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Friday, October 18, 2019

Facing impeachment Trump bitch slaps AIPAC and their subservient comrades in US congress pulling troops out of Syria


There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt 1907

What fresh new hell is this?  AIPAC’s subservient Zionist comrades in the U.S. congress are outraged that an American President would put the American people’s interest ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Zionist extremist Israeli government’s interest and pull American troops out of Syria.  The CIA controlled American media are beside themselves crying that President Trump has betrayed the Kurds, our “most loyal comrades and allies.”  Congress wants President Trump to go to war with our NATO ally Turkey to on behalf of one sect of the Kurds that Turkey has designated as terrorists.  Try to wrap your brain around that one.

There would be no civil war in Syria had the CIA not started one.  This was all part of the extremist rightwing Project for a New American Century’s (PNAC) New World Order that was ushered in with the overthrow of the American government on December 12, 2000 with the help of the traitorous Zionist comrades in the U.S. government.  From Washington Blog: 

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The Chaos In Iraq Is By DESIGN The Real History of the American Strategy for Iraq and the Middle East

Neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz planned regime change in Iraq more than 20 years ago … in 1991.  But the goal wasn’t just regime change (or oil).  The goal was to break up the country, and to do away with the sovereignty of Iraq as a separate nation.

The Guardian noted in 2003:

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt predicted devastating consequences for the Middle East if Iraq is attacked. “We fear a state of disorder and chaos may prevail in the region,” he said.  They are probably still splitting their sides with laughter in the Pentagon…

Its roots can be traced, at least in part, to a paper published in 1996 by an Israeli think-tank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies. Entitled “A clean break: a new strategy for securing the realm”, it was intended as a political blueprint for the incoming government of Binyamin Netanyahu.

As the title indicates, it advised the right-wing Mr Netanyahu to make a complete break with the past by adopting a strategy “based on an entirely new intellectual foundation, one that restores strategic initiative and provides the nation the room to engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism …”

The paper set out a plan by which Israel would “shape its strategic environment”, beginning with the removal of Saddam Hussein and the installation of a Hashemite monarchy in Baghdad.  With Saddam out of the way and Iraq thus brought under Jordanian Hashemite influence, Jordan and Turkey would form an axis along with Israel to weaken and “roll back” Syria…

The most efficient way of sparking such open-ended internecine conflict is to brutally smash the target country’s social matrix and physical infrastructure.   Ongoing unrest has the additional perk of justifying the maintenance and expansion of the military machine that feeds the financial and political fortunes of the metropolitan elite…

… after the US’s systematic destruction of Iraq and Libya—two notably oil-rich countries whose delicate ethnic and religious balances were well known to anyone in or out of government with more than passing interest in history—, and after the its carefully calibrated efforts to generate and maintain murderous and civilization-destroying stalemates in Syria and Egypt (something that is easily substantiated despite our media’s deafening silence on the subject), is downright blood-curdling…

“When we invaded and occupied Iraq, we didn’t just militarily defeat Iraq’s armed forces – we dismantled their army, and their police force, along with all the other institutions that held the country together. The educational system was destroyed, and not reconstituted.

The infrastructure was pulverized, and never restored. Even the physical hallmarks of a civilized society – roads, bridges, electrical plants, water facilities, museums, schools – were bombed out of existence or else left to fall into disrepair. Along with that, the spiritual and psychological infrastructure that enables a society to function – the bonds of trust, allegiance, and custom – was dissolved, leaving Iraqis to fend for themselves in a war of all against all…

“… What we are witnessing in post-Saddam Iraq is the erasure of an entire country. We can say, with confidence: We came, we saw, we atomized.”  The people who planned, agitated for, and executed this war are the very same people who have advanced Israeli interests – at America’s expense – at every opportunity…

In “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” a 1996 document prepared by a gaggle of neocons…  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was urged to “break out” of Israel’s alleged stagnation and undertake a campaign of “regime change” across the Middle East, targeting Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Iraq, and eventually Iran.

With the exception of Iran – and that one’s still cooking on the back burner – this is precisely what has occurred. In 2003, in the immediate wake of our Pyrrhic “victory” in Iraq, then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared to a visiting delegation of American members of Congress that these “rogue states” – Iran, Libya, and Syria – would have to be next on the War Party’s target list…

This process of political fracturing in Iraq along sectarian lines will inevitably have an impact on Syria, where the US-NATO sponsored terrorists have in large part been defeated… Destabilization and political fragmentation in Syria is also contemplated: Washington’s intent is no longer to pursue the narrow objective of “regime change” in Damascus. What is contemplated is the break up of both Iraq and Syria along sectarian-ethnic lines.

THE ARCHITECTS OF FOREIGN POLICY IN BOTH THE U.S. AND ISRAEL ARE EITHER LITERALLY ONE AND THE SAME – OR SEE THINGS IDENTICALLY.

When President Clinton left office America had near full employment, a healthy vibrant stock market, a balanced budget and a treasury fully stocked with surpluses into the future.  Make no mistake about it Bill Clinton was impeached because he vetoed a Republican tax cut for the rich and defied PNAC’s calls for war with Iraq. 

Much like President Trump, Clinton was not supposed to win the election in 1992.  His predecessor George H.W. Bush’s FBI Director Louis Freeh dispatched 200 FBI agents to comb through every trailer park in Arkansas to find any bimbo that would lodge a sexual harassment or rape charge against Clinton.  When Clinton managed to win the election, the AIPAC funded congress in collusion with the FBI immediately began laying the foundation for impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, they just needed to create an impeachable crime.

After congress was unable to remove President Clinton from office through impeachment, they turned their wrath on his Vice President Al Gore who was running for President against George W. Bush in 2000.  When Bush was unable to defeat Al Gore, the American government was overthrown on December 12, 2000 by five Zionist members of the Supreme Court with the full blessing of the AIPAC funded whores in congress. 

The George W. Bush Administration immediately passed the largest tax cut in American history and crashed the economy.  The tax cuts for the rich along with the Israeli/US government backed attacks on 911 has provided the impetus to kick of endless wars for Israel.


The Obama Administration was a continuation of the New World Order ushered in by the W. Bush Administration.  In 2016 again the FBI and CIA were utilized to fabricate bogus charges against President Trump.  However unlike President Clinton, President Trump is not a politician   so he doesn’t play by the CIA and FBI’s rules, he fights back.  He is determined to end these endless wars regime change wars so vehemently supported by the AIPAC supported whores in congress.  From LaRouche Pub:

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Trump Takes on ‘Military-Industrial Complex’ That Sends American Sons and Daughters Home in Coffins

Oct. 10, 2019 (EIRNS)—President Donald Trump yesterday threw the horror of war back in the faces of reporters and politicians attacking his decision to pull U.S. military support from the Kurdish militia in northern Syria, counterposing his commitment to end the endless wars as he had promised in his 2016 campaign, to the threat from the “military-industrial complex” which President Dwight Eisenhower, a retired general, had warned of on Jan. 17, 1961, three days before leaving office.

Given the current refusal of most so-called media to report what the President of the United States says in full, and the elementary humanity which underpins his strategic decision, we here provide the key, concluding section from the transcript of Donald Trump’s discussion with White House reporters yesterday afternoon after signing two Executive Orders on Transparency in Federal Guidance and Enforcement:

“Now, if we go on the theory that some of the folks in Washington go by—who all do very well with the military-industrial complex.... You know, the military-industrial complex. Take a look at Dwight Eisenhower; he had it figured right many years ago. It’s got tremendous power. They like fighting. They make a lot of money when they fight.

“But it was time to bring our soldiers back home.... I will tell you: The hardest thing I have to do, by far, much harder than the witch hunt, is signing letters to parents of soldiers that have been killed. And it’s not only that—in areas where there’s not a lot of upside, if there’s any upside at all, and in many cases, it’s only downside.

“And especially when that solider was killed in a Blue-on-Green attack. You know what that is, right? That’s where a solider being trained or whatever turns his gun on an American solider.... We have many of them in Afghanistan—in particular, in Afghanistan.

“The hardest thing I have to do is signing those letters. That’s the hardest thing I have to do. And each letter is different.... And sometimes I call the parents. Sometimes I see the parents. I go to Dover [Air Force Base], when I can, but it’s—it’s so devastating for the parents when they bring that boy or young woman out of the back of those big, powerful planes in a coffin, and the parents are there....

“I’ll get there early.... I said, ‘The parents seemed to be okay.’ [The military staff at Dover AFB reply:] ‘Well, actually, sir, they aren’t.... Sir, you never know until the back of that massive cargo plane opens up.’

“And they walk down holding a coffin with four or five great soldiers on each side of it, representing our various forces.... And I see people that were smiling, ‘Oh, Mr. President, thank you for being here.  Thank you for being here.’  And I think they’re doing great.  And then, twenty minutes later, we’ll be outside when that big plane pulls up and that door comes down, and they are walking the coffin with their boy inside this coffin with an American flag over the top. 

And they’re walking that coffin down this ramp.  And I’ve seen people that I thought were really incredible the way they were … I didn’t even understand how they could take it so well—scream, like I’ve never seen anything before.  Sometimes they’ll run to the coffin. They’ll break through military barriers.  They’ll run to the coffin and jump on top of the coffin.  Crying mothers and wives. Crying desperately.

“And this is on these endless wars that just never stop. And there’s a time and there’s a place, but it’s time to stop.

“And just to finish, last Friday, I went to Walter Reed [Military Hospital].  And I gave out five Purple Hearts to incredible young men—in this case, all men.  And they took a beating. Beautiful people. They took a beating. One couldn’t be there because the beating was so great that he was at a totally different part of the world.  He lost a leg.  He lost an arm. Ryan. He had tremendous damage, beyond even what these young folks went through.

“But I’ll tell you what: For me, it’s very hard when I see that. It’s very hard. It’s easy to talk tough. You know, tough guys. All of these tough guys. ‘Let’s keep fighting. Let’s keep fighting.’ If they had to go to Walter Reed—.”

America is so blessed to have President Trump.  All the pearl clutching and heading for the fainting couches by the AIPAC funded whores in congress are expressions of outrage that their New World Order is being crushed by President Trump.  These AIPAC whores should be tried for treason.  This illegal war in Syria was never in America’s interests.  Bashir Assad is the democratically elected President of Syria and we instigated the civil war in Syria for Israel and there is no winning anything there for the US as the plan is to stay forever.

We have been at war for nearly 20 years since the New World Order was kicked off.  We have been arming and training terrorists for nearly 20 years.  What for?  Many times, like President Trump said “a soldier being trained will turn his gun on an American soldier in a Blue-on-Green attack.  We have many of them in Afghanistan—in particular, in Afghanistan.”

It wasn’t too long ago that the U.S. government was arming and financing the CIA backed terrorists in Syria who were fighting against the Pentagon backed terrorists.  From The L.A. Times:


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In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA

Reporting from Amman, Jordan —  Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter five-year-old civil war.

The fighting has intensified over the last two months, as CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other while maneuvering through contested territory on the northern outskirts of Aleppo, U.S. officials and rebel leaders have confirmed.

In mid-February, a CIA-armed militia called Fursan al Haq, or Knights of Righteousness, was run out of the town of Marea, about 20 miles north of Aleppo, by Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces moving in from Kurdish-controlled areas to the east…

“It is an enormous challenge,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who described the clashes between U.S.-supported groups as “a fairly new phenomenon.”  “It is part of the three-dimensional chess that is the Syrian battlefield,” he said…

President Obama this month authorized a new Pentagon plan to train and arm Syrian rebel fighters, relaunching a program that was suspended in the fall after a string of embarrassing setbacks which included recruits being ambushed and handing over much of their U.S.-issued ammunition and trucks to an Al Qaeda affiliate…

Congress has been pouring trillions into regime change wars on behalf of a foreign nation, Israel.  These AIPAC funded whores in congress, many with dual citizenship in Israel, have literally destroyed America in these American taxpayer funded skirmishes.  From Stephen Lendman:


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Millions hungry and food insecure in the US

Poverty, unemployment, underemployment, hunger, food insecurity, and overall deprivation affect millions of households in the world’s richest country USA.  Why? It’s because both right wings of its war party devote most of the nation’s discretionary income for militarism, maintaining the Pentagon’s global empire of bases, and endless aggression in multiple theaters—along with bailouts for and handouts to corporate America.

In the new millennium alone, countless trillions of dollars went for the above interests, combined with tax cuts for the rich, while food stamps and other social justice programs are fast eroding to help pay for them as the national debt soars by over $1 trillion annually.  Most US households with one or more working members have little or no savings—leaving them vulnerable to hunger and homelessness from one or more missed paychecks.

According to Feeding America, 79% of US households the organization aids rely on “inexpensive unhealthy food to feed their families,” 84% of households with children functioning this way.  The vast majority of Feeding America (FA) client households face unacceptable choices—69% forced at times to choose between food and utilities, 66% between food and medical care, 31% between food and education.

Force-fed neoliberal harshness by Republicans and undemocratic Dems contributed to 58% of FA’s client households having one or more members with high blood pressure, 33% affected by diabetes—these numbers much higher among households with seniors, 77% and 47% respectively.  Nearly half of FA client households have one or members in “fair or poor health.”

Because of unemployment or poverty wages, one in six FA client households “experienced a foreclosure or eviction in the past five years.”  The vast majority of FA client households are food insecure (84%)—without access to sufficient, affordable, nutritious food, at times going hungry.  According to the US Department of Agriculture in 2018, food insecurity affects 37 million Americans, including over 11 million children—the numbers likely way understated.

Feeding America explained that impoverished households and others above the poverty line experience food insecurity for inadequate ability to buy what’s needed, adding, “Food insecurity does not exist in isolation, as low-income families are affected by multiple, overlapping issues like lack of affordable housing, social isolation, chronic or acute health problems, high medical costs, and low wages.”

“Taken together, these issues are important social determinants of health” and well-being—fast deteriorating in the United States of I Don’t Care, the world’s richest country with the greatest wealth disparity among developed nations. 

The state of the nation is shameful, serving its privileged class exclusively, exploiting most others to benefit its well-off members.  Food insecurity and hunger impact virtually “every community in the United States,” said FA… 

Food insecurity affects both urban and rural areas nationwide.  People of color (Blacks and Latinos) are disproportionately affected by hunger and food insecurity.  The states with the highest rates of food insecurity are Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, New Mexico, Arkansas, Kentucky, Maine, and Oklahoma.  “[H]ouseholds with children ha[ve] a substantially higher rate of food insecurity” and hunger, said Do Something.org.

US Census data show around half of US households are impoverished or bordering it—a permanent underclass in the world’s richest country, young children and the elderly most affected.  Poverty, homelessness, hunger, food insecurity, unaffordable healthcare, and overall deprivation affect countless millions of Americans.

It’s the shame of the nation—a let ‘em eat cake society, uncaring about the vast majority of its citizens.

That is how life in America is in a war based economy.  The AIPAC funded whores in the American congress couldn’t care less about the American people.  Their gullets are full, their families collect billions in cash bennies from the war profiteers they fund at over a trillion a year.  Their corporate donors cash-in off their failing companies as the American people are sick, broke, homeless, helpless and hopeless.  From Content Time:

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Biggest Golden Parachutes

As outcry grows over executives who reap millions in severance bonuses in the face of their companies' downfalls and bail-outs, TIME takes a look at other golden parachutes — and the people who opened

During his 15-year tenure as CEO and chairman of UnitedHealth Group Inc., McGuire turned the regional health insurer into the second largest managed care company in the U.S. He received his thank yous in the form of stock options—$1.6 billion of them, to be exact—but he took some of them on the days the company's stock price hit yearly lows, profiting when the stocks went up again.

McGuire was asked to leave in October 2006 after federal prosecutors and the IRS requested documents concerning his stock options and executive compensation. He later agreed to return $600 million in various payback agreements, including one with the SEC. But McGuire retained about $800 million in options.

The American people are told by the AIPAC paid media whores that Medicare for all will cost $30 trillion dollars over ten years.  Well yeah, if trillions go to insurance execs.  McGuire is the norm not the exception.  Now the AIPAC whores in congress want to impeach President Trump for asking Ukraine’s new president to look into the billions Vice President Joe Biden’s son for sitting on an energy company’s Board of Directors. 

Biden was Obama’s point man for the overthrow of the elected government in Ukraine in 2004 along with AIPAC’s Victoria Nuland and company.  Over 5 billion in gold was flown out of Ukraine and delivered to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. 

The Ukraine coup was organized by the same Zionists who destroyed Iraq, Syria, and Libya etc.  Now the AIPAC whores in congress are going to impeach Trump just like they impeached Clinton.  It’s the same game plan, they can’t beat him at the ballot box so impeach him.  From Matt Taibbi:

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We're in a permanent coup

Americans might soon wish they just waited to vote their way out of the Trump era

I’ve lived through a few coups. They’re insane, random, and terrifying, like watching sports, except your political future depends on the score.

The kickoff begins when a key official decides to buck the executive. From that moment, government becomes a high-speed head-counting exercise. Who’s got the power plant, the airport, the police in the capital? How many department chiefs are answering their phones? Who’s writing tonight’s newscast?

When the KGB in 1991 tried to reassume control of the crumbling Soviet Union by placing Mikhail Gorbachev under arrest and attempting to seize Moscow, logistics ruled. Boris Yeltsin’s crew drove to the Russian White House in ordinary cars, beating KGB coup plotters who were trying to reach the seat of Russian government in armored vehicles. A key moment came when one of Yeltsin’s men, Alexander Rutskoi – who two years later would himself lead a coup against Yeltsin – prevailed upon a Major in a tank unit to defy KGB orders and turn on the “criminals.”

We have long been spared this madness in America. Our head-counting ceremony was Election Day. We did it once every four years.

That’s all over, in the Trump era.

On Thursday, news broke that two businessmen said to have “peddled supposedly explosive information about corruption involving Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden” were arrested at Dulles airport on “campaign finance violations.” The two figures are alleged to be bagmen bearing “dirt” on Democrats, solicited by Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman will be asked to give depositions to impeachment investigators. They’re reportedly going to refuse. Their lawyer John Dowd also says they will “refuse to appear before House Committees investigating President Donald Trump.” Fruman and Parnas meanwhile claim they had real derogatory information about Biden and other politicians, but “the U.S. government had shown little interest in receiving it through official channels.”

For Americans not familiar with the language of the Third World, that’s two contrasting denials of political legitimacy.

The men who are the proxies for Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani in this story are asserting that “official channels” have been corrupted. The forces backing impeachment, meanwhile, are telling us those same defendants are obstructing a lawful impeachment inquiry.

This latest incident, set against the impeachment mania and the reportedly “expanding” Russiagate investigation of U.S. Attorney John Durham, accelerates our timeline to chaos. We are speeding toward a situation when someone in one of these camps refuses to obey a major decree, arrest order, or court decision, at which point Americans will get to experience the joys of their political futures being decided by phone calls to generals and police chiefs.

My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than Trump. Many Americans don’t see this because they’re not used to waking up in a country where you’re not sure who the president will be by nightfall. They don’t understand that this predicament is worse than having a bad president.

The Trump presidency is the first to reveal a full-blown schism between the intelligence community and the White House. Senior figures in the CIA, NSA, FBI and other agencies made an open break from their would-be boss before Trump’s inauguration, commencing a public war of leaks that has not stopped.

The first big shot was fired in early January, 2017, via a CNN.com headline, “Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him.” This tale, about the January 7th presentation of former British spy Christopher Steele’s report to then-President-elect Trump, began as follows:

Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.

Four intelligence chiefs in the FBI’s James Comey, the CIA’s John Brennan, the NSA’s Mike Rogers, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, presented an incoming president with a politically disastrous piece of information, in this case a piece of a private opposition research report.

Among other things because the news dropped at the same time Buzzfeed decided to publish the entire “bombshell” Steele dossier, reporters spent that week obsessing not about the mode of the story’s release, but about the “claims.” In particular, audiences were rapt by allegations that Russians were trying to blackmail Trump with evidence of a golden shower party commissioned on a bed once slept upon by Barack Obama himself.

Twitter exploded. No other news story mattered. For the next two years, the “claims” of compromise and a “continuing” Trump-Russian “exchange” hung over the White House like a sword of Damocles.

Few were interested in the motives for making this story public. As it turned out, there were two explanations, one that was made public, and one that only came out later. The public justification as outlined in the CNN piece, was to “make the President-elect aware that such allegations involving him [were] circulating among intelligence agencies.”

However, we know from Comey’s January 7, 2017 memo to deputy Andrew McCabe and FBI General Counsel James Baker there was another explanation. Comey wrote:

I said I wasn’t saying this was true, only that I wanted [Trump] to know both that it had been reported and that the reports were in many hands. I said media like CNN had them and were looking for a news hook. I said it was important that we not give them the excuse to write that the FBI has the material or [redacted] and that we were keeping it very close-hold.

Imagine if a similar situation had taken place in January of 2009, involving president-elect Barack Obama. Picture a meeting between Obama and the heads of the CIA, NSA, and FBI, along with the DIA, in which the newly-elected president is presented with a report complied by, say, Judicial Watch, accusing him of links to al-Qaeda.

Imagine further that they tell Obama they are presenting him with this information to make him aware of a blackmail threat, and to reassure him they won’t give news agencies a “hook” to publish the news.

Now imagine if that news came out on Fox days later. Imagine further that within a year, one of the four officials became a paid Fox contributor. Democrats would lose their minds in this set of circumstances.  The country mostly did not lose its mind, however, because the episode did not involve a traditionally presidential figure like Obama, nor was it understood to have been directed at the institution of “the White House” in the abstract.

Instead, it was a story about an infamously corrupt individual, Donald Trump, a pussy-grabbing scammer who bragged about using bankruptcy to escape debt and publicly praised Vladimir Putin. Audiences believed the allegations against this person and saw the intelligence/counterintelligence community as acting patriotically, doing their best to keep us informed about a still-breaking investigation of a rogue president.

But a parallel story was ignored. Leaks from the intelligence community most often pertain to foreign policy. The leak of the January, 2017 “meeting” between the four chiefs and Trump – which without question damaged both the presidency and America’s standing abroad – was an unprecedented act of insubordination.

It was also a bold new foray into domestic politics by intelligence agencies that in recent decades began asserting all sorts of frightening new authority. They were kidnapping foreigners, assassinating by drone, conducting paramilitary operations without congressional notice, building an international archipelago of secret prisons, and engaging in mass warrantless surveillance of Americans.

We found out in a court case just last week how extensive the illegal domestic surveillance has been, with the FBI engaging in tens of thousands of warrantless searches involving American emails and phone numbers under the guise of combating foreign subversion.

The agencies’ new trick is inserting themselves into domestic politics using leaks and media pressure. The “intel chiefs” meeting was just the first in a series of similar stories, many following the pattern in which a document was created, passed from department from department, and leaked…

To be sure, “people familiar with the matter” leaked a lot of true stories in the last few years, but many were clearly problematic even at the time of release. Moreover, all took place in the context of constant, hounding pressure from media figures, congressional allies like Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, as well as ex-officials who could make use of their own personal public platforms in addition to being unnamed sources in straight news reports. They used commercial news platforms to argue that Trump had committed treason, needed to be removed from office, and preferably also indicted as soon as possible.

A shocking number of these voices were former intelligence officers who joined Clapper in becoming paid news contributors. Op-ed pages and news networks are packed now with ex-spooks editorializing about stories in which they had personal involvement: Michael Morell, Michael Hayden, Asha Rangappa, and Andrew McCabe among many others, including especially all four of the original “intel chiefs”: Clapper, Rogers, Comey, and MSNBC headliner John Brennan.

Russiagate birthed a whole brand of politics, a government-in-exile, which prosecuted its case against Trump via a constant stream of “approved” leaks, partisans in congress, and an increasingly unified and thematically consistent set of commercial news outlets.

These mechanisms have been transplanted now onto the Ukrainegate drama. It’s the same people beating the public drums, with the messaging run out of the same congressional committees, through the same Nadlers, Schiffs, and Swalwells. The same news outlets are on full alert.

The sidelined “intel chiefs” are once again playing central roles in making the public case. Comey says “we may now be at a point” where impeachment is necessary. Brennan, with unintentional irony, says the United States is “no longer a democracy.” Clapper says the Ukraine whistleblower complaint is “one of the most credible” he’s seen.

As a reporter covering the 2015–2016 presidential race, I thought Trump’s campaign was disturbing on many levels, but logical as a news story. He succeeded for class reasons, because of flaws in the media business that gifted him mass amounts of coverage, and because he took cunning advantage of long-simmering frustrations in the electorate.

He also clearly catered to racist fears, and to the collapse in trust in institutions like the news media, the Fed, corporations, NATO, and, yes, the intelligence services. In enormous numbers, voters rejected everything they had ever been told about who was and was not qualified for higher office…

Trump stands accused of using the office of the presidency to advance political aims, in particular pressuring Ukraine to investigate potential campaign rival Joe Biden. He’s guilty, but the issue is how guilty, in comparison to his accusers.

Trump, at least insofar as we know, has not used section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor political rivals. He hasn’t deployed human counterintelligence “informants” to follow the likes of Hunter Biden. He hasn’t maneuvered to secure Special Counsel probes of Democrats.

And while Donald Trump conducting foreign policy based on what he sees on Fox and Friends is troubling, it’s not in the same ballpark as CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post and the New York Times engaging in de facto coverage partnerships with the FBI and CIA to push highly politicized, phony narratives like Russiagate.

Trump’s tinpot Twitter threats and cancellation of White House privileges for dolts like Jim Acosta also don’t begin to compare to the danger posed by Facebook, Google, and Twitter – under pressure from the Senate – organizing with groups like the Atlantic Council to fight “fake news” in the name of preventing the “foment of discord.”

I don’t believe most Americans have thought through what a successful campaign to oust Donald Trump would look like. Most casual news consumers can only think of it in terms of Mike Pence becoming president. The real problem would be the precedent of a de facto intelligence community veto over elections, using the lunatic spookworld brand of politics that has dominated the last three years of anti-Trump agitation.

CIA/FBI-backed impeachment could also be a self-fulfilling prophecy. If Donald Trump thinks he’s going to be jailed upon leaving office, he’ll sooner or later figure out that his only real move is to start acting like the “dictator” MSNBC and CNN keep insisting he is.

Why give up the White House and wait to be arrested, when he still has theoretical authority to send Special Forces troops rappelling through the windows of every last Russiagate/Ukrainegate leaker? That would be the endgame in a third world country, and it’s where we’re headed, unless someone calls off this craziness. Welcome to the Permanent Power Struggle.

Make no mistake about it, if Trump is impeached it will be a spook’s coup.  Every future election must have the blessing of American, British and Israeli spooks or the winner will be removed.  By Trump bitch slapping the Syria regime change war, they are more desperate than ever to remove him.  From LaRouche pub:

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Joe Biden and Ukraine: A Corrupt, Dim-Witting Agent of Brit Intelligence?

Although the Joe Biden 2020 Presidential campaign is now finished, as a result of the already-released and soon-to-be-released Ukraine revelations, it may very well drag on for several weeks before it has officially been declared dead. An accurate autopsy as to what the cause of death was, however, will not be submitted by the Fake News media to the American people, under any circumstances.

“This is pre-eminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly,” said President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in March 1933.

“As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP.” These are the words of Donald Trump, and this is increasingly becoming the inevitable conclusion (even before the Barr and other investigations are completed), which anyone that confronts the present crisis must consider—even the most perplexed.

Just as FDR faced a fascist bankers’ coup against his Presidency, in 1934, so Donald Trump faces one today in 2019, led by Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, as well as by a treasonous faction of American intelligence now being deployed through the Former-Democratic Party’s campaign for impeachment of the President of the United States. It is through looking at the Presidential investigation of Ukraine, and of Joe Biden, that the ugly truth about the “bankers’ coup” is best revealed, at the moment.

The President of the United States is committed, as his oath of office requires, to finding out the role foreigners played in the 2016 election meddling directed against him by the Obama White House and John Brennan’s CIA.

The big question is whether the British were running the whole show of illegal surveillance and black propaganda against Trump centrally, or whether Obama and Brennan also farmed it out to other nations. This investigation threatens to pull the entire filthy Anglo-American intelligence apparatus down, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who has recently described the intelligence community as “her wheelhouse.” Is Pelosi now the acting chairman of “the intelligence agency formerly known as the Democratic Party”?

Obama/Biden, Hillary Clinton, and their entourage used the awesome powers of “Five Eyes” surveillance and propaganda—called in the intelligence trade, “public diplomacy”—first to attempt to rig the 2016 election (which failed) and then to undermine Trump’s presidency. They then claimed that all of their illegal activities were committed in the service of chasing a plot by the Russians to “undermine the elections and blow up the world.”

This 1950s-style “Russian plot” story was manufactured to prevent Trump from making peace with Russia, which is against the unnatural globalist “national interests” of Wall Street and the City of London financial district.

The City of London and Wall Street financial houses, which the intelligence mandarins serve, are on the edge of another blowout, bigger than 2007-08. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney called for “financial regime change” in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in late August. That means “take aim against the United States’ sovereign national credit system.” They know Donald Trump won’t tolerate that. Trump stated at the United Nations: “The future belongs not to the globalists. The future belongs to the patriots.”

The “Green New Deal” which these bankers—not the environmentalists—originated, is nothing but a return to “ecologism” and the zero population growth schemes of the 1930s European-style ecofascism. The Green New Deal is a design for new massive austerity and genocide to be imposed on Africa, Asia, and South America that is supposed to somehow appear to be a heroic defense of “mother nature.”

The shutdown of fossil fuels is the only way, other than thermonuclear war, to reduce the population by billions in the short term. That is why Mark Carney, Michael Bloomberg, Christine Lagarde, and others want a supranational “green banker’s dictatorship.”

Trump, on the other hand, has proposed: space exploration to the Moon and Mars, to discover the higher laws that can power our “terrestrial” economy; reindustrialization of the United States on a modern infrastructure platform; and nation-state to nation-state treaties. Durable human survival requires rejecting totally the globalist framework that has been destroying the U.S. and increasing the risk of world war.

To stop this, the intelligence community, acting through House Speaker Pelosi and the zombie Congress, is attacking the U.S. Constitution itself in their bloodlust to take Trump out. They wish to treat the United States as they treated Chile in 1973, Guatemala in 1954, Iran in 1953, etc.

They seek to ban Trump supporters’ speech, and that of others as well; they seek to destroy the President’s powers under Article II to conduct foreign policy; they seek to end the executive role of the President enshrined by our founders. They are involved, in the President’s words, in a full-scale coup d’état, to transform the United States into a British-style parliamentary system, preventing any effective role for the nation’s citizens in determining their future.

So, what are you, the American people, prepared to do about it? Before you make the potentially fatal mistake of deciding to “not get involved,” read on.

Biden, Obama, Hillary Support Neo-Nazis in Ukraine

The Joe Biden scandal concerning Ukraine goes far, far beyond the millions of dollars awarded to Biden’s son, Hunter, for use of the Biden name on various dirty corporate boards in Ukraine and China. As of February 2014, Joe Biden was the U.S. point-man on the Ukraine coup atrocity.

The 2014 Ukraine Maidan uprising was aimed at creating a violently anti-Russian, International Monetary Fund controlled regime on Russia’s border, thereby creating a hair-trigger for thermonuclear war. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton surpassed the most right-wing of neocons, working directly with known fascists for this purpose. An estimated $5.1 billion in U.S. taxpayers’ dollars was spent on this effort, which set the world on a march toward thermonuclear Armageddon.

Donald Trump’s election and his promise to seek positive relations with Russia temporarily stopped the mad war drive. The shock troops used by Joe Biden and Victoria Nuland to pull off the coup against Ukraine’s duly elected President, Viktor Yanukovych, were certifiable neo-Nazis, supporters of the World War II Ukrainian butcher Stefan Bandera, who mass-murdered thousands of Poles and Jews.

The full dossier on that Nazi coup in Ukraine was reported in a package of articles in the February 24, 2017 issue of EIR, pages 4-20. The Ukrainian-American network surrounding the Chalupa sisters that works with the Democratic National Committee, the Department of Justice, and the State Department to destroy Trump’s candidacy, also supports Bandera’s legacy.

Nazi Devils in the Details

Who were the Bidens’ friends in Ukraine?

“Papa” Joe made various forays to Ukraine to impose shock austerity on the population under terms dictated by the IMF. Biden personally assisted in the reshuffling of Ukraine’s oligarchs so that only those who were rabidly anti-Russian survived. Thousands of Ukrainians died at the result of the civil war in eastern Ukraine and IMF austerity in western Ukraine, while the looting of the economy by the oligarchs was protected by Joe and his friends.

Burisma Holdings, which hired Hunter Biden, is nominally owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, an oil and gas oligarch. It is actually owned, however, by a notorious Ukrainian gangster, Igor Kolomoisky. Kolomoisky had been a significant supporter of the new Ukraine President, Volodymyr Zelensky, despite Kolomoisky’s well-earned reputation as a fraudster, violent thug, and overall international crook.

It is Kolomoisky who has provided the most substantial funding for the war in Eastern Ukraine and the Azov Battalion. Following Hunter Biden’s receipt of his Ukraine riches, Kolomoisky was removed from lists banning his travel to the U.S. and his notorious career was whitewashed, despite the fact that national and international financial agencies still viewed him as an entrenched crook.

Hence, the President might have been referring to this when he questioned Zelensky in the infamous transcript as to whether the “same people” were around him as were involved in the corrupt dealings with Hunter Biden. 

In June 2018, Michael Carpenter, Joe Biden’s chief sidekick in his Ukrainian perfidies, brought Andriy Parubiy, then the neo-Nazi speaker of Ukraine parliament, to meet with the U.S. Congress about lethal aid to Ukraine to continue the genocide in eastern Ukraine. When journalist Max Blumenthal confronted Carpenter with the fact that Parubiy had founded two neo-Nazi parties, the Social National Party and the Patriot of Ukraine Party, Carpenter said that Blumenthal was pitching “Russian propaganda.”

Papa Joe’s Ukraine activities have had devastating blowback worldwide, including in the United States. Four white nationalists who trained with the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, now part of Ukraine’s National Guard, participated in the August 11-12, 2017 Unite the Right white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, Virginia; and the Christchurch shooter in New Zealand, whose manifesto influenced recent mass shooters in the United States, also says he visited and trained with the Azov Battalion. William Jarrett Smith, the U.S. Army soldier recently arrested for plotting bomb attacks on American media outlets and Democratic Party politicians, was also an Azov trainee.

So, when Joe Biden opened his vacuous campaign for President with gauzy footage from Charlottesville, proclaiming himself the hero in a fight for America against what he claims Donald Trump represents, think about what you were bamboozled to think, and what was actually going on.

What You Can Do

Join us in stopping this coup right now. Find out if your congressman has joined the intelligence agency/bankers’ coup against the Presidency. Tell him or her to knock it off! Demand full disclosure of British and other foreign intelligence interference in the election of 2016, and the coming election of 2020.

This fraud cannot be allowed to continue with a financial crisis on the horizon. The nation needs to come together, now, behind a true program for economic recovery, a program found in Lyndon LaRouche’s Four Laws for Economic Recovery: Glass Steagall, to prevent a new bailout at citizen expense; a National Bank, to fund the huge infrastructure projects we need to get the country moving fully again; a renewal of the crash programs on the frontiers of science, such as fusion energy development and space exploration. We need an agreement with Russia, China, and India, now, for a new fixed exchange rate monetary system, and for joint development and scientific projects.

The redirection of the economy toward the production of capital goods, city-building, and modern industry, will ensure that wages and public services are at a level sufficient for family formation, for quality healthcare, and for an education that fosters human creativity—the actual driver of any economy. The warmongers, and those who conducted this insurrection against the President, need to be exposed and jailed.

Make no mistake about it, this bogus impeachment inquiry is a British/Israeli/CIA coup against the American people and their right to elect their president.  Trump pulling troops out of Syria is the end of the Project for a New American Century era of terror.  It is over and now let the perpetrators be brought to justice.  Let us build a new American foreign policy of peace and cooperation with Turkey, Syria, Russia and China.  The world will be better for it.  God Bless President Trump and God Bless America.


Sunday, March 24, 2019

Mueller report produces goose egg as unelected Zionist Neocon foreign agents seize control of US foreign and domestic policy





In his Farewell Address, President Washington warned against a “passionate attachment” to any foreign nation that might create the illusion of some “common interest … where no common interest exists.”

Now that Mueller’s baseless witch hunt to tie the election of President Donald Trump to “Russian collusion” is completed, we see the major charges brought against onetime campaign manager Paul Manafort stem from failing to register as a foreign agent under the FARA laws.  How sad and actually laughable that Mueller had to stoop to the depths of partisanship to fabricate this so called “crime” that takes place on a daily basis in Washington.

AIPAC is an unregistered foreign agent that has complete control over the incumbents in our government as they buy seats in our government to promote the neocon Zionist agenda of Israel’s most corrupt leader, Benjamin Netanyahu at the expense of the American people.  These neocons think America’s treasury is their mad money to be spent without restraint to spread hatred, death and destruction across the globe in the name of “spreading American freedom and values”. 

What Americans don’t realize is that to their “elected” officials answer to these agents of Zion.  Under this un-American system “freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”  The only freedoms they have to offer the American people are freedoms no one in their right mind would want.  These are some of the freedoms that they are forcing on the American people.

·        The freedom to be maimed or to lose your life in a war of aggression against a weak nation who is no threat to America, to kill or remove their leader and steal their resources.  Once our military families have been are wounded or killed they no longer have any value to the agents of Zion and are tossed aside like garbage. 

·        The freedom to have every phone call, e-mail, purchase and web search monitored by unknown individuals to see if anything you say can be construed as anti-Semite.  Anyone who writes, speaks or expresses displeasure with the direction that these merchants of death are taking America is declared a traitor charged with espionage and/or imprisoned.

·        Freedom to pursue a higher education just to become an indentured slave to the Wall Street Vultures whose banks who sell these government backed education loan securities at premium prices since the forced repayment of the loans carries all the weight of the United States Government.  In other words, the government serves the Zionist banking interests not that of the American people who can be pursued even after death to repay these loan sharks their blood money.

·        The freedom for the Zionist neocons to traverse the globe spreading death, destruction and evil at the tip of the sword of the U.S. military unimpeded of restraints by the American government or international law. 

These are just a few of the examples of freedom meaning nothing left to lose.  America is at a precipice, this is the war of the century.  Will America’s dinosaurs in congress whose fealty to Zionist special interests has put America at the risk of extinction, win yet again?  These agents of Zion have bankrupted America, destroyed our armed forces, destroyed our educational system, destroyed America’s infrastructure, destroyed the pillars of capitalism and plunged Americans into an abyss of debt, drug addiction, homelessness and helplessness not seen since the Great Depression.   

While these foreign agents have always been around the periphery of American governance since the era of FDR, their firm grasp on the American government wasn’t complete until the overthrow of the American government on December 12, 2000.  The 2000 election was unique in that the Zionist agents in the American government had seized majorities in both the Republican and Democratic Parties that were willing to overthrow their own country’s government and turn it over to foreign agents.

The Iraq war would not have been possible without complete control over both corrupt parties.  Looking back we can see how nothing has changed since the bicameral coup.  From Mint Press:


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16 Years After Iraq, the US Has Become a Nation of Passive Neocons

After Iraq, the neocons began waging another war, one for America’s soul.

WASHINGTON (Opinion) — Sixteen years have passed and the memory of the Iraq War is distant for many, save for the millions of people — Iraqi and American alike — who saw their lives destroyed by one of the greatest lies ever sold to the American public.

Yet, while plenty of Americans sleep easy thinking that such an atrocity as the invasion and occupation of Iraq could never happen again, the U.S. government has continuously been involved in many smaller, equally disastrous wars — both seen and unseen — largely thanks to the fact that those who brought us the Iraq War remain both respected and still present in the halls of power…

Indeed, the only thing the domestic outrage over the Iraq War seemed to accomplish has been a massive effort waged by the government and the corporate elite to engineer a public that doesn’t complain and doesn’t care when their government meddles or invades another country…

Our forgetfulness has informed our silence and our silence is our complicity in the crimes — past and present — orchestrated by the neocons, who never left government after Iraq but instead rebranded themselves and helped to culturally engineer our passivity. As a consequence, we have again been hoodwinked by the neocons, who have transformed America in their image, creating a nation of neocon enablers, a nation of passive neocons.

Iraq War lies revisited

Though the lies that led the U.S. to invade Iraq are well-documented, they deserve to be remembered…  Yet arguably more important than the lies told in the direct lead-up to the war, is the conclusive evidence that key officials in the Bush administration, many of them members of the neoconservative organization known as the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), had planned and called for an invasion of Iraq long before the September 11th attacks had even taken place…

Some researchers say the plan for the Iraq War began decades before with the drafting of the 1992 Defense Policy Guidance (DPG), which was overseen by Paul Wolfowitz, then Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy, who would later become one of the chief architects of the 2003 Iraq War…

PNAC is arguably best known for publishing the document “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” in September 2000. That document, which cites the DPG as its inspiration, contains many controversial passages, one of which reads:

The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.”

After George W. Bush was declared the winner of the 2000 election, many PNAC signatories took prominent positions in his administration, including Cheney and Rumsfeld. Other PNAC signatories — including Dov Zakheim, John Bolton, and Elliott Abrams — would also soon find their way into the Bush administration, where they too would become intimately involved in planning and executing the Iraq War. Notably, Bush’s brother Jeb Bush was also a PNAC signatory.

Once the Bush administration took office, planning for the invasion of Iraq quickly moved ahead, with Saddam’s removal the priority topic during Bush’s inaugural national-security meeting. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill later recalled that the meeting “was all about finding a way to do it. The president saying, ‘Go find me a way to do this.’”

Just two weeks later, Vice President Dick Cheney — former Halliburton CEO — took the helm of a newly formed energy task force that began secretly meeting with top oil executives. In a matter of weeks, by March 2001, the Pentagon produced a document called “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts” for Cheney’s taskforce, which included potential areas of Iraq primed for exploratory drilling. Notably, other top Bush officials, such as Condoleezza Rice, were, like Cheney, former petroleum industry executives…

On September 19, 2001, the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, chaired by Richard Perle — another PNAC member — declared that Iraq must be invaded after Afghanistan. The next day, PNAC, in a letter to Bush, wrote: 

Even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power.”  It was not until December 2001 that the administration, led by Cheney, had begun to claim that Saddam was linked to Al Qaeda…

As the public outrage over the lies and years-old schemes that led to the Iraq war mounted, it was not the exposure of their crimes that riled neoconservatives. Instead, their concern was over the lingering public outrage that severely limited the U.S.’ ability to intervene militarily abroad, leading them to develop more covert operations and other “regime-change” methods aside from outright military intervention…

In addition to the rise of more covert “regime-change” operations after Iraq, a concerted effort began that aimed to whitewash neoconservatives, particularly the prominent neocons who had been the architects of the Iraq War. These neocons began to rebrand themselves, dumping the now-tainted PNAC in favor of the Foreign Policy Initiative and several other prominent think-tanks that obfuscate their past.   Their rebranding has been so successful that PNAC co-founders like Bill Kristol are now considered a part of the Democratic-led “Resistance” to President Donlad (sic) Trump.

By 2008, the neocons made it clear that rebranding their ideology was the plan, with PNAC co-founder Robert Kagan penning the article “Neocon Nation,” in which, in an effort to whitewash the ideology’s bloodsoaked legacy, he claimed that neoconservatism is “deeply rooted in American history and widely shared by Americans.”

Of course, Kagan’s claim was ironic given that he once criticized Colin Powell for not believing that “the United States should enter conflicts without strong public support,” revealing Kagan’s own disdain for the opinion of the American public. However, his 2008 article shows how, after Iraq, the neocons began waging another war, one for America’s soul.

Obama and “The World the Kagans Made”

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, many Americans felt that the days of “wars for oil” and wars built on lies would end, particularly after then-President-elect Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for his warm rhetoric about the need for world peace. Sadly, to this day, many who viscerally opposed the Bush administration’s Iraq War either fail or refuse to acknowledge that Obama was every bit as murderous as his predecessor…

While neoconservatives, particularly those who brought us the Iraq War under Bush, are often associated with the Republican Party, the Obama administration — particularly the Hillary Clinton-led State Department — was plugged directly into the same network of neoconservative actors responsible for the destruction of Iraq.

Indeed, upon becoming secretary of state, Clinton quickly appointed Robert Kagan to her 25-member Foreign Affairs Policy Board, a position he continued to hold after John Kerry took over the State Department…

Kagan, one of the most influential and prominent neocons of all, served as a State Department official in the Reagan administration and later went on to co-found PNAC in 1997. As early as 1998, Kagan was calling for the U.S. government to “remove Mr. Hussein and his regime from power…”

However, Kagan’s troubling track record didn’t stop the Obama administration from giving both Kagan and his wife considerable influence over government policy. In 2011, the Obama administration brought on Kagan’s wife, Victoria Nuland, to serve as State Department spokesperson.

Nuland was subsequently given the post of Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in 2013, which she used to engineer the 2014 “regime change” coup in Ukraine — an event that continues to have deadly consequences in that country and has even helped bolster Neo-Nazi elements in the United States.

Nuland is a textbook example of the continuity of the neocons from the Bush administration to the Obama administration…  

Trump: “Against” the Iraq War But Willingly Surrounded By Iraq War Criminals

Though Donald Trump blasted the Iraq War, and the Bush administration’s role in creating it, on the campaign trail, he — like Obama before him — has invited neocons into his administration since its inception.  Trump’s first secretary of defense, Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, as well as his first national security advisor, H.R. McMaster, were close to Iraq War architect and influential neocon Paul Wolfowitz — so much so that Wolfowitz was covertly guiding their policy through email correspondence in the early days of the Trump administration.

Mattis’ nomination by Trump was particularly strange given the latter’s frequent criticism of the Iraq War, where Mattis earned his nickname “Mad Dog” after overseeing the 2004 sieges of Fallujah, in which the U.S. military illegally used white phosphorus, a chemical weapon, as well as depleted uranium in the densely populated Iraqi city. As a consequence of the U.S.’ attack over a decade ago, FALLUJAH’S CHILDREN CONTINUE TO BE BORN WITH HORRIFIC BIRTH DEFECTS.

While Mattis and McMaster have since departed, the neocons are more powerful than ever in the Trump administration, as seen in the appointment of another PNAC signatory, John Bolton, to the role of national security advisor. In addition, PNAC signatory, Elliot Abrams, was recently named special representative for Venezuela, despite his role in the Iran-Contra affair and in arming Latin American death squads that slaughtered thousands of civilians, and also despite the fact that Abrams is a convicted felon.

A Nation of Enablers

Though they have done their best to hide it, the United States has become a nation governed by and for the neoconservatives and their various corporate clients. The outrage voiced over their crimes in Iraq — to them — was not a call for change but merely an indicator that such outrage must be reduced and silenced, a task since accomplished through cultural engineering and, more recently, censorship.

Since the Iraq War, neocons and their allies have used every tool at their disposal to mold us in their image, creating an uncaring nation that feels little or no empathy for the millions murdered and maimed in their name; a nation that is not repulsed by the fact that many of its top public officials are convicted war criminals; a nation that worships war and death and mocks anti-war voices…  

With millions set to die in Yemen from a man-made famine supported by the U.S. and a war being planned for Venezuela, a country that is twice the size of Iraq, our silence and noninterest in these matters is our complicity.

How many millions must neocons and their ilk murder before we say enough is enough? The “War on Terror” alone has already taken an estimated 8 million lives. How many nations will we allow its architects to destroy? We have already laid waste to Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq, and Somalia; engineered the war in South Sudan; supported the war in Yemen and the destruction of Palestine. Would Venezuela be the “last straw” that finally rouses us to action? It seems unlikely…

The neocons are still in power and still the public face of American policy only because we allow it. That simple fact means that they will remain in power until we say we have had enough. How many years after the Iraq War will it be before that moment finally arrives?.

Where are the charges against these war criminals for being unregistered agents of a foreign country?  If there is any question whether or not these neocon Zionists promote Netanyahu’s agenda over the interests of the American people than let me dispel them.  Make no mistake America’s government serves Netanyahu first and foremost above all else.  From Times of Israel:

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Pompeo accepted almost all Netanyahu’s requests, senior Israeli official says

PM said to exit meeting feeling he has influence over US policy; countries cooperating on Syria withdrawal; lone issue yet to be worked out is Israeli jets deal with Croatia

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had almost all of his requests accepted during his meeting in Brazil with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a senior Israeli diplomatic official said Wednesday.  Netanyahu met Pompeo in the capital Brasilia, where the Israeli premier was on an official visit, and both men later attended the inauguration of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

Pompeo assured Netanyahu during the meeting that the planned withdrawal of US ground forces from Syria will not alter Washington’s commitment to countering Iranian aggression and maintaining Israel’s security.  Netanyahu left the meeting feeling that Israel has influence over US policy in certain areas, the Israeli official told reporters Wednesday, adding that Israel and the United States were working on “various ideas regarding Syria that will help Israel…”

Israeli officials are concerned that the planned withdrawal of the 2,000 US military personnel from Syria will create a military vacuum enabling Iran to increase its foothold in the country, where it is supporting the Syrian regime in ending the country’s civil war…   “Israel received almost everything it wanted” during the Tuesday meeting in Brasilia, the official said. “Israel had 8 requests — 7 of which were accepted.”

The lone issue still to be worked out between the parties, according to the official, is Israel’s sale of aging F-16 fighter jets to Croatia.  Quoting unnamed Israeli officials, Channel 10 news reported last month the Trump administration was angry Israel added advanced Israeli-made electronic systems to the F-16s as part of efforts to convince Croatia to buy the planes.

The officials told the network the US believes Israel unfairly profited through its actions, as the F-16s are American-made and were not supposed to be sold to a third party without its approval.

US President Donald Trump had stunned allies — and prompted the resignation of his respected defense secretary, Jim Mattis — by abruptly announcing on December 19 that the Islamic State jihadists were defeated and that US troops in Syria were ready to leave.

A senior Israeli official said Monday that Netanyahu has asked Trump to stagger the US withdrawal over a lengthy period of time, rather than carry out an immediate pullout.  The New York Times then reported that Trump has agreed to allow the US military to gradually pull troops out of Syria over a period of about four months, rather than the rapid withdrawal he had initially indicated when announcing the measure…

It’s pretty evident who is pulling Pompeo’s strings and it’s not the President of the United States.  But Pompeo’s allegiance to Netanyahu is only outdone by that of National Security Advisor John Bolton.  Stymied by the bogus Mueller anal probe, President Trump fell into the Zionist trap when he named some of the most virulent anti-American Zionists to head up his foreign policy.

The very people who were part and parcel to the Russia-gate hoax that has hamstrung Trump’s “America First” policy now advance the anti-American Zionist agenda.  From MintPress:

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Bolton’s Past Advocacy for Israel at US Expense Heralds Dangerous New Era in Geopolitics

WASHINGTON – Last Thursday, President Trump announced that former UN ambassador John Bolton, once called the “most dangerous man” in the entire George W. Bush administration, would replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser, making him the man in charge of what the President sees and hears regarding issues of national security. Bolton will officially take over McMaster’s post on April 9.

The appointment was not surprising. Indeed, earlier this month, MintPress reported that McMaster was soon to be replaced – largely at the behest of billionaire Republican donor and militant Zionist Sheldon Adelson – and that Bolton was a top contender for that position, largely due to Bolton’s reputation as a “stalwart friend of Israel” and his frequent calls for military action against Iran, Israel’s regional arch-rival.

Yet, Bolton’s appointment – placed in the greater context of recent changes to Trump’s cabinet – is a harrowing portent for those opposed to more U.S. regime-change wars. Mike Pompeo, another proponent of war with Iran, is set to take over the State Department; and Gina Haspel — whose nickname “Bloody Gina” speaks to her history of overseeing torture and depreciating human life — is slated to take over for Pompeo as head of the CIA…

Though he is just one of the war hawks now roosting in the Trump administration, Bolton is arguably more dangerous than all the rest due to his bellicose rhetoric, unilateral decision-making, and his “kiss up, kick down” style of interaction with superiors and colleagues, allowing him to be remarkably effective in getting his way…

Bolton has already exercised great influence over the president, reportedly adding statements to Trump’s speech at the United Nations without the knowledge of Trump’s staff.  Thus, Bolton is set to have a disproportionately influential role in the Trump administration, making it essential to examine what his appointment will likely mean for U.S. government policy, particularly regarding geopolitical “hotspots” such as the Middle East and the Koreas.

 Though the domestic reaction to Bolton’s appointment was rather mixed, top ministers of the right-wing Israeli government lavished praise upon the soon-to-be National Security Adviser, calling him “one of the most outstanding” allies to Israel in U.S. politics, and a “true friend” to the Jewish state who brings “great experience and original thinking” to “the most sympathetic administration toward Israel of all time.”

Indeed, Bolton’s ties to Israel are as deep as they are long-standing — so deep that some have posited that HIS COMMITMENT TO EXTREME ZIONISM HAS LED HIM TO BETRAY THE NATIONAL INTEREST OF HIS OWN COUNTRY ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION.

For instance, Danny Gillerman, the former Israeli ambassador to the UN, recently noted that Bolton, when serving in the Bush administration, was prone TO “DIRECT FIRE ON HIS OWN FORCES,” —  I.E., THE U.S. GOVERNMENT — in order to advance the goals of the Israeli government…

In addition, Bolton garnered a reputation – as well as the ire of State Department officials at the time – for violating State Department protocol by acting unilaterally in matters of diplomacy to negotiate privately in Israel. The New York Times reported in 2005 that Bolton traveled to Israel without the required State Department clearance in 2003 and 2004 in a direct effort to undermine then-Secretary of State Colin Powell. As journalist Gareth Porter noted:

[A]t the very moment that Powell was saying administration policy was not to attack Iran, Bolton was working with the Israelis to lay the groundwork for just such a war.”  Bolton’s numerous private and unannounced visits to Israel entailed meetings with officials of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, including Meir Dagan, then Mossad’s director.  Despite his flagrant violations of government rules, Bolton remained the main liaison between the U.S. and Israeli governments under Bush.

Bolton has pressured Israeli officials to attack Iran even when calling for such an attack was not the U.S. government’s position. According to Shaul Mofaz, former Israeli defense minister, Bolton “tried to convince me that Israel needs to attack Iran,” which Mofaz recently asserted was not “a smart move – not on the part of the Americans today or anyone else until the threat is real…”

Bolton has also praised President Trump’s recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and relocate the U.S. embassy in Israel accordingly – a policy change allegedly orchestrated by pro-Israel Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson — as an “injection of reality.”

In addition, he has strongly promoted the construction of illegal settlements on Palestinian land, stating recently that Israelis “ought to be able to build houses wherever they want to, including all of the lands of Judea and Samaria [Palestine’s West Bank].”   "At every turn, Zionist Neocon (aka ZioCon) John Bolton has shilled for Israel - NO MATTER THE COST OR CONSEQUENCE TO THE SAFETY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE."

Given his embrace of extremist Zionism, it is no surprise that Bolton has found himself replacing H.R. McMaster, whose ouster was orchestrated by billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson…

Adelson’s push to have Bolton installed comes at a crucial time, as Israel is currently preparing for war on “three fronts” — Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria – and is actively lobbying for American aid and involvement in launching that war. With Bolton in the Trump administration, along with numerous other staunch Israel allies in key government positions, Israel will likely get that aid in addition to AMERICAN TROOPS FIGHTING ALONGSIDE THEM, even if Israel is the aggressor in the imminent conflict.

The timing of Bolton’s appointment as National Security Adviser is also noteworthy, as it comes little over a month before the U.S. embassy is set to move to Jerusalem, when tensions between Israel, Palestine and its neighbors will be at their highest and when a war is most likely to break out. Bolton is set to ensure strong U.S. support for any Israeli military action that takes place during this time, even though Israel is explicitly planning to target civilians and civilian infrastructure.

With these criminal neocons ignoring America’s elected president and following orders directly from Netanyahu all hell is being unleashed on the world’s most vulnerable nations.  From Strategic Culture:

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Trump’s CIA Now Unbound and Back to Its Traditional Hijinks

Under the directorship of torture and black site maven Gina Haspel, Donald Trump’s Central Intelligence Agency has returned to its traditional roots of conducting “black bag” operations and disrupting electrical grids through cyber-attacks.

The Venezuelan government has accused the Trump administration of giving the green light for a series of crippling power failures in Venezuela, which affected 22 of Venezuela’s 23 states, including the capital of Caracas. The long-duration power failures were cited by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a reason for the US withdrawing its diplomats from Caracas.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that an international commission assisted by specialists from Russia, China, Iran, and the United Nations would help his country analyze the sources of the Venezuelan electrical grid cyber-attack. Initial cyber-forensics by Venezuela traced some of the cyber warfare being waged against Venezuela to nodes in Houston and Chicago.  In addition to electricity, water service was disrupted in Venezuela…

Hybrid warfare against Venezuela, which includes economic, diplomatic, and cyber, has the backing of the neo-conservatives who now call the shots for the Trump White House. They include, in addition to Pompeo, national security adviser John Bolton; Iran-Contra felon Elliott Abrams, Trump’s special envoy to the US-backed opposition-led rump Venezuelan government of Juan Guaido; Cuban-American Mauricio Claver-Carone, the senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council; and Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American, who represents the interests of South Florida’s right-wing oligarch exiles from Venezuela and other Latin American countries.

While Trump was preparing for his Hanoi summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump’s second summit with Kim, Haspel’s CIA dug into its old bag of black operations, while also engaging in the more modern form of cyber-attack in targeting North Korea.

On February 22, 2019, ten males, all wearing masks, broke into the North Korean embassy, which is located in the residential suburb of Aravaca, north of Madrid, Spain, and subjected eight embassy staff members to brutal interrogation tactics, including tying up the diplomats, throwing black bags over their heads (a specialty of Ms. Haspel), and subjecting them to beatings.

One female diplomat managed to escape through a second-floor window and her screams alerted a neighbor, who promptly called the police. Two embassy employees required medical attention from their injuries.

The Spanish police and National Intelligence Center (CNI) linked two of the embassy invaders to the CIA. “El Pais,” a Spanish national newspaper, reported that the CIA issued one of its standard “denials,” however, the paper stated that Spanish authorities found the denial from Langley, Virginia to be “unconvincing.” “El Pais” reported that the invasion of the North Korean embassy by the CIA had severely harmed relations between Madrid and Washington.

The National Police Corps’ General Commissariat of Information (CGI) and CNI concluded that the attack and occupation of the North Korean embassy was not carried out by common criminals but was the work of a “military cell” that stole mobile phones and computers.

Two of the embassy invaders were identified as Koreans and, based on CGI’s and CNI’s analysis of security camera video footage, they were further recognized as Koreans linked to the CIA... The embassy invaders escaped from the embassy using two North Korean luxury sedans bearing diplomatic plates. The cars were later found abandoned.

The criminal inquiry into the incident is now before the Spanish High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, which could order the arrests of the embassy attackers and, if they are in the United States or South Korea, have Spain’s INTERPOL national bureau put out a Red Notice for their arrest and extradition to Spain to stand trial.

Spanish authorities believe the CIA’s embassy attackers were looking for information on Kim Hyok Chol, the former North Korean ambassador to Spain, who was declared “persona non grata” by the Spanish government in 2017. Kim Hyok Chol, a career diplomat from one of North Korea’s elite families who studied French at the Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies and speaks fluent English, is now one of Kim Jong Un’s trusted diplomatic advisers on nuclear talks with the Trump administration and he traveled with Chairman Kim to the failed Hanoi summit with Trump.

With certainty, Kim Hyok Chol thoroughly briefed Kim Jong Un on the CIA’s storming of his old diplomatic post in Spain. When Trump and Chairman Kim met in Hanoi on February 27 and if the issue of the CIA’s siege of the North Korean embassy was brought up, that could have been enough to derail the summit.

Considering the fact that war hawks like Bolton, Abrams, and Pompeo are now calling the foreign policy shots for the Trump administration, the attack on the North Korean embassy in Madrid, just five days prior to the Hanoi summit, may have been ordered by Washington’s neo-con cell with the intention of scuttling the second meeting between Trump and Kim and put on ice any future meetings.

There is further evidence that suggests the neo-cons, in cahoots with Haspel at the CIA, set out to disrupt the Hanoi summit. While Trump was meeting with Kim in Vietnam, the CIA is believed to have launched a cyber-attack on the Korean American National Coordinating Council (KANCC) in New York, an organization with ties to the Pyongyang government…

The Trump-Kim Hanoi summit was reported to have hit a roadblock over North Korea’s request for a partial lifting of US sanctions on North Korea, in return for the continued North Korean moratorium on nuclear testing and a partial freeze on production of fissile material.

With the CIA’s attack on the North Korean embassy in Spain still fresh in the minds of the North Korean side and the neo-cons’ insistence, pushed by Bolton and Pompeo, for complete North Korean nuclear disarmament, the Hanoi summit was destined for failure.   And, with Bolton, Abrams, Pompeo, and other dangerous neo-cons in charge at the White House and the State Department -- and Haspel dancing to their tune at the CIA - North Korea and Venezuela are not the only countries currently in the gunsights of the Trump administration.

The latest Bolton/Pompeo Zionist adventure has been the vicious plot to overthrow the elected Bolivarian government of President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and install a CIA agent as their president.  While America’s media, intelligence apparatus, military industrial complex and treasury have been taken over by these neocon Zionists, retired intelligence and military officials are calling on the Military to resist the illegal orders of these foreign agents.  From Information Clearinghouse:

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Veterans Call on U.S. Troops to Resist Illegal Orders to Invade Venezuela

March 19, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - Veterans For Peace (VFP) calls on all members of the U.S. military to refuse illegal orders to intervene in Venezuela. Furthermore, VFP urges all U.S. military leaders to inform the president that they will order their units to stand down from preparations to invade Venezuela. 

President Donald Trump has called on Venezuelan soldiers to disobey orders and join coup perpetrators headed by U.S.-backed opposition leader, Juan Guaidó.  If they do not do this, President Trump threatened: “You will find no safe harbor, no easy exit and no way out.  You will lose everything.”

Veterans For Peace President, Gerry Condon states, “While President Trump speaks of supporting democracy in Venezuela and Latin America, the real purpose of the U.S. assault on the Venezuelan government is to fully open the vast Venezuelan oil reserves to U.S. and other Western oil corporations as well as to destroy progressive governments in Latin America that put their own peoples’ needs above the profits of foreign corporations.”

Illegal, immoral and irresponsible U.S. actions, including "sanctions" (economic war) have already taken a great toll on the people Venezuela.  Nonetheless, the vast majority of Venezuelan people and military are standing firm against foreign intervention.

There is a very real possibility that President Trump will order U.S. troops to intervene in Venezuela, whether through a direct invasion and occupation, or through support for irregular counter-revolutionary forces. This would likely lead to a widening war that could spread to other Latin American countries and the Caribbean, bringing increasing suffering to the peoples of Latin America and the U.S.

It is illegal under both U.S. and international law to launch a military attack against another nation unless it is clearly in self-defense, and is approved by the United Nations…  

These neocons have no interest in following international laws, after all they have already managed not only to get away with murder on a genocidal scale but have never left the halls of power.  Venezuela is their most recent botched, stupid attempt at regime change.  In a recent interview Comrade Elliot Abrams posited a brain twister to justify the U.S. declaring a CIA operative Juan Guaido as interim president of Venezuela. From Caitlin Johnstone at Lew Rockwell:

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America’s Venezuela Strategy: Coup By Sheer Narrative Control

The Trump administration is working to overthrow the government of Venezuela. They are not at this time doing this by military invasion, nor by funneling thousands of armed militants into the country, nor even solely with starvation sanctions and CIA ops.

The first and foremost means of overthrowing Venezuela’s government currently being utilized by the United States government is the low-risk, low-cost plan to simply control the stories that everyone tells themselves about who is in charge in Venezuela…

The Trump administration is exploiting this exact principle in Venezuela by singling out some guy named Juan and calling him Mister President, despite the fact that he’s never received a single vote for that office and holds no actual power…

Everything the Trump administration does to Venezuela is done with the goal of controlling the stories people tell about it. They smash the country with starvation sanctions, then tell everyone to believe that Maduro is starving his people.

They stage a “humanitarian aid” stunt on Venezuela’s border, then they lie and tell everyone that Maduro is blocking all aid to Venezuela and setting aid trucks on fire, because he wants to starve the hungry and kill the sick. It’s all about controlling the narrative with the goal of changing who is recognized as the legitimate president of Venezuela.

We saw this illustrated especially clearly in a recent press briefing with the State Department’s “Special Representative for Venezuela”, war criminal Elliott Abrams. Abrams was asked by a reporter to “explain to us the article under which Mr. Guaido declared himself president” because “It is said that it has expired last month.”

Indeed, when Guaido declared himself interim president back in January we were told that it would be a month-long position in the interim while a new election is prepared. As Reuters reported at the time, “Venezuela’s constitution says if the presidency is determined to be vacant, new elections should be called in 30 days and that the head of the congress should assume the presidency in the meantime.”

But, since the Trump administration’s coup-by-narrative has not gone as planned, Abrams stumbled all over himself informing the press that the goalposts of the story have been moved:

ABRAMS: As to the Venezuelan constitution, the National Assembly has passed a resolution that states that that 30-day period of interim presidency will not start ending or counting until the day Nicolas Maduro leaves power. So the 30 days doesn’t start now, it starts after Maduro. And they – that’s a resolution of the National Assembly.

QUESTION: When did they – they did that after he —

ABRAMS: They did that – this is roughly a month ago. We could try to find the date for you.

QUESTION: When he was – when he was – took the mantle of interim president, that wasn’t there.

ABRAMS: Yes, when – that’s correct. And so people —

QUESTION: Can you do that ex post facto like that?

ABRAMS: When people ask a question how do —

QUESTION: That seems to be like saying I was elected for four years to be president, and then two years in you change the rules so that your term didn’t start – hasn’t even started yet. How does that happen?

ABRAMS: Well, you don’t get a vote because you’re not in the National Assembly.

QUESTION: Well, you don’t. You’re not in the National Assembly either.

QUESTION: If it matters, does the U.S. view that as constitutional under their system?

MR ABRAMS: Yes. I mean, we’re taking the – the National Assembly is the only legitimate democratic institution left in Venezuela, and their interpretation of the constitution, as you know, is that as of the date of this alleged term for Maduro, the presidency is vacant. But they have also said that that 30-day period starts when Maduro goes.

QUESTION: So Juan Guaido is the interim president of an interim that doesn’t exist yet?

MR ABRAMS: The 30-day end to his interim presidency starts counting. Because he’s not in power, that’s the problem. Maduro is still there. So they have decided that they will count that from when he actually is in power and Maduro’s gone. I think it’s logical.

QUESTION: So then he really isn’t interim president, then?

MR ABRAMS: He is interim president, but he’s not —

QUESTION: With no power.

MR ABRAMS: — able to exercise the powers of the office because Maduro still is there.

QUESTION: So their interpretation is that until and unless he actually has the power to run the country, he’s not actually the interim president?

MR ABRAMS: No. Their interpretation is that the constitution requires a 30-day interim period, but it – those 30 days should not be counted while Maduro is still there exercising the powers of his former office.

So to recap, Guaido is still the president of Venezuela after his 30-day window closed because his interim presidency doesn’t currently exist, and because he has no power. By those standards, I’m just as much president of Venezuela as Guaido is. Where’s my meeting with Mike Pence?

But of course facts don’t figure into this equation at all, because this is a coup by narrative. As we discussed yesterday, narrative always takes precedence over fact in these games. They will keep referring to Juan the guy as “President Guaido”, despite the admitted fact that he does not actually have any of the powers or recognition that an actual president has, and despite the fact that there is currently a guy in Caracas who does have all those things. They will keep advancing this narrative control war until it either succeeds or fails, and in the case of the latter they’ll change tactics and try something else.

The battle for power is the battle to control as many humans as possible, and the battle to control as many humans as possible is the battle to control the stories those humans are telling each other. Humans are storytelling animals, so if you can control the stories you can control the humans. Understand this and you’ll understand the behaviors of governments and media around the world.

Reminds me of the old routine “Who’s on first” the nonsensical comedy routine of Abbot and Costello.  The American people have nothing against the people of Venezuela nor President Maduro, therefore they must be lied into hating Maduro and believing that American military intervention is necessary to “free the people of Venezuela from their own ignorance” and remove their elected leader.  The truth is the neocon’s want to free them of their natural resources and right to self-governance.

These purely evil plans have one goal only, the goal to seize the massive natural resources of Venezuela through American military intervention.  Those resources are then to be divvied up among multi-national Zionist owned corporations.  Nothing is to be gained by the people of Venezuela, nor is there anything to be gained by the people of America who will suffer immensely by “freeing the American people of their earned right to Social Security, Medicare, retirement, Medicaid, Education, Infrastructure, Veteran care and treasury.”

That is what these Zionist neocons do, they destroy America for their profit.  America has been a pain in the side to the Zionist neocons who have a deep hatred of America for being a check on the New World Order a/k/a Zionist imperialism that was concocted in the 1980’s.  These criminals have never been brought to justice and now are running America’s foreign and domestic policy, the goal of which is to destroy the American people and the people of the world.

It would be one thing if these Neocon Zionist agents were competent, but they are not.  They are the polar opposite of competent.  Every one of their military interventions have been abject failures.  We now are beginning to see the horrific results of their miserable failures.  Their first failure was Afghanistan where after almost 20 years of American occupation US soldiers continue to die.  For what???

Their second HUGE failure is the almost 20 year illegal, immoral and criminal occupation of Iraq.  Their dream of a multi-national rape of the oil reserves and a client state willing to wage war against Iran is a bloody, deathly delusion.  From Uprooted Palestinians:

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ELIJAH J. MAGNIER: “IRAN UPSTAGES THE US IN IRAQ”

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is visiting Iraq for three days, leading a large political and business delegation to deepen the relationship between the two countries. Rouhani met with the Iraqi President, Prime Minister, and Speaker of Parliament. The Iranian President visited Karbalaa this afternoon, is spending the night in Najaf and will be visiting on Wednesday the highest religious authority (Marjaiya) in the city the Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani, Sayyed Mohamad Saeed al-Hakeem, Sheikh Ishaq al-Fayyad and Sheikh Bashir al-Najafi.

Rouhani’s public visit contrasts starkly with Trump’s recent covert visit to Iraq. Moreover, the projected economic and commercial cooperation between Iraq and Iran will not only mitigate US unilateral sanctions but will likely contribute to their failure. The bottom line question now arises: will Trump accept his loss to Iran or will he choose to lose Iraq as well by imposing sanctions on Mesopotamia?

During the last week of 2018, President Trump’s plane turned off its lights to land safely in the US part of Ayn al-Assad base in Anbar province. Trump’s visit was kept secret and the Iraqi Prime Minister was informed on the same morning. Trump refused to land on the Iraqi side of the same base (Iraq and the US share the same military base with US forces holding full sovereignty over their area). For this reason, Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi, the Speaker Mohamad al-Halbousi and the President Barham Saleh refused to meet Trump, who stuck to his schedule and landed at night.

Trump concluded his visit in three hours and left under darkness of the night. He is reported to have murmured that it was not right that, for security reasons, the US president was forced to visit in secrecy in the middle of the night a country where the US has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in its stability.

On the other hand, Rouhani informed the Iraqi presidency of his visit a week in advance; the visit was publicly announced at the same time. Iraqi officials coordinated the schedule of the Iranian President’s trip with their Iranian counterparts. Rouhani is due to remain in Iraq for three days to conclude important economic-commercial deals, raising the level of commerce between the two countries to 20 billion dollars…

Trump has two choices. He could choose to cut his relationship with Iraq, which would amount to shooting himself in the foot. The presence of US forces in Iraq is essential to US objectives and hegemony in the Middle East. Moreover, it is unclear for how long US forces will be able to occupy Syria.

The alternative would be for Trump to accept the fact that his sanctions against Iran will fail as Iranian-Iraqi energy and commercial deals develop. In this case, the US President would be accepting the failure of his sanctions and his plan to change the Iranian regime “in a few months”.

Whatever he decides, Trump has lost: the US establishment failed in its attempt to damage Iran and either change its ruling system or bring the country to its knees. All Trump has accomplished is to put stress on the Iranian economy, bringing hardship to the population while forcing local officials to find new solutions, with the help of Iraq’s new leadership. The US failure to impose its proxies as rulers of Iraq helped Soleimani win his medal of honour.

Now that the Mueller witch hunt is over Trump would be wise to dump this criminal cabal and revert to his natural instincts of pursuing peace and cooperation.  The neocon Zionist adventure into regime change in Venezuela is already doomed and sure to be a major disaster.  Just as Putin’s Russia, with its superior military capabilities was able to send the neocons running with their tails tucked between their legs in Syria, Putin is ready to protect the sovereignty of Venezuela.  From Geopolitics:

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Russia Gives US Red Line on Venezuela

At a high-level meeting in Rome this week, it seems that Russia reiterated a grave warning to the US – Moscow will not tolerate American military intervention to topple the Venezuelan government with whom it is allied.

Meanwhile, back in Washington DC, President Donald Trump was again bragging that the military option was still on the table, in his press conference with Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro. Trump is bluffing or not yet up to speed with being apprised of Russia’s red line.

The meeting in the Italian capital between US “special envoy” on Venezuelan affairs Elliot Abrams and Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov had an air of urgency in its arrangement. The US State Department announced the tête-à-tête only three days beforehand. The two officials also reportedly held their two-hour discussions in a Rome hotel, a venue indicating ad hoc arrangement.

Abrams is no ordinary diplomat. He is a regime-change specialist with a criminal record for sponsoring terrorist operations, specifically the infamous Iran-Contra affair to destabilize Nicaragua during the 1980s. His appointment by President Trump to the “Venezuela file” only underscores the serious intent in Washington for regime change in Caracas. Whether it gets away with that intent is another matter.

Moscow’s interlocutor, Sergei Ryabkov, is known to not mince his words, having earlier castigated Washington for seeking global military domination. He calls a spade a spade, and presumably a criminal a criminal.

The encounter in Rome this week was described as “frank” and “serious” – which is diplomatic code for a blazing exchange. The timing comes at a high-stakes moment, after Venezuela having been thrown into chaos last week from civilian power blackouts that many observers, including the Kremlin, blame on American cyber sabotage.   The power grid outage followed a failed attempt by Washington to stage a provocation with the Venezuelan military over humanitarian aid deliveries last month from neighboring Colombia.

The fact that Washington’s efforts to overthrow the elected President Nicolas Maduro have so far floundered, might suggest that the Americans are intensifying their campaign to destabilize the country, with the objective of installing US-backed opposition figure Juan Guaido. He declared himself “acting president” in January with Washington’s imprimatur.

Given that the nationwide power blackouts seem to have failed in fomenting a revolt by the civilian population or the military against Maduro, the next option tempting Washington could be the military one.

It seems significant that Washington has recently evacuated its last remaining diplomats from the South American country. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo commented on the evacuation by saying that having US personnel on the ground “was limiting” Washington’s scope for action. Also, American Airlines reportedly cancelled all its services to Venezuela in the past week. Again, suggesting that the US was considering a military intervention, either directly with its troops or covertly by weaponizing local proxies. The latter certainly falls under Abrams’ purview.

After the Rome meeting, Ryabkov said bluntly: “We assume that Washington treats our priorities seriously, our approach and warnings.”  One of those warnings delivered by Ryabkov is understood to have been that no American military intervention in Venezuela will be tolerated by Moscow.

For his part, Abrams sounded as if he had emerged from the meeting after having been given a severe reprimand. “No, we did not come to a meeting of minds, but I think the talks were positive in the sense that both sides emerged with a better understanding of the other’s views,” he told reporters.

“A better understanding of the other’s views,” means that the American side was given a red line to back off.  The arrogance of the Americans is staggering. Abrams seems, according to US reporting, to have flown to Rome with the expectation of working out with Ryabkov a “transition” or “compromise” on who gets the “title of president” of Venezuela. That’s what he no doubt meant when he said after the meeting “there was not a meeting of minds”, but rather he got “a better understanding” of Russia’s position.

Washington’s gambit is a replay of Syria. During the eight-year war in that country, the US continually proffered the demand of a “political transition” which at the end would see President Bashar al Assad standing down. By contrast, Russia’s unflinching position on Syria has always been that it’s not up to any external power to decide Syria’s politics. It is a sovereign matter for the Syrian people to determine independently.

Nearly three years after Russia intervened militarily in Syria to salvage the Arab country from a US-backed covert war for regime change, the American side has manifestly given up on its erstwhile imperious demands for “political transition”. The principle of Syrian sovereignty has prevailed, in large part because of Russia’s trenchant defense of its Arab ally.

Likewise, Washington, in its incorrigible arrogance, is getting another lesson from Russia – this time in its own presumed “back yard” of Latin America…  Moscow has reiterated countless times that the legitimate president of Venezuela is Nicolas Maduro whom the people voted for last year by an overwhelming majority in a free and fair election – albeit boycotted by the US-orchestrated opposition.

The framework Washington is attempting to set up of choosing between their desired “interim president” and incumbent Maduro is an entirely spurious one. It is not even worthy to be discussed because it is a gross violation of Venezuela’s sovereignty. Who is Washington to even dare try to impose its false choice?

On Venezuela, Russia is having to remind the criminal American rulers – again – about international law and respect for national sovereignty, as Moscow earlier did with regard to Syria.  And in case Washington gets into a huff and tries the military option, Moscow this week told regime-change henchman Abrams that that’s a red line. If Washington has any sense of rationale left, it will know from its Syria fiasco that Russia has Venezuela’s back covered.

Political force is out. Military force is out. Respect international law and Venezuela’s sovereignty. That’s Russia’s eminently reasonable ultimatum to Washington.  Now, the desperate Americans could still try more sabotage, cyber or financial. But their options are limited, contrary to what Trump thinks.

How the days of American imperialist swagger are numbered. There was a time when it could rampage all over Latin America. Not any more, evidently. Thanks in part to Russia’s global standing and military power.

Will the new members of congress repel the barrage of slings and arrows raining down on them from the Zionist Deep State and shed light on the true State of the Union, a dying super power who has been destroyed by “elected” and “unelected” puppet agents of a foreign nation? 

Much like the new members of congress, President Trump came into office pledging to begin an era of “America First” the antithesis of the neocon status quo, of the Zionist controlled government policy of “Netanyahu’s Israel First.” 

President George Washington warned against a “passionate attachment” to any foreign nation that might create the illusion of some “common interest … where no common interest exists.”  It is eerie to realize that the “passionate attachment to a foreign nation” that President Washington warned about is the reality we find ourselves in today, President Trump included. 

Will Trump be able to stand up to these interlopers in his administration now that the bogus Mueller probe is over?  Will Americans come to their senses and reject the incumbent politicians who have betrayed America on behalf of a foreign nation?  Or, will the neocon Zionists give the Venezuelan people the kind of “freedom” they are famous for?  That is the kind of “freedom that is just another word for nothing left to lose.”  I guess we’ll see.