Article SOURCE http://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-google-al-jazeera-encouraged-civil-war-syria/215163/
It took the Western alliance 8 years to set up opposition in the Libya and to attack Libya in 2011, in the guise of 'protecting' the civilians: a population that was then pitched into civil war that still continues.
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Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
April 01, 2016
WikiLeaks: Google & Al-Jazeera Encouraged Civil War In Syria
March 21, 2016
Naomi Klein 'The Shock Doctrine' - El Modelo is Finito & Neo-Liberalism Sucks
Bechtel
Bechtel Corporation -- largest construction and civil engineering company in USA -- ranking as 4th-largest privately owned company in USA -- HQ, San Francisco -- f. 1898, Warren A. Bechtel, construction of railroads w. team of mules -- series of railroad contracts during the early 1900s -- incorporated 1925, as leading construction company Western USA -- worked w/ California Standard Oil Company building pipelines & refineries -- 1931 - joined consortium contractors Hoover Dam - won bid. -- Warren Bechtel died unexpectedly in Moscow on business 1933. -- Hoover dam was finished 1935, Bechtel's first megaproject -- got rich building WWII x60 cargo ships with no prior cargo experience -- worked pipeline Yukon to Alaska for US Dept. of War -- expanded abroad; turnkey projects (concept pioneered by Stephen Bechtel -- 1940 Venezuela Mene Grande pipeline - first project abroad -- 1947 - Trans-Arabian Pipeline, Saudi Arabia + Jordan + Syria, ending Lebanon -- expansion 1940s Middle East -- 1949 - working w. nuclear power: Experimental Breeder Reactor I Idaho -- built Dresden Generation Station, first commercial nuke for Illinois 1957 -- Trans Mountain Pipeline in 1952 (Canada) -- preliminary study for the English Channel (1957) -- Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system (1959) -- 1960s & 1970s, Bechtel involved in constructing 40% USA nuke plants -- 1972 - Bechtel involved in abt. 20% of all US new power-generating capacity -- by end 1970s moved from nukes construction to nukes clean-up projects -- clean-ups incl. Three Mile Island 1979 -- built the Ankara-Gerede Motorway in Turkey (part network of roads Europe & Turkey) -- project management: undersea tunnel linking the UK and France (Channel Tunnel) -- recession 1980 ->> goes environmental clean-up + alternative energy projects -- Gulf war, Bechtel - extinguishing oil well fires in Kuwait in 1991 -- part of rebuild the infrastructure of Kuwait -- numerous other big projects abroad -- Bolivia: 2000, after a protest against water prices being raised by Bechtel owned co. -- Bechtel owned company pulls out of Bolivia & sues for $25 million in losses -- settled claim 2006 for $0.30 GOOD LUCK DOING THAT UNDER THE AMERICAN FREE TRADE CORPORATE SLAVE GIVE UP NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY AGREEMENTS - NO CHANCE -- 2003, Bechtel won a $680 million contract -- rebuilding infrastructure in Iraq for U.S. Agency for International Development WHAT A RORT -- ILLEGALLY DESTROY THE COUNTRY & THEN GIVE U.S. COMPANIES CONTRACTS TO REBUILD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel COMMENT
This was a random video selection.
Deregulated trade sounds: crap.
Just as I thought, everyone will be in slums.
Why don't governments make the bulk of capital non-transferrable, to prevent companies starving the poor when they decide they've had enough of bleeding one location, in preference for bleeding another for greater profit?
India and China are creating a massive gap between the wealthy and poor, and they're supposed to be socialists of some kind. That's just not right. Everyone should suffer equally. ;) No, I mean it. :)
America's a complete write-off and an appalling disgrace. It's oligarchs' paradise with no safety nets and no anything, but modern-day slavery at an Amazon warehouse.
Nations that enslave their populations have no right to lecture the world on human rights, democracy, freedom, women's rights or whatever else these oligarch-serving politicians and their oligarch-funded NGO echo-chambers use as pretexts to open new slave markets abroad.
The US masses are beyond help. It must be some amazing kind of brainwashing that has kept the masses down, self-flagellating ... wearing a 'kick me' sign, begging to remain oligarch-enslaved. That's quite an education and media indoctrination achievement. Wow. I'm impressed.
I've not read Klein's book. I'm just ranting whatever comes to mind.
Once the US free trade agreements are signed up, we're all f*cked ... and we can look forward to living in slums.
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January 21, 2016
US-Iran Prisoner Exchange
ꕤArticle SOURCE http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-md-iran-prisoners-20160116-story.html
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And it looks like Obama's keeping US farmers happy (ending sanctions on foodstuffs), as well as keeping the Jewish/Israel lobbies happy by otherwise maintaining Iran trade sanctions by the sound of things, despite some exemptions in addition to foodstuffs? It is highly unlikely that the Levinson guy is still alive.
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January 07, 2016
British In Bed With The Saudis - No Regard for Human Rights - It's A Scam
ꕤArticle SOURCE http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/05/bribery-over-humanity-the-uk-saudi-arabia-and-the-un-human-rights-council/
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The human rights topic is wasted on me.
As I see things, universal human rights principles are just a means of (a) interfering with other nations (bullying, shaming, undermining, pressuring, smearing, fomenting dissent etc), while maintaining pious intentions; and (b) a means of politically assaulting and manipulating domestic political opponents (or other targets), in the usual guise of 'concern', 'condemnation' and other holier than thou rubuke, or whatever else.
I highly doubt that those at the top end of national government (whoever they may be) actually consider the notion of 'human rights' (and certainly not domestic rights), as they plot their way to domination and exploitation of whatever is coveted and targeted for gain, on behalf of whoever their masters may be.
Western governments that pour billions of dollars (while depriving their own citizens and/or condemning them to generations of debt slavery to finance wars etc), Western governments that supply tons of arms over decades of relentless interference in the affairs of foreign targets, with the aim of destabilising sovereign states, when they're not raining down tons of bombs, or otherwise pursuing regime change, faking reasons to wage war, waging war illegally and destroying entire regions, regardless of the grand scale of destruction and number of direct and indirect deaths, probably don't really care much for universal human rights principles ... or much beyond the principles of self-interest.
The British Foreign Office personnel wouldn't lose any sleep over beheadings in Saudi Arabia. In fact, they're probably in favour of whatever blood-letting it takes the Saudis, if it serves to preserve the power of the Saudis (whom the British installed on the throne), because the British elite interests and the Saudi elite interests coincide beyond the UNHRC body.
The rote non-statement 'nowhere' response, that serves to create an appearance of an appropriate official 'response', must be standard practice in British politics -- and maybe all politics. I've not really been listening.
Getting a bit off topic: what's the bet that the following isn't an aberration, and that it's also a standard British political manoeuvre?
That caught my eye somewhere today (not sure what I was reading) ... and it sort of stuck.
Lucky the Financial Times guy followed up the misleading statement with a clarifying question. lol
EDIT: It looks like FT itself didn't then follow up further on the Milibrand admission, nor did the media in general.
This is the funniest British-Saudi image I could find. Not sure how accurate it is -- as in, who is really in control in this relationship?
[CLICK image for clarity / enlargement]
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January 04, 2016
Yemen re Iran - False Accusations, False Testimony, False Reports, Fake News & Iran Vilification
ꕤArticle SOURCE Gareth Porter
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December 27, 2015
Video - Losing My Religion - Tehran Iran Footage
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Losing My Religion
{Tehran #Iran Footage}
R.E.M.
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Tombak Solo
by Mohammad Reza Mortazavi
CODEX shish-hashtom/part 4 (2013)
تمبک - محمد رضا مرتضوی
Mohammed Reza Mortazavi
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'Seda Kon Mara' 1973
(Call My Name)
عباس مهرپویا
Songwriter: Parviz Vakili, Persian Poet
Composer: Mehrpouya
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December 23, 2015
Video - Assange & Philip Giraldi (ex-CIA) - Topic: RUSSIA, TURKEY & SYRIA
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TOPIC: RUSSIA, TURKEY & SYRIA
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Video posted on YouTube by Russia Today.
Supporters of Russia and Syria aren't happy with Julian Assange's suggestion that Russian intelligence didn't anticipate the Turkish strike on their pilots in Syria.
Assange refers to it as the "severe incompetence of the Russian intelligence services". Ouch.
Assange goes on to say it was "... severe incompetence in relation to Ukraine, and severe incompetence in relation to Turkey because there were plenty of warning signals being given off by the Turks."
Assange asks "Why weren't those warning signals properly understood?", before saying that this is not to justify what Turkey did.
Assange says that in a realpolitik analysis, those messages should have been understood and that we should think about what will happen in about 6 months time, when the West, Russia and Iran are committed in various ways to the elimination of ISIS, because the establishments in those countries consider it a partial threat to their own interests.
He goes on to say this wasn't always the case, and that ISIS was fed in various ways by Western interests and interests of Saudis and so on.
Assange suggests that there will come a point in about 6 months time, where ISIS is almost completely debilitated, to the point where it will no longer have organised control of some portion of territory, and that ISIS will be back to being a guerilla group.
Assange suggests out that in 6 months time when ISIS is practically eliminated as a significant force, Syria will have had hardware from about 10 or 12 different countries bombing Syria , and he asks:
what are all those forces going to do then, are they just going to go home?
Damascus is 70km away, and they can just steer 70km to Damascus if they want, so it's a very dangerous situation, Assange says.
Assange also points out 'nationalistic imperatives' in Turkey and in Russia, and that the Syrian [government] is fighting for its life.
Former counter-terrorism specialist and CIA military intelligence officer Philip Giraldi (what was basically said (not entirely word-for-word)):
Erdogan has very skilfully (and sometimes clumsily) fear-mongered on a number of levels and on a number of issues to the Turkish people, and the fear-mongering has enabled Erdogan to aggrandise power, in both legal and illegal ways, in Turkey, and now Turkey has a head of state who is an autocrat, who essentially is not limited by any rules and feels himself free to do whatever he wants.
And that's all folks.
Lots of interesting points made.
I've not watched multi-national conflicts in the Middle East for long enough to be able to weigh up any of this.
I think this is an edit from one of the videos I have banked up to watch. I think I need to quit messing around with graphics editors and shuffling pictures around.
Really enjoyed that.
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The ex-CIA guy, Giraldi, comes across like he might be good natured and unassuming. Nothing like I imagined CIA. He seems nice.
The Assange audio always seems to be muffled (but this wasn't as muffled as the last video I'd been watching).
The last (French) video I watched (some of) was a shocker. Tried to transcribe but it was hard going ...
I'm also super tired, which doesn't help. Kept drifting off to sleep in the bath. lol
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September 19, 2015
Australia: Turnbull Rising
ꕤArticle SOURCE https://newmatilda.com/2015/09/19/rise-malcolm-turnbull-staggering-wealth-surprising-aggression-substantial-intellect Summary
Turnbull
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COMMENT So somewhere between being in defence of freedom of speech, Brandis has back-flipped and now wants tighter censorship of speech / expression that might cause 'offence'? Any chance of legislating against the passage of politically suppressive bullsh*t? Just did a catch-up on the Brandis back-flip, which is really also a Liberal party election promise back-flip:
Laws restricting freedom of speech don't merely apply to the occasional 'genocide advocate' or whatever that guy is that's supposedly a catalyst for the Liberal party back-flip.
Other Mark Dreyfus QC MP
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