goes back to being nobody but now gets to tell women at
parties, “You know, I used to be interim president.”
The
mainstream media also inform us that the Venezuelan military set U.S.
aid trucks on fire, when video shows opposition
forces doing it.
Furthermore, the idea of Venezuela taking “aid” from the country
whose sanctions are crushing them would be like the Standing Rock
Sioux accepting gift packages from the construction crews
swiss-cheesing their land to lay down the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL).
Unless the boxes are filled with industrial paper towels to help
clean up oil spills, I fail to see how it would be beneficial.
Sometimes you do indeed have to look a gift horse in the mouth (or
should I say “gift
dog”).
This
is not the first time our government and our media have conspired to
drag the American people into war with another country—or helped
create a coup that will inevitably have disastrous results. So I
thought this would be a prime moment to go through the top four
greatest hits.
Number
4: The Spanish-American War
This
is widely considered to be the birth of modern media propaganda,
because it was the first war actually started
by the media.
Newspapers fabricated atrocities in the never-ending quest for more
readers.
And
as The
New York Times noted,
“[T]he sensationalistic reporting of the sinking of the American
battleship Maine in Havana harbor on Feb. 15, 1898 … and all the
other egregious reporting leading up to the Spanish-American War
might have been considered merely cartoonish if it hadn’t led to a
major international conflict.”
I
think maybe The New York Times got that quote confused with its
mission statement: “Cartoonishly dragging America into major
international conflict since 1851!”
Number
3: The Vietnam War
Sure,
most everyone knows the catastrophic Vietnam War was precipitated by
the Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which U.S. naval vessels were fired
upon by villainous North Vietnamese torpedo boats. Following that
skirmish, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recommended that
President Johnson retaliate, and the full-force Vietnam War had
begun. But most Americans still don’t know that there was no Gulf
of Tonkin incident—unless you count U.S. naval ships literally
firing their weapons at weather events they saw
on the radar.
The 2003 documentary “The Fog of War” finally revealed the truth.
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara confessed that the Gulf
of Tonkin attack did
not actually happen.
That’s
right. It never happened. Much like leprechauns or dragons or Simon
Cowell’s talent, it was a figment of our national imagination.
The
lies of our government, followed by the fawning, credulous reporting
from our media, led to the death of 58,000 U.S. service members and
as many as 3.8 million Vietnamese.
The
United States government has one of the most powerful Departments of
Fabrication and Falsification ever assembled. It’s a modern marvel
on par with the Great Pyramid of Giza and Rafael Nadal’s
down-the-line running forehand.
Number
2: The Iraq War
Of
course, there’s the most obvious lie about Iraq, i.e., that Saddam
Hussein had so many weapons of mass destruction that he would often
use one to scrub hard-to-reach places while in the tub. But that
wasn’t the only falsehood manifested to bring about our complete
annihilation of the sovereign nation Saddam ruled over. There were
others, such as the idea that Saddam was connected to al-Qaida and
perhaps played a role in the 9/11 attacks. William Safire at The New
York Times, in May
2002, wrote,
“Mohamed Atta, destined to be the leading Sept. 11 suicide
hijacker, was reported last fall by Czech intelligence to have met at
least once with Saddam Hussein’s espionage chief in the Iraqi
Embassy.”
Yes,
Safire was able to polish a load of bullshit so thoroughly it would
sparkle like a sapphire. And that column is still up on the Times’
website, without a correction or retraction. I would say the Times is
only useful for covering the bottom of a birdcage, but I’d fear the
paper would lie your pet cockatoo into an ill-advised invasion,
killing millions.
But
the propaganda didn’t even stop there. There was also the anthrax
attacks following 9/11. Anthrax was mailed to press outlets and the
offices of politicians. To this day, many people still believe it had
something to do with Iraq or al-Qaida because of award-winning
national embarrassments like
Brian Ross.
“Brian
Ross at ABC News wrote ‘the anthrax in the tainted letter sent to
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was laced with bentonite’ and
‘bentonite is a trademark of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s
biological weapons program.’ ” As Salon so clearly put it,
“All of those factual claims … were completely false,
demonstrably and unquestionably so. … Yet neither ABC nor Ross have
ever retracted, corrected, clarified, or explained these fraudulent
reports.”
And,
as you would expect, following that blatantly false reporting, Brian
Ross did not lose his job. In fact, he wasn’t put out to pasture
from ABC News until
last year,
when he “reported that fired national security adviser Michael
Flynn was ready to testify that Trump told him to contact the
Russians during the campaign.”
That
report—much like the rumors of Brian Ross’s journalistic
integrity—turned out to be absolutely false.
(In
my professional opinion, anyone who had anything to do with the
selling, perpetrating or planning of the Iraq War should never again
hold a position higher than assistant trainee to the guy who picks up
the shit of a dog that does not belong to anyone of any particular
importance. If that position does not exist, we as a nation should
create it just for this moment. Yet, despite my objections, Robert
Mueller (head of the FBI at the time of the invasion and a big
supporter of it) is leading the biggest investigation in the country.
John Bolton, who advocated for the Iraq invasion as far back as the
1990s, is now national security adviser. Bill Kristol, who pushed for
the war and said it would last two months, is now a regular panelist
on MSNBC. And the list goes on.)
Unlike
Defense Secretary McNamara, who admitted the Gulf of Tonkin incident
never happened, we don’t have a smoking gun showing that the Bush
administration created these lies to get us into Iraq. … Oh, wait!
Turns out the paper shredder at the Bush Oval Office was on strike
for a higher minimum wage in 2002, and in fact, we do have a memo
written by Bush’s defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, a year before
U.S. forces unleashed a reign of terror on the Iraqi people. His memo
about warwith
Iraq stated, “How
start? US discovers Saddam connection to Sept 11 or to anthrax
attacks? Or maybe a dispute over WMD inspections?”
I’m
not sure what’s more striking—that this memo exists, or that it
sounds like the Bush boys planned a massive international battle the
same way a broke 35-year-old maps out his bad novel that he’s sure
is the ticket out of his mom’s basement.
“How
start horrible bloody war? Maybe Saddam found to moonlight as porn
star?”
Point
is, multiple completely false stories laid the groundwork for an
invasion of Iraq that left well
over 1 million people
dead.
Number
1: The Bombing of Syria
President
Bashar Assad gassed his own people, thereby guaranteeing more
American involvement—and he did it just days after Donald Trump had
told the Pentagon to begin withdrawing troops from Syria. At least,
that’s the story the corporate media repeated on-loop for at least
a month, only pausing every 10 minutes to try desperately to get us
all to buy more things with “baconator” in the name or to seek
out a harder penis.
So
we are expected to believe Assad did the one thing that would ensure
more U.S. involvement just as he was about to win his war? It’s
kinda like how, when I’m about to win a fistfight, I often poke
myself repeatedly in the eye. You know—just to keep it exciting.
Famed
journalists Seymour
Hersh and Robert
Fisk have
done great work showing that the chemical attacks never happened, but
there’s a new update. Just two weeks ago, a BBC producer came
forward and said the Douma, Syria, chemical attack footage
was staged.
His
tweet said that after six months of investigations, he can prove that
no fatalities occurred in the hospital. Yet our breathlessly inept
mainstream American media, with little to no evidence, ran around
saying, “There was a chemical attack! Those poor people! And they
don’t have toothpaste, either! We must bomb them to help them!”
The
overarching point here is that we’ve replaced our media with
stenographers to the ruling elite long ago. The ruling class comes up
with a lie to manufacture American consent for its all-American war
crimes, and that lie is then sprayed like laminate all over average
American citizens. This goes on until such time as any average
citizens who question said lie is looked at like they have two heads,
and one of them is covered in rat shit.
For
the “journalists” who hose the lies across the country the best,
awards and private jets and rooftop drinks with midlevel celebrities
like Chuck Norris await them. Now we’re getting to the point where
the actual rulers—the Trump administration, etc.—are not even
hiding their corruption. John Bolton stated
on Fox News that
the ultimate goal is to steal Venezuela’s oil. But our media
continue to tout the propaganda line. Even after Bolton said that,
you won’t see Anderson Cooper or one of Fox News’ grand wizards
saying, “Venezuela is undergoing a U.S.-backed coup because we’d
like to steal their oil.” It’s truly dizzying that the corporate
media preserve the propaganda even after the “leaders” have
revealed their true sinister intentions.
On
the inside of Wolf Blitzer’s eyelids, the phrase, “Must Defend
the Matrix” blinks in red.
The
propaganda line for Venezuela right now is, “We want to help the
poor Venezuelans.” Well, if you want to help them, then keep
America out of their face. Don’t force them to have anything to do
with the country that came up with drive-through fried food served in
a bucket and opioid nasal sprays. At no point does anyone look at the
Donald Trump presidency and think, “Wow, that country really has
things figured out. I hope they bring some of their great
decision-making to our doorstep.”
Lee
Camp is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and activist.
Camp is the host of the weekly comedy news TV show “Redacted
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(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onder doet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging is totaal geen bewijs…)
In het
volgende artikel geschreven door Alan Macleod eerder
gepubliceerd op Venezuela Analysis (overgenomen van Anti-Media) stelt hij dat de VS zichzelf isoleert met haar
agressieve beleid jegens Venezuela. Daar valt wat mij betreft echter nog wel een dikke boom
over op te zetten.
Eén
ding is wel zeker: 75% van de landen staat niet achter de agressieve VS buitenlandpolitiek t.a.v. Venezuela en
blijft Maduro zien als president van Venezuela en hebben kritiek op
de VS. Wat nieuw was voor mij is het pleidooi in de VN dat de VS
herstelbetalingen moet doen aan Venezuela voor de illegale
economische oorlog die de VS voert tegen Venezuela. Waar een bons van
de VN volkomen terecht stelt dat de VS met haar sancties tegen Venezuela zelfs
misdaden tegen de menselijkheid pleegt en heeft gepleegd……
Jammer
dat Macleod niet meldt dat de VS al onder Obama bezig was met een
economische oorlog tegen Venezuela, al was dit destijds een stiekeme
oorlog, dit daar levensmiddelenketens uit de VS met supermarkten in
Venezuela onder druk werden gezet de voorraden voor hun winkels in
Venezuela niet of mondjesmaat aan te vullen, ook werden destijds de
grote farmaceuten van de VS onder druk gezet zo min mogelijk
medicijnen te leveren aan dit land…. (het maakt voor de meeste landen dan ‘ook niet’ uit wie er president is in de VS, een democraat of een republikein……)
Guaidó, de door de VS naar voren geschoven interim-president voor
Venezuela, een fascist waarvan het overgrote deel van de Venezolanen in
januari nog nooit had gehoord, heeft de doden die bij de
protesten tegen Maduro zijn gevallen, een investering in de
toekomst genoemd……. Een onderzoek heeft overigens aangetoond dat 80% van
de Venezolanen tegen de sancties is die de VS heeft opgelegd aan
Venezuela (sancties, overgenomen door Canada en de EU…..) en tegen
militair ingrijpen is……
De Trump
administratie heeft verder geen probleem om open en bloot te
verklaren dat een verandering van regime in het voordeel is van VS
bedrijven…. De psychopathische massamoordenaar Bolton die deze
uitlating deed, voegde daar aan toe, dat de Venezolaanse olie een
kans is voor de oliemaffia in de VS (waar Bolton uiteraard het woord
maffia niet gebruikte)….. Bolton dreigde Maduro bovendien met
gevangenisstraf in het VS martelkamp Guantanamo Bay, waar Rubio
foto’s liet zien van de op gruwelijke manier vermoorde Khadaffi, de voormalig
leider van Libië, een land dat de VS en de NAVO naar god hebben
geholpen, dit als waarschuwing voor Maduro….. (de NAVO heeft overigens 2 militaire bases in Colombia en dat in de buurt van de Venezolaanse grens…….)
Onbegrijpelijk overigens dat de reguliere (massa-) media deze uitlating van Bolton niet melden, de uitlating waarmee hij openlijk heeft toegegeven dat de VS de beschikking wil hebben over de Venezolaanse olievoorraad…. Nee deze media blijven de leugen van de VS herhalen dat de VS de arme Venezolanen wil helpen en democratie wil brengen…… Guaidó heeft overigens al gezegd dat hij na een totale machtsovername in Venezuela de VS de beschikking wil geven over de Venezolaanse olievoorraad……
De
aanstelling van oorlogsmisdadiger en massamoordenaar Abrams als speciale gezant voor Venezuela, die de VS
acties tegen Venezuela moet coördineren, geeft duidelijk aan dat het
de VS in het geheel niet te doen is om democratie en mensenrechten in
Venezuela, immers Abrams is bekend van eerdere agressieve acties van
de VS in Latijns-Amerika, acties waarbij de VS juist de
mensenrechten schond en democratische regimes opzij schoof voor door
de VS uitgezochte dictaturen, waarbij men massamoorden niet uit de weg ging…… De psychopathische Abrams is zoals gezegd dan
ook een massamoordenaar en oorlogsmisdadiger die al lang voor het leven vast had moeten
zitten in Scheveningen……
Jammer
genoeg heeft de VS haar belangrijkste partners achter zich staan en
het is maar zeer de vraag of landen als Brazilië en Colombia een
illegale inval van de VS in Venezuela niet zouden steunen, zoals
Macleod stelt……. Bovendien zijn er, zoals eerder aangegeven, ook nog eens NAVO troepen gelegerd in Colombia…….
Ook de
reguliere westerse media, verworden tot een machtig westers
propaganda wapen, staat volkomen achter een aanpakken van Venezuela,
iets dat in een aantal gevallen al is opgelopen tot een pleidooi om
Venezuela aan te vallen, precies zoals dit eerder het geval was,
voorafgaand aan de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Irak in
2003……..
De laatste daad van Guaidó hoorde ik gistermorgen op BBC World Service: een totale uitval van stroom in Caracas en andere grote steden, werd door deze ploert gebruikt om de voorstanders van Maduro te chanteren, volgens hem zal de stroom vaker uitvallen als vorm van protest, zolang Maduro aan het bewind blijft…… Let wel: eerdere sabotage van het elektriciteitsnet in Caracas leidde tot doden in ziekenhuizen, o.a. patiënten op de operatietafel daar de noodaggregaten niet werkten……
Vandaag werd gemeld dat minstens 1 vrouw in een Venezolaans ziekenhuis is overleden door de sabotage van de elektriciteitsvoorziening…….. Hoe kan je met goed verstand deze schofterige psychopathische terrorist nog steunen…??!!!
Vergeet voorts niet dat de VN en het Rode Kruis volop humanitaire hulpgoederen verspreiden in Venezuela, deze 2 organisaties hebben de VS zelfs beschuldigd voor het misbruiken van humanitaire hulp als politiek drukmiddel, een zaak die toekomstige humanitaire acties in gevaar brengt….. Het is zelfs zo zot dat deze organisaties verklaarden 20 maal meer humanitaire hulp te verstrekken dan de VS heeft klaar staan aan de andere kant van de Venezolaanse grens in Colombia en naar het schijnt in Brazilië…… ‘Fijn ook’ dat deze klachten en terechtwijzingen prominent in de reguliere westerse media werden weergegeven…. Niet dus! Deze media en de meeste westerse politici blijven gewoon keihard liegen dat er geen humanitaire hulp wordt verstrekt in Venezuela…… Terwijl USAID (die de VS hulp regelt), in tegenstelling tot de Trump administratie, stelt dat zich tussen die hulpgoederen geen medicijnen bevinden……
The
US Tried to Isolate Venezuela. It Has Only Isolated Itself.
Donald
Trump addresses a a Florida audience on February 18, 2019. (Kevin
Lamarque / Reuters
(VA Op-ed) — It
is no secret that the United States has long been plotting regime
change in Venezuela. For
over 18 months President
Trump has been publicly floating a military invasion of the country.
At a speech in Florida President Trump recently announced “the
days of socialism and communism are numbered in Venezuela”
ominously stating “one day soon we are going to see what the people
will do in Caracas.” Vice President Mike Pence declared President
Nicolas Maduro a “dictator” and reiterated that self-declared
president Juan Guaidó had the “unwavering
support”
of the American people. In an attempt to destroy the economy and
force Maduro out of power, the US has leveled multiple rounds of
punishing (and
illegal)
sanctions on the country, and encouraged and intimidated others to do
the same in an effort to isolate Venezuela politically and
economically.
The
US managed to convince a number of Western European and Latin
American states to back their version of events. However, despite the
best attempts from an extraordinarily
compliant international
media to present Venezuela as an isolated nation on the brink of
collapse, the US plan is failing badly.
In
reality, the international community has rejected the US and its
candidate Juan Guaidó, with around 75
percent of
countries expressing support for Maduro. Completely unreported in the
media was the decision by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to unequivocally
condemn the
US sanctions, noting that they are targeted at the poorest and most
vulnerable Venezuelans. The UN called on all member states to break
them and even discussed the reparations the US should pay to
Venezuela. The American Special UN Rapporteur Alfred de
Zayas described the
sanctions as akin to a medieval siege and accused the US of possible
crimes against humanity. This startling news has been widely reported
internationally but has been virtually completely ignored by the
mainstream Western press. The New York Times, CNN, Washington Post
nor any other national American publication has reported it.
Trump’s
regime change strategy has been nothing short of comically
incompetent. Marco Rubio’s constant
calls for
the Venezuelan military to defect and overthrow Maduro have fallen
completely flat as the military has remained steadfastly loyal. The
UN and Red Cross refused to participate in the charade of American
“humanitarian aid” to Venezuela, noting it did not meet the
minimal requirements to be considered aid while Maduro’s government
has been only too happy to work with those agencies to receive
genuine assistance. The US attempt to force its “aid” through the
border and provoke a bloodbath failed, as the supposedly
pro-democracy aid workers appear to have set fire to their own aid
trucks. Meanwhile, billionaire celebrity Richard Branson’s
Venezuela Aid Live concert*, headlined by massive stars like Luis
Fonsi and Maluma garnered an attendance of barely
a few thousand.
Part
of the problem is that the group around Trump lacks the discipline
and polish of Obama administration and continue to let the mask slip,
making it crystal clear none of this is about democracy and human
rights. The appointment of Elliot Abrams, a man infamous in Latin
America for his role in regime change and genocide was a clear signal
to all what was about to happen. Trump’s special advisor John
Bolton said the quiet part loud, letting slip that he saw Venezuela a
“big
business opportunity”
for American companies, noting that “it
would make a big difference to the US” if
American companies could take over Venezuela’s oil production.
Bolton also revealed he was
considering sending
President Maduro to the Guantanamo Bay torture camp. Meanwhile, Marco
Rubio shocked the world by tweeting
out pictures
of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi’s mutilated corpse, taken on all
sides to be a crude statement of intent for Venezuela.
Another
embarrassing incident occurred just after Elliot Abrams, a man known
for smuggling weapons to Nicaragua under the guise of aid, was
appointed. The McClatchy DC Bureau revealed that
an American plane from Miami was caught smuggling weapons and
ammunition into Venezuela. The plane had made over 40 round trips
that year alone. None of this did anything to convince the
international community of the good intentions of the US government.
For
his part, Washington’s handpicked president Guaidó has not been
able to hide his more bloodthirsty, sociopathic side. The man who
over 80
percentof
Venezuelans had never heard of in January appalled the country
by callously
labeling the
deaths from the clashes “not as a cost” but an “investment in
the future”. The naked brazenness of the coup attempt is a primary
reason Guaidó has failed to win over the public. A recent
poll
showed that over 80 percent of Venezuelans opposed the US sanctions,
and even more were against a military intervention.
The
international community is increasingly rounding on the US. At the
recent UN Security Council hearing on Venezuela, the US
was excoriated by
South Africa for “trampling upon the law and constitutional rights
of Venezuela” and for “taking away the basic right of the people
[of Venezuela] to determine their own future”. Bolivia accused the
US of breaking the most fundamental laws of non-intervention in other
countries and violating Venezuela’s national sovereignty. Russia
summed up the mood, describing Guaidó as an “imposter” and that
the US was making a “mockery” of the constitutional rights of
Venezuela, noting that the US’ humanitarian aid stunt would “in
any other part of the world be classed as terrorism.”
Worse
still for the US, even the resolve of the Lima Group – and
organization of right-wing Latin American countries set up by the
Trump administration with the express goal of bringing about regime
change in Venezuela – is beginning to crumble. Brazil’s fascist
president Jair Bolsonaro, who previously claimed he would do
“everything” to get rid of Maduro, has backed away from the US;
Brazil declared that under
no circumstances would
it be any part of an invasion. Other key partners Colombia, Chile and
Peru made
similar statements. Many
of the strongest European critics of Maduro, such as Spain and
Germany, have also categorically rejected the military option the US
is now preparing for.
This
is hardly the first time that the US has isolated itself while trying
to isolate Venezuela. As I cataloged in my book Bad
News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting,
the US was completely alone in the world casting aspersions on the
2013 election result and calling for a recount. What is remarkable
about this time is how badly the hare-brained scheme is backfiring.
The Bank of England’s extraordinary decision to freeze over a
billion dollars in Venezuelan gold was a clear signal to the world
that the UK could not be trusted as a neutral arbiter. Italy
has reportedly
begun discussions to
repatriate their gold in Britain. If an allied state such as Italy
has done so, the likes of China, India and Russia must be thinking
the same. One of the few industries the UK has left is finance, and
this decision could have huge ramifications for Britain’s economy.
Furthermore, the government’s acceptance of the Trump regime change
plan has sparked a
massive uprising across
Haiti that threatens to bring down a US-client government.
As
a result of the hare-brained incompetence and the naked audacity of
the Trump/Abrams/Bolton regime change gambit in Venezuela, the US now
finds itself almost completely isolated in the world. This does not
necessarily mean the end of the US attack. The US is the world’s
only superpower and can act unilaterally whenever it pleases. But the
battle for world opinion has been lost. The battle for Venezuela
continues.
(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onderdoet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook hier is totaal geen bewijs voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging…)
Een
deel van het CodePink team, o.l.v. Medea Benjamin is al een paar
weken in Iran*. Het team is daar onder meer om te zien wat de impact is
van de VS sancties tegen het volk van Iran, want daar komt het zoals
gewoonlijk op neer als de VS misdadig bezig is, het gewone volk is elke keer weer het slachtoffer, hoe hard de VS ook liegt dat dit niet zo is……
Ondanks
de ellende van de sancties waarin het Iraanse volk moet leven, worden
de leden van dit team uit de VS met veel gastvrijheid
binnengehaald….. Beter dan het grootste deel van de VS bevolking,
snapt men in Iran dat lang niet alle VS burgers blind zijn voor het
economisch oorlogvoeren van de Trump administratie……
De
gevolgen van de sancties voor de bevolking van Iran zijn niet gering,
zo hebben mensen met kanker niet langer toegang tot medicijnen die
zij nodig hebben voor hun therapie en dat duurt nu al een jaar……. Terwijl de VS, o.l.v. het beest Trump, zich in mei 2018 terugtrok uit de Iran-nucleaire deal (JCPOA), ofwel al voor deze gebeurtenis werden Iraniërs belangrijke medicijnen uit de VS onthouden, iets dat je ook in Venezuela kon zien, al was dat zelfs vele jaren voordat de VS officieel sancties instelde tegen dat land…….. Een zaak die je moet zien als een geheime economische oorlog, ingesteld om het volk van een land als Venezuela opstandig te maken tegen de regering van dat land…..
De
VS stelt dat medicijnen zijn uitgesloten van de sancties tegen Iran, zoals gewoonlijk een keiharde leugen, hetzelfde zei de VS over de
sancties tegen Venezuela en ook daar ontbreekt het al lang aan
medicijnen, de tekorten waren zelfs al goed te merken onder de Obama
administratie, die destijds een ‘stiekeme’ boycot instelden tegen
Venezuela, dit door supermarktketens onder druk te zetten hun winkels
in Venezuela niet of alleen mondjesmaat te bevoorraden, deze druk
werd ook toen al uitgeoefend op de grote farmaceuten……… Zoals gezegd om de bevolking van in dit geval Iran opstandig te maken tegen haar regering en zo een ‘verandering van regime’ te bewerkstelligen, dan wel een staatsgreep mogelijk te maken….
Overigens heeft de CIA toegegeven dat zij al jaren bezig is om de oppositie tegen het regime in Iran, zoals terreurgroep MEK, te voorzien van financiën, middelen, advies en zelfs daadwerkelijk assistentie bij terreuracties tegen de Iraanse overheid…… (ook Israël werkt daaraan mee….)
Lees
en teken ajb de hieronder opgenomen petitie van CodePink waarin de VS
wordt opgeroepen opnieuw deel te nemen aan de nucleaire-Iran
deal….. Van groot belang, immers de EU beloofde Iran te helpen na
het volkomen onterecht uit de deal stappen van de VS, echter de
hielenlikkers van Trump in Brussel zijn te schijterig om ook maar
iets te ondernemen tegen de VS sancties……. Ofwel we zijn weer
eens geheel afhankelijk van wat de VS wel of niet doet……..
Iedereen
op onze kleine planeet mag de petitie tekenen (op de pagina naar beneden ‘scrollen’ voor de internationale petitie), een petitie die de
ellende waarin het Iraanse volk moet leven teniet moet doen, dus ajb
lees en teken de petitie en geeft het door!
Iranians
don’t understand why
We
are in Iran now and we have never met nicer people. Their eyes light
up when we say we’re Americans. Strangers
invite us to their homes, shopkeepers give us presents, students
shower us with friendly questions. “America good, Trump bad,”
they say—always with a hearty laugh and a beaming smile. But behind
the smiles are pain and hardship, much of it caused by Trump’s
policies of unilaterally withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and
re-imposing sanctions that hurt ordinary Iranians.
A
man in the Tehran bazaar told us his wife has cancer and because of
the sanctions, she hasn’t been able to get the right medication for
the past year. A man with diabetes said he can’t get the medicine
he needs to lower his glucose levels. The
U.S. says medicines are exempt from sanctions but in reality, it’s
just not true.
The
sanctions have also led to soaring prices, cutting people’s
purchasing power and affecting their life choices. A young woman who
had been accepted to college in London with a full scholarship was
devastated that she had to decline because her family could no longer
even afford her plane ticket. A young man told us he cancelled his
plans to get married because the couple couldn’t afford the wedding
costs.
We
must also ask Eliot Engel to stop supporting the MEK, the fringe
Iranian opposition group that is hated inside Iran for killing
civilians in terrorist acts. Many
Iranians criticize the Islamic Republic, but they do not see the MEK
as a legitimate replacement for the regime. Engel should cut his ties
with this terrorist group and instead promote diplomacy with Iran.
As
we come to the end of our trip, we leave with our hearts full of love
for the people here. But we also leave with a tremendous sense of
responsibility to stop the policies of our government that are
inflicting so much harm on innocent Iranians.
With
love and sorrow,
Medea
Benjamin, Jodie Evans, Ann Wright, Paki Wieland, Barbara
Briggs-Letson and Ridgley Fuller
Tell
Chairman Engel to call for the U.S. to re-enter the Iran Nuclear
Agreement
President
Trump has withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal and reinstated
economic sanctions that are hurting the Iranian people. By violating
the nuclear agreement that was signed by the U.S., Iran, and other
major world powers, the Trump administration has damaged the U.S.
reputation among our closest allies, gone against U.S. national
security interests, and has negatively impacted the lives of millions
of ordinary Iranians.
Send
a message to Chairman Eliot Engel of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee to call for the U.S. to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal and
lift the sanctions.
If
you live in the U.S., please send a direct message to Chairman Eliot
Engel. If you live outside the U.S., please scroll down to sign the
petition below:
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SUPPORTERS CAN SIGN THIS PETITION
Dear
Chairman Engel,
By
withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and
reinstating severe sanctions on the Iranian people, the Trump
administration has damaged U.S. transatlantic relations, gone against
U.S. national security interests, and is waging an economic war
against the Iranian people. It is urgent that you push forward
legislation in the House Foreign Affairs Committee that holds the
President accountable for violating an international agreement, and
calls on the administration to re-enter the deal and lift the
sanctions.
In
the last 40 years, the U.S. and Iran have had no diplomatic
relations. The landmark Iran Nuclear Deal opened channels for
negotiations on a range of issues affecting the region. But President
Trump violated the international agreement and has closed off all
channels of communications.
Please
hold President Trump accountable for violating the Iran nuclear
agreement and call on the administration to re-enter the deal.
Please
also stop supporting the MEK, the fringe Iranian opposition group
that has no legitimate support inside Iran. John Bolton is the MEK’s
biggest cheerleader — he’s been paid $180,000 to speak at MEK
events that call for regime change, sanctions, and war with Iran.
Many Iranians criticize the Islamic Republic, but they do not see the
MEK as a legitimate replacement for the regime. Please stop
supporting this group and instead bring forward legislation that
promotes diplomacy with Iran.
Dan nog wat links naar berichten over de werkelijke agressor, of beter gezegd de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde >> de VS: alleen vanaf 1945 tot het jaar 2000 heeft de VS al 20 miljoen mensen vermoord (waaraan deze eeuw al meer dan 2,5 miljoen moorden werden toegevoegd), zie: ‘VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..‘
Gisteren op de Beurs.nl de kop: ‘Russische tak ING betrokken bij witwasmachine’
Met deze kop zou je denken dat er met ING niets aan de hand is, maar dat dit ligt aan de Russische tak van het bedrijf…….. Terwijl ING nu al voor de derde keer betrokken is bij misdadige praktijken…….
Ongelofelijk dat de Beurs.nl op deze manier meewerkt aan het demoniseren van Rusland, terwijl ook de Beurs.nl de hielen likt van de VS als het gaat om illegale oorlogsvoering door deze vereniging van terreurstaten…….. (daarover zo meer)
De banken kunnen doorgaan met hun misdadig gedrag, daar zij niet gestraft kunnen worden door hun klanten, dit daar dezen hun voor het leven gegeven IBAN bankrekeningnummer niet mee mogen nemen naar een andere bank, een verbod dat de bankenmaffia voor elkaar heeft gelobbyd bij corrupte politici in de EU……
Je kan uiteraard wel van bank veranderen, maar dat is tijdrovend en ingewikkeld, terwijl je de banken bij dergelijk zwaar misdadig gedrag als witwassen en beleggen in oorlogsindustrie meteen zou moeten kunnen straffen, door over te stappen naar een andere bank…….
Benieuwd wanneer de top van banken, waar zware misdaden als witwassen worden gepleegd, nu eindelijk eens voor jaren in de bak verdwijnen en er niet met een schikking afkomen…….
Door met de VS terreur: dit land is zonder meer de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, daar dit middels een genocide gestolen land sinds 1945 al meer dan 22,5 miljoen mensen heeft vermoord….* Dit in illegale oorlogen, staatsgrepen, georganiseerde opstanden, geheime militaire CIA acties en met het vermoorden van verdachten met drones, waarbij NB in meer dan 90% van de gevallen, niet eens verdachte mensen omkomen, dus veelal vrouwen en kinderen…….**
Hoe is het mogelijk dat de reguliere westerse media zo blind zijn…??? Oh ja, ze lopen aan de leiband van de welgestelde eigenaren en bedienen de ijskoude, inhumane neoliberale westerse ideologie, plus het militair-industrieel complex!!
** Vanmorgen werd bekend gemaakt dat Trump weigert een rapport openbaar te maken waarin het aantal ‘burgerslachtoffers’ van standrechtelijke executies met drones wordt aangegeven….. Bij deze standrechtelijke executies gaat het om het vermoorden van verdachte personen, in feite ook burgerslachtoffers, echter men doelt in deze op de personen die met een drone aanval worden vermoord, maar die zoals eerder gesteld niet werden verdacht, ofwel veelal vrouwen en kinderen…….
Een
rapport van de OPCW maakt korte metten met de westerse beschuldiging
aan het adres Syrië voor een aanval met chemische wapens, dit keer de gifgasaanval op Douma van 7 april 2018….. Ondanks dat de reguliere
westerse media, inclusief het grootste deel van de westerse politici Syrië hebben aangewezen als de dader……
Het OPCW
rapport kan ook geen link vinden tussen de 43 doden en gevonden
sporen van chlorine op de ‘plaats delict’. Ofwel die 43 doden
zijn niet omgekomen door chlorine, zoals medisch hulpverleners
destijds al aangaven…… De zogenaamd onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde NOS berichtte 5 dagen geleden dat de inspecteurs wel degelijk stellen dat er
chloorgas is gebruikt bij de aanval, daar er sporen zijn gevonden van
‘giftige chemicaliën met chloor’. Echter dat is niet
wat de OPCW stelt, immers het rapport kan geen link vinden tussen de
slachtoffers en de gevonden sporen chlorine….. Zo worden feiten
door de reguliere media verdraait om barbertje Assad te laten hangen……
Er zijn
overblijfselen op de plek van de aanval gevonden van 2 cilinders (canisters) die met geel gas gevuld zijn geweest, eenzelfde cilinder werd in Douma aangetroffen in de werkplaats van ‘gematigde rebellen…..’
Als er
bij de aanval chemische wapens zijn gevonden, hoe vreemd is het dan
dat in de overblijfselen van de 43 doden geen sporen van een
chemische substantie zijn gevonden, die duiden op een aanval met
chemische wapens……. En toch stelt de NOS dat deze mensen werden aangevallen met gifgas (‘door het reguliere Syrische leger’, zoals je begrijpt)
Eén
ding is zeker: volgens wapeninspecteurs van de VN had en heeft Syrië al jaren niet meer de beschikking over chemische wapens, terwijl
algemeen bekend kan worden geacht dat de zogenaamde gematigde
rebellen* de beschikking hadden en hebben over
chemische wapens als chlorine en sarin………
Syrië had totaal geen belang bij een aanval met chemische wapens daar ze de
stad al voor een groot deel hadden ingenomen, bovendien was een
aanval met conventionele wapens veel effectiever geweest…..
Daarentegen hadden de ‘gematigde rebellen’ alle belang bij een
chemische aanval, daar zij aan de verliezende hand waren en een
aanval met chemische wapens zou het offensief van het Syrische leger waarschijnlijk hebben gestopt dan wel vertraagd, vanwege de grote
verontwaardiging die dit voor de zoveelste keer teweeg zou hebben gebracht in de wereld…..
Zoals uit het direct voorafgaande al blijkt, in Syrië een vaker toegepaste tactiek van deze terreurgroepen, een tactiek die onder de noemer ‘false flag operatie’** valt……
De
medisch hulpverleners die de mensen vanwege deze ‘gifgasaanval’ behandelden op de eerste hulp, verklaarden dat deze mensen geen
symptomen vertoonden van blootstelling aan een chemisch wapen, maar alle tekenen
vertoonden van rookvergiftiging gecombineerd met grote hoeveelheden stof in de luchtwegen en longen, dit daar ze
in kelders een veilig heenkomen hadden gezocht, echter door de
bombardementen vulden deze ruimten zich zoals gezegd met rook en
stof……
Kortom:
Douma is een mislukte false flag operatie, waar de gematigde
terreurgroepen vergeten waren burgers te vermoorden met chemische
wapens……
Het volgende artikel nam ik over van NEO (NEW EASTERN OUTLOOK) en werd geschreven door Tony Cartalucci.
The
OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) has
presented its final report regarding an alleged chemical weapons
attack on Douma, Syria on April 7, 2018. Despite attempts by the
Western media to hail it as “proof” that the Syrian government
used chemical weapons in Douma – the report says nothing of the
sort.
In
fact, the report fails to link any of the alleged 43 deaths to
apparent chlorine found at the scene of the alleged attack.
Claims
of the attack were made by US-backed militants on the eve of their
defeat – with the Syrian military retaking Douma the following day.
Initial reports claimed sarin or chlorine chemical weapons were
deployed through the use of two yellow gas canisters modified as
bombs.
No
sarin of any kind was found by OPCW inspectors.
While
the report suggests two modified yellow gas canisters were used in
the attack and that they appeared to have been dropped onto two
buildings (locations 2 and 4), the report also mentions that OPCW
inspectors found a nearly identical canister in a workshop used by
militants to construct weapons.
The
alleged “chemical weapons” attack prompted the United States, UK,
and France to launch missiles strikes against Syrian military targets
on April 14, 2018, long before the first OPCW inspectors even arrived
at the sites of the alleged attack on April 21.
No
Link Between Chlorine and Casualties
The
OPCW report would note video and photographic evidence of alleged
victims of chemical exposure could not be linked to any specific
chemical including traces of chlorine OPCW inspectors found. The
report would specifically claim (emphasis added):
Many
of the signs and symptoms reported by the medical personnel,
witnesses and casualties (as well as those seen in multiple videos
provided by witnesses), their rapid onset, and the large number of
those reportedly affected, indicate exposure to an inhalational
irritant or toxic substance. However, based on the information
reviewed and with the absence of biomedical samples from the dead
bodies or any autopsy records, it is not currently possible
to precisely link the cause of the signs and symptoms to a specific
chemical.
In
other instances, the OPCW report would cite witnesses – including
medical staff who allegedly treated victims of the supposed attack –
who expressed doubts of the presence of any chemicals at all.
The
report would state (emphasis added):
A
number of the interviewed medical staff who were purportedly present
in the emergency department on 7 April emphasised that the
presentation of the casualties was not consistent with that expected
from a chemical attack. They also reported not having
experience in the treatment of casualties of chemical weapons. Some
interviewees stated that no odour emanated from the patients, while
other witnesses declared that they perceived a smell of smoke on the
patients’ clothes.
Other
accounts reviewed by the OPCW suggest a large number of casualties
were owed to smoke and dust inhalation from conventional bombardment.
The
report would specifically state (emphasis added):
Some
witnesses stated that many people died in the hospital on 7 April as
result of the heavy shelling and/or suffocation due to inhalation of
smoke and dust. As many as 50 bodies were lying on the floor
of the emergency department awaiting burial. Others stated that there
were no fatalities in Douma Hospital on 7 April and that no bodies
were brought to the hospital that day.
The
conflicting witness reports, the lack of any evidence linking
chlorine to even a single death on April 7, and other inconsistencies
and contradictions make it impossible to use the report’s
conclusions as “proof” that the Syrian government carried out a
deadly chemical attack on the eve of its victory in Douma.
Similar
Canisters Found in Militant Workshop
While
the Western media has focused on the report’s conclusion that
chlorine was present and possibly emanated from the two canisters
that appear to have been dropped onto two buildings in the area,
another crucial finding has been predictably glossed over.
A
militant-run weapons workshop investigated by OPCW inspectors
revealed a large number of resources for working with chemicals to
make explosives. Among an array of chemicals and equipment associated
with making explosives, a yellow gas canister was found.
The
report would admit:
Although
the team confirmed the presence of a yellow cylinder in the
warehouse, reported in Note Verbale of the Syrian Arab Republic
(Annex 10, point 2) as a chlorine cylinder, due to safety reasons
(risk involved in manipulating the valve of the cylinder, see Figure
A.8.2) it was not feasible to verify or sample the contents. There
were differences in this cylinder compared to those witnessed at
Locations 2 and 4. It should be noted that the cylinder was present
in its original state and had not been altered.
The
lack of interest by the OPCW in the canister despite the obvious
implications of its presence in a weapons workshop controlled by
militants calls into question the inspectors’ diligence and agenda.
The
canister’s “differences” are owed to the fact
that those at locations 2 and 4 were modified to appear as bombs,
while – admittedly – the canister in the militant workshop
remained unaltered.
The
obvious implications of a nearly identical canister turning up in a
militant workshop making weapons is that the militants may likely
have also made the two converted canisters found at locations 2 and
4. OPCW inspectors found other improvised ordnance in the workshop
including, “a number of 20-litre metallic drums, some
fitted with crude cord-type fuses, which appeared to have been filled
with plastic explosives to serve as improvised explosive devices.”
Western
media organizations have tried to dismiss the presence of the
canister at the workshop by suggesting it was a “setup”
orchestrated by the Syrian Arab Army. Huffington Post UK senior
editor Chris York would go as far as
referring to the workshop as:
…the
rebel explosives lab that had been captured by the SAA days before
and which they were desperately trying to make look like a chemical
weapons lab.
In
reality, the OPCW itself would suggest nothing of the sort, and noted
that all of the equipment present was consistent with a weapons
workshop. Nowhere does the OPCW suggest anything was altered –
including the canister – which the OPCW specifically noted “had
not been altered.”
The
presence of a canister nearly identical to those found at locations 2
and 4 in a militant weapons workshop provides at least as much
evidence that militants staged the supposed chemical attack as the
Western media claims the canisters at locations 2 and 4 suggest it
was the Syrian government.
In
the absence of definitive evidence regarding who created and deployed
the canisters found at locations 2 and 4, or how they truly ended up
there, a better question to ask is “why” they
would have ended up there.
Chemical
Weapon Attack in Douma… Cui Bono?
Why
would the Syrian government – in the middle of a major military
offensive it was on the literal eve of concluding in complete
victory, drop only 2 canisters filled with a limited amount chemicals
to kill – at most – 43 people? A simple artillery barrage could
kill just as many people – or very likely – many more.
Despite
claims otherwise, the Syrian government has
derived no benefit whatsoever had
it been behind any of the chemical attacks it has been accused of by
militants and their Western sponsors over the course of the Syrian
conflict.
The
Douma attack – were it the Syrian military – would have served no
tactical, strategic, or political purpose.
Conversely, it would
serve as one of the very few actions the Syrian government could take
to jeopardize its victory by justifying a large scale Western-led
military attack on Syrian forces.
In
fact, just one week after the alleged attack, the US, UK, and France
would indeed launch as many as 100 missiles into Syria in
retaliation, the
Guardian would report.
On
the other hand, militants who had been occupying Douma had every
reason to stage the attack.
By
staging the attack on the eve of their defeat and producing graphic
scenes of human suffering – particularly among children – the
militants would have a propaganda tool readily able to invoke global
public concern, sympathy, and outcry in defense of their cause – a
propaganda tool their Western sponsors eagerly amplified through
their global-spanning media platforms.
With
the United States having previously launched entire wars based on
false accusations of merely possessing chemical weapons, the
militants correctly assumed the US would use the staged attack as a
pretext for further direct military aggression against the
Syrian state – possibly saving them.
The
US still to this day cites “chemical weapons” and the Douma
incident on April 7, 2018 specifically – as part of its pretext to
maintain its illegal occupation of Syrian territory and its continued
support of militants attempting to overthrow the Syrian government.
The
alleged us of “chemical weapons” by the Syrian government also
regularly serves as a primary talking point used by the Western media
when attacking anti-war politicians, pundits, and commentators.
The
OPCW report’s conclusions are too ambiguous to draw a conclusion
one way or the other.
The presence of a nearly identical canister in
a militant workshop raises serious questions and associated
implications suggesting the attack was staged – questions that must
be adequately investigated and answered.
That
the Syrian government gained nothing from the attack and was only
further jeopardized politically and strategically by it – raises
questions about motivations that likewise need to be answered before
drawing conclusions.
But
as the Western media has proven many times before – it is fully
capable of producing entirely irrational lies based on tenuous
evidence or no evidence at all – and even repeating those lies
after being blatantly caught telling them previously.
That
the Western media is still attempting to sell WMD lies regarding
Syria after being caught fabricating them to justify war in
neighboring Iraq should be at the forefront of the global public’s
mind when considering their “interpretations” of this latest OPCW
report regarding Douma, Syria.
Tony
Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer,
especially for the online magazine“New
Eastern Outlook”.
PS: ook voor de grote gifgasaanval in 2013 werd Syrië vrijgesproken van schuld, dit door de VN….. De westerse massamedia en politici houden tot op de dag van vandaag vol dat Syrië wel degelijk de dader was……
* ‘Gematigde rebellen’: je weet
wel psychopathische moordenaars, verkrachters en martelbeulen, die
o.a. met ons belastinggeld zijn gesteund………
Alexander
Rubinstein publiceerde een artikel over de verbintenis van de
Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE) en IS, waar hij in de kop de vraag
stelt of de door de VS gesteunde VAE leiders van IS naar Jemen heeft
getransporteerd. De vraag stellen is haar beantwoorden: ja dus.
Opvallend dat Rubinstein daar zo verbaasd over is, immers de
opgestapte president Al-Hadi (onder druk van S-A is hij nu
juntaleider) werd gedwongen af te treden daar hij IS en Al Qaida
onderdak had gegeven in Jemen……
Deze
twee soennitische terreurgroepen begingen daarna moorden en ander
barbaarsheden tegen de voornamelijk sjiitische bevolking van Jemen,
de mensen waren zelfs in moskeeën niet veilig voor de terreur van
deze groepen……. Daarop bonden de Houthi rebellen, gesteund door
een deel van het Jemenitisch leger, de strijd aan met IS, Al Qaida en
de al-Hadi getrouwe militaire macht…… Samen met de Koerden in Syrië waren de Houthi rebellen in Jemen de eersten die succesvol IS
bestreden.
Dat
succes stak het soennitische Saoedi-Arabië en zij zetten de gevluchte
al-Hadi onder druk het presidentschap weer op te nemen zodat hij S-A te
hulp kon roepen om de haar getrouwe terroristen van IS en Al Qaida bij te staan in de strijd tegen de Houthi-rebellen……
De VS
heeft overigens aan de wieg van IS gestaan, samen met Egypte, Turkije en
Saoedi-Arabië (en naar het schijnt zou Israël ook een rol hebben
gespeeld), niet voor niets dat deze landen het vervoer regelden voor
IS leden uit Libië, die werden getransporteerd naar Irak waar ze over
de grens met Syrië werden gebracht, inclusief wapens, munitie en
pickup trucks…….
Voordat
Rusland begon met de steun voor het reguliere Syrische leger in de strijd tegen de zogenaamde
gematigde rebellen, is de VS meermaals betrapt op het bombarderen van
woestijngebied, zonder dat daar een strijder te bekennen was, echter
volgens de VS waren dat bombardementen tegen IS……. Vandaar ook
dat het jaar voordat Rusland ingreep er praktisch geen successen
werden geboekt door de VS coalitie tegen IS, een coalitie die zogenaamd IS bestreed……
Rusland was duidelijk het kantelpunt voor IS, dat de ene na de
andere klap te verduren kreeg…. Na de successen van het reguliere
Syrische leger en de Russen tegen groepen als IS kon ook de VS-NAVO
coalitie niet anders doen dan af en toe terreurgroepen
raken…….
Onlangs
gaf de VS nota bene toe dat IS ook vocht in het Syrische Aleppo, terwijl men dat
destijds glashard ontkende, er zouden alleen ‘gematigde
terreurgroepen’ (die niet bestaan en niet bestonden) aanwezig zijn
geweest in Aleppo……..
Voorts blijkt keer op keer dat wapens uit de VS in handen zijn van terreurgroepen o.a. in Jemen, hier een link naar een YouTube pagina met meerdere video’s over terreurgroepen met VS wapens. (het Pentagon zijn de laatste jaren miljarden verdwenen, daarmee is de vraag deels beantwoord waar dat geld heenging…… (naar terreurgroepen!)
Lees het
volgende artikel van Rubinstein en zie het smerige spel van de
grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS:
The
de facto alliance between the U.S. with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, AQAP,
and now allegedly ISIS in Yemen has led to one of the worst
humanitarian disasters in modern history,
ADEN,
YEMEN — Ali Abdullah al-Bujairi — a Yemeni politician
who served as a senior member on the failed UN-brokered transitional
government and as Yemen’s ambassador to Iraq under former president
Ali Abdullah Saleh — is accusing the United Arab Emirates of
facilitating a transfer of ISIS officials into Yemen.
“The
UAE has recently transferred an ISIL commander namely Abu Bakr
al-Zokhri (with Sudanese nationality) — nom de guerre, Khaibar
al-Sumali — from Iraq to Aden in Yemen to recruit and strengthen
the ISIL in Yemen,” al-Bujairi told Qatari
media.
Since
the toppling of ISIS’ so-called caliphate — with Raqqa, Syria as
its capital — the terrorist organization has gained a foothold in a
number of other countries. In Afghanistan, Russia and Iran have
accused the U.S. of helping to facilitate the group’s spread.
Despite
its loss of territory in Iraq and Syria, “ISIL is still active in
ten countries in 2017,” according to the 2018 Global Terrorism
Index report from
the Institute for Economics & Peace, which further states:
The
collapse of ISIL in Iraq and Syria has moved the group’s activities
elsewhere, in particular to the Maghreb and Sahel regions, most
notably in Libya, Niger, and Mali, and Southeast Asia, most notably
the Philippines.”
In
2017, the terror group’s reach was felt in many corners of the
world. The report states: “ISIL committed attacks in 286 cities
around the world in four different regions: Asia-Pacific,
Europe, MENA [Middle East and North Africa], and the Russia and
Eurasia region.” However, those hit hardest by the group’s terror
have mostly been in the Middle East and North Africa. The report
concludes:
Of
all ISIL attacks, 98 percent of incidents and 98 percent of deaths
occurred within the MENA region. Ninety percent of all terror attacks
and 81 percent of terror-related deaths from ISIL occurred in Iraq
alone.”
These
figures, however, do not include the Islamic State’s chapter in
Afghanistan, referred to as the Khorasan Group (ISIS-K), nor does it
include ISIS affiliates in Egypt.
The
campaign by the U.S. with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, AQAP, and now
allegedly ISIS in Yemen has led to one of the worst humanitarian
disasters in modern history, with large portions of the population at
risk for starvation, millions displaced, and scores of civilians and
children killed, MintPress
News has
reported.
While
the Saudi-led coalition’s dealings with the Yemen affiliate of ISIS
remain largely unexplored, the main partners have their own ties to
al-Qaeda in the country. This unholy alliance meant to depose the
Houthis, has seen the coalition, of which the supposedly democratic
government of the U.S. became a member without prior authorization
from Congress, work hand-in-glove with al-Qaeda.
Running
with cynical circles
Little
is known about the presence of ISIS in Yemen, with the numbers of
fighters believed to be in the low- to mid-hundreds, according to
the UN Security Council. The U.S. conducted a grand total of 36
airstrikes against terrorist groups in the country in 2018, but the
overwhelming majority targeted the much larger Al-Qaeda affiliate,
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and the U.S. has not
struck ISIS
in Yemen since January 2018.
While
ISIS has attacked Houthi and Shia Muslim targets in Yemen, it has no
territory. AQAP, on the other hand, controls large swaths of the
southeast. According to the Global Terrorism Index, “Adan-Abyan
Province of the Islamic State is primarily active in the southern
coastal province of Adan, while AQAP in active in the provinces of
Abyan and Lahij, and Ansar Allahin Taizz and Marib.” Other ISIS
affiliates once existed in Yemen but have since dwindled out.
While
the extent and nature of U.S. relations with ISIS in Yemen is
unclear, its relationship with its regional rival AQAP, which is best
described as that of “frenemies,” is more widely known.
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In
December, the U.S. Congress voted to end support for Saudi Arabia’s
war on Yemen, but the U.S. remains authorized to fight on Yemeni soil
because of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF).
This document also provided the U.S. cover for its war in Syria. The
bill allows for the use of force against groups associated with
attacks on 9/11, and ISIS was tenuously linked to al-Qaeda.
However,
the U.S. was a member of the Saudi-led coalition for years. This
partnership became unpalatable to mainstream media pundits and
audiences over the summer when a U.S.-made bomb was used by Saudi
Arabia on a bus in an airstrike that left 40 children dead.
While
AQAP is the ostensible enemy of the United States, they appear to be
a friend of a friend in the very least. In February, it
was revealed that
Saudi Arabia and the UAE gave U.S.-made weapons to al-Qaeda fighters
in the country. CNN reports:
Saudi
Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, its main partner in the war,
have used the U.S.-manufactured weapons as a form of currency to buy
the loyalties of militias or tribes, bolster chosen armed actors, and
influence the complex political landscape.
One
of those militias linked to AQAP, the Abu Abbas brigade, now
possesses U.S.-made Oshkosh armored vehicles, paraded in a 2015 show
of force through the city.
Abu
Abbas, the founder, was declared a terrorist by the U.S. in 2017, but
the group still enjoys support from the Saudi coalition and was
absorbed into the coalition-supported 35th Brigade of the Yemeni
army.
In
October 2015, military forces loyal to the government boasted on
Saudi- and UAE-backed media that the Saudis had airdropped
American-made TOW anti-tank missiles on the same frontline where AQAP
had been known to operate at the time.”
Speculation
that the Saudi-led coalition was working with terrorists was finally
legitimized in the mainstream media over the summer, when
the Associated Press revealed that “the coalition
cut secret deals with al-Qaeda fighters, paying some to leave key
cities and towns and letting others retreat with weapons, equipment
and wads of looted cash, [while] hundreds more were recruited to join
the coalition itself.”
Key
participants in the pacts said the U.S. was aware of the arrangements
and held off on any drone strikes…
Coalition-backed
militias actively recruit al-Qaida militants, or those who were
recently members, because they’re considered exceptional fighters…
In
one case, a tribal mediator who brokered a deal between the Emiratis
and al-Qaeda even gave the extremists a farewell dinner.”
The
U.S. had been fighting on two fronts in Yemen: one against Al-Qaeda,
in closer partnership with the UAE; and another alongside the
Saudi-led coalition, which includes the UAE, against the Houthi
government. The latter was, of course, the priority. In contrast to
the 36 bombing missions the U.S. conducted against AQAP and the ISIS
affiliate in Yemen in 2018, the U.S. refueled coalition fighter
jets more
than 9,000
times between March 2015 and July 2017.
This
dynamic has fostered an alliance of convenience between the U.S. and
AQAP, materialized by the flow of U.S.-made weapons from the U.S. to
gulf monarchies, which, in violation of U.S. rules, use them as
bargaining chips with jihadists.
In
fact, the U.S. was “aware of an al-Qaeda presence among the
anti-Houthi ranks,” AP said, citing a “senior
American official.” Even the Saudi-backed former president of
Yemen, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, “tapped” Adnan Rouzek to be a “top
military commander.” Rouzek was a senior al-Qaeda official who
escaped from prison in 2008 with other members and continues to be
photographed with known al-Qaeda operatives. His militia under Hadi
“became notorious for kidnappings and street killings, with one
online video showing its masked members shooting a kneeling,
blindfolded man.”
In
November 2017, Hadi picked Rouzek to coordinate the military campaign
and serve as a top commander of a new fighting force, and gave him
$12 million for a new offensive.
Another
“coalition-backed warlord is on the U.S. list of designated
terrorists due to his ties to al-Qaeda.” That warlord is Sheikh
Aboul Abbas.
One
security official told AP that “Aboul Abbas’
forces attacked security headquarters in 2017 and freed a number of
al-Qaeda suspects.” He said he reported the attack to the
coalition, but the perpetrators were rewarded with “40 more pickup
trucks.” “The more we warn, the more they are rewarded,” he
told AP. “Al-Qaeda leaders have armored vehicles given
to them by the coalition while security commanders don’t have such
vehicles.”
“Elements
of the U.S. military are clearly aware that much of what the U.S. is
doing in Yemen is aiding AQAP and there is much angst about that,”
terrorism expert Michael Horton told AP at
the time. Horton called parts of the U.S.-UAE campaign against AQAP a
“farce.”
While
Saudi Arabia has been roundly denounced for its attacks on civilians
and infrastructure in Yemen, particularly since the unrelated slaying
of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, less attention has been paid to
allegations of UAE war crimes in the country. NGOs and reporters have
accused the country of running a network of secret prisons in the
south that use torture as a feature of detention.
Degrading
an enemy whose presence is “exaggerated”
While
the UAE is now being accused of helping to spread ISIS into new
theaters of conflict, the U.S. was accused of doing the same in
Afghanistan last year.
The
Afghanistan-based affiliate “was responsible for 14 percent of
terrorism deaths, or 658 people, in 2017, a 26 percent increase from
the prior year,” according to the Global Terrorism Index report. In
neighboring Pakistan, ISIS affiliates were “responsible for 233
deaths.”
Meanwhile,
the “two deadliest attacks in South Asia” in 2017 “were
committed by the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State in Afghanistan
and Pakistan, killing 93 and 91 persons respectively.”
Share
of responsibility for terrorism-related deaths by Afghanistan’s
ISIS affiliate in 2017. Source | Institute
for Economics & Peace
On
repeated occasions last year, Moscow and Tehran accused Washington of
using unmarked helicopters to transfer Daesh fighters into the Haska
Meyna region in Afghanistan where ISIS is active.
In
March of 2018, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told a
congregation of diplomats, academics and journalists in Pakistan:
We
see intelligence, as well as eyewitness accounts, that Daesh
fighters, terrorists, were airlifted from battle zones, rescued from
battle zones, including recently from the prison of Haska [Meyna].”
This
time, it wasn’t unmarked helicopters. They were American
helicopters, taking Daesh out of Haska prison. Where did they take
them? Now, we don’t know where they took them, but we see the
outcome. We see more and more violence in Pakistan, more and more
violence in Afghanistan, taking a sectarian flavor.”
After
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made a big deal out of ISIS’s
presence in an April press conference in Pakistan, U.S. officials
went into defense mode, with General John Nicholson, NATO’s
Afghanistan commander, and the mission’s public-affairs director
swearing that the Russian claims were exaggerated and arguing that
there was “little
evidence” that ISIS was expanding in the country.
Yet,
according to an earlier report from
the U.S. government-funded Voice of America, U.S. troops “routinely
accompany the Afghan forces into battle against [ISIS].”
Flash
forward to August, when NATO confirmed that it had killed ISIS’
leader in Afghanistan, Abu Sayeed Orakzai, as well as 10 other
fighters. As NBC Newsnoted at the time the U.S. estimated
that there were about 2,000 ISIS fighters in the country, while local
Afghan leaders claim that Orakzai was the “fourth” ISIS leader to
be killed in less than a year.
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Photo | A Yemeni militant holds an ISIS banner as he stands
behind bars during a court hearing in Sanaa, Yemen. Hani Mohammed |
AP
Alexander
Rubinstein is
a staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He reports
on police, prisons andprotests
in the United States and the United States’ policing of the world.
He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.
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