‘US poker, Iran chess: Lies vs strategy’ (video)
RT
December 1, 2011
European foreign ministers are expected to discuss fresh sanctions against Iran, following an attack on the UK embassy in Tehran. Ahead of the talks in Brussels, British Foreign Secretary William Hague called for increased economic pressure and isolation on Iran’s financial sector. On Tuesday, hundreds of protesters attacked the UK embassy, occupying it for several hours. The demonstrations came after Iran resolved to reduce diplomatic ties with the UK following its decision to impose further sanctions over its nuclear programme. Violence prompted Britain to close the Iranian embassy in London and to pull its own diplomats out of the Islamic state’s capital. Political analyst and author Adrian Salbuchi says the West is waging a complex war against Islamic countries.
Syria: NATO Genocide Approaches
UN Syria Report Co-Authored by Director of US Corporate Think-Tank
by Tony Cartalucci, Contributing WriterBlatant lies told by alleged “human rights activists” led to ignominious NATO-sanctioned brutality and ultimately brought BP, Shell, Total-sponsored Petroleum Institute representative, Abdurrahim el-Keib, into power in Libya. Now, these same corporate-financier interests, through their same networks of propaganda, duplicity and deception, are laying the groundwork for a repeat performance in Syria.
It was just recently revealed that the UN Human Rights Council report regarding Syrian “crimes against humanity” was actually co-authored by Karen Koning AbuZayd, a director of the US Washington-based corporate think-tank, Middle East Policy Council, that includes Exxon men, CIA agents, US military and government representatives, and even the president of the US-Qatar Business Council, which includes amongst its membership, AlJazeera, Chevron, Exxon, munitions manufacturer Raytheon (who supplied the opening salvos during NATO’s operations against Libya), and Boeing.
The conflict of interest is so monumental it is only outdone by the corporate media’s eager acceptance of the report and their complete negligence in airing the compromised backgrounds of those responsible for compiling it.
The UN report itself (.pdf) contained no verifiable evidence, but rather hearsay accounts recorded in Geneva by alleged “victims” “witnesses,” and “defectors,” put forth by “all interested persons and organizations.” In other words, it was an open invitation for Syria’s enemies to paint whatever image of the ruling government they pleased. While critics claim this is due to the Syrian government’s lack of cooperation with the UN, it is more likely that the UN itself, with a proven track record of doing so in Iraq, the Ivory Coast, and most recently Libya, is merely complicit in providing “window dressing” for Wall Street and London’s otherwise naked military conquests.
How to Start the War
And it is through this purposefully distorted lens that calls for military intervention are being made. After months of denying the opposition was armed, the Wall Street-funded think-tank Council on Foreign Relations now openly claims that not only are the “protesters” armed, but there is a resistance army of “15,000.” The CFR claims this “Free Syrian Army” is requesting weapons and air support. It has already been revealed that weapons are freely flowing over Syria’s borders from foreign-supporters, most notably, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, and now even as far as Libya. The CFR report then goes on to explore the options available to NATO for facilitating “regime change” including the use of “overhead surveillance assets, logistical enablers, peacekeepers, armed drones, combat aircraft, ground troops,” and “smuggled weapons.”
Of course the number of Syrian defectors are as baseless as the UN human rights report. However, even the claim of a large, armed militant force operating inside of Syria directly contradicts the West’s concurrent narrative that Syria’s military is running rampant over defenseless civilians. With an army of “15,000 defectors” attempting to seize the nation by force with the help of foreign money, weapons, and diplomatic support, one finds it difficult to believe the Syrian government would instead be spending its time “massacring civilians.” Just as in Libya, or any number of nations where foreign-backed “revolutions” have been attempted or achieved, Western-enabled violence is always a predetermined part of the equation, fully provisioned ahead of time with the subsequent violence cloaked behind tales of one-sided brutality aimed at the targeted regime.
As mentioned in the corporate-funded Brookings Institution report “Which Path to Persia?” the inclusion of covert armed support for US-backed protests is not just an option, but a necessity when carrying out such operations within a nation possessing competent security forces.
Using Military Force to Assist Popular Revolutions, page 109-110 (page 122-123 of the PDF):
Consequently, if the United States ever succeeds in sparking a revolt against the clerical regime, Washington may have to consider whether to provide it with some form of military support to prevent Tehran from crushing it. This requirement means that a popular revolution in Iran does not seem to fit the model of the ‘velvet revolutions’ that occurred elsewhere. The point is that the Iranian regime may not be willing to go gently into that good night; instead, and unlike so many Eastern European regimes, it may choose to fight to the death. In those circumstances, if there is not external military assistance to the revolutionaries, they might not just fail but be massacred.
Consequently, if the United States is to pursue this policy, Washington must take this possibility into consideration. It adds some very important requirements to the list: either the policy must include ways to weaken the Iranian military or weaken the willingness of the regime’s leaders to call on the military, or else the United States must be ready to intervene to defeat it.
In addition to this confession by the Brookings Institution, this pattern of providing for, or covering up the existence of, armed elements deployed during the opening phases of a color revolution has also been documented in Libya, Syria, and in Bangkok, Thailand in 2010. Just as in Libya where legions of Al Qaeda rebels armed by NATO and fresh back from killing US and British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan were initially covered up with tales of street protesting youth being cut down by Qaddafi’s troops, Syria too has been plagued by violent militants since the unrest began earlier this year. In April’s “Globalist War Machine Fixates on Syria,” the first reports of the now ubiquitous snipers terrorizing Syria began to surface. Also noted was the similarity between these sniper attacks and concurrent attacks being carried out in Yemen, and the year before in Thailand — all victims of Western-backed destabilization.
It will be through a perpetual campaign of deceit waged by the West’s various puppet regimes and their compromised corporate-media that this war will be started. The ruling regime in Syria will be portrayed as grotesque human rights offenders, while covert arms and support are provided to a mercenary army of ever-increasing size, committing ever greater provocations. In time, as the proper “international” legal maneuvers are performed, this mercenary army will be provided NATO air and naval support, NATO special forces, and potentially NATO ground troops — this of course includes Turkey, a NATO member since 1952 and already deeply involved in meddling in Syria’s sovereign affairs.
How to Stop the War
While the power behind this war machine grinding up the planet seems monolithic and unstoppable, the very source of its power looks us back in the mirror every day. We, through our choices of how we spend our time, money, and attention, are fueling daily its destructive consumption of our world. While protests, elections, and activism are important, what is absolutely essential is to entirely cut this machine off from its fuel. That is, for us to boycott the corporations, institutions, and personalities that constitute it to the point of starvation and submission. We must work ceaselessly to identify and expose who these corporations, institutions, and personalities are through the alternative media, boycott them out of business, and replace them entirely with local solutions derived from both tradition and technological innovation.
The Greatest Generation said “never again” to the rise of fascism in the 1930s and 1940s, yet here we are again watching the rise of Wall Street and London to sickening heights of unwarranted power and warmongering. Let this generation say, “not in our names” and starve this beast into submission, just as it has done to so many other sovereign nations.
Tony Cartalucci’s articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report.
UN Report on Syria: Based on Witness Accounts … OUTSIDE of Syria
Humanitarian concerns “dressing up” the military conquest of Syria.
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
November 28, 2011
Wall Street and London’s media machine eagerly churned out headlines like BBC’s “Syria security forces ‘commit crimes against humanity‘” announcing the conclusions of a recent UN Human Rights Council report regarding the ongoing violence in Syria.
However, even upon reading the BBC article it is soon discovered that, “the investigation team members say they were denied entry into Syria itself,” and that the entirety of their “evidence” is garnered solely from interviews with “223 victims, witnesses and also army defectors to investigate alleged human rights violations.”
BBC’s article raises immediate suspicion over the veracity of the report, as “victims, witnesses, and defectors,” interviewed outside of Syria is not evidence, but rather more hearsay by groups of people with a vested interest in painting the Syrian government in the worst light possible.
However, upon actually reading the full text of the UN Human Rights Council report, we see just exactly “how” the report was compiled.
Under a section titled, “Methods of Work” we find a shocking admission of the utter lack of substance and immense conflict of interest behind the UN’s predetermined conclusion, that Syria is guilty of “crimes against humanity” and that the UN Security Council must act.
The report states (emphasis added):
First-hand information was collected through interviews with victims and witnesses of events in the Syrian Arab Republic. The interviewing process began in Geneva on 26 September 2011. Overall, 223 victims and/or witnesses, including personnel who defected from the military and the security forces, were interviewed.
A public call was made to all interested persons and organizations to submit relevant information and documentation that would help the commission implement its mandate. It held meetings with Member States from all regional groups, regional organizations, including the League of Arab States and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, non-governmental organizations, human rights defenders, journalists and experts. Reports, scholarly analyses and media accounts, as well as audio and visual material, were also duly considered.
The information collected is stored in a secure database governed by United Nations rules on confidentiality
Quite obviously this is not an investigation, nor is the information provided within the report “evidence” by any stretch of the imagination. The report would go on to admit that it received no cooperation from the Syrian government meaning that this publication by the UN is but a one-sided exercise to provide the worst possible image of the Syrian government as told by opposition groups now on record fully armed, foreign-backed, and trying to seize power by force.
The inclusion of “non-governmental organizations” (NGOs) should also raise immediate concerns. While the report is entirely negligent in listing any of these contributing NGOs, it is more than likely they include the US government and corporate-funded army of sedition emanating out of the National Endowment for Democracy, Geroge Soros’ Open Society Institute, and their myriad of subsidiaries. It has been these very NGOs supplying a steady stream of similarly baseless “witness accounts” since the unrest began earlier this year, as they’ve done in Libya, Belarus, Tunisia, Thailand, and beyond.
“Alleged” is used throughout the report in various forms further illustrating the tenuous nature of the UN Human Rights Council’s “evidence” while all of the testimony, those who gave it, and apparently the NGOs involved in compiling the UN report are conveniently kept “confidential.” This may be because the United Nations believes that its reputation coupled with global faith in its work is all that is necessary to lend their report the legitimacy it needs to bring Syria one step closer to NATO inflicted genocide.
However, considering Iraq and more recently Libya, and the UN’s complicit role in facilitating genocide in both nations based on similarly tenuous “human rights” reports, a clear pattern emerges. Human rights activists, their Wall Street and London-funded NGOs, and the disingenuous UN are merely dressing up with humanitarian concerns an otherwise naked campaign of military conquest.
Video: Part 1 & 2 of “Lies behind the “Humanitarian War” in Libya.” The outrageous, confirmed, confessed “humanitarian-based” lies used with UN complicity to justify NATO’s invasion by proxy of Libya. Libya is now run by a corporate-backed proxy Abdurrahim el-Keib, formally of the British Petroleum (BP), Shell, France’s Total, Japan Oil Development Company, and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company-sponsored Petroleum Institute.
It has been pointed out in April’s “Globalists Coming Full Circle,” and more recently in Salon’s “Wes Clark and the neocon dream” that the unrest unhinging the Middle East, North Africa, and slowly creeping toward Moscow and Beijing, is part of a plan 20 years in the making. Those behind it just so happen to populate the boards of the faux-humanitarian front, National Endowment for Democracy (NED), have affiliations with the so-called “liberal” George Soros and his Open Society Institute, and have signed their names to Hitlerian declarations of world conquest within the notorious “Project for a New American Century.”
You’re not expected to read the report, let alone research the authors.
Without a doubt, the UN has compiled a tenuous and transparent fabrication of such little substance, those involved in writing it, Paulo Pinheiro, Yakin Ertürk, and Karen Koning AbuZayd, are clearly conspiring to justify an otherwise unjustifiable escalation in Syria’s current unrest. If they did indeed have evidence of Syrian brutality, they surely would have included it in their report and the voices at the BBC, on CNN, in Reuters and beyond would ceaselessly air it. Instead, the impact of the report solely depends on people trusting the legitimacy of the UN and not bothering to even objectively read it. It equally depends on members of the media, including the disingenuous hand-wringing “humanitarians” amongst NED’s vast global network to keep their heads down and not expose this willful duplicity.
The impact of the UN’s report also depends on people not bothering to research the associations of those who compiled it. Should they, they will find that Karen Koning AbuZayd is concurrently a member of the Washington D.C. based Middle East Policy Council, along side current and former associates of Exxon, the US military, the CIA, the Saudi Binladin Group, the US-Qatari Business Council and both former and current members of the US government. It is more than just a coincidence that the UN Human Rights Council report has given the US exactly what it wanted to hear regarding Syria, and one of those compiling the report just so happens to sit amongst an organization full of corporate-financier interests clamoring to despoil the Middle Eastern republic. Clearly, claims that the UN is merely a tool of corporate fascists on Wall Street and within the City of London represent a truth that confronts anyone who researches any of the claims coming out of the UN.
Image: Just some of the corporate members of the US-Qatar Business Council, whose president just so happens to sit on the same board of directors of the Middle East Policy Center as Karen AbuZayd, co-author of the conveniently timed UN Human Rights Council report on Syria.
Indeed with this tissue of lies and the associations of the liars peddling them, the UN is truly a disingenuous tool of the world’s elite, used to strip the freedom and humanity of its enemies while simultaneously claiming to uphold such values in the process. The Syrian people are facing a criminal conspiracy of vast proportions in a world increasingly devoid of empathy, intelligence, or courage. Like the Libyans who fought for the better part of a year against the militant aggression of global corporate fascism, the Syrians will soon be fighting too.
For those indeed repulsed by what has transpired in Libya and what is facing Syria at the hands of the global elite, it should be obvious that the corporations, banks, and institutions involved need to be exposed, boycotted, and promptly replaced. It was Libya yesterday, Syria today, and inevitably you tomorrow.
Collectively after World War II we said, “never again,” regarding fascism and the rise of Adolf Hitler’s Germany, yet here we are . . . again.
Tony Cartalucci’s articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at
Land Destroyer Report.
Pimped Defense: Medvedev turns on missile radar (video)
RT
November 29, 2011
Russia can now keep a close eye on Europe and the Atlantic area – with a new radar in its western-most region – the Baltic territory of Kaliningrad between Lithuania and Poland. Flicking the ‘on’ switch, President Medvedev said it can be more than just a response to NATO’s missile shield in Europe. RT gets the details from correspondent Natalya Novikova.
UNsanctioned Syria: ‘West wants to occupy, not stop violence’ (video)
RT
November 29, 2011
The Arab League’s sanctions against Damascus are in fact “a declaration of economic war” against the Syrian people, which have “closed windows” for resolving the country’s crisis, the country’s senior diplomat says.
Also on Monday, the UN released a report that found Syrian troops committed “crimes against humanity”, including the killing of hundreds of children since the government crackdown began in March.
Pakistanis burn Obama effigy and US flag
Sky News
November 28, 2011
Hundreds of enraged Pakistanis have taken to the streets across the country, burning an effigy of President Barack Obama and setting fire to US flags after 24 soldiers died in NATO air strikes.
The Sunday rallies were organised by opposition and right-wing Islamist groups in major cities of the nuclear-armed country of 167 million people, where opposition to the government’s US alliance is rampant.
In Karachi, the port city used by the United States to ship supplies to troops fighting in Afghanistan, more than 700 people gathered outside the US consulate.
FULL ARTICLE HERE…
(hat tip: Drudge Report)
NATO accused of killing at least 14-28 Pakistani soldiers in cross-border assault
Madison Ruppert
End the Lie
November 26, 2011
Pakistan has alleged that NATO conducted a cross-border helicopter attack operation that resulted in the murder of at least 20 Pakistani troops near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border early Saturday.
This comes as relations between the United States and Pakistan are already quite strained over the continued American drone attacks that defy Islamabad’s requests to cease the operations.
The incident was quickly decried as an egregious violation of Pakistani sovereignty, which Pakistan has been increasingly vocal about.
Back in May of this year, China had backed up Pakistan’s demands to respect their sovereignty, although it appears that the West has no interest in doing such.
Pakistani officials said that the attack occurred around 2 am Saturday morning at a checkpoint in Salala which was manned by Pakistan’s army.
Salala is a village in what The Los Angeles Times characterizes as “the restive tribal region of Mohmand,” and 50 soldiers were at the checkpoint at the time of the attack according to officials.
The Pakistani officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the matter but NATO officials confirmed that they were aware of Pakistan’s allegations and were investigating the matter.
The Pakistani government “retaliated,” if you could call it that, by closing a border crossing that is used by convoys that deliver supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Pakistani officials said that they had closed the Torkham checkpoint at the Khyber Pass and suspended movement of NATO tankers and supply vehicles traveling into Afghanistan through the checkpoint.
This is hardly retaliation given the fact that coalition forces attacked Pakistani soldiers in sovereign Pakistani territory for no reason at all.
The Los Angeles Times cites a quite similar incident on September 30th, 2009, when NATO helicopters killed two Pakistani soldiers at a border checkpoint in the Pakistani Kurram tribal region near the Afghan border.
The American government and NATO officially apologized for the murder of the two Pakistanis, claiming that the crews manning the helicopters believed the soldiers were insurgents they were pursuing across the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In reaction to this assault on Pakistani sovereignty, they stopped allowing the movement of fuel and supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan through the Torkham checkpoint for 11 days.
This shutdown bottlenecked the transportation system and left NATO tankers and trucks vulnerable to attack across Pakistan, resulting in more than 150 NATO trucks being set on fire or damaged and six deaths.
Early numbers cited by the London Telegraph said that 14 Pakistani troops were killed in the NATO incursion, but Russia Today puts the number at 25 and the Sidney Morning Herald cites the Pakistani government’s number of 24 dead troops.
The Telegraph cites two intelligence officials in the region who report that up to 14 Pakistani troops were killed and seven wounded in the assault.
Russia Today is reporting that two anonymous intelligence agents and one government official said that 25 troops were killed and five more were wounded.
The Sidney Morning Herald cites Pakistani security officials who say that at least 24 soldiers have been killed and more than a dozen were injured.
They report that an official located at the paramilitary Frontier Corps headquarters in the city of Peshawar, the capital of the north-west province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa said that initial reports showed 22 soldiers and two officers were killed and 15 other troops were wounded in the attack.
Provincial governor Masood Kausar, who is the head of seven tribal districts’ civilian government said, “This is an attack on Pakistan’s sovereignty and such attacks will not be further tolerated.”
The acting Pakistani Ambassador in Washington, Iffat Gardezi has also expressed strong protest with the U.S. Department of State over the cross-border assault, according to Geo Television.
The Khyber district supplies more than 50% of supplies to coalition troops in Afghanistan and Jamil Khan, a senior Khyber security official said, “So far 50 trucks have been turned back.”
NATO is keeping quite silent on the matter so far, with Lieutenant Commander Brian Badura, the spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) saying, “We are aware that there has been an incident in the border region.”
“Right now we are gathering details and starting to investigate what happened,” Badura said.
It remains to be seen if NATO will take responsibility for this egregious assault on Pakistani sovereignty and how the Pakistani government will handle the response.
There also might be some critical responses from Pakistani allies like China which have been highly critical of Western incursions in the near past.
UPDATE: Reuters is now reporting that two Pakistani military sources are estimating that the number of dead is 28, three more than the closest estimate from a different news source.
The same sources say that 11 soldiers were wounded and 40 were manning the post at the time of the attack. What is clear at this point is that the details are very unclear. We will keep you updated as information becomes available.
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