Too many headlines related on destabilizing the Eastern hemisphere. China is doing well on staying patiently quiet.
"COULD THE KASHMIR STANDOFF TRIGGER NUCLEAR WAR?"
"U.S. Pacific Command chief tells troops to be ready to 'fight tonight'"
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Too many headlines related on destabilizing the Eastern hemisphere. China is doing well on staying patiently quiet.
"COULD THE KASHMIR STANDOFF TRIGGER NUCLEAR WAR?"
"U.S. Pacific Command chief tells troops to be ready to 'fight tonight'"
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Pro-Turkey lobbyist sought secret favors from Hillary Clinton: The Daily Caller
22:18, 17 May 2016
Siranush Ghazanchyan
Newly released emails show that a former Democratic National Committee
official and lobbyist for the Turkish government directly contacted
two of Hillary Clinton’s top aides to ask for a favor ahead of the
then-secretary of state’s March 2009 visit to Turkey, The Daily Caller
reports.
The correspondence raises numerous questions because the lobbyist,
David Mercer, was paid $25,000 a month by the Turkish government to
convince lawmakers and government officials to oppose a bill
designating the Ottoman Empire’s murder of an estimated 1.5 million
Armenian Christians from 1915 to 1917 a genocide.
Clinton once touted her support for the resolution but flip-flopped
dramatically after she joined the Obama administration.
According to the source, the messages were sent and received at a
crucial inflection point for Clinton on the Armenian genocide issue.
As a New York senator, Clinton supported several resolutions calling
for the recognition of the mass murders as genocide. And as a
Democratic presidential candidate in 2008 she issued a statement
promising to recognize the genocide if elected president. She said
then that “alone among the presidential candidates, I have been a
long-standing supporter of the Armenian Genocide Resolution.”
The pledge earned Clinton the praise of the Armenian National
Committee of America (ANCA), the largest Armenian political
organization in the U.S.
But Clinton completely reversed course on the issue and refused to use
the “g-word” to describe the century-old atrocity after she entered
the Obama administration.
During a State Department town hall in Jan. 2012 she said that the
issue of whether the mass murder was genocide was still up for debate.
“I think it’s fair to say that this has always been viewed, and I
think properly so, as a matter of historical debate and conclusions
rather than political,” she said at the time.
Clinton was called out for the comments in a House Appropriations
Subcommittee hearing the next month by California Rep. Adam Schiff,
who is currently a member of the House Select Benghazi Committee and
one of Clinton’s most ardent supporters.
“Some actions that were taken by you and the administration with
regard to the Armenian genocide are of great concern,” he said during
the hearing.
“I can’t begin to express in mere words how much anguish has been
caused in the Armenian-American community and among many activists
about recent statements at a State Department town hall that you
made,” he added.
Clinton flailed as she attempted to defend downplaying her statement
that the Armenian genocide was still up for debate.
Aram Suren Hamparian, who once praised Clinton as ANCA’s executive
director, had harsh words for both Mercer and Clinton.
“Mr. Mercer profited personally by aiding and abetting Turkey’s
shameful cover up of its genocide of millions of Armenians, Greeks,
Assyrians and other Christians. Mr. Mercer’s complicity in Ankara’s
genocide denial represents an unconscionable corruption of U.S.
democracy by high-priced lobbyists, a morally unacceptable compromise
of American values by a foreign power,” Hamparian told The Daily
Caller.
It is likely that Clinton and company were aware of Mercer’s role as
an opponent of the Armenian resolution. Records show that he sent
letters to Lee Feinstein, the national security director of Clinton’s
campaign, at around the time she publicly supported the genocide
resolution.
“Hillary Clinton needs to answer for her morally indefensible actions
as Secretary of State enforcing Turkey’s gag-rule against American
condemnation and commemoration of the Armenian Genocide,” Hamparian
told TheDC.
Clinton has not weighed in on the genocide issue during the 2016
cycle. Her campaign did not respond to TheDC’s request for comment.
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Yet another USA backed coup timed to interfere and ruin the Olympics in Brazil. It would not at all surprise me if the Zika virus is weapon designed by USA to attack Latin America to. I cannot remember a more anti-world, anti-humanity entity. From wars to depletion of resources to the destruction of the environment to the to the loss of value on human life and culture we are witnessing the decline of humanity lead mainly by USA. I see Hillary as the continuation of this. Trump to me is a wildcard but I prefer the wildcard to certain doom.Leave a comment:
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Western Media Spin Cover for US Plan B in Syria
It should be seen as a measure of good news: the Syrian army and its Russian and Hezbollah allies are inflicting heavy losses on al-Qaeda-linked terror groups in and around the strategic city of Aleppo.
Yet the Western media are reporting the uptick in violence as breaches of the truce that was tentatively brokered by Russia and the United States on February 27.
The ceasefire «violations» are also said to be putting the Geneva peace talks in jeopardy.
German newspaper Deutsche Welle reports: «Syria truce strained by Aleppo fighting». The implication is that the Syrian armed forces of President Bashar al-Assad are acting in bad faith and undermining the UN diplomatic efforts in Geneva to end the five-year conflict.
On closer reading of the report and others in the Western media it becomes apparent that the «rebels» that the Syrian army is making gains against are none other than those of Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL or Daesh), Jabhat al-Nusra and other radical Islamist groups also affiliated to al-Qaeda.
These groups which are officially defined as terrorists by the UN and by Western governments were never part of the ceasefire that was brokered on February 27. Syria and Russia clearly stated from the outset that they reserved the right to continue their campaign to defeat these illegally armed groups.
So, for the Western media to spin the recent surge in defeats of these terror groups as somehow constituting a violation of the ceasefire by the Syrian government forces is completely disingenuous, and an astounding feat of double-think.
Agence France-Presse reported a member of the Saudi and US-backed political opposition, the High Negotiations Committee, as saying: «We might suspend [our participation in] the talks if things carry on this way, and then there will be no prospect for any political solution».
The HNC is largely an exile-based collection of regime-change assets, which through US sponsorship and UN acquiescence has somehow come to «represent» the so-called Syrian opposition. But the HNC is just a front for al-Qaeda-linked militia, such as Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar ash-Sham, which are in cahoots with the more overtly associated al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra and Islamic State.
The AFP report cited above goes on to quote another member of the HNC, Mohammed Alloush who is a leader in the Jaysh al-Islam group. He said of the ceasefire: «Don’t trust the regime and don’t wait for their pity. Strike them at their necks [kill them]. Strike them everywhere».
This is all consistent with Washington’s so-called Plan B which was disclosed last week in a rare candid report in the Wall Street Journal. Plan B is where US officials have said if political talks in Geneva fail to gain traction, then «all bets are off» and the US and its regional allies would step up covert military support to Syrian «rebels» – which is Orwellian code word for terror groups.
By talks «failing to gain traction» what Washington means is that the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian allies refuse to capitulate to demands for a «political transition» whereby Syrian President Assad stands down. That is, consents to foreign-backed regime change. So far, the Syrian government and its allies have steadfastly rejected any such precondition to peace talks.
This firm Syrian stance against regime change through political means in conjunction with continuing military operations striking severe blows at the West’s terror assets on the ground is why the West’s political agents and the Western media are now spinning the story that the ceasefire is coming apart.
Plan A – the political track – has evidently failed to deliver Western objectives. But the US and its regional allies can’t very well resume covert military operations without the cover of blaming the Syrian government for a breakdown in the truce.
But how can you have a breakdown in a truce with terror groups that were never part of that truce in the first place? If it is of course illogical, and that is the function of Western news media: to conceal what is illogical and render it plausible.
Not only has it been disclosed that Washington intends to step up military support of the «rebels» with anti-aircraft Manpads and Stingers, it is also reliably reported that Saudi Arabia and Turkey have been agitating against the shaky truce ever since it was apparently implemented. Reports from Syrian and Russian sources over the past week say that hundreds of armed fighters have been allowed to infiltrate Syria from across the Turkish border – right under the noses of Turkish army checkpoints.
Russia’s ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin last week told the Security Council that Turkey was the main supplier of weapons and ammunition, including chemical weapons, to terror groups in Syria. He called for international monitors to halt the flow of fighters and weapons from Turkey into Syria. His call apparently fell on deaf ears of US ambassador Samantha Power, the British and the French. Not surprisingly, if you understand the reality behind the Syrian conflict. But if the Western media were really doing a job of critically informing, then why aren’t Samantha Power and other Western authorities being called out over their tacit support for Turkey and the criminal fueling of war in Syria?
It should be abundantly clear what is going on in Syria. The US, its NATO allies and regional partners like Turkey and Saudi Arabia are orchestrating terrorist proxies for regime change. Why this is not abundantly clear is simply because Western mainstream media are systematically running a propaganda campaign – under the guise of «news» – in which reality is outrageously inverted.
Unable to get its way through political machinations – dressed up as «peace talks» in Geneva – Washington now wants to revert to the covert war track using its terror assets.
However, that reality is unspeakable in Western public discourse, so the Western media then have the task of sanitizing the criminality of their governments – by blaming the return to violence on the Syrian army and its Russian ally – the two forces that are actually defeating terrorism in Syria.Leave a comment:
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Alex GORKA | 02.04.2016 | WORLD
Washington Nuclear Summit: President Obama Claims Russia Violates INF Treaty
On March 31 – the first day of the nuclear summit in Washington, Obama stated that, taking into account violations by Moscow, the US is urging Russia to implement fully the commitments under the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles or The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) signed in 1987.
Both parties to the treaty withdrew nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges (500–5,500 km or 300–3,400 miles) from Europe.
The treaty did not cover sea launched missiles.
«I’m the first to acknowledge that we still have unfinished business. Given its violations of the INF Treaty, we continue to call on Russia to comply fully with its obligations», the President said in his article (published by the Washington Post) devoted to the opening of nuclear summit on March 31.
On April 27, 2015, when addressing the 2015 NPT (non-proliferation treaty) Review Conference, the US Secretary of State John Kerry emphasized «deep concerns regarding Russia’s clear violation of its obligations» under the INF Treaty.
In the 2014 Compliance Report, the United States for the first time published its declaration that the Russian Federation was in violation of its obligations under the INF Treaty not to possess, produce, or flight-test a ground-launched cruise missile (GLCM) with a range capability of 500 km to 5,500 km, or to possess or produce launchers of such missiles.
The statement was repeated in the June 2015 compliance report, which reaffirmed the previous determination. It included an additional detail: «The United States determined the cruise missile developed by the Russian Federation meets the INF Treaty definition of a ground-launched cruise missile with a range capability of 500 km to 5,500 km, and as such, all missiles of that type, and all launchers of the type used to launch such a missile, are prohibited under the provisions of the INF Treaty».
The report also stated that «…the United States noted concerns about the Russian Federation’s compliance with the INF Treaty in earlier, classified versions» of the compliance report. Since the details of the violation remain classified, there has been some public uncertainty and speculation about which of several conceivable missile systems constitutes the violation.
Rose Gottemoeller, the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security for the US State Department, told Russian Interfax news agency in an interview (June 2015) that «At issue is a ground-launched cruise missile with a range capability of 500-5,500 kilometers. We are confident that the Russian government is aware of the missile to which we are referring».
Some experts believe the US means a land-based test of a sea-launched cruise missile, the SS-N-30A, known as the Kalibr.
If so, there is no violation because the INF Treaty does allow the testing of sea-launched cruise missiles (SLCMs) from ground-based platforms if they are fixed. Article VII (para 11) states, «A cruise missile which is not a missile to be used in a ground-based mode shall not be considered to be a GLCM if it is test-launched at a test site from a fixed land-based launcher which is used solely for test purposes and which is distinguishable from GLCM launchers».
In its turn, Russia put forward the claims that the US violates the INF Treaty.
The list of violations includes:
- The use of target missiles with characteristics similar to those of intermediate and shorter-range ballistic missiles during missile defense tests. With its operational range (1100 km) Hera qualifies as an intermediate ballistic missile and hence violates Item 1, Article 6 of the INF Treaty.
- The deployment in Romania and Poland of Mk-41 Aegis Ashore launchers capable of firing ground-launched cruise missiles (GLCMs) is an outright violation of the treaty.
«We have grounds to regard land-based Mk 41s as cruise missile launching systems and their deployment on the ground as a direct INF violation by the US side», the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
- US unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or armed drones such as the MQ-1 Predator, fall under the INF Treaty definition of GLCMs. Moscow claims that their operational ranges (1100 km) and lack of pilot mean that drones of this type are very similar to shorter-range cruise missiles.
It should be noted that the deployment of aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons to Russia’s borders has virtually nullified all the benefits of the INF Treaty from Moscow’s vantage point. US aircraft could fly from bases in Lithuania, Estonia and Poland to Russia’s largest cities in 15-20 minutes – not that much longer than the flight time of the scrapped missiles. Deploying Mk-41 launched medium-range missiles on the territory of its allies in Europe makes it possible to strike deep into the Russian territory thanks to NATO’s expansion eastward. A US mid-range weapon launched from Poland or the Czech Republic would require only a short flight time to reach beyond the Urals. It creates a serious strategic imbalance. Russia will have to respond as its officials have already warned.
Washington's ongoing efforts at creating a global ballistic missile defense system, developing the Prompt Global Strike (PGS) precision conventional weapon program along with the sanctions imposed to weaken Russia’s military potential have a continued destabilizing effect on nuclear disarmament talks. Russian officials say there is no «political logic and common sense in proposals 'to disarm' in conditions when the current US administration has been making concerted effort to undermine the defense and the military-industrial potential of Russia through its sanctions policy for a long time».
The case against Russia has been blurred by Washington’s unwillingness to provide greater detail of the alleged violations. Essentially, President Obama has so far failed to explain what actually happened. Neither he, nor any other US official has ever made precise which exactly weapons system is meant when talking about INF violations. It’s like The Hunting of the Snark. Arms control issues are too important to be a guessing game. It gives rise to a question – why does not the US go to the Special Verification Commission envisioned by the INF treaty as a forum to discuss and resolve implementation and compliance issues instead of making public statements as the nuclear summit kicks off? It is the logical forum for Russia and the United States to confidentially discuss and resolve the US compliance concerns.
If Washington cannot present compelling evidence of the Russian violation, the United States administration will find itself in an awkward position in the eyes of world public opinion. The whole thing has a certain Cold War ring. It would most certainly worsen the bilateral US-Russian relationship, which is already at a low point. It is bound to further complicate the prospects for arms control – the issue the United States says it attaches so much importance to.Leave a comment:
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Gaddafi, Assad Warned of Terror Epidemic in Europe, But No One Listened
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Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned that terrorism would be on the rise in Europe if Western leaders help to destabilize the two countries, but no one listened. As a result, Libya and Syria have been plunged into chaos and now Europe has to grapple with a string of gruesome terrorist attacks.
Broken windows of the terminal at Brussels national airport are seen during a ceremony following bomb attacks in Brussels metro and Belgium's National airport of Zaventem, Belgium, March 23, 2016
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Brussels Attacks Again Confirm That Terror, Not Russia, is Real ‘Existential Threat’ to West
The latest assault took place on Tuesday as three coordinated bombings rocked the Belgian capital of Brussels, which hosts the headquarters of several international institutions, including the European Union, NATO and the Benelux.
Daesh took responsibility for the attack that claimed 31 lives. The brutal terrorist group was also behind the night of terror in Paris on November 13, a series of coordinated terrorist acts that left 130 people killed.
Broken windows of the terminal at Brussels national airport are seen during a ceremony following bomb attacks in Brussels metro and Belgium's National airport of Zaventem, Belgium, March 23, 2016
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Broken windows of the terminal at Brussels national airport are seen during a ceremony following bomb attacks in Brussels metro and Belgium's National airport of Zaventem, Belgium, March 23, 2016
Evidently, Gaddafi, Assad and others, who shared their concerns, could not predict specific attacks, but they understood regional trends and their implications.
Several months before his death, Colonel Gaddafi warned that unified and stable Libya was the only thing that prevented hundreds of thousands of migrants and terrorists posing as refugees from flooding Europe. "Libya plays a role in security in the Mediterranean," he told the Paris-based France 24 television channel.
A rubber boat loaded of migrants is seen during a search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coasts, Italy, Tuesday, June 23, 2015
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A rubber boat loaded of migrants is seen during a search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coasts, Italy, Tuesday, June 23, 2015
A general view shows destroyed buildings in Libya's eastern coastal city of Benghazi on October 20, 2015
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Doom and Gloom: Libya Imploding Into Chaos Five Years After NATO Bombings
Nevertheless, France, several other NATO members and other countries went ahead with the military intervention. The country has been plagued by deadly violence ever since. One of the latest developments has seen Daesh gain a foothold in the divided nation.
In 2013, when Western leaders were contemplating sending weapons to Syrian rebels, Bashar al-Assad warned that it was a dangerous scenario to explore. Access to additional weapons would not only strengthen terrorists in Syria, but also result in "the direct export of terrorism to Europe," he argued.
"If the Europeans deliver weapons, the backyard of Europe will become terrorist and Europe will pay the price for it," he said.
In early 2015, Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, Gaddafi's cousin and former intelligence official, predicted that a terrorist act, comparable to the 9/11 attacks in the US, would take place in Europe "within one or two years."
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Wayne MADSEN | 15.03.2016 | OPINION
America: Promoter Royalty and Monarchy
The United States, which was founded upon winning a revolutionary war for independence against a decrepit and insane King George III of England, has become the world’s chief promoter of restoring monarchies in nations it has invaded. The latest attempt of monarchy restoration has come in the failed nation of Libya, which saw its legitimate government overthrown in 2011 as a result of NATO intervention in a civil war.
The civil strife in Libya was initiated by the US Central Intelligence Agency and non-state actors financed by non-governmental organizations that included George Soros’s various front groups, the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Obama administration is now advancing a proposal to restore the Libyan monarchy that was overthrown by Muammar Gaddafi in 1969. When Gaddafi ousted the aging and extremely corrupt King Idris in 1969, his revolution was hailed by the Libyan people. Gaddafi was able to use Libya’s oil wealth to bring one of the poorest nations in Africa into the 20th century.
The United States fancifully believes that if it places the relatively unknown Libyan crown prince, Mohammed al-Sanusi, on a restored Libyan throne, the Islamic State, which controls large coastal regions from central to eastern Libya, and other factions, including those led by a CIA-inserted Libyan warlord, General Khalifa Hifter, will all swear fealty to an American-inserted monarch. There is also the problem that Mohammed al-Sanusi is not the only pretender to the Libyan throne. He faces competition from his cousin, Prince Idris al-Sanusi, who has also laid a claim to the throne.
Libya is not the only case of the United States attempting to restore a monarchy in a Muslim nation it has invaded. After CIA-backed Afghan mujahideen defeated the Afghan socialist government of Najibullah in 1989, there was an attempt by US-backed Pashtun mujahideen forces to restore former King Mohammed Zahir Shah, overthrown in a republican coup in 1973, to the Afghan throne. After the US routed the Taliban in 2002, Zahir Shah returned to Afghanistan from exile in Italy to open the Loya Jirga, the traditional grand assembly of tribal and clan leaders.
Although the US initially supported Zahir Shah’s return to the throne, Washington double-crossed him by favoring longtime CIA asset Hamid Karzai as head of state. Zahir Shah could only settle for some of his family members being appointed to major posts in Karzai’s transitional government. Zahir Shah died in 2007 within the presidential palace compound in Kabul. Only because the CIA favored the corrupt Karzai in power in Afghanistan did Afghanistan remain an Islamic republic under a president rather than a kingdom under Zahir Shah and his heirs.
The CIA pulled a similar double-cross in Vietnam. After backing Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai, was «State of Vietnam» chief of state from 1949 to 1955, when the US puppet Ngo Dinh Diem ousted him after a fraudulent referendum on establishing a republic in South Vietnam. In 1955, the CIA discovered that the French government was urging Bao Dai to return to South Vietnam from exile in Cannes. The CIA, believing that Bao Dai might accommodate the Communist Viet Minh forces and thus pose a threat to Diem, scuttled the move.
Although it fought a bloody war for independence from the English monarchy of George III, the United States in its infancy retained a love affair for monarchies. In 1782, US Continental Army Colonel Lewis Nicola wrote a letter to General George Washington. Nicola floated the idea of the independent colonies becoming a monarchy under a king. His letter stated:
«Some people have so connected the ideas of tyranny and monarchy as to find it very difficult to separate them, it may therefore be requisite to give the head of such a constitution as I propose, some title apparently more moderate, but if all other things were once adjusted I believe strong argument might be produced for admitting the title of king, which I conceive would be attended with some material advantages».
Some historians have suggested that Washington was offered the kingship of the United States but turned down the offer. Others argue that no such offer was ever made to Washington. However, Washington’s successor as president John Adams favored the establishment of a «republican monarchy» with the president having absolute powers, including the right to veto without an override, congressional legislation.
America has certainly seen its share of hereditary presidents: John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams; William Henry Harrison and his grandson, Benjamin Harrison; Theodore Roosevelt and his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt; and George H. W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush. The quasi-monarchist trend continues with Bill Clinton’s wife Hillary Clinton hoping to be elected president this year.
Americans also have an odd affectation for as much news as they can consume about every facet of the lives of the British royal family, from deaths like that of Princess Diana and the Queen Mother Elizabeth, to births like those of the children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and every malady and bowel affliction suffered by Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Windsor. The true revolutionary founders of the United States, people like Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison would be aghast not only at the devotion of America to royalty abroad but in supporting the restoration of monarchies in countries like Libya and Afghanistan. To be a royalist is, in fact, the very definition of being «un-American».
Perhaps part of the reason for American infatuation with monarchies like that of Britain is the number of US political and business leaders who have been sheep-dipped as Rhodes scholars at Oxford University in England. The scholarship program was endowed by one of the most rabid colonialists of the British Empire, mining magnate and arch-imperialist Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes’s dream was to unite all Anglo-Saxon nations, including the United States, under a single British-led empire. US political leaders who were indoctrinated as Rhodes scholars in Rhodes’s imperialist philosophy include former US House Speaker Carl Albert; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Walt Rostow, assistant national security adviser to President Kennedy; US Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach; CIA directors Stansfield Turner and James Woolsey; Senators Richard Lugar of Indiana, Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, Larry Pressler of South Dakota, Bill Bradley of New Jersey, David Vitter of Louisiana; Russ Feingold of Wisconsin; Cory Booker of New Jersey; and David Boren of Oklahoma; Chairman of the US National Intelligence Council Joseph Nye, Sr.; Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig; NATO Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark; Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair; Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbot; Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass; national security adviser Susan Rice; US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul; Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter; and Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.
America’s biggest pro-royalist folly was the 1953 CIA and British MI-6 coup that overthrew the democratically-elected prime minister of Iran Mohammad Mossadeq. The coup, code named Operation AJAX, installed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as Shah of Iran. America has also stood idly by as autocratic monarchs in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Brunei, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Tonga have cracked down on internal dissent. The CIA has also waged covert activities to stifle pro-republican sentiment in Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Canada, Jamaica, Tonga, Barbados, Belize, Spain, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, and Grenada.
America’s affinity for monarchs and its desire to restore the Libyan monarchy illustrate to the entire world the fact that the United States has become a «tired old man» of international politics whose time has come and gone.Leave a comment:
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The Qaddafi dream of an Arabic and African gold system independent of the dollar, unfortunately, died with him. Libya, after Hillary Clinton’s cynical “responsibility to protect” destruction of the country, today is a shambles, torn by tribal warfare, economic chaos, al-Qaeda and DAESH or ISIS terrorists. The monetary sovereignty held by Qaddafi’s 100% state-owned national monetary agency and its issuance of gold dinars is gone, replaced by an “independent” central bank tied to the dollar.
Despite that setback, it’s more than notable that now an entirely new grouping of nations is coming together to build a similar gold-backed monetary system. This is the group led by Russia and China, the world’s number three and number one gold producing countries, respectively.
This group is tied to the construction of China’s One Belt, One Road New Silk Road Eurasian infrastructure great project. It involves China’s $16 billion Gold Development Fund, and very firm steps by China to replace the City of London and New York as the center of world gold trade. The Eurasian gold system emerging now poses an entirely new quality of challenge to American financial hegemony. This Eurasian challenge, its success or failure, could well determine whether we allow our civilization to survive and prosper under entirely different conditions, or whether we decide to sink along with the bankrupt dollar system.
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”.
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