Preempting The Next Round of Lies Against Syria

What the UN report on Syria will say & what the liars in the West will claim it says.

September 14, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - The bottom line regarding the UN's upcoming report regarding the August 21, 2013 chemical weapons attack in Damascus, Syria is best summed up by the BBC's article, "Syria crisis: UN report to confirm chemical arms attack" [emphasis added]:

Ban Ki-moon made no comment on who was to blame for the 21 August attack in the Ghouta area of Damascus, as that is not part of the report's remit.

Despite this, the United States and its axis of collaborators are already trying to spin the report as confirmation that the Syrian government was responsible.

Relying entirely on the momentum of its massive media networks and their ability to "will" reality into any shape they please, headlines such as "United Nations' Syria chemical weapons report "overwhelming," shamelessly attempt to link two out of context statements by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon regarding the Syria government's "crimes against humanity" and the confirmed use of chemical weapons in Damascus Syria, to place in the mind of readers assigned blame for the attacks.

In reality, the UN inspectors that were stampeded out of Damascus in the middle of their work, fearing an impending unilateral US military attack, were only attempting to determine how victims in eastern Damascus died, not who killed them. Independent assessments of who was responsible for the attack have not been carried out. The best the US has been able to do is suggest terrorists operating in Syria were incapable of such an attack, leaving only the Syrian government as a possible suspect.

Of course this single point of contention is dispelled by the US' own policy in the region. CNN's "Sources: U.S. helping underwrite Syrian rebel training on securing chemical weapons," reported that:

The United States and some European allies are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria, a senior U.S. official and several senior diplomats told CNN Sunday. 

The training, which is taking place in Jordan and Turkey, involves how to monitor and secure stockpiles and handle weapons sites and materials, according to the sources. Some of the contractors are on the ground in Syria working with the rebels to monitor some of the sites, according to one of the officials.

Militant groups operating inside Syria with Western "contractors" (read: mercenaries, see: Blackwater) are more than capable of handling and deploying the weapons, and therefore more than capable of carrying out the attacks in question. The only argument left for the US is whether or not these militants, aligned with Al Qaeda, possess the will or motivation to do so. That doing so and framing the Syrian government would serve as impetus for direct US military intervention and therefore the salvation of the crumbling militant offensive, is more than motivation enough.

UN's Complicity in Ongoing Syrian Bloodbath

Story of Iran "Rape Threat" Written by Neo-Con Cartoon Character "Reza Kahlili"

September 9, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - "Reza Kahlili" is not his real name. Appearing either masked or silhouetted, "Reza Kahlili" is a reoccurring character in the US Neo-Con's long-running pro-war, anti-Iranian propaganda campaign, stretching all the way back to the Bush administration. His biography, as stated on Neo-Con warmonger Joseph Farah's "World Net Daily" (WND), is as follows:

Reza Kahlili, author of the award-winning book "A Time to Betray," served in CIA Directorate of Operations, as a spy in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, counterterrorism expert; currently serves on the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, an advisory board to Congress and the advisory board of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI). He regularly appears in national and international media as an expert on Iran and counterterrorism in the Middle East.

The FDI of course, is a US National Endowment for Democracy (NED)-funded consortium of Neo-Cons and Iranian accomplices who have played an instrumental role in the selling, execution and perpetuation of America's wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and its current covert involvement in subverting Syria and Iran. Included upon the FDI's advisory board are notorious Neo-Cons Frank Gaffney and James Woolsey, who along with Reza Kahlili, participated in the war propaganda film "Iranium," indisputably as absurd as it is insulting to one's intelligence.

Video: An except from the cartoonish Neo-Con war propaganda film, "Iranium." Here we have WND contributor, and CIA agent "Reza Kahlili" inadvertently explaining to us why we should never believe a word he says. Despite this cartoonish facade, Western media outlets have repeated his latest, baseless claims that "Iran" has threatened to "rape" Obama's daughter, in perhaps the most bizarre and disturbing ploy yet to sell war with Syria and in turn, Iran.

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Considering the background of "Reza Kahlili," whose real identity is unknown and who is a documented propagandist serving the interests of documented liars, it would seem appropriate to dismiss out of hand any claims he makes unless credible evidence was provided, and still, independent verification would be needed.

Yet the Western media, eager to sell war with Syria, and in turn, Iran, have repeated recent allegations made by "Kahlili" regarding a threat against US President Barack Obama's daughter (Sasha) made by a supposed "former Iranian official" named "Alireza Forghani." "Kahlili" claims in a Daily Caller article titled, "Iran threatens brutal attacks on Americans, Obama family if US hits Syria," that: 

Forghani warned, “We should remind Obama that if you are a bastard, there are other bastards all around the world who can assault Sasha.” The statement is written in both English and Farsi, but in the Farsi version, Forghani clearly stated that Sasha will be raped by someone who has been able to get close to the Obama family.

Of course, "Kahlili" is unable to make any credible connection between this bizarre statement from this alleged individual and any element of the actual Iranian government - akin to a foreign propagandist attributing the ravings of a foul-mouthed racist backwater former-sheriff to the official position of the White House.

Whether Alireza Forghani exists or not, or made these statements is irrelevant. They are not the official position of the Iranian government, as "Kahlili" attempts to disingenuously portray, and rather yet another elementary attempt to manipulate a public "Kahlili" and his Neo-Con collaborators must assume are infinitely ignorant.

However, knowing "Reza Kahlili's" background, and examining closely his latest piece of pro-war, anti-Iranian propaganda, we can expose this ploy along with the disingenuous media outlets that played a part in disseminating it to the public, including Glenn Beck's "The Blaze," Joseph Farah's "WND," and the David Horowitz "Freedom Center" Islamophobia nexus, Frontpage Magazine.

As a general rule, the more outrageous the claim, the more effort that should be put into finding out who is making the claim and why. Simple investigative work into the sources behind the "Iranian rape threat" would reveal a troupe of practiced liars and propagandists at work doing what they do best - lying to manipulate a hopefully unwitting public.

Why Drag Iran Into the Fray?

"Reza Kahlili's" mission was to drag Iran into the debate surrounding the looming US attack on Syria. As far back as 2007, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his New Yorker piece "The Redirection," Neo-Cons within the Bush administration were engineering the very sectarian bloodbath now unfolding in Syria amidst which the US now plans on "intervening." The purpose of embroiling Syria in a destructive and protracted internal conflict was to weaken it, and deprive neighboring Iran of an ally. The goal is to eventually move on Iran once it is sufficiently isolated.

The report states specifically:  

"To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda."

Framing Iran as an irrational, belligerent, and savage enemy, seeking to "rape" the US President's daughter, primes the stage for false flag attacks and the rhetorical justification for widening current plans for Syria to include Iran as well. 

"Contractors" at Boston Marathon Stood Near Bomb, Left Before Detonation

(Photos) Seen across street after blasts talking with FBI bomb squad. Who were they? What were they and the FBI doing?

April 19, 2013 (LD) - What appear to be private contractors, wearing unmarked, matching uniforms and operating an unmarked SUV affixed with communication equipment near the finish line of the Boston Marathon shortly after the bomb blasts - can be seen beforehand, standing and waiting just meters away from where the first bomb was detonated. The contractor-types had moved away from the bomb's location before it detonated, and could be seen just across the street using communication equipment and waiting for similar dressed and equipped individuals to show up after the blasts.

Image: An already widely distributed photo showing the contractor-types on the bottom left, just left of where the bomb was placed and detonated. The men are wearing matching, unmarked uniforms, large black bags, and appear to be waiting, separately, and "behind" the rest of the crowd. In the upper left corner, a wooden structure forming one half of a temporary photography "bridge" over the finish line can be seen and serves as a useful reference when establishing the contractor-types' position in other photos.

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FBI's History of Handing "Terror Suspects" Live Explosives

April 16, 2013 (LD) - In late September 2011, AFP reported that a man was charged with "planning to fly explosive-packed, remote controlled airplanes into the Pentagon and the Capitol in Washington." In its report, "US man charged with Pentagon bomb plot," AFP stated (emphasis added):

During the alleged plot, undercover FBI agents posed as accomplices who supplied Ferdaus with one remote-controlled plane, C4 explosives, and small arms that he allegedly envisioned using in a simultaneous ground assault in Washington.

However, ''the public was never in danger from the explosive devices, which were controlled by undercover FBI employees,'' the FBI said.

Ferdaus was arrested in Framingham, near Boston, immediately after putting the newly delivered weapons into a storage container, the FBI said.

Authorities described Ferdaus as a physics graduate from Northeastern University who followed al-Qaeda and was committed to ''violent jihad'' since early last year.

In November 2010, a similar "plot" was engineered, then "disrupted," also by the FBI - this time in Portland, Oregon. The so-called "Christmas Tree Bomber" attempted to remote detonate a van he believed was filled with explosives, provided by the FBI, before being arrested during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Pioneer Courthhouse Square. The FBI's official statement regarding the incident revealed that FBI agents had handled, even detonated live explosives with the entrapped suspect at Lincoln County Park in the lead up to the final failed bombing.

EXPOSED: Syrian Human Rights Front is EU-Funded Fraud

NYT admits fraudulent Syrian human rights group is UK-based "one-man band" funded by EU and one other "European country."

April 12, 2013 (LD) - In reality, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has long ago been exposed as an absurd propaganda front operated by Rami Abdul Rahman out of his house in England's countryside. According to a December 2011 Reuters article titled, "Coventry - an unlikely home to prominent Syria activist," Abdul Rahman admits he is a member of the so-called "Syrian opposition" and seeks the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad:

After three short spells in prison in Syria for pro-democracy activism, Abdulrahman came to Britain in 2000 fearing a longer, fourth jail term.

"I came to Britain the day Hafez al-Assad died, and I'll return when Bashar al-Assad goes," Abdulrahman said, referring to Bashar's father and predecessor Hafez, also an autocrat.

One could not fathom a more unreliable, compromised, biased source of information, yet for the past two years, his "Observatory" has served as the sole source of information for the endless torrent of propaganda emanating from the Western media. Perhaps worst of all, is that the United Nations uses this compromised, absurdly overt source of propaganda as the basis for its various reports - at least, that is what the New York Times now claims in their recent article, "A Very Busy Man Behind the Syrian Civil War’s Casualty Count."

The NYT piece admits: 

Military analysts in Washington follow its body counts of Syrian and rebel soldiers to gauge the course of the war. The United Nations and human rights organizations scour its descriptions of civilian killings for evidence in possible war crimes trials. Major news organizations, including this one, cite its casualty figures. 

Yet, despite its central role in the savage civil war, the grandly named Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is virtually a one-man band. Its founder, Rami Abdul Rahman, 42, who fled Syria 13 years ago, operates out of a semidetached red-brick house on an ordinary residential street in this drab industrial city [Coventry, England]. 

The New York Times also for the first time reveals that Abdul Rahman's operation is indeed funded by the European Union and a "European country" he refuses to identify:

Money from two dress shops covers his minimal needs for reporting on the conflict, along with small subsidies from the European Union and one European country that he declines to identify.

Storyful - Niche Propagandists Work Full-Time Distorting Syria Conflict

March 24, 2013 (LD) - The Western media monopolies, the same media houses that willfully and repeatedly told lies regarding "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq to help sell the corporate-financier engineered invasion and occupation of the Middle Eastern nation for a decade, have been very busy since. They helped sell NATO and its corporate-financier backers' war of aggression and subjugation against Libya, and has been attempting to sell a repeat of the atrocities committed in North Africa, this time in Syria.

They certainly have their hands full. With the emergence of social media and the US State Department's overt attempts at co-opting it to execute its geopolitical agenda, it would be very helpful if there were entire companies dedicated to trawling Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter to supply the Western media houses with prepackaged, filtered content designed specifically to help them bolster their predetermined, biased, self-serving conclusions.

One such company indeed exists. Called, "Storyful," it claims on its website that:

Storyful is the first news agency of the social media age. We help newsrooms find the most valuable content on the social web.

Image: A screenshot of Storyful's website as of March 23, 2013. Storyful is a niche propaganda organization which supplies the Western media monopolies with filtered, prepackaged biased accounts of world events - including of the ongoing Syria crisis (archived here). It boasts that it's content, trawled from across the Internet's various social media platforms, is cited 10's of thousands of times across the Western media.

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2012 US Elections - The People Have Spoken: No Confidence

Voter turnout expected to be lower than 2008, US President's mandate ranges between 25-35%.

Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer
November 8, 2012

Here is some math the establishment hopes you never do. Take the popular vote the newly elected president received, and see what percent of voter turnout it actually makes up. You will find that out of all eligible voters, the president is put into power with only between 25-35%. This isn't just with President Obama in 2012, but is a common feature of most US elections, and many elections around the world.

Image: This infographic was assembled using information from CNN's  "Election 2012: Results," USA Today's "This year's voter turnout may fall short of 2008," and George Mason University's "2012 General Election Turnout Rates." The numbers may still change, but the difference will be negligible. 

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In countries like Thailand, where violent mobs hold the nation hostage, representing a fraction of 1% of the population, it is claimed by the Western media that these are "the people." Come election time, the Western-backed party claiming to run on "people's power," garnered the support of a measly 32% of all eligible voters. Likewise in Syria, where "the people" are rising up, in a nation of 20 million - if even half rose up armed with only broom handles, the so-called revolution would have been over in a week.

This is the myth of democracy, representative governance, and manufactured dissent. It does not represent the vast majority of the people who are affected by the decisions these governments or movements then make with their self-proclaimed mandates. While numbers are still coming in, USA Today has reported that voter turnout in the 2012 US Elections most likely will fall short of 2008 elections. The article titled, "This year's voter turnout may fall short of 2008," quoted Michael McDonald of the George Mason University who stated:

"It doesn't look like we had a 2008-level turnout. I'm certain about that. There was some waning of interest in voting. I don't see this election as some kind of wholesale collapse of turnout, either."

While polling experts claim the slump in voting is a result of "waning interest," it really isn't explained as to why interest in determining one's own destiny would ever wane. The most likely answer is that many people feel that voting accomplishes nothing. It is done after a grueling, repetitive campaign of lofty, vague promises that most mature adults know will never be kept, by special interests who have organized against them, and are merely telling us all what we want to hear as they proceed to exploit us and plunder our nation. 

The next question becomes, what do we do about it? 

US-Backed Terrorists Mass Murder Unarmed Civilians in Syria

Washington Post claims "soldiers" were executed - terrorists in video clearly refer to victims as civilian "shabih." Victims had no weapons, uniforms, or IDs indicating they were soldiers. 

Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer
November 2, 2012

An egregious war crime was reported on by the Washington Post, but deceitfully and purposefully spun and shrugged off. In the Post's article, "Syrian rebels execute unarmed government soldiers; dozens killed in fighting," it is first reported:

Syrian rebels executed at least a half-dozen unarmed government soldiers Thursday after attacks on checkpoints near the town of Saraqeb in northwest Syria.

Then: 

The execution of the soldiers, which was documented in a graphic video [GRAPHIC] posted online Thursday, is not the first time that rebel fighters appear to have committed war crimes. U.N. representatives and human rights organizations have repeatedly criticized the Syrian opposition in recent months for carrying out summary executions and for abusing detainees.

The video clearly shows unarmed men, none of whom are wearing uniforms or equipment typical of "government soldiers." The Washington Post then links to another video while reporting:

A second video posted online Thursday [GRAPHIC], which appears to have been filmed shortly after the execution, shows at least three other bodies spread out around the checkpoint. The man filming approaches two of the bodies and says, “The shabiha of Assad, the dogs.” 

"Shabiha," of course refers to alleged civilian militias organized locally to resist terrorists entering into and attempting to overrun neighborhoods. The term "shabiha" has been used by the Western media as a catch-all to spin any massacre committed against civilians by US-backed terrorists operating in Syria. That the murderers themselves, filming their own crime, refer to the victims as "shabiha" - indicates that civilians, not Syrian government forces, were murdered - contrary to what the Washington Post reported.

The term suspected "shabiha" has become analogous of the Western media's use of the term "African mercenaries" in Libya during NATO destabilization and regime change operations there in 2011. These "African mercenaries" were lynched, beheaded, shot, burned, and hacked to pieces, just as terrorists are  now doing to suspected "shabiha" across Syria.
 

 
Photo: Images and reports eventually trickled out as NATO-backed genocide unfolded throughout Tripoli's streets, indicating the destruction of infrastructure and the specific targeting of black Libyans written off by the corporate media as "suspected mercenaries." Benghazi rebels have been long reported to harbor extremist ideologies and an intense ethnic and racial hatred. These very Libyan, Benghazi terrorists are now streaming into Syria to commit similar atrocities against the Syrian people.

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It would later turn out these black Africans were not mercenaries, but citizens who had lived in Libya for generations fighting desperately for their lives against sectarian extremists intolerant of their complexion and creed. Racially motivated attacks by NATO-backed terrorists in Libya would culminate in the extermination of the entire city of Tawarga where an estimated 10,000-35,000 inhabitants were either exterminated, imprisoned, or exiled to refugee camps and then beyond Libya's borders.

Video: Wiped out. Tawarga, once home to 10,000 (this video claims up to 35,000) people, many part of Libya's black community who had resided in the country for generations, had its inhabitants either exiled, imprisoned or exterminated. NATO-backed militants told the Telegraph in 2011, " every single one of them has left, and we will never allow them to come back." And just as the Western media initially covered up these atrocities by merely labeling all black victims of NATO terrorists as "African mercenaries," a similar propaganda campaign is underway in Syria, labeling civilian victims of NATO-backed foreign terrorists as suspected "shibiha." 

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In Syria, suspected "shabiha" are in actuality Syrians unwilling or unable, because of their ethnicity or creed, to capitulate to roving bands of foreign-armed sectarian extremists. The Washington Post and others throughout the corporate-driven Western media are willfully covering up crimes against humanity through overtly deceitful reporting and semantics.

It should be remembered, that these terrorists who have video taped themselves committing a massacre of unarmed men, out of uniform, and referred to as civilian "shabiha," not soldiers - are at the center of renewed US, NATO, Saudi and Qatari efforts to refocus Western support for the violent, armed overthrow of the Syrian government.

"Obama the Muslim:" Ploy to Cover-up Years of US-Al Qaeda Support

US establishment admits arming Al Qaeda, but blames it on "Obama the Muslim." 
by Tony Cartalucci

October 24, 2012 - Neo-Conservative Frank Gaffney thinks you are stupid. After plotting for the better part of a decade, arming Al Qaeda across the Arab World in a documented conspiracy to use the notorious terror group as a proxy against Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, Gaffney and his colleagues are attempting to jettison responsibility and all the blunders that have come with the plot, on US President Barack Obama. President Obama for his part, faithfully and knowingly carried out this strategy, "heeding" signed letters sent to him from Gaffney's warmongering circle, imploring him to not only support terrorists in Libya and Syria, but to do so more overtly.

Gaffney, in a Washington Times article titled, "GAFFNEY: The real reason behind Benghazigate: Was Obama gun-walking arms to jihadists?" Gaffney answers the question by stating correctly, "yes." What Gaffney doesn't tell readers is that the plan to arm these terrorists and array them against Syria was a plan set into motion, not by Obama the alleged "crypto-Muslim," but in 2007 during the Bush administration.

Seymour Hersh, in his 2007 New Yorker article, "The Redirection Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?" (covered in depth here) compiled interviews from Bush administration officials, as well as Saudi and Lebanese politicians who openly admitted that weapons, cash, and support were already being lent to extremist groups, many with direct ties to Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. Hersh would report:

"To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda." -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)

 Hersh's report would continue: 

"the Saudi government, with Washington’s approval, would provide funds and logistical aid to weaken the government of President Bashir Assad, of Syria. The Israelis believe that putting such pressure on the Assad government will make it more conciliatory and open to negotiations." -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)

 The report also stated:

...[Saudi Arabia's] Bandar and other Saudis have assured the White House that “they will keep a very close eye on the religious fundamentalists. Their message to us was ‘We’ve created this movement, and we can control it.’ It’s not that we don’t want the Salafis to throw bombs; it’s who they throw them at—Hezbollah, Moqtada al-Sadr, Iran, and at the Syrians, if they continue to work with Hezbollah and Iran.” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)

Clearly, at least as early as 2007, the US, then under the Bush administration, was already funding and arming terrorists across the Arab World to trigger the very sectarian war now unfolding in Syria and beyond.

Gaffney echos the 2007 Hersh report, but attempts to pin it entirely on President Obama, claiming in his recent Washington Times article that:

What we do know is that the New York Times — one of the most slavishly pro-Obama publications in the country — reported in an Oct. 14 article, “Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster.”

In short, it seems President Obama has been engaged in gun-walking on a massive scale. The effect has been to equip America’s enemies to wage jihad not only against regimes it once claimed were our friends, but inevitably against us and our allies as well. That would explain his administration’s desperate and now failing bid to mislead the voters through the serial deflections of Benghazigate.

President Obama merely carried on exactly where Bush left off, and exactly where presidential candidate Mitt Romney will pick up if elected in 2012. In reality the White House is not responsible for the creation of policy. It merely serves as public relations, selling a particular narrative to the public, and taking the fall (with little or no consequence) for when details emerge implicating the US in the global state sponsorship of terrorism. Behind Bush, Obama, and Romney are corporate-financier funded think tanks that craft policy and/or the talking points used to sell such policy to an unwitting public. 

Gaffney belongs to just such a think tank, the "Center for Security Policy," which includes Morris Amitay, Paula Dobriansky, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, and Michael Rubin - Neo-Cons who were behind letters publicly imploring President Obama to commit even more weapons, resources, and military support to the opposition in Libya and now Syria.

 

In an open letter to House Republicans, the Foreign Policy Initiative which consists of Gaffney's fellow Neo-Conservatives, stated in regards to Libya (emphasis added):

We share the concerns of many in Congress about the way in which the Obama administration has conducted and justified this operation.  The problem is not that the President has done too much, however, but that he has done too little to achieve the goal of removing Qaddafi from power.  The United States should be leading in this effort, not trailing behind our allies.  We should be doing more to help the Libyan opposition, which deserves our support.  We should not be allowing ourselves to be held hostage to U.N. Security Council resolutions and irresolute allies.

While the establishment now attempts to portray Obama as having unilaterally and recklessly given support to the "opposition" in Libya, in June of 2011 Obama's feigned "right" opposition was clearly in favor of providing these terrorists with just such support, and more.

 

ZOA Seeks to Manipulate Global Jewish Communities

Zionist Organization of America, and a myriad of doppelganger organizations, incite fear amongst global Jewish communities, manipulates and exploits best and brightest. 
by Tony Cartalucci 

October 21, 2012 - The elite throughout history have thrived by dividing and conquering people who would otherwise pose an insurmountable obstacle united and self-determined. While it has been covered ad nauseum how society in the West is divided along false political paradigms, and people across the Muslim World are divided along sectarian lines, little attention has been given to the means by which the global elite isolate and manipulate Jewish communities around the world.

In simple terms, the method of operation is two pronged in configuration. Fear is induced by radicalizing controlled opposition. Harold Charles "Hal" Turner, the quintessential Jew-baiter, turned out to be a Federal proxy, his style and talking points provided fodder for legions of imitators who carry on his ignoble work to this very day, this, even after he was exposed as controlled opposition. While Turner was a creation and perpetuation of the US government, the legions of manipulated followers he created harbor real hatred, in a world where "Jews" are hiding in every shadowy corner, conspiring against them. This hatred, fear, and paranoia manifests itself into demonstrable bigotry and even acts of violence.

Image: The cover of the Zionist Organization of America's 2012 Annual Report. ZOA intentionally perpetuates a strategy of tension used to co-opt and manipulate people on all sides of the political spectrum. More importantly, it serves as one of many propaganda fronts used to repackage frank conspiracies generated by think-tanks like the Brookings Institution, to make them acceptable to the general public. Stemming from these organizations is rhetoric that finds its way into mainstream and faux-alternative news - ZOA's propaganda, for example, served as the basis for the manipulative "Obama 2016" film, as well as regular talking points appearing on Glenn Beck's program as well as WorldNetDaily. 

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Turner's work, in the Middle East, is carried out by US-Saudi funded madrases that dot the region, indoctrinating legions who are similarly suspicious, hateful, and even violent toward anything perceived as "Jewish," or "Zionist." While the impetus for this hatred is manufactured, the manifested violence that stems from it is very real. Some of the most notorious armed groups Israel claims it is fighting in the Middle East, are monsters of their very own creation - and monsters they covertly feed and perpetuate. Hamas is perhaps the most notorious, the Muslim Brotherhood a close second (Hamas is an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood).

The second prong is manufacturing barricades for Jewish communities the world over to hide behind to seek refuge. Within these barricades lie the actual enemy, impetus, and perpetuating force behind the very threat that has driven Jews there in the first place. To ensure maximum fear and tension is maintained, a similar, irrational, manufactured fear is created amongst Jews to feed into a continuous cycle of paranoia, hatred, violence, and chaos. A manufactured strategy of tension results.

Like a dam straddling a river, the force of tension against the dam produces energy from which those who constructed it, benefit. The hatred, fear, and violence perpetuated between the Jewish people and their perceived enemies has been a prominent driving force behind Wall Street and London's century-long campaign of invasion, occupation, subversion, and exploitation across the Muslim World.

The latest example of this was using regional hatred toward Israel to implement the opening phases of the US-engineered "Arab Spring." Because any regime Israel feigned support for would be instantly poisoned by a political "touch of death," Israel openly and oafishly feigned support for Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, claiming it had sent weapons and riot control gear to assist his government in suppressing "anti-American/anti-Israeli" protesters. In reality, the protests in Egypt's streets were planned years in advance, beginning as early as 2008 in New York City by confabs organized by the US State Department.

In essence, the global elite played people's emotional persuasions like a fiddle, and executed one of the most profound geopolitical re-orderings in recent history.

The same ploy would be used against Libya's Muammar Qaddafi. Qaddafi was accused of being "Jewish," hiring Israeli mercenaries, using Israeli weapons, and of any other conceivable link imaginable to likewise inflict him with the "touch of death" incurred by this strategy of tension. And perhaps the most absurd example of all, were early attempts to use the same tactic against Syria, exemplified best in Hareetz of Israel's op-ed titled “Israel’s Favorite Arab Dictator of All is Assad.”

There is no global Zionist empire seeking to instate Jewish supremacy across the globe. Organizations that promote this are no different than US-Saudi madrases selling the notion of establishing a supranational Islamic caliphate reaching halfway across the planet. They seek to force people to pick one of two false sides, and play upon a game board of limited rules and dimensions - rules and dimensions that preclude self-determination, and leave only a predefined set of conclusions for us to witlessly fight toward.

Meet the "Zionists" - Manipulators Who are Neither Jewish nor Zionist. 

Just like the US-Saudi legions of Al Qaeda are never really going to be given a supranational Islamic caliphate to lord over, neither will Judeo-Christian Zionists be given a global Zionist order. Zionist organizations are created as the barricades behind which Jews are invited to seek refuge, so their talents, energy and destiny can be exploited to full effect by a handful of self-serving interests. The means and end are obviously devoid of Judeo-Christian values.

We take for example the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA). ZOA's literature perpetuates patently false talking points, misrepresenting current events, and reinforcing the strategy of tension between Jewish communities worldwide and their perceived enemies. ZOA's 2012 annual report contains an opening letter so overtly provocative, it would be easily mistaken for black propaganda - propaganda created by the enemies of Judaism to purposefully discredit the ancient faith and incur attacks upon it from all directions.

"President" of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein opens the 2012 ZOA annual report with conspiracies involving US President Barack Obama "engaging, strengthening  and  legitimizing the extreme,  jihadist Muslim  Brotherhood in Egypt." As shown extensively, the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood was part of a premeditated, joint US-Saudi-Israeli policy documented as early as 2007 by New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh in his article "The Redirection." Klein's fear-mongering is based on patently false talking points, the same talking points used to help gestate the "Arab Spring," and perpetuate the unfolding destabilization that has resulted.

Klein rants on, providing the rhetorical foundation from which propaganda films like the recent "Obama 2016" were made, before concluding his letter with the cartoonish, over the top, ridiculous closing, "With Zionist Greetings."

ZOA's 2012 annual report included a list of ZOA dinner guests that included Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The 40 page report deals only in talking points found across the false-right paradigm, and involves none of the frank, open policy discussion one might find in corporate-financier subsidized think tanks like the Brookings Institution, the Council on Foreign Relations, the RAND Corporation, or the American Enterprise Institute. And while many of the same personalities cross-over from propaganda fronts like ZOA, to think-tanks like Brookings, their narratives do not.

Image: The Brookings Institution's "Which Path to Persia?" report (covered in depth starting here) openly conspires to provoke war with Iran to achieve Anglo-American hegemony across the Middle East. The report openly conspires to use terrorism, covert provocations, subversive foreign-funded opposition groups, and economic warfare to destroy the nation of Iran, it admits poses no threat to US or Israeli national security. This cannot be sold to the public. ZOA and left propaganda fronts are charged with forming narratives that can be sold to the public - and building cadres of zealots to promote these narratives. 

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A common feature found on Brookings Institution's website are both reports published in-house, and articles published by fellows for news publications aimed at the public. The narratives change distinctly, with in-house policy papers containing candor, and very incriminating conspiracies, while op-eds published for public consumption contain custom tailored propaganda to fit either left or right talking points.

Brookings' report, "Which Path to Persia?" openly admits Iran is not a threat to either the US or Israel, and rather threatens the political order and "interests" of the US in the Middle East. The report openly conspires to provoke a war with Iran it neither wants nor will benefit from. Brookings policy authors also conspire to fund, arm, and assist terrorist organizations, most notably Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, sometimes MKO) in a bid to violently overthrow the Iranian government. In depth consideration is also given to creating a subversive movement of protesters to fill the streets, to provide cover for overt or covert military operations to destabilize the government of Iran.

All of these options are now demonstrably being executed. However, none of these options can be presented "as is" to the public, with any realistic expectation of gaining public support. Kenneth Pollack, a co-author of the report, regularly publishes articles for public consumption in an attempt to sell the policy he played a part in forming, to the public in terms they might support.

To a greater degree,  ZOA on the right, and liberal propaganda fronts on the left, funded by convicted criminal George Soros and his Open Society foundations contribute to this "selling" of policy. Each one of the policy points points from the report is repackaged and sold to the public through the filter of pro-Israel, American preeminence to the right, and on humanitarian, pro-democracy grounds to the left.  Cognitive infiltrators like Jospeh Farah's World Net Daily who was actually awarded the 2003 ZOA Ben Hecht Award for Outstanding Journalism, attempt to sell this agenda to the public by combining these talking points to appeal to people somewhere in the middle, willfully deceiving his audiences about where he really stands.

Ultimately, the pursuit of war against Iran endangers US and Israeli national security, millions of lives, and both nations' collective socioeconomic stability. In fact, the only interests that will benefit from a war with Iran are a handful of corporate-financier interests that are neither Christian nor Jewish, nor truly American or Israeli, and will not only survive, but prosper immensely regardless of the fate of America or Israel. The survival of Israel is not the driving factor behind Western policy, in fact, Western and Israeli policy currently reflects an agenda contradictory of a nation interested in self-preservation, but a nation serving as a beachhead for expanding regional hegemony, a beachhead ready and willing, even custom tailored, to take the brunt of regional retaliation.

Co-opting the Best and Brightest. 

The most disappointing aspect of this system of manipulation, are the countless well-intentioned individuals who out of panic, ignorance, or fear, are driven behind the barricades of the West's various false paradigms. While our TV screens are full of US soldiers, civilians, and foreign fighters dying as a result of these endless strategies of tension, there are other "casualties" of this conflict that often go unnoticed.

Robert Zubrin is an engineer and proponent of the human colonization of space. He believes in the potential of humanity, and scorns paradigms that encourage Malthusian, misanthropic philosophies. His ideas, concepts, and enumerated plans for making humanity multi-planetary are truly inspirational.

However Zubrin is an active participant in the very system obstructing his life's work. He belongs to the "American Center for Democracy," which, like the ZOA - albeit less overtly, peddles disingenuous talking points to sell the policies put forth by the Brookings Institution. Upon the ACD along with Zubrin, sits a myriad of Israelis and Jews who were born and raised within the barricades amongst this manufactured strategy of tension. But there are also those like Richard Perle, who sits upon both propaganda fronts like ACD, as well as policy think-tanks like the American Enterprise Institute and former CIA director and corporate insider James Woolsey, both willful, cognizant participants helping steer and perpetuate the agenda.

Video: Robert Zubrin's life work is making human civilization multi-planetary. The man's ideas are ingenious, inspirational, but ultimately derailed, as Zubrin, like so many others, finds himself on a geopolitical "hamster wheel" where he expends his energy amongst false paradigms. By feeding into false paradigms, we ensure the real contributions people like Zubrin have to offer remain unrealized. By circumventing these paradigms, we ensure these contributions are realized. 

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Richard Perle does not care about Israel, and would gladly sacrifice every American and Israeli life on Earth if it granted him and the interests he represents global hegemony. He would gladly reside outside the radioactive craters his policy is intent on creating, and gladly camouflage himself with whatever social paradigm existed around him. People like Zubrin, most likely do not share this trait, but are too busy looking beyond the barricades to realize the traitors within them, and who ultimately created them.

Zubrin's carrying of water for this agenda, in op-eds he regularly publishes such as, "Obama’s Iran Policy Risks a Global Crash," is a loss for us all. The summation of his time and energy would benefit humanity infinitely more if it were spent on making human civilization multi-planetary. Because of the conflict the interests behind Brookings are engineering and executing, the sort of stability and progress necessary for fulfilling Zubrin's life work will never materialize. Instead of advancing humanity, Zubrin, like so many others on both sides of this strategy of tension, has been placed on a geopolitical "hamster wheel."

By playing into this strategy of tension, either with "Antisemitism" or "Islamophobia," "left" or "right," "black" or "white," we ensure that the summation of our energy is transmitted to the dam built to obstruct the natural course of human progress. By circumventing the dam created by the global elite, we ensure that this flow is restored - that people like Zubrin, and countless others spend the summation of their time pursuing ultimately what is in all of our best interests - not wars that are in none of our interests.

Joseph Farah - Neo-Con, Cognitive Infiltrator

Faux alternative media figure peddles Neo-Con agenda, sits on advisory groups with PNAC signatories.
by Tony Cartalucci

October 20, 2012 - Joseph Farah and his World Net Daily (WND) project attempts to fill a niche, straddling the alternative media, and feeding inquiring minds back into servitude toward the greater corporate-financier agenda. He represents a retrenchment of the right - of the false left-right political paradigm - alongside other disingenuous media personalities like Glenn Beck, and on the left led by the forces of convicted criminal George Soros. Farah's propaganda attempts to parrot alternative media memes while reasserting essential talking-points those who have departed traditional left-right camps have left behind.

Among these talking points include, the need to continue carrying out Neo-Conservative wars of aggression, particularly against Iran, backing candidates in elections under the gimmick, "the lesser of two evils," and the reintroduction of many other left-right political footballs generally no longer distracting an increasingly awakened public. In essence, Farah and WND are the right-wing of Cass Sunstein's cognitive infiltration - a policy described in Sunstein's paper, "Conspiracy Theories," as the cognitive infiltration of extremist groups," aiming to "introduce informational diversity into such groups."

Image: The cover of Cass Sunstein's "Conspiracy Theories" paper, which details strategies for overcoming opposing views that contradict establishment talking points. Amongst these strategies includes hiring people to actively infiltrate segments of society that hold alternative views and introduce "informational diversity" to lure them back into mainstream paradigms. Because Sunstein was Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under the Obama administration, many mistakenly believe his strategies are only meant to be applied from the "left." They are indeed applied from the "right" as well, and leading these efforts, among others, are Joseph Farah of WND, and Glenn Beck. 

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This is precisely what Farah and his WND are doing, posturing themselves in the fashion of alternative media, while selling talking-points quite literally pulled from the papers, policies, and speeches given by prominent Neo-Conservatives and non-partisan corporate-financier funded and driven policy think-tanks. 

Joseph Farah himself is directly involved with this political clique, having served upon the US Committee for a Free Lebanon, created specifically to array foreign-backed opposition against the governments of Syria and Iran, as well as Hezbollah and its supporters in Lebanon, all slated for removal by corporate-financier interests, according to US Army General Wesley Clark. 

Upon the committee sitting alongside Joseph Farah of WND, was chairman Ziad Abdel Nour, a Lebanese corporate-financier and founder of "Blackhawk Partners. Ziad Abdel Nour would speak very frankly about the work and agenda he was involved in, in an interview by Trish Schuh titled, "Faking the Case Against Syria," where he exclaimed:

"Both the Syrian and Lebanese regimes will be changed- whether they like it or not- whether it’s going to be a military coup or something else… and we are working on it. We know already exactly who’s going to be the replacements. We’re working on it with the Bush administration."

"These guys who came to power, who rule by power, can only be removed by power. This is Machiavelli’s power game. That’s how it is. This is how geopolitics — the war games, power games — work. I know inside out how it works, because I come from a family of politicians for the last 60 years. Look, I have access to the top classified information from the CIA from all over the world. They call me, I advise them. I know exactly what’s going on. And this will happen."

"This Bashar Al Assad-Emil Lahoud regime is going to go whether it’s true or not. When we went to Iraq whether there were weapons of mass destruction or not, the key is — we won. And Saddam is out! Whatever we want, will happen. Iran? We will not let Iran become a nuclear power. We’ll find a way, we’ll find an excuse- to get rid of Iran. And I don’t care what the excuse is. There is no room for rogue states in the world. Whether we lie about it, or invent something, or we don’t… I don’t care. The end justifies the means. What’s right? Might is right, might is right. That’s it. Might is right."

"So Saddam wanted to prove to the whole world he was strong? Well, we’re stronger- he’s out! He’s finished. And Iran’s going to be finished and every single Arab regime that’s like this will be finished. Because there is no room for us capitalists and multinationalists in the world to operate with regimes like this. Its all about money. And power. And wealth… and democracy has to be spread around the world. Those who want to espouse globalization are going to make a lot of money, be happy, their families will be happy. And those who aren’t going to play this game are going to be crushed, whether they like it or not!" 

Joining Joseph Farah and Ziad Abdel Nour on the International Advisory Board of this committee were Morris Amitay of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and PNAC signatories Paula Dobriansky (now foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney), James Woolsey, Frank Gaffney, and Daniel Pipes. There was also Oliveier Guitta, Michael Ledeen, and Clifford May, all of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), who were amongst the most vocal supporters of the military intervention in Libya and currently advocate a similar military intervention aimed at Syria, all made possible by groundwork laid by the US Lebanese Committee for a Free Lebanon.

Joseph Farah was also serving alongside Wael Chehab, Founder and CEO of Cedar Capital Management, a New York based hedge fund, and was President of the Arab Bankers Association of North America (ABANA). And while the name suggests the association should consist of "Arab bankers," it consisted of an impressive list of decidedly non-Arab corporate-financier interests including Mitt Romney's notorious Bain Capital, as well as:

Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Barclays Bank PLC
The Blackstone Group
Bloomberg LP
The Carlyle Group
Citi
Deutsche Bank
Dow Jones Indexes
Goldman Sachs
ING Investment Management
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Morgan Stanley
Royal Bank of Scotland
Standard Chartered Bank
Thomson Reuters

This bankers association also included the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council, which in turn includes the interests of Bechtel, Chevron, Citi (again), Dow, Exxon, GE, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Morgan Stanley (again), Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and many more.

There was also Daniel Nassif of the US State Department propaganda front Al Hurra,  James Phillips of the Heritage Foundation, Jonathan Schanzer who was director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center, and multiple members of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Clearly Mr. Farah of World Net Daily was involved in a contact group consisting of the US-Israeli-Saudi interests that were on record conspiring to provoke a region-wide sectarian war with which to destabilize, overthrow, and replace the governments of Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, as documented by Seymour Hersh in his 2007 New Yorker article, "The Redirection" which was covered in depth in, "Syrian War: The Prequel.

The committee Farah served on, and the pro-war agenda he pursues is still concurrently pursued by the very same corporate-financier interests listed above, reflected in the funding of think-tanks like the Brookings Institution which has produced documents such as, "Which Path to Persia?" and "Middle East Memo #21."

Farah, as insidious as his affiliations are, and the agenda he is demonstrably helping to promote, adds an extra degree of duplicity to his work by posing as "outside" the establishment in order to inject corporate-financier driven talking points as "informational diversity" into the alternative media.

That Farah sat on an advisory board representing a consortium to which Mitt Romney's Bain Capital belonged, begs closer scrutiny of Farah's attempts to circumvent the alternative media's awareness of the false left-right paradigm, claiming listeners and readers should "vote for the lesser of two evils," the lesser, he claims, is Mitt Romney. In reality, current US President Barack Obama has done precisely his part in executing the overall agenda to rearrange the Middle East, and regardless of whether he or Romney makes it into office in 2012, the script will be written accordingly, and the agenda will continue forward.

By introducing his "lesser of two evils" talking point, he can redirect those who have made it outside the gates, back into the political corrals safely away from pursuing or developing third party alternatives.

Farah's WND also regularly makes use of Neo-Con cartoon creation "Reza Kahlil," allegedly a pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Reza Kahlil regularly promotes Western propaganda depicting Iran as a dangerous theocratic nation seeking global hegemony.

Reza Kahlil regularly appears in various Neo-Con produced war propaganda films such as Iranium. The film was produced by the "Clarion Fund," whose board of advisers features Frank Gaffney and Daniel Pipes (both of whom sat with Joseph Farah on the US Committee for a Free Lebanon, as did James Woolsey who appeared in Iranium as an "expert"), John Bolton (PNAC, CFR), Clare Lopez (Senior fellow of Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy), Harold Rhode (Hudson Institute), and retired General Paul Vallely (Fox News senior military analyst).

Video: An except from the cartoonish Neo-Con war propaganda film, "Iranium." Here we have WND contributor, and CIA agent "Reza Kahlili" inadvertently explaining to us why we should never believe a word he says.

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Kahili's articles for WND include, "Iran: Our nukes proof of Islamic power," and "Iran: Discovery will collapse Christianity," all designed to instill fear across well-intentioned, but susceptible conservative readers who may be unaware that the very propagandists peddling these stories have conspired for years against Iran, admitting in their own think-tank documents, like Brookings Institution's "Which Path to Persia?" that Iran poses no threat to the world, but only to Western hegemonic aspirations throughout the Middle East.

In fact, it is these very people who are on record, supporting listed terrorist organizations with the blood of Americans on their hands - organizations like Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK).

Farah's cognitive infiltration will undoubtedly draw audiences in from across the alternative media. But on a much larger scale, he and others like Glenn Beck, prevent perhaps millions from making the final step over to genuine alternative media sources and real solutions, outside the controlled paradigms of Wall Street and London.

His game is an insidious one, one that he is well aware he is playing, and made deceptively more difficult for people to spot, as he approaches from the "right" while Cass Sunstein's stratagems have been branded as "left." His feigned dislike for US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, when Farah himself associates directly with, and peddles the talking points of, those writing his policy for him, is indicative that he is intentionally deceiving readers, viewers, and listeners as he burrows deeper into the alternative media.

EU Censors Alternative News in Bid to Dominate Narrative

Western media quietly attempts to censor growing global opposition, begins with Iranian media. 
by Tony Cartalucci

October 16, 2012 - Iran's Press TV reported in their article, "Press TV viewers slam EU move to ban Iran channels as illegal, hypocritical," that "Press TV viewers have condemned as illegal and hypocritical the ban imposed by the European officials on the broadcast of several Iranian satellite channels." Nearly no mention is made in the Western media regarding the blatant act of censorship - an act that runs contra to all perceived notions of "Western values," and an act that directly undermines the narratives of the West supporting "freedom" and "democracy" around the globe.

Image: The West has spent billions trying to leverage "freedom of speech" and "human rights" as a means to undermine, destabilize, overthrow, and replace governments around the world, from the US-engineered Eastern European "color-revolutions" after the fall of the Soviet Union, to the latest US-engineered "Arab Spring," and all across Southeast Asia. Now with the West pursuing its own campaign of censorship, it is clear that these "values" were merely selectively and opportunistically manipulated.

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The news has been buried under reports regarding a new round of sanctions passed by the EU which was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize even while pursuing multiple wars across the globe, including continuing operations in Libya, the subversion of Syria, and a decade long occupation of Afghanistan which sees weekly civilian massacres by NATO air strikes on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border. In fact, the most recent NATO atrocity occurred not even a week ago, killing 3 children in the Helmand province. Of course this was absent in Western headlines, but it did make headlines in Iran's Press TV, and indicates a more realistic explanation to the EU's decision to ban the Iranian news service. 


Clearly the EU has no qualms over endangering civilian lives - its concerns over "human rights" are a selectively applied value it uses against its enemies with demonstrably no intention of holding itself to similar standards. Now, the EU has applied this same selective application of supposed "Western values" to "freedom of speech," curtailing it when that speech endangers its own interests, and pursuing "freedom" when it advances their agenda. And it is this hypocrisy that the increasingly popular Press TV news service has been illustrating, as a counterweight to the uniformly biased and compromised Western press.

It was US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who stated that censorship incurred "long-term economic and social costs," with oppression leading to "civil unrest and not security." Many Western politicians executing corporate-financier driven policy have stated that a regime's pursuit of censorship was a sign of weakness and fear - an indicator that its opposition was gaining ground and that more overt, visible, even desperate measures needed to be implemented. Censorship, according to the West's own narrative, is part of a self-defeating cycle where legitimacy and the mandate to lead increasingly is fading.

With that consideration in mind, the censorship of Iran's Press TV should be a sign that Iran's efforts to balance global public perception skewed by the vast resources of Wall Street and London are succeeding. Along with Russia Today (RT), Press TV has provided nations who aspire to live in a mulipolar world where the primacy of the nation-state prevails, a model to follow in combating the unwarranted power and influence of Western media houses.

Above all, it should be noted that a key contributing factor to Press TV and RT's success is the growing alternative media - media by the people and for the people - whose legitimacy and reputation is measured in accuracy, consistency, and objectivity, not slick graphics, expensive suits, and million-dollar studios. The alternative media has provided content for growing national news agencies seeking to challenge the West's hegemony over information, and while national news agencies ultimately pursue national agendas, the content they are drawing on generally come from people simply seeking the truth.

The EU's act of censorship against Press TV is in turn a strike against the alternative media. Instead of being seen as a setback, it should be seen as a success and a signal to redouble our efforts as individuals to assert our own will and vision for the future over that of the miniscule global elite who have so far gone unchallenged in their designs and aspirations. The alternative media should be only the first in a series of people-driven alternatives systematically undermining and replacing existing corporate-financier dominated paradigms.

The Queen of Corporate-Fascist Faux "Democracy"

Aung San Suu Kyi Goes to Washington - exposes US "democracy promotion" as corporate-fascist racket.
by Tony Cartalucci

Key Points

• Aung San Suu Kyi and her movement are creations of Western corporate-financier interests.
• Suu Kyi has recently received a series of suspect "awards" from corporate-financier sponsored institutions.
• Awarding institutions represent the antithesis of Suu Kyi's alleged ideals of "democracy," "freedom," and "human rights." 
• Suu Kyi's movement has been recently exposed as genocidal bigots, which is perhaps the reason the US has staged this latest PR "awards" blitz.

September 23, 2012 - Nothing could say "democracy" and "humanitarianism" less than big-oil's Chevron, Exxon, BP, ConocoPhillips, or international financier criminals like Deutsche Bank, Blackstone, Barclays, Citigroup, or perhaps defense contractors and war profiteers EADS, General Dynamics, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Nazi collaborators IBM. Professional propagandists like News Corporations (Fox News), Bloomberg, and Reuters, as well as public relations firms like Edelman, who make the vast criminal conspiracies of the above mentioned possible, also constitute the antithesis of "democracy promotion."

Photo: Not the first shower of accolades - earlier this year Hague handed Suu Kyi the "Chatham House Prize." Nothing quite says "democracy promotion" like a prize from an organization consisting of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BP, Exxon, Chevron, BAE, Boeing, Lockheed, and many more. This, along with Suu Kyi's more recent trip to the US equates to self-aggrandizing stunts the global elite pull to lend themselves otherwise non-existent legitimacy.

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Indeed, the most obscene chapters in modern human history have been written by these corporate-financier interests who span nations, transcend "democratic elections," trigger wars of aggression for profit and the projection of their own power under the guise of a myriad of lies and propaganda, while accumulating, each in their own right, a mountain of human rights atrocities against people all around the world - from the Niger Delta, to the rain forests of South America, to the ravaged and subjugated people of Iraq and Afghanistan, to the oil fields of Libya and even the Gulf of Mexico in North America.

They literally are the bane of humanity, the crux of all problems, the source of the peoples of the world's torment, the architects of human misery on the grandest of all imaginable scales, unparalleled throughout all of human history. 

So then, one must question the merits of receiving "awards" handed out by organizations sponsored by and representing the collective interests of such corporate-financier interests. Who, in good consciousness, could except such awards? Surely a useful idiot at best, a deceitful, dark emissary of their nefarious agenda at worst.

To fully appreciate the implications involved with the West's celebrated "democracy champion" Aung San Suu Kyi receiving showers of awards during her recent visit to the United States, we must fully understand those doing the showering.

The National Endowment for Democracy

The National Endowment for Democracy, despite the lofty mission statement articulated on its website, is nothing more than a tool for executing American foreign policy. Just as the military is used under the cover of lies regarding WMD's and "terrorism," NED is employed under the cover of bringing "democracy" to "oppressed" people. However, a thorough look at NED's board of directors, as well as the board of trustees of its subsidiary, Freedom House, definitively lays to rest any doubts that may be lingering over the true nature of these organizations and the causes they support.

Upon NED's board of directors we first find John Bohn who traded petrochemicals, was an international banker for 13 years with Wells Fargo, and is currently serving as a principal for a global advisory and consulting firm, GlobalNet Partners, which assists foreign businesses by making their "entry into the complex China market easy." Surely Bohn's ability to manipulate China's political landscape through NED's various activities both inside of China and along its peripheries constitutes an alarming conflict of interest. However, it appears "conflict of interest" is a reoccurring theme throughout both NED and Freedom House.

Bohn is joined by Rita DiMartino who worked for Council on Foreign Relations corporate member AT&T as "Vice President of Congressional Relations" as well as a member of the CFR herself. Also representing the Fortune 500 is Kenneth Duberstein, a board member of the war profiteering Boeing Company, big oil's ConocoPhillips, and the Mack-Cali Realty Corporation. Duberstein also served as a director of Fannie Mae until 2007. He too is a CFR member as are two of the companies he chairs, Boeing and ConocoPhillips. 

Image: A visual representation of the National Endowment for Democracy's corporate-financier ties found across their Board of Directors. Far from "human rights advocates," they are instead simply leveraging such issues to disguise what is in reality corporate-financier hegemonic expansion.

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We then consider several of the certified warmongers serving upon NED's board of directors including Francis Fukuyama, Zalmay Khalilzad, Will Marshall, and Vin Weber, all signatories of the pro-war, pro-corporate Project for a New American Century. Within the pages of documents produced by this "think tank" are pleas to various US presidents to pursue war against sovereign nations, the increase of troops in nations already occupied by US forces, and what equates to a call for American global hegemony in a Hitlerian 90 page document titled "Rebuilding Americas Defenses." As we will see, this warmongering think tank serves as a nexus around which fellow disingenuous rights advocate Freedom House also gravitates.

The "Statement of Principles," signed off by NED chairmen Francis Fukuyama, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Vin Weber, states, "we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles." Of course by "international order" they mean meddling beyond the sovereign borders of the United States and is merely used as a euphemism for global imperialism. Other Neo-Con that signed their name to this statement include Freedom House's Paula Dobriansky, Dan Quayle (formerly), and Donald Rumsfeld (formerly), along with Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Eliot Cohen, and Elliot Abrams.

A PNAC "Statment on Post-War Iraq" regarding a wholehearted endorsement of nation-building features the signatures of NED chairman Will Marshall, Freedom House's Frank Carlucci (2002), and James Woolsey (formerly), along with Martin Indyk (Lowy Institute board member, co-author of the conspiring "Which Path to Persia?" report), and William Kristol and Robert Kagan both of the warmongering Foreign Policy Initiative. It should be noted that the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) is, for all intents and purposes, PNAC's latest incarnation and just recently featured an open letter to House Republicans calling on them to disregard the will of the American people and continue pursuing the war in Libya. The FPI letter even suggests that the UN resolution authorizing the war in the first place, was holding America "hostage" and that it should be exceeded in order to do more to "help the Libyan opposition." Similar letters have been penned in regards to supporting armed terrorists versus Syria.

An untitled PNAC letter addressed to then US President George Bush regarding a general call for global warmongering received the seal of approval from Freedom Houses' Ellen Bork (2007), Ken Adelman (also former lobbyist for Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra via Edelman), and James Woolsey (formerly), along with Neo-Con degenerates Richard Perle, William Kristol, Robert Kagan, and the always disingenuous demagogue Daniel Pipes.

Other notable corporate-fascists populating NED's board of directors include:

William Galston: Brookings Institution (board of trustees can be found on page 35 here).
Moises Naim: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (corporate funding here).
Robert Miller: corporate lawyer.
Larry Liebenow: US Chamber of Commerce (a chief proponent of SOPA), Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE).
Anne-Marie Slaughter: US State Department, Council on Foreign Relations (corporate members here), director of Citigroup, McDonald's Corporation, and Political Strategies Advisory Group.
Richard Gephardt: US Representative, Boeing lobbyist, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Ameren Corp, and Waste Management Inc lobbyist, corporate consultant, consultant & now director of Ford Motor Company, supporter of the military invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.
Marilyn Carlson Nelson: CEO of Carlson, director of Exxon Mobil.
Stephen Sestanovich: US State Department, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, CFR.
Judy Shelton: director of Hilton Hotels Corporation & Atlantic Coast Airlines.

It is safe to say that neither NED nor Freedom House garners within its ranks characters appropriate for their alleged cause of "supporting freedom around the world." It is also safe to say that the principles of "democracy," "freedom," and "human rights" they allegedly champion for, are merely being leveraged to co-opt well meaning people across the world to carry out their own self-serving agenda. Surely the value of any "award" they bestow upon champions of their "cause" equates to the management of public perception and the obfuscation of their true agenda.

The Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council claims to be a "preeminent, non partisan institution devoted to promoting transatlantic cooperation and international security." It is partnered with NATO - representing the collective corporate-financier interests that drive NATO's current existence, its agenda, and the direction it proceeds into the future with.

The board of directors includes a bi-partisan representation - revealing the truly singular agenda pursued by the corporate-financier elite merely under the guise of various false political paradigms. Board members include, Brent Scowcroft, Henry Kissinger, former US State Department Director of Policy Planning under President Obama Anne-Marie Slaughter, Madeleine Albright, MEK terrorist coddlers US Army General Wesley Clark and USMC General and former National Security Adviser under President Obama, James Jones, Neo-Cons Richard Armitage, Paula Dobriansky, Eric Edelman, James Woolsey, James Baker, Frank Carlucci, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and George Shultz.

Images: The Atlantic Council - bi-partisan corporate-fascism, the ones who benefit as the rest of the world collapses. Its sponsors and board of directors are responsible for writing some of the darkest chapters in modern human history, transcending political parties, presidencies, and premierships. Accepting an award from such an organization is to be knighted by the forces of human oppression, disparity, and exploitation.

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If readers are wondering why an alleged "Democrat" president is carrying out the wars and hegemonic foreign policy of his Neo-Conservative predecessor, a corporate-financier driven nexus like the Atlantic Council would be a good place to begin searching for the answers.  

This was the council that guided and promoted the corporatist-military agenda in Libya, which oversaw the arming of vast legions of Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists led by the US State Department (#29), UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf), and UN-listed terror organization, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), responsible for the death and sectarian bloodshed that ravaged Iraq throughout the US occupation, and most recently, the foreign-sponsored terror campaign ravaging Syria today.

The council's corporate-financier sponsors have reaped billions upon billions in contracts as the West wages wars of conquest and expansion around the world. Whether these wars are "successful" or not is inconsequential, because no matter how many American soldiers are killed or maimed, and no matter how drained America's taxpayers become, the corporate-financiers always get their paycheck, their agendas always advanced.

The Atlantic Council and the National Endowment for Democracy are just two of many think-tank/lobbying fronts that represent the collective interests of the Fortune 500 of Wall Street and London. It is clear that if one wanted to go about making the world a better place, they would begin with a serious examination of the sponsorship of the Atlantic Council and NED, their sources of power, and how to undermine, boycott, and replace them entirely. Surely, one would not step foot within the halls of any of these institutions, shake the bloodied hands of any of its many co-conspirators, let alone play part in one of their public relations charades.

However, that is exactly what one supposed "champion" of democracy and human rights has done - inexplicable unless of course this "champion" is nothing of the sort.

Aung San Suu Kyi - Fraud, Fascist, and Fool.

Flanked by war criminals, corporate-fascists, and warmongers, Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (still called by its British imperial nomenclature "Buma" by the Western press) toured Washington D.C. this month, showered with awards including the "Congressional Gold Medal," and the Atlantic Council's "Global Citizen Award." Suu Kyi would also provide a key address for the Neo-Conservative, corporate-fascist National Endowment for Democracy's 2012 "Democracy Award" ceremony.

Images: The West's recent "awards blitz" attempts to lend both themselves and Suu Kyi sorely needed legitimacy. Recently, Suu Kyi's supporters have begun an ugly, genocidal-bigoted campaign to eliminate ethnic Rohingya's from Myanmar. Suu Kyi has been complicity silent throughout the violence. 

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The LA Times would report in regard to Suu Kyi's acceptance of the Congressional Gold Medal:

"I stand here strong in the knowledge that I am among friends," Suu Kyi said in the Capitol rotunda as she finally accepted the Congressional Gold Medal, which Congress awarded her in absentia in 2008 when she was still confined in Myanmar.

 The charade continued with Senator John McCain, who has most recently conspired with Al Qaeda in the city of Benghazi, Libya and on the Turkish-Syrian border for a series of preplanned violent regime changes, claiming: 

I consider myself very fortunate to have lived to see this day and to know the people of Burma, whose dignity and rights Aung San Suu Kyi has sacrificed so much to defend, and will one day be free to live with dignity and justice and hope.

Myanmar, rich in natural resources, and with a large population ripe for exploitation, as well as strategically located in relation to the West's strategy versus China, clearly represents an attractive target for the corporate-financier sponsors and representatives of both the National Endowment for Democracy and the Atlantic Council. In reality then, all Suu Kyi is doing is assisting in the creation of US-funded institutions in Myanmar to create a US-backed political order to serve Western corporate-financier interests, just as the British had done to the nation at the height of the its empire, and as all empires have done throughout the ages.

Suu Kyi's entire movement is in fact a creation of joint US-British funding, political, and covert support. 

In "Myanmar (Burma) "Pro-Democracy" Movement a Creation of Wall Street & London," it was documented that Suu Kyi and organizations supporting her, including local propaganda fronts like the New Era Journal, the Irrawaddy, and the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) radio, have received millions of dollars a year from the Neo-Conservative chaired National Endowment for Democracy, convicted criminal and Wall Street speculator George Soros' Open Society Institute, and the US State Department itself, citing Britain's own "Burma Campaign UK (.pdf)."

Image: The Myitsone Dam, on its way to being the 15th largest in the world until construction was halted in September by a campaign led by Wall Street-puppet Aung San Suu Kyi, a stable of US-funded NGOs, and a terrorist campaign executed by armed groups operating in Kachin State, Myanmar.

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And not only does the US State Department in tandem with Western corporate media provide Aung San Suu Kyi extensive political, financial, and rhetorical backing, they provide operational capabilities as well, allowing her opposition movement to achieve Western objectives throughout Myanmar. The latest achievement of this operational capability successfully blocked the development of Myanmar's infrastructure by halting a joint China-Mynamar dam project that would have provided thousands of jobs, electricity, state-revenue, flood control, and enhanced river navigation for millions. Suu Kyi and her supporting network of NGOs, as well as armed militants in Myanmar's northern provinces conducted a coordinated campaign exploiting both "environmental" and "human rights" concerns that in reality resulted in Myanmar's continual economic and social stagnation.

The ultimate goal of course is to effect regime change not only in Myanmar, but to create a united Southeast Asian front against China.

As reported in June, 2011's "Collapsing China," as far back as 1997 there was talk about developing an effective containment strategy coupled with the baited hook of luring China into its place amongst the "international order." Just as in these 1997 talking-points where author and notorious Neo-Con policy maker Robert Kagan described the necessity of using America's Asian "allies" as part of this containment strategy, Clinton goes through a list of regional relationships the US is trying to cultivate to maintain "American leadership" in Asia.

Image: (Top) The "Lilliputians" though small in stature were collectively able to tie down the larger Gulliver from the literary classic "Gulliver's Travels." In the same manner, the US wants to use smaller Southeast Asian nations to "tie down" the larger China. (Bottom) From SSI's 2006 "String of Pearls" report detailing a strategy of containment for China. While "democracy," "freedom," and "human rights" will mask the ascension of Aung San Suu Kyi and others into power, it is part of a region-wide campaign to overthrow nationalist elements and install client regimes in order to encircle and contain China.

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Then certainly it makes sense to see Senator John McCain glowingly praise Aung San Suu Kyi and her "sacrifices," when McCain's agenda itself aims ultimately at encircling and destroying China, as well as Russia. It was US Senator John McCain, chairman of the International Republican Institute which played a pivotal role in organizing the so-called "spontaneous" "Arab Spring," who said in 2011 of the unrest his IRI had helped fund in Egypt, "I would be a little less cocky in the Kremlin with my KGB cronies today if I were Vladimir Putin. I would be a little less secure in the seaside resort [of] President Hu and a few men who govern and decide the fate of 1.3 billion people."

Suu Kyi, like so many before her, is either a willful accomplice, or drunk on the admiration and accolades ceaselessly bestowed upon her and is merely an expendable stepping stone for the West toward corporate-financier global hegemony, divorced entirely from any of the public rhetoric concerning "democracy" and "human rights." Suu Kyi will be jettisoned if and when it is convenient for her sponsors to do so, and as history has shown, it is generally done in a very ungracious, often brutal manner.

Image: Hands up for recolonization and genocide. One of the US State Department's favorite "activism 2.0" gags is having activists write on their hands and photographing it to show solidarity for a cause across social media. Aung San Suu Kyi (photo courtesy of Soros.org) herself promoted the recolonization of Myanmar by Western interests in this way. Ironically, her supporters who had used the tactic to support Suu Kyi and others in her movement, are now writing pro-genocide slogans on their hands.

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Suu Kyi's saintly persona has been recently betrayed by the rank and file of her movement, who have been revealed as genocidal, sectarian bigots now carrying out a nationwide campaign against ethnic Rohingya. Suu Kyi's supporters, like other Western proxies in Libya, Syria, and beyond, are indeed not the "pro-democratic," "enlightened" forces they are portrayed as, and as their movement betrays decades of carefully crafted Western propaganda, Suu Kyi and her followers are quickly becoming liabilities rather than the celebrated assets they have long been. This may in fact be why Suu Kyi has been slated for this public relations stunt in the first place - an attempt to salvage a faltering public image.

Suu Kyi is either a fool for believing the superficial rhetoric a demonstrably self-serving corporate-fascist agenda is selling her, or foolish to believe she can betray her people as an agent of foreign corporate-financier interests without consequence. Regardless of her intentions, she is helping not only in the exploitation and oppression of her own people by foreign neo-imperial interests, but contributing to supranational meddling throughout Southeast Asia and the encirclement and destabilization of China. She is a facilitator against, not a champion for, human progress and world peace.

Whether her eyes can detect the blood covering the accolades she lines her shelves with or not, the blood is still there. If Aung San Suu Kyi cannot in good conscience end her associations with the bane of humanity, we, as humanity, cannot in good conscience support her or her agenda. Her rhetoric is no different than that of Senator John McCain's, spoken with nefarious interests just below the superficially appealing surface. Unlike McCain, she has managed to defraud millions of people both within Myanmar and around the world - thanks to the help of the BBC and Hollywood.

Suu Kyi is just one of many frauds facilitating the ambitions of the corporate-financier elite - but her example is perhaps the most transparent and illustrative in regards to how the corporate-financier elite operate, how they deceive and manipulate the masses with appealing narratives and charismatic personalities, and how they use the reputations and legitimacy of their institutions they themselves have created to sell their agenda of global domination as its very antithesis - as "freedom," "democracy," and "human rights."