Sunday, October 1, 2017

Neocons Have Been Destroying Sovereign Nations for 20 Years

An excellent article from a favorite Russia author pointing out similar patterns in the destruction of Yugoslavia, Libya, and Syria.

Neocons Have Been Destroying Sovereign Nations for 20 Years
Neil Clark
Mon, Jul 17, 2017

The author is a well-known UK pundit who writes frequently on Russia.  He is currently running a crowdfunding to sue the Times, one of its writers, Oliver Kamm, and its publisher, Rupert Murdoch, for libel and stalking. If you like this article, please consider supporting this writer.  He is one of the best out there on Russia.

A resource-rich, socialist-led, multi-ethnic secular state, with an economic system characterized by a high level of public/social ownership and generous provision of welfare, education and social services.

An independent foreign policy with friendship and good commercial ties with Russia, support for Palestine and African and Arab unity - and historical backing for anti-imperialist movements.

Social progress in a number of areas, including women’s emancipation.

The above accurately describes the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the Syrian Arab Republic. Three countries in three different continents, which had so much in common.

All three had governments which described themselves as socialist. All three pursued a foreign policy independent of Washington and NATO. And all three were targeted for regime change/destruction by the US and its allies using remarkably similar methods.

The first step of the imperial predators was the imposition of draconian economic sanctions used to cripple their economies, weaken their governments (always referred to as ‘a/the regime’) and create political unrest. From 1992-95, and again in 1998, Yugoslavia was hit by the harshest sanctions ever imposed on a European state. The sanctions even involved an EU ban on the state-owned passenger airliner JAT

Libya was under US sanctions from the 1980s until 2004, and then again in 2011, the year the country with the highest Human Development Index in Africa was bombed back to the Stone Age.

Syria has been sanctioned by the US since 2004 with a significant increase in the severity of the measures in 2011 when the regime change op moved into top gear.

The second step was the backing of armed militias/terrorist proxies to destabilise the countries and help overthrow these "regimes". The strategy was relatively simple. Terrorist attacks and the killing of state officials and soldiers would provoke a military response from ‘the regime, whose leader would then be condemned for ‘killing his own people’ (or in the case of Milosevic, other ethnic groups),  and used to ramp up the case for a ‘humanitarian intervention' by the US and its allies.

In Yugoslavia, the US-proxy force was the Kosovan Liberation Army, who were given training and logistical support by the West.

In Libya, groups linked to al-Qaeda, like the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, were provided assistance, with NATO effectively acting as al-Qaeda’s air force

In Syria, there was massive support for anti-government Islamist fighters, euphemistically labelled 'moderate rebels.' It didn’t matter to the ‘regime changers’ that weapons supplied to ‘moderate rebels’ ended up in the hands of groups like ISIS. On the contrary, a declassified secret US intelligence report from 2012 showed that the Western powers welcomed the possible establishment of a Salafist principality in eastern Syria, seeing it as a means of isolating ‘the Syrian regime’.

The third step carried out at the same time as one and two involved the relentless demonisation of the leadership of the target states. This involved the leaders being regularly compared to Hitler, and accused of carrying out or planning genocide and multiple war crimes.

Milosevic - President of Yugoslavia - was labelled a ‘dictator’ even though he was the democratically-elected leader of a country in which over 20 political parties freely operated.

Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi was portrayed as an unstable foaming at the mouth lunatic, about to launch a massacre in Benghazi, even though he had governed his country since the end of the Swinging Sixties.

Syria’s Assad did take over in an authoritarian one-party system, but was given zero credit for introducing a new constitution which ended the Ba’ath Party’s monopoly of political power. Instead all the deaths in the Syrian conflict were blamed on him, even those of the thousands of Syrian soldiers killed by Western/GCC-armed and funded ‘rebels’. 

The fourth step in the imperial strategy was the deployment of gatekeepers - or ‘Imperial Truth Enforcers’ - to smear or defame anyone who dared to come  to the defence of the target states, or who said that they should be left alone.

The pro-war, finance-capital-friendly, faux-left was at the forefront of the media campaigns against the countries concerned. This was to give the regime change/destruction project a 'progressive’ veneer, and to persuade or intimidate genuine ’old school’ leftists not to challenge the dominant narrative.

To place them beyond the pale, Yugoslavia, Libya and Syria were all labelled ’fascist,’ even though their leadership was socialist and their economies were run on socialistic lines. Meanwhile, genuine fascists, like anti-government factions in Ukraine (2013-14), received enthusiastic support from NATO.

The fifth step was direct US/NATO-led military intervention against 'the regime' triggered by alleged atrocities/planned atrocities of the target state. At this stage, the US works particularly hard to sabotage any peaceful solution to the conflicts they and their regional allies have ignited. At the Rambouillet conference in March 1999, for example, the Yugoslav authorities, who had agreed to an international peace-keeping force in Kosovo, were presented with an ultimatum that they could not possibly accept. Lord Gilbert, a UK defence minister at the time, later admitted "the terms put to Milosevic (which included NATO forces having freedom of movement throughout his country) were absolutely intolerable … it was quite deliberate."

In 2011, the casus belli was that ‘the mad dog’ Gaddafi was about to massacre civilians in Benghazi. We needed a ‘humanitarian intervention’ to stop this, we were repeatedly told. Five years later, a House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report held that "the proposition that Muammar Gaddafi would have ordered the massacre of civilians in Benghazi was not supported by the available evidence."

In 2013, the reason given for direct military intervention in Syria was an alleged chemical weapons attack by 'Assad's forces' in Ghouta. But this time, the UK Parliament voted against military action and the planned ‘intervention’ was thwarted, much to the great frustration of the war-hungry neocons. They still keep trying though.

The recent claims of The White House, that they had evidence that the Syrian government was planning a chemical weapons attack, and that if such an attack took place it would be blamed on Assad, shows that the Empire hasn’t given up on Stage Five for Syria just yet.

Stage Six of the project involves the US continuing to sabotage moves towards a negotiated peace once the bombing started. This happened during the bombing of Yugoslavia and the NATO assault on Libya. A favoured tactic used to prevent a peaceful resolution is to get the leader of the target state indicted for war crimes. Milosevic was indicted at the height of the bombing in 1999, Gaddafi in 2011.

Stage Seven is ‘Mission Accomplished’. It’s when the target country has been ‘regime-changed’ and either broken up or transformed into a failed state with strategically important areas/resources under US/Western control. Yugoslavia was dismantled and its socially-owned economy privatised. Montenegro, the great prize on the Adriatic, recently joined NATO.

Libya, hailed in the Daily Telegraph as a top cruise ship destination in 2010, is now a lawless playground for jihadists and a place where cruise ships dare not dock. This country, which provided free education and health care for all its citizens under Gaddafi, has recently seen the return of slave markets.

Syria, though thankfully not at Stage Seven, has still been knocked back almost forty years. The UNDP reported: "Despite having achieved or being well under way to achieving major Millennium Development Goals targets (poverty reduction, primary education, and gender parity in secondary education, decrease in infant mortality rates and increasing access to improved sanitation) as of 2011, it is estimated that after the first four years of crisis Syria has dropped from 113th to 174th out of 187 countries ranked in the Human Development Index."

Of course, it’s not just three countries which have been wrecked by the Empire of Chaos. There are similarities too with what’s happened to Afghanistan and Iraq. In the late 1970s, the US started to back Islamist rebels to destabilise and topple the left-wing, pro-Moscow government in Kabul.

Afghanistan has been in turmoil ever since, with the US and its allies launching an invasion of the country in 2001 to topple a Taliban 'regime' which grew out of the ’rebel’ movement which the US had backed.

Iraq was hit with devastating, genocidal sanctions, which were maintained under US/UK pressure even after it had disarmed. Then it was invaded on the deceitful pretext that its leader, Saddam Hussein, still possessed WMDs.

The truth of what has been happening is too shocking and too terrible ever to be admitted in the Western mainstream media. Namely, that since the demise of the Soviet Union, the US and its allies have been picking off independent, resource-rich, strategically important countries one by one.

The point is not that these countries were perfect and that there wasn’t political repression taking place in some of them at various times, but that they were earmarked for destruction solely for standing in the way of the imperialists. The propagandists for the US-led wars of recent years want us to regard the conflicts as ‘stand alones’ and to regard the ‘problem' as being the ‘mad dog’ leadership of the countries which were attacked.

But in fact, the aggressions against Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and the threatening of Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela are all parts of the same war. Anyone who hasn’t been locked in a wardrobe these past twenty years, or whose salary is not paid directly, or indirectly, by the Empire of Chaos, can surely see now where the ‘problem’ really lies.

The ‘New Hitlers’ - Milosevic, Hussein and Gaddafi - who we were told were the ‘biggest threats’ to world peace, are dead and buried. But guess what? The killing goes on.


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Selected Comments:

# All those countries who, like Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen & Iran, rejected Anglo-US imperialism in the 1950/60s, have now been vengefully targetted for "regime change".
Since 1946, well over 25m people, (the overwhelming majority of them innocent civilians) have lost their lives to Anglo-US militarism. The 'dirty little undeclared wars' of WHINSEC & the CIA, alone, cost the lives of 6m people.
The US now has some form of military occupation in around 150 of the world's apx 198 countries. That's a level of total world domination that neither Genghis Khan, nor Adolf Hitler, could have imagined in their wildest dreams.

# Psychopaths never change their modus operandi. They can't, it's linked to their brain pattern. They combine a high degree of narcissism and high egocentricity with their psychopathy. They cannot believe that mere mortals - those of us with the ability to feel compassion for others and be directed by it - can actually out think them. The FBI bases it's successful profiling on this fact - that once you have determined the psychopaths pattern, you can use it to find her/him.
The Regime of Generals in America are all, every one, psychopaths, and killers [not all psychopaths are killers. not all have blood lust]. Thus they always follow the same pattern. Look at their "colour revolutions". All the same, down to being absolutely identical. They can thus be predicted and fought, which is what Russia is doing now.
And - looking at the profiles Mr. Clark has provided - which other country are we seeing being subject to this practice right now? The demonisation of the leader, the false accusations, the attempts to foment unrest?? Exactly - Russia.
It seems unbelievable and incredible, but sometimes I swear to God they actually are planning some sort of all out assault on Russia !!

# The only reason Russia has still not been attacked by a "first strike" is due to Russia´s superior advanced military.
That's why US raise funding drastically, makes bigger and bigger drills near hot spots, militarize neighbour countries to Russia, developing the hybrid war.

# Talk about evil rats? two faced fucks? the hated USA places missiles in the shit hole called Romania, a former Nazi siding state, unreal what those vile Americans get up to, they prop-up the vile anti-democracy, anti-human rights Saudi- swine and sell them their best exports, weapons-of-death, junk food, pornography. How long can such degenerate sickos, fat slobs keep up their crimes? their wars, their evils. Divide-and-rule I reckon, the same the Brits used to control their vast empire, the US pay off the big crooks, buy-up nations, war and destroy any who oppose them......THE Great Satan... they are.

# Spot on! The mindset of neocons and Zionists is exactly that of the Nazis: malign narcissism, psychopathy, sociopathy. The problem is, they can NEVER admit defeat nor mistakes, that's why the only option of action or reaction they have is doubling down or more of the same. In the end any psychopath will destroy and kill himself and everybody/everything around him. The Nazis didn't surrender and instead watched their own country to be completely destroyed before they cowardly offed themselves in their bunker. The Anglo-Zionists are probably willing to sacrifice the whole world in a nuclear blitz, fully knowing that it will kill themselves, too.
If they can't have it, nobody should. Just look at the history of British retreat. Where ever the Brits had to leave their colonies behind, they created artificial conflicts: Pakistan vs. India, Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq, and numerous tribal conflicts in Africa. It's called "British demarcation". The Yankees are doing just the same. If we can't have it, nobody should. The Anglo-American mindset is the cultural epitome of psychopathy.

# They become nervous if any state:
- Don't have interest on loans
- no central bank or many central banks
- Don't have income tax
- Are healthy
- Don't tax liquor
- Legalize hemp / coca leaves ++
- Allow people to smoke
- Don't vaccinate people (what happens to people in US when they are not vaccinated? We will not know when all are vaccinated -> no one must be allowed to be unvaccinated)

# Democracy alone is hogwash - democracy is a tool, not an end in itself.

What you achieve with democracy that's what matters!

# does a leopard change its spots ??

# The neocons need to be exposed as to who they are and what is their agenda. If they are mainly Jews then we must know what they are up to. They are a mere 2% of the American population and they must not be allowed to dictate American foreign and military policies. Their minds are not America's.

# Donald Trump, the floppiest flip who ever flipped a flop!

# Neocons, Ziocons, cons from every direction and now principally we can trace them and their works. Works always against humanity while wailing
in Wall Street and the City of (OFF) London. 109 countries knew this!

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AMERICA’S "REGIME CHANGE" OPERATIONS AROUND THE WORLD.
-THESE ASSAULTS were all against governments that did not “cooperate” with the corporations that control the Corporate States of America. Most were against properly elected governments - NOT “evil” dictators.
-Each of the “regime change” operations was 100% motivated by the interests of the PREDATORY CAPITALIST 0.1%.
-Each involved violence, murdering from a few to OVER TWO MILLION INNOCENTS per operation..
-Not one of these countries posed ANY security threat to the Corporate States of Amerika..
-Each regime change/destabilization operation was ENTIRELY FUNDED BY AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS and BENEFITED ONLY PREDATORY CAPITALISTS..
- Each regime change/destabilization operation was IN VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW to which the Corporate States of Amerika is signatory..
-Almost all involved PROVEN WAR CRIMES BY THE UNITED STATES, under existing definitions in international law to which the Corporate States of Amerika is signatory.

IRAN 1946
YUGOSLAVIA 1946
URUGUAY 1947
GREECE 1947-49
GERMANY 1948
CHINA 1948-49
PHILIPPINES 1948-54
PUERTO RICO 1950
KOREA 1951-53
IRAN 1953
VIETNAM 1954
GUATEMALA 1954
EGYPT 1956
LEBANON l958
IRAQ 1958
CHINA l958
PANAMA 1958
VIETNAM l960-75 (TWO MILLION+ DEAD)
CUBA l961
GERMANY l961
LAOS 1962
CUBA l962
IRAQ 1963
PANAMA l964
INDONESIA l965
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1965-66
GUATEMALA l966-67
CAMBODIA l969-75 (TWO MILLION + DEAD)
OMAN l970
LAOS l971-73
MIDEAST 1973
CHILE 1973 (thousands dead)
CAMBODIA l975
ANGOLA l976-92
IRAN l980
LIBYA l981
EL SALVADOR l981-92
NICARAGUA l981-90 (tens of thousands dead)
LEBANON l982-84
GRENADA l983-84
HONDURAS l983-89 (tens of thousands dead)
IRAN l984 (hundreds of thousands dead)
LIBYA l986
BOLIVIA 1986
IRAN l987-88
LIBYA 1989
VIRGIN ISLANDS 1989
PHILIPPINES 1989
PANAMA 1989
LIBERIA 1990
SAUDI ARABIA 1990-91
IRAQ 1990-91
KUWAIT 1991
IRAQ 1991-2003 (almost two million dead)
SOMALIA 1992-94
YUGOSLAVIA 1992-94
BOSNIA 1993
HAITI 1994
ZAIRE (CONGO) 1996-97
LIBERIA 1997
ALBANIA 1997
SUDAN 1998
AFGHANISTAN 1998
IRAQ 1998
YUGOSLAVIA 1999
YEMEN 2000
MACEDONIA 2001
AFGHANISTAN 2001
YEMEN 2002
PHILIPPINES 2002
COLOMBIA 2003
IRAQ 2003-11 (1.5+ million dead)
LIBERIA 2003
HAITI 2004-05
PAKISTAN 2005
SOMALIA 2006
SYRIA 2008
YEMEN 2009
LIBYA 2011
IRAQ 2014
VENEZUELA 2015 - present
SYRIA 2014-2017 (hundreds of thousands dead)

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