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“Syria Is All About
the Petrodollar, Assad Is the Victim of a False Flag from the CIA”
Mostly nonsense.
Syria is a key part of a long-term plan to create a new
Middle East.
It's been in the works for years at the State Department in
coordination with CIA and Israel, its main beneficiary and long-time advocate-lobbyist.
The arrogant people running Washington, of course, do not announce such things
to mere citizens, the people who vote and pay the costs in taxes and bear any
consequences, which, in this case, absolutely includes the whole phenomenon of “international
terror” – just angry young men trying to pay back for what’s been done to their
countries - plus massive armies of miserable refugees created.
But we’ve had several indirect or cryptic references over
the years, including George Bush’s Condi Rice referring to “the birth pangs of
a new Middle East,” her gracious way of describing the screams of thousands
dying and being made homeless.
America's permanent establishment government, within the
elected government, is busier than ever trying to extend American authority to
every corner of the globe. There are many reasons for this, but they very much
include the Neocons with their philosophy of “if you have the power use it to
get what you want,” words with which Hitler would have had not the least
quarrel, having gained an upper hand.
Plus, there has been a dawning awareness that America’s
relatively carefree years of global dominance, built on the fortunate event of
every competitor and potential competitor having been flattened in WWII, are
drawing to a close as new, extremely serious competitors in everything rapidly
emerge. It is the natural reaction of some of the more aggressive and greedy
among us to simply strike out in every direction, hoping some of what they do
can stop the process of natural evolution or at least slow it down.
What we have seen happening in the Neocon Wars and the phony
CIA-induced Arab Spring (you always give a cheerful name to a dirty project,
just as the example of “Patriot Act” being used to cover measures to suppress citizens’
rights) and in such recent events as the CIA-induced coup against a democratic
Ukraine – a blatant effort to box-in and threaten Russia - plus all the public
relations hype around a “resurgent” Russia, as it merely responds normally and
cautiously to extremely provocative acts right next door, is simply aggression,
and on a very broad front. There is no other word suitable to describe it although
America seems able to come up with a whole corps of hacks like Nikki Haley or
Samantha Power or John Kirby to try telling us that war is peace and slavery is
freedom.
Israel, which is de facto America's colony in the region
benefits by having all the independent-minded leaders eliminated and having a
kind of cordon sanitaire created for hundreds of miles around it. But you will
never hear that said in Washington.
Israel, in turn, is expected do whatever the American establishment's
future bidding in the region is. It will serve as a kind of enforcer for the
American empire. Once, this role was taken to some extent by the Shah of Iran,
whom the U.S. heavily armed, after Washington assisted in creating a coup to
end Iran’s democratic government in 1953. But the Shah bungled the job, generated
a revolution by his brutality, and then he went and died.
Well, no chance of that happening in Israel with all those
layers of hogwash about biblical homeland and thousands of years wandering. Yes,
biblical homeland and thousands of years wandering for a European people, the Ashkenazi,
who native language is a variant of German and who date back, by actual DNA
tests, about nine or ten centuries in Eastern Europe. Besides, they come with a
kind of naturally fanatical version of the Pretorian Guard in the sizable
settler-ultra-Orthodox crowd.
And, bottom line, a great many Israelis come from the United
States and maintain dual citizenship, a state the U.S. was once loath to
recognize. People go back and forth all the time creating a web of attachments
and privileges and access to important institutions. No one is better “connected.”
Israel could have itself done much of the dirty work in
Middle East, but only at the cost of achieving an even worse reputation in the
world than it already has as a pariah state with almost no regard for law and
international norms and even rules of war.
No, the big part of the murderous job had to be taken on by
America.
But even America could not afford, reputation-wise, to just
go invading directly, country after country, as it did in Iraq. That outright aggressive
invasion produced a great deal of negative publicity and lingering ill will.
So, it developed a system of using rag-tag mercenaries,
giving them arms, supporting them covertly in many ways, and often ending up by
demanding a "no-fly zone" from the UN, which sounds harmless but
every time gets turned into an opportunity to bomb a country with no opposition
and look like you are only responding to "bad guys."
It's all a terrible set of events allowing the CIA and
Pentagon to play God in country after country, and, of course, playing God gets
addictive, so we even have a faction ready to be extremely hostile to Russia.
Americans do not realize how much power these agencies of
government have acquired for themselves in the process. So, the dirty works of
empire also affect the homeland in many ways from an immense network of spying and
limits of all kinds imposed to the distribution of military equipment to
internal police agencies and the arming of outfits like Homeland Security
(another one of those sunshine names for a nasty reality).
The establishment couldn't care less about the effects on
normal Americans, just as it could not care about the two million or so they have
killed in the Neocon Wars over the last decade and a half. The message could
not be clearer from the behavior of the national government: you do not matter.
We matter, and the security agencies which support us and extend our reach
matter, and our dark allies abroad are important, but you are not.
Some thought this was the one crucial area in which Trump
might make a difference, but the futility of that hope is crushingly apparent.
America's Bill of Rights has effectively been legally
neutered, and you, the average American, think you still have rights which in
fact you do not have anymore.
It all reminds me of science fiction scenarios about how
robots - or the owners of the robots - will treat the general population of
humans in the future when artificial intelligence has effectively taken control
of jobs and professions and responsibilities everywhere.
Old East Germany and its Stasi seem primitive and almost
comic-bookish compared to what is emerging in the US, what in fact has largely
emerged.
"We the people" has become "We the
herd." The establishment - the wealthy individuals and corporate senior
people, whose tools the Pentagon and the CIA are along with the corporate press
- is engaged in an effort to control just about everything. Today, it
effectively rules in perhaps a more intense way than the Old Order in France
did before the Revolution, but it is all hidden from direct view, and even
scrutiny, of the public.
Two centuries of revolutions and democratic and human-rights
principles and struggles of every kind are pretty close to being wiped out in
America, while America’s establishment relentlessly works to control the world.
