Syrian War: The Prequel

2007 New Yorker Article Exposed US-Israeli-Saudi Conspiracy to Overthrow Assad. 
by Tony Cartalucci 

• Muslim Brotherhood is funded by & serves as the primary instrument of US, Israel, & Saudi Arabia.
• Lebanon was designated as staging ground to destabilize Syria with Sunni extremists.
• Saudi and Muslim Brotherhood anti-Israeli and American sentiments are feigned. 
• US intelligence knew in advance unleashing Sunni extremists would result in genocide.
• Saudis & Americans admit Sunni extremists – the foundation of Al Qaeda – are under their control.

May 10, 2012 – As previously stated, the Muslim Brotherhood and various “hardline” Sunni political factions sweeping into power in the wake of the US-engineered “Arab Spring,” have been feigning anti-Israeli and anti-Western sentiments in an attempt to swell their ranks with followers before ultimately forming a united Sunni-front against Iran.

The creation of a united Sunni-front was noted by geopolitical analyst Dr. Webster Tarpley who has from the beginning stated that the various possible governments resulting from these engineered revolutions “could then be used to support the fundamental US-UK strategy for the Middle East, which is to assemble a block of Arab and Sunni countries (notably Egypt, Saudis, Gulf states, and Jordan) which, formed into a front with the participation of Israel, would collide with the Iranian Shiite front, including Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, and various radical forces.”

Image: Red = US-backed destabilization, Blue = US occupying/stationed. Iran and Syria are completely surrounded by either client states or nations occupied by US forces. And while the complexity of West’s reordering of the Arab World is staggering, it is but a part of a grander strategy to eliminate the nation-state and establish global hegemony. 

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Confirming this is a 2007 New Yorker article recently pointed out by a reader titled, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” Written by renowned journalist Seymour Hersh, it covers everything from admissions that the US, Saudis, and Israelis are working together, despite the Saudis and their Sunni proxies’ attempts to portray themselves as “anti-Israeli,” to admissions that the US is funding a region-wide network of militants and terrorists, many of whom have literally trained at Al Qaeda camps. The article also describes in great detail the role of the Hariri faction in Lebanon, working closely with the Saudis and Americans, and their role in creating a safe haven for terrorist organizations on Lebanese soil, now involved fully in destabilizing neighboring Syria.

Clearly, what has been recently portrayed by the West as mere “claims” by the Syrian government that the Saudis, Lebanese, and NATO were conspiring against them, is simply the fruition of the US policy exposed fully in the New Yorker in 2007. While many analysts have treated the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and their involvement in Syria’s uprising as a somewhat nebulous phenomenon, the New Yorker’s 2007 makes it clear that the Brotherhood is one of the primary instruments used by the Saudis as part of a US-Israeli-Saudi effort to eliminate Syria and Iran. Not only that, but the report indicates that the US itself has been funding and using the Muslim Brotherhood as well. 

Just as the US State Department feigned shock and confusion at the “Arab Spring” it had been preparing for the last 3 years, it is likewise reacting with feigned confusion and dismay over the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the “Arab Spring’s” wake. In reality it is a premeditated consequence of US foreign policy spanning both the Bush and now the Obama administrations.

Photo: The “Free Syrian Army,” whose composition consists of not only Syrian Sunni extremists, but Libyan terrorists from the US State Department listed “Libyan Islamic Fighting Group” led by Abdul Hakim Belhaj, is the manifestation of years of US, Saudi, and Israeli aid since at least 2007.

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While in 2007, all of this was, “soon to be,” in retrospect we see just how devastatingly accurate Hersh’s reporting was. It is clear now, with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Sunni-extremist dominated, foreign-funded destabilization ravaging Syria, that this policy created during the Bush administration, has transcended presidencies and is being brought to its premeditated conclusion under Obama – yet another example of “continuity of agenda.”


Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the United States Are Behind Syria’s Violence.

The evidence trickling out of the corporate-media regarding who the armed Syrian opposition is, reveals that it is predominately an extremist Sunni-movement, not only including Syrian extremists, but militants crossing the border from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and even from as far as Libya. An alliance of Gulf States led by Saudi Arabia have pledged funds for Syria’s militants and has repeatedly called for openly arming them. The US is likewise openly equipping Syrian militants. 

This reality is not merely a spontaneous reaction by the “international community,” but verbatim what was planned in detail amongst the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia years in advance to topple the Syrian government before moving on to Iran, according to Hersh’s 2007 report:

“To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh 

Hersh’s report would also include: 

“the Saudi government, with Washington’s approval, would provide funds and logistical aid to weaken the government of President Bashir Assad, of Syria. The Israelis believe that putting such pressure on the Assad government will make it more conciliatory and open to negotiations.” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh

 This mirrors sentiments included in the Brookings Institution’s 2009 report, “Which Path to Persia?” where it was stated that reaching some sort of conclusion with Syria first was a prerequisite before attacking Iran:

“…the Israelis may want to hold off until they have a peace deal with Syria in hand (assuming that Jerusalem believes that one is within reach), which would help them mitigate blowback from Hizballah and potentially Hamas. Consequently, they might want Washington to push hard in mediating between Jerusalem and Damascus.” -Which Path to Persia? page 109 (.pdf)

Which Path to Persia? .pdf

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Clearly, what we are seeing today in Syria is the full manifestation of this premeditated conspiracy against the government and people of Syria, and in turn, against the Iranians. It should be noted that a US intelligence professional interviewed by Hersh for his story, predicted that the Sunni extremists being prepared in 2007 for today’s violence, would most likely go on a genocidal killing spree, as seen in Libya, and now being quietly reported by the Western press in Syria as well:

“Robert Baer, a former longtime C.I.A. agent in Lebanon, has been a severe critic of Hezbollah and has warned of its links to Iranian-sponsored terrorism. But now, he told me, “we’ve got Sunni Arabs preparing for cataclysmic conflict, and we will need somebody to protect the Christians in Lebanon. It used to be the French and the United States who would do it, and now it’s going to be Nasrallah and the Shiites” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh

 

That the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia premeditated a regional conflict utilizing militant-extremists with full knowledge they would commit wide ranging, genocidal atrocities, is clearly as much in reality a war crime as the US State Department and US representative to the UN Susan Rice have claimed the Syrian government has committed as it desperately attempts to restore order in the face of an admitted act of foreign aggression.
  
The Muslim Brotherhood is a Tool of US-Israeli-Saudi Machinations.

The Muslim Brotherhood is often portrayed as being anti-Israeli, anti-US, and anti-West in general. In reality they are a creation of and have been ever since servants of expanding Wall Street and London’s corporate-financier hegemony across the Islamic World. In Hersh’s 2007 report, it is made clear that the Brotherhood was the tool of choice of the US, Israeli, and Saudi elite – with the US and Saudis reported as even then directly funding and backing them – backing that continues to this day, not only in Syria, but in Egypt as well.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s rank and file surely believe in what they are being told by their leaders, but their leaders are professional demagogues peddling anti-Israeli and anti-American rhetoric solely for public consumption while being fully complicit in the West’s designs against the Arab World.   

Hersh reports that a supporter of the Lebanese Hariri faction had met Dick Cheney in Washington and relayed personally the importance of using the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria in any move against the ruling government: 

“[Walid] Jumblatt then told me that he had met with Vice-President Cheney in Washington last fall to discuss, among other issues, the possibility of undermining Assad. He and his colleagues advised Cheney that, if the United States does try to move against Syria, members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood would be “the ones to talk to,” Jumblatt said.” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh

The article would continue by explaining how already in 2007 US and Saudi backing had begun benefiting the Brotherhood: 

“There is evidence that the Administration’s redirection strategy has already benefitted the Brotherhood. The Syrian National Salvation Front is a coalition of opposition groups whose principal members are a faction led by Abdul Halim Khaddam, a former Syrian Vice-President who defected in 2005, and the Brotherhood. A former high-ranking C.I.A. officer told me, “The Americans have provided both political and financial support. The Saudis are taking the lead with financial support, but there is American involvement.” He said that Khaddam, who now lives in Paris, was getting money from Saudi Arabia, with the knowledge of the White House. (In 2005, a delegation of the Front’s members met with officials from the National Security Council, according to press reports.) A former White House official told me that the Saudis had provided members of the Front with travel documents.” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh

It was warned that such backing would benefit the Brotherhood as a whole, not just in Syria, and could effect public opinion even as far as in Egypt where a long battle against the hardliners was fought in order to keep Egyptian governance secular.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, also interviewed by Hersh for his 2007 article, perhaps described best the geopolitical gambit the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel were and are currently attempting to unfold:

“Nasrallah accused the Bush Administration of working with Israel to deliberately instigate fitna, an Arabic word that is used to mean “insurrection and fragmentation within Islam.” “In my opinion, there is a huge campaign through the media throughout the world to put each side up against the other,” he said. “I believe that all this is being run by American and Israeli intelligence.” (He did not provide any specific evidence for this.) He said that the U.S. war in Iraq had increased sectarian tensions, but argued that Hezbollah had tried to prevent them from spreading into Lebanon. (Sunni-Shiite confrontations increased, along with violence, in the weeks after we talked.)” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh

Indeed, divide and conquer has been used by empires since the beginning of time, and it appears that the very radical extremists the West has featured as civilization’s greatest enemy in their fraudulent “War on Terror” is a creation and perpetuation of their own design.  The role of Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood, betraying millions of Sunni Muslims by exploiting their justified outrage of US-British and Israeli foreign policy, has resulted in terrorism and violence, both spontaneous and engineered, that has destroyed millions of lives. The very “War on Terror” is the “management” of these exploited and cultivated extremists:

“…[Saudi Arabia's] Bandar and other Saudis have assured the White House that “they will keep a very close eye on the religious fundamentalists. Their message to us was ‘We’ve created this movement, and we can control it.’ It’s not that we don’t want the Salafis to throw bombs; it’s who they throw them at—Hezbollah, Moqtada al-Sadr, Iran, and at the Syrians, if they continue to work with Hezbollah and Iran.” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh

For Empire, not National Security.

The only fault that can be found in Hersh’s tremendous journalistic accomplishment is perhaps the pandering to the notion that all of this demonstrative deceit and indeed, criminality, may be being done in the interest of protecting Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the United States. In reality, even the Brookings Institution, which was also included in Hersh’s report, admits that containing Iran is not a matter of national security for either the US or Israel (let alone Saudi Arabia), but a matter of maintaining the status quo, namely Western hegemony across the Middle East, with Saudi Arabia and Israel the principle dual benefactors. 

 

While behind closed doors US policy makers admit Iran, even if it were to obtain nuclear weapons, is driven by self-preservation and protecting the influence it is steadily gaining throughout the Middle Eastern region it borders, the message they desperately seek to relate to the public is one of an irrational apocalyptic theocracy eager to usher in Armageddon.

However, reports out of the RAND corporation note that Iran has had chemical weapons in its inventory for decades, and other reports from RAND describe the strict control elite military units exercise over these weapons, making it unlikely they would end up in the hands of “terrorists.” The fact that Iran’s extensive chemical weapon stockpile has yet to be disseminated into the hands of non-state actors, along with the fact that these same elite units would in turn handle any Iranian nuclear weapons, lends further evidence to the conclusion that Iran is indeed driven by self-preservation and self-defense.

Brookings notes on pages 24 and 25 of their “Which Path to Persia?” report, that the real threat is not the deployment of these weapons, but rather the deterrence they present, allowing Iran to counter US influence in the region without the fear of an American invasion. The US and the West in general, have viewed the Middle East as nothing more than a divided, broken Ottoman Empire to be used and exploited, and when nationalism or resistance emerges, to be pitted against itself in destructive conflicts. 

The fear of a powerful Iran overturning the status quo of Anglo-American hegemony expressed through proxies and multiple strategies of tension, Israel itself being one of them, would open the door for other nations to climb out from beneath the modern heirs of the British and French Empires and begin down the path of true self-determination. That includes freeing the people of Israel laboring under a hijacked government misleading them into a pointless and perpetual conflict with not only the Palestinians, but with the Islamic World itself.

 

Indeed, the ploy described in incredible detail by Seymour Hersh in 2007, and demonstratively playing out before our eyes today, is not to protect against existential threats to the people of Saudi Arabia, Israel, or the United States, but against existential threats to their leadership’s self-serving hegemonic ambitions. It is being peddled by a coalition of Saudis, Americans, and Israelis lying not only to the world, their allies, and their enemies, but to their own people about the nature of the conflict they demand troops and taxpayers to facilitate.

  

 

Image: Terrorist bombings have recently ripped through Damascus, Syria, bearing all the hallmarks of Sunni extremists, funded and directed by the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia since at least 2007, according to Seymour Hersh’s article, “The Redirection.” With the back-story now fully established, and the violence in Syria exposed as not only premeditated, but the devastating consequences of unleashing Sunni extremists being well known ahead of time, those insisting on backing this horrendous crime do so amidst a public increasingly aware of their transgressions against humanity.

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Balking these murderous machinations is accomplished by Sunnis and Shi’ia not falling into the traps laid out by the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia in the form of the Muslim Brotherhood, and terror groups and “civil society” NGO’s alike, cultivated by these admitted international manipulators. Christians and Jews must likewise avoid the contrived “clash of civilizations” between themselves and hordes of terrorists created and cultivated by their own demagogic leaders. 

 

Finally, it is essential that people around the world recognize that the corporations and institutions they patronize on a daily basis with their time, money, energy, and attention are the ones ultimately devising and driving not only these plots, but the disingenuous politicians and media personalities we’ve mistakenly placed our trust in. We must begin to boycott and replace these corporations and institutions with genuine local alternatives or suffer the tragic conclusion of allowing such deceitful megalomaniacs construct an inescapable world order they shall presume absolute dominion over.

Syrian Rebels Admit Terrorist Bombing Campaign

Then Deny Actual Bombings.
by Tony Cartalucci 

May 10, 2012 – Perhaps in an attempt to soften coming revelations that Syria’s opposition will be increasingly armed and backed by the West for a final military push to divide and destroy a sovereign Syria, Reuters released a report titled, “Outgunned Syria Rebels Make Shift to Bombs.” The report admits that the Syrian rebels, depicted so-far as hapless pro-democracy protesters, are now turning to bombing tactics.

Reuters quotes one rebel fighter as saying, “we are starting to get smarter about tactics and use bombs because people are just too poor and we don’t have enough rifles.” The unnamed rebel continued, “it is just no match for the army, so we are trying to focus on the ways we can fight.” Reuters  attempts to allay the fears of its readers by claiming rebels they interviewed insisted that, “unlike al Qaeda, their bombs were aimed at military, and never civilian, targets.”

Paradoxically, however, the Reuters story reveals that the rebel bombing campaign is being carried out by Sunni “hardliners” who learned their bombing skills from fighting (and killing) US troops in neighboring Iraq – or in other words, the very “al Qaeda” the rebels claim they are not like. A “Syrian Liberation Army” spokesman also admitted that his fighters were operating “manufacturing facilities” for bombs – like the one in Hama that recently exploded, killing 70 and leveled the greater part of a city block. 

 

Photo: From Hama, Syria, a city block lies in ruins after a rebel bomb factory mishap caused a massive explosion. At least 70 have been reported killed. In initial attempts to spin and cover up rebel involvement, BBC actually ran with an opposition explanation suggesting the Syrian government fired “SCUD missiles” at Hama. It is now revealed that the rebels are indeed operating bomb factories across Syria and indeed carrying out a terrorist bombing campaign. 

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And as the loss of life to rebel bombings begins to escalate, and despite openly admitting their switch of tactics, the Syrian opposition has clumsily begun claiming any attack resulting in civilian deaths is the work of the government carrying out “staged attacks.” The Hama bomb factory was in fact first reported by the Syrian opposition and their supporters across the Western media as a possible “Scud attack,” after stories of “government shelling” didn’t add up. Clearly, between no evidence of “Scuds” and with open admissions that indeed the rebels are operating bomb factories, we are seeing a transparent example of the media distorting events to cover up what is in reality a deadly indiscriminate terrorist campaign. 

Video: Paul Joseph Watson navigates the latest developments regarding a coordinated mass media coverup of Syrian rebels admittedly engaged in terrorist activities as well as the involvement of foreign terrorists being shipped in to fight for a supposedly “Syrian uprising.” 

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Now with a narrow escape by UN monitors targeted by a roadside bomb and bomb blasts rocking Damascus killing up to 55 people and injuring hundreds, the opposition and media are again teaming up to disavow any responsibility. But just as the rebels admitted to Reuters, the bombings in Damascus targeted a government intelligence building, the very sort of target the rebels claimed they were looking for.

The idealistic comments made to Reuters by rebels of only “targeting” military forces” fall flat when these forces are attempting to maintain order in populated civilian areas. Bombs targeting a military convoy or a government building are just as likely to kill and maim civilians as they are government troops.This is why there are strict internationally-recognized prohibitions on using improvised explosives, booby-traps, and car bombs off the battlefield and in populated areas – and why people who ignore such prohibitions are called “terrorists.” 

Reuters admits that rebels are “channeling” outside donations into “better materials” leading to “more sophisticated bombs,” and that the rebels are fighting for a cause “that has widespread support [among] Sunni Arab states and the West.” What Reuters fails to mention is what support, if any, the rebels have domestically, beyond extremist Sunnis, and how that support will be affected by filling the streets with foreign-funded, indiscriminate terror and carnage. 

The Traitor is the Plague (Thai/ไทย)

The Traitor is the Plague (with Thai/ไทย translation) 

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.

But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”

-Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC – 43 BC

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Image: Traitors from around the world: 1. Moncef Marzouki, Tunisia, 2. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia, 3. Alexey Navalny, Russia, 4. Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia 5. Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt 6. Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand 7. Mustafa Abdul Jalil (shaking hands with France’s Nicolas Sarkozy), Libya 8. Mahmoud Jibril, Libya 9. Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar. (click on image to enlarge) 

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Meet Your Global Tax Collector

Global Corporate-Financier Mafia Grows New Tentacle: Global Tax Collectors.
by Tony Cartalucci 

May 10, 2012 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a 50 year old network constituting what is often known as the “West,” has been the premier promoter of expanding corporate-financier hegemony across the planet. Done under the guise of “progressive” initiatives, claiming to “promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world,” it is demonstratively run by the most explicit examples of institutions and individuals impeding such lofty goals.

Not least amongst them is convicted criminal George Soros and his “Open Society Institute.” While surely the organization’s rank and file includes a majority of well-intentioned “liberal-progressives,” pursuing and promoting agendas seemingly benign, the reality is that the organization, in tandem with the US State Department and the British Foreign Ministry, is laying the groundwork for a homogeneous global network of administrators for what is literally a neo-imperial empire.

With characters like George Soros and his self-serving institution behind the OECD, Soros having been convicted and fined for insider trading in 2002, a conviction that was more recently upheld by the European Court of Human Rights,” it would be laughable for such an enterprise to pose as international arbiters fighting financial fraud. Yet that is exactly what the OECD portends to do – and most recently announced the creation of “Tax Inspectors Without Borders.” Its name invoking the equally well-intentioned, but ultimately fraudulent “Reporters Without Borders,” another Soros-US State Department building block for what is to be a “global empire,” it aims to “to help developing countries bolster their domestic revenues by making their tax systems fairer and more effective.”

In reality it aims at imposing an international standard upon tax collection, and as each nation is financially destroyed by international bankers, IMF loansharking, and foreign-funded destabilization, the austerity measures demanded to be paid in “bailouts” and for “reconstruction” will be managed and coached by the OECD’s new tentacle to ensure every unit of currency ends up in globalist coffers.

Image: OCED nations – also looking suspiciously like Wall Street and London’s sphere of influence and NATO’s membership.

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Just as corporate-financier funded “human rights” organizations attempt to create a global homogeneous “civil society” to overwrite the indigenous social institutions of sovereign nation-states, the OECD’s “Tax Inspectors Without Borders” will attempt to create a global homogeneous tax collection system to replace that of sovereign nation-states.

As covered in February 2012′s “Soros Big-Busienss Accountability Project Funded by Big-Business,” there is nothing “international” or “plural” about the coming global government. In reality it is driven by a handful of corporate-financier interests working to consolidate their power over not only finance and industry, but over governments and societies worldwide. This is the natural progression of what banking magnates like JP Morgan, the Rothschilds, Goldman, and the Rockefellers were in the midst of when US Marine Corps General Smedley Butler wrote “War is a Racket,” and is a progression that will continue as long as average people continue feeding on a monthly basis the summation of their work, energy, attention, and income into the corporations and institutions of this growing monopoly.

Video: The corporate-financier elite envision a “global company town” where everything you earn, spend, and consume is controlled solely by them. Projects like “Tax Inspectors Without Borders” aims at making what was once the business of sovereign nation-states and its citizens, the business of the corporate-financier elite. What is a company town? Archivist Harrison Wick explains.

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When people commit themselves to systematically boycotting and replacing these corporations and institutions, replacing them with local alternatives by leveraging technology and education, we can return to the day when local issues were decided by local people, not corporate-financier funded NGOs from the other side of the planet masking duplicitous agendas with the best of intentions. Without our daily complicity, organizations like “Tax Inspectors Without Borders” could not exist – as the unwarranted influence necessary to breath both legitimacy and authority into them would be deprived.

The choice is ours, fight the battle of becoming truly independent; socially, economically, and politically now, or face a monolithic global “company town” with all the horrors of a traditional company town, only magnified on a global scale.

BREAKING: Thai "Political Prisoner" Guilty of Death Threats, Not "Free Speech"

Western NGOs hyping dead “political prisoner” omit contents of his “free speech.”
by Tony Cartalucci

May 10, 2012 - Suppose at the height of a violent rally where soldiers, police, protesters, and civilians have already been killed, you decide to send an SMS to a government aid threatening to kill the head of state of your country. How long do you think it would take you to end up in prison, and how long do you suppose your sentence would be? Would you be audacious enough to claim making death threats constituted protected “free speech?”

Under 18 USC § 876 – Mailing threatening communications – a suspect convicted of such a crime can face up to 20 years in prison or a steep fine. In the United States, it is general knowledge that making such threats are not only inappropriate and in fact illegal to make against members of the government, but are inappropriate and illegal to make against anyone. Generally, those making such threats against the US President are not sound of mind and are usually committed to psychiatric help. Many Americans fear instead of being imprisoned for “whistle-blowing,” peacefully protesting, or simply telling the truth.

In a recent case in Thailand, a so-called “political prisoner” Amphon “Akong” Tangnoppakul, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for “Lese Majeste,” and through the complete fault of Thailand’s flawed legal system, the nature of Akong’s injuries toward Thailand’s revered 800 year old institution were not made public. While Thailand’s Lese Majeste laws are portrayed as a draconian tool used to muzzle “free speech,” in reality it has been employed almost exclusively against members of Wall Street proxy Thaksin Shinawatra and his seditious foreign-backed opposition movement.

Photo: Downtown Bangkok, May 2010 – protesters organized by Wall Street proxy Thaksin Shinawatra, after providing cover for armed militants for weeks, ended their protest in a city-wide arson and looting spree. It was in the backdrop of these protests that Akong sent his death threats against Thailand’s head of state for which he was subsequently imprisoned for 20 years. 

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In fact, Akong himself sent the SMS messages that landed him in prison at one of Thaksin’s “red shirt” rallies in May of 2010 – at the height of a violent clash between Thaksin’s supporters and government troops. The death toll would climb as high as 91 over the course of nearly two months and featured black-garbed militants attacking government troops, committing arson, and directing and using for cover violent mobs on Thaksin’s behalf. Daily calls were made from Thaksin’s paid-for demagogues on their elaborate stages for violence and mayhem. It was amidst this fervor that Akong sent his SMS messages to a high ranking secretary in the ruling government, threatening the life of Thailand’s head of state along with his entire family.

Video: Threats had been made against both Thailand’s elected government and its head of state by Thaksin’s mobs since at least 2009 when mobs actually attacked the prime minister’s car, as seen here. In other words, threats made by Thaksin’s “red shirt” protesters are demonstratively often carried out. (More about the background of Thailand’s 2010 violence and how human rights are being leveraged can be found here.) 

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Akong wasn’t caught discussing political commentary at home on an average day, he was threatening the life of Thailand’s head of state and his family in the midst of a deadly conflict where troops, civilians, police, and protesters had and would still die. His threats would not be tolerated under 18 USC § 876 in the United States, anywhere in Europe, and they were not tolerated in Thailand. Despite his frail health, he was sentenced and began his 20 year jail term before dying this week in prison from a precondition, most likely cancer.

Preying on human emotions, good intentions and the ignorance of outsiders looking in, Western “human rights” organizations and the Western press, as well as US State Department funded propaganda outfits in Thailand, including “Prachatai,” are attempting to leverage Akong’s death in this brief window of opportunity to further undermine Thailand’s establishment and institutions, as well as incite outrage not only locally, but before an international audience. They are also capitalizing on the flawed and opaque Thai justice system that fails to publicly disclose the nature of “Lese Majeste” offenses and makes it difficult if not impossible to repeat the offense publicly without fear of being in “violation” of the law as well. This flaw has allowed the Western “human rights” racket to run with the story, knowing that the true nature of Akong’s threats will be made known only long after the propagandists have done their damage.

However, the Land Destroyer Report has gained the full text of Akong’s messages and has confirmed that indeed two of the four messages threaten both physical harm and death to Thailand’s head of state and his family, including his children. The “grandfatherly” Akong, as he is depicted by the Western press, included in his messages amongst a sea of expletives, the phrase “you’ll all die,” for example, and threatened to stomp on the faces of certain specific individuals.

The information was made available by paid-propagandist Andrew Marshall, formally of Reuters, who perhaps believed his rhetorical statement buried under a lengthy attempt to defame Thailand and its institutions, of “whether they [the SMS's] should merit a 20-year jail sentence in a 21st century democracy is highly controversial,” would adequately exonerate Akong in the court of public opinion. However it is unthinkable that in a “21st century democracy,” threats to the safety and lives of others would be tolerated as anything less than a punishable crime, and certainly not categorized as “free speech.”

In a world where truth activists, human freedoms, and general privacy is under real assault, the cause of free speech is belittled by championing for politically motivated “prisoners of conscience” that are guilty of real crimes, and are part of a larger foreign-backed ploy to destabilize and destroy a targeted nation-state. By calling the corporate-media on contrived causes like Akong, and exposing the truth behind not only what really happened, but exactly why the foreign press is so interested in such cases, we can direct attention back on real issues and real violations of human freedoms. 

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Because of strong language & the current legal & political landscape of Thailand, the full Thai text of the court’s case against Akong as well as an English translation of his SMS messages threatening Thailand’s head of state, cannot be posted in full here – simply contact Land Destroyer at cartalucci@gmail.com for information on obtaining the documents.

Latest Al Qaeda Boogeyman is CIA Agent

US Stokes “Terronoia” Domestically, While Backing Real Terrorists Abroad.
by Tony Cartalucci

May 9, 2012 - The term “terronoia” was used by James Evan Pilato of Media Monarchy to describe what exactly the FBI was attempting to generate amongst the public with their entrapment of the 2010 Portland “Christmas Tree Bomber.” The FBI had conducted “sting operations” like that in Portland Oregon in the past, and certainly many times since then. These include the September 11, 2001 attacks themselves, where each and every “suspect” was either trained or being followed by the US military, US intelligence agencies, or the FBI prior to the attacks – and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing which turned out to be an FBI “sting operation” gone bad.

Most recently we have the “new and improved” underwear bombing narrative, now admitted to be the work of a CIA operative and constitutes a now tiresome storyline where sensational headlines create “terronoia” in the minds of millions of Americans before it is revealed that the entire plot was a production of the US government itself. In the small gap between “terronoia” and reality, exists a period where the corporate-media attempts to resell the merits of the TSA, their invasive checkpoints, and the scandalous irradiating “body scanners,” which we were told have been “vindicated” by this recent bombing plot being “foiled,” now exposed as government manufactured.

Image: From left to right – top to bottom. The “Christmas Tree Bomber,”  the “RC Bomber,” the “D.C. Suicide Bomber,” the original “Underwear Bomber,” and the “Underwear Bomber 2.0,” all courtesy of the United States government – not human waves of vicious terrorists, rather dupes approached by, armed, equipped, and built up by the FBI and CIA. Meanwhile, the US government is arming, funding, and backing real terrorists overseas committing heinous acts of violence with US taxpayers’ money and occasionally with the help of unwitting US troops.

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Meanwhile, real terrorists around the globe, guilty of blood-chilling atrocities on nation-wide scales are receiving arms, funding, training, air support, and diplomatic recognition from the US government – including in Libya, and more recently in Syria. In fact, many of the US funded, armed, and backed terrorists from Libya are turning up in increasing numbers in Syria’s so-called indigenous “rebellion.” Additionally, the US State Department has announced that it is close to making an announcement on the de-listing of the terrorist organization Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK), guilty of killing both US troops and civilians, as well as carrying out to this day a terrorist campaign against not only Iranian military targets, but political and civilian targets as well. 

Image: A screenshot from the US State Department’s website showing MEK listed as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” and listed as “29. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK).” Paradoxically the US State Department is currently aiding and abetting the organization, with its efforts, along with the UN, British and Israeli government’s, being the sole factor keeping the organization in existence. (click on image to enlarge)

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US policy makers admit in the Brookings Institution’s “Which Path to Persia?” report that “undeniably, the group [MEK] has conducted terrorist attacks,” yet still promotes the use of these proxy terrorists to achieve US foreign policy in Iran. Brookings noted the necessity of “de-listing” MEK back in 2009, before closer, and more overt collaboration could begin. The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) follows a similar pattern – verified by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center as having killed US troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the militant group, listed by the US State Department as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization,” led the NATO-backed overthrow of Libya’s government in 2011 with US funding, weapons, training, air support, and diplomatic recognition. 

The same story is playing out in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Baluchistan, where terrorists are being funded, armed, and trained by the US to fight both the Pakistani government as well as Iranians across the border – admittedly as a ploy to destabilize Pakistan and disrupt Chinese investments in the region. 

Image: A visual representation of some of the Brookings Institution’s corporate sponsors. Brookings is by no means an exception, but well represents the incestuous relationship between US foreign and domestic policy making and the Fortune 500 found in every major “think-tank.” Elected US representatives charged with legislative duties, merely rubber stamp the papers and policies drawn up in these think-tanks. Brookings Institution, in their report “Which Path to Persia?” openly advocates the arming, funding, and backing of the MEK terrorist organization – despite admitting it has killed Americans and “undeniably” carries out terrorism.   

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From underwear bombers to Libya’s globetrotting death squads, it turns out that the US government itself is driving this omnipresent global threat and constitutes the premier state-sponsor of terrorism. From the very creation of Al Qaeda in the mountains of Afghanistan, to Al Qaeda death squads bombing targets across Syria today, the US is machinating behind the scenes to perpetuate its foreign policy through a false strategy of tension where the villains and “heroes” are of their own creation. It is only through apathy and ignorance that they succeed in foisting this narrative upon the public, as well as our daily patronage of the corporate-financier interests devising and driving this agenda.

Brookings Announces Next Move in Syria: War

After admitting UN peace plan was a ploy, Brookings predictably scraps it and begins promoting expanded military conflict.
by Tony Cartalucci 

May 9, 2012 - By the US policy think-tank Brookings Institution’s own admission, the Kofi Annan six-point peace plan in Syria was merely a ploy to buy time to reorganize NATO’s ineffective terrorist proxies and provide them the pretext necessary for establishing NATO protected safe havens from which to carry out their terrorism from. In fact, Brookings actually stated in a recent report, “Assessing Options for Regime Change” (emphasis added):

“An alternative is for diplomatic efforts to focus first on how to end the violence and how to gain humanitarian access, as is being done under Annan’s leadership. This may lead to the creation of safe-havens and humanitarian corridors, which would have to be backed by limited military power. This would, of course, fall short of U.S. goals for Syria and could preserve Asad in power. From that starting point, however, it is possible that a broad coalition with the appropriate international mandate could add further coercive action to its efforts.” -page 4, Assessing Options for Regime Change, Brookings Institution.

Image: Also out of the Brookings Institution, Middle East Memo #21 “Assessing Options for Regime Change (.pdf),” makes no secret that the humanitarian “responsibility to protect” is but a pretext for long-planned regime change.

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As if to alleviate any lingering doubts, NATO’s “Alliance News Blog” has confirmed that the US is committed not to “peace,” but rather to the overthrow of Syria’s government and is “already committed to helping [President Bashar al-Assad] fall,” but is “merely looking for the least violent, lowest cost way to get there.” The April 9, 2012 blog entry features an op-ed titled, “US ‘already committed to helping Assad fall’,” and fully admits that the US is equipping the so-called “Free Syrian Army” which has received weapons, leadership, and cash from the NATO-backed Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) terrorists led by notorious mass-murderer Abdul Hakim Belhaj.

Image: NATO’s official “Alliance News Blog proudly reports that the US is already committed to helping “Assad fall” and is simply using the lull in fighting brought on by Kofi Annan’s disingenuous “peace plan” to rearm, reorganize, and redeploy their terrorist proxy forces against Assad. The op-ed featured on NATO’s blog was featured in the LA Times and written by CFR member Doyle McManus. (click image to enlarge)

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And now, the Brookings Institution itself has predictably declared the Annan “peace deal” a failure and states that the time to “stretch” Syria’s military to the breaking point through expanded foreign-backed unrest has come. In an article titled, “Annan’s Mission Impossible: Why is everyone pretending that the U.N. plan in Syria has a prayer of suceeding?” Brookings Doha Center director Salman Shaikh insults the intelligence of his readership while handing out useful talking points surely to be parroted by the corporate-media over the next few days and weeks. Shaikh depicts the ceasefire’s failure as solely the result of the Syrian government’s belligerence and brutality, while mentioning nothing of the Syrian opposition’s documented and even admitted atrocities.

Video: Michael Weiss of the Neo-Con “Henry Jackson Society,” openly admits that diplomatic options are being paraded publicly to satisfy public opinion, but ultimately NATO plans to unilaterally intervene militarily in Syria, and will do so with the UN’s purposefully sabotaged “humanitarian operation” as its pretext. 

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And while portraying the Syrian government as irrationally carrying out a campaign of brutality against the Syrian people, Shaikh admits that the “Free Syrian Army” is operating militarily out of Turkey and that the Syrian National Council (SNC) represents foreign harbored and influenced leadership. While Shaikh portrays Syria’s minorities as “on the sideline,” he declines from explaining why they have not joined the foreign-driven unrest. In reality, these groups have been the hardest hit by rebel atrocities, including Syria’s large Christian communities. 

Image: Christians in Syria have been particularly hit hard by what is being described as “ethnic cleansing,” not by Syrian security forces, but by NATO-backed death squads under the banner of the “Free Syrian Army.” The LA Times has been quietly reporting on the tragedy of Syria’s minorities at the hands of the Syrian rebels for months – and indicates that wider genocide will take place, just as it is now in Libya, should Syria’s government collapse under foreign pressure. 

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Shaikh’s shoddy salesmanship also reveals another truth – when he claims that “opposition leaders inside and outside the country do not have the resources to unite their ranks alone.” Surely any opposition group that represented the vast majority of the Syrian people, as the UN and the corporate-media claim daily, would not have trouble finding the resources inside of Syria “alone.” In reality, the unrest in Syria is driven by a foreign-backed violent minority, carried out by a combination of violent Sunni-extremists from Syria and many foreign fighters brought in from abroad. Many of Syria’s real opposition find the “Free Syrian Army’s” collaboration with foreigners “unacceptable.” 

NATO and its proxies’ efforts have failed primarily because the movement’s semi-covert foreign backing is still not enough to turn the tide, and more overt backing is needed, including foreign military intervention. Shaikh’s entire argument hinges on the creation of a “genuine grand opposition coalition ” that currently, admittedly, does not exist.

As the Brookings Institution prepares the next stage of its premeditated escalation against the sovereign nation-state of Syria, and continues framing the violence as one-sided, a torrent of reports even from the corporate-media itself confirms what many geopolitical analysts have been saying for over a year – that the “Free Syrian Army” is conducting a vicious campaign of terrorism leaving Syrian security forces no choice but to continue fighting on to restore order.

In fact, just today, Wednesday May 9, 2012, Syrian rebels attempted to attack a convoy consisting of Kofi Annan’s UN monitors. France inexplicably then blamed the Syrian government for not providing adequate security for the UN monitors, after a year of condemning the government for attempting to restore order in the face of the very growing militant violence the attacks resulted from. And in recent weeks, everything from Human Rights Watch reports, to open admissions from the rebels themselves confirm that they are committing widespread human rights abuses and turning toward indiscriminate bombing tactics. This indicates a threat Syria’s government would be remiss not to counter – and surely a threat the “international community” would be remiss to continue supporting, funding, and even arming.

Now a concerted effort will be made to sabotage the UN peace plan in every shape, form, and manner, especially through increased violence and particularly in cross-border incidents to help sell NATO-backed, Turkey-led incursions into Syria to carve out “safe havens.” From there a steady stream of weapons and fighters from around the world will be funneled in, in an attempt to, as Brookings Shaikh puts it, stretch Syria’s forces “to a breaking point.”

Image: The cover of the CFR’s flattering report on US-Turkey relations, full of empty promises to entice Turkish leaders into falling on their swords for Western ambitions across the Middle East. And of course, the report is written in the context of what Turkey can do for the US in terms of Syria and Iran in particular. Pro-genocide Madeleine Albright chaired the “task force” that produced the report.

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To help convince Turkey to “take the plunge” for NATO, the Council on Foreign Relations has recently published a report attempting to flesh out an improved alliance between the US and Turkey – claiming the new relationship would trump the potential for US cooperation with any BRICS nation (except perhaps India). This patronizing political stunt attempts to fill Turkish leaders with delusions of grandeur, tempting them with “goodies” ahead of falling on their swords for Wall Street and London’s ambitions in Syria and Iran. Turkish leaders might reassess such grandiose claims and remember BRICS’ growth and benefits are based on solidarity and production, avoiding “alliances” with Wall Street, London, and their institutions, while conversely, Wall Street and London’s “benefits” are based on domination, exploitation, betrayal, and unsustainable pyramid schemes.

Syria’s fate rests on both Syria and its allies’ ability to produce a tactical reality on the ground that would make any foreign military incursion a disaster. It also depends on either Turkey’s wisdom or foolishness in considering the elementary ploy and poisoned “goodies” the West is dangling in front of it in exchange for complicity in dividing and destroying neighboring Syria. 

The corporate-financiers centered around the capitals of the West have committed to a global war aimed at permanently destroying nation-states and replacing them with a homogeneous administrative system built out of Wall Street and London-funded NGOs, interlocking with the West’s contrived “international institutions.” It is in essence, a World War, currently being fought with 4th generation warfare to build a neo-imperial global government. With overt efforts to destabilize nations around the world, including Russia and China, the West’s hand is revealed and there is no turning back.

The only hope of stopping disaster if either the corporate-financiers succeed or fail (thus turning in and feeding on itself), is to recognize their source of power, and begin undermining it on a daily basis through both boycotting their goods and services, while simultaneously replacing their corporations and institutions with local, genuine alternatives. Syria may seem like an isolated conflict, but is in reality linked to us directly, regardless of where we live. Either we live in a nation that will be next, or a nation who will be further crushed under the hubris, power, and arrogance of an empowered Wall Street and London elite.