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America Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776
Posted on February 20, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog
The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21 Years Total Since Its Birth
In 2011, Danios wrote:
Below, I have reproduced a year-by-year timeline of America’s wars, which reveals something quite interesting: since the United States was founded in 1776, she has been at war during 214 out of her 235 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 21 calendar years in which the U.S. did not wage any wars.
To put this in perspective:
* Pick any year since 1776 and there is about a 91% chance that America was involved in some war during that calendar year.
* No U.S. president truly qualifies as a peacetime president. Instead, all U.S. presidents can technically be considered “war presidents.”
* The U.S. has never gone a decade without war.
* The only time the U.S. went five years without war (1935-40) was during the isolationist period of the Great Depression.
* * *
Here is a graphic depiction of U.S. wars:
And here is the year-by-year timeline of America’s major wars:
Year-by-year Timeline of America’s Major Wars (1776-2011)
1776 – American Revolutionary War, Chickamagua Wars, Second Cherokee War, Pennamite-Yankee War
1777 – American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Second Cherokee War, Pennamite-Yankee War
1778 – American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War
1779 – American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War
1780 – American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War
1781 – American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War
1782 – American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War
1783 – American Revolutionary War, Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War
1784 – Chickamauga Wars, Pennamite-Yankee War, Oconee War
1785 – Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1786 – Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1787 – Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1788 – Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1789 – Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1790 – Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1791 – Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1792 – Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1793 – Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1794 – Chickamauga Wars, Northwest Indian War
1795 – Northwest Indian War
1796 – No major war
1797 – No major war
1798 – Quasi-War
1799 – Quasi-War
1800 – Quasi-War
1801 – First Barbary War
1802 – First Barbary War
1803 – First Barbary War
1804 – First Barbary War
1805 – First Barbary War
1806 – Sabine Expedition
1807 – No major war
1808 – No major war
1809 – No major war
1810 – U.S. occupies Spanish-held West Florida
1811 – Tecumseh’s War
1812 – War of 1812, Tecumseh’s War, Seminole Wars, U.S. occupies Spanish-held Amelia Island and other parts of East Florida
1813 – War of 1812, Tecumseh’s War, Peoria War, Creek War, U.S. expands its territory in West Florida
1814 – War of 1812, Creek War, U.S. expands its territory in Florida, Anti-piracy war
1815 – War of 1812, Second Barbary War, Anti-piracy war
1816 – First Seminole War, Anti-piracy war
1817 – First Seminole War, Anti-piracy war
1818 – First Seminole War, Anti-piracy war
1819 – Yellowstone Expedition, Anti-piracy war
1820 – Yellowstone Expedition, Anti-piracy war
1821 – Anti-piracy war (see note above)
1822 – Anti-piracy war (see note above)
1823 – Anti-piracy war, Arikara War
1824 – Anti-piracy war
1825 – Yellowstone Expedition, Anti-piracy war
1826 – No major war
1827 – Winnebago War
1828 – No major war
1829 – No major war
1830 – No major war
1831 – Sac and Fox Indian War
1832 – Black Hawk War
1833 – Cherokee Indian War
1834 – Cherokee Indian War, Pawnee Indian Territory Campaign
1835 – Cherokee Indian War, Seminole Wars, Second Creek War
1836 – Cherokee Indian War, Seminole Wars, Second Creek War, Missouri-Iowa Border War
1837 – Cherokee Indian War, Seminole Wars, Second Creek War, Osage Indian War, Buckshot War
1838 – Cherokee Indian War, Seminole Wars, Buckshot War, Heatherly Indian War
1839 – Cherokee Indian War, Seminole Wars
1840 – Seminole Wars, U.S. naval forces invade Fiji Islands
1841 – Seminole Wars, U.S. naval forces invade McKean Island, Gilbert Islands, and Samoa
1842 – Seminole Wars
1843 – U.S. forces clash with Chinese, U.S. troops invade African coast
1844 – Texas-Indian Wars
1845 – Texas-Indian Wars
1846 – Mexican-American War, Texas-Indian Wars
1847 – Mexican-American War, Texas-Indian Wars
1848 – Mexican-American War, Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War
1849 – Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians
1850 – Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Yuma War, California Indian Wars, Pitt River Expedition
1851 – Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, Yuma War, Utah Indian Wars, California Indian Wars
1852 – Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Yuma War, Utah Indian Wars, California Indian Wars
1853 – Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Yuma War, Utah Indian Wars, Walker War, California Indian Wars
1854 – Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians
1855 – Seminole Wars, Texas-Indian Wars, Cayuse War, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Yakima War, Winnas Expedition, Klickitat War, Puget Sound War, Rogue River Wars, U.S. forces invade Fiji Islands and Uruguay
1856 – Seminole Wars, Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, California Indian Wars, Puget Sound War, Rogue River Wars, Tintic War
1857 – Seminole Wars, Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, California Indian Wars, Utah War, Conflict in Nicaragua
1858 – Seminole Wars, Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Mohave War, California Indian Wars, Spokane-Coeur d’Alene-Paloos War, Utah War, U.S. forces invade Fiji Islands and Uruguay
1859 Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, California Indian Wars, Pecos Expedition, Antelope Hills Expedition, Bear River Expedition, John Brown’s raid, U.S. forces launch attack against Paraguay, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1860 – Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Paiute War, Kiowa-Comanche War
1861 – American Civil War, Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Cheyenne Campaign
1862 – American Civil War, Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Cheyenne Campaign, Dakota War of 1862,
1863 – American Civil War, Texas-Indian Wars, Southwest Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Cheyenne Campaign, Colorado War, Goshute War
1864 – American Civil War, Texas-Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Cheyenne Campaign, Colorado War, Snake War
1865 – American Civil War, Texas-Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Colorado War, Snake War, Utah’s Black Hawk War
1866 – Texas-Indian Wars, Navajo Wars, Apache Wars, California Indian Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Snake War, Utah’s Black Hawk War, Red Cloud’s War, Franklin County War, U.S. invades Mexico, Conflict with China
1867 – Texas-Indian Wars, Long Walk of the Navajo, Apache Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Snake War, Utah’s Black Hawk War, Red Cloud’s War, Comanche Wars, Franklin County War, U.S. troops occupy Nicaragua and attack Taiwan
1868 – Texas-Indian Wars, Long Walk of the Navajo, Apache Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Snake War, Utah’s Black Hawk War, Red Cloud’s War, Comanche Wars, Battle of Washita River, Franklin County War
1869 – Texas-Indian Wars, Apache Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Utah’s Black Hawk War, Comanche Wars, Franklin County War
1870 – Texas-Indian Wars, Apache Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Utah’s Black Hawk War, Comanche Wars, Franklin County War
1871 – Texas-Indian Wars, Apache Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Utah’s Black Hawk War, Comanche Wars, Franklin County War, Kingsley Cave Massacre, U.S. forces invade Korea
1872 – Texas-Indian Wars, Apache Wars, Utah’s Black Hawk War, Comanche Wars, Modoc War, Franklin County War
1873 – Texas-Indian Wars, Comanche Wars, Modoc War, Apache Wars, Cypress Hills Massacre, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1874 – Texas-Indian Wars, Comanche Wars, Red River War, Mason County War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1875 – Conflict in Mexico, Texas-Indian Wars, Comanche Wars, Eastern Nevada, Mason County War, Colfax County War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1876 – Texas-Indian Wars, Black Hills War, Mason County War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1877 – Texas-Indian Wars, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Black Hills War, Nez Perce War, Mason County War, Lincoln County War, San Elizario Salt War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1878 – Paiute Indian conflict, Bannock War, Cheyenne War, Lincoln County War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1879 – Cheyenne War, Sheepeater Indian War, White River War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1880 – U.S. forces invade Mexico
1881 – U.S. forces invade Mexico
1882 – U.S. forces invade Mexico
1883 – U.S. forces invade Mexico
1884 – U.S. forces invade Mexico
1885 – Apache Wars, Eastern Nevada Expedition, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1886 – Apache Wars, Pleasant Valley War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1887 – U.S. forces invade Mexico
1888 – U.S. show of force against Haiti, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1889 – U.S. forces invade Mexico
1890 – Sioux Indian War, Skirmish between 1st Cavalry and Indians, Ghost Dance War, Wounded Knee, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1891 – Sioux Indian War, Ghost Dance War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1892 – Johnson County War, U.S. forces invade Mexico
1893 – U.S. forces invade Mexico and Hawaii
1894 – U.S. forces invade Mexico
1895 – U.S. forces invade Mexico, Bannock Indian Disturbances
1896 – U.S. forces invade Mexico
1897 – No major war
1898 – Spanish-American War, Battle of Leech Lake, Chippewa Indian Disturbances
1899 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1900 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1901 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1902 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1903 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1904 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1905 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1906 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1907 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1908 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1909 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1910 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1911 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1912 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars
1913 – Philippine-American War, Banana Wars, New Mexico Navajo War
1914 – Banana Wars, U.S. invades Mexico
1915 – Banana Wars, U.S. invades Mexico, Colorado Paiute War
1916 – Banana Wars, U.S. invades Mexico
1917 – Banana Wars, World War I, U.S. invades Mexico
1918 – Banana Wars, World War I, U.S invades Mexico
1919 – Banana Wars, U.S. invades Mexico
1920 – Banana Wars
1921 – Banana Wars
1922 – Banana Wars
1923 – Banana Wars, Posey War
1924 – Banana Wars
1925 – Banana Wars
1926 – Banana Wars
1927 – Banana Wars
1928 – Banana Wars
1930 – Banana Wars
1931 – Banana Wars
1932 – Banana Wars
1933 – Banana Wars
1934 – Banana Wars
1935 – No major war
1936 – No major war
1937 – No major war
1938 – No major war
1939 – No major war
1940 – No major war
1941 – World War II
1942 – World War II
1943 – Wold War II
1944 – World War II
1945 – World War II
1946 – Cold War (U.S. occupies the Philippines and South Korea)
1947 – Cold War (U.S. occupies South Korea, U.S. forces land in Greece to fight Communists)
1948 – Cold War (U.S. forces aid Chinese Nationalist Party against Communists)
1949 – Cold War (U.S. forces aid Chinese Nationalist Party against Communists)
1950 – Korean War, Jayuga Uprising
1951 – Korean War
1952 – Korean War
1953 – Korean War
1954 – Covert War in Guatemala
1955 – Vietnam War
1956 – Vietnam War
1957 – Vietnam War
1958 – Vietnam War
1959 – Vietnam War, Conflict in Haiti
1960 – Vietam War
1961 – Vietnam War
1962 – Vietnam War, Cold War (Cuban Missile Crisis; U.S. marines fight Communists in Thailand)
1963 – Vietnam War
1964 – Vietnam War
1965 – Vietnam War, U.S. occupation of Dominican Republic
1966 – Vietnam War, U.S. occupation of Dominican Republic
1967 – Vietnam War
1968 – Vietnam War
1969 – Vietnam War
1970 – Vietnam War
1971 – Vietnam War
1972 – Vietnam War
1973 – Vietnam War, U.S. aids Israel in Yom Kippur War
1974 – Vietnam War
1975 – Vietnam War
1976 – No major war
1977 – No major war
1978 – No major war
1979 – Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan)
1980 – Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan)
1981 – Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua), First Gulf of Sidra Incident
1982 – Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua), Conflict in Lebanon
1983 – Cold War (Invasion of Grenada, CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua), Conflict in Lebanon
1984 – Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua), Conflict in Persian Gulf
1985 – Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua)
1986 – Cold War (CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua)
1987 – Conflict in Persian Gulf
1988 – Conflict in Persian Gulf, U.S. occupation of Panama
1989 – Second Gulf of Sidra Incident, U.S. occupation of Panama, Conflict in Philippines
1990 – First Gulf War, U.S. occupation of Panama
1991 – First Gulf War
1992 – Conflict in Iraq
1993 – Conflict in Iraq
1994 – Conflict in Iraq, U.S. invades Haiti
1995 – Conflict in Iraq, U.S. invades Haiti, NATO bombing of Bosnia and Herzegovina
1996 – Conflict in Iraq
1997 – No major war
1998 – Bombing of Iraq, Missile strikes against Afghanistan and Sudan
1999 – Kosovo War
2000 – No major war
2001 – War on Terror in Afghanistan
2002 – War on Terror in Afghanistan and Yemen
2003 – War on Terror in Afghanistan, and Iraq
2004 – War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen
2005 – War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen
2006 – War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen
2007 – War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen
2008 – War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen
2009 – War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen
2010 – War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen
2011 – War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen; Conflict in Libya (Libyan Civil War)
In most of these wars, the U.S. was on the offense. Danios admits that some of the wars were defensive. However, Danios also leaves out covert CIA operations and other acts which could be considered war.
Let’s update what’s happened since 2011:
2012 – War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Yemen
2013 – War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Yemen
2014 – War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Yemen; Civil War in Ukraine
2015 – War on Terror in Somalia, Somalia, Syria and Yemen; Civil War in Ukraine
So we can add 4 more years of war. That means that for 222 out of 239 years – or 93% of the time – America has been at war. (We can quibble with the exact numbers, but the high percentage of time that America has been at war is clear and unmistakable.)
Indeed, most of the military operations launched since World War II have been launched by the U.S.
And American military spending dwarfs the rest of the world put together.
No wonder polls show that the world believes America is the number 1 threat to peace.
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Every day that passes adds to the fraudulent image of what is called Western democracy.
Consider that the entire Western world is outraged that the Greek prime minister announced that he is going to permit the Greek people to decide their own fate instead of having it decided for them by a handful of banksters, politicians, and bureaucrats living it up at taxpayer expense at “talks” in the French resort of Cannes on the Mediterranean.
The Greek economy is facing its fourth year of decline and lacks the revenues to service its national debt held by private European banks. The banks don’t want to lose any money, so a handful of power brokers reached an agreement with representatives of the Greek government to write off some of the debt in exchange for EU capital subsidies to be financed by inflicting severe austerity on the Greek population. Wages, salaries, pensions and medical care are being cut while the rate of unemployment rises to depression levels. Government employees are laid off. Valuable public properties are to be sold to private parties for pennies on the dollar. In short, Greece is to be looted.
Large numbers of Greeks have been in the streets protesting the austerity policy and have reached the point of anger of throwing Molotov cocktails at the police. Greece is disintegrating politically. The Greek people sense that the EU “bailout” is not bailing out Greece. It is bailing out the French, Dutch, and German banks at the expense of the Greek people.
The Greek prime minister, watching his party’s support and power crumble, announced that he would let the people decide in a referendum. After all, allegedly that’s what democracies do. But it turns out that “we have freedom and democracy” is not supposed to be taken literally. It is merely a propagandistic slogan behind which people are ruled through back-room deals decided by powerful private interests.
The Greek prime minister’s announcement that he would put the back-room bailout deal to a referendum shocked the EU hierarchy, Washington, and investors. Who does this Greek guy think he is permitting the people, who bear the cost of the deal, to have a say in it? Who let this Greek guy out of his cage? This is not the way democracies are ruled.
The EU power brokers are outraged over the Greek prime minister’s departure from normal procedure. But the Greek PM is relying on the Greek people to approve the deal, and not without reason.
The Greek people have been brainwashed for decades as to the importance of “being part of Europe.” That means being a member of the European Union. When the Greeks realize that voting down the bailout of the banksters means being thrown out of the European Union, which is what they will learn between now and the referendum, they will vote for the back room deal.
Polls already indicate this. A poll for a Greek newspaper indicates that whereas 46% oppose the bailout, 70% favor staying in the EU, which the Greeks see as a life or death issue.
If this poll is a reliable indicator, the Greek PM has made a brilliant political decision. The Greek people will vote in favor of what they have been protesting violently in the streets. As the Greek people will do themselves in, the politicians are off the hook. This is the bet that the Greek PM has placed.
Whatever the outcome, keep in mind that the entire Western political and investor world was shocked that a politician, instead of simply imposing a back room deal, said he would let the people decide. Letting the people decide is a no-no in Western democracies.
If you need more evidence of this mythical creature called “Western democracy,” consider that Western governments are no longer accountable to law. Contrast, for example, the sexual harassment charges that are plaguing US presidential candidate Herman Cain’s campaign with the pass given to high government officials who clearly violated statutory law.
What follows is not a defense of Cain. I take no position on the charges. The real point is different. In America the only thing that can ruin a politician is his interest in sex. A politician, for example, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, B. Omama, cannot be ruined by violating United States and international law or by treating the US Constitution as a “mere scrap of paper.” Bush and Cheney can take America to wars based entirely on lies and orchestrated deceptions. They can commit war crimes, murdering large numbers of civilians in the cause of “the war on terror,” itself a hoax. They can violate US and international laws against torture simply “because the president said so.” They can throw away habeas corpus, the constitutional requirement that a person cannot be imprisoned without evidence presented to a court. They can deny the right to an attorney. They can violate the law and spy on Americans without obtaining warrants. They can send due process to hell. In fact, they can do whatever they want just like Hitler’s Gestapo and Stalin’s secret police. But if they show undue interest in a woman or proposition a woman, they are dead meat.
Very few commentators have said a word about this. The House of Representatives did not impeach President Bill Clinton for his war crimes against Serbia. They impeached him for lying about a sexual affair with a White House intern. The US Senate, which had too many sexual affairs of its own to defend, didn’t bother to try to convict.
This is Amerika today. A president without any authority whatsoever, not in law and certainly not in the Constitution, can assassinate US citizens based on nothing except an assertion that they are a “threat.” No evidence is required. No conviction. No presentation of evidence in any court. Just a murder. That is now permissible to the Amerikan president. But let him try to get a woman who is not his wife into bed, and he is a cooked goose.
In Amerika there is no such thing any longer as torture; there is only “enhanced interrogation.” A mere word change has eliminated the crime. So torture is permissible.
In Amerika today, or in the UK and the EU, anyone who tells the truth is a “threat.” Julian Assange of Wikileaks, who made public information leaked to him by US government sources horrified by the criminal actions of the United States government, is now, as a result of Amerikan pressure on UK courts, being turned over to Sweden, which, for favors from the “world’s only superpower,” will turn him over to the US regardless of law to be prosecuted on trumped-up charges.
Western “civilization” is totally corrupted by American money. There is no integrity anywhere. For a decade Washington has been murdering women, children, village elders, and journalists in the name of the hoax “war on terror.”
What terror does the world actually see? The world sees the terror that Israel, protected by Washington, inflicts on the Palestinians. The world sees the terror that the US inflicts on Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Latin America and now Africa, with Syria, Lebanon, and Iran waiting in the wings. The “war on terror” is nothing but an orchestrated invented excuse for Amerika-Israel to achieve hegemony while enriching their armaments industries.
In Greece, at least the PM committed to giving the people a say in their fate. In America the people have no voice whatsoever. The sheeple are content to be protected by “security,” porno-scanners, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, and sexual groping. To carry on the hoax “war on terror,” the US government has elevated itself above the law.
The American effort to achieve accountability to law, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, if not shut down by cold weather, ice, and snow, is likely to be shut down by police violence. One riot begun by provocateurs is all it takes to transform protesters into “domestic extremists,” the number one concern of Homeland Security. The presstitute media will make the case against the rioters, and the sheeple will buy it.
The police have been militarized by Washington. Community police forces no longer represent the local public that pays their salaries. Local police represent Washington’s war against America.
American citizens are all suspects. Anyone who goes through airport security knows this. The only law that the US government obeys is not even a law. It is a bureaucratic regulation that prevents, even in dire wartime, any profiling of suspects by ethnicity or country of origin.
Consequently, all native born, flag-waving, American super-patriots are suspects when they board commercial airliners. Americans who have a life time of security clearances are subject to being porno-scanned or sexually groped. Airport Security cannot tell a “terrorist” from a CIA analyst, a Marine general or a US Senator.
Well-connected members of the ruling elite, such as Michael Chertoff, can become rich from selling the porno-scanners to taxpayers in order “to protect the public from terrorists.”
The only terrorists Americans will ever experience are those funded by their own tax dollars within their “own” government. A people incapable of perceiving its real peril has no chance of surviving. America might be a military superpower, but it no longer exists as a free country with accountable government and a rule of law.
Addendum: The Greek prime minister has been forced to withdraw the referendum on the bailout that he promised the Greek people. Europe’s rulers made it clear to the Greek PM that democracy has no role to play in the decision. Greece was told to vote the deal that was handed to you or Greece is out of the EU. The chastened PM warned the Greek parliament that the only way to remain in the EU is to submit to the dictate.
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America’s “Divide and Rule” Strategies
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The Presidential Tour of George W. Bush to the Middle East: A New Cold War?
In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech in Missouri that helped set the rhetorical stance for the rivalry between the two camps or poles respectively formed by the Soviet Union and the United States after the Second World War.
Starting in 2006, the Middle East has been depicted in a similar way by the White House and 10 Downing Street. In the end, history will decide and give its verdict on the miniature version of the Cold War now unfolding in the Middle East.
It is no secret that the 2008 presidential tour of George W. Bush Jr. to the Middle East is more about rallying hostility and antagonism against Iran and those forces resisting Washington’s political and socio-economic curriculum for the Middle East. The U.S. President’s tour is part of an exhorted effort to replace Israel with a vilified Iran as a looming threat to the Arab World. This undertaking which is part of America’s Project for a “New Middle East” was initiated after Israel’s war against Lebanon in July of 2006.
Balkanization and the Muslim Divide: Shiite Muslims versus Sunni Muslims
In relationship to the preparations for creating the “New Middle East” there have been attempts, with partial success, to deliberately create divisions within the populations of the Middle East and Central Asia through ethno-cultural, religious, sectarian, national, and political differentiations.
Aside from fuelling ethnic tensions, such as those between Kurds and Arabs in Iraq, a sectarian divide is being deliberately cultivated within the ranks of the people of the Middle East which consider themselves Muslims. This divide is being fostered between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
These divisions have been fuelled by the U.S., British, and Israeli intelligence apparatus. The intelligence agencies of Arab regimes within the Anglo-American orbit have also been involved in the construction of these divisions. This divide is also being cultivated with the help of various groups and leaders in these respective communities.
Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the rulers of the Arab League countries were aware that the U.S. and Britain intended to redraw the borders of the Middle East. It was openly mentioned at the summit of Arab rulers being held in Egypt prior to the Anglo-American invasion.
The interests of many of the corrupt Arab elites, the self-proclaimed cream of the crop within the Arab World, and autocratic Arab authorities have historically convened and adhered to Anglo-American and Franco-German political and socio-economic interests.
The House of Saud, the Hariri clan of Lebanon, and the absolute rulers established throughout the Arab World all share common financial and economic links with the Project for the “New Middle East.” They have a vested interest in the promotion of the economic and political model that the U.S. wishes to entrench in the Middle East.
The “Shia Crescent” and the Phantom Iranian Conquest of the Middle East
To create hostility within the Muslim populations of the Middle East, Iran is being portrayed as the vanguard of Shia or Shiite expansionism in the region, vis-à-vis the so-called “Shia Crescent,” and Saudi Arabia portrayed as the champion of the Sunni Muslims.
The truth of the matter is that Iran does not represent all the Shiite Muslims nor does Saudi Arabia represent all the Sunni Muslims; these efforts are part of the politicizing of religious faith, which serves U.S. foreign policy goals. It also contributes to misleading public opinion throughout the Middle East.
This animosity between peoples of Muslim faith and the populations of the Middle East has been created to justify animosity against Iran and those perceived to be in the same camp as Iran, such as Syria and Hezbollah.
Arab leaders also have an easier time controlling their populations when they are fighting against each other and are consequently weakened as a result of sectarian and ethnic divisions. The latter also create confusion within the various populations, distract them from their problems at home, and projects their animosity towards their leaders on others. Fear or anger towards the “Other” or the “Outsider” has always been a form of manipulating large groups and whole segments of societies.
With the peoples of the region divided against each other, their resources can be controlled and they themselves governed and further manipulated with greater ease. This has been part of the objective of British and American foreign policy all along. In this effort, local rulers and foreign forces have been partners.
“The Coalition of the Moderate” in the Mid-East and the manipulation of the Arabs
“We [Israel] must clandestinely cooperate with Saudi Arabia so that it also persuades the U.S. to strike Iran.”
-Brigadier-General Oded Tira, Israeli Military
“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.” The historical context of this statement is very significant. This admission was made during the First World War in the Middle East when the British were fighting against the Ottoman Turks with the help of the Ottoman’s rebellious Arab subjects. The Arab’s help was insured through false promises and London’s deception. What was being revealed by this interlocutor of British policy was British forces should not do most the active fighting in the Middle East and let the Arabs fight Britain’s war against the Turks.
Revealing
the author, these were the words of a man who has been inscribed into
the pages of history as a legendary figure and as a hero to the
Arabs. In reality he was an agent of British imperialism that misled
the Arabs with the help of corrupt local leaders. His name was
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence or, as most people know
him, “Lawrence of Arabia.”
The
27 Articles of T.E. Lawrence
(August 20, 1917) is where these words can be found for all to
scrutinize. Thus started the road down to the modern entanglement of
the Arab masses to colonial masters and handpicked Western vassals.
Some may argue that the British were helping the Arabs gain autonomy, but history shows this to be an absolute lie. London was furthering its own interests and it had been a geo-strategic objective of theirs to divide the Ottoman Empire up regardless of the fact that that there was a war with the Ottomans and the Central Powers.
The Sykes-Picot Agreement reveals this as does the creation of British and French mandates in the place of what were supposed to be independent Arab nations. It should also be noted that all the major problems in the Middle East are rooted in this period from the Armenian Genocide, the Kurdish Question, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, to the issue of Cyprus and the territorial disputes of the Persian Gulf and the Levant.
The Arab elites are being marshaled into formation yet again to do the dirty work of foreign powers. Once again, Arab leaders are also accessories to the agenda of foreigners in the Middle East against their own people.
Links between the U.A.E. Speeches of Messrs Bush and Blair: Dividing the Mid-East into Camps
The “us and them” mentality is being lodged into the mindset of Middle Easterners in regards to themselves. The ancient region is being divided into two camps by the White House and its partners.
After the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon in July 2006, Condoleezza Rice the U.S. Secretary of State and others such as Tony Blair started this venture by categorized the Middle East into two groupings. Those in the Middle East that fell into the Anglo-American camp and colluded with Israel were described as “moderates” and “reformers” and as part of what became called the “Coalition of the Moderate.” It is also around this time that the Pentagon announced its plans to arm Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Arab regimes allied to the U.S. and Britain.
Those in the Middle East who either opposed foreign intervention and hegemony in the region, either because of their own agenda or because of the right for self-determination, were labeled “extremists” and “rejectionists.” [1] These anti-hegemonic forces in the Middle East were categorized as members of the “other camp” even though in some cases they had no links aside from fighting foreign tutelage. This latter camp includes the Iraqi Resistance, Hamas, and Iran, amongst others.
There is an obvious theme in the underlying rhetoric of the December 2006 and January 2008 Middle East policy speeches of Tony Blair and George W. Bush. Both were presented in the U.A.E. and held almost exactly a year apart. Both speeches depict a bloc of radicals in the Middle East led by Iran and both speeches attempt to divide the Middle East into two opposing blocs.
It was soon after the disastrous 2006 Israeli war against Lebanon that Tony Blair, in line with Condoleezza Rice, subtly called for “an alliance of moderation in the region and outside of it to defeat the extremists.” [2] While in Dubai the former British prime minister called Iran a “strategic challenge,” which according to Paul Reynolds, an international affairs correspondent, was a replacement for the words “strategic threat” from his original speech read in California. He also replaced the words “trying to acquire a nuclear weapon” with “trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.” [3] This obvious change in word selection was because the people of the countries living next to Iran know better and would not have taken Tony Blair’s speech seriously.
This was simply the beginning of the public revelation of the alliance system that already informally subsisted in the Middle East. Tony Blair’s U.A.E. speech was another stage in the media phase of the war effort that includes the preparation of the general public for confrontation in the Middle East. It was also part of the attempt to turn the conflict into one of ideas and an ideological one like the Cold War.
The U.A.E. and Israel as models for the “New Middle East”
By the start of 2008, the White House and its allies have ceased their insincere chatter about democratization in the Middle East, except in the case of Iran where it is mentioned ad nauseam. This sidesteps the reality that Iran holds democratic elections and that Iran is a far less inhibited state than any of America’s Arab sponsored regimes. Democracy has never been a goal for the U.S. in the Middle East, especially in regards to its own set of autocratic and dictatorial allies.
The White House is promoting two models on two different levels in the Middle East as a part of its regional project. One is the latent model of Israel as a homogenous nation. The second model, which is openly promoted, is the Khaliji (Gulf) model or that of the Arab Sheikhdoms that form the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in the Persian Gulf littoral. The Khaliji model applies in particular to the U.A.E. and one of its seven emirates, Dubai, as its embodiment. Israel is the socio-political model for the Middle East, whereas Dubai is the socio-economic model for the Middle East. Both models also bare staggering social ramifications.
The Israeli model, which is being moved forward is not based on any democratic values, quite the opposite. It is predicated on ethnocentrism and discrimination. The Middle East is being reconfigured in Israel’s image as a region with homogenous states and this is evident in Iraq and a reason for the tensions being fanned by foreign influence in the multi-confessional Lebanese Republic. Just as Israel is considered the “Jewish State” the Project for the “New Middle East” wants to establish a whole series of single-identity states in the ancient region.
The socio-economic model of Dubai and the GCC is based on a vertical mosaic, in the tradition of John A. Porter’s The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, where ethnicity, heredity, and origins play a role in individual status and its system in itself is a reconstruction of the caste system of India.
Dubai is a place that is rabid with the exploitation of foreign workers and nationals and is infamous for the institutionalization of gross inequities and immorality. Local laws are made to only benefit the privileged and powerful, while the poor are suppressed. Money laundering and prostitution are also far spread in Dubai and the U.A.E. is a modern Sodom and Gomorrah.
Israel, NATO, and the Arab Regimes: A Nexus against Resistance
The House of Saud and Saudi Arabia have emerged as the main force in configuring a public embracement between Israel and the Arab World under the auspices of the 2002 Arab Initiative. [4] This Saudi-proposed initiative is deeply tied to the Project for a “New Middle East” and allows Israel to integrate its economy with that of the Arab World and allows for the creation of an alliance between Israel and the Arab regimes against any forces in the Middle East resisting America, its allies, and more importantly their political and socio-economic model.
Despite King Abdullah’s speech in Riyadh during the March 2007 Arab League Summit, Saudi Arabia has officially opposed any end to the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq and the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq under the pretext that the Iraqi Shiites and the Iranians will kill the Iraqi Sunnis.
A representative of the Saudi Monarchy, quoting Prince Turki Al-Faisal, informed the U.S. press that, “Since America came into [meaning invaded] Iraq uninvited, it should not leave [end the Anglo-American occupation] uninvited,” and rhetorically added that “If it [the U.S.] does [withdraw its troops from Iraq], one of the first consequences will be a massive Saudi intervention to stop Iranian-backed Shia militias from butchering Iraqi Sunnis.” [5]
Israel has always considered the leaders of Jordan as important assets and allies to pacify the Arabs. On April 18, 2007 King Abdullah II of Jordan reconfirmed this publicly known Israeli secret. King Abdullah II told a visiting Israeli delegation that Jordan and Israel were allies, emphasizing that he not only spoke for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan but for Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Arab Sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. [6]
The Jordanian King narrated to Dalia Itzik, Acting Israeli President, Tzachi Hanegbi, the Chairman of the Israeli Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, and other Israeli officials that “we [Arab rulers and Israel] are in the same boat; we have the same problem [the forces of resistance in the region]. We have the same enemies [Syria, Iran, the Palestinians, and Lebanon].” [7]
It is worth noting that the Saudi government and the Arab leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and the Arab Sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf were fully involved, covertly and/or overtly, in the 1991 Gulf War and in the 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. These rulers also played major roles in the Iraq-Iran War and the economic warfare against Iraq which prodded Iraq into invading Kuwait for economic relief after its bitter war with Iran.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan are all firmly in the Anglo-American camp. They are part of the extended international military network controlled by the United States. They are already members of the coalition that has been formed against Iran, Syria, and those forces that have allied themselves with Tehran and Damascus. [8] To varying degrees these Arab states are also allied with Israel and NATO. All of these Arab governments that are labeled as “pro-Western” or “pro-American” also have bilateral military and security ties and agreements with the United States or Britain and NATO. However, it is not certain that these states will stay by the side of Washington, D.C. and London.
Turning the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf into NATO Lakes
NATO is expanding, but not only in Europe and the former Soviet Union. There have been longstanding plans to turn the Mediterranean into a permanent “NATO lake” and an arena closely linked to the European Union. The Russian naval build-up in the Eastern Mediterranean and off the Syrian coast is a move to challenge this process.
Several Arab regimes have had agreements and military arrangements with NATO through NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue (established in 1995) for over a decade. Amongst them are Egypt and Jordan. These are the Arab nations that border the Mediterranean or are in close proximity to it. While on the other hand, the Arab Sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf have lately entered into arrangements with NATO. For example, Kuwait recently signed security agreements with NATO and effectively opened the door for NATO entrance into the Persian Gulf.
The GCC agreements underway with NATO are effectively an extension of the Mediterranean Dialogue and NATO expansion eastwards. The shift to create a Gulf common market similar to the E.U. and a Mediterranean Union are also linked to NATO expansion and the project to permanently compel the Washington Consensus on the Middle East and the Arab World
The expansion of a mandate for NATO in the Persian Gulf has been in motion for years and has followed behind NATO’s objectives in the Mediterranean Sea. NATO influence in the Persian Gulf effectively allows the area to fall under the joint management of Franco-German and Anglo-American interests. It is no coincidence that Nicolas Sarkozy started his presidential tour of the Middle East in the same window of time as the U.S. President nor is it a twist of fate that France and the U.A.E. signed an agreement on January 15, 2008 allowing France to establish a permanent military base in U.A.E. territory on the shores of the Persian Gulf. [9]
The Real Divisions in the Middle East: Indigenous Forces versus Foreign Clients
In Palestine, during past demonstrations in 2006, the press reported that small groups of Fatah supporters chanted “Shia, Shia, Shia” in mockery of Hamas because of its political links to Tehran, because Iran is a predominately Shiite Muslim country.[10] This was a dismal sign of the growing animosity that has been inseminated in the Middle East. Yet, it also reflects that the divisions in the Middle East, such as the Shiite-Sunni divide, are manufactured and artificially engineered.
Hamas, like Syria, is Sunni Muslim in identity and it is allied with Iran, which is predominately Shiite Muslim. This alliance clearly demonstrates that the real divisions in the Middle East are not based on religious or ethnic affinity or differences. Similarly, in Lebanon the forces of resistance are Muslim, Christian, and Druze and not just Hezbollah or Lebanon’s Shiite Muslims as is often described in the Western media.
In reality, the regional differences in the Middle East are between the independent and indigenous forces, regardless of religion, politics, and/or ethnicity, in the region and the client forces and governments in the region that serve Anglo-American and Franco-German foreign policy and economic interests.
The Resistance Bloc
“As Lord Chatham said, when he was speaking on the British presence in North America, he said ‘if I was an American, as I am an Englishman, as long as one Englishman remained on American native soil, I would never, never, never lay down my arms.’”
-General Sir Michael Rose, British Army
To generalize, the independent and indigenous forces of the Middle East are:
.1. Most of the various Palestinian fractions. This included the Palestinian Authority under Hamas before the Mecca Accord and the truce that was reached with Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah;
.2. The Lebanese Resistance and National Opposition in Lebanon, which is a combination of Muslims, Druze, and Christians;
.3. The Iraqi Resistance, which is a genuine series of diverse peoples’ movements that reflects the will of the Iraqi people(s);
.4. Syria;
.5. Iran, which is both a rival and the centre of the organized political and state-levels of resistance.
People-based Resistance and State-based Resistance
The forces of resistance in the Middle East and neighbouring Afghanistan can be classified as being either a peoples’ resistance or being a state-level force of resistance. However, there is a third and hybrid category.
Iraq and Afghanistan both purely represent peoples’ resistance movements. Iran and Syria, for whatever rationale (good and bad), represent cases of state-level centres of resistance to the U.S., NATO, and Israel. Sudan also falls into this category.
The forces of resistance in Palestine and Lebanon fall in between these two categories as a mixture of state-level and people-based resistance. In close proximity to the Middle East in the Horn of Africa, Somalia is a debatable case, but is also an authentic centre of resistance against foreign control that is linked to the struggle to reconfigure the Middle East.
The forces of resistance in Lebanon and Palestine are also distinctive in that they are also locked in internal or domestic struggles between client and co-opted forces serving the Anglo-American, Franco-German, and Israeli agenda in the Middle East.
The involvement of a whole nation’s assets is obviously one of the major differences between the state-level centres of resistance, such as Iran, and the peoples’ movements of resistance that is disenfranchised from governing, such as in Iraq. However, wherever there is a greater amount of foreign military subjugation the forces of resistance are stronger and spring from the support of the local populaces. The heavy casualties that the U.S., Britain, and NATO are facing in Iraq and Afghanistan are because of the will of the peoples’ and their resistance.
Struggles across the Mid-East: The “Coalition of the Moderate” versus the Resistance Bloc
The existing divisions between the independent and indigenous forces of the Middle East and those aligned within the Anglo-American orbit are represented by the following:
.1. The struggle between Hamas and its allies with Israel, Fatah, and their allies in the Palestinian Territories;
.2. The ongoing struggle between the Iraqi Resistance, which is essentially the Iraqi people, with the U.S. and Coalition forces over the occupation of Iraq;
.3. The political face-off between the Lebanese National Opposition (the majority in Lebanon) and the Lebanese governing parties (the minority in Lebanon);
.4. The clash over Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq taking place between Syria and both NATO powers and their Arab clients;
.5. And finally the many bitter regional and international rows between Iran and the United States, which includes the Iranian nuclear energy program and Iraq.
The Bush Tour: War Drums, Resistance, and the “New Middle East”
“One cause of instability is the extremists supported and embodied by the regime that sits in Tehran. Iran is today the world’s leading state sponsor of terror. It sends hundreds of millions of dollars to extremists around the world — while its own people face repression and economic hardship at home. It undermines Lebanese hopes for peace by arming and aiding the terrorist group Hezbollah. It subverts the hopes for peace in other parts of the region by funding terrorist groups like Hamas and the Palestine Islamic Jihad. It sends arms to the Taliban in Afghanistan and Shia militants in Iraq. It seeks to intimidate its neighbors with ballistic missiles and bellicose rhetoric. And finally, it defies the United Nations and destabilizes the region by refusing to be open and transparent about its nuclear programs and ambitions. Iran’s actions threaten the security of nations everywhere. So the United States is strengthening our longstanding security commitments with our friends in the Gulf — and rallying friends around the world to confront this danger before it is too late.”
-George W. Bush Jr., 43rd President of the United States (Speech in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, January 13, 2008)
It is no secret that the main purpose of the U.S. presidential tour of the Middle East was to raise opposition against Iran and anyone resisting the “New Middle East.” Almost immediately, Syria claimed that the presidential Middle Eastern tour of George W. Bush Jr. was mostly made to try and further isolate Syria and orchestrate a future war scenario against Iran. [11]
The U.S. President’s tour of the Middle East came at a time when the U.S. Navy made false claims about threats being made by Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboats in the Persian Gulf.
After the U.S. Navy withdrew its allegations the U.S. President stated that if any thing negative should happen to U.S. warships in the region it would be Tehran that would be held responsible.
At the same time there was a bombing in Beirut that was directed against the American embassy. The bombing in Beirut could have been staged, just as the U.S. Navy’s claims were fictitious, to justify the U.S. President’s position against Iran and the Resistance Bloc. In addition, reports were released from Israel about an Iranian-made rocket being fired from the Gaza Strip by the Palestinians during the U.S. President’s tour of the Middle East.
In 2007, the Syrian President while in Deir ez-Zor, on the eve of an important conference on Iraq in Sharm el-Sheikh in which Condoleeza Rice publicly initiated contact with the foreign ministers of Syria and Iran, warned his countrymen that “Syria, the Arab region and the Middle East are going through a dangerous period. Destructive colonial projects are seeking to divide and reshape our region creating a new Sykes-Picot [Agreement].” [12]
Abdel Al-Bari Atouani, a noted Palestinian figure and the editor-in-chief of the Al-Qods Al-Arabi in London, warned in a televised interview with ANB TV in early-February, 2007 that the U.S. is exploiting the Arab countries through their governments as the firewood to wage a war against Iran and its allies in the Middle East.
The Jerusalem Post, in sequence with the U.S. President’s arrival in Saudi Arabia from the U.A.E., released statements from an unnamed senior Palestinian official from the West Bank claiming that “Syria and Iran have stepped up their efforts to overthrow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his ruling Fatah party.” [13] The claims were compiled by Khaled Abu Toameh and also brought to light the political gathering of a large array of Palestinian political parties (referred to by Abu Toameh as “radical groups”) that will be hosted by the Syrians in Damascus.
Not surprisingly, Khaled Abu Toameh’s article failed to point out that the Palestinian government running the West Bank is illegitimate and follows the orders of Mahmoud Abbas instead of a popularly elected Palestinian prime minister. The Palestinians gathering in Damascus will study ways to make the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) more inclusive and representative of mainstream Palestinian desires instead of the edicts of Mahmoud Abbas and a few other individuals that run portions of the West Bank as personal fiefdoms with Israel and the White House as their overlords.
In Lebanon, a newspaper affiliated with the Hariri family and its political allies also started to toe the American-led campaign line to demonize Iran. An-Nahar, the newspaper once edited by the slain Lebanese parliamentarian Gebran Tueni, stated in an opinion piece by Ali Hamade that the Arab League must pressure Tehran for a settlement in Lebanon and it is in Iran that the path lies to a Lebanese settlement or towards confrontation “if developments [in the Middle East] headed towards a confrontation with the Iranian imperial agenda for the Arab East.”
The Oval Office, the Establishment, and Anglo-American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
U.S. and British foreign policies are more about the objectives of the Anglo-American establishment than the distinctiveness of the individuals that hold the office of American president and British prime minister. This reality has been confirmed in the course of the election campaign by the potential successors of George W. Bush Jr., Democrats and Republicans alike.
Aside from a few individuals who represent the true aspirations of the American people, the majority of presidential contenders in the U.S. are talking about a virtual continuation of the military policies of the Bush Jr. Administration.
John McCain has talked about attacking Lebanon and Syria. [14]
Hilary Clinton wants a permanent occupation of Iraq or a “post-occupation phase” as U.S. officials decadently call it and she has threatened Iran.
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, has made it clear he intends to mirror the Bush Jr. Administration and that he does not intent to recognize a Palestinian state and that he would use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear Iran.
The era of wars will not be over with the departure of George W. Bush Jr. and Vice-President Cheney from the White House.
The problem is deeper and more complicated than the persona of one man and his cabinet. George W. Bush Jr. is only a figurehead in the mechanisms of a larger machine; he represents the establishment but he alone or his cabinet do not steer the helm of U.S. foreign policy.
Important Questions: The Nature of Cooperation and Rivalry between America, Iran, and Syria
Our reality is a far more complicated one. Once upon a time, before coming to power, Hamas used to collaborate with Israel against Yasser Arafat’s Fatah.
The Christian Science Monitor made a good point in an article by Marc Lynch: “‘Everywhere you turn, it is the policy of Iran to foment instability and chaos,’ Defence Secretary Robert Gates warned Gulf dignitaries in Bahrain last month [December, 2007]. But in reality, everywhere you turn, from Qatar to Saudi Arabia to Egypt, you now see Iranian leaders shattering longstanding taboos by meeting cordially with their Arab counterparts.” [15]
In fact the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was invited to the important GCC Summit in the Qatari capital, Doha, which discussed the economic integration of the Persian Gulf and GCC-Iranian cooperation. Iran, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia also were making public shows of drawing closer even before the gathering in Doha, which included military and economic agreements between Oman and Iran.
Cairo and Tehran have also publicly opened the door for the full normalization of diplomatic relations. What develops in Egyptian-Iranian relations is yet to be seen. Iran is also making further economic and commercial inroads into both Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran and Syria are also linking their energy infrastructure with Iraq and also taking steps that undeniable assist the U.S. in Anglo-American occupied Iraq.
The nomination of General Michel Sulaiman as the next Lebanese president has also been called a concession to Syria for its cooperation with the U.S. in Iraq and even for its attendance at the Annapolis Summit.
However, if this is so then there are unanswered questions not only about Syrian-American cooperation, but about the meeting between David Welch, the U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, and General Sulaiman before the fighting between Fatal Al-Islam and the Lebanese Army erupted in 2007.
It is clear that there is an agenda to redraw the borders of the Middle East in order to institute lasting economic policies that benefit Anglo-American and Franco-German interests, along with their Israeli bulldog in the Middle East.
The Syrians and the Iranians are well aware of the plans to divide their home region and to play the peoples of the Middle East against one another. Tehran and Damascus too have been guilty of playing the same game for their own interests, but what America and its allies envision is a far broader partition and reconfiguration of the Middle East, which also places Syria and Iran in the sights of this historic struggle.
The question here is: are these efforts to divide the Middle East (into “moderates” and “radicals”) part of a policy of containment, a war strategy, or something far more sinister?
The intentions of people-based resistance movements like those of the Iraqi Resistance are simple and mostly clear, but state-based resistance — if it can really be called that — is often ambivalent in its intent.
Are Iran and Syria genuinely resisting the “New Middle East” which in the end serves the Washington Consensus? The ongoing economic reforms including the privatization programs in both Iran and Syria suggest that these countries are not totally opposed to the dominant neo-liberal agenda, which characterises Washington’s expansionary policies. [16]
It is no sin to question motives, especially when circumstances call for it, but it is a sin and a crime to mislead the masses. As developments in the Middle East unfold, the political stance of Iran and Syria will become clearer.
NOTES
[1] Jonathan Beale, Rice seeks Mid-East support on Iraq, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), January 13, 2007.
[2] Paul Reynolds, Blair and the ‘strategic challenge’ of Iran, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), December 20, 2007.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Uzi Mahnaimi, Saudis lead Israel peace bid, The Times (U.K.), December 3, 2006.
[5] Simon Tisdall, Iran v Saudis in battle of Beirut, The Guardian (U.K.), December 5, 2006.
[6] Shahar Ilan, Jordan’s Abdullah tells Israel: We share same enemies, Haaretz, April 19, 2007.
The remarks were immediately denied by the Jordanian King once they were circulated by the Israeli press. These denials are parallel to the denials of the House of Saud about its diplomatic meetings and negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Israel which were divulged as true after the initial denials.
[7] Ibid.
[8] Anatole Kaletsky, An unholy alliance threatening catastrophe, The Times (U.K.), January 4, 2007.
[9] Laurent Pirot, France Signs UAE Military Base Agreement, Associated Press, January 12, 2008; Emmanuel Jarry, France, UAE sign military, nuclear agreement, Reuters, January 15, 2008; Paul Reynolds, French make serious move into Gulf, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), January 15, 2008.
[10] Fatah, Hamas clash in Gaza after Abbas calls early elections, Associated Press, December 16, 2006.
[11] Damascus slams Arab leaders for allowing Bush’s ‘criticism of Syria,’ Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA)/ German Press Agency, January 14, 2008.
[12] Mazen and Thawra, President al-Assad says Arab Region passes through new juncture, Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), April 30, 2007.
[13] Khaled Abu Toameh, Syria, Iran trying to overthrow Abbas, The Jerusalem Post, January 15, 2008.
[14] Shani Rosenfelder, McCain: Disarm Hizbullah, tackle Assad, The Jerusalem Post, August 9, 2007.
[15] Marc Lynch, Why U.S. strategy on Iran is crumbling: Gulf states no longer want to isolate Iran, Christian Science Monitor, January 4, 2008.
[16] Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, The Sino-Russian Alliance: Challenging America’s Ambitions in Eurasia, Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), August 26, 2007; Julian Barnes-Dacey, Even with sanctions, Syrians embrace KFC and Gap, Christian Science Monitor, January 11, 2008.
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is an independent writer based in Ottawa specializing in Middle Eastern affairs. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
The original source of this article is Global Research
Copyright © Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Global Research, 2008
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8/14/92 | Defense Secretary Dick Cheney declares President Bush Sr. wise not to invade Baghdad and “get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.” |
4/15/93 | Saddam Hussein reportedly tries to assassinate Bush Sr. |
1/26/98 |
Project for a New American Century (PNAC)—founded by Cheney, Scooter Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, and other top neocons—demands President Clinton undertake the “removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime.” |
6/23/98 | “The good Lord didn’t see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States.”—Halliburton CEO Cheney |
8/7/98 | Al Qaeda bombs US embassies in Africa, killing 220 and injuring some 4,000. |
10/31/98 | Clinton signs the Iraq Liberation Act. Regime change becomes official US policy. |
Late 1998 | Gen. Anthony Zinni, head of US Central Command, examines Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi’s military plan to overthrow Saddam with 1,000 men. He warns Congress it is “pie in the sky, a fairy tale.” |
Nov 1999 | Chalabi-connected Iraqi defector “Curveball”—a convicted sex offender and low-level engineer who became the sole source for much of the case that Saddam had WMD, particularly mobile weapons labs—enters Munich seeking a German visa. German intel officers describe his information as highly suspect. US agents never debrief Curveball or perform background check. Nonetheless, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and CIA will pass raw intel on to senior policymakers. [Date the public knew: 11/20/05] |
8/27/00 | America must not act as “an imperialist power, willy-nilly moving into capitals in that part of the world, taking down governments.”—VP candidate Cheney |
10/3/00 | Debating Al Gore, George W. Bush says he’d commit troops only with an “exit strategy,” and he’d be “very careful about using our troops as nation builders.” |
10/11/00 | In a subsequent debate, Bush says: “If we’re an arrogant nation, they’ll resent us. If we’re a humble nation, but strong, they’ll welcome us.” |
10/12/00 | Al Qaeda attacks USS Cole in Aden, Yemen, killing 17 and injuring 39. |
11/6/00 | Congress doubles funding for Iraqi opposition groups to more than $25 million; $18 million is earmarked for Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress, which then pays defectors for anti-Iraq tales. |
11/7/00 | Election night: Indecision 2000 begins. |
Nov 2000 | Future Chief Justice John Roberts flies to Florida to advise Jeb Bush during recount. |
12/12/00 | Supreme Court hands presidency to George W. Bush. |
Early 2001 | Enron CEO Ken Lay named to Bush Energy Department transition team. Jack Abramoff appointed to Interior Department transition team. |
1/30/01 | removal is top item of Bush’s inaugural national security meeting. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill later recalls, “It was all about finding a way to do it. The president saying, ‘Go find me a way to do this.’” [Date the public knew: 1/10/04] |
2/11/01 | “Iraq is probably not a nuclear threat at the present time.”—Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tells Fox News’ Tony Snow |
2/14/01 | Dick Cheney‘s energy task force begins secret meetings with oil company executives. [Date the public knew: 4/16/01] |
2/16/01 | Bush: “To send a clear signal to Saddam,” US and UK bomb targets near Baghdad. |
2/24/01 | Saddam “has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction.”—Secretary of State Colin Powell |
2/26/01 | Future Iraq Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III says: “The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism.” [Date the public knew: 4/29/04] |
3/5/01 | Pentagon produces document titled “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts” for Cheney’s task force. Includes a map of areas for potential exploration. [Date the public knew: 7/17/03] |
4/10/01 | Lone CIA analyst known only as “Joe” tells top Bush brass that aluminum tubes bought by Iraq can only be for nuclear centrifuges. [Date the public knew: 8/10/03] |
8/6/01 |
Presidential Daily Briefing warning, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.” FBI highlights Al Qaeda activities consistent with hijacking preparations, as well as surveillance of federal buildings. [Date the public knew: 5/18/02] CIA officer flies to Crawford to call Bush’s attention to document. Bush replies, “All right, you’ve covered your ass now.” [Date the public knew: 6/20/06] |
8/10/01 | Major air raid on Iraq. |
8/17/01 | Memo to CIA from Energy Department experts eviscerates “Joe’s” theory that aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq are for nuclear centrifuges. Memo given to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who later claims tubes are clear evidence of Iraqi nuke program. [Date the public knew: 5/1/04] |
Sep 2001 | Curveball granted German asylum, ceases cooperating. British spy agency MI6 has told CIA that “elements of [his] behavior strike us as typical of…fabricators.” [Date the public knew: 11/20/05] |
9/10/01 | NSA intercepts messages that say, “The match is about to begin” and “Tomorrow is zero hour.” Not translated until Sept. 12. [Date the public knew: 6/10/02] |
9/11/01 | <img alt=”” Al Qaeda Minutes taken by a Rumsfeld aide five hours later: “Best info fast. Judge whether good enough [to] hit SH [Saddam Hussein] @ same time. Not only UBL [Usama bin Laden].” [Date the public knew: 9/4/02] |
9/12/01 | According to counterterror czar Richard Clarke, “[Bush] told us, ‘I want you, as soon as you can, to go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this.’” Told evidence against Al Qaeda overwhelming, Bush asks for “any shred” Saddam was involved. [Date the public knew: 3/22/04] |
9/17/01 | Bush wants Osama “Dead or Alive.” |
9/18/01 | Anthrax attacks begin. |
9/18/01 | In a move a federal judge will later call “conscience-shocking,” EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman says area around Ground Zero is safe and encourages residents to return. |
9/18/01 | Chalabi meets with top DOD officials. [Date the public knew: 5/04] |
9/19/01 | Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, chaired by Richard Perle and featuring Henry Kissinger and Newt Gingrich, declares that Iraq should be invaded after Afghanistan. [Date the public knew: 10/12/01] |
9/20/01 | British PM Tony Blair advises Bush not to lose focus on Al Qaeda. Bush replies: “I agree with you, Tony. But when we have dealt with Afghanistan, we must come back to Iraq.” [Date the public knew: 5/1/04] |
9/20/01 | PNAC letter to Bush: “Even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power.” [Date the public knew: 9/21/01] |
9/21/01 | Bush briefed by intel community that there is no evidence linking Saddam to 9/11. [Date the public knew: 11/22/05] |
9/21/01 | Justice Department lawyer John Yoo declares Fourth Amendment flexible, writing: “[T]he government may be justified in taking measures which in less troubled conditions could be seen as infringements of individual liberties.” [Date the public knew: 10/24/04] |
9/25/01 | Yoo forges doctrine of preemption, writing that Bush may use his war powers to act against groups or individuals, even if it would be “difficult to establish [that they] have been or may be implicated in attacks.” [Date the public knew: 3/22/02] |
Oct 2001 | Rumsfeld sets up own intelligence unit to look for Iraqi links to terrorism. [Date the public knew: 10/24/04] |
Oct-Nov 2001 | Prisoners rendered to Egypt and Jordan. After prolonged torture and subsequent years of imprisonment at Guantánamo, some of these same prisoners are found to have no terror connection and released. [Date the public knew: 6/27/06] |
10/7/01 | Afghanistan invaded. |
10/8/01 | Office of Homeland Security established. |
10/11/01 | Terror alert: Terrorists could attack unspecified targets in “next several days.” |
10/25/01 | Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act passes 98-1 in the Senate. |
10/30/01 | Head of Homeland Security Tom Ridge announces, “We believe the United States could very well be targeted this week.” |
11/8/01 | The New York Times and Frontline report that an Iraqi general witnessed the Iraqi military training Arab fighters to hijack airplanes. Mother Jones later reports general to be bogus Chalabi plant. [Date the public knew: 3/1/06] |
11/11/01 | Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, top Al Qaeda paramilitary trainer, captured in Pakistan. |
11/21/01 | < Bush collars Rumsfeld physically and asks: “What have you got in terms of plans for Iraq? What is the status of the war plan? I want you to get on it. I want you to keep it secret.”—Bob Woodward. [Date the public knew: 4/18/04] |
11/24/01 | “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh captured. |
11/26/01 | Bush declares, “Saddam is evil.” |
Late Nov 2001 | Osama bin Laden, pinned down at Tora Bora, slips away. |
12/2/01 | Enron declares bankruptcy. |
12/3/01 | Terror alert. |
12/9/01 | Cheney on Meet the Press: “Well, the evidence is pretty conclusive that the Iraqis have indeed harbored terrorists.” Also claims 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta met with Iraqi spy in Prague, a claim he’ll repeat long after CIA and Czechs disavow. |
12/12/01 | < Rumsfeld demands plan for war against Iraq. Gen. Tommy Franks proposes softening up Iraq: “I’m thinking in terms of spikes, Mr. Secretary. Spurts of activity followed by periods of inactivity.” [Date the public knew: 8/3/04] |
12/22/01 | Shoe bomber Richard Reid tries to blow up an AA flight from Paris to Miami. |
12/28/01 | Gen. Franks briefs Bush on Iraq war plans. [Date the public knew: 3/5/03] |
Early 2002 | Bush approves “The Program,” which permits NSA to surveil US citizens without a warrant, court approval, or signoff from the Justice Dept. [Date the public knew: 12/16/05] |
Jan 2002 | <The FBI, which favors standard law enforcement interrogation practices, loses debate with CIA Director George Tenet, and Libi is transferred to CIA custody. Libi is then rendered to Egypt. “They duct-taped his mouth, cinched him up and sent him to Cairo,” an FBI agent told reporters. “At the airport the CIA case officer goes up to him and says, ‘You’re going to Cairo, you know. Before you get there, I am going to find your mother and I’m going to fuck her.’” [Date the public knew: 6/13/04] Under torture, Libi invents tale of Al Qaeda operatives receiving chemical weapons training from Iraq. “This is the problem with using the waterboard. They get so desperate that they begin telling you what they think you want to hear,” a CIA source later tells ABC. [Date the public knew: 11/18/05] |
1/9/02 | Yoo memo to Pentagon brass declares that the laws of war, including the Geneva Conventions, do not apply to the conflict in Afghanistan. [Date the public knew: 5/24/04] |
1/11/02 | William Howard Taft IV, the State Department’s chief legal adviser, responds to Yoo: “Your position is, at this point, erroneous in its substance and untenable in practice. Let’s talk.” |
1/11/02 | < |
1/22/02 | Navy photo released showing detainees bound and hooded. Rumsfeld defends the detentions of “committed terrorists.” |
1/23/02 | Pakistani militants kidnap Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. |
1/25/02 | White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales echoes Yoo: “In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva’s strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.” [Date the public knew: 4/26/04] |
1/27/02 | Cheney calls Gitmo detainees “the worst of a very bad lot. They are very dangerous. They are devoted to killing millions of Americans.” |
1/29/02 | Bush delivers “Axis of Evil” State of the Union. Speechwriter David Frum later says phrase was the fruit of being asked: “Can you sum up in a sentence or two our best case for going after Iraq?” [Date the public knew: 1/8/03] |
Early Feb 2002 | Daniel Pearl beheaded. [Date the public knew: 2/21/02] |
Feb 2002 | “I was asked by one of the senior commanders of Central Command to go into his office. We did, the door was closed, and he turned to me, and he said, ‘Senator, we have stopped fighting the war on terror in Afghanistan. We are moving military and intelligence personnel and resources out of Afghanistan to get ready for a future war in Iraq.’”—Sen. Bob Graham. [Date the public knew: 3/26/04] |
Feb 2002 | < DIA intelligence summary notes that Libi’s “confession” lacks details and suggests that he is most likely telling interrogators what he thinks will “retain their interest.” Also states: “Saddam’s regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary movements. Moreover, Baghdad is unlikely to provide assistance to a group it cannot control.” [Date the public knew: 10/26/05] |
2/7/02 | Presidential directive defines Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees as “enemy combatants” exempt from prisoner-of-war protections. |
2/12/02 | With “profound sadness,” Ken Lay refuses to testify before Congress. |
2/12/02 | Attorney General John Ashcroft calls on “all Americans to be on the highest state of alert.” |
2/13/02 | Total Information Awareness program leaked. |
2/26/02 | Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson sent to Niger to check out claims Iraq buying uranium-rich yellowcake. [Date the public knew: 7/6/03] |
March 2002 | “Fuck Saddam. We’re taking him out.”—Bush to Rice and three senators. [Date the public knew: 12/8/03] |
March 2002 | As The New Yorker later reports: “Chalabi’s defector reports were now flowing from the Pentagon directly to the Vice President’s office, and then on to the President, with little prior evaluation by intelligence professionals.” [Date the public knew: 10/27/03] |
3/5/02 | Joe Wilson tells CIA there’s no indication that Iraq is buying yellowcake. [Date the public knew: 7/6/03] |
3/8/02 | < First of Downing Street memos prepared by Tony Blair’s top national security aides. “There is no greater threat now than in recent years that Saddam will use WMD…Washington believes the legal basis for an attack on Iraq already exists…Regime change has no basis in international law.” [Date the public knew: 9/18/04] |
3/12/02 | Color-coded terror alert system introduced. |
3/13/02 | Bush on Osama: “I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.” |
3/14/02 | Downing Street memo: “Condi’s enthusiasm for regime change is undimmed…Bush has yet to find the answers to the big questions…what happens the morning after?” [Date the public knew: 9/18/04] |
3/15/02 | British intel reports that there’s only “sporadic and patchy” evidence of Iraqi WMD. “There is no intelligence on any |
[biological weapons]
production facilities.” [Date the public knew: 9/18/04]
3/22/02
Downing Street memo: “US scrambling to establish a link between Iraq and Al Qaida is so far frankly unconvincing…We are still left with a problem of bringing public opinion to accept the imminence of a threat from Iraq…Regime change does not stack up. It sounds like a grudge between Bush and Saddam.” [Date the public knew: 9/18/04]
3/24/02
Saddam “is actively pursuing nuclear weapons at this time.”—Cheney on CNN
3/25/02
Downing Street memo: “There has been no credible evidence to link Iraq with Al Qaida…In the documents so far presented it has been hard to glean whether the threat from Iraq is so significantly different from that of Iran or North Korea as to justify action.” [Date the public knew: 9/18/04]
Late March 2002
Cheney tells Republican senators that the question is no longer if the US will invade Iraq but when. [Date the public knew: 5/5/02]
3/28/02
Pakistani forces capture Al Qaeda “operations chief ” Abu Zubaydah and CIA ferrets him away to underground interrogation facility in Thailand. Bush told he’s mentally unstable and really only Al Qaeda’s travel agent. [Date the public knew: 11/2/05]
4/4/02
Blair visits Bush in Crawford to discuss Iraq. Bush tells Britain’s ITV: “I made up my mind that Saddam needs to go.”
4/8/02
Bush promotes “Operation TIPS” program to turn postal workers, bus drivers, meter readers, and even lobstermen into freelance government spies.
4/9/02
Bush calls Zubaydah one of “top operating officials of Al Qaeda, plotting…murder.” Later asks Tenet, “I said he was important; you’re not going to let me lose face on this are you?…Do some of those harsh methods really work?” Zubaydah is then tortured and speaks of all variety of plots. [Date the public knew: 6/20/06]
4/11/02
<img alt=”” class=”image image-preview ” height=”309″ src=”https://motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/images/hugo_chavez425.jpg” title=”” width=”425″>Hugo Chávez briefly removed from power in Venezuela in a US-endorsed coup.
May 2002
<Primary corroborator of Curveball’s claims that Iraq has mobile weapons labs is judged a liar and Chalabi plant by DIA. A fabricator warning is posted in US intelligence databases. [Date the public knew: 3/28/04]
5/8/02
Jose Padilla arrested at O’Hare airport. [Date the public knew: 6/10/02]
5/18/02
The 2001 “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US” warning leaked to press.
5/20/02
FBI Director Robert Mueller says another terrorist attack “inevitable.”
5/21/02
Asked if he has a plan to attack Iraq, Gen. Franks replies: “That’s a great question…my boss has not yet asked me to put together a plan to do that.”
5/21/02
Based on statements made by Zubaydah, FBI warns of attacks against railroads, Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, and rushes agents to sites. [Date the public knew: 6/20/06]
5/23/02
Bush states opposition to 9/11 hearings. Senate subcommittee votes to subpoena administration about Enron.
5/24/02
FBI warns of Memorial Day attacks by scuba divers.
Summer 2002
French debunk yellowcake theory: “We told the Americans, ‘Bullshit. It doesn’t make any sense,’” says French official. [Date the public knew: 12/11/05]
June 2002
To a deputy raising doubts about Iraq war, Rice says: “Save your breath. The president has already made up his mind.” [Date the public knew: 1/7/04]
June 2002
Iraq bombing begins. Military will fly 21,736 sorties and attack 349 targets between now and the start of the war.
6/4/02
Karl Rove and GOP chair Ken Mehlman’s PowerPoint presentation for midterm strategy highlights “Focus on War and Economy.”
6/6/02
Coleen Rowley, the FBI agent who tried to alert her superiors to flight training taken by Zacarias Moussaoui, testifies before Congress.
6/10/02
In midst of 9/11 hearings, Ashcroft interrupts trip to Russia to announce arrest of Padilla, who’s now accused of “dirty bomb” plot. Declared an enemy combatant, he’ll be held four years without access to court system.
Mid-2002
Cheney and Scooter Libby begin meeting directly with CIA analysts. [Date the public knew: 6/5/03]
July 2002
< Gen. Franks secretly requests $700 million for war preparations. Bush approves, unbeknownst to Congress. Money taken from appropriation for the war in Afghanistan. [Date the public knew: 4/18/04]
7/11/02
“Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.”—Richard Perle
7/15/02
Despite indications he was tortured into confession, Lindh cops to 20 years.
7/23/02
Downing Street memo written by foreign secretary after his visit with CIA’s Tenet and other US officials: “There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable…The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy…The most likely timing in US minds for military action to begin was January, with the timeline beginning 30 days before the US Congressional elections.” [Date the public knew: 5/1/05]
Aug 2002
White House Iraq Group created to market war. Members include Rove, Libby, Rice, as well as spinmeisters Karen Hughes and Mary Matalin. [Date the public knew: 8/10/03]
8/1/02
Justice Department memo asserts that Bush’s wartime powers supersede international anti-torture laws and treaties, defines torture as only that which is “equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.” [Date the public knew: 6/8/04]
8/7/02
Bush given Iraq war plan by Gen. Franks.
8/20/02
“We may or may not attack. I have no idea yet.”—Bush. “There are Al Qaeda in Iraq…There are.”—Rumsfeld.
8/26/02
“There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends…and against us.” —Cheney
8/26/02
Newsweek reports prisoners abused by US allies in Afghanistan.
Sep 2002
Bombing against Iraq intensifies.
Sep 2002
Tyler Drumheller, CIA’s European operations chief, calls German Embassy in Washington seeking access to Curveball. Germans warn he’s “crazy” and “probably a fabricator.” [Date the public knew: 11/20/05]
9/3/02
Bush asks skeptical congressional leadership to support action against Iraq.
9/5/02
Upon hearing from Tenet that no National Intelligence Estimate had been produced to assess justification for war, Sen. Graham demands one.
9/7/02
“From a marketing point of view you don’t introduce new products in August.”—White House Chief of Staff Andy Card on rollout of the war
9/7/02
Bush claims a new UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report states Iraq is six months from developing a nuclear weapon. There is no such report.
9/8/02
< Times story by Judith Miller and Michael Gordon cites anonymous administration officials saying Saddam has repeatedly tried to acquire aluminum tubes “specially designed” to enrich uranium. “The first sign of a ‘smoking gun,’ they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.”
9/8/02
Tubes “are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs…we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”—Rice on CNN
9/8/02
“We do know, with absolute certainty, that he is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.”—Cheney on Meet the Press
9/10/02
Orange terror alert.
9/11/02
Bush marks 9/11 with Statue of Liberty backdrop.
9/12/02
Bush repeats aluminum-tube claim before UN General Assembly.
9/13/02
Cheney tells Rush Limbaugh: “What’s happening, of course, is we’re getting additional information that, in fact, Hussein is reconstituting his biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons programs.” There is no such new intel.
9/16/02
“The president hasn’t made a decision to do anything with respect to Iraq.”—Rumsfeld
9/16/02
White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey estimates Iraq war could cost $200 billion.
Mid-Sep 2002
American relatives of Iraqis sent as CIA moles return from Iraq. All 30 report Saddam has abandoned WMD programs. Intel buried in the CIA bureaucracy. President Bush never briefed. [Date the public knew: 1/3/06]
9/18/02
Bush calls Saddam’s offer to let inspectors back into Iraq “his latest ploy.”
9/19/02
Rumsfeld tells Congress that Saddam “has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX, sarin, and mustard gas.”
9/19/02
Classified UK memo notes there’s “no definitive intelligence that [the aluminum tubes are] destined for a nuclear programme.” [Date the public knew: 9/24/02]
9/23/02
Institute for Science and International Security releases report calling the aluminum- tube intelligence ambiguous and warning that “U.S. nuclear experts who dissent from the Administration’s position are expected to remain silent. ‘The President has said what he has said, end of story,’ one knowledgeable expert said.”
9/24/02
Britain releases dossier to public saying Iraq could launch biological or chemical attack within 45 minutes. Dossier later determined to be “sexed up.”
9/25/02
“You can’t distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror.”—Bush
9/25/02
Citing Libi intel, Rice says: “High-ranking detainees have said that Iraq provided some training to Al Qaeda in chemical weapons development.”
9/26/02
Classified DIA assessment of Iraq’s chemical weapons concludes there is “no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons.” [Date the public knew: 5/30/03]
9/26/02
In a Rose Garden speech, Bush says: “The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons.”
9/26/02
In a speech in Houston, Bush says of Saddam: “After all, this is a guy who tried to kill my dad.”
9/27/02
Rumsfeld calls link between Iraq and Al Qaeda “accurate and not debatable.”
9/28/02
Bush’s address to nation: “The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons, is rebuilding the facilities to make more, and, according to the British government, could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes after the order is given.”
Oct 2002
National Intelligence Estimate produced. It warns that Iraq “is reconstituting its nuclear program” and “has now established large-scale, redundant and concealed BW agent production capabilities”—an assessment based largely on Curveball’s statements. But NIE also notes that the State Department has assigned “low confidence” to the notion of “whether in desperation Saddam would share chemical or biological weapons with Al Qaeda.” Cites State Department experts who concluded that “the tubes are not intended for use in Iraq’s nuclear weapons program.” Also says “claims of Iraqi pursuit of natural uranium in Africa” are “highly dubious.” Only six senators bother to read all 92 pages. [Date the public knew: 7/18/03]
Oct 2002
< Administration decides not to take out Abu Musab al-Zarqawi because, though he is not yet working with Al Qaeda, any terrorist in Iraq helps case for war. “People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” a former NSC member later says. [Date the public knew: 3/2/04]
Oct 2-24, 2002
DC-area sniper attacks.
10/4/02
Asked by Sen. Graham to make gist of NIE public, Tenet produces 25-page document titled “Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs.” It says Saddam has them and omits dissenting views contained in the classified NIE.
10/4/02
Knight Ridder reports: “Several senior administration officials and intelligence officers, all of whom spoke only on the condition of anonymity, charged that the decision to publicize one analysis of the aluminum tubes and ignore the contrary one is typical of the way the administration has been handling intelligence about Iraq.”
10/6/02
NSC memo to White House warning of the Niger uranium claim: “The evidence is weak…the Africa story is overblown.” [Date the public knew: 4/23/06]
10/7/02
Bush delivers a speech in which he says, “Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof—the smoking gun—that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.” Also says Iraq is exploring ways of using drones to target the US, although Iraq’s drones have a reach of only 300 miles.
10/7/02
CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin, writing for Tenet, sends a letter to Congress declaring that the likelihood of Saddam using WMD unless attacked is “very low.” [Date the public knew: 10/8/02]
10/8/02
Knight Ridder reports: “[A] growing number of military officers, intelligence professionals and diplomats in his own government privately have deep misgivings about the administration’s double-time march toward war. These officials charge that administration hawks have exaggerated evidence of the threat that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein poses…’Analysts at the working level in the intelligence community are feeling very strong pressure from the Pentagon to cook the intelligence books,’ said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity.”
10/11/02
Congress—including all serious Democratic contenders—votes to grant Bush power to go to war.
10/16/02
Bush tells public, “I have not ordered the use of force. I hope the use of force will not become necessary.”
10/20/02
Saddam empties prisons.
10/21/02
In Lackawanna, New York, six American citizens of Yemeni descent are hyped as a “sleeper cell” and indicted on terror charges despite scant evidence.
Nov 2002
CIA station chiefs from Middle East gather for a secret meeting at the US Embassy in London. The message: War is inevitable, just a few months away. [Date the public knew: 1/3/06]
Nov 2002
At largest CIA prison in Afghanistan, code-named Salt Pit, a case officer orders guards to strip a young detainee naked, chain him to the concrete floor, and leave him overnight. He freezes to death. [Date the public knew: 3/3/05]
11/5/02
GOP gains control of Senate.
11/7/02
“War is not my first choice. It’s my last choice.”—Bush
11/8/02
UN Security Council passes Resolution 1441 offering Iraq “a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations.” Iraq agrees and UN weapons inspectors return.
11/14/02
Rumsfeld handicaps war length: “Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
11/25/02
Bush elevates Homeland Security Department to Cabinet.
11/27/02
Weapons inspections begin in Iraq.
12/2/02
< Rumsfeld signs off on “Category III” interrogation techniques including “the use of scenarios designed to convince the detainee that death or severely painful consequences are imminent for him and/or his family.” It is later shown that these methods are torture as defined in US federal law, and that DOD knew that at the time. [Date the public knew: 6/22/04]
12/6/02
White House sacks Lindsey over war cost estimates.
12/7/02
Iraq submits a 12,200-page declaration to the UN documenting all its unconventional arms. US discredits the report because it does not mention the tubes or the Niger uranium.
12/21/02
Asked by Bush if there’s any reason to doubt existence of WMD, Tenet says: “It’s a slam-dunk case.” [Date the public knew: 4/17/04]
12/31/02
New war cost estimate generated: $50-$60 billion.
12/31/02
“You said we’re headed to war in Iraq. I don’t know why you say that…I’m the person who gets to decide, not you.”—Bush to press corps
Jan 2003
CIA balks at being made to bolster weak WMD intel. In a heated conversation with Scooter Libby, CIA’s McLaughlin says: “I’m not going back to the well on this. We’ve done our work.” [Date the public knew: 10/3/05]
Jan 2003
Faith-based czar John DiIulio dubs Bushies “Mayberry Machiavellis.”
Jan 2003
National Intelligence Council warns Bush that war in Iraq could lead to an anti-US insurgency and “increase popular sympathy for terrorist objectives.” [Date the public knew: 10/30/04]
1/3/03
“The Iraqi regime is a threat to any American.”—Bush
1/9/03
< Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N.’s IAEA, echoes DOE’s view that the aluminum tubes sought by Iraq are likely for artillery rockets, not centrifuges. A senior Bush official responds, “I think the Iraqis are spinning the IAEA.”
1/9/03
After nearly two months, UN’s Hans Blix says his inspectors have not found any “smoking guns” in Iraq.
1/11/03
<Bush tells Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar that he plans to go to war two days before he tells Secretary Powell. [Date the public knew: 4/18/04]
1/20/03
Bush signs presidential directive giving Pentagon control over postwar Iraq.
1/24/03
IAEA tells Washington Post, “It may be technically possible that the tubes could be used to enrich uranium, but you’d have to believe that Iraq deliberately ordered the wrong stock and intended to spend a great deal of time and money reworking each piece.”
1/27/03
UN press release: “It would appear…Iraq had decided in principle to…bring the disarmament task to completion through the peaceful process of inspection.” Weapons inspectors have examined 106 locations and found “no evidence that Iraq had revived its nuclear weapons programme.”
1/28/03
In State of the Union, Bush says “the 16 words”: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” Bush adds Saddam has “tried to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production” and has “mobile biological weapons labs.”
1/29/03
“Iraq poses a serious and mounting threat to our country.”—Rumsfeld
1/31/03
Notes of meeting between Bush and Blair make clear Bush intends to invade Iraq even if UN inspectors found no evidence of WMD. Bush told Blair he’d considered “flying U2 reconnaissance planes…over Iraq, painted in UN colours” to tempt Iraqi forces to fire on them, which would constitute a breach of UN resolutions. [Date the public knew: 2/3/06]
2/1/03
During UN speech rehearsal, Powell throws draft written by Libby into the air and says: “I’m not reading this. This is bullshit.” [Date the public knew: 6/9/03]
2/4/03
After reading draft of Powell’s speech, CIA agent emails his superior with concerns about “the validity of the information based on ‘CURVE BALL.’” Noting he’s the only US agent to have ever met Curveball (who was hung over at the time), the agent asks: “We sure didn’t give much credence to this report when it came out. Why now?” Deputy head of CIA’s Iraqi Task Force responds: “Let’s keep in mind the fact that this war’s going to happen regardless of what Curveball said or didn’t say…the Powers That Be probably aren’t terribly interested in whether Curveball knows what he’s talking about.” [Date the public knew: 7/9/04]
2/4/03
CIA’s Drumheller makes personal appeal to Tenet to delete Curveball’s intel from UN speech. Date the public knew: 6/25/06
2/4/03
Powell asks Tenet to personally assure intel for speech is good. Tenet does. [Date the public knew: 6/25/06]
2/5/03
< UN speech, Powell says, “Every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we’re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.” Cites Libi’s claims and Curveball’s “eyewitness” accounts of mobile weapons labs. (German officer who supervised Curveball’s handler will later recall thinking, “Mein Gott!”) Powell also claims that Saddam’s son Qusay has ordered WMD removed from palace complexes; that key WMD files are being driven around Iraq by intelligence agents; that bioweapons warheads have been hidden in palm groves; that a water truck at an Iraqi military installation is a “decontamination vehicle” for chemical weapons; that Iraq has drones it can use for bioweapons attacks; and that WMD experts have been corralled into one of Saddam’s guest houses. All but the last of those claims had been flagged by the State Department’s own intelligence unit as “WEAK.” [Date the public knew: 7/18/03]
2/6/03
Reiterating Powell’s claim, Bush says an Iraqi drone loaded with bioweapons could strike US mainland. The US Air Force is on the record as saying that “the small size of Iraq’s new UAV strongly suggests a primary role of reconnaissance.” [Date the public knew: 9/26/03]
2/7/03
Rumsfeld ups war length estimate: “It could last…six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.”
2/7/03
Three State Department bureau chiefs prepare a secret memo warning that “serious planning gaps for postconflict public security and humanitarian assistance…could result in serious human rights abuses, which would undermine an otherwise successful military campaign, and our reputation internationally.” [Date the public knew: 8/18/05]
2/7/03
As anti-war demonstrations increase, DHS Secretary Ridge warns of Al Qaeda “credible threats” and raises the terror alert level to orange.
2/8/03
UN’s Team Bravo, led by American bioweapons experts, searches Curveball’s former work site in Iraq and disproves many of his claims. [Date the public knew: 11/20/05]
2/8/03
In radio address to the nation, Bush warns that “firsthand witnesses [read: Curveball] have informed us that Iraq has at least seven mobile factories” for germ warfare.
2/10/03
DHS advises Americans to stock up on plastic sheeting and duct tape to protect themselves against radiological or biological attack.
2/14/03
Blix again tells UN Security Council that Iraq appears to be cooperating with inspectors.
2/15/03
Largest demonstrations in history. In 600 cities worldwide, millions protest war.
2/20/03
Rumsfeld: “There is no question but that [the invasion] would be welcomed.” Later says: “Never said that. Never did…You may remember it well, but you’re thinking of somebody else.”
2/23/03
“UN weapons inspectors are being seriously deceived…It reminds me of the way the Nazis hoodwinked Red Cross officials.”—Perle
2/25/03
Gen. Eric Shinseki tells Congress “several hundred thousand troops” will be needed to occupy Iraq. Rumsfeld retaliates, naming Shinseki’s successor 14 months before the end of his term.
2/27/03
US diplomat John Brady Kiesling resigns, citing the “distortion of intelligence” and “systematic manipulation of American opinion.”
2/27/03
Wolfowitz tells congressional hearing: “I am reasonably certain that they will greet us as liberators…the notion of hundreds of thousands of American troops is way off the mark.”
3/1/03
Iraq destroys four missiles, meeting a UN deadline to begin disarming.
3/3/03
IAEA official tells US that the Niger uranium documents were forgeries so error-filled that “they could be spotted by someone using Google.”
3/7/03
US, Britain, and Spain present a revised draft resolution giving Saddam an ultimatum to disarm by March 17 or face the possibility of war. France refuses to sign on to ultimatum.
3/7/03
Blix tells UN Security Council that there’s “no evidence” of mobile bioweapons facilities in Iraq.
3/7/03
“After three months of intrusive inspections, we have to date found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapon program in Iraq.”—IAEA’s ElBaradei
3/8/03
On CNN, Joe Wilson says, “I think it’s safe to say that the US government should have or did know that [the Niger documents were] fake before Dr. ElBaradei mentioned it in his report at the UN yesterday.” Decision to discredit Wilson made at a meeting within the Office of the Vice President. [Date the public knew: 5/3/04]
3/8/03
“We are doing everything we can to avoid war in Iraq.”—Bush
3/15/03
Bush, Tony Blair, and Spain’s president have “emergency summit.” Bush gives UN one day to find a diplomatic solution.
3/16/03
< Cheney on Meet the Press: “We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.” (Cheney later claims he misspoke.) Adds, “I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators.”
3/17/03
Threat level elevated to orange.
3/17/03
US and UK fail to secure UN resolution authorizing use of force. Bush gives Saddam 48 hours to surrender.
3/18/03
Washington Post article headlined “Bush Clings to Dubious Allegations About Iraq” notes, “As the Bush administration prepares to attack Iraq this week, it is doing so on the basis of a number of allegations against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that have been challenged—and in some cases disproved—by the United Nations, European governments and even U.S. intelligence reports.” Story is buried on Page A13.
3/20/03
War begins.
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Mar 2013 – It’s widely believed that when America invaded Iraq, Bush
and Cheney had no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to 9/11 and knew
that the …
Iraq anniversary: war intelligence ‘was a lie’, BBC
Panorama …
17 Mar 2013 – The documentary will reignite
questions over the legality and justification of the Iraq war. One
source told the programme the conflict was borne …
The Lies We
Believed (And Still Believe) About Iraq …
27 Jun 2014 – In 935
Lies, Lewis details the carefully orchestrated campaign of untruths
… [2] But in regard to the Iraq War, it seems, facts are now
irrelevant or at least …. It’s hard to tell without unfettered
access to the principals and their …
Study: Bush, aides made
935 false statements in run-up to war
27-03-2019
Ph D Research Students P5
Fact-Finding Mission PhD Research
- STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Study searched database for statements by Bush, aides, in 2001-2003
- Bush made 260 false statements about Iraqi weapons, al Qaeda, study says
- Study accuses former Secretary of State Colin Powell of 244 false statements
- Also on the list: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, former White House spokesmen
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Jan 2008 – WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush and his top aides
publicly made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by
Iraq in the two …
9/11 and Iraq: The War’s Greatest Lie
« Antiwar.com Blog
9/11 and Iraq: The War’s Greatest Lie
John Glaser Posted on March 18, 2013
The Bush administration’s primary justification for launching the Iraq War is thought, probably correctly, to be an alleged WMD program that did not exist. The coterie of delusional neoconservatives surrounding Bush and Cheney contributed to a systematic process of cherry-picking dubious intelligence and outright manipulation of evidence in order to satisfy a political decision that had already been made to change the regime in Iraq through a war of aggression.
The historical record pretty clearly demonstrates the distortions the administration employed to make the case that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. Inspectors who said they didn’t exist were ignored, false stories about aluminum tubes and yellowcake from Africa were peddled assertively, Iraqi defectors that were known liars were used as anonymous sources alleging Saddam’s WMD development, etc.
The plan eventually worked. The administration’s expressed certainty was persuasive to Americans. “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction,” Dick Cheney said in a 2002 speech. “There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.” No doubt.
But as central as these false claims about Saddam’s WMDs were to the propaganda campaign for war, I believe what will be most remembered is the claim of an operational connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.
Significant portions of Americans still believe that Saddam and al-Qaeda were in cahoots and cooperated in the 9/11 attacks. The reason is simple: the administration told them this lie.
An investigation by a committee in the House of Representatives in 2004 identified “237 misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq that were made by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary Powell, and National Security Advisor Rice. These statements were made in 125 separate appearances, consisting of 40 speeches, 26 press conferences and briefings, 53 interviews, 4 written statements, and 2 congressional testimonies.” According to the committee, at least 61 separate statements “misrepresented Iraq’s ties to al-Qaeda.” A Senate investigation in 2006 also covered these lies.
Keeping this lie afloat took some work. The Bush administration, primarily Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld, “applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime,” McClatchy reported in 2009.
According to Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Bush’s Secretary of State Powell, “the administration authorized harsh interrogation” in 2002, and “its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at pre-empting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qa’ida.”
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the detainee captured in Afghanistan in November 2001, eventually provided that smoking gun. He claimed knowledge of an Iraq-Qaeda connection because it was tortured out of him. The Bush administration cited it as evidence for the Iraq War’s greatest lie.
Other lies were told to this effect. Two months after the 9/11 attacks, on December 9, 2001, Dick Cheney went on Meet the Press and, when asked by Tim Russert whether “Iraq was involved in September 11,” mentioned a “report that’s been pretty well confirmed, that [9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack.”
In fact, the CIA had told Cheney this report was false a day before his Meet the Press appearance. In a briefing that was sent to the White House Situation Room, the CIA concluded that “11 September 2001 hijacker Mohamed Atta did not travel to the Czech Republic on 31 May 2000.” Cheney cited it anyways.
Two years later, on September 14, 2003, Cheney appeared once again on Meet the Press. Russert asked him if he was “surprised” by the fact that “69 percent” of Americans believe Saddam “was involved in the September 11 attacks.”
“I think it’s not surprising that people make that connection,” Cheney said. “With respect to 9/11, of course, we’ve had the story that’s been public out there. The Czechs alleged that Mohamed Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack, but we’ve never been able to develop anymore of that yet either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it.” In reality, it had been conclusively discredited years earlier.
As Paul Pillar, former CIA analyst and National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia, wrote in his recent book: “The supposed alliance between Saddam’s regime and al-Qa’ida clearly did not drive the Bush administration’s decision to launch the war [in Iraq] because the administration was receiving no indications that any such alliance existed,” adding that “this fact did not stop the administration from nonetheless promoting publicly the notion of such an alliance.”
By August 2003, after another year that included the most intensive selling of the war, more than two-thirds of Americans thought Saddam had been involved in 9/11. Some of this belief was due to innuendo such as the vice president’s repeated references to a phantom meeting in Prague between an Iraqi and 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta. It was due mostly to the administration’s rhetorical drumbeat that repeatedly mentioned Iraq, 9/11, and “war on terror” in the same breath.
Pillar is right: the Saddam-Qaeda connection did not drive the Bush administration’s decision to go to war with Iraq. But it did drive the administration’s propaganda campaign to generate public support for the war.
This was absolutely critical to the blank check that the vast majority of Americans gave to Bush and Cheney to go to war. Alleged WMDs, I think, could never have achieved the level of popular support for war crimes against Iraq on its own. The pain and indignation Americans felt after being attacked on 9/11 needed to be exploited for a war of choice as brazen as Iraq to gain support. And the record is clear that the Bush administration fostered this deception, employing torture and citing false intelligence to do so.
The record is clear, but the CIA is still trying to cover it up, as Marcy Wheeler has recently noted.
Many lies were told to justify the Iraq War. But none were as baseless and vital as this one. At the risk of joining the parade of idiots predicting “the judgement of history” on Iraq, I would anticipate the Saddam-Qaeda connection lie as the most important, far surpassing the more popularized WMD claims.
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Mar 2013 – Many lies were told to justify the Iraq War. But none were
as baseless and vital as this one. At the risk of joining the parade
of idiots predicting …
The Bush Administration’s Top 40 Lies
about War and …
https://www.commondreams.org/views03/0730-06.htm
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Jul 2003 – 1) The administration was not bent on war with Iraq from
9/11 onward. … She told the London Guardian that Bush and Blair
made a secret pact …
Dirty war Col. James Steele The man
without human feeling mastermind of divide and conquer. An Evil Head
and a Evil Heart are always a formidable and frightening
combination.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Steele_%28US_Colonel%29
Hugo
Chávez once stated that “the American empire is the greatest
menace to our planet.” Can see Andrew H2 months ago And
Americans wonder why ISIS exists.
Cannot see Racca Soko 3
months ago
From this expose’, it is clear that the ISIS
uprising in the region is a self defense against the death squad
commandos that were trained by the United States to commit atrocities
against the Sunni in
Iraq.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2j-5Ie0gZ8
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Untold
Story of the Iraq War ~ Commandos, Dirty Wars and Col. James Steele
Strummered 8 Mar 2013 21:16 “Those who do not learn from history
are doomed to repeat it” – George
Santayana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHEI603bF4
USA
Timeline of United States military
operations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations
United
States bombings of other
countries
http://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/united-states-bombings-of-other-countries
US
Bombing campaigns since
1945
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US_Bombing_campaigns_since_1945
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American
Indian Holocaust
In
the past, the main thrust of the Holocaust/Genocide Project’s
magazine, An End To Intolerance, has been the genocides that occurred
in history and outside of the United States. Still, what we mustn’t
forget is that mass killing of Native Americans occurred in our own
country. As a result, bigotry and racial discrimination still
exist.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/American_Indian_Holocaust
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- 10 million+ Estimated number of Native Americans living in land that is now the United States when European explorers first arrived in the 15th century
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- Numerous atrocities against Native Americans span the hundreds of years from the first arrival of European explorers to the modern era under a wide range of circumstances. Today there are over 500 Native American tribes in the United States, each with a distinct culture, way of life and history. Even today, Native Americans face large challenges to cope with the disadvantages history has left them and ongoing cases of discrimination.
- 10 million+ Estimated number of Native Americans living in land that is now the United States when European explorers first arrived in the 15th century
- Less than 300,000 Estimated number of Native Americans living in the United States around 1900
- 5.2 million identified as American Indian or Alaska Native in the 2010 census
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- An estimated 12,000 years ago, a mass migration of nomadic peoples, traveled across a land bridge that connected Asia to what is now Alaska. These people would come to be called Native Americans, numbering over 50 million, and settling from the top of North America to the bottom of South America.
- By the time Christopher Columbus reached the Caribbean in 1492, historians estimate that there were 10 million indigenous peoples living in U.S. territory. But by 1900, the number had reduced to less than 300,000.
- European expansion into North America – whether to find gold, escape religious persecution or start a new life – led to the destruction of Native American livelihoods. Disease was a major killer, followed by malnutrition. Colonists in search of gold staged violent ambushes on tribal villages, fueling animosity with Natives. Several wars broke out between tribes and American settlers which led to large death tolls, land dispossession, oppression and blatant racism.
- Unlike the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s, which led to blanket legal reform, Native Americans gained civil and legal rights piece by piece. In 1924, the U.S. Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, giving Native Americans a ‘dual citizenship’ – they were citizens of their sovereign native land as well as the United States. Native Americans gained uniform voting rights in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But it wasn’t until 1968, when the Indian Civil Rights Act was passed, that Natives gained the right to free speech, the right to a jury and protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
- Colonization
- While the Native Americans’ history began thousands of years ago, their European encounter started with one man. Determined to find a direct route from Europe to Asia, Christopher Columbus stumbled on the Americas in 1492.
- Columbus called the first people he met ‘Indians’ because he assumed he had been sailing in the Indian Ocean. But in actuality, this land had already been discovered – millions of Natives had occupied the Western Hemisphere for hundreds of years.
- Ultimately, while Columbus is remembered as a daring adventurer, he was also a perpetrator of atrocities and his legacy is viewed as the starting point that sparked hundreds of years of exploration and exploitation of the Americas.
- Disease
- The most significant reason for Natives decline was disease – an invisible killer that wiped out an estimated 90% of the population. Unlike the Europeans and Asians, whose lifestyle had a long history of sharing close quarters with domesticated animals, Native Americans were not immune to pathogens spread by domesticated cows, pigs, sheep, goats, and horses. As a result, millions were killed by measles, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria, typhus, bubonic plague, cholera, scarlet fever and syphilis.
- Spreading disease was not always intentional on the part of the colonists. But there were a few instances that confirm Europeans’ attempt to exterminate natives. In 1763, a particularly serious uprising threatened British garrisons in Pennsylvania. Worried about limited resources, and driven by atrocities committed by some Native Americans , Sir Jeffrey Amherst, commander-in-chief of British forces in North America, wrote to Colonel Henry Bouquet at Fort Pitt:
- “You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method, that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.”
- Consequently, settlers spread smallpox to the Native Americans by distributing blankets previously owned by contagious patients.
- Violent Conflicts
- Cultural clashes between European settlers and Natives lasted for over four hundred years – small battles, large scale wars and forced labor systems on large estates, also known as encomiendas – took a large toll on the Native population.
- Throughout the Northeast, proclamations to create ‘redskins’, or scalps of Native Americans, were common during war and peace times. According to the 1775 Phips Proclamation in Massachusetts, King George II of Britain called for “subjects to embrace all opportunities of pursuing, captivating, killing and destroying all and every of the aforesaid Indians.”
- Colonists were paid for each Penobscot Native they killed – fifty pounds for adult male scalps, twenty-five for adult female scalps, and twenty for scalps of boys and girls under age twelve. These proclamations explicitly display the settlers’ “intent to kill”, a major indicator of genocidal acts.
- U.S. History of Atrocities
- After the American Revolution, many Native American lives were already lost to disease and displacement. In 1830, the federal Indian Removal Act called for the removal of the ‘Five Civilized Tribes’ – the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole. Between 1830 and 1838, federal officials working on behalf of white cotton growers forced nearly 100,000 Indians out of their homeland. The dangerous journey from the southern states to “Indian Territory” in current Oklahoma is referred to as the Trail of Tears in which 4,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease.
- As the United States expanded westward, violent conflicts over territory multiplied. In 1784, one British traveler noted:
- “White Americans have the most rancorous antipathy to the whole race of Indians; and nothing is more common than to hear them talk of extirpating them totally from the face of the earth, men, women, and children.”
- In particular, the 1848 California gold rush caused 300,000 people to migrate to San Francisco from the East Coast and South America. Historians believe that California was once the most densely and diversely populated area for Native Americans in U.S. territory; however, the gold rush had massive implications for Native American livelihoods. Toxic chemicals and gravel ruined traditional Native hunting and agricultural practices, resulting in starvation for many Natives.
- Further, in 1850, the California state government passed the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians that addressed the punishment and protection of Native Americans, and helped to facilitate the removal of their culture and land. It also legalized slavery and was referenced for the buying and selling of Native children.
- “A
war of extermination will continue to be waged between the two races
until the Indian race becomes extinct.”
– California Governor Peter H. Burnett, 1851 - In 1890, Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in North Dakota, government officials believed chief Sitting Bull was a Ghost Dancer, someone who rejects “the ways of the white man” and believes that the gods will create a new world without non-believers. In the process of arresting Sitting Bull, federal officials actually ended up killing him, causing a massive rebellion that led to the deaths of over 150 Natives in Pine Ridge.
- Modern Atrocities
- Since the early 1900’s, advancements in Native American rights have been slow and piece-meal. At the turn of century, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. federal government has the right to overturn all Cherokee laws in the precedent-setting decision Cherokee Nation v. Hitchcock.
- But, in 1928, the Brookings Institute released the ‘Meriam Report’, which was one of the first in-depth analyses of reservation living conditions. The report went on to influence policy initiatives which improved healthcare, education, and land rights for Native Americans. This was a step forward for the protection of a minority who was still without voting rights.
- In 1949, however, the U.S. government took a step back towards 19th century bigotry, as the Hoover Commission urged the assimilation of the Natives,
- “The basis for historic Indian culture has been swept away. Traditional tribal organization was smashed a generation ago .… Assimilation must be the dominant goal of public policy.”
- One year later, using the same post-war idea that prevented “Little Tokyos” in the U.S., the Commissioner of Indian Affairs began to implement ‘withdrawal planning’, or the termination and relocation of thousands of Natives to cities.
- In 1978, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act which protects Native American children and the custody of their parents. Controversy has surrounded cases where state officials forcibly removed children from Native American families.
- In Maine, the Maine Truth and Reconciliation Committee, for example, seeks to uncover and acknowledge the truth about what happened to Wabanaki children and families involved with the Maine child welfare system. These forcible removals are still happening today.
- South Dakota continues to remove children at a rate higher than the vast majority of other states in the country.
- Conclusion
- For hundreds of years a mixture of colonial conflict, disease, specific atrocities and policies of discrimination has devastated the Native American population. In the course of this time, it is estimated that over nine million Natives died from violent conflict or disease. For too long this history has been under-recognized and too little discussed.
Fact-Finding Mission PhD Research
The
Slaughter of Native Americans Was The U.S.’s Original Stand Your
Ground
http://www.politicususa.com/2012/03/24/native-american-crisis.html
Fact-Finding Mission PhD Research
SLAVERY
IN
AMERICA
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/slavery-and-anti-slavery/resources/facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery
Abu
Ghraib torture and prisoner
abuse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
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Torture
at Abu Ghraib
CIA with Saudi, Qatari ….Created ISIL/Takfiri
Terrorist to disrupt Islamic Awakening
The ISIS Islamic Terrorists are Supported by the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia
Global Research, September 20, 2015
Washington’s Blog 16 August 2014
Region: Middle East & North Africa
Theme: Intelligence, Terrorism, US NATO War Agenda
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Who’s Really Pulling the Strings?
The Times of Israel reported Wednesday:
A Free Syrian Army commander, arrested last month by the Islamist militia Al-Nusra Front, told his captors he collaborated with Israel in return for medical and military support, in a video released this week.Read more: Syrian rebel commander says he collaborated with Israel.
In a video uploaded to YouTube Monday … Sharif As-Safouri, the commander of the Free Syrian Army’s Al-Haramein Battalion, admitted to having entered Israel five times to meet with Israeli officers who later provided him with Soviet anti-tank weapons and light arms. Safouri was abducted by the al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front in the Quneitra area, near the Israeli border, on July 22.
“The
[opposition]
factions would receive support and send the injured in
[to Israel]
on condition that the Israeli fence area is secured. No person was allowed to come near the fence without prior coordination with Israel authorities,” Safouri said in the video.
***
In the edited confession video, in which Safouri seems physically unharmed, he says that at first he met with an Israeli officer named Ashraf at the border and was given an Israeli cellular phone. He later met with another officer named Younis and with the two men’s commander, Abu Daoud. In total, Safouri said he entered Israel five times for meetings that took place in Tiberias.
Following the meetings, Israel began providing Safouri and his men with “basic medical support and clothes” as well as weapons, which included 30 Russian [rifles], 10 RPG launchers with 47 rockets, and 48,000 5.56 millimeter bullets.
Also on Wednesday, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency – a 97-year old Jewish wire service – reported:
A senior employee of the Dutch Justice Ministry said the jihadist group ISIS was created by Zionists seeking to give Islam a bad reputation.
Yasmina Haifi, a project leader at the ministry’s National Cyber Security Center, made the assertion Wednesday on Twitter, the De Telegraaf daily reported.
“ISIS has nothing to do with Islam. It’s part of a plan by Zionists who are deliberately trying to blacken Islam’s name,” wrote Haifi ….
In March, Haaretz reported:
The Syrian opposition is willing to give up claims to the Golan Heights in return for cash and Israeli military aid against President Bashar Assad, a top opposition official told Al Arab newspaper, according to a report in Al Alam.
***
The Western-backed militant groups want Israel to enforce a no-fly zone over parts of southern Syria to protect rebel bases from air strikes by Assad’s forces, according to the report.
World Net Daily reports that the U.S. trained Islamic jihadis – who would later join ISIS – in Jordan.
The Jerusalem Post reports that an ISIS fighter says that Turkey funds the terrorist group. Turkey is a member of NATO and – at least until very recently – a close U.S. ally.
Wealthy donors in U.S. allies Kuwait and Qatar back ISIS, and Western intelligence officials say that those governments must be approving the support.
A former high-level Al Qaeda commander has repeatedly alleged that ISIS works for the CIA.
In June, investment adviser Jim Willie alleged:
The [Isis] troops that are working there [in Syria and Iraq] are Langley
[i.e. CIA]
troops. They’re trained, funded, and armed by Langley.
What I’m hearing… the U.S. military (Pentagon regulars), and you have to be careful when you refer to U.S. military anymore. What kind of U.S. military? Is it the Pentagon U.S. Army, or is it the Langley military, which has unmarked uniforms and 10′s of thousands of mercenaries?
They’re about to encounter each other in Iraq. The U.S. military Pentagon regulars evacuated Iraq, and what filled the vacuum was the Langley mercenaries, trained for Syria, that migrated South and announced their new agenda.
If and when the Pentagon regulars encounter the Langley mercenaries in Iraq, Obama’s going to get a house call, because U.S. military will be fighting U.S. military. Pentagon vs. Langley.
While we don’t know which of the above-described allegations are true, two things are certain:
- The U.S. armed Islamic jihadis in Syria, and their weapons ended up in the hands of ISIS; and
- Close allies of the U.S. have supported and trained the ISIS terrorists
Why would the U.S. and its allies back ISIS, when they are barbarian Islamic terrorists? Well – assuming it’s true – oil and gas could be the explanation.
After all, there is evidence that the U.S. and her allies have wanted to break up the nations of Iraq and Syria for decades. And ISIS has done so.
In any event – whether or not it’s true of ISIS – it’s well-documented that the U.S., Saudis and Israelis have been backing the world’s most dangerous and radical Muslim terrorists for decades. And see this.
And anyone who looks at the battle against ISIS as a religious war is being played.
Israel Supports Islamic Terrorists
The original source of this article is Washington’s Blog
Copyright © Washington’s Blog, Washington’s Blog, 2015
http://www.newsweek.com/israeli-saudi-american-alliance-against-iran-71781
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7NsXFnzJGw&feature=share
2012
Classified U.S. Report: ISIS Must Rise To Power – See more
2012 Classified U.S. Report: ISIS Must Rise To Power
May 23, 2015 Sean Adl-Tabatabai News, US 2
Conservative government watchdog Judicial Watch have published formerly classified documents from the U.S. Department of Defence which reveals the agencies earlier views on ISIS, namely that they were a desirable presence in Eastern Syria in 2012 and that they should be “supported” in order to isolate the Syrian regime.
Levantreport.com reports:
Astoundingly, the newly declassified report states that for “THE WEST, GULF COUNTRIES, AND TURKEY [WHO] SUPPORT THE [SYRIAN] OPPOSITION… THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A DECLARED OR UNDECLARED SALAFIST PRINCIPALITY IN EASTERN SYRIA (HASAKA AND DER ZOR), AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SUPPORTING POWERS TO THE OPPOSITION WANT, IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE SYRIAN REGIME…”.
The DIA report, formerly classified “SECRET//NOFORN” and dated August 12, 2012, was circulated widely among various government agencies, including CENTCOM, the CIA, FBI, DHS, NGA, State Dept., and many others.
The document shows that as early as 2012, U.S. intelligence predicted the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), but instead of clearly delineating the group as an enemy, the report envisions the terror group as a U.S. strategic asset.
While a number of analysts and journalists have documented long ago the role of western intelligence agencies in the formation and training of the armed opposition in Syria, this is the highest level internal U.S. intelligence confirmation of the theory that western governments fundamentally see ISIS as their own tool for regime change in Syria. The document matter-of-factly states just that scenario.
Forensic evidence, video evidence, as well as recent admissions of high-level officials involved (see former Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford’s admissions here and here), have since proven the State Department and CIA’s material support of ISIS terrorists on the Syrian battlefield going back to at least 2012 and 2013 (for a clear example of “forensic evidence”: see UK-based Conflict Armament Research’s report which traced the origins of Croatian anti-tank rockets recovered from ISIS fighters back to a Saudi/CIA joint program via identifiable serial numbers).
The newly released DIA report makes the following summary points concerning “ISI” (in 2012 “Islamic State in Iraq,”) and the soon to emerge ISIS:
- Al-Qaeda drives the opposition in Syria
- The West identifies with the opposition
- The establishment of a nascent Islamic State became a reality only with the rise of the Syrian insurgency (there is no mention of U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq as a catalyst for Islamic State’s rise, which is the contention of innumerable politicians and pundits; see section 4.D. below)
- The establishment of a “Salafist Principality” in Eastern Syria is “exactly” what the external powers supporting the opposition want (identified as “the West, Gulf Countries, and Turkey”) in order to weaken the Assad government
- “Safe havens” are suggested in areas conquered by Islamic insurgents along the lines of the Libyan model (which translates to so-called no-fly zones as a first act of ‘humanitarian war’; see 7.B.)
- Iraq is identified with “Shia expansion” (8.C)
- A Sunni “Islamic State” could be devastating to “unifying Iraq” and could lead to “the renewing facilitation of terrorist elements from all over the Arab world entering into Iraqi Arena.” (see last non-redacted line in full PDF view.)
The following is excerpted from the seven page DIA declassified report:
R 050839Z AUG 12
…
THE
GENERAL SITUATION:
A. INTERNALLY, EVENTS ARE TAKING A CLEAR
SECTARIAN DIRECTION.
B. THE SALAFIST [sic], THE MUSLIM
BROTHERHOOD, AND AQI ARE THE MAJOR FORCES DRIVING THE INSURGENCY IN
SYRIA.
C. THE WEST, GULF COUNTRIES, AND TURKEY SUPPORT THE
OPPOSITION; WHILE RUSSIA, CHINA AND IRAN SUPPORT THE REGIME.
…
3. (C) Al QAEDA – IRAQ (AQI):… B. AQI SUPPORTED THE SYRIAN OPPOSITION FROM THE BEGINNING, BOTH IDEOLOGICALLY AND THROUGH THE MEDIA…
…
4.D. THERE WAS A REGRESSION OF AQI IN THE WESTERN PROVINCES OF IRAQ DURING THE YEARS OF 2009 AND 2010; HOWEVER, AFTER THE RISE OF THE INSURGENCY IN SYRIA, THE RELIGIOUS AND TRIBAL POWERS IN THE REGIONS BEGAN TO SYMPATHIZE WITH THE SECTARIAN UPRISING. THIS (SYMPATHY) APPEARED IN FRIDAY PRAYER SERMONS, WHICH CALLED FOR VOLUNTEERS TO SUPPORT THE SUNNI’S [sic] IN SYRIA.
…
7.
(C) THE FUTURE ASSUMPTIONS OF THE CRISIS:
A. THE REGIME WILL
SURVIVE AND HAVE CONTROL OVER SYRIAN TERRITORY.
B. DEVELOPMENT
OF THE CURRENT EVENTS INTO PROXY WAR: …OPPOSITION FORCES ARE TRYING
TO CONTROL THE EASTERN AREAS (HASAKA AND DER ZOR), ADJACENT TO THE
WESTERN IRAQI PROVINCES (MOSUL AND ANBAR), IN ADDITION TO NEIGHBORING
TURKISH BORDERS. WESTERN COUNTRIES, THE GULF STATES AND TURKEY ARE
SUPPORTING THESE EFFORTS. THIS HYPOTHESIS IS MOST LIKELY IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE DATA FROM RECENT EVENTS, WHICH WILL HELP PREPARE
SAFE HAVENS UNDER INTERNATIONAL SHELTERING, SIMILAR TO WHAT
TRANSPIRED IN LIBYA WHEN BENGHAZI WAS CHOSEN AS THE COMMAND CENTER OF
THE TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT.
…
8.C. IF THE SITUATION UNRAVELS THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A DECLARED OR UNDECLARED SALAFIST PRINCIPALITY IN EASTERN SYRIA (HASAKA AND DER ZOR), AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SUPPORTING POWERS TO THE OPPOSITION WANT, IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE SYRIAN REGIME, WHICH IS CONSIDERED THE STRATEGIC DEPTH OF THE SHIA EXPANSION (IRAQ AND IRAN)
8.D.1. …ISI COULD ALSO DECLARE AN ISLAMIC STATE THROUGH ITS UNION WITH OTHER TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA, WHICH WILL CREATE GRAVE DANGER IN REGARDS TO UNIFYING IRAQ AND THE PROTECTION OF ITS TERRITORY.
Taliban
Terrorist in Pakistan “CIA worked with Pakistan to create
Taliban” http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~amjad20s/classweb2/page2.html
US
created ISIL when Syria war began:
Analyst
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vTAKP6ZzKek&autoplay=1
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5717157
http://www.newstatesman.com/…/wahhabism-isis-how-saudi…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iZU6xbw5dqg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=368WnWIO1t0
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Who
created this ISIL Monster Spawns
Terror?
http://www.politisite.com/2014/06/22/isis-isil-made-usa-cia/ … http://fb.me/2cSl6Amjd
“The
Terrorists R Us.” The Islamic State “Big Lie”…
http://fb.me/4gPXBUA3k
http://fb.me/38cRYVmT0
A
former al-Qaeda operative imprisoned in US says members of the Saudi
royal family provided millions of dollars to the terrorist group in
the 1990s. Get more details on Press TV
website: http://ptv.io/1o3C
Islamophobia
late nineteenth and of the twentieth century http://fb.me/1N4NZtdK4
Leon
Brittan – Another Strand In …A Giant
Web: http://bit.ly/1wPYjlP
War
Criminal Blair’s links to Rwandan War Criminal President to stay
secret – Foreign Office: http://bit.ly/1HCBGMT
ISIS
and Washington’s Ignorance about the Sunni-Shia
Divide
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/15/isis-and-washingtons-ignorance-about-the-sunni-shia-divide/
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ISRAEL
SUPPORTS JIHADISTS, ISIS IN
SYRIA
http://www.infowars.com/israel-supports-jihadists-isis-in-syria/
True
World Intelligence News
(TWIN)
https://voiceoftruthusa.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/proof-of-a-link-between-israel-and-isil-isis-aka-daash/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7hXRC5w5NE
How
the British Divided Up the Arab World | Lost Islamic
…
lostislamichistory.com/how-the-british-divided-up-the-arab-world/
26
Dec 2012 – Today, a political map of the Arab world looks like a very
complex …. some amount of Arab self-rule in some areas, albeit with
European control …
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Divide
and Conquer: The Anglo-American Imperial Project
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andrewgavinmarshall.com/…/divide-and-conquer-the-anglo-american-im…
9
Jul 2011 – Home » Middle East » Divide and Conquer: The
Anglo-American … Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist
us in the short run and will …
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Racism
is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what
they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
Rosa
Parks
Racism
The Oppression of Black People-Shining a Light
on the Past to Understand the Present http://fb.me/6jbM0L222
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Noam
Chomsky and Hypocrites … http://fb.me/6p6xos6Am
Racism
is mental illness. Jane Elliott on Oprah Winfrey Show
(1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms4NJx0wwXM
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Albert
Einstein Called Racism “A Disease of
…
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/albert-einstein-civil-rights-activist.html
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Noam
Chomsky on America: ‘This is a very racist
society’ http://rt.com/usa/214079-chomsky-america-racist-society/
“Shocking”
comments
https://twitter.com/boltcomments
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http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/12/mans-racist-attack-brisbane-train-caught-video
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Australia’s
history is littered with incidents of prejudice and discrimination
based on gender, religion and
race.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Australia
‘Today,
India is Israel’s closest eastern ally and its largest arms market.
Annual non-military bilateral trade… http://fb.me/3bxfa9uqp
Amir
of Bahrain Stop killing peaceful Demonstrators Learn from China..Did
China shoot demonstrators? Hong… http://fb.me/2tNRVC0Td
What
to do when somebody insults Prophet Muhammad SAW
Boycott… http://fb.me/3AessHSWf
Drone
attacks in Pakistan are counterproductive, says report
Ann
Coulter Still Racist
The Real Ann Coulter Revealed
Rightwing
columnist Ann Coulter continued vilifying immigrants as criminals
Wednesday in a column poking fun at people with “comically foreign”
names.
Politically conservative commentator Ann Coulter has
referred to Iranians as “ragheads” (though she later on
clarified that she was referring to the government figures, she would
later come out in support of Green Revolution protesters in 2009),
and Brent Scowcroft has called the Iranian people “rug
merchants”. Additionally, the Columbus Dispatch recently ran a
cartoon that portrayed Iran as a sewer with cockroaches crawling out
of it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Iranian_sentiment
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Mission
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/14/ann-coulter-immigrants-criminals_n_4273401.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter
War
Crimes against Native Americans – World Future
Fund
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/war.crimes/US/Indian.Removal.htm
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American
Indian Holocaust –
RationalWiki
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/American_Indian_Holocaust
Indians
were generally disliked in the United States, as they got in the way
… While Americans readily acknowledge the Nazi crimes against the
…
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Indian massacre – Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre
According
to Spanish sources, 900 Tompiro Indians were killed. ….. of settler
attacksagainst and mass killing of native people all over Northern
California. Site is
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The
US and the Crime of Genocide against Native
Americans
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/06hrights/georegions/northamerica/UnitedStates02.htm
The
US and the Crime of Genocide Against Native Americans. The opposite
of love is not hate; it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not
ugliness; it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy;
it’s indifference.
Authorities Probe Alleged Hate Crime Against
Native … –
NPR
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/02/09/383835807/authorities-probe-alleged-hate-crime-against-native-american-kids
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Feb 2015 – An investigation into a possible hate crime is underway in
Rapid City, S.D., after a group of men allegedly assaulted Native
American kids at a …
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…
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Violence
Against American Indians is a Pervasive Problem
…
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2006/winter/indian-blood
Farmington,
N.M. has a history of crimes against American Indians that dates …
She estimates that only around 10% of hate crimes against Native
Americans are …
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Mission
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Racism
against American Indian – Native
Americans
http://clevelandsearch.com/Native-Americans.html
According
to the US Department of Justice, by its own admission, crimes against
Native Americans go unpunished. The DOJ states that some of the
problem is …
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Past
genocides committed against Native
Americans
http://www.religioustolerance.org/genocide5.htm
12
Oct 2003 – The genocide against American Natives was one of the most
… a small sampling of the horrendous atrocities inflicted on
Natives by Europeans.
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Mission
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Natives
Targeted Most for Hate Crimes
– ICTMN.com
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/06/27/natives-targeted-most-hate-crimes-40435
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100
Million Native American’ Indians Exterminated By Illegal Immigrant
‘Settlers’
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The
West and poverty
Please stop telling your readers there is no poverty in the West
Western
civilisation has been going through a deepening crisis over the last
120 years
Poverty in the United States and Other Western
Countries
Issue Guide: Western Europe and the Global Financial
Crisis
http://www.cfr.org/
…/issue-guide-western-europe-glob…/p19525
War,
Racism and the Empire of
Poverty
http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-racism-and-the-empir
…/18263
Western
Civilization and the Economic Crisis: The Impoverishment of the
Middle
Class
http://www.globalresearch.ca/western-civilization-and
…/18386
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A
wounded
economy
http://www.economist.com/
…/21633813-it-closer-crisis-west-o…
8
Reasons Why A New Global Financial Crisis Could Be On The Way
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more: http://www.nasdaq.com/
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The
Crisis in the
West
http://www.the-american-interest.com/
…/the-crisis-in-the-w…/
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Power
Shifts, Economic Change and the Decline of the
West?
http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/pdf/Cox-Waltz.pdf
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Crisis
and recovery: the threat to western
elites
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/
…/crisis-and-recovery-the…
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Political,
economic and climatic crises of Western
civilisation
http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category.php/features/55334
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400,000
children living in poverty in the West Midlands
…
www.birminghammail.co.uk
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News › Aston and Nechells
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2
Jul 2014 – The West Midlands has again been shamed by new child
poverty figures revealing the area had the biggest problem outside
London.
https://plus.google.com/10531500423571267…/posts/CsPR44AFAKN
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Child
poverty statistics: how the UK compares to other
…
www.theguardian.com
›
Lifestyle › Poverty
11 Sep 2009 – Child poverty statistics
show UK children suffer some of the worst … proportion of children
in poverty than any other western European nation.
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Child
poverty up in more than half of developed world since
…
www.theguardian.com
›
Business › Poverty
28 Oct 2014 – Unicef report finds number of
children entering poverty during … hit by the recession, according
to the report, with 7.5 million within the EU not …
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Children
at risk of poverty or social exclusion – Statistics
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ec.europa.eu/
…/Children_at_risk_of_poverty_or_social_exclusi…
20
Apr 2015 – This article presents statistical data on the situation of
children (aged 0-17) in the European Union (EU) who were at risk of
poverty or social ..
http://www.westword.com/
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The
below catalogue of Australian involvement in Genocide as defined by
the UN Genocide Convention – and notably in British and
American-imposed genocides – is given in roughly chronological order
from 1788, the year of European Invasion and First Settlement, to
2008.
1. 18th -19th century Aboriginal Genocide (the Indigenous
Aboriginal population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million in
the first century after invasion in 1788).
2. Tasmanian
Aboriginal Genocide (the “full-blood” Indigenous population
dropped from 6,000 to zero from 1776 to 1803.
3. British Indian
Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 0.6 billion, 1757-1837; 0.5
billion, 1837-1901 under Queen Victoria; 0.4 Billion, 1901-1947.
4.
European Chinese Genocide (10-100 million deaths in the European
imperialism-driven Tai Ping rebellion period; Australia was involved
in suppressing the Boxer rebellion).
5. Maori Genocide (Maori
population dropped from 0.1-0.2 million in 1800 to 42,000 in 1893;
Australia was involved in the 19th century Maori wars).
6.
African Genocide (scores of million perished over 5 centuries of
European slavery and colonialism; Australians participated in the
Sudan War, 1881-1898).
7. Pacific Genocide (there was a
catastrophic population decline due to introduced disease and
slavery; thus 40,000 Fijians died from measles out of a population of
150,000 in 1876; “blackbirding” slavery was conducted by
Australians in the late 19th century).
8. Boer (Afrikaaner)
Genocide (1899-1902; 28,000 Afrikaaner women and children died in
British concentration camps; Australians participated in the Boer War
as immortalized in the movie “Breaker Morant”).
9.
Armenian Genocide (1.5 million killed; the Australian invasion of
Gallipoli as part of an Anglo-French force in 1915 helped to
precipitate this atrocity; indeed April 24 is Armenian Genocide Day
and April 25 is the day of the Australia invasion in 1915 and also a
sacred war dead remembrance day for Australians and New Zealanders –
it is called Anzac Day after the Australian and New Zealand Army
Corps (ANZAC) which stormed ashore on that first Anzac Day at
Gallipoli in 1915).
10. Bengali Genocide (6-7 million perished
in the “forgotten” man-made Bengal Famine atrocity in
Bengal and adjoining provinces in British India, 1943-1945;
Australians were there and indeed the Governor of Bengal in 1944 was
an Australian, R.G. Casey).
11. British post-1950 Third World
Genocide (1950-2005 excess deaths in countries subject to British
occupation as a major occupier in the post-war era totalled 727
million; Australia has the same Head of State as the UK and continues
to be a loyal military ally of the UK in Occupied Iraq and Occupied
Afghanistan).
12. US post-1950 Third World Genocide (1950-2005
excess deaths in countries subject to US occupation as a major
occupier in the post-war era totalled 82 million; Australia
participated in all post-1950 US Asian Wars in Korea, Indo-China,
Iraq and Afghanistan with Indigenous Asian excess deaths now
totalling 25 million).
13. Australian Colonial Genocide
(1950-2005 excess deaths in countries subject to Australian
occupation as a major occupier in the post-war era, namely Papua New
Guinea and the Solomon Islands totalled 2.1 million).
14. 20th
century Aboriginal Genocide (total excess deaths clearly of the order
of 1million; 0.1 million Stolen Generations Aboriginal children
forcibly removed from their Mothers in the 19th and 20th centuries;
excess deaths in the 11 years of the Bush-ite Coalition Government
totalled 90,000 for 1996-2007).
The following Australian
genocide involvements in this catalogue of horrors are ongoing.
15.
Palestinian Genocide (post-1967 excess deaths 0.3 million, post-1967
under-5 infant deaths 0.2 million and 7 million refugees; with
bi-partisan agreement Australia provides diplomatic, financial and
haven support for Israeli state terrorism – even when directed
against tens of thousands of Australian citizens as in Lebanon in
mid-2006 – and up to life imprisonment for anyone giving support to
the Hamas Party that overwhelmingly won the 2006 Occupied Palestinian
elections).
16. Iraqi Genocide (4 million excess deaths
1990-2008; 2 million post-invasion excess deaths, 0.6 million
post-invasion under-5 infant deaths and 4.5 million refugees;
Australia militarily involved since 1990 ).
17. Afghan Genocide
(3-7 million post-invasion excess deaths, 2.3 million post-invasion
under-5 infant and 4 million refugees; Australia involved militarily
since 2001).
18. Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide (9,000 excess
deaths annually; 90,000 excess deaths in the last 11 years of
Bush-ite Coalition rule; see MWC News).
19. Biofuel Genocide (16
million die avoidably each year but this is increasingly
biofuel-impacted as the legislatively-mandated US, UK and EU biofuel
perversion forces up global food prices; Australia is a major sugar
cane grower and sugar exporter with 60% of sugar going to bioethanol
production worldwide; Australia has biofuel-promoting legislation and
is a major canola grower, this being a major source for biodiesel;
see MWC News).
20. Climate Genocide (16 million die avoidably
each year already from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated
disease; Professor James Lovelock FRS says that over 6 million will
perish this century die to unaddressed climate change; on a per
capita basis Australia is among the very worst greenhouse gas (GHG)
polluters – in terms of 2004 figures for “fossil fuel-derived
annual per capita CO2 pollution” Australia is about 40 times
worse than India and 160 times worse than Bangladesh if you include
Australia’s world number 1 coal exports; see MWC News).
Yet
politically correct racist Australia steadfastly “looks the
other way” and its past and present involvements in the above
atrocities are overwhelmingly not reported by racist, lying,
holocaust-ignoring Mainstream media nor taught in Australia’s schools
and universities. PC racist White Australia just cannot see the
“Elephant in the room” – its continuing involvement in
over 2 centuries of horrendous genocide.
Australians are trapped
in an Orwellian dream – Australia will only stop doing it when it is
informed that it is doing it. Please inform everyone you can.
An
edited version of Australia’s Secret Genicide History
By: Dr
Gideon Polya BSc
Article edited by Bruce Skewes, Sub-editor of
Treaty Republic
Key References:
A key reference is the book
‘Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950’ by Dr Gideon
Polya. Other relevant books are Chalk, F. and Jonassohn, K. (1990),
The History and Sociology of Genocide. Analyses and Case Studies
(Yale University Press, New Haven & London); Tatz, C. (2003),
With Intent to Destroy. Reflecting on Genocide (Verso, London); and
Blum, W. (2006), Rogue State, A guide to the world’s only superpower
(Zed Books, London).
Other references:
• Body Count.
Global avoidable mortality since 1950 (G.M. Polya, Melbourne,
2007).
• Australia’s secret genocide history. ‘Bundoora
Eucalyptus’ and Black Crimes of White Australia”.
•
Stolen Generations. Australian Aboriginal Genocide Aboriginal
Genocide.
• Racist White Australian child abuse and passive
mass murder
• Australian Aboriginal Genocide
•
Australian genocide. Oz ignores Aboriginal Iraqi, Afghan and Climate
genocides.
Gideon Polya ‘Media wirh conscience’
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add
List of massacres of Indigenous Australians – Wikipedia, the
…
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The
colonial Australian frontier war was unofficial, undeclared and …..
“Water view”, North Bundaberg, at least 15 to 20 Aborigines
killed in a dispersal by Native …
Australian Anzac &
Armenian Genocide – MWC News
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Focus › Analysis
25 Apr 2011 – Analysis • Photos •
Editorial • Politics • Letters to Editor • Interactive … 25
April is marked as Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand that
commemorates …. 18th-19th century Aboriginal Genocide (the
Indigenous Aboriginal population … European Chinese Genocide
(20-100 million deaths in the European …
Australia’s Secret
Genocide History – yet genocidal
…
https://sites.google.com/…/abor…/australia-s-secret-genocide
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For
an image of the huge “Bundoora Eucalyptus” painting see: ….
Armenian Genocide (1.5 million killed; the Australian invasion of
Gallipoli as part of an … 20th century Aboriginal Genocide (total
excess deaths clearly of the order of 1million; …
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Aboriginal
Genocide – Google
Sites
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The
Indigenous population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million in
the first … and the Australian Aboriginal life expectancy is about
20 years less than that …
Who killed more than 50 million
Indians in South America? Was it Muslims?
Who took about 180
million of African people as slaves, of whom 88% died and thrown in
the Atlantic? Was it Muslims?
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Five lessons from the de-listing of MEK as a terrorist group
Glenn Greenwald https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/23/iran-usa
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UANI, Joe Lieberman And The MEK
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Five lessons from the de-listing of MEK as a terrorist group | Glenn …
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Iranian
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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201184132732146192.html
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Iranian Cult Is No Longer Officially a Terrorist Group | WIRED
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Giuliani was paid advocate for shady Iranian dissident group – The …
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MEK: When terrorists are armed, funded and respected – Khamenei.ir
english.khamenei.ir/news/…/MEK-When-terrorists-are-armed-funded-and-respected
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Mujahideen-e Khalq: Former U.S. Officials Make Millions Advocating …
8 Aug 2011 – That agenda: to secure the removal of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) from the U.S. government’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. A Marxian Iranian exile group with … Wesley K.Clark and former Commander in Chief of United States Central Command Gen. Anthony Zinni have both addressed MEK …
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America’s favorite terrorist outfit: the MKO | Crescent International …
The Mujahideen-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is one of America’s favourite terrorist outfits. … Bill Richardson, Howard Dean and Rudolf Giuliani, ex-FBI director Louis Freeh, former CIA directors Porter Goss and James Woolsey, and Obama’s former national security adviser General James Jones, and General Wesley Clark.
An Iranian Cult and Its American Friends – The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/…/an-iranian-cult-and-its-american-friends.html
13 Aug 2011 – Hugh H. Shelton and Peter Pace; Wesley K. Clark, the former NATO commander; Gen. James L. …. “They are considered traitors and killers of Iranian kids,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Mujahedeen Khalq’s status on the terrorist list is under review. “They are so …
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Khalaf Ahmad Al-Habtoor, Guest Commentary
“A broken” and “haunted” man was the Telegraph’s description of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair following the release of the Iraq War report. What I saw was a good ‘poor little me’ act performed to perfection in an attempt to salvage remnants of his reputation. “I didn’t lie or deceive,” he emphasized over and over with teary eyes while still insisting that “The world is better off without Saddam”.
TEHRAN
TIMES
http://www.tehrantimes.com/
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Trump administration is giving voice to Israel’s falsification of the Torah to promote Iranophobia.
Zarif after Pompeo remarks: Even Torah distorted to serve Iranophobia
How US, Iranian regional security strategies diverge
By Seyed Hossein Mousavian
The top commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, earlier this week declared that Iran has trained 100,000 voluntary forces to share experiences and know-how with the Iraqi and Syrian militaries. In this vein, Jafari also asserted that Iran’s strategy in the region has been far more effective in containing the Islamic State’s (IS’) terrorism compared to that of the United States, which has spent a hefty amount for the same purpose.
PALASTINE
NEWS NETWORK
http://english.pnn.ps/category/policy/
Palestine Solidarity Campaign condemns UK government votes at UN Human Rights Council
London/PNN/ The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has responded to the UK government’s voting decisions at the ongoing UN Human Rights Council taking place in Geneva. On Friday morning, the UK abstained …
RAW
STORY
http://www.rawstory.com/category/nation/
‘We’re not going to go there’: Chris Wallace shuts down Jason Chaffetz for veering into Mueller conspiracy theory
Former
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) alleged on Sunday that special counsel
Robert Mueller’s team needs to be investigated because they
illegally targeted President Donald Trump and his campaign. During a
panel discussion on Fox News Sunday,…
COMMON
DREAMS
http://www.commondreams.org
THE
DAILY BEAST
http://www.thedailybeast.com/politics.html
Trump’s ‘Free Speech’ Order for Campuses Is Really a Gag
WE
ARE NOT NUMBERS
http://wearenotnumbers.org/.
THE
UGLY TRUTH
https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/
Try the link is not working
FOREIGN
POLICY IN FOCUS
http://fpif.org/
America’s Generals Haven’t Learned Anything from Iraq
Sixteen years after the Iraq War, the Army’s official history of the war reads like a string of empty platitudes.
India’s Violent Mobs Are a Menace to Minorities — and Democracy
The World’s Most Dangerous Divide
By John Feffer,
If nuclear war comes, it will happen because of a calculation or miscalculation by India or Pakistan.
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MONDOWEISS
http://mondoweiss.net/features
Another Trump gift to Israel: ending taboo on official visits to Western Wall
Kate on March 23, 2019
In May 2017, Donald Trump became the first sitting US president to visit the Western Wall. Now other international officials are following suit– despite the fact that it is illegally-annexed territory. A report from Raphael Ahren of the Times of Israel.
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Extremism Is Riyadh’s Top Export
Saudi Arabia is fighting for a dangerous monopoly on Islamic thought
Pakistan deploys Chinese air defense systems, more attack & surveillance drones at India’s border
Pakistan has deployed more Chinese medium-range air defense missiles across several cities and military bases, to prevent any intrusions after the Indian Air Force carried out cross-border anti-terrorist strikes last month.
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AH
Tribune
http://ahtribune.com/world.html
March 23 ,2019
US Has a Plan for Eastern Syria, and It Relies on ISIS
THE
HILL
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/280179-senate-passes-bill-allowing-9-11-victims-to-sue-saudi-arabia
teleSUR
English
https://www.facebook.com/telesurenglish/?pnref=story
GIA
https://gianalytics.org/page/about
972
MAG
http://972mag.com/c/news/
SYRIAN
NEWS
http://www.syrianews.cc/
ALL INFORMATION NEWS SOURCE
ECONOMY
IN CRISIS
http://economyincrisis.org/
MINT
PRESS NEWS
http://www.mintpressnews.com/
SYRIAN
FREE
PRESS
https://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/
MAP
http://www.map-uk.org/home/homepage
TOMATO
BUBBLE
http://tomatobubble.com/id661.html
fort-russ.com
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/05/hitler-was-financed-by-federal-reserve.html?m=1
LAROUCHEPAC
https://larouchepac.com/20160515/putin-winning-through-creativity-us-must-learn-lesson#.VzlHsKETV4k.facebook
PATHEOS
http://www.patheos.com/
Many Christians think socialism is at odds with their faith. But Jesus taught (and the early church modeled) principles very much in line with socialist thinking. Let’s take a look at the many things Jesus had to say on this subject.
COUNTER
PUNCH
http://www.counterpunch.org/
The Ghost of Fascism in the Post-Truth Era
by Henry Giroux
We do not live in a post-truth world and never have. On the contrary, we live in a pre-truth world where the truth has yet to arrive. As one of the primary currencies of politics, lies have a long history in the United States. For instance, state sponsored lies played a crucial ideological role in pushing the US into wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, legitimated the use of Torture under the Bush administration, and covered up the crimes of the financial elite in producing the economic crisis of 2008. Under Trump, lying has become a rhetorical gimmick in which everything that matters politically is denied, reason loses its power for informed judgments, and language serves to infantilize and depoliticize as it offers no room for individuals to translate private troubles into broader
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PUNCH
http://www.counterpunch.org/
Spectacular Violence as a Weapon of War Against the Yellow Vests
Violence is a spectacular weapon deployed by the ruling class to discredit movements from below and justify their repression. It is spectacular in the sense of being a great and powerful political tool for governing the masses, and keeping them in their place. In order to do this, however, the weapon of violence is spectacularin a second sense: it creates a carefully orchestrated mise en scène that seeks to render ruling class violence invisible, while simultaneously transforming acts of resistance into prodigious spectacles of criminal violence. More
COUNTER
PUNCH
http://www.counterpunch.org/
Trump vs. McCain: an American Horror Story
Why is Donald Trump deliberately picking a fight with the ghost of John McCain? It might seem he has nothing to gain and much to lose from this battle. Therefore many believe this is just more evidence of his narcissism, impulsiveness, and thoroughly nasty personality. Beware of underestimating Trump’s skillful and devious political acumen. As often, the president is speaking in coded language to his base, which regards McCain as the Judas who betrayed all those thousands of American POWs left behind in Vietnam. More
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NEWS
WIRE
http://yournewswire.com/
Former CIA officer Robert David Steele warns that the Christchurch mosque shooting bears the hallmarks of a classic ‘false flag’ operation.
In an interview with Tehran Times, Steele claims the shooting was orchestrated by the shadow government as part of a plan to disarm the general population and ignite World War III.
Tehrantimes.com reports:
TELESURTV
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/section/news/index.html
US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as ‘Watershed Event’ for ‘Galvanizing Public Unrest’
PROGRESSIVE
SECULAR
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/
Dangerous Biblical Fantasies: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggests that God may have sent President Donald Trump to Earth to save Israel and protect the Jews. In a recent interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN News) Secretary of State Pompeo said it is “possible” that President Donald Trump was sent by God to save the Jewish people from Iran. During the interview with CBN Pompeo was asked: Could it be that that President Trump right now has been sort… Read more
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CULTURE
http://www.strategic-culture.org/
Iraq: How We Were Lied into War
No
one in the US or Britain ever faced trial for war-mongering and
killing vast numbers of people. The lying media escaped well-deserved
censure. As for the lying politicians who brought on this disaster,
they blamed poor intelligence and bad luck. Those few who opposed the
war of aggression remain sidelined or silenced.
SPUTNIK
NEWS
http://sputniknews.com/
20th Anniversary of NATO’s Bombing of Yugoslavia (7)
9350
We’re coming up shortly to the 20th anniversary of the start of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. It began on 24th March 1999 and lasted for 78 days. There was no break, not even for Orthodox Easter.
MIDDLE
EAST EYE
http://www.middleeasteye.net/
‘Tip of the spear’: The US Christian movement praying for Trump and Israel
AIPAC
faces noisy scrutiny over its lobbying for Israel, but is it
Christian Zionist evangelicals who wield real influence in the White
House?
MONDOWEISS
http://mondoweiss.net/about-mondoweiss
Pro-pot, anti-Arab: ultra-right Moshe Feiglin rises in Israeli polls on marijuana legalization platform
Israel/Palestine Yumna Patel on March 22, 2019
THE WORLD’S PLATFORM FOR CHANGE
Myrtle
Cothill is a frail 92-year-old South African lady. She is at risk of
being removed by the Home Office to a country where she has nobody to
look after her and nowhere to stay.
MEDIA
MATTERS
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TRUE
ACTIVIST
http://www.trueactivist.com/
According
To The 2019 Healthiest Country Index, Spain Ranks As No.1 Healthiest
Country In The World
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IA
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U.S. steps up diplomatic, economic pressure on Venezuela
INDEPENDENT
http://www.independent.co.uk/
GLOBAL
RESEARCH
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
What Can We Do? They Are Insane! By Philip Giraldi, March 23, 2019
Pompeo clearly believes that this is all part of some divine plan. Anyone who persists in thinking that nations should pursue policies that are rational and based on genuine interests should be appalled by the Pompeo comments and fearful of what the consequences might be.
RELIEF
WEB
http://reliefweb.int/
Humanitarian Situation in Mindanao (March 22, 2019) – Armed Clashes Displace 50,000 People
TRUST.ORG
http://www.trust.org/item/20150611150337-8hjcq
Over 20 million in war-torn Yemen need humanitarian aid – UNICEF
NATION
OF CHANGE
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/
A
SHEEP NO MORE
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How To Identify A Globalist Criminal
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INSIDER
http://russia-insider.com/en
The Alt-Right Declares War on Trump for Betrayal on Immigration, Opposes Re-election
SOUTH
CHINA MORNING POST
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia
Starved, beaten with hammer: worst domestic worker abuse cases
The Singaporeans jailed this week for ordering their domestic worker to eat her own vomit were not a one-off. From Hong Kong’s Erwiana to an Indonesian beaten with bamboo, here are Asia’s most notorious cases of helper abuse.
VOX
NEWS
http://www.vox.com/
Bill Barr’s letter summarizing Mueller’s findings, explained
Mueller didn’t establish collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government, and punted on obstruction of justice.
By
Andrew
Prokop
RT
NEWS
http://rt.com/news/
VT
http://www.veteranstoday.com/
Corrupt groups that create sedition and destroy stability and the denial of society, it is time to hold accountable and expose the misguided stray band that has become a real nightmare for every moderate Muslim.
The Wahhabis, their hypocrisy, their eloquence, and their pretense, after their knowledge of the definition of Wahhabiism and its nature, were so much discussed, so we liked in this article to expose them and expose them to people.
NDTV
http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/pakistans-resilience-beats-modis-56-inch-chest-771700
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TALKS
http://canadatalksisraelpalestine.ca/
Ali Abunimah: “the only moral solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict lies in one democratic state with equality for all”
BURNING
BLOGGER
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In June 2014, a group of armed militants and extremists made their dramatic journey across the Syrian border into Iraq, quickly capturing Mosul and Baiji and almost reaching the capital Baghdad.
SYRIA
360
https://syria360.wordpress.com/
21 Hospitalized with Poisoning Symptoms After Foreign-Backed Militants Launch Gas Attack
BRASS
CHECK TV
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/hidden-history
The
Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch started the African slave industry,
but England quickly became the leading force.
Liverpool was THE
center of the slave trade: financing, ship building, operations etc.
Then the “free” US jumped in, and as they say
these days, took it to the next level.
So why did slavery come
to an end?
To bring justice to the world? To end racism?
Please, don’t make me laugh.
It was just a re-arrangement of
the furniture.
MINT
PRESS NEWS
http://www.mintpressnews.com/
U.S. to International Criminal Court: We Will Break Your Legs
If the ICC begins and is allowed to investigate crimes against humanity committed by the West, the entire twisted concept of the U.S. and Europe being pioneers of freedom and democracy could easily and quickly collapse.
STEP
BACK
https://step-back.org/syria/
Making sense of the Syrian conflict; the view in March 2015.
Following the failure of the ‘Geneva II’ talks in January 2014, talks between the external Opposition group and Syrian government representatives mediated by Russia, the light of Western media ceased to illuminate the ongoing conflict in Syria, and soon became focused on Ukraine as its elected president was overthrown in a violent coup. For the average observer there was little relation between events in Syria and those in Ukraine – that Russia was closely involved in both looked like a coincidence where everything else was different – religion, culture and continent. But to understand better the context and roots of these two violent conflicts, the ‘Russian connection’ is paramount.
SHANNON
WATCH
http://www.shannonwatch.org/
Two US Veterans For Peace Refused Bail at Ennis District Court
Press Statement: Two US Veterans For Peace refused Bail at Ennis District Court
Monday 18 March
Charged with Trespass and causing Criminal Damage at Shannon Airport
A group of seven US Veterans for Peace took part in a protest against US Military Base at Shannon Airport on Sunday March 17th.
WHY? Shannon used for refueling troop planes bound for Middle East wars in which up to one million [1,000,000] children have died since 1991.
French army receives authorization to shoot “yellow vest” protesters
ISLAMIC
INSIGHTS
http://www.islamicinsights.com/
Lady
Fatima and Her Role as a Mother
END
THE OCCUPATION
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/
MIDDLE
EAST MONITOR
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/
With
an eye on Iran, US to open yet another military base in the Middle
East
ICH
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
Number of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq “1,455,590“
ALTERNET
http://www.alternet.org/
Rep. Schiff claps back at Rudy Giuliani: There is ‘significant evidence of collusion’
FAIR
http://fair.org/
Robert Dreyfuss and Diana Duarte on the Media’s Role in Iraq War
Corporate media’s role in the lead up to and the ongoing aftermath of the war on Iraq
UPROOTED
PALESTINIANS’S BLOG
https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/
US District Judge Goldberg ruled the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) must allow the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) to post anti-Muslim advertisements, showing a photo of Hitler and an Islamic leader.
TRAPLEY
http://tarpley.net/
NATION
OF CHANGE
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/
Justice Chris Hedges-December 29, 2015
This deception will exist as long as we “stay in our place.” Once we call out power for what it is, once we resist, the chimera will vanish. The iron fist of history’s most sophisticated security and surveillance apparatus will assert itself with a terrifying fury.
COLLECTIVE
EVOLUTION
http://www.collective-evolution.com/
Ex-Model Who Attempted To Reveal Berlusconi’s Satanic Practices Dies From Painful Radioactive Poisoning
THE
SLEUTH JOURNAL
http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/
ABNA
24
http://en.abna24.com/service/archive.html
Syrian forces find weapons, ammo left behind by terrorists in several areas (+Photos)
THE
INTERCEPT
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/
Terrorism’s Double Standard
Violent Far-Right Extremists Are Rarely Prosecuted as Terrorists
DEMOCRACY
NOW
http://www.democracynow.org/
Human Rights Attorney to Trump: “Israel Is Not Interested in the Golan Heights for Security”
COMMON
DREAMS
http://www.commondreams.org/
SAMIDOUN
http://samidoun.ca/
http://www.ivaw.org/
Solidarity with Ronnie Kasrils and BDS Austria: Fighting apartheid from South Africa to Palestine
BIRD
http://birdbh.org/
21
March 2019 – Yesterday, the Bahraini Embassy in London published a
string of tweets including the correspondence between the Director of
Advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD),
Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, and t… Read
more
TRUE
ACTIVIST
http://www.trueactivist.com/
A
Boat Made Out Of Flip-Flops And Plastic Waste Sails Around As A
Reminder To Keep African Seas Clean Again
Read
More: http://www.trueactivist.com/
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More: http://www.trueactivist.com/
FILMING
CUPS
http://filmingcops.com/
WATCH: Cop Caught on Video Punching Man in Head 12 Times Indicted on Federal Crimes
JOHN PILGER.COM
http://johnpilger.com/
THE AUSTRALIAN KILLER OF 50 PEOPLE IS THE PRODUCT OF A RACIST HISTORY OF DENIAL
THE
IRAN PROJECT
http://theiranproject.com/
IRGC commander urges further relief efforts in northern Iran
March 24, 2019
Five 2020 US Democrats would return to Iran nuclear dealMarch 24, 2019 1
Trump’s Golan remarks only bolster resistance against Israel, supporters: Iran official
FARS
NEWS
http://english.farsnews.com/
Security Expert: US Embassy in Iraq Hosting Washington-Tel Aviv Operations Room against Region
Syrian Army Gives Crushing Response to Terrorists in Hama, Idlib
Turkish Army Soldiers, Ankara-Backed Militants Killed in Kurdish Operations in Northern Syria
Corpses of More Victims of US, ISIL Attacks Discovered in Raqqa
Syria in Last 24 Hours: Army Fends Off Terrorists’ Attacks as Ankara Sends More Convoys to Idlib
White Helmets, Tahrir Al-Sham Terrorists Preparing for False Flag Chemical Attacks in Idlib
Senior MP: Iraq-Iran-Syria Joint Military Drills to Stop US Support for ISIL
Syrian Expert: 1,500 Families in Rukban Camp Facing Death
TASNIM
http://www.tasnimnews.com/english/
Yemeni Leader Rejects Pompeo’s Claims on Iranian Missile Support
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Chairman of Yemen’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee Mohammed Ali al-Houthi vehemently rejected US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent claims that Iran sends missiles to Houthis and said instead of such claims, the US should end its aggression on Yemen.
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DEAD
BLOGGER
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Charlie,
CONSTRUCTION
MANAGEMENT
https://wordpress.com/post/constructionproductivityblog.wordpress.com/4
CIRCLE
ME
http://www.circleme.com/updat
DEAD
CHTTR
Delta,
Divine
Book What is being discovered today is explained 1400 years ago….word
of God
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DEVIANT
ART
http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/
DIASPORA
https://joindiaspora.com/stream
HOW TO JOIN
DIASPORTA JOINDIASPORA.COM
DIASPORA.CLUB
DAISPORA
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DOCS.GOOGLE
DRIVE.GOOGLE
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WORDPRESS
DEMOCRACY IN THE WEST
EDOCR
DARTO
Echo,
EDUBLOGS
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ELLO
https://ello.co/drdej2016
ELLO
EDOCR
EDMODO
Foxtrot,
FRIENDICA
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Golf,
G+
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DEAD
GAB
GNU
GNU
GNU ALL
GNU ALL
Hotel,
HAWAAR
India,
INVISOCIAL
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DEAD
IMGUR
http://fdejahang.imgur.com/all/
Juliett
JUMPSHARE
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Kilo,
KLOUT-CCM
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DAED
KUNE.GOUGE
KUNE.CC
Lima,
LESSONS PDF’s ISSUU
LINKEDIN NO 2
Mike,
MYSPACE
https://myspace.com/home
MASTODON TODON.NL
MASTODON LGBT.IO SHAME ON YOU TO BLOCK ME ***DEAD
MASTODON HOST
MASTODON SCHOLAR
MASTODON FREERADICAL
MASTODON.XYZ
MASTODON QOTO
MASTODON QOTO
MASTODON DISPLACED.SOCIAL
MOVIM
MEWE
MOVIM
FI.MOVIM.EU
NL.MOVIM.EU
November,
NEWS SOURCE TWITLONGER
Oscar,
OK.RU
ONE WAY
Papa,
PDF’s
PDF’s (DR F DEJAHANG & OTHER SOURCE) IN
SPEAKERDECK
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PDF>SPEAKERDECK
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PINTEREST
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https://uk.pinterest.com/
PLEROMA,FR
Quebec,
QUORA
https://www.quora.com/profile/Fereidoun-Dejahang-1
QUITTER.ES
Romeo,
RELIGIOUS
STUDIES START FROM NO 18
http://www.slideshare.net/DrFereidounDejahang/presentations
REDDIT
https://www.reddit.com/new/
Sierra,
SLIDE
SHARE
http://www.slideshare.net/DrFereidounDejahang/presentations
http://www.slideshare.net/
SHARENSEARCH
http://www.sharensearch.com/fdejahang
SPEAKER
DECK PDF’s
https://speakerdeck.com/drfdejahang
SOUP.IO
http://drdejahang19.soup.io/
STORIA
SCOOP.IT
http://www.scoop.it/u/dr-fereidoun-dejahang
STUMBLE
Tango,
TWIT
LONGER
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sp13s2?new_post=true
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sp13sf
TWITTER
https://twitter.com/fdejahang?lang=en-gb
TSU
http://www.tsu.co/drdejf
http://www.tsu.co/
TUMBLR
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https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard
TARINGA
Uniform,
UNTOLD STORIES
Victor,
VENERA
Whiskey,
WORDPRESS.COM
Belief
in Divine
Book
https://wordpress.com/post/beliefindivinebook.wordpress.com/6
WALL
OF ME
http://wallof.me/w/drfdejahang2016
WEEABOO
WEGATHERAPP
WODDAL
X-ray,
Yankee,
Zulu.
SCIENCE
http://tass.com/tags/tags/R/russian-scientists
Is Western Democracy Real Democracy?
GOOD GUYS
Who Exactly Are The Good Guys in the West?