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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Thierry Meyssan: NATO prepares large operation of disinformation

Thierry Meyssan: NATO prepares large operation of disinformation



 The Member members of NATO and of (P) GCC are preparing a coup and a genocide sectarian in Syria. If you want oppose to these crimes, act quickly:, please put this article in network and report it to your elected.

In a few days, perhaps even Friday, June 15, at noon, the Syrians want to watch the national channels they will be replaced on their television screens created by the CIA. Images made in the studio show massacres attributed to government, public events, ministers and generals who give their resignation, President al-Assad, who escaped, the rebels who gather in the heart of major cities, and a new government is installed in presidential palace.
This directly led by Washington, Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security of the United States, is intended to demoralize the Syrians and to allow a coup. NATO, which confronts the double veto by Russia and China, come to conquer Syria without having to illegally attack. Whatever opinion about current events in Syria, a military coup put an end to any hope of democracy.
Very formally, the Arab League has asked the satellite operator Arabsat and Nilesat to cease retransmission of the Syrian media, public and private (Syria TV, al-Ekbariya, ad-Dunya TV Cham, etc..). There is a precedent, since when the league had already worked on Libyan television censorship, to prevent the Libyan leader communicated with their people. There is no radio network in Syria, for which broadcasters have received only by satellite. But this cut will not leave the screen blacks.
In fact, this decision is just the public tip of the iceberg. According to reports, several international meetings will be held this week, to coordinate the operation of disinformation. The first two, technical, held in Doha (Qatar), the third politician, held in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).
At first meeting have participated the officers of the war psychological "embedded" in some channels satellite, including al-Arabiya, al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Fox, France 24, Future TV, MTV. We know which since 1998 the officers Unity Operations of War Psicologica (PSYOP) of the U.S. Army are been inserted in the redaction of CNN; after, this practice is been extended by NATO to other stations TV strategic. They prepared in advance of the false information, according to a "story" developed by the team of Ben Rhodes at the White House. A cross-validation procedure has been developed, each media will report the lies of others, to make them credible with viewers. The participants also decided not only to seize the TV networks of the CIA to Syria and Lebanon (Barada, Future TV, MTV, Orient News, Shaab Syria, Syria Alghad), but also forty TV channels wahhabito who call on the sectarian massacre cry of "Christians in Beirut, the Alawites in the tomb!"
The second meeting brought together engineers and developers to program the production of images of fiction, in the studies made by mixing one part open and part made with computer graphics. Studies have been made in recent weeks, Saudi Arabia, to play the two Syrian presidential palace and the main squares of Damascus, Aleppo and Homs. There are already studies of this kind in Doha, but they are insufficient.
At the third meeting was attended by General James B. Smith, U.S. ambassador, a representative of the United Kingdom, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan (the President George Bush has designated as the adopted son, to the point that the U.S. press has called him "Bandar Bush"). This is to coordinate the media and "free-Syrian army," of which the mercenaries of Prince Bandar form the bulk of the workforce.
The operation that is in gestation from months, was accelerated by the Board of Safety States National United, after President Putin has communiqué to the Casa Bianca that Russia will oppose with force to any intervention illegal military of NATO in Syria.
This operation consists in two simultaneous streams: one part spread false information and on the other prevent any opportunity to respond.
The fact to obscure satellite TV to conduct a war, is not new. Thus, under pressure from Israel, the United States and European Union have dimmed in succession TV networks Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi, Libyan and Iranian. No censorship was conducted towards the satellite channels to other parts of the world.
The dissemination of false news, is not new. However, four important steps have been taken in the art of propaganda during the last decade.
• In 1994, a pop music station, Radio Mille Collines of Freedom (RTLM) has given the signal of the Rwandan genocide, calling for "killing cockroaches".
• In 2001, NATO has used the media to impose an interpretation of the September 11 attacks and justify the attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq. Even then, it was Ben Rhodes was to be appointed by the Bush administration to write the report of the Commission Kean / Hamilton on the attacks.
• In 2002, the CIA has used five channels, Televen, Globovision, Meridian, ValeTV and CMT, to believe that the huge demonstrations had forced the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez to resign, as had been the victim of a military coup.
• In 2011, France 24 served as the de facto Ministry of Information of the National Council of Libya, with whom he was bound by a contract. In the battle of Tripoli, NATO did achieve in the studio and spread from al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya pictures of the Libyan rebels who entered the central square of the capital, while they were still far from the city, so that residents, convinced that the war was lost, all resistance ceased.
Now the media are no longer content to support the war, make it.
This provision violates the fundamental principles of international law, beginning with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights concerning the fact "to receive and spread without regard for borders, information and ideas through any media of expression that is ". Above all, it violates the United Nations General Assembly resolutions, adopted after the Second World War to prevent war. Resolutions 110, 381 and 819 prohibit "the barriers to the free exchange of information and ideas" (in this case, the obscuration of the Syrian networks) and "propaganda that threatens to cause or encourage any threat to peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression ". In law, the propaganda war is a crime against peace, crimes more serious, since it makes possible war crimes and genocide.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

The Project for the New American Century.

The Project for the New American Century.
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The People versus the Powerful is the oldest story in human history. At no point in history have the Powerful wielded so much control. At no point in history has the active and informed involvement of the People, all of them, been more absolutely required.
By William Rivers Pitt
02/25/03 -- - The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997. Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of all nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the last remaining superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military force to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new socio-economic Pax Americana.

The fundamental essence of PNAC's ideology can be found in a White Paper produced in September of 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century." In it, PNAC outlines what is required of America to create the global empire they envision. According to PNAC, America must:
* Reposition permanently based forces to Southern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East;
* Modernize U.S. forces, including enhancing our fighter aircraft, submarine and surface fleet capabilities;
* Develop and deploy a global missile defense system, and develop a strategic dominance of space;
* Control the "International Commons" of cyberspace;
* Increase defense spending to a minimum of 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, up from the 3 percent currently spent.

Most ominously, this PNAC document described four "Core Missions" for the American military. The two central requirements are for American forces to "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars," and to "perform the 'constabulary' duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions." Note well that PNAC does not want America to be prepared to fight simultaneous major wars. That is old school. In order to bring this plan to fruition, the military must fight these wars one way or the other to establish American dominance for all to see.

Why is this important? After all, wacky think tanks are a cottage industry in Washington, DC. They are a dime a dozen. In what way does PNAC stand above the other groups that would set American foreign policy if they could? Two events brought PNAC into the mainstream of American government: the disputed election of George W. Bush, and the attacks of September 11th. When Bush assumed the Presidency, the men who created and nurtured the imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the Defense Department and the White House. When the Towers came down, these men saw, at long last, their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy.

Vice President Dick Cheney is a founding member of PNAC, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the ideological father of the group. Bruce Jackson, a PNAC director, served as a Pentagon official for Ronald Reagan before leaving government service to take a leading position with the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.

PNAC is staffed by men who previously served with groups like Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America, which supported America's bloody gamesmanship in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and with groups like The Committee for the Present Danger, which spent years advocating that a nuclear war with the Soviet Union was "winnable."

PNAC has recently given birth to a new group, The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which met with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in order to formulate a plan to "educate" the American populace about the need for war in Iraq. CLI has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to support the Iraqi National Congress and the Iraqi heir presumptive, Ahmed Chalabi. Chalabi was sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court in 1992 to
22 years in prison for bank fraud after the collapse of Petra Bank, which he founded in 1977. Chalabi has not set foot in Iraq since 1956, but his Enron-like business credentials apparently make him a good match for the Bush administration's plans.

PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report is the institutionalization of plans and ideologies that have been formulated for decades by the men currently running American government. The PNAC Statement of Principles is signed by Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld, as well as by Eliot Abrams, Jeb Bush, Bush's special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, and many others. William Kristol, famed conservative writer for the Weekly Standard, is also a co-founder of the group. The Weekly Standard is owned by Ruppert Murdoch, who also owns international media giant Fox News.

The desire for these freshly empowered PNAC men to extend American hegemony by force of arms across the globe has been there since day one of the Bush administration, and is in no small part a central reason for the Florida electoral battle in 2000. Note that while many have said that Gore and Bush are ideologically identical, Mr. Gore had no ties whatsoever to the fellows at PNAC. George W. Bush had to win that election by any means necessary, and PNAC signatory Jeb Bush was in the perfect position to ensure the rise to prominence of his fellow imperialists. Desire for such action, however, is by no means translatable into workable policy. Americans enjoy their comforts, but don't cotton to the idea of being some sort of Neo-Rome.

On September 11th, the fellows from PNAC saw a door of opportunity open wide before them, and stormed right through it.

Bush released on September 20th 2001 the "National Security Strategy of the United States of America." It is an ideological match to PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report issued a year earlier. In many places, it uses exactly the same language to describe America's new place in the world.

Recall that PNAC demanded an increase in defense spending to at least 3.8% of GDP. Bush's proposed budget for next year asks for $379 billion in defense spending, almost exactly 3.8% of GDP.

In August of 2002, Defense Policy Board chairman and PNAC member Richard Perle heard a policy briefing from a think tank associated with the Rand Corporation. According to the Washington Post and The Nation, the final slide of this presentation described "Iraq as the tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia as the strategic pivot, and Egypt as the prize" in a war that would purportedly be about ridding the world of Saddam Hussein's weapons. Bush has deployed massive forces into the Mideast region, while simultaneously engaging American forces in the Philippines and playing nuclear chicken with North Korea. Somewhere in all this lurks at least one of the "major theater wars" desired by the September 2000 PNAC report.

Iraq is but the beginning, a pretense for a wider conflict. Donald Kagan, a central member of PNAC, sees America establishing permanent military bases in Iraq after the war. This is purportedly a measure to defend the peace in the Middle East, and to make sure the oil flows. The nations in that region, however, will see this for what it is: a jump-off point for American forces to invade any nation in that region they choose to. The American people, anxiously awaiting some sort of exit plan after America defeats Iraq, will see too late that no exit is planned.

All of the horses are traveling together at speed here. The defense contractors who sup on American tax revenue will be handsomely paid for arming this new American empire. The corporations that own the news media will sell this eternal war at a profit, as viewership goes through the stratosphere when there is combat to be shown. Those within the administration who believe that the defense of Israel is contingent upon laying waste to every possible aggressor in the region will have their dreams fulfilled. The PNAC men who wish for a global Pax Americana at gunpoint will see their plans unfold. Through it all, the bankrollers from the WTO and the IMF will be able to dictate financial terms to the entire planet. This last aspect of the plan is pivotal, and is best described in the newly revised version of Greg Palast's masterpiece, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy."

There will be adverse side effects. The siege mentality average Americans are suffering as they smother behind yards of plastic sheeting and duct tape will increase by orders of magnitude as our aggressions bring forth new terrorist attacks against the homeland. These attacks will require the implementation of the newly drafted Patriot Act II, an augmentation of the previous Act that has profoundly sharper teeth. The sun will set on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The American economy will be ravaged by the need for increased defense spending, and by the aforementioned "constabulary" duties in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Former allies will turn on us. Germany, France and the other nations resisting this Iraq war are fully aware of this game plan. They are not acting out of cowardice or because they love Saddam Hussein, but because they mean to resist this rising American empire, lest they face economic and military serfdom at the hands of George W. Bush. Richard Perle has already stated that France is no longer an American ally.

As the eagle spreads its wings, our rhetoric and their resistance will become more agitated and dangerous.

Many people, of course, will die. They will die from war and from want, from famine and disease. At home, the social fabric will be torn in ways that make the Reagan nightmares of crack addiction, homelessness and AIDS seem tame by comparison.

This is the price to be paid for empire, and the men of PNAC who now control the fate and future of America are more than willing to pay it. For them, the benefits far outweigh the liabilities.

The plan was running smoothly until those two icebergs collided. Millions and millions of ordinary people are making it very difficult for Bush's international allies to keep to the script. PNAC may have designs for the control of the "International Commons" of the Internet, but for now it is the staging ground for a movement that would see empire take a back seat to a wise peace, human rights, equal protection under the law, and the preponderance of a justice that will, if properly applied, do away forever with the anger and hatred that gives birth to terrorism in the first place. Tommaso Palladini of Milan perhaps said it best as he marched with his countrymen in Rome. "You fight terrorism," he said, "by creating more justice in the world."

The People versus the Powerful is the oldest story in human history. At no point in history have the Powerful wielded so much control. At no point in history has the active and informed involvement of the People, all of them, been more absolutely required. The tide can be stopped, and the men who desire empire by the sword can be thwarted. It has already begun, but it must not cease. These are men of will, and they do not intend to fail.

William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times bestselling author of two books - "War On Iraq" (with Scott Ritter) available now from Context Books, and "The Greatest Sedition is Silence," available in May 2003 from Pluto Press. He teaches high school in Boston, MA. Scott Lowery contributed research to this report.

Obama Can Kill Anyone He Wants To


  
 
Extrajudicial Executions
Obama Can Kill Anyone He Wants To

By Robert Dreyfuss

September 30, 2011 "
The Nation" - -Now we know what embattled Yemeni President Saleh meant when he cryptically told reporters from the Washington Post and Time yesterday: “We are fighting the al-Qaeda organization in Abyan [in Yemen] in coordination with the Americans and Saudis.” The defiant Saleh, who’s long promoted himself as an asset in America’s seemingly nonstop Long War on Terrorism (LWT), apparently knows what he’s talking about. Hours later, Yemen’s military announced that a missile strike had killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the bombastic, American-born Islamist who’s been linked to Al Qaeda and to recent terrorist attempts against the United States.
He’s not exactly Osama bin Laden, whose takedown in Pakistan in April helped spark the current U.S.-Pakistan confrontation. But Awlaki’s assassination, and that’s what it was, is a signal that the Obama administration intends to pursue the LWT to the ends of the earth, regardless of the consequences, even if it means an extra-judicial killing of an American citizen.

Not that killing non-citizens is kosher, but killing an American isn’t. Still, rules are rules, and American citizens are supposed to have legal and civil rights that protect them from political or prosecutorial assassinations, even if they’re bad guys. Apparently, no longer. Still, Awlaki’s killing comes as no surprise, since the Obama administration long ago deemed him kill-worthy. As the Wall Street Journal points out, the CIA tried to kill Awlaki recently: “The U.S. narrowly missed Mr. Awlaki in a failed assassination attempt back in May. U.S. drones fired on a vehicle in the southern Yemen province of Shebwa that the cleric had been driving in earlier the same day.”
Since then, the United States has vastly expanded its Predator and Reaper drone capability far beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan, setting up bases on Indian Ocean islands and targeting Yemen, Somalia and other countries.

The killings were first announced by the Yemen defense ministry and its military, ironic in that the entire country of Yemen is perched at the brink of a civil war in which its establishment, including its military command, has divided loyalties. Not only Awlaki, but another American citizen was killed in the U.S.-orchestrated attack, too:

“Yemen's Defense Ministry said another American militant was killed in the same strike alongside al-Awlaki — Samir Khan, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani heritage who produced ‘Inspire,’ an English-language al-Qaida Web magazine that spread the word on ways to carry out attacks inside the United States.”

Awlaki was born in New Mexico, and he was linked to the Fort Hood shootings at a military base in Texas and to the attempted Times Square bombing, though his exact in role in those and other cases is unclear, that is, whether he masterminded or organized them or simply served as a kind of spiritual mentor to people who were planning acts of violence anyway. The point is, no judicial case has been made against Awlaki, he hasn’t been formally accused in those events or others, the charges against him have never been proved in court. He was deemed guilty by the CIA and the U.S. national security apparatus, and the sentence of death was carried out.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, a senior U.S. official said: “His death takes a committed terrorist, intent on attacking the United States, off the battlefield. Awlaki and AQAP [Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] are also responsible for numerous terrorist attacks in Yemen and throughout the region, which have killed scores of Muslims.” Of course, whether Awlaki and AQAP have killed scores of Muslims or not isn’t the point: unless the Obama administration truly wants to arrogate to itself the role of World Policeman, it shouldn’t be in the business of executing, extra-judicially, anyone it wants to, whether they’re guilty of killing Muslims, Hindus, Jews, or Christians.