“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”– Albert Camus
“Those who can make
you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire
Many have dual citizenship and their slavish devotion to the
government of Israel overrides any loyalty to America and therefore American
lives and treasure serve Israel’s apartheid state. The American people are treated as badly as
the Palestinian people with American police being trained in Israel and
equipped with weapons of war. It was in this atmosphere that Donald Trump
emerged as the anti-establishment candidate and won the presidency in 2016.
The W. Bush/Obama cabal that has infested our government since
2000 unleashed the CIA/FBI/MI6/Mossad forces to destroy Trump’s presidency to
no avail, therefore they had to ensure he was removed in an overtly rigged
election. Donald Trump, like Toto in the
Wizard of Oz pulled back the curtain and revealed the true nature of our
government. Unlike the fumbling Wizard
pulling levers, spewing fire and yelling don’t look at that man behind the
curtain, those who looked saw something far more horrifying.
We saw the beast laid bare the same beast that was behind
the atrocities of the Crusades, Hitler’s Nazi Germany, Idi Amin’s Uganda, the Rwanda
massacre, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, W. Bush’s Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama’s Libya and
Syria and Biden’s Ukraine. President Trump tried to end these endless
occupations that have killed and maimed millions but the evil forces remain in
power no matter who occupies the White House and continues their genocide in
the shadows.
We are constantly told that Israel is the only Democracy in
the Middle East but since Benjamin Netanyahu was installed in office with the
plan written up by the Project for a New American Century, Israel’s form of
government is anything but Democratic. Netanyahu’s
Israel has no interest in peace. From
Juan Cole at Activist Post:
Excerpt:
Israel—the “Only Middle East Democracy”—Criminalizes Journalism,
Arrests Al Jazeera Reporter for Covering East Jerusalem
The Israeli police took another step toward criminalizing journalism
on Saturday when they arrested Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Givara
al-Budeiri while she was covering a demonstration in the Sheikh Jarrah
neighborhood of East Jerusalem marking the anniversary of the Naksa, the
Setback.
That term is how is how
Palestinians refer to the 1967 Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian
territories. She was clearly wearing a
vest marked “Press” when Israeli police assaulted her, shoved her against a
wall, kicked her, packed her into a squad car and kicked her some more, then
jailed her for seven hours. She complained of pain in her right side. The Israelis released her on condition that
she stay away from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood for 15 days.
What? Why?
The Israeli authorities initially
tried to accuse her of assaulting the police, but the Israeli police beating of the hapless journalist were caught on
camera by the Al Jazeera cameraman, and they had to back away from that
tactic. Then they said she hadn’t clearly identified herself as a journalist,
but her vest is clearly visible.
The Israeli authorities are clearly
trying to keep the international press away from Sheikh Jarrah. On June 10, Israeli squatter-settlers who
are measuring Palestinians’ apartments for new drapes in hopes of displacing
them and taking their apartments, will march provocatively through Sheikh
Jarrah with Israeli flags, on “Flag Day…”
Sometime soon, as well, the Israeli courts will rule on the planned displacement
of over dozens of Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah
and Silwan. Ms. al-Budeiri’s brutal
treatment may have been intended to send a message to Al Jazeera journalists to
stay away.
Note that these events happened in
what Israel considers Israeli territory, not in the Occupied West Bank. Israel illegally annexed East Jerusalem to
its district of Jerusalem, an act
prohibited by the United Nations charter.
On Friday, Palestinian residents of
Israel organized a charity run from Sheikh Jarrah to Silwan in East Jerusalem,
in part to protest the upcoming displacement of families from their apartments
in those two places by Israeli squatters. The
Israeli security forces attacked the runners, injuring 23 of them…
So here again you have, on what the
government says is Israeli soil, police
beating up on people and violating the right to freely assemble, criminalizing
peaceful protest.
Israel under outgoing right
wing prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has long since moved away from
democratic norms…
The American government was overthrown just as Netanyahu
came to power and George W. Bush was installed as president with a preordained
agenda for world domination. Bush was
wildly unpopular with an approval rate of less than thirty percent, that is
until the 911 false flag attack on American soil. Within nine months what was sold as a Pearl
Harbor type was launched to justify unending wars and financial destruction of
America. From a 2002 article by John
Pilger in If Americans Knew:
Excerpt:
“A New Pearl Harbor”
Two years ago a project set up by the men who now surround George W
Bush said what America needed was “a new Pearl Harbor.” Its published aims
have, alarmingly, come true. The threat
posed by US terrorism to the security of nations and individuals was outlined
in prophetic detail in a document written more than two years ago and disclosed
only recently.
What was needed for America to
dominate much of humanity and the world’s resources, it said, was “some
catastrophic and catalysing event – like a new Pearl Harbor”. The attacks of 11 September 2001 provided
the “new Pearl Harbor”, described as “the opportunity of ages”. The
extremists who have since exploited 11 September come from the era of Ronald
Reagan, when far-right groups and “think-tanks” were established to avenge the
American “defeat” in Vietnam.
In the 1990s, there was an added agenda: to justify the denial of a “peace
dividend” following the cold war. The Project for the New American Century
was formed, along with the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute
and others that have since merged the ambitions of the Reagan administration
with those of the current Bush regime.
One of George W Bush’s “thinkers” is Richard Perle. I interviewed Perle
when he was advising Reagan; and when he spoke about “total war”, I
mistakenly dismissed him as mad. He recently used the term again in describing
America’s “war on terror”. “No stages,” he said. “This is total war. We are
fighting a variety of enemies.
There are lots of them out there.
All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do
Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it
entirely and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a
total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now.”
Perle is one of the founders of the Project for the New American
Century, the PNAC. Other founders include Dick Cheney, now vice-president,
Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, deputy defence
secretary, I Lewis Libby, Cheney’s chief of staff, William J Bennett, Reagan’s
education secretary, and Zalmay Khalilzad, Bush’s ambassador to Afghanistan.
These are the modern chartists of
American terrorism. The PNAC’s seminal report, Rebuilding America’s Defences:
strategy, forces and resources for a new century, was a blueprint of American
aims in all but name. Two years ago it recommended an increase
in arms-spending by $48bn so that Washington could “fight and win multiple,
simultaneous major theatre wars”. This has happened. It said the
United States should develop “bunker-buster” nuclear weapons and make “star
wars” a national priority. This is happening. It said that, in the event of Bush taking power, Iraq should be a
target. And so it is.
As for Iraq’s alleged “weapons of
mass destruction”, these were dismissed, in so many words, as a convenient
excuse, which it is. “While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the
immediate justification,” it says, “the
need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue
of the regime of Saddam Hussein.”
How has this grand strategy been
implemented? A series of articles in the
Washington Post, co-authored by Bob Woodward of Watergate fame and based on
long interviews with senior members of the Bush administration, reveals how 11
September was manipulated.
On the morning of 12 September 2001, without any evidence of who the
hijackers were, Rumsfeld demanded that the US attack Iraq. According to
Woodward, Rumsfeld told a cabinet meeting that Iraq should be “a principal
target of the first round in the war against terrorism”.
Iraq was temporarily spared only
because Colin Powell, the secretary of state, persuaded Bush that “public
opinion has to be prepared before a move against Iraq is possible”. Afghanistan was chosen as the softer
option. If Jonathan Steele’s estimate in the Guardian is correct, some 20,000
people in Afghanistan paid the price of this debate with their lives.
Time and again, 11 September is
described as an “opportunity”. In last April’s New Yorker, the investigative
reporter Nicholas Lemann wrote that Bush’s
most senior adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told him she had called together senior
members of the National Security Council and asked them “to think about ‘how do
you capitalise on these opportunities’”, which she compared with those of
“1945 to 1947”: the start of the cold war.
Since 11 September, America has established bases at the gateways to
all the major sources of fossil fuels, especially central Asia. The Unocal
oil company is to build a pipeline across Afghanistan. Bush has scrapped the
Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, the war crimes provisions of the
International Criminal Court and the anti-ballistic missile treaty.
He has said he will use nuclear
weapons against non-nuclear states “if necessary”. Under cover of propaganda
about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, the Bush regime is developing new weapons of mass destruction that
undermine international treaties on biological and chemical warfare.
In the Los Angeles Times, the
military analyst William Arkin describes a
secret army set up by Donald Rumsfeld, similar to those run by Richard
Nixon and Henry Kissinger and which Congress outlawed. This “super-intelligence support activity” will bring together the “CIA
and military covert action, information warfare, and deception”.
According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld, the new
organisation, known by its Orwellian moniker as the Proactive Pre-emptive
Operations Group, or P2OG, will
provoke terrorist attacks which would then require “counter-attack” by the
United States on countries “harbouring the terrorists”.
In other words, innocent people
will be killed by the United States. This is reminiscent of Operation
Northwoods, the plan put to President Kennedy by his military chiefs for a phoney terrorist campaign - complete with
bombings, hijackings, plane crashes and dead Americans - as justification for
an invasion of Cuba. Kennedy rejected it.
He was assassinated a few months
later. Now Rumsfeld has resurrected Northwoods, but with resources undreamt of
in 1963 and with no global rival to invite caution. You have to keep reminding yourself this is not fantasy: that truly
dangerous men, such as Perle and Rumsfeld and Cheney, have power. The
thread running through their ruminations is the importance of the media: “THE PRIORITISED TASK OF BRINGING ON BOARD
JOURNALISTS OF REPUTE TO ACCEPT OUR POSITION”.
“Our position” is code for lying.
Certainly, as a journalist, I have never known official lying to be more
pervasive than today. We may laugh at the vacuities in Tony Blair’s “Iraq
dossier” and Jack Straw’s inept lie that Iraq has developed a nuclear bomb
(which his minions rushed to “explain”). But
the more insidious lies, justifying an unprovoked attack on Iraq and linking it
to would-be terrorists who are said to lurk in every Tube station, are
routinely channelled as news. They are not news; they are black propaganda.
This corruption makes
journalists and broadcasters mere ventriloquists’ dummies. An
attack on a nation of 22 million suffering people is discussed by liberal
commentators as if it were a subject at an academic seminar, at which pieces
can be pushed around a map, as the old imperialists used to do.
The issue for these humanitarians
is not primarily the brutality of modern imperial domination, but how “bad” Saddam
Hussein is. There is no admission that their decision to join the war party further seals the fate of
perhaps thousands of innocent Iraqis condemned to wait on America’s
international death row.
Their doublethink will not work. You cannot support murderous piracy in the
name of humanitarianism. Moreover, the extremes of American fundamentalism
that we now face have been staring at us for too long for those of good heart
and sense not to recognise them.
If only John Pilger were right when he said “the extremes of American fundamentalism that we now face have been staring at us for too long for those of good heart and sense not to recognise them.”
Excerpt:
George W. Bush’s Shameful Legacy in Afghanistan
Former President George W. Bush is
bewailing President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from
Afghanistan. Bush told Fox News last
week, “I’m also deeply concerned about the sacrifices of our soldiers, and our
intelligence community, will be forgotten,” after the war ends. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the
American media has already forgotten how Bush’s lies turned U.S. intervention
in Afghanistan into a quagmire that pointlessly killed and maimed thousands of
American soldiers.
After Al Qaeda hijacked four
airplanes on Sept. 11, wreaking death and destruction in New York and
Washington, it was inevitable that the U.S. military would respond. But rather
than targeting Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, Bush chose to conquer Afghanistan
and seek to rebuild it as some type of female-friendly utopia. While the Bush White House boasted of
liberating the downtrodden Afghan people, Bush’s military geniuses let Bin
Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders escape at Tora Bora.
Brazen lies permeated Bush’s
efforts from the start. In his State of the Union address on Jan. 29, 2002, Bush frightened Americans with a bogus
nuclear threat: “Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears. . .
. We have found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and public water
facilities” in caves used by Al Qaeda.
Senior CIA and FBI officials
followed up with “background” briefings to the media, revving up the threat
that Afghan-based Al Qaeda fighters were targeting U.S. nuclear power
facilities. This made the terrorist
threat far more ominous and spurred support for Bush’s preemptive war policy
against Iraq.
Two years later, Bush administration officials admitted that the
president’s statement was completely false and that no nuclear power plant
diagrams had been discovered in Afghanistan…
Bush’s lies on a nuclear threat from Afghanistan paved the way to his
far more destructive lies regarding Iraqi chemical and biological weapons in
his 2003 State of the Union address…
Sanctifying War as Women’s Victory
Bush sanctified his Afghan war as
the greatest triumph for women’s liberation in modern history. In his 2002
State of the Union address, Bush
boasted, “The mothers and daughters of Afghanistan were captives in their own
homes.… Today women are free.” But a United Nations report the following
year on rural Afghanistan concluded that “the situation of women has not
changed to any great extent since the removal of the Taliban.”
New York Times columnist Nicholas
Kristof, who visited Afghanistan in early 2004, reported that “many Afghan
women are still captives in their homes…. The
rise of banditry and rape has had a particularly devastating effect on women.
Because the roads are not safe even
in daylight, girls do not dare go to schools or their mothers to health centers.”
One international aid worker commented that during the Taliban era “if a woman
went to market and showed an inch of flesh she would have been flogged — now
she’s raped.”
In 2009, shortly after Bush’s
presidency ended, THE U.S.-APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF AFGHANISTAN, HAMID KARZAI,
APPROVED A LAW ENTITLING HUSBANDS TO STARVE THEIR WIVES TO DEATH IF THEY DENIED
THEM SEX.
But at least the U.S. government
was not systematically subsidizing the rape of women — unlike the brutal
fate of Afghan boys. Since the start
of Bush’s invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. military has poured money into
Afghan government operations guilty of Bacha bazi — turning young boys into sex
slaves.
Boys in Sex Slavery
The
Pentagon ignored the abuse until a 2015 New York Times exposé of
American soldiers who were punished for protesting atrocities against young
boys. The Times reported that U.S.
troops were confounded that “instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American
military was arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of
villages — and doing little when they began abusing children.”
In 2017, the Special Inspector
General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reported, “Afghan officials remain complicit, especially in the sexual
exploitation … of children by Afghan security forces…”
During his 2004 reelection
campaign, Bush boasted, “Thanks to the United States… Afghanistan is no longer
a haven for terror. Afghanistan is a free country.” But the Bush
administration did nothing to prevent the Afghan government it installed from
tyrannizing the Afghan people. Even
more damning, the U.S. military and CIA brazenly tortured Afghans, atrocities
that President Bush perpetually denied even though it was reported as early as
December 2002.
Torture Regime
In 2004, the Los Angeles Times reported allegations that Afghan
soldiers detained by the U.S. government had suffered “repeated beatings,
immersion in cold water, electric shocks, being hung upside down and toenails
being torn off…”
Bush has never taken responsibility or shown any remorse for setting up
an illegal worldwide torture regime. During his years in the White House,
Bush perennially denied that he had approved torture. But in 2010, during an
author tour to promote his new memoir, he bragged about approving waterboarding
for terrorist suspects.
Dishonest from Start
Bush’s Afghan war was not good intentions gone awry: It was profoundly
dishonest from the start. Afghanistan quickly became nothing more than a
political boasting point for Bush. In
October 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was appalled when Bush did not
even recognize the name of the U.S. general in charge of Afghanistan and had no
interest in meeting him.
Christopher Kolenda, a U.S. Army
colonel who repeatedly deployed to Afghanistan to advise top U.S. commanders, declared
that the Afghan government had “self-organized into a kleptocracy,” a
government of thieves, by 2006. Ryan
Crocker, Bush’s ambassador to Afghanistan, admitted, “Our biggest single project, sadly and inadvertently, of course, may
have been the development of mass corruption.”
An investigation by SIGAR found
that it was “common at military headquarters in Kabul — and at the White House
— to distort statistics to make it appear the United States was winning the war
when that was not the case.” In 2019, SIGAR chief John Sopko summarized
the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan: “The American people have constantly been
lied to.”
Forgotten falsehoods almost
guarantee new political treachery. George W. Bush now serves as a “useful
idiot” for politicians who want to perpetuate America’s disastrous
interventions abroad. But if there is
any justice, the name of George W. Bush will live in infamy as a betrayer of
American soldiers and the Afghan people as well as an enemy of decency and the
U.S. Constitution.
Evil took over America in 2000 when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the votes from being counted and declared George W. Bush President of the United States. Bush packed the courts with extremists who do not believe in the constitution nor do they believe in the rule of law. Those judges were confirmed by a Zionist majority in the Senate.
The 2021 election was a sham and now the Zionists have retaken control of the American government and are turning their attention to destroying the constitutional rights of the American people. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with their torture regime laid the groundwork for the destruction of the court system in America. From The Activist Post:
Excerpt:
Torture Enters the Courtroom
For the first time in American history, a federal judge last week
authorized the government to admit as evidence in a criminal case in a public
courtroom words uttered by the defendant that were obtained under torture.
The fruits of torture – which is any cruel or degrading or intentionally
painful or disorienting behavior visited upon a person in captivity to
induce compliance or to gratify the torturer – are not permitted
in any court in the United States, and their inducement is criminal.
Here is the backstory.
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a
low-level former member of the Taliban, is accused with others of plotting the
suicide bombing of the USS Cole in October 2000 that killed 17 American
sailors. He has been in U.S. custody
since 2002 and at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since 2004.
When he was first captured, he was turned over to the CIA for interrogation,
not the Department of Justice for prosecution.
The practice of the federal
government immediately following 9/11, when it captured anyone overseas from
whom it believed it could extract national security information, was to hand the person over to the CIA
for torture – the feds call it “enhanced interrogation” – at a “dark site”
in a foreign country with which the US does not have an extradition treaty.
The reason for the location of the
torture was the erroneous belief by DOJ and CIA officials that torture
conducted or condoned by American personnel is not prosecutable if it occurs
outside the U.S. That has never been the law in the U.S., but it has been the practice
of the DOJ and the CIA to shield their personnel with secrecy
when they are caught engaging in torture in a foreign country.
However, because either the
tortured person or someone connected to whatever the tortured person revealed
was to be tried in a federal court, and because no federal court can admit evidence against a defendant that was
obtained under torture, the feds devised a scheme around this.
That scheme called for FBI “clean teams” to interrogate the tortured
person after the torture was completed, using conventional and lawful
interrogation techniques. These techniques often proved more successful
than CIA torture. Because these techniques were lawful, and the person being
interrogated was advised of his rights and treated humanely by the FBI, the
information thus obtained from him was usable in federal court.
At trial, a defendant can always
demonstrate that he had been tortured, not to obtain the jury’s sympathy but to
enable his lawyers to argue to the
jurors that they should disregard as unconstitutional, immoral, unlawful and
un-American whatever evidence the torture produced.
Al-Nashiri’s lawyers told the court
and the prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay that they intend to argue at trial to the
jury that the government has the wrong man and that the true plotters have
already been killed by US forces. The
feds, in order to counter that argument, told the court that they have
statements that al-Nashiri made during his torture that can arguably be used to
question his defense...
If the trial judge had followed the
law, he would have ordered the torturers into his court room and had them
arrested on the spot. But
the trial judge in this case did not follow American law and rejected American
values and all sense of human decency when he authorized the government to
introduce at trial a partial transcript of the statements al-Nashiri allegedly
made under torture.
He also broke with 230 years of precedent. He also gave judicial
credibility to governmental barbarism and nihilism in the extreme, which holds
that individual human beings are subject
to the state and, since their rights come from the state, they and their rights
exist at the pleasure of the state.
The government lies, cheats, steals
and kills; and it has written laws that permit it to do so and make legal
recourse against it nearly impossible. But nothing it does is more damnable than
torture. Torture is the ultimate
triumph of the state over a person and the ultimate degradation of personhood. It
is a complete rejection of the values of the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution. And it doesn’t work…
Many appeals remain for al-Nashiri
before his jury trial comes to pass; and torture – with all its sufferings by
victim and perpetrators – is part of the history of his case. I
trust that saner judicial heads in the appellate process will prevail and this
precedent-shattering and monstrous decision will soon be overturned. But its
damage is done.
The government of the United States engages in torture and will
continue to do so until the torturers are punished. And the prosecutors for
whom the torturers work will someday try again to get the fruits of their
barbaric behavior legitimized in an American courtroom.
When will the government stop the use of torture? Whom will it torture
next? Why does it swear to uphold the Constitution and then trash it?
The courts in America have been infested with judges who
serve large corporations and have allowed predators like Chevron to torture and
imprison American citizens in an extra-judicial unconstitutional system.
Now the Great Satan believes they cannot be stopped, they control all the levers of power and will not relinquish power if they have to destroy America to hold onto it. This is the final solution as was laid out in the Project for a New American Century’s revival of Zionism and the lust for global domination. This is the secret society that President John F. Kennedy spoke of before he was assassinated. Will the world survive these nuclear armed lunatics? We’ll see. America is in need of an Exorcism.
