Showing posts with label foreign policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign policy. Show all posts

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Notes on the Conflict in Syria

Written on July 18th, 2012



   Mainstream media sources are saying the Assad regime could be toppled within days. Last year, Webster Tarpley reported that the events in Syria do not resemble a civil war, and that he had spoken to people who claim that death squads are sniping at civilians only for the purpose of destabilizing the country.

   Tarpley says the squads are backed by American, British, French, and Israeli intelligence agencies; funded by the Saudis, the U.A.E., and Qatar; and managed by former Syrian foreign minister Abdul Halim Khaddam, who Tarpley described as “groomed by N.A.T.O. as a new dictator”, and who has been described as having been a loyalist of Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez. Even Fox News has reported that the U.S. is secretly funding the opposition in Syria in order to topple the Assad regime.

   Tarpley says Syria is “the most tolerant society in the Middle East”. Haaretz describes Assad as “an outspoken critic of Israel”, reporting that he attributes his regime’s strength to its opposition to that country. Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. recently said, “We do see a possible ouster of Mr. Assad as affording an opportunity to us”.

   YouTube reporter Rys2sense says that last year, there was a $10 billion deal for an Iran-Syria oil pipeline, that rival pipelines cannot be built if there are ongoing conflicts, that the goal is a complete cut-off of the flow of oil, and that Turkish mercenaries are also helping to destabilize Syria.

   This month, Syria, Iran, China, and Russia are coordinating a 90,000-troop military exercise in Syria; it is the largest joint exercise in Middle East history. In September, U.S. naval forces will be conducting mine-sweeping activities in the Persian Gulf (some media figures have conjectured that the U.S. may send a decommissioned aircraft carrier to the Gulf to be destroyed in a false-flag attack to be blamed on Iran).

   Russia has warned the N.A.T.O. countries not to attack Iran, and accused the Western powers of stirring up trouble in Syria; China and Russia have shown support of Syria in the U.N.; and China and Pakistan have said that they would consider an attack on Iran as an attack on themselves, and have suggested that they would retaliate as such. China and Russia have nearly twice as many nukes combined as the U.S..

   Iran recently confirmed that its plan to close the Strait of Hormuz is ready to be put into action. This could triple – or even quadruple – crude oil and gas prices. Some reports claim that Obama and / or Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu want to attack Iran's nuclear facilities in early October, around the beginning of the U.S. presidential debates.

   In my opinion, the world is closer to an international nuclear exchange and / or World War III than any other time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and I expect this threat to ratchet-up exponentially over the next 3 ½ months.




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Notes on Duplicity in U.S. Foreign Policy

Written on December 21st, 2011



   The U.S. supported the Mujahideen (part of which later became the Taliban) in its struggle against the Soviets, and later invaded Afghanistan to fight and oust the Taliban.

   The C.I.A. supported the Haqqani Network in Western Pakistan, and is now urging Pakistan to fight the network.

   The U.S. remained friends with Israel while it encouraged Hamas as a way to avoid negotiation over Palestine, and also while Israel mediated our weapons sales to Iran, and Israel now appears to be gearing up for strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

   Bill Clinton flew Hezbollah operatives to Bosnia to support the U.S. and its allies, and now considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

   The C.I.A. supported Saddam Hussein against the Iranians, and armed Iran against Iraq during a war that lasted throughout nearly the entire 1980s decade.




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Barack Obama, the Universal Sycophant

Written on December 16th, 2011



   Barack Obama is a sycophant on the behalf of all the peoples of the world.

   He backs interventionist land wars in the Middle East so that the West can get their oil before it reaches the ports where China can buy it up, while his father undermined Sino-Soviet influence in Africa as a C.I.A. "goat-herder". Yet Obama (as well as Huntsman) appears to be soft on China, having welcomed Jintao grandly, and copying China by manipulating currency (choosing inflation rather than deflation), oligopolistic nationalized sovietization, and arming a handful of American rivals in the Middle East.

   Obama supported funding Mubarak of Egypt and Qadhafi of Libya, while committing troops to assist al-Qaeda's toppling of Qadhafi. He called for reaching out to leaders of countries whom we have isolated, but he has not yet spoken with Ahmadinejad of Iran. He refused to destroy the drone which Iran captured because he felt that such an action could be construed as an act of war, yet it seems likely that he will use the capture of the drone as one of many pretexts for invading Iran.

   Obama made a speech in Cairo ingratiating himself to the Muslim world, while standing idly by when Egypt's Mubarak used Israeli-made tear-gas canisters to disperse protesters, and while Egypt and Israel continued to partner in order to isolate Gaza. He has been derided as the most anti-Israel president we've ever had, and yet he has not taken a stance opposing that country's dependence on our foreign aid money ($3 B a year) in favor of a fiscal independence which Netanyahu stated he would prefer. While repeatedly described as a secret Muslim and the like, Obama refuses to take a stance supporting Palestinian U.N. membership.

   And so, Obama remains the pro-China, anti-China, pro-Muslim, anti-Muslim, pro-Palestinian, anti-Palestinian, pro-Israel, anti-Israel, pro-al-Qaeda, anti-al-Qaeda president.

   He is a symbol of, and an example to and for, every politician who has ever said whatever they felt was necessary to take and maintain power.





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Military-Industrial Socialism and Wilsonian Capitalism

Written on February 11th and 14th, 2011
Edited in April 2014



Military-Industrial Socialism

   The American military-industrial complex is the biggest assistance to international socialism on the planet.

   We help other countries defend themselves by deploying troops and setting up military bases. This enables them to devote funding towards the expansion of their public sectors and social welfare programs.

   Countries can only have successful large-scale national public welfare programs if they have the right combination of a relatively ethnically and culturally homogenous population, most of which have the same political position and wants and needs from their government; a industrial economy with rapid and / or sustained growth; and / or significant protection assistance from foreign nations.

   Leave countries to defend themselves. It will compel them to be more independent, securely sovereign, self-reliant, and self-sufficient; it will encourage their national pride by encouraging them to emphasize their cultural strong suits in the world market; and it will prevent them from feeling the need to dispatch lobbyists for global governance organizations and institutions to dupe the American public into believing that the economic well-being of the country needs to be tethered to sinking European financial ships in the name of propping up the increasingly globally-integrated international economy.



Wilsonian Capitalism

   You know how Ron Paul says we should have no entangling alliances with other countries, but we should maintain open friendships and trade with them? And you know how Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush wanted to invade other countries in order to "keep the world safe for democracy"?

   I think we should make a list of all the governments which are both oppressing their people and hoarding wealth from them. Then, rather than bomb or sanction them, we should allow and encourage American businessmen to trade directly with the people and businesses which are being oppressed and withheld from by their governments.

   That way, those governments will try to institute protectionism, corporatism, and state socialism to try to keep individuals from maintaining economic liberty and security, causing resentment to grow in the minds of the people.

   That way, entrepreneurial, libertarian, counter-economicist, agorist, and market-anarchist sentiments will grow among the people, and they will desire to secede from their governments economically. Once they eventually succeed, there will be capitalism and minimal governance.

At this point, communal governments will begin to exercise control, giving rise to what could eventually develop into a genuine participatory democracy, which would counter and balance capitalism.




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Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Syria Debate in Congress

Created in September 2013,
Originally published 2-27-2014






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