Monday, October 6, 2014

Michel Chossudovsky:“The Terrorists R Us.” The Islamic State “Big Lie”

The Criminalization of the United Nations

Under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council, with president Obama chairing the Council session, the United States has called upon the international community to adopt strong measures, at national and international levels, to curtail the recruitment of Islamic State fighters.

What is not mentioned in the media reports is that the heads of State and heads of government who have endorsed America’s campaign against the Islamic State, advised by their respective secret services, are fully aware that US intelligence is the unspoken architect of the Islamic State, which is part of a vast network of US supported “jihadist” terrorist entities. Countries are either coerced into supporting the US sponsored resolution or they are complicit in the US terror agenda.

Lest we forget, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, have been financing and training the ISIL terrorists on behalf of the United States. Israel is harboring the Islamic State (ISIL) in the Golan Heights,NATO in liaison with the Turkish high command has since March 2011 been involved in coordinating the recruitment of the jihadist fighters dispatched to Syria. Moreover, the ISIL brigades in both Syria and Iraq are integrated by Western special forces and military advisers.

All this is known and documented, yet not a single head of state or head of government has had the courage to point to the absurdity of the US sponsored United Nations Security Council resolution, which was adopted unanimously on September 24.

“Absurdity” is an understatement. What we are witnessing is a criminal undertaking under UN auspices.

While international diplomacy is often based on deception, US foreign policy lies are no longer credible. What we are witnessing is a total breakdown of established diplomatic practice. The “Forbidden Truth” is that the Islamic State is an instrument of Washington, a US ” intelligence asset”. ISIL is not an independent entity, nor is it an “outside enemy” which threatens global security, as conveyed by the Western media.

While everybody knows this, the big lie prevails. The Lie becomes the Truth.

The United Nations Security Council resolution calls upon member states to “suppress the recruiting, organizing, transporting, equipping” and financing of foreign terrorist fighters,” Specifically, the resolution points to the “the particular and urgent need to implement this resolution with respect to those foreign terrorist fighters who are associated with ISIL [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant], ANF [Al-Nusrah Front] and other cells, affiliates, splinter groups or derivatives of Al-Qaida…” But are these not precisely the “opposition freedom fighters” trained and recruited by the Western military alliance in their quest to unseat the government of Bashar Al Assad?

United Nations Security Council Meeting, September 24, 2014, chaired by president Obama

The ISIL are the foot soldiers of the Western military alliance. Their unspoken mandate is to wreck havoc and destruction in Syria and Iraq, acting on behalf of their US sponsors. The endgame is to transform countries into territories.

John McCain with leaders of Al Qaeda entities in Syria

Political leaders present at the UN Security Council session applauded the US counter-terrorism initiative. France’s President Francois Hollande pointed to the fact that “terrorism has taken on another dimension, and it wants to conquer territory now.”

Several US allies including Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar which are currently involved in supporting ISIL and Al Nusrah are now involved in the US sponsored air raids allegedly targeted against the ISIL inside Syria.

Turkey and Jordan have borders with Syria. Saudi Arabia and Turkey have borders with Iraq. The direct military involvement of these countries points to a scenario of escalation and sectarian warfare extending from the Mediterranean to Central Asia.

In this regard, Turkey has already announced that it will be involved in ground operations inside Syria and Iraq. The newly-elected Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu announced (a day prior to the UN Security Council meeting) that his government will be seeking the endorsement of the Turkish Parliament to intervene militarily in both Iraq and Syria.

What is at stake is a so-called “no fly zone” in disguise, a justification to bomb Iraq and Syria under a counter-terrorism mandate, largely targeting economic infrastructure as well as the civilian population. The political architects of the Islamic State including president Obama, prime minister Cameron and their counterparts in France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, et al, are now waging a military campaign against the Islamic State, which they themselves created. Boots on the ground are also contemplated. According to Iraqi government sources, the US will sending some 13000 troops to Iraq.

The leaders of western countries are either utterly ignorant and stupid, or totally corrupt and complicit? “The Terrorists R US.” Moreover, they seem totally unaware of the broad implications of their actions.

War propaganda is a criminal act under Nuremberg: Crime against the Peace. By upholding the lies and fabrications of US foreign policy, the mainstream media is complicit in war crimes.

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron is to bring the matter to the British parliament. The revocation of citizenship is contemplated in Britain as well as in Canada for those suspected of supporting the jihadist movement. While Britain’s Prime minister has called upon Her Majesty’s government “to restrict or rescind the passports of British jihadists … Home Secretary Theresa May has threatened to deprive those Britons already fighting with the Islamic State of their citizenship.” ,

Ironically, Prime Minister Cameron is complicit in facilitating and organizing within the UK the recruitment of British jihadists. And indeed one might suggest, pending the formulation of criminal charges, that his passport should be revoked for “supporting the jihadist movement”.

George W. Bush stated in 2001, “you are either with us or with the terrorists.” The forbidden truth is that the US is involved in a diabolical undertaking: it has created an Islamic terror network with a view to destroying sovereign countries and now it is waging a war against its own terror network. Without media propaganda, this military agenda under the guise of counter-terrorism would fall flat, collapse like a deck of cards.

The US president and his indefectible British ally “R the Terrorists”, they are the “state sponsors of terrorism”, with a view to waging a war of conquest. The United Nations is complicit in this undertaking.

America’s “War on Terrorism”

by Michel Chossudovsky

In this expanded edition of Michel Chossudovsky’s 2002 bestseller, the author blows away the smokescreen put up by the mainstream media, that 9/11 was an attack on America by “Islamic terrorists”. Through meticulous research, the author uncovers a military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11 attacks, and the cover-up and complicity of key members of the Bush Administration.

This special edition, which includes twelve additional chapters focuses on the use of 9/11 as a pretext for the invasion and illegal occupation of Iraq, the militarization of justice and law enforcement and the repeal of democracy.

According to Chossudovsky, the “war on terrorism” is a complete fabrication based on the illusion that one man, Osama bin Laden, outwitted the $40 billion-a-year American intelligence apparatus. The “war on terrorism” is a war of conquest. Globalization is the final march to the “New World Order”, dominated by Wall Street and the U.S. military-industrial complex.

September 11, 2001 provides a justification for waging a war without borders. Washington’s agenda consists in extending the frontiers of the American Empire to facilitate complete U.S. corporate control, while installing within America the institutions of the Homeland Security State.

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Modi Bites the American Bullet

Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 29.09.2014 | 11:17

Compared to the challenging enterprise Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook last week in steering through shark-infested waters the visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to India, his own 5-day trip to the United States, which began Friday, is safely assured of being smooth as velvet.

The US, like China, is eager to engage Modi who has a reputation for being decisive and “business-friendly”. But unlike in the case with China, there are no detractors or snipers in the Indian strategic community or the corporate media who would play the spoiler’s role. Modi will be in his elements in the US, enjoying the universal adulation he receives there.

Indiais in many ways a strange country. The Indians themselves call it ‘Incredible India’ on their tourist brochures. Not a single Indian pundit has posed that single tough question to Modi: what he hopes to achieve and, specifically, what the US President Barack Obama can be expected to do for India.

What the pundits ask instead is what Modi can do for Obama’s America. They want Modi to hasten the purchase of more arms from the US and “tweak” Indian nuclear liability law so that the Westinghouse could export nuclear reactors to India.

They wish Modi would undo the “negative narrative” causing heavy damage to America’s trading interests by giving the green signal on the Trade Facilitation Agreement of the WTO.

They clamor that Modi should “go the extra mile” by taking at least a “minor role” in the US-led coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

But no one demands that Modi should expect in return a review of the US policy to accommodate the Taliban in Afghanistan or abandon its double standards on cross-border terrorism threatening India.

Indeed, no one is demanding that Obama should commit to selling significant amounts of shale gas to India or at the very least give up its dog-in-the-manger attitude toward the Iranian gas pipeline project.

Would Obama give a timeline regarding India’s membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group and other technology control regimes and the UN Security Council? Not a chance.

Would Obama match Xi’s commitment to invest $20 billion in India’s economy (which is expected to generate 100000 jobs)? No, please, don’t ask embarrassing questions.

Will Obama accommodate, finally, the decade-old request made by the previous BJP government that the Indian professionals on short-term employment in the US be allowed to repatriate their social security tax payments once they return to India – $1 billion annually? No, that too is not on the cards because the blocked funds belong to America.

Indeed, the pundits are not giving Modi an opportunity to test the US’s overt enthusiasm for him. The consensus among Indian pundits even before Modi set out is that no “deliverables” need be expected from Obama’s side, and the curious part is that no one seems to mind it.

However, Modi himself has chosen to project certain benchmarks for his visit and it will be interesting to see how far they get fulfilled.

No doubt, Modi is eager to open a new chapter in India’s ties with the US. But he also has an extraordinary genius to let his political instincts to guide him in such defining moments. It needs to be understood that in the ultimate analysis, Modi’s audience is at home in India, and his real focus is inevitably on himself, in nurturing the political aura of his charisma and his needs in Indian politics the tricky period that lies ahead for the consolidation of his leadership of government.

Virtually everything that Modi says and does serves that objective. Therefore, he has intuitively worked out how the US visit should serve his political agenda.

From this perspective, the grand public reception by his party’s supporters at Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday, beamed live to India, clearly overshadows everything else on the itinerary of the visit and guarantees that back home the visit will already be deemed an outstanding success even before Modi even he headed for Washington on Monday to meet Obama.

Not an ally but a partner

While leaving Delhi for the US, Modi made a statement, in which he devoted less than one-third attention span to his official engagement with Obama. The statement carefully avoided using the famous coinage by Modi’s predecessor A. B. Vajpayee (who lead the first BJP government during 1999-2004) that India and the US were “natural allies.”

Instead, Modi was content with a modest formulation – US being a “vital partner” of India. The statement said, “I see the United States as a vital partner for our national development, drawing especially on the rich possibilities of partnership in education, skills, research, technology and innovation – and, above all, a shared commitment to human values.”

Modi also made a major speech in Delhi on Thursday on the eve of his departure for New York, where he formally launched his ‘Make in India’ global initiative, outlining his government’s determination to create a business-friendly environment. But woven into the global initiative was a two-pronged message that he strove to convey to the investors in the US as well as the Obama administration.

One, Modi underscored that “global industries” should not consider India to be “just a market” but their investments should be such that “opportunities for employment will have to be made available.”

Modi kept harping that his government’s priority lies in the sort of investment, which creates job opportunities, especially for the youth – “on the one hand, manufacturing growth is to be promoted, at the same time we need to ensure that direct benefit goes to the youngsters of India. He should get employment so that there is improvement in the economic situation of even the poorest family.”

Modi didn’t mention China or cite that country’s offer to invest in the manufacturing and infrastructure sectors, but the implication was clear.

Asia’s mouth-watering market

Equally, Modi made an acerbic remark, “There is a talk in the entire world, quite a mouth watering one, that India is a huge market.” He could have been referring to media reports that the US Chamber of Commerce and over a dozen other trade bodies in the US have petitioned Obama to pressurize Modi to open up the Indian market for American exports.

A second point Modi made was that he does not regard India’s partnership with Asian partners (read China) and the West (read the United States) in zero sum terms. He was explicit: “Look-East is on one side and Link-West on the other hand – we are linking these both from the middle. We can establish our economic structure on a new platform from here. Whatever is the best in the world, why should we not have it? This should be the mood of the nation.”

Apart from the departure statement Modi also wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal titled “An Invitation to Make in India”. The article also underscored that creating employment and unleashing the energy of 800 million Indians under the age of 35 will be “my government’s biggest mission” and, therefore, “Make in India is our commitment… to turn India into a new global manufacturing hub. We will do what it takes to make it a reality.”

Clearly, from the American viewpoint, as an interlocutor, Modi is going to be a vastly different from Manmohan Singh. Modi is not carrying any goodies in his briefcase by way of defence contracts, etc. to please the Americans; nor is he wasting time indulging in the rhetoric of India-US partnership. Above all, he is demanding and expects the Americans to live up to his expectations.

The main yardstick will be how America can be useful for his development agenda. The Wall Street Journal article was completely deluded of political issues.

In sum, Modi has a highly focused three-fold agenda during this visit – one, develop a personal equation with Obama – as far as it is possible with that famously aloof statesman; two, kick start the India-US relationship, which has been at a standstill in the most recent years, and inject dynamism into it, the objective realities of the transformed world since the financial crisis and the Great Recession of 2008 notwithstanding; and, three, explore what is on offer from America, civil and military, that can lead to job creation in India and facilitate technology upgrade – in short, consciously opt for a transactional relationship that meets India’s vital interests at this point in time on its development trajectory.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/09/29/modi-bites-the-american-bullet.html

Europe Awaits a Bitter Winter’s Tale

Finian CUNNINGHAM | 06.10.2014 | 00:00

Napoleon learnt it in 1812, and Hitler likewise in 1941. Will the European Union oligarchy learn the same harsh lesson in 2014? The lesson being that belligerence toward the Russian bear comes with a devastating price, especially when the belligerents appear to be marching ever-so blindly ahead of sound reason and judgment.

Last week the EU leadership in Brussels decided against lifting trade sanctions it had previously imposed on Russia. The sanctions were imposed after Crimea’s referendum in March this year led to the reunification of the Ukrainian southern peninsula with Russia.

Like Washington, Brussels has accused Russia of aggression in Ukraine and of annexing Crimea, ignoring the fact that the people there cast an overwhelming majority vote for accession to the Russian Federation, in protest at the fascist junta that the EU and Washington had levered into power through an illegal coup in Kiev the previous month.

Last week the Brussels bureaucratic elite justified their decision to keep sanctions in place because it said that Russia was not doing enough to implement a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. Earlier in the week, German chancellor Angela Merkele reportedly said that «there was no way of lifting sanctions» due to the continued sporadic fighting between Kiev’s military forces and ethnic Russian self-defence militia.

Brussels and Washington, and their military alliance NATO, accuse Russia of subverting eastern Ukraine by covertly supplying weapons and soldiers. NATO commanders alleged that they had irrefutable proof that there were thousands of Russian military personnel infiltrated inside Ukraine, helping the rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk self-declared republics in their fight against Kiev’s forces.

Moscow has repeatedly denied that it is sending munitions or troops into Ukraine. Demands for NATO to present its «irrefutable proof» have not been reciprocated with verifiable evidence.

Again, the EU is making judgements based on the most flimsy and negative prejudices, namely that conflict and chaos in Ukraine must be due to Russian malfeasance. There can be no other explanation, according to Brussels. So, like the Crimea referendum, the people of Donetsk and Luhansk cannot possibly be defying the illegal coup regime in Kiev; the people must be falling prey to Moscow’s mischievous manipulation, so the EU reasoning goes.

Against this tenuous logic is the fact that the recent ceasefire in eastern Ukraine was brokered largely under the personal aegis of Russian Vladimir Putin, who proposed a seven-point peace plan to the Contact Group in Minsk on September 5.

More than 3,200 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since the Kiev regime launched its «anti-terror operation» in April against the dissident population. That crackdown has had the tacit backing of Washington and Brussels.

That the proposed ceasefire remains a shaky truce is not because of Russia’s ongoing covert interference or due primarily to breaches by the Donetsk or Luhansk anti-Kiev militia. The ceasefire is under threat from continued military offensive by the Western-backed Kiev forces.

The city of Donetsk has come under constant shelling from the Kiev regime’s forces since September 5 and in spite of an agreement by the Contact Group in Minsk to implement a 30-kilometre «buffer zone» on September 20. The buffer zone was meant to withdraw artillery from the conflict lines. However, Donetsk city has incurred countless barrages from Kiev’s forces besieging the city.

The latest violations include the shelling of a school this week and a bus-stop in the city centre, which resulted in at least 11 fatalities. In a separate attack, an aid worker was killed when a shell hit the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross. On the same day, Thursday, an apartment block was hit with artillery fire in the east of the city.

Previously, on September 28, the city’s Kuibyshevsky district was shelled. And on September 24, another apartment block was struck with artillery, resulting in two dead. The Associated Press reported, somewhat ambiguously, that the attack was due to residents being «caught in cross-fire».

But the inescapable and damning fact is that the Western-backed Kiev regime should not be firing at civilian areas, and especially under a ceasefire which specifies a buffer zone of 30 km. The retaking of Donetsk airport by the self-defence militia last weekend should put an end to the shelling of the city because most of the firing over the past month was emanating from that location.

The Kiev President Petro Poroshenko declares that forces supposedly under his control are adhering to the ceasefire in contravention of the facts. While his Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was inspecting new forces that are being assigned to the east of Ukraine for further combat operations. These forces were reportedly fitted out with new Armoured Personnel Carriers and winter combat clothing, as Yatsenyuk bade them farewell at a Kiev base.

Yet, in light of all this, the EU makes the irrational judgment that Russia should be punished for breaches of the ceasefire.

Vladimir Putin described the EU sanctions as «utter folly». Speaking to various Russian businessmen in Moscow, Putin said: «It is utter foolishness from those governments who are limiting their business, preventing it working, reducing its competitiveness, freeing up niches for competitors on as promising a market as Russia».

Utter folly indeed. European sanctions have been met with counter-sanctions from Russia, which have in turn banned a wide range of agricultural produce. Already, Brussels is having to find hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of compensation for fruit, vegetable, meat and dairy farmers who have been locked out of Russia’s import market, valued at nearly $16 billion in 2013.

Europe’s budget deficit crisis is going to scream as winter proceeds, with crops left rotting in fields and some 10 million farmers marooned without income. Already, French farmers have dumped cargos of idle produce on to the streets and have even torched government building in Brittany in protest at the Russian sanctions threatening their livelihoods.

Russia is reportedly sourcing agricultural imports from alternative markets in South America and Asia. As Putin intimated, the EU bureaucracy will be the loser, and even more so when its farmers in cold mid-winter fully digest the idiocy of its decision-making.

Then there is the vital issue of natural gas supplies. EU energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger has made the crassly naive comment that Russia should not «politicise gas supplies». So, let’s get this straight Herr Oettinger, it’s perfectly acceptable for the EU so slap on unwarranted financial and industrial sanctions on Russia, but it is, in your view, completely unacceptable for Russia to cut off gas supplies to Europe?

To be fair to Russia, it has not threatened to carry out such a measure, owing to the fact that millions of households across Europe will freeze without the supply of Russian gas for heating and cooking.

But what if Russia is forced into such a drastic move. Last week, state-owned Gazprom concluded an investigation which found that EU member states Poland, Slovakia and Hungary were subverting Russian policy of suspending gas supplies to Ukraine. Moscow was obliged to halt supplies earlier this summer to Ukraine because the Kiev regime refuses to pay up on its gas bill of over $5.3 billion.

Now it turns out that EU states are pirating Russian gas by selling it back to Ukraine. In that case, Russia has every right to retaliate by cutting off gas exports to certain EU states. Given that the EU is dependent on Russia for 50 per cent of its fuel consumption that crunch will lead to massive social disruption and anger.

The worst bit is that all of this confrontation, human suffering and financial mayhem is unnecessary. It is the EU leadership that has politicised and poisoned relations with Russia, based on ideological prejudices and woeful misinformation.

Washington and its fascist Kiev ideologues may be gloating at the deepening crisis, but what about the 500 million ordinary EU citizens, who will suffer this winter because of idiotic decision-making?

European citizens are already deeply disillusioned with Brussels and its out — of-control supranational bureaucracy. Record unemployment and relentless economic austerity policies, while a tiny financial oligarchy grows ever-richer, are factors for why anti-EU political parties and separatism are on the rise right across the continent.

The EU debacle of antagonising Russia over spurious, irrelevant concerns is setting the scene for a winter of discontent and massive revolt.

Like past imperial Svengali figures who tangled with the Russian bear, the Brussels elite will likewise find themselves fatally overstretched and in cataclysmic retreat when winter sets in.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/10/06/europe-awaits-a-bitter-winter-tale.html