The zionists are facing a wrenching reality check. I love the comment about Assad and Hezbollah being undesirable, but far better than the alternative now coming to the neighbourhood. That’s the problem of opening Pandora’s Box and ignoring the law of unintended consequences.
I found the Yemen story rather weak. No attention to the fact that Saudi Arabia has a new king who wants to prove himself – and who finds that a war against Yemen is doing very well in the public opinion. No word also about the fact that this new king has a reputation for supporting Muslim extremism.
“From the Nile to the Euphates” seems to be progressing nicely, go USA! Sadly missing from these CrossTalks is the main instigator. What’s the point of having discussions if one cant discuss to source of the problem?
” “From the Nile to the Euphrates” seems to be progressing nicely”
A little thought experiment. Let’s assume Eretz Israel has indeed – finally and gloriously – been established. Now what? What are the Jews going to do? They will look like fools. They will realize that heckling and cheating goys is much more fun than living with fellow nasty Jews as neighbors. What you want to do with them? Talking Kabbala? Having kosher parties? What a nightmare!
There was a debate within the tribe about the formation of a Jew state. Opponents opined that it would focus too much global attention to the ‘activities’ of the tribe.
For a comprehensive history of this sect see: The Controversy of Zion by Doug Reed. It was written in the 50’s and for some reason remained unpublished. Brings to mind the lack of English version of Solshenitzin’s magnum opus Two Hundred Years Together.
Actions dont have to be rational or thought through to an end.
Basically, it says the war in Chechnya was CIA sponsored.
excerpt:
With the former Soviet Union in total chaos and disarray, George H.W. Bush’s Administration decided to “kick ‘em when they’re down,” a sad error. Washington redeployed their Afghan veteran terrorists to bring chaos and destabilize all of Central Asia, even into the Russian Federation itself, then in a deep and traumatic crisis during the economic collapse of the Yeltsin era.
In the early 1990s, Dick Cheney’s company, Halliburton, had surveyed the offshore oil potentials of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and the entire Caspian Sea Basin. They estimated the region to be “another Saudi Arabia” worth several trillion dollars on today’s market. The US and UK were determined to keep that oil bonanza from Russian control by all means. The first target of Washington was to stage a coup in Azerbaijan against elected president Abulfaz Elchibey to install a President more friendly to a US-controlled Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, “the world’s most political pipeline,” bringing Baku oil from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey and the Mediterranean.
Here is the list how many countries were attacked by the USA
Countries bombed by the U.S. since 1945
1. China 1945-46
2. Korea 1950-53
3. China 1950-53
4. Guatemala 1954
5. Indonesia 1958
6. Cuba 1959-60
7. Guatemala 1960
8. Belgian Congo 1964
9. Guatemala 1964
10. Dominican Republic 1965-66
11. Peru 1965
12. Laos 1964-73
13. Vietnam 1961-73
14. Cambodia 1969-70
15. Guatemala 1967-69
16. Lebanon 1982-84
17. Grenada 1983-84
18. Libya 1986
19. El Salvador 1981-92
20. Nicaragua 1981-90
21. Iran 1987-88
22. Libya 1989
23. Panama 1989-90
24. Iraq 1991
25. Kuwait 1991
26. Somalia 1992-94
27. Bosnia 1995
28. Iran 1998
29. Sudan 1998
30. Afghanistan 1998
31. Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999
32. Afghanistan 2001
33. Iraq 2003-11
34. Libya 2011
35. Pakistan 2004-present
36. Yemen 2004-present
37. Somalia 2011-present
38. Iraq 2014
Hard to believe that at one time Russia and the US were once close.
No reason to doubt that the infection that controls the US would do anything thinkable to Russia, or any other nation, to inevitably gain control or ruin. The evidence is readily apparent now to anyone who wishes to look.
Also consider: these forces that will destroy anything in the quest for earthly control wont hesitate to do the same to what’s left of the shell of the US.
It’s all been done before.
One example: The Russian Emperor sent warships to NY and California in support of Lincoln during the Civil War and warned that intervention by either Britain or France would be considered an act of war against Russia. He perceived the conflict to be foreign inspired (by the usual banker cabal), as did Bismark.
Russia had a long history of exploration as exemplified by settlements in Alaska and California. The USA was instrumental in the construction of the Trans-Siberian railroad.
Just a few examples off the top of my head.
Also consider: these forces that will destroy anything in the quest for earthly control wont hesitate to do the same to what’s left of the shell of the US.
My sentiments exactly. All these color-revs, proxy wars, etc., could very soon be turned around and used on us. The racial/cultural/sectarian fault lines are already there. They are just waiting–begging–to be triggered.
The CIA controls – or has successfully infiltrated – almost every institution at home and in the Western world at large decades ago. Hollywood, media, the mob, academia, the international drug trade, the courts, the Police Department, all NGOs, the UN, NATO, ISIS & Co., all ‘false-flags’, the Fortune 500, key parts of the Pentagon, the FBI. The list is endless.
My feeling is that the CIA is the strongest faction within the Empire. Only rivaled by the Zionist banking cartel. But it is all guess work. How could anyone know?
That’s like saying that the SS has infiltrated every institution of Nazi Germany, as if the latter were “innocent.”
Your assertion is pure damage control and a pretty lame attempt to limit reponsibility to an individual faction like the CIA, as opposed to the American Evil Empire as a whole.
The CIA is criminal alright, but it is only a reflection of Americanism.
Pro-Americans of all stripes just can’t bear to admit that the United States is morally bankrupt through and through, as it has always been–long before the CIA ever existed.
It goes way deeper than the United States of America corporation. The United States is just the tip of the iceberg. Stop doing damage control for the higher-ups.
Stop doing damage control for the American Empire and capitalism.
America is the overlord of the capitalist system, and the primary “defender” of Western imperialism.
In short, America is the modern Roman Empire.
Most controlled oppositions hacks here on this website are desperate to spin-doctor and cover up for the America Empire, which they don’t even have to honesty to admit exists … most likely because they are closeted pro-Americans.
Well, it’s time for pro-Americans to come out of the closet.
Greg Palast discusses the activities of these oil spooks in the Caspian, in his trademark irreverent manner, in his best-selling book, ‘Vulture’s Picnic.’ There is so much filth and corruption exposed throughout its pages that you have to take about ten showers after reading it, though.
I enjoyed Mr. Engdahl earlier today, as he repeats the basics we’ve all seen elsewhere. Really, I’d like to see the April 26 TV documentary with Mr. Putin, in English. Someone had posted parts of it at Liveleak (I think?), and haven’t yet viewed those parts; but will.
The mother of the Tsarnaev brothers said in an interview that the CIA knew of the whereabouts of her sons – of course, because they worked for it. A clear indication that they were used as patsies in the Boston bombing (Dzhakhar has to die, so he can’t tell the truth) & that the CIA had their fingers in the Chechen pie.
The economic pressures on ordinary family budgets are pushing many British children deeper into poverty. Almost 80 percent of school staff are dealing with young pupils arriving at their classes hungry. One out of ten kids is receiving only 783 calories per day. This is half the amount of calories needed for a healthy child. Many children have to seek refuge at kids clubs knowing too well what it feels like to have an empty stomach. Hunger is increasingly turning into one of the biggest child problems even in London. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/05/10/410355/UK-inequality-poverty-unemployment
This is why many people are nostalgic for the “Soviet times”. Kindergartens and schools provided free hot meals. Factories, mines, office buildings, collective farms — all provided hot meals. Plain fare and no choices, but solid hot food every day.
Workplaces had free creches and kindergartens, so mothers could go to work without worrying about leaving their children alone or with strangers. Medical care was basic but also free. Housing was crowded and basic, but heated in winter, and everyone had somewhere to live. Many workplaces had sporting facilities, too. Wages were low but a lot was provided free for everyone. Free education, too.
THAT is the Soviet times people feel nostalgic for, not Stalin and his gulags.
After the “market economy” world arrived in 1991, birth rates halved — young people could no longer afford to have a child. This happened consistently across the whole ex-Soviet world.
It wasn’t for free, it was just shared a little bit from the tax money what the public has to pay. But definitely nobody was hungry, homeless, cold in the winter ,health care was on a very high level till the looting of the former East European countries started in the full speed.
Now you have only corpses left, closed and destroyed plants / similar to USA where everything was outsourced /, destroyed economies and of course everyone in horrendous debt they must to feed the parasites. Putin picked up the pieces and now he is trying to restore what has left, we just have to hope he will be successful not just for Russia, but for the all world.
Not free, true., It had to be paid from somewhere. But not from the end-user. Nobody died from disease untreated because they could not pay the doctor because the illness put them out of work. Nobody went into a house-worth of debt to go to university. Nobody slept under bridges.
There are countries in Europe with more than 50% tax and they still can’t provide anything for free, because everything is run by businesses, and the government can’t keep up with subsidising even the worst off people. A lot of people are “worst off” because their employers rather make a big profit than pay a living wage (cf Walmart in USA). This sort of thing can be controlled with the right laws., What we need is a government that will make – and enforce – those right laws. But instead, they get captured and make personal profit out of making laws that favour the companies.
It’s not exactly rare for children to go hungry or be poverty, and not in the US either. They have less political power than most anyone else, so of course they are often the most abused and neglected.
It is interesting that these long suppressed movements are springing into action nowadays ( Albanians and Kurds who have legitimate demands for language and civil rights).
Yes, something big went down or backfired really badly somewhere on them for them to float this “we got binnie’s minister of gas” sequel fairytale to blow smoke today.
A Saudi, eh! probably closer to say a “faux-saudi faux wahabbi”.
But what is most curious is that even before the official US report, Syrian state TV reported that Syrian government forces killed at least 40 IS fighters, including a senior commander in charge of oil fields, in an attack Saturday on the country’s largest oil field — held by IS. It identified the commander as Abu al-Teem al-Saudi. The name indicates he was a Saudi citizen.
RT has to give “equal time” to stupid geriatric simplistic yank propaganda or else. Why do you think Lavelle invites these clowns on his show and lets them drone on and on in the first place? In fact, he lets them talk more than the guests that he actually agrees with. That’s how you get your foot in the door of the global “information war” if that’s what you want to call it. He knows what he is doing. He only has a billion viewers worldwide.
The aircraft crashed over Syrian territory, according to Turkish television. According to Syrian television channel Alikhbaria, the craft was a drone and not a plane as was previously reported.
According to the Anadolu news agency, the craft was a helicopter.
A Turkish F-16 has shot down Syrian aircraft that allegedly violated Turkey’s airspace in the southern province of Hatay. Syria says the target was a small unmanned surveillance plane, while Turkey says it was a helicopter.
A statement released by Ankara said that two missiles were launched at the stray aircraft, which was intercepted by several Turkish fighter jets.
No doubt the Israelis, eager for full scale war between Turkey and Syria, are disappointed it was just an unmanned drone that got shot down. Greatly reduces the provocation level.
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi rebuked US State Secretary John Kerry’s effort to limit what the US has called “manufacturing sovereignty” in the South China Sea.
China refused to back down to US Secretary of State John Kerry’s demands that the country stops land reclamation on islands in the South China Sea.
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation was invited to Western Sahara recently for a lavish feast with the king of Morocco. But, some were outraged at the event.
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation will continue to accept donations from a limited group of foreign countries – mainly from six nations in particular – despite the fact that Hillary Clinton has officially announced her bid for the US presidency.
Former miners of OCP, the state-owned phosphate company that paid more than $1 million to sponsor the outdoor gala, say the company forced them to retire early with cut pensions. They also said they saw
Now look closely at the Chinese Diplomat’s face,does that look like he is pleased with US interference?…..where are his eyes looking?…not at Kerry’s face!.
My take: The Chinese are Soooooo sick of the US, anything could happen.
Gone are the fixed,smiling countenances..the US says… ‘let’s play hardball’….. & the PROC = ok! ‘fine!’.
The US loss of the war in Iraq is the most important political fact of the twenty-first century. The US easily defeated Saddam Hussein’s army only to lose to a bunch of pissed off irregulars. The war continued after the army was defeated. Roadside bombs, car bombs, and suicide bombers harried American troops and drove them to distraction and out of the country. In 2007 Dahr Jamail wrote a story that reveals just what happened. American soldiers simply could not patrol any more. They engaged in “search and avoid.” Driving around day after day, to no purpose, eyes glued to the roadside in the hope of surviving a well disguised roadside bomb is not happy motoring. And sitting around inside the base controls nothing and quickly makes you soft and bored and barbaric. Better to just park in the shade—search and avoid. The US destroyed Saddam’s army only to have the remnants and a bunch of children refuse to lose, even though the country was destroyed. Armies meeting none but an invisible enemy day after day deteriorate.
Because what defeated the US was ordinary people with primitive weapons, such defeat could be repeated anywhere the US goes, and has been. The United States can destroy a country but cannot impose its will through military means. The occupying army dies the death of a thousand cuts. Even our puppets break away when they understand the military impotence. See Iraq. See Afghanistan. In a shattered country with no central authority a US military presence with no real goal only supplies a target. The old dictum of divide and conquer no longer applies. The US could dictate far better to Saddam Hussein than it can to the current dismembered Iraq.
The deal between the US and Gulf Monarchies has always depended upon US military protection for the Princes. But religious Saudis saw the American military bases in Saudi Arabia near the holy places as pollution . Their presence was bin Laden’s main complaint. People will debate the real reasons for the post 9/11 Iraq war forever, but at least one reason was to move bases from Saudi Arabia to Iraq. Thus, after victory, they built the vast US “Embassy” compound in Iraq that will surely become a headless trunk of Ozymandias. Before the war the US ruling elite believed the US to be so militarily superior that they could maintain control of the entire Middle East from Iraq. When this proved to not be so, the whole plausibility of the American military protection disappeared. The Saudi Princes hold on power became shakier. Boots on the ground became a recipe for disaster. The US army was suddenly obsolete as were all other similar armies of occupation. What we see in Saudi aggression now is Saudi recognition that the US umbrella will no longer protect them.
When the US had to leave Iraq, the military protection the US was supposed to supply to the Saudi Princes no longer seemed so effective, and the world had become more dangerous for them. Iraq, a secular state under Saddam, had become Shi’ite. The opposition between Sunni and Shia that had dissolved in the secular Iraq of Saddam revived. The Shi’ites within Saudi Arabia, who lived in oil producing areas, and had been abused, now suddenly seemed to have powerful allies nearby and no one to stop them. They could begin to assert themselves.
The revival and growth of the Sunni-Shi’ite war is of the utmost importance and almost completely misunderstood in the US. Saddam, and for that matter the Shah of Iran, both had embraced secular western ideals. The Iranians revolution united several different forces against the Shah. In the end the Shi’ites prevailed over secularists. This was a rejection of western secular civilization. Riches, and even a reasonably comfortable life, became less real than God. As a result any official connection with the US and its ideal of material blessings casts an Iranian politician under suspicion. In Iraq, Saddam also had dissolved the Sunni- Shi’ite opposition in a promise of the good things to be gotten from secularism. When the US pulverized the infrastructure of Iraq and starved it’s children with sanctions, the promise of secularism was seen as a mirage. Iraqis can no longer embrace it, and this is becoming more and more true throughout Islamic civilization. Thus the return to religion and religious oppositions. The Enlightenment is here a spent force, and it is becoming so even in Europe. The defeat of the US in Iraq was a defeat for the Enlightenment itself. The war in Iraq tore away the belief that possession of the good things of the secular west was the dream the east should share. Underneath were the old religious orientations.
What the US had gotten from the deal with Saudi Arabia, again among other benefits, was “dollar hegemony.” Saudi Arabia would only sell oil for dollars, thus guaranteeing the value of the dollar, and essentially backing it. This allowed the US to print money, and it has abused that privilege. Dollar hegemony forced all countries in the world to maintain large dollar reserves and do a lot of trade in dollars, thus, in effect, loaning the US trillions of dollars. Another reason for the Iraq War, in addition to the need to move US bases, was that Saddam began to sell oil paid for in euros and thus undermine dollar hegemony.
Saddam did this because of the sanctions, because the dollar was a weakening currency, and to free himself from the American yoke. Dollar hegemony had allowed the US to print money at will. To support its bloated military, it had to do so. Since all countries had had to keep large dollar reserves, much of this money circulated slowly, if at all. This kept this flood of dollars from becoming too inflationary, if not hyper-inflationary. But the era of just printing money had to end when the swollen reserves began leaking out. Were dollar hegemony to disappear, and other currencies used to buy oil, dollars, being then such a poor investment, would flood out of sovereign coffers and the dollar would crash.
With the loss of the war in Iraq, the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia changed. With dollars sloshing out of every sovereign fund, it would be to Saudi Arabia’s financial advantage to abandon dollar hegemony and accept more stable currencies. Saudi Arabia maintains dollar hegemony only because it fears to incite the wrath of the US rulers who can still bomb anyone, except Russia and China, into the stone age. To carry out that threat in the Middle East is a to end industrial civilization in an oil drought. Such chaos would likely lead to atomic war.
Saudi Arabia exchanged its vast reserve of dollars for military hardware, thus making nice business for the military-industrial cmplex. But what Saudi Arabia really needs, instead of more military hardware, is infrastructure to diversify its economy. China is far more able to provide that then the US, given the utter botch, intentional or not, in US Iraqi reconstruction. Of course Saudi Arabia needs that only if it plans to help, rather than repress, its own people. But if they are wise they will know that it will not be easy to clamp down on their own Shi’ite population located, again, in oil producing areas. And there are also plenty of non-Shi’ite Saudis who are unhappy with growing poverty. The pressure to break from dollar hegemony is strong.
Without any real American protection, with a crappy dollar, and with pressure to buy something other than military hardware, Saudi Arabia maintained dollar hegemony more in fear of the US, but took more steps to protect itself, for the Saudis no longer believed in any US ability to control non-state actors in Iraq. Seeing the conflict as Sunni vs. Shia, Saudi Arabia supported ISIS, which it expected to attack the Shi’ite regimes in Syria and Iraq. It became an ally of Israel in its fight against Shia Hezbollah , Shia ruled Syria, and Shia Iran.
But ISIS is a post Enlightenment return to a religious… world is the best word. That is the meaning of the beheadings. As many have mentioned, the US invasion of Iraq spawned ISIS, and the Saudis nurtured it. However, it is now financially independent, and does not really have to obey or even listen to, US demands. It does oppose the Shi’ites, but also the Kurds and anyone outside the umma. It is dictating its own laws, declaring it’s own state. It is not a Sunni militia, but a Sunni state, and even more, claims to be the Sunni state, the caliphate. As such it is already indirectly at war with Saudi Arabia, for they both claim to rule in the same place. Obviously, the Sunni-Shi’ite conflict is only part of the story.
The United States has been unable to face the two implications of its loss in Iraq. Dollar hegemony has continued to slip and military intervention, boots on the ground, is impossible. The US loss of the ability to affect politics through military means scares those in charge, and has sent them around the bend. Boots are not on the ground any more because the US loses when boots are on the ground. Without the possibility of victory, they have had to concoct other goals for war. But these can’t really be goals. Since war’s only purpose now is to maintain the military industrial complex, the whole thing has become a potlatch of military equipment, but also of the planet earth. What are those in charge to do? They bomb wedding parties with drones, but to what end? Can it be anything other than to pretend to be doing something threatening?
The US was never able to administer any territory itself, except perhaps for a few years after WWII, for the US has never been able to produce a foreign service the way England did. It has always counted on threats and money paid to stooges to work its will. With both fading fast the Empire is breaking up. American stooges are recognized for what they are. All of South America seems to be breaking away. The left is alive in Europe. US policy in Ukraine, utterly irrational, is tearing at NATO’s seams. It would be difficult for the US to install a stooge anywhere without the local population knowing immediately that that was what he is. The Empire is falling apart.
The appalling buffoonish manipulation of Ukrainian politics is a taste of things to come for the US. This madness is a wild scheme for restoring American power. Surely war with Russia, the end of the world, cannot be the goal. Somewhere in the dim minds of those in power is the idea that Russia will back down, that the Crimea will again be theirs, and that the rest of the world will see that the US is back. That hope is delusional. Russia will not, can not, back down from Crimea. Once US forces engage directly with Russia, neither will back down. What can the end be but nuclear war?
Do those in charge believe their own propaganda? They must, for otherwise they would realize that the jig is up. What they fear most is that the rest of the population will realize that they are mad, bad, and dangerous to know, like Byron, except also ugly and stupid. Sometimes the curtain drops from in front of a regime to reveal it’s elite with clown noses and no pants. What if people start asking why we spent all that money in the Iraq war when the politicians can’t make a case for it that is not absurd? What if someone started asking what real answers to real problems anyone of these clowns has? That someone like Hilary Clinton is even considered for high office reveals utter bankruptcy. Why did we destroy our industry and infrastructure? Why don’t we even know what education is any more? The US has betrayed the idea, universal human equality, that justified its creation. It’s not the propaganda that is there to justify the wars, but the wars, futile as they are, that justify the propaganda. Our most important product is self delusion. What a bunch or knuckleheads.
The truth is that the United States is no more. It’s successor state, the US, ruled not by force but by indolent habit, staggers on without purpose like a mortally wounded beast. Having been born from an idea, and having betrayed that idea, the United States committed suicide. When dollar hegemony ends in an international rush to dump dollars, the good times will stop rolling and the veil will fall. The truth– climate change, peak oil, crumbling infrastructure, bad schools, dysfunctional psychotic elites, a completely fragmented public — will tear through the remnants of the American myth. A multitude of government crimes will become visible to all, making any thought of living even half decently in the US a joke. The invisible homeless will also appear. We will then have a choice of a final war of all against all, or a civilized retreat to our own borders and a real attempt to solve these problems.
But a sane retreat must happen before total chaos engulfs the country. Otherwise no organized retreat from industrialism will be possible. Already no real policy is possible in the US. Anybody notice the paralysis? Schools getting better? Bridges being fixed? Grid being renovated? Right now the smart money is on chaos. Rarely do leaders have, not one or two vices, but all of them. They are stupid, they are vicious, they are weak, they are greedy, they are false, they are unjust, they are cowardly, and they are ignorant. They are all criminals. Feel free to add on any vice that I missed. It is sure to apply. It is hard to imagine such people will have the strength to lose when they can continue to pretend to be winning. Yet we will elect one of them.
Too bad it is upon such people that the survival of the human species depends. But why? The US is just a bad habit. Is there any reason things can’t change?
I think part of the petro dollar deal was that US would provide protection/defense for the Saudis.
The recent meeting with Obama (according to some MSM) was to try and get a signed NATO type agreement which did not happen.
Another factor. A week or so ago (sorry cannot find the link at the moment) I read an interesting article on the 9/11 report. Sections concerning Saudi involvement have been redacted. Each time the Saudis step out of line a certain congressman/senator starts calling for the sections to be underacted.
US may have a death grip on the Saudis private parts over this.
Other than that, it makes no sense for the Sauds to stick with the US and the US dollar, when US have been claiming self sufficiency in oil, and China has a huge demand for oil that will only grow.
Sadly, things are going to get worse before corrections can begin. Even then it looks bleak for the US, it’s not as though the nation is acting in the best interests of its’ populace. The few that are pulling the strings behind the scenes arent going away. There’s always the Sampson option to bear in mind.
The hope lies in the rest of the world getting fed up with the US crap enough to unify and create a human alternative.
MAY 15
WASHINGTON: The United States disapproves of a decision by Bahrain to sign an investment cooperation deal with Russia at a time when US and European governments are imposing sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis, an official said.
“With Russia continuing its efforts to destabilize Ukraine, this is not the time for any country to conduct business as usual with Russia,” a US State Department official said.
“We have raised these concerns with the Bahraini government.”
CAIRO: An Egyptian court has sentenced ousted President Muhammad Mursi and more than 100 other defendants to death over jail breaks during the 2011 uprising.
Mursi, sitting in a caged dock in the blue uniform of convicts having already been sentenced to 20 years for inciting violence, raised his fists in defiance when the judge read out his verdict.
SUKANT CHANDAN’s explanations of the situation in Syria are very insightful & deep. In the following video he places the issue in a historical & global context: Imperialism
The zionists are facing a wrenching reality check. I love the comment about Assad and Hezbollah being undesirable, but far better than the alternative now coming to the neighbourhood. That’s the problem of opening Pandora’s Box and ignoring the law of unintended consequences.
http://en.voicesevas.ru/news/analytics/5186-kiev-has-more-political-prisoners-than-nazis-in-first-two-years-publicist.html
I found the Yemen story rather weak. No attention to the fact that Saudi Arabia has a new king who wants to prove himself – and who finds that a war against Yemen is doing very well in the public opinion. No word also about the fact that this new king has a reputation for supporting Muslim extremism.
The previous UN negotiator quit because he found himself sidelined by the Saudi’s. His take is that the Saudi’s see a compromise in Yemen as too much democracy and as such a threat to their rule. See http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13732
@ Wim Roffel,
That’s what happens when ‘you’ create artificial ‘Kingdoms.’
The people in it get wild dreams and before you know it, they’re convinced they’re ‘royals.’
“Get me a map and get me a ruler. I’m gonna create me a few new countries and rules!” – Rabbi Barry Freundel.
What?
Not him?
Well then, who did divide the ME into those ghastly chunks?
“From the Nile to the Euphates” seems to be progressing nicely, go USA! Sadly missing from these CrossTalks is the main instigator. What’s the point of having discussions if one cant discuss to source of the problem?
” “From the Nile to the Euphrates” seems to be progressing nicely”
A little thought experiment. Let’s assume Eretz Israel has indeed – finally and gloriously – been established. Now what? What are the Jews going to do? They will look like fools. They will realize that heckling and cheating goys is much more fun than living with fellow nasty Jews as neighbors. What you want to do with them? Talking Kabbala? Having kosher parties? What a nightmare!
There was a debate within the tribe about the formation of a Jew state. Opponents opined that it would focus too much global attention to the ‘activities’ of the tribe.
For a comprehensive history of this sect see: The Controversy of Zion by Doug Reed. It was written in the 50’s and for some reason remained unpublished. Brings to mind the lack of English version of Solshenitzin’s magnum opus Two Hundred Years Together.
Actions dont have to be rational or thought through to an end.
latest on Syria – things are improving:
http://english.farsnews.com/
I think this report should be of interest to the Saker & community:
http://russia-insider.com/en/society/what-if-putin-telling-truth/ri6952
Basically, it says the war in Chechnya was CIA sponsored.
excerpt:
With the former Soviet Union in total chaos and disarray, George H.W. Bush’s Administration decided to “kick ‘em when they’re down,” a sad error. Washington redeployed their Afghan veteran terrorists to bring chaos and destabilize all of Central Asia, even into the Russian Federation itself, then in a deep and traumatic crisis during the economic collapse of the Yeltsin era.
In the early 1990s, Dick Cheney’s company, Halliburton, had surveyed the offshore oil potentials of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and the entire Caspian Sea Basin. They estimated the region to be “another Saudi Arabia” worth several trillion dollars on today’s market. The US and UK were determined to keep that oil bonanza from Russian control by all means. The first target of Washington was to stage a coup in Azerbaijan against elected president Abulfaz Elchibey to install a President more friendly to a US-controlled Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, “the world’s most political pipeline,” bringing Baku oil from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey and the Mediterranean.
Nice to see it confirmed.
ALL terrorism in the past 30 years has come from that one source…. longer maybe. Always about getting hands on resources.
Here is the list how many countries were attacked by the USA
Countries bombed by the U.S. since 1945
1. China 1945-46
2. Korea 1950-53
3. China 1950-53
4. Guatemala 1954
5. Indonesia 1958
6. Cuba 1959-60
7. Guatemala 1960
8. Belgian Congo 1964
9. Guatemala 1964
10. Dominican Republic 1965-66
11. Peru 1965
12. Laos 1964-73
13. Vietnam 1961-73
14. Cambodia 1969-70
15. Guatemala 1967-69
16. Lebanon 1982-84
17. Grenada 1983-84
18. Libya 1986
19. El Salvador 1981-92
20. Nicaragua 1981-90
21. Iran 1987-88
22. Libya 1989
23. Panama 1989-90
24. Iraq 1991
25. Kuwait 1991
26. Somalia 1992-94
27. Bosnia 1995
28. Iran 1998
29. Sudan 1998
30. Afghanistan 1998
31. Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999
32. Afghanistan 2001
33. Iraq 2003-11
34. Libya 2011
35. Pakistan 2004-present
36. Yemen 2004-present
37. Somalia 2011-present
38. Iraq 2014
Syria 2014?
Countries bombed by the U.S. since 1945
Hard to believe that at one time Russia and the US were once close.
No reason to doubt that the infection that controls the US would do anything thinkable to Russia, or any other nation, to inevitably gain control or ruin. The evidence is readily apparent now to anyone who wishes to look.
Also consider: these forces that will destroy anything in the quest for earthly control wont hesitate to do the same to what’s left of the shell of the US.
It’s all been done before.
“Hard to believe that at one time Russia and the US were once close.”
When was that …. for real? I can’t say say there was a time.
One example: The Russian Emperor sent warships to NY and California in support of Lincoln during the Civil War and warned that intervention by either Britain or France would be considered an act of war against Russia. He perceived the conflict to be foreign inspired (by the usual banker cabal), as did Bismark.
Russia had a long history of exploration as exemplified by settlements in Alaska and California. The USA was instrumental in the construction of the Trans-Siberian railroad.
Just a few examples off the top of my head.
Yup.
Also consider: these forces that will destroy anything in the quest for earthly control wont hesitate to do the same to what’s left of the shell of the US.
My sentiments exactly. All these color-revs, proxy wars, etc., could very soon be turned around and used on us. The racial/cultural/sectarian fault lines are already there. They are just waiting–begging–to be triggered.
The CIA is not acting on its own. That would be a feeble attempt at damage control.
The CIA is the covert action arm of the American regime.
It is the SS of the American Empire.
The war in Chechyna was an American proxy terrorist war–just like its wars against Syria, Nicaragua, Cuba, etc….
I look at it the other way round.
The CIA controls – or has successfully infiltrated – almost every institution at home and in the Western world at large decades ago. Hollywood, media, the mob, academia, the international drug trade, the courts, the Police Department, all NGOs, the UN, NATO, ISIS & Co., all ‘false-flags’, the Fortune 500, key parts of the Pentagon, the FBI. The list is endless.
My feeling is that the CIA is the strongest faction within the Empire. Only rivaled by the Zionist banking cartel. But it is all guess work. How could anyone know?
That’s like saying that the SS has infiltrated every institution of Nazi Germany, as if the latter were “innocent.”
Your assertion is pure damage control and a pretty lame attempt to limit reponsibility to an individual faction like the CIA, as opposed to the American Evil Empire as a whole.
The CIA is criminal alright, but it is only a reflection of Americanism.
Pro-Americans of all stripes just can’t bear to admit that the United States is morally bankrupt through and through, as it has always been–long before the CIA ever existed.
It goes way deeper than the United States of America corporation. The United States is just the tip of the iceberg. Stop doing damage control for the higher-ups.
You are 100% correct.
Stop doing damage control for the American Empire and capitalism.
America is the overlord of the capitalist system, and the primary “defender” of Western imperialism.
In short, America is the modern Roman Empire.
Most controlled oppositions hacks here on this website are desperate to spin-doctor and cover up for the America Empire, which they don’t even have to honesty to admit exists … most likely because they are closeted pro-Americans.
Well, it’s time for pro-Americans to come out of the closet.
Hey guess what! In the so-called Special Relationship between England and the United States — England is NOT the poodle!!!
Amerika is a Zionist controlled zombie living off the blood of mother earth and her peoples.
It is very simple and it was proved many times, it is the secret government working inside “lets say “official US government
Greg Palast discusses the activities of these oil spooks in the Caspian, in his trademark irreverent manner, in his best-selling book, ‘Vulture’s Picnic.’ There is so much filth and corruption exposed throughout its pages that you have to take about ten showers after reading it, though.
Here’s a breakdown of the Chaos Matrix – where not even the Architects know what’s happening anymore, much less why:
http://www.unz.com/article/the-american-military-uncontained/
I enjoyed Mr. Engdahl earlier today, as he repeats the basics we’ve all seen elsewhere. Really, I’d like to see the April 26 TV documentary with Mr. Putin, in English. Someone had posted parts of it at Liveleak (I think?), and haven’t yet viewed those parts; but will.
Engdahl’s article also appears @
http://journal-neo.org/2015/05/15/what-if-putin-is-telling-the-truth/
Basically, it says the war in Chechnya was CIA sponsored.
Add to this that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was as a CIA agent in Chechnya. Russia warned the USA about Tamerlan without knowing – I suppose – that they warned them about their own CIA agent.
– Russia Warned FBI About Tamerlan Tsarnaev Before Bombing
– Russia Told America To Detain Tamerlan Tsarnaev Years Ago
The mother of the Tsarnaev brothers said in an interview that the CIA knew of the whereabouts of her sons – of course, because they worked for it. A clear indication that they were used as patsies in the Boston bombing (Dzhakhar has to die, so he can’t tell the truth) & that the CIA had their fingers in the Chechen pie.
Check this out, how the FBI assassinated his brother. No cover up here, move on.
Warning graphic pictures!
Sorry, here’s the link:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/24/dark-questions-about-a-deadly-fbi-interrogation-in-orlando/
Thx for the link! Everything is so obvious. Alex Jones’ video fits very well in what CounterPunch states:
Total Proof BOSTON BOMBINGS Were A FALSE FLAG
Thx for the link! Sorry, forgot my name.
Interesting discussion, viewpoints and facial expressions — gotta love those facial expressions especially the first video.
Ringmaster Camoron & his Circus McGurkus
The economic pressures on ordinary family budgets are pushing many British children deeper into poverty. Almost 80 percent of school staff are dealing with young pupils arriving at their classes hungry. One out of ten kids is receiving only 783 calories per day. This is half the amount of calories needed for a healthy child. Many children have to seek refuge at kids clubs knowing too well what it feels like to have an empty stomach. Hunger is increasingly turning into one of the biggest child problems even in London.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/05/10/410355/UK-inequality-poverty-unemployment
This is why many people are nostalgic for the “Soviet times”. Kindergartens and schools provided free hot meals. Factories, mines, office buildings, collective farms — all provided hot meals. Plain fare and no choices, but solid hot food every day.
Workplaces had free creches and kindergartens, so mothers could go to work without worrying about leaving their children alone or with strangers. Medical care was basic but also free. Housing was crowded and basic, but heated in winter, and everyone had somewhere to live. Many workplaces had sporting facilities, too. Wages were low but a lot was provided free for everyone. Free education, too.
THAT is the Soviet times people feel nostalgic for, not Stalin and his gulags.
After the “market economy” world arrived in 1991, birth rates halved — young people could no longer afford to have a child. This happened consistently across the whole ex-Soviet world.
not to forget paid vacations for soviet workers too.
It wasn’t for free, it was just shared a little bit from the tax money what the public has to pay. But definitely nobody was hungry, homeless, cold in the winter ,health care was on a very high level till the looting of the former East European countries started in the full speed.
Now you have only corpses left, closed and destroyed plants / similar to USA where everything was outsourced /, destroyed economies and of course everyone in horrendous debt they must to feed the parasites. Putin picked up the pieces and now he is trying to restore what has left, we just have to hope he will be successful not just for Russia, but for the all world.
Not free, true., It had to be paid from somewhere. But not from the end-user. Nobody died from disease untreated because they could not pay the doctor because the illness put them out of work. Nobody went into a house-worth of debt to go to university. Nobody slept under bridges.
There are countries in Europe with more than 50% tax and they still can’t provide anything for free, because everything is run by businesses, and the government can’t keep up with subsidising even the worst off people. A lot of people are “worst off” because their employers rather make a big profit than pay a living wage (cf Walmart in USA). This sort of thing can be controlled with the right laws., What we need is a government that will make – and enforce – those right laws. But instead, they get captured and make personal profit out of making laws that favour the companies.
The English are rather traditional, after all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7PONiKGUs
Oliver! (The Musical) (1968) Food Glorious Food
It’s not exactly rare for children to go hungry or be poverty, and not in the US either. They have less political power than most anyone else, so of course they are often the most abused and neglected.
Tried to remember where I saw this, but couldn’t. (It was New Eastern Outlook.), so no link.
Great the RI picked it up.
You’re right, its a very important article because it has details that are not often publicized.
Just occured to me that the old white guy “Richard”, looks exactly like the Grim Reaper/ Dracula….
LOL.
MidEast and exploitation of minority grievances to break up states:
http://www.ibtimes.com/iranian-kurdish-revolution-world-doesnt-know-happening-1924778
It is interesting that these long suppressed movements are springing into action nowadays ( Albanians and Kurds who have legitimate demands for language and civil rights).
Dear The Saker,
US and Turkey kicking off in Syria:
http://rt.com/usa/259253-us-syria-raid-isis/
http://rt.com/news/259265-turkey-syria-jet-violate/
The lawlessness of these people is unbelievable. Syrian Army must be winning……
Rgds,
Veritas
Yes, something big went down or backfired really badly somewhere on them for them to float this “we got binnie’s minister of gas” sequel fairytale to blow smoke today.
A Saudi, eh! probably closer to say a “faux-saudi faux wahabbi”.
But what is most curious is that even before the official US report, Syrian state TV reported that Syrian government forces killed at least 40 IS fighters, including a senior commander in charge of oil fields, in an attack Saturday on the country’s largest oil field — held by IS. It identified the commander as Abu al-Teem al-Saudi. The name indicates he was a Saudi citizen.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-16/us-commandos-raid-syria-kill-isis-gas-minister-identified-damascus-saudi-citizen
So far I have only watched 1/2 of the first vid.
That stupid geriatric spouting simplistic yank propaganda,was enough to switch it off.
RT has to give “equal time” to stupid geriatric simplistic yank propaganda or else. Why do you think Lavelle invites these clowns on his show and lets them drone on and on in the first place? In fact, he lets them talk more than the guests that he actually agrees with. That’s how you get your foot in the door of the global “information war” if that’s what you want to call it. He knows what he is doing. He only has a billion viewers worldwide.
What is to be done and how to do it–great discussion
http://russia-insider.com/en/media-criticism/how-fight-western-propaganda/ri6982
Slightly OT. (Only slightly.)
Hilarious! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZL3axcwDz8&feature=youtu.be
Loved it thanks!
Nasarallah doesn’t just talk the talk – Hezbollah walks the walk:
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/05/16/411356/Hezbollah-Syria-Qalamoun-Jabal-Salajah-
The zionazis have their Turkish boitoi stage another provocation against Syria:
Turkish Fighter Jet Shoots Down Syrian Aircraft
The aircraft crashed over Syrian territory, according to Turkish television. According to Syrian television channel Alikhbaria, the craft was a drone and not a plane as was previously reported.
According to the Anadolu news agency, the craft was a helicopter.
Turkish jet shoots down Syrian aircraft after it ‘violated air space’
A Turkish F-16 has shot down Syrian aircraft that allegedly violated Turkey’s airspace in the southern province of Hatay. Syria says the target was a small unmanned surveillance plane, while Turkey says it was a helicopter.
A statement released by Ankara said that two missiles were launched at the stray aircraft, which was intercepted by several Turkish fighter jets.
No doubt the Israelis, eager for full scale war between Turkey and Syria, are disappointed it was just an unmanned drone that got shot down. Greatly reduces the provocation level.
Mr. Ed in China today.
No ramen 4 U!
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi rebuked US State Secretary John Kerry’s effort to limit what the US has called “manufacturing sovereignty” in the South China Sea.
China refused to back down to US Secretary of State John Kerry’s demands that the country stops land reclamation on islands in the South China Sea.
http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150516/1022219938.html
From Ozark hillbillarys to desert hillbillarys.
http://sputniknews.com/us/20150516/1022225159.html
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation was invited to Western Sahara recently for a lavish feast with the king of Morocco. But, some were outraged at the event.
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation will continue to accept donations from a limited group of foreign countries – mainly from six nations in particular – despite the fact that Hillary Clinton has officially announced her bid for the US presidency.
Former miners of OCP, the state-owned phosphate company that paid more than $1 million to sponsor the outdoor gala, say the company forced them to retire early with cut pensions. They also said they saw
Since this is the latest thread,and I Know with absolute certainty
that ‘we’ are sick of mealy mouthed,polite,diplomatic,cynical pieces of Shite.
http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150516/1022219938.html
Now look closely at the Chinese Diplomat’s face,does that look like he is pleased with US interference?…..where are his eyes looking?…not at Kerry’s face!.
My take: The Chinese are Soooooo sick of the US, anything could happen.
Gone are the fixed,smiling countenances..the US says… ‘let’s play hardball’….. & the PROC = ok! ‘fine!’.
Bring it on.
I think these programs are missing the point:
The US loss of the war in Iraq is the most important political fact of the twenty-first century. The US easily defeated Saddam Hussein’s army only to lose to a bunch of pissed off irregulars. The war continued after the army was defeated. Roadside bombs, car bombs, and suicide bombers harried American troops and drove them to distraction and out of the country. In 2007 Dahr Jamail wrote a story that reveals just what happened. American soldiers simply could not patrol any more. They engaged in “search and avoid.” Driving around day after day, to no purpose, eyes glued to the roadside in the hope of surviving a well disguised roadside bomb is not happy motoring. And sitting around inside the base controls nothing and quickly makes you soft and bored and barbaric. Better to just park in the shade—search and avoid. The US destroyed Saddam’s army only to have the remnants and a bunch of children refuse to lose, even though the country was destroyed. Armies meeting none but an invisible enemy day after day deteriorate.
Because what defeated the US was ordinary people with primitive weapons, such defeat could be repeated anywhere the US goes, and has been. The United States can destroy a country but cannot impose its will through military means. The occupying army dies the death of a thousand cuts. Even our puppets break away when they understand the military impotence. See Iraq. See Afghanistan. In a shattered country with no central authority a US military presence with no real goal only supplies a target. The old dictum of divide and conquer no longer applies. The US could dictate far better to Saddam Hussein than it can to the current dismembered Iraq.
The deal between the US and Gulf Monarchies has always depended upon US military protection for the Princes. But religious Saudis saw the American military bases in Saudi Arabia near the holy places as pollution . Their presence was bin Laden’s main complaint. People will debate the real reasons for the post 9/11 Iraq war forever, but at least one reason was to move bases from Saudi Arabia to Iraq. Thus, after victory, they built the vast US “Embassy” compound in Iraq that will surely become a headless trunk of Ozymandias. Before the war the US ruling elite believed the US to be so militarily superior that they could maintain control of the entire Middle East from Iraq. When this proved to not be so, the whole plausibility of the American military protection disappeared. The Saudi Princes hold on power became shakier. Boots on the ground became a recipe for disaster. The US army was suddenly obsolete as were all other similar armies of occupation. What we see in Saudi aggression now is Saudi recognition that the US umbrella will no longer protect them.
When the US had to leave Iraq, the military protection the US was supposed to supply to the Saudi Princes no longer seemed so effective, and the world had become more dangerous for them. Iraq, a secular state under Saddam, had become Shi’ite. The opposition between Sunni and Shia that had dissolved in the secular Iraq of Saddam revived. The Shi’ites within Saudi Arabia, who lived in oil producing areas, and had been abused, now suddenly seemed to have powerful allies nearby and no one to stop them. They could begin to assert themselves.
The revival and growth of the Sunni-Shi’ite war is of the utmost importance and almost completely misunderstood in the US. Saddam, and for that matter the Shah of Iran, both had embraced secular western ideals. The Iranians revolution united several different forces against the Shah. In the end the Shi’ites prevailed over secularists. This was a rejection of western secular civilization. Riches, and even a reasonably comfortable life, became less real than God. As a result any official connection with the US and its ideal of material blessings casts an Iranian politician under suspicion. In Iraq, Saddam also had dissolved the Sunni- Shi’ite opposition in a promise of the good things to be gotten from secularism. When the US pulverized the infrastructure of Iraq and starved it’s children with sanctions, the promise of secularism was seen as a mirage. Iraqis can no longer embrace it, and this is becoming more and more true throughout Islamic civilization. Thus the return to religion and religious oppositions. The Enlightenment is here a spent force, and it is becoming so even in Europe. The defeat of the US in Iraq was a defeat for the Enlightenment itself. The war in Iraq tore away the belief that possession of the good things of the secular west was the dream the east should share. Underneath were the old religious orientations.
What the US had gotten from the deal with Saudi Arabia, again among other benefits, was “dollar hegemony.” Saudi Arabia would only sell oil for dollars, thus guaranteeing the value of the dollar, and essentially backing it. This allowed the US to print money, and it has abused that privilege. Dollar hegemony forced all countries in the world to maintain large dollar reserves and do a lot of trade in dollars, thus, in effect, loaning the US trillions of dollars. Another reason for the Iraq War, in addition to the need to move US bases, was that Saddam began to sell oil paid for in euros and thus undermine dollar hegemony.
Saddam did this because of the sanctions, because the dollar was a weakening currency, and to free himself from the American yoke. Dollar hegemony had allowed the US to print money at will. To support its bloated military, it had to do so. Since all countries had had to keep large dollar reserves, much of this money circulated slowly, if at all. This kept this flood of dollars from becoming too inflationary, if not hyper-inflationary. But the era of just printing money had to end when the swollen reserves began leaking out. Were dollar hegemony to disappear, and other currencies used to buy oil, dollars, being then such a poor investment, would flood out of sovereign coffers and the dollar would crash.
With the loss of the war in Iraq, the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia changed. With dollars sloshing out of every sovereign fund, it would be to Saudi Arabia’s financial advantage to abandon dollar hegemony and accept more stable currencies. Saudi Arabia maintains dollar hegemony only because it fears to incite the wrath of the US rulers who can still bomb anyone, except Russia and China, into the stone age. To carry out that threat in the Middle East is a to end industrial civilization in an oil drought. Such chaos would likely lead to atomic war.
Saudi Arabia exchanged its vast reserve of dollars for military hardware, thus making nice business for the military-industrial cmplex. But what Saudi Arabia really needs, instead of more military hardware, is infrastructure to diversify its economy. China is far more able to provide that then the US, given the utter botch, intentional or not, in US Iraqi reconstruction. Of course Saudi Arabia needs that only if it plans to help, rather than repress, its own people. But if they are wise they will know that it will not be easy to clamp down on their own Shi’ite population located, again, in oil producing areas. And there are also plenty of non-Shi’ite Saudis who are unhappy with growing poverty. The pressure to break from dollar hegemony is strong.
Without any real American protection, with a crappy dollar, and with pressure to buy something other than military hardware, Saudi Arabia maintained dollar hegemony more in fear of the US, but took more steps to protect itself, for the Saudis no longer believed in any US ability to control non-state actors in Iraq. Seeing the conflict as Sunni vs. Shia, Saudi Arabia supported ISIS, which it expected to attack the Shi’ite regimes in Syria and Iraq. It became an ally of Israel in its fight against Shia Hezbollah , Shia ruled Syria, and Shia Iran.
But ISIS is a post Enlightenment return to a religious… world is the best word. That is the meaning of the beheadings. As many have mentioned, the US invasion of Iraq spawned ISIS, and the Saudis nurtured it. However, it is now financially independent, and does not really have to obey or even listen to, US demands. It does oppose the Shi’ites, but also the Kurds and anyone outside the umma. It is dictating its own laws, declaring it’s own state. It is not a Sunni militia, but a Sunni state, and even more, claims to be the Sunni state, the caliphate. As such it is already indirectly at war with Saudi Arabia, for they both claim to rule in the same place. Obviously, the Sunni-Shi’ite conflict is only part of the story.
The United States has been unable to face the two implications of its loss in Iraq. Dollar hegemony has continued to slip and military intervention, boots on the ground, is impossible. The US loss of the ability to affect politics through military means scares those in charge, and has sent them around the bend. Boots are not on the ground any more because the US loses when boots are on the ground. Without the possibility of victory, they have had to concoct other goals for war. But these can’t really be goals. Since war’s only purpose now is to maintain the military industrial complex, the whole thing has become a potlatch of military equipment, but also of the planet earth. What are those in charge to do? They bomb wedding parties with drones, but to what end? Can it be anything other than to pretend to be doing something threatening?
The US was never able to administer any territory itself, except perhaps for a few years after WWII, for the US has never been able to produce a foreign service the way England did. It has always counted on threats and money paid to stooges to work its will. With both fading fast the Empire is breaking up. American stooges are recognized for what they are. All of South America seems to be breaking away. The left is alive in Europe. US policy in Ukraine, utterly irrational, is tearing at NATO’s seams. It would be difficult for the US to install a stooge anywhere without the local population knowing immediately that that was what he is. The Empire is falling apart.
The appalling buffoonish manipulation of Ukrainian politics is a taste of things to come for the US. This madness is a wild scheme for restoring American power. Surely war with Russia, the end of the world, cannot be the goal. Somewhere in the dim minds of those in power is the idea that Russia will back down, that the Crimea will again be theirs, and that the rest of the world will see that the US is back. That hope is delusional. Russia will not, can not, back down from Crimea. Once US forces engage directly with Russia, neither will back down. What can the end be but nuclear war?
Do those in charge believe their own propaganda? They must, for otherwise they would realize that the jig is up. What they fear most is that the rest of the population will realize that they are mad, bad, and dangerous to know, like Byron, except also ugly and stupid. Sometimes the curtain drops from in front of a regime to reveal it’s elite with clown noses and no pants. What if people start asking why we spent all that money in the Iraq war when the politicians can’t make a case for it that is not absurd? What if someone started asking what real answers to real problems anyone of these clowns has? That someone like Hilary Clinton is even considered for high office reveals utter bankruptcy. Why did we destroy our industry and infrastructure? Why don’t we even know what education is any more? The US has betrayed the idea, universal human equality, that justified its creation. It’s not the propaganda that is there to justify the wars, but the wars, futile as they are, that justify the propaganda. Our most important product is self delusion. What a bunch or knuckleheads.
The truth is that the United States is no more. It’s successor state, the US, ruled not by force but by indolent habit, staggers on without purpose like a mortally wounded beast. Having been born from an idea, and having betrayed that idea, the United States committed suicide. When dollar hegemony ends in an international rush to dump dollars, the good times will stop rolling and the veil will fall. The truth– climate change, peak oil, crumbling infrastructure, bad schools, dysfunctional psychotic elites, a completely fragmented public — will tear through the remnants of the American myth. A multitude of government crimes will become visible to all, making any thought of living even half decently in the US a joke. The invisible homeless will also appear. We will then have a choice of a final war of all against all, or a civilized retreat to our own borders and a real attempt to solve these problems.
But a sane retreat must happen before total chaos engulfs the country. Otherwise no organized retreat from industrialism will be possible. Already no real policy is possible in the US. Anybody notice the paralysis? Schools getting better? Bridges being fixed? Grid being renovated? Right now the smart money is on chaos. Rarely do leaders have, not one or two vices, but all of them. They are stupid, they are vicious, they are weak, they are greedy, they are false, they are unjust, they are cowardly, and they are ignorant. They are all criminals. Feel free to add on any vice that I missed. It is sure to apply. It is hard to imagine such people will have the strength to lose when they can continue to pretend to be winning. Yet we will elect one of them.
Too bad it is upon such people that the survival of the human species depends. But why? The US is just a bad habit. Is there any reason things can’t change?
@ Michael Doliner,
One can always debate the finesses of some words, sentences and/or conclusions, but overall, I fully agree with your assessment.
A headless chicken, running amok, seems to be alive. but is it?
Once China and Russia steer this vessel, this 3rd Rock from the Sun, it will all be a lot quieter. Better? Perhaps, but a lot less noisier.
I think part of the petro dollar deal was that US would provide protection/defense for the Saudis.
The recent meeting with Obama (according to some MSM) was to try and get a signed NATO type agreement which did not happen.
Another factor. A week or so ago (sorry cannot find the link at the moment) I read an interesting article on the 9/11 report. Sections concerning Saudi involvement have been redacted. Each time the Saudis step out of line a certain congressman/senator starts calling for the sections to be underacted.
US may have a death grip on the Saudis private parts over this.
Other than that, it makes no sense for the Sauds to stick with the US and the US dollar, when US have been claiming self sufficiency in oil, and China has a huge demand for oil that will only grow.
Sadly, things are going to get worse before corrections can begin. Even then it looks bleak for the US, it’s not as though the nation is acting in the best interests of its’ populace. The few that are pulling the strings behind the scenes arent going away. There’s always the Sampson option to bear in mind.
The hope lies in the rest of the world getting fed up with the US crap enough to unify and create a human alternative.
http://www.arabnews.com/news/564401
MAY 15
WASHINGTON: The United States disapproves of a decision by Bahrain to sign an investment cooperation deal with Russia at a time when US and European governments are imposing sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis, an official said.
“With Russia continuing its efforts to destabilize Ukraine, this is not the time for any country to conduct business as usual with Russia,” a US State Department official said.
“We have raised these concerns with the Bahraini government.”
CAIRO: An Egyptian court has sentenced ousted President Muhammad Mursi and more than 100 other defendants to death over jail breaks during the 2011 uprising.
Mursi, sitting in a caged dock in the blue uniform of convicts having already been sentenced to 20 years for inciting violence, raised his fists in defiance when the judge read out his verdict.
http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/747571
Re: map of greater Kurdistan ( Israelistan) from 1986
http://www.blatantworld.com/image/map-kurdish-inhabited-areas-in-the-middle-east-ussr-1986/
Does anyone have the latest geographical/geopolitical map for the Kurdistan?
SUKANT CHANDAN’s explanations of the situation in Syria are very insightful & deep. In the following video he places the issue in a historical & global context:
Imperialism
More videos by SUKANT CHANDAN
Putin threw the USA a life line to avoid an invasion of Syria. Instead the chemical weapons attack on civilians were blamed on Assad. The rest is history.
– Syria: UN Mission Report Confirms that “Opposition” Rebels Used Chemical Weapons against Civilians and Government Forces – Dec. 2013
– Rebels conduct new chemical weapons attack in Syria near Turkish border – Oct. 2013