As a student of international politics and economics for most of my adult life, I must say the emotional restraint that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government have shown against tasteless ad hominem attacks, from people such as Hillary Clinton who likened Putin to Adolf Hitler, is remarkable. But more than restraint is required to bring our world from the brink or some might say, the onset of a World War III. Brilliant and directed action is essential. Here something extraordinary has taken place in the very few days since President Vladimir Putin's September 28, UNGA speech in New York.
What he said...
What Putin said to the UN General Assembly must be noted to put what he and Russia did in the days immediately following into clear focus. First of all he made clear what the international law behind the UN Charter means and that Russia is scrupulously abiding by the Charter in actions in Syria. Russia, unlike the US, has been formally asked by the legitimate Syrian government to aid its war against terror.
To the UN delegates and heads of state Putin stated,
"The decisions debated within the UN are either taken in the form of resolutions or not. As diplomats say, they either pass or they don't. Any action taken by circumventing this procedure is illegitimate and constitutes a violation of the UN Charter and contemporary international law."He continued,
"We all know that after the end of the Cold War the world was left with one center of dominance, and those who found themselves at the top of the pyramid were tempted to think that, since they are so powerful and exceptional, they know best what needs to be done and thus they don't need to reckon with the UN, which, instead of rubber-stamping the decisions they need, often stands in their way."Putin followed this with a clear message to Washington and NATO governments on the subject of national sovereignty, something anathema to many who embrace the Nirvana supposed to come from globalization, homogenization of all to one level: "What is the meaning of state sovereignty, the term which has been mentioned by our colleagues here?" Putin rhetorically asked.
"It basically means freedom, every person and every state being free to choose their future. By the way, this brings us to the issue of the so-called legitimacy of state authorities. You shouldn't play with words and manipulate them. In international law, international affairs, every term has to be clearly defined, transparent and interpreted the same way by one and all."Putin added,
"We are all different, and we should respect that. Nations shouldn't be forced to all conform to the same development model that somebody has declared the only appropriate one. We should all remember the lessons of the past. For example, we remember examples from our Soviet past, when the Soviet Union exported social experiments, pushing for changes in other countries for ideological reasons, and this often led to tragic consequences and caused degradation instead of progress. "Those few words succinctly point to what is fundamentally wrong in the international order today. Nations, above all the one proclaiming herself Sole Superpower, Infallible Hegemon, the USA, have arrogantly moved after the collapse of the main adversary, the Soviet Union in 1990, to create what can only be called a global totalitarian empire, what G.H.W. Bush in his September 11, 1991 address to Congress called a New World Order. I believe with conviction that borders do matter, that respect for different cultures, different historical experiences is essential in a world of peace. That is as much true with nations as with individual human beings. We seem to have forgotten that simple notion amid all the wars of the past decades. Vladimir Putin reminds us.
Then the Russian president goes to the heart of the matter. He lays bare the true activities of the Obama Administration in Syria and the Middle East in arming and training "moderate" Islamist terrorists to attack Washington's bête noire, Syria's duly-elected and recently re-elected President, Bashar al Assad.
Putin states,
"instead of learning from other people's mistakes, some prefer to repeat them and continue to export revolutions, only now these are "democratic" revolutions. Just look at the situation in the Middle East and Northern Africa...problems have been piling up for a long time in this region, and people there wanted change. But what was the actual outcome? Instead of bringing about reforms, aggressive intervention rashly destroyed government institutions and the local way of life. Instead of democracy and progress, there is now violence, poverty, social disasters and total disregard for human rights, including even the right to life."Then in a remark addressed to Washington and their NGO Color Revolutions known as the Arab Spring, Putin pointedly asks,"I'm urged to ask those who created this situation: do you at least realize now what you've done?"
Putin, without naming it, addresses the US and NATO role in creating ISIS, noting with precision the curious anomaly that the sophisticated new US Treasury unit to conduct financial sanctions against terrorist organizations, has utterly ignored the funding sources of ISIS, their oil sales facilitated by the Turkish President's own family to name just one. The Russian President stated, "...the Islamic State itself did not come out of nowhere. It was initially developed as a weapon against undesirable secular regimes. Having established control over parts of Syria and Iraq, Islamic State now aggressively expands into other regions. It seeks dominance in the Muslim world and beyond...The situation is extremely dangerous. In these circumstances, it is hypocritical and irresponsible to make declarations about the threat of terrorism and at the same time turn a blind eye to the channels used to finance and support terrorists, including revenues from drug trafficking, the illegal oil trade and the arms trade.
And what Putin is doing...
Russia in the last weeks has completely out-maneuvered the diabolical, and they are diabolical, agenda of the Obama Administration not only in Syria but also in the entire Middle East and now in the EU with unleashing the flood of refugees. He openly reached out to invite Obama in their New York September 30 meeting to cooperate together in defeating ISIS. Obama stubbornly insisted that first Assad must go, despite the fact that Christine Wormuth, the Pentagon Undersecretary responsible for the Syrian war, confirmed Russian statements about Assad's essential role today in any defeat of ISIS. She told the US Senate that Assad's military "still has considerable strength," adding, "it's still the most powerful military force on the ground. The assessment right now is the regime is not in imminent danger of falling."
Now come the howls of protest from neo-con warhawks, like the ever-ready-for-war Senator John McCain, chairman of the NGO International Republican Institute of the democratic revolution exporting US-backed NGO, National Endowment for Democracy. Or we hear flaccid protests from President Obama. This is because Washington finds itself deeply exposed to the light of world scrutiny for backing terrorists in Syria against a duly-elected state leader and government. The US warhawks accuse Russia of hitting "the moderate opposition" or civilians.
Emperor's New Clothes
Russia's Putin is playing the role ever so elegantly, even gracefully, of the small boy in the Hans Christian Anderson classic fairy tale from 1837, The Emperor's New Clothes. The boy stands with his mother amid thousands of other villagers in the crowd outside the vain Emperor's palace balcony, where the disassociated king struts around the balcony naked, thinking he is wearing a magnificent new suit of clothes. The boy shouts, to the embarrassment of all servile citizens who pretend his clothes are magnificent, "Mother, look the Emperor has no clothes!"
What do I mean? In the first four days of precision bombing of select sites in Syria Russian advanced fighter jets firing Kh-29L air-to-surface laser-guided missiles that strike targets with a precision less than two meters, managed to destroy key ISIS command centers, munitions depots and vital infrastructure. According to the Russian Defense Ministry official reports, with photos, Su-34 bombers attacked an ISIS special training camp and munition depot near Al-Tabqa, Ar-Raqqah province," a critical ISIS outpost captured in August, 2014 after bitter battles. "As a result of the explosion of the munition depot, the terrorist training camp was completely destroyed," the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman stated. Russian Su-25 jets have also attacked training camp of the Islamic State in the Syrian Idlib, destroying a workshop for explosive belt production.
Moscow states its air force has "engaged 3 munition, fuel and armament depots of the illegal armed groups. KAB-500 aviation bombs detonated the munition and armament," and they used BETAB-500 concrete-piercing bombs to destroy four command posts of the ISIS armed groups. The facilities with terrorists are completely destroyed," the Moscow spokesman added. Russia's aviation conducted 20 flights and carried out 10 airstrikes against facilities of the Islamic State (ISIL) terrorist group in the past 24 hours. Then Moscow announced they had also hit key outposts of other terror groups such as the Al Qaeda-franchise, Al Nusra Front.
These are the so-called "moderates" that McCain and the Washington warhawks are weeping over. Washington has been creating what it calls the "New" Syrian Forces (NSF), which they claim is composed of "moderate" terrorists, euphemistically referred to as "rebels." Imagine how recruitment talks go: CIA recruiter, "Mohammed, are you a moderate Islamist? Why yes, my dear CIA trainer. Please take me, train me and arm me in the fight against the ruthless dictator Assad and against ISIS. I'm on your side. You can trust me..."
In late September it was reported that Major Anas Obaid a.k.a. Abu Zayd, on completing his CIA training in Turkey, defected from the train-and-equip program to join Jabhat al-Nusra (Al Qaeda in Syria) immediately on entering Syria. Incredibly, US officials admit that Washington does not track or exercise command-and-control of its Jihadist proxies once they enter Syria. Abu Zayd's defection after being trained in advanced warfare techniques by the US, is typical. Other elements of the New Syrian Forces directly handed all their weapons to Nusra upon entering Syrian territory at the town of Atareb at the end of September.
These latest "moderate" defections to join Al Qaeda's Al-Nusra Front affiliate in Syria come less than two weeks after Gen. Lloyd Austin III, head of the US "war against ISIS," during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Syria, admitted that the US military program that intended produce 5,400 trained fighters a year has so far only resulted in "four or five" who still remain on the ground and active in combat. The rest have all joined ISIS or Al Nusra Front of Al Qaeda, the US-backed "moderate opposition" to ISIL.
What the successful Russian precision airstrikes have done is expose in all its ugly nakedness the Emperor's New Clothes. For more than one year, the Obama Administration claims it has committed the most awesome airpower on the planet allegedly to destroy ISIS, which has been described as a "ragtag band of militants running around the desert in basketball shoes."
Curiously, until last week, ISIS has only expanded its web of power in Syria and Iraq under US bombings. Now, within 72 hours, the Russian military, launching only 60 bombing runs in 72 hours, hitting more than 50 ISIS targets, has brought the ISIS combatants into what the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman described as a state of "panic" where more than 600 have deserted. And, according to Moscow, the fight is only beginning, expected, they say to last three to four months.
The Obama Administration has been training terrorists of Al Qaeda/Al Nusra, allegedly to fight ISIS, much like the disgraced General David Petraeus did in Iraq and Afghanistan along with Obama's special ISIS coordinator, the just-resigned General John Allen. The US-trained "moderate" terrorists were being readied, it's now clear to all the world, in reality, to battle Assad and open the way for a Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Syria and a real plunge into darkness for the world if that were to succeed.
Now, with the truth in the open, exposed by the remarkable successes of a handful of Russian fighter jets in four days against ISIS, accomplishing more than the US "anti-ISIS coalition" in more than one year, it is clear to the world Washington has been playing a dirty double game.
Now that hypocritical Obama Administration mask has been blown off with the precision hit of a Russian laser-guided Kh-29L missile. As German and other EU governments have admitted, much to the strong objection of Washington, Putin has demonstrated that Russia is the essential part of any peaceful resolution of the Syria war. That in turn has a huge bearing on the current asylum-seeker crisis in Germany and other parts of the EU. It also has a huge bearing on prospects for world peace. The Norwegian Parliament's Nobel Peace Prize Committee, rather than consider John Kerry, might consider Vladimir Putin and Russian Defense Minister, Sergey Shoygu, for the prize.
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook".
By Jim Kirwan
10-14-15
We have to completely reverse course in the United States, in order to reflect what our lies have created, before and during 911. 'The public that thinks' has known the truth since 2002 about everything that went down on that dark day: Yet the nation and the world must now catch up with that reality if any of us are going to live to see 'our future'. We must go back and remove the artificial 'lockdown' into which we've placed everything to do with the international criminal attack on America, on that September day just over fourteen years ago. What we must do is arrest and confine those that have become our jailers for what they have done and are still doing to the public and to all the freedoms they so clearly denied to billions of people from September 11, 2001 until this moment. That unanswered crime made trillions of dollars for all the conspirators, while it sealed the fate of millions of people around the world, in addition to what it did to the people of the United States. We must respond by burying the post-911 government-criminality so deeply that nothing can ever come close to that event—ever again.
“The Price of Prosperity”
“Trusting the Americans” globally, is proving to be the worst mistake that “any supposed ally of the West” could ever make, if any of those states are planning to survive as anything other than imprisoned slaves, which the people of the world have been targeted to become. The EU is beginning to pull away, just as other nations are coming to the aid of Syria after Russia's intervention.
What's being fleshed out now by Russia's assistance to Syria, as an independent and self-governing state, is what's bringing home the truth: Not just in Syria but in this entirely conflicted world. Any nation that still listens to either Israel or the dead USSA, is doomed to failure, regardless of how they might choose to frame that 'illegal-involvement' on any future level.
Everything we have done since Israel was created in 1948, was created to destabilize the entire Middle-East and through that criminally-fraught quagmire to finish infecting the entire world according to their ancient plans.
The hideous history of Israel along with the continuously guarded illegal-support of the USSA, is being constantly erased by various factions in the West that want the truth behind all of this to remain 'unknown-forever'.
Israel's attacks upon American Marines in Beirut and on the sailors aboard the USS Liberty, are just a few of the better known examples of the international treachery of Israel. Most are unaware of LBJ and John McCain's father during the 1967 war or of Admiral McCain and his part in the cover-up and the failure to challenge or stop Israel in the middle of Israel's attack on the unarmed USS Liberty. Few people have credited the Rothschild's for their founding part in the 102 year old crime in which the Zionists stole the U.S Treasury along with our money, thanks to Woodrow Wilson the American traitor who signed the illegally-passed legislation that allowed all that to happen.
That crime was called The Federal Reserve, that was never federal: It's always been a privately controlled foreign corporation that we still don't talk about today. But the FED was the imperial moment of the hijacking of this nation, in 1913, which deeded the Rothschild family total financial control over all Americans to this day.
The list of crimes committed by Israel against the United States is way too long and ugly, but it's exceeded by what Israel continues to do to Palestine. American's have lost soldiers, sailors and marines to Israel, along with any respect we might have ever had in the world: Not to mention all the now secret-dead of Amerika's Wars for Israel, which generally began during the 1967 war.
Palestine over the last 68 years has lost over 90% of their land and the lives and history of millions of people in the continuing genocide from the Israeli-occupation: Of course what's planned for the USA, is exactly what can be seen in the Palestine of today.
Yet no one seems to be willing or able to project Israel's crimes of today,
Against the Palestinians,
onto the soon-to-be-future of American-prisoners
That Israel is just dying to create.
AND
Hezbollah and the active resistance against Israel & USSA have been on the front lines in this war since the beginning.
That's not been a surprise to anyone with basic knowledge of the Middle-East. In light of that fact it also comes as no surprise that the West has no policy. This would explain the current impasse. 'We've done what we've done', without a policy because we didn't want any policy to compare our actions to: No-stated-policy equals nothing to violate, at least not publicly: The problem is that no one thought that Russia would do what they've done: Which caught the Israel-USSA criminal-machinery in the Middle East without either a plan or any idea of what to do about “any tomorrow”. That's why what the West has done was not backed by any formal plan, because if there had been a plan, that could have been challenged by the facts on the ground—without a plan, technically, we could not fail because there was never s specified “goal” to fail to reach.
According to the Global Terrorism Database on 'In the NOW' today from 14min 39 sec, to 15min 22 sec. From 2001 through 2014 there have been just over 67,000 terror attacks around the middle east and beyond. The map gives you a better idea of where they supposedly took place... To 'have no plan' would seem insane, unless the whole point was and is to create total global-chaos.
Here's a piece of a current Hollywood production from SHOWTIME that gives you a rough idea of just how screwed up our 'agencies' been for decades and why what we do has been flawed from the beginning yes it's only a film, but there are many overlooked clues in this 51min presentation...
Homeland | Season 5 Premiere | Full Episode
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Every Empire has always been murdered from inside, As internal corruptions grow they add massive weight of the farce of 'total-power' which brings them all down so it is that the excesses of every government's criminality are always responsible for ending their own existence; as they are ironically always killed by their own obsessive-actions.
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