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Dear Fellow Americans: Do You Have Any Idea What’s Being Done In Your Name In Syria?
Americans have some vague understanding that the U.S. wants Syria’s Assad to go, while Russia wants him to stay.
And Americans know that the U.S. “war against ISIS” hasn’t done much, while the Russians have been pounding Syrian targets with jets.
But Americans have no idea that the U.S. is deploying fighter jets designed solely to engage in plane-to-plane dogfighting … in order to counter the Russians.
And we don’t understand that the U.S. is arming the Syrian “rebels” with shoulder-fired weapons to bring down airplanes (this comes a week after ISIS may have used a Manpad to shoot down a Russian civilian airliner.)
Americans don’t know that sending Manpads into Syria and trying to establish a no-fly zone is what Al Qaeda leaders have been ASKING FOR, and that ISIS and Al Qaeda will end up with all of the weapons which the U.S. sends to Syria.
Americans don’t know the history of American regime change in Syria:
- The U.S. carried out a coup in Syria in 1949
- In 1957, the U.S. president and British prime minister agreed to use Arab extremists – including the Muslim Brotherhood – to effect regime change in Syria
- In 1991, the U.S. hawks started planning another round of regime change in Syria
- The U.S. has been arming the Syrian opposition since 2006 … years before the uprising started
Americans don’t know that it was the “rebels” – not the Syrian government – who carried out the chemical weapons massacre in Syria.
Americans don't know that U.S. backed rebels told Christians, “Either you convert to Islam or you will be beheaded.” Syrian rebels slit the throat of Christian man who refused to convert to Islam, taunting his fiance by yelling: “Jesus didn’t come to save him!” A former Syrian Jihadi says the rebels have a “9/11 ideology”. Indeed, they’re literally singing Bin Laden's praises and celebrating the 9/11 attack.
Americans don’t know that the U.S. and its allies are largely responsible for creating ISIS, that U.S., Turkey and Israel have all been acting as ISIS’ air force, and that influential American figures are calling for openly arming Al Qaeda … and perhaps even ISIS.
Americans don’t know that Russia and China are catching up to the U.S. military, and that this isn’t a mere proxy war … but is “one step closer” to all out war between the U.S. and Russia.
And Americans don’t know that history shows that empires collapse when they overextend themselves militarily … and fight one too many wars.
Postscript. Americans also don’t know how close we’ve come to the worst-case scenario:
- We came very close to nuclear war with Russia numerous times in the past … and only the courage of a handful of men to disobey the commands of their superiors saved the world
- In 1962, the head of the U.S. Air Force – General Curtis LeMay – pushed president Kennedy to use the “opportunity” to launch a nuclear war against Russia, and was bitterly disappointed that Kennedy instead opted for peace. As highly-regarded reporter David Talbot said recently:
The military in this country and the CIA thought that we could take, you know, Castro out. During the Cuban missile crisis, they were prepared to go to a nuclear war to do that. President Kennedy thought people like Curtis LeMay, who was head of the Air Force, General Curtis LeMay, was half-mad. He said, “I don’t even see this man in my—you know, in my sight,” because he was pushing for a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union. And even years later, Curtis LeMay, after years after Kennedy is dead, in an interview that I quote from in the book, bitterly complains that Kennedy didn’t take this opportunity to go nuclear over Cuba. So, President Kennedy basically, I think, saved my life—I was 12 years old at the time—saved a lot of our lives, because he did stand his ground. He took a hard line against the national security people and said, “No, we’re going to peacefully resolve the Cuban missile crisis.”
- One of the world’s leading physicists (Michio Kaku) revealed declassified plans for the U.S. to launch a first-strike nuclear war against Russia in the 1987 book To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon’s Secret War Plans. The forward was written by the former Attorney General of the United States, Ramsey Clarke
- The U.S. is so enamored with nuclear weapons that it has authorized low-level field commanders to use them in the heat of battle in their sole discretion … without any approval from civilian leaders. Indeed, some fundamentalist U.S. military leaders want to start a nuclear war in the Middle East
- American, Russian and other experts warn that U.S. and Russian conflicts elsewhere could lead to nuclear war
- Russia has constructed massive underground shelters and taken other actions in anticipation of nuclear war
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Problem is, George,
Most Americans don't know and don't care to know.
The day of reckoning? Coming to 'Murica to the cheers and jeers of the rest of the world.
An excellent article.
Too bad it's true!
Given that history of American "regime change", it appears the US still hasn't gotten it right yet.
Only when "regime change" comes home will the US get it right.
This comes a week after ISIS may have used a Manpad to shoot down a Russian civilian airliner.
Here I'll fix it for you
This comes a week after Israeli and American trained ISIS members may have used an Manpad to shoot down a Russian civilian airliner.
Their you go all better.
Here, I'll fix it for YOU . . .
This comes after the Mossad put a BOMB in the Russian airliner as retribution for Russia's interference with Israeli military and air force operations in Syria and adjacent countries like Lebanon and Iraq.
Do Americans know this:
An Israeli company thinks it has found oil—in very tricky territory The Golan Heights are still regarded internationally as illegally-occupied Syrian territory
Nov 4th 2015 | Middle East and Africa
AN OIL rig carrying out exploratory drilling is hardly a rare sight in the Middle East; but this is no ordinary place. Israeli flags fly on it, though no other country in the world recognises Israel’s sovereignty over the area. A few miles to the east, Islamist rebel groups are fighting a bloody war. And few people ever expected that significant amounts of oil might lie there at all, under a dormant volcanic field. Welcome to the Golan Heights.
Israeli and American oilmen believe they have discovered a bonanza in this most inconvenient of sites. After three test-drillings, Yuval Bartov, the chief geologist of Genie Oil & Gas, a subsidiary of American-based Genie Energy, says his company thinks it has found an oil reservoir “with the potential of billions of barrels”.
Veterans of Israel’s energy sector are sceptical. Despite many optimistic starts, only two small oilfields in Israel have ever been commercially exploited. The indications are that the Golan field is of a different magnitude. But since there is little experience anywhere of drilling for oil under once-volcanically-active areas, it will take more comprehensive work to determine whether oil can be extracted profitably. And even then, big obstacles will remain.
This is not Genie’s first foray into Israel. In 2008 it launched an investment to extract shale oil in the Valley of Elah, in central Israel, but was forced to stop operations there in September 2014 when a coalition of environmentalists prevailed on planning authorities to withhold the necessary permits. This time round the company has managed to get exploratory licences, despite opposition from green and local groups concerned that drilling could pollute the largely unspoilt Golan countryside and the lake below, the Sea of Galilee, which is the source of most of Israel’s drinking water. But many more legal and planning battles await. Genie will also need to team up with a more experienced oil company when and if it moves to full-scale extraction.
The biggest problems, though, revolve around the issue of sovereignty. Israel’s decision in 1981 to annex the Golan (unlike the West Bank, which remains formally under military occupation) caused a diplomatic crisis with the United States. The Heights are still regarded internationally as illegally-occupied Syrian territory. Israel’s leaders in the past have offered to pull back from the Golan, which it captured in 1967, in return for a comprehensive peace treaty with the Syrian government. But any such deal has been firmly out of the question since Syria began disintegrating in 2011.
An influential group is now lobbying Israel’s government to take advantage of the chaos in Syria and demand international recognition of its control of 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles) on the Golan. The group includes Zvi Hauser, a former cabinet secretary to the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, who has urged both in private and in the media that Israel should demand this as a compensation for having to tolerate the nuclear agreement with Iran.
It is not clear whether Genie shares this objective, but if it chose to, it would be no surprise. Genie’s founder and CEO is Howard Jonas, an influential American-Jewish businessman. The president of Genie’s Israeli subsidiary is Effie Eitam, a Golan settler and a former general who is close to the prime minister. And in America Genie has increased its clout. In September it added some influential new members to an advisory board that already included a former vice-president, Dick Cheney, and the media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch. One was Larry Summers, who was treasury secretary in the Clinton administration and director of the National Economic Council under Barack Obama. Also added were two other Clinton-era appointees: Bill Richardson, an ex-ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary, and James Woolsey, a former CIA director.
For most of its existence, Israel has relied on unstable or distant sources for its energy. Recent finds of large offshore natural gasfields have opened new opportunities, but have also caused big fights over pricing, export quotas and private ownership. This week Israel’s economics minister, Aryeh Deri, resigned in a row over these issues. So the prospect of energy independence for his country—as well as the chance to establish recognition of its control of land captured 48 years ago—is certainly alluring.
that's odd that they named their company Genie and have alladins lamp as a logo. Run by American and Israel folks. Kind of a slap in the face to people of arabian descent who have jyns as part of their culture.
I see they also have a Rothschild on their board. Maybe this is really why they wanted to control Israel years ago, you know they don't care about religion or fellow jews.
if some Jew found an oil pool with millions or billions of barrels of oil.......he wouldn't sell a cut to anybody
oil in golan heights? someone is getting a straw ready for drinking up milkshake in israel . . .
Israel owns the software for the cashless society as well.
When the time comes, Republicans and X-ians are Enemy number 1.
That Obama outdid rectal feeding, Naked Iraqi Pyramids and water boarding…. Tough act to follow.
As long as islamic primitives are being killed and their infrastructure is being destroyed, I approve. Of course, the USA could be doing it much more effectively and thoroughly, but the obomination is stunningly incompetent and the mediocre results are as expected.
Go away troll. you're not welcome a ZH. Head to CNBC or Marketwatch.
As long as islamic primitives are being killed and their infrastructure is being destroyed, I approve.
Wow! Did you know you can go around being a psychopathic racist asshole without putting it in writing on the Internet to prove it to everyone?
www.loonwatch.com
You're a turd. If you're American, you probably drink Budweisse
We are ruled by psychopaths.
Bruce Beach has a bunker in Ontario, Canada and welcomes all who want to work.
Another superb report by George Washington! What a tragedy it is that the warmongers are in charge of pretty much the entire Western world. Their motivation is nothing more or less than a tribal hatred of what they think of as aliens, sub-humans whom they claim the right to kill. And no, that's not an exaggeration - it's the plain Curtis-LeMay truth.
http://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-right-to-kill.html
"Another superb report by George Washington!"
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You have to, after an analysis, conclude this is a Trip Wire set-up by TPTB in order to cause direct Russo-American combat, and then escalating into a nuclear exchange.
For some reason, as I have read through CFR papers and some Rand studies, the Neocons think they can "win" a nuclear exchange with the Russians.
They must be smoking some really good stuff or tripping on windowpane, because they are utterly out of touch with reality.
Unfortunately, the rest of us will be slaughtered, which is their Final Solution, to use an old phrase from yesteryear......
The Talmudic tribes have a mission to kill all who do not belong to The Tribe...
"The Talmudic tribes have a mission to kill all who do not belong to The Tribe..."
Does that include going down with the ship?
Seems to me that M.A.D. has recently been replaced by G.D.I. In short, an attack on Russia will result in the Guaranteed Destruction of Israel.
From a Russian perspective it makes more sense than trying to counter everything the US and NATO can field; the approach that broke the Soviet Union, a point not lost on present Russian leadership.
Russia Gone = Israel Gone. Low budget, but effective. If nothing else, it would re-define AIPAC's role in US policy making...lol!
For the record: I would prefer a peaceful Israel living inside the 1967 boundary, with a separate peaceful state for Palestinians. It's not a perfect solution, but it's better than being wiped off the map.
Its a trick that runs all thru history.
'If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.'
Real Solutions Require Fewer Plans and More Freedom
by Barry Brownstein
What does it say that our leaders have to pretend that they can know everything and tidily solve all problems? Read Now
guy named brownstein wants us to think there's no hope?
Americans do 'know' that it is all Putin's fault.