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Best of the Web: Analyst Gearóid O'Colmáin: 'French government, like German one, is totally subordinated to US dictates'
Most seem unaware of the vicious role France played in the military intervention in Libya, about France’s very hawkish policy line on Syria from the beginning of the civil war, meaning support for the anti-Assad terrorists.
It is now commonplace to hear that life in Paris, life in the world at large has been changed forever by the tragedy that played out in Paris on the evening of 13 November. Indeed, with a 3 month state of emergency declared in France, with French suspension of the Schengen regime of free travel across internal borders of the EU and heightened security throughout Europe including Russia, ordinary citizens woke up on Saturday to a much less friendly routine of daily life, with constant reminders of deadly insecurity.
The airwaves in Europe have been filled with reporting of the carnage in Paris. But with very few exceptions, programming on the two most widely viewed news channels on the Continent, Euronews and the BBC, has been at the level of tabloid press: focused on human interest stories, the little tragedies surrounding the 129 killed on Friday, the trivial testimony of those laying flowers at various impromptu shrines around Paris, none of whom seems to have a clue as to why France was struck. Apparently no one has told any of them about the vicious role France played in the military intervention in Libya, about France's very hawkish policy line on Syria from the beginning of the civil war, meaning support for the anti-Assad terrorists.
This is a particularly cynical and, frankly, evil, maneuver in the context of the recent influx of large numbers of Syrian migrants into Europe, who are fleeing a war against the Assad government that was ignited and has been fully backed by Western powers, including France.
To put it more bluntly, France has been supporting in Syria the very same type of jihadist terrorists that it blames for the Paris attacks.
© www.opednews.com...and in the shadows are the puppet masters...
Let's start with coverage of the unprecedented wave of migration that has struck Europe in recent months. The Western media has already begun to gradually leak information that there's no way that this flow could be unprovoked or uncontrolled, so there can be little doubt that there's certain financial and political circles behind this crisis. Ultimately, these criminals have struck gold, cashing in on the desire of displaced residents of Africa and the Middle East to pursue a better life in Europe.
A series of investigations that were being carried out in this field would have uncovered certain Western politicians behind this trafficking, so the Paris attacks were necessary to create a handful of problems for private investigators, while strengthening the position of far-right political forces in Europe, especially in a situation when these attacks were carried out by incredibly young terrorists, as it has been reported by the French press.
Recent opinion polls in France and several other European countries indicate that the refugee crisis and the ongoing Washington wars have pushed right-wing forces to the center stage of European politics, that may become obvious during upcoming French elections.
Comment: Sounds like an example of hegelian dialectic in play. This works in three stages: a development or thesis giving rise to its reaction...the antithesis which contradicts or negates the thesis and the tension between the two which is resolved by a means of compromise...moving the political set point in a predictable and desired direction by the instigators via acceptable action by the public. (Think 9/11 and the Patriot Act.)
Comment: Obviously the Paris bombings were timed and executed to predicate a predictable recourse by politicians and the public in regards to mindsets, reactions and consequences. Every action has a reaction, so manufacturing and controlling those pivotal moments gives shadow agendas the advantage, especially in goading societies that can be lead by the nose with their eyes half shut. Could the migrant situation in EU, as well, be purposefully and wittingly positioned to maneuver political and military actions according to the strategies of right-wing politics and the shadow agenda? If so, what is their end game?
The Sukhoi SU-34
Washington continues making an international fool of herself by her inability to effectively counter the impression around the world that Russia, spending less than 10% of the Pentagon annually on defense, has managed to do more against ISIS in Syria in six weeks than the mighty US Air Force bombing campaign has done in almost a year and half. One aspect that bears attention is the demonstration by the Russian military of new technologies that belie the widely-held Western notion that Russia is little more than a backward oil and raw material commodity exporter.
Recent reorganization of the Russian state military industrial complex as well as reorganization of the Soviet-era armed forces under Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu's term are visible in the success so far of Russia's ISIS and other terror strikes across Syria. Clearly Russian military capabilities have undergone a sea-change since the Soviet Cold War era.
Comment: Very sadly for the whole world, the language of Sukhoi SU-34 electronic capability, countermeasures against radar systems, anti-aircraft missile systems, airborne early warning etc. - is the only language that the war mongers and imperialists in Washington understand. And even when they do understand it, they are still relentless in their drive to conquer and destroy the enemies of their will to control and dominate.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took advantage of a private meeting this week with Barack Obama - their first in 13 months - to raise the possibility of dismembering Syria.
According to Israeli officials, Netanyahu indicated that Washington should give its belated blessing to Israel's illegal annexation of the Golan Heights, captured from Syria during the 1967 war.
Sources close to the talks told the Haaretz daily that Netanyahu claimed Syria was no longer a functioning state, allowing "for different thinking". Since 2011 the government of Bashar al-Assad has faced off against rebel factions that include al-Qaeda-affiliated groups and the Islamic State (IS).
On Wednesday an unnamed White House official confirmed that Netanyahu had raised the matter. The official said: "I think the president didn't think it warranted an answer. It wasn't clear how serious he [Netanyahu] was about it."
However, it appears Netanyahu's comments to Obama are part of a coordinated effort by Israeli officials over several months to shift thinking in Washington.
The day before Netanyahu's meeting at the White House, Michael Oren, Israel's former ambassador to the US, published a commentary on CNN's website urging Obama to consider Israeli sovereignty over the Golan.
Had Israel handed back the area to Syria in earlier peace talks, he wrote, it "would today have placed [the Lebanese militia] Hezbollah directly above Israeli cities and villages in northern Galilee" and Islamic State (ISIS) "would be dug in on the Sea of Galilee's eastern shore".
Neither Oren nor presumably Netanyahu highlighted another reason why Israel might be anxious to gain US approval of its annexation of the Golan, which it imposed in violation of international law in 1981.
© Sputnik/ Maxim Grigoryev
Valentin Vasilescu demonstrates here the impossibility of the theory of a bomb placed in the plane. After having explored all hypotheses, there is now only one left - that of a failure in the software of the automatic pilot. We may therefore conclude that the accusations of the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as the claim for responsibility by the Islamic Emirate, are propaganda. The crash was not a terrorist attack. But the problems in the automatic pilot system may be either an accident or the effect of sabotage by an extremely specialised secret service.Russian investigators brought with them to Egypt a complex apparatus designed to test the débris both inside and outside the plane. This equipment enables the detection of aerosol-based explosives to a level of sensitivity of 20 nanogrammes. If, in the test solutions, there appear traces of a brown-violet colour, the agent is revealed as TNT. If an orange precipitate appears, the explosive is Tetryl, or another explosive from group A (TNB, DNT, picric acid, etc.). The Russian device possesses a range of separate tests for explosives from group B. With this system, the appearance in test solutions of a rosy colour would indicate the use of dynamite, nitroglycerine, RDX, PETN, SEMTEX or nitrocellulose. If the chemical reactions do not identify explosives from groups A and B, the test equipment automatically checks for the presence of components containing inorganic nitrates, such as chlorine, bromine or peroxyde, used in the preparation of improvised explosive devices (ANFO).
Comment: Putin told Italian PM Renzi today: "We are now in the concluding stage of studying the evidence at our disposal."
If Vasilescu is correct, this might have something to do with it: Was an 'exotic energy weapon' used to down Russian plane in Sinai?
Are the Paris terrorist attacks being used as a pretext and justification by France to intervene militarily in Syria in violation of international law?
According to French President François Hollande, the Paris terrorist attack was "prepared, organized and planned from outside the country by the Islamic State", which has it's command centres in Syria and Iraq.
On Sunday, twelve French warplanes were dispatched on orders of President Hollande. Their target was Al-Raqqa, the so-called de facto capital of the Islamic State inside Northern Syria.
France is acting allegedly in "self defense".
On Sunday, twelve French warplanes were dispatched on orders of President Hollande. Their target was Al-Raqqa, the so-called de facto capital of the Islamic State inside Northern Syria.
France is acting allegedly in "self defense".
Comment: In a sane world, this might have been Hollande's response to the attacks on November 13.
© Getty
1) Pondering the support of countries with terrorist movements -- whether by creating them for questionable geostrategic purposes, or by funding them, or by complaisance towards them, France will revise its relations with the United States, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey.
2) Considering the active role played by France herself in point 1), the members of successive governments announce their mass resignation and submission to French and international justice, not without first having taken action against political, cultural and media figures who defended and promoted these criminal policies.
3) Considering that five years of western intervention in Syria and 15 years of "terrorism eradication" campaigns achieved less than one month of Russian intervention, France is reviewing its strategic alliances in the fight against terrorism and reconsidering the Russian and other proposals for peace in the Middle East.
© The White House
The interview airing Friday, has already become the subject of a scandal, with commentators attacking the president for his suggestion that ISIL had been "contained" just hours ahead of the deadly terror attacks in Paris.
In the same interview, asked by his interviewer about whether "Vladimir Putin will start to take [ISIL] on," (an odd question, given that Russia has been bombing ISIL positions for a month and a half), Obama offered an equally strange response.
Starting off by noting that he sincerely believes that "Putin...from the start has been sincere in seeing ISIL as a threat," the president turned around and contradicted himself in the same breath, suggesting that "the reason he went into Syria is not primarily because of ISIL, but to prop up Assad."
Comment: Since when do the majority of Syrians reject Assad? Assad received 88.7% of the Syrian vote, with no violations being reported, and with a voter turnout over 74% when he was re-elected just last June. What Western leader can say the same of their elections? His statements about the Russian campaign in Syria are equally delusional. Russia is showing the world what a genuine coalition against terror looks like. The US is up in arms because their "war on terror" is being exposed as a war for terror, and Obama is the one living in an illegitimate reality constructed out of thin air.
Comment: Given the psychopathic nature of most Western leaders, perhaps Russia should be wary of offers of rapprochement and cooperation, should they even be made. They would think nothing of a double-cross.