From the beginning of the so-called Arab Spring, it was very evident that the regimes which were seeing the worst protests were the ones which the US supported. With the loss of Egypt and Tunisia, the empire was caught off-guard. It quickly needed to come up with a counter attack and regain lost ground. It was too late, and too risky, to brand all Tunisian and Egyptian protesters as “terrorists” and being in league with Al-Qaeda, so they turned their attention elsewhere, Libya and Syria.
The US used, and continues to use the Arab Spring and pro- democracy protests to instigate, provoke and support rebellions in Arab countries whose leaders and governments the US and the west cannot control and exploit. The first victim of this new strategy was Libya and the government of Muammar Gaddafi. From the beginning, false atrocity stories, tales of mass-rapes and massacres flowed out of the mouths of US-supported rebels and their western-funded and controlled sock puppets. This atrocity propaganda was used as an excuse for foreign intervention and regime change.
NONE of the atrocity stories have EVER been backed up by genuine evidence, and NONE of the eyewitnesses have EVER been questioned and their stories corroborated. As a matter of fact, the ex-al-Qaeda chief who became the rebel commander of Tripoli has admitted that these stories were made up and that there is no evidence and never will be. As they say, truth is the first casualty of war.
Now Libya is once again a colonial possession. No, there will be no foreign troops goose stepping on Libyan soil, and there will be no viceroys appointed by some western capital to govern the country. The occupation will be economic and diplomatic. The future government of Libya will be bought off so that it remains loyal to the US and their allies. In return, Libyan oil and other natural wealth and assets will be given away dirt cheap to western corporations and Libya’s people will slide into destitution and debt slavery.
Syria is now target#2. The US, together with their NATO lapdogs, flushed with success after their rape of Libya, decided to move right on to Syria with no interruption. Genuine demands for reform by peaceful demonstrators were exploited by enemies of Assad whom he sacked for corruption, as well as sectarian religious fanatics, and outside interests to foment violence and rebellion. A western-funded fake Syrian opposition council and human rights groups were created, both outfits funded by US government and western corporate money. Their job is to coordinate with the rebels and arm them so as to provoke the Syrian government into fighting. Once the Syrian government tries to restore order, they are accused of massacring peaceful protesters. From the beginning, false atrocity reports were peddled by the MSM in order to demonized Assad. But the deceit was plain to see. In some cases, demonstrations taking place in other countries were ascribed to Syria and Syrians who were watching their TVs in the cities where these protests were supposedly taking place were left scratching their heads after they looked outside and saw nothing. In the most recent case, Arab League observers were sent in after a report that the Syrian military was supposedly shooting at civilians in Homs. When they arrived, they saw nothing like this and there was no evidence of tanks shooting at people and buildings. The rebels hoped that the Arab League would play along and report fake atrocities as well, but there was a break in the chain of deceit and so the rebel groups and their backers were left with a credibility problem.
But that is why the Arab League was sent in: they are to be a Trojan horse whose role is to issue fake reports of atrocities and violence by Syrian government forces in order to create an excuse for foreign intervention. It remains to be seen what happens, but they will most likely lie and make things look much worse than they are in Syria under orders from Washington.
Stratfor, the private intelligence-gathering outfit, has admitted that the rebel-issued reports of atrocities and massacres and violence committed by Syrian government forces are not true or greatly exaggerated in order to get foreign countries to aid them and help and overthrow the Syrian government. I personally think that this statement is only half correct. Yes, the rebels and their front groups are lying and exaggerating. Most people support Assad and are not protesting. I don’t think that these rebels are acting entirely on their own when they tell these atrocity lies. They are told to make these stories up by their western backers. The US, France, UK and others are supporting these rebels with money, guns and training in order to overthrow the Syrian government. The rebels are a front group, just like in Libya.
Syria has a government which is nationalist, does not take orders from the US, will not let itself be exploited by western corporations, will not bow down to the Zionist state and is friendly with Iran. This the US cannot stand. What is being done in Syria by the west and their rebel front groups is a war crime. If Syrians are dying, they are dying because of US/western interference and provocations, not because of Assad.
The US tried to shove down another UN-sponsored resolution that would have imposed another no-fly zone on Syria and allowed them to bomb the country. Thankfully, Russia and China vetoed it. If there is a glimmer of hope, it is that the US, for all its bluster and deceit, cannot attack and invade any nation unless the UN rubber-stamps it. Without this rubber stamp, it cannot act because it would be liable to serious criminal charges. A UN resolution shields it from this possibility because it gives them the veneer of popular worldwide approval.
Iran has in the last month or so shamed the US. It has busted a CIA spy ring, electronically downed a sophisticated CIA reconnaissance drone and blinded a US satellite. This has caused much embarrassment to Washington.
In true fashion, the US now seeks to cover up these embarrassments by issuing threats of a military attack against Iran, sanctions, and has now accused it of helping to plot 9/11. But Saudi Arabia has been excluded from these accusations. This shows how deranged and unstable the US ruling elites have become.
It is clear that Iran possesses weaponry and tools to make any US attempt at invasion and bombing very risky and will most likely end up with a lot of US military personnel dead and US bases/ships devastated by Iranian missiles. Iran is not Iraq.
Nevertheless, the same garbage that was peddled by the US government and the MSM 9-10 years ago about Iraq is now being regurgitated against Iran. False accusations of Iranian attempts to assassinate a Saudi foreign minister on US soil, involvement in 9/11, trying to produce nuclear, biological and chemical weapons are now rising from the grave like zombies. This is the same nonsense that was peddled about Iraq and Saddam Hussein back in 2002-2003.
The sad part is that the mainstream media, which should have learned their lessons from the Iraq debacle and the false intelligence that was peddled regarding that country, seems to have forgotten what happened. They are now enthusiastically pushing scary news stories about Iran being a danger without any shred of credible evidence to back up these accusations. They just take the US government’s word for it, just like they did with Iraq in 2003. It’s one thing for a government to force the media to tell lies and peddle false propaganda, but when a media freely and willingly does so, and self-censors itself, then that is much worse, for then there is no barrier for the lies and crimes which a government can tell and commit.
It is ironic that the US says nothing when Saudi Arabia shoots its own citizens, or Bahrain, or Jordan, or Egypt or when Saleh in Yemen orders brutal crackdowns on protesters. There are no calls for observers, no-fly zones, sanctions or UN resolutions. The most that government violence in those countries may elicit is a lukewarm appeal for calm on all sides, that’s it.
Now, the forces which are trying to enslave the Arab world, are now up to their tricks in Russia. Putin and Medvedev have turned out to be too strong and must be gotten rid of. So US/western sponsored NGOs are now crying election fraud in order to bring Putin down and replace him with a compliant and corrupt drunk like Yeltsin, who will faithfully take orders and let the US do whatever they like with the world.
Countries like Russia and China need to use their political, military and economic leverage more effectively to force back the US. They must make it clear that interference in other countries affairs and threats of war will not be tolerated. It is time for Russia, China and others to band together and confront the biggest rogue state in history, the US, and let it be known that the “American Century” is over.
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