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The Greatest Covert Operation Ever: The Politics of Terror as the Business of Terror
Post Date: 2014-06-27 23:59:56 by Lorie Meacham
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First published by Global Research on August 30, 2010 The politics of terror are the greatest covert operation ever. In explaining why, I’ll begin by defining some terms, because, when discussing the covert op called “the politics of terror,” words and their management are all important. How are politics and terror actually defined: how are these meanings manipulated; for what purposes, and by whom? Terrorism is defined as “violence against civilians intended to obtain a political purpose.” This is an ambiguous phrase, which begs the questions: what are politics and violence? Politics is defined as “the process by which groups of people make collective ...
Fear and loathing at Hotel Babylon
Post Date: 2014-06-27 21:16:51 by Lorie Meacham
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So now a huge Hardcore Sunnistan stretches all the way from the suburbs of Aleppo to Tikrit and from Mosul to the Jordanian/Iraqi border - the same one that dissolved in 2003 when Shock and Awe turned into Mission (Un)Accomplished. In an eerie echo of Dick Cheney's army's footprints reverberating in the sands of Anbar province, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and their coalition of the willing (jihadis, Islamists, Ba'athists and tribal sheikhs) now pose as the "liberators" of Iraqi Sunnis from the clutches of an "evil" Shi'ite majority government in Baghdad. In addition, ISIS also controls the PR wars. Here, a jihadi details how any sort ...
Pentagon: Armed US Drones Flying Over Baghdad
Post Date: 2014-06-27 11:25:16 by Lorie Meacham
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While reporting yet more troops arriving in Iraq, the Pentagon revealed another sign of the growing US escalation into the country, saying that armed US Predator drones are flying over Baghdad today. According to the Pentagon, the drones are part of an operation meant to protect the US “advisers” on the ground as they assess the status of Iraqi military forces in the capital. The Pentagon reported that about 40 surveillance flights a day have been being conducted, and the Predators will be “augmenting” the US flights over Iraq. The US drones are being flown out of a base in Kuwait, but aren’t alone in Baghdad airspace, as Iran is reportedly also flying ...
Iraq invaders threaten nuke attack on Israel
Post Date: 2014-06-25 08:28:07 by Tatarewicz
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WorldNetDaily... I. Michael Maloof, staff writer for WND and G2Bulletin, is a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense. WASHINGTON – The well-organized army of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, claims it has access to nuclear weapons and a will to use them to “liberate” Palestine from Israel as part of its “Islamic Spring,” according to a WND source in the region. Franklin Lamb, an international lawyer based in Beirut and Damascus, said the move is part of the ISIS aim of creating a caliphate under strict Islamic law, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to Iraq. Lamb, who has access to ISIS fighters and ...
The Ukrainian Crisis: The United States, Russia, and Israel
Post Date: 2014-06-24 11:44:21 by Deasy
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www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_ukraine.htmThis article is © 2014 by Stephen J. Sniegoski. All rights reserved by author.This version was posted at The Last Ditch on May 5, 2014 by WTM Enterprises. The Ukrainian Crisis: The United States, Russia, and IsraelBy STEPHEN J. SNIEGOSKI If you find this article of value, please send a donation of at least $4 to The Last Ditch. More information appears below. The American involvement in the Ukrainian imbroglio has a number of causes, which include the significant role of the neoconservatives. In a series of articles, investigative journalist Robert Parry has made an insightful analysis of this neocon role, linking it to ...
From Orwell’s “1984": Color Revolutions and Irregular Warfare Against Eurasia
Post Date: 2014-06-24 00:29:54 by Lorie Meacham
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«Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible». These are the words from «1984», George Orwell’s fictional novel and eerily correct prognostication of future events from geopolitics to the loss of privacy and the rise of the surveillance state. Oceania fictionally represented the British Isles, North and South America, southern Africa, and Australasia. In Orwell’s world, Eurasia was comprised of Russia and Europe while another power, Eastasia, included China, Korea, and Japan. Today, ...
Ahmad Chalabi, Who Conned America Into War, Now Aims To Lead Iraq
Post Date: 2014-06-23 07:59:09 by Ada
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George W. Bush’s man in Iraq tries to take over — this time under Obama Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who peddled falsehoods to persuade the United States to invade Iraq, is now attempting to take over as Iraq’s prime minister, Iraqi and American sources say. While Chalabi has long aimed — but always failed — to lead Iraq, his latest bid has a better chance to succeed because the current prime minister, Nouri al- Maliki, has been crippled by the stunning loss of a third of Iraq’s territory to Sunni militants. “I think he’s got a decent shot,” said a former U.S. official who played a leading role in Iraq. Chalabi’s representative ...
ISIS Just Attacked Iran
Post Date: 2014-06-22 18:13:42 by Lorie Meacham
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On June 19, militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria attacked Iranian border guards near Iran’s border city of Qasre Shirin, according to Iranian social media. A photograph showed the bodies of at least two Iranian officers apparently killed in the skirmish. Iran’s state-controlled media didn’t initially report the clash at Qasre Shirin, as Tehran routinely censors violent border incidents. But Iranian officials took an unusual step and eventually talked about this particular incident. The first official to react was Fath Allah Hosseini, Qasre Shirin’s representative in the Iranian parliament. Hosseini insisted that residents were not afraid of ISIS, which ...
America Will Never Have Its Way in the Middle East
Post Date: 2014-06-22 10:32:33 by snoopdougg
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Watch this 2-minute video. Full article - a short one - right here: wp.me/p13mHb-1jU
Putin offers Iraq's Maliki 'complete support' against jihadists
Post Date: 2014-06-22 03:01:08 by Tatarewicz
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Lebanon Daily Star... MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday offered Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Moscow's total backing for the fight against jihadist fighters who have swept across the Middle East country. "Putin confirmed Russia's complete support for the efforts of the Iraqi government to speedily liberate the territory of the republic from terrorists," the Kremlin said in a statement following a phone call between the two leaders. Maliki, increasingly under pressure at home and abroad, told Putin about steps the Iraqi government was taking to turn back a lightning offensive by the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), that has ...
ISIL backed by US, Israel, KSA
Post Date: 2014-06-22 02:20:36 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV - Duff... President Obama has announced that 300 American “advisors” would be deployed to Iraq to answer the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group, the American trained and supplied Al Qaeda/Takfiri militant group unleashed on the people of Syria some years ago. Obama announced that the US would begin Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) activities in the Middle East in order to learn more about the threats the US trained ISIL forces pose. Obama, however, may well have been unaware that every 60 minutes an American spy satellite passes over Syria and Iraq with high resolution optical and synthetic aperture radar ...
Obama clear he has lost faith in Iraq's prime minister Maliki
Post Date: 2014-06-21 23:58:32 by Tatarewicz
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President Obama made it clear last night that he'd lost faith in Prime Minister Maliki, saying that only inclusive leaders will bring Iraq together. There have been reports this week that America has been talking to some old friends about who might lead Iraq into a more conciliatory political future. The New York Times reported that the US Ambassador in Baghdad met with Ahmed Chalabi - the former leader of the Saddam-era opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress. A long time Chalabi aide, Haidar Musawi, told me this morning that the "only way out of this crisis is for Maliki to go. He took Iraq to this point, I don't think he can take us out of it." Chalabi comes ...
Putin voices support for Iraqi government
Post Date: 2014-06-20 23:45:22 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed support for the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in its war against the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group. According to a statement released by the Kremlin, the two leaders spoke on the phone on Friday as Maliki informed Putin about the measures of his government to drive out the militants from the northern parts of the country. "Putin confirmed Russia's complete support for the efforts of the Iraqi government to speedily liberate the territory of the republic from terrorists," the statement read. "It was noted that the activities of extremists conducting ...
White House beginning to consider conflicts in Syria and Iraq as single challenge
Post Date: 2014-06-20 14:27:37 by Deasy
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Politics [IMAGE] President Obama speaks about Iraq in the Brady Briefing room of the White House on June 19. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) By Scott Wilson June 19 at 3:30 PM The Obama administration has begun to consider the conflicts in Syria and Iraq as a single challenge, with an al-Qaeda-inspired insurgency threatening both countries’ governments and the region’s broader stability, according to senior administration officials. At a National Security Council meeting this week, President Obama and his senior advisers reviewed the consequences of possible airstrikes in Iraq, a bolder push to train Syria’s moderate rebel factions, and various political initiatives to break ...
CNN STEERS BLAME FOR TERROR AWAY FROM CIA AND UNITED STATES
Post Date: 2014-06-20 08:25:48 by Ada
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Erin Burnett propaganda hit piece blames Qatar for terror charities According to CNN Qatar is a “hub for terrorist fundraising.” This assertion ignores the partnership between Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States in supporting al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups, including the excessively brutal ISIS and al-Nusra in Syria. Click for Full Text!
Exxon carries out major evacuation from Iraq: Oil official
Post Date: 2014-06-20 00:05:35 by Tatarewicz
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ExxonMobil has carried out a "major evacuation,'' and BP had evacuated 20 percent of its staff, the head of Iraq's state-run South Oil Company said Wednesday. Dhiya Jaffar also said ENI, Schlumberger, Weatherford and Baker Hughes had no plans to evacuate staff from Iraq following the lightning advance of Sunni militants through the country. The companies, which are based in southern Iraq where the government is still in firm control, were not immediately available for comment. "This message is not satisfactory for us. We are not convinced the work should not be done remotely. They should be here on the ground,'' Jaffar told Reuters. "I assure the ...
The ISIS Fiasco: It's Really an Attack on Iran
Post Date: 2014-06-19 15:20:42 by Lorie Meacham
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There's something that doesn't ring true about the coverage of the crisis in Iraq. Maybe it's the way the media reiterates the same, tedious storyline over and over again with only the slightest changes in the narrative. For example, I was reading an article in the Financial Times by Council on Foreign Relations president, Richard Haass, where he says that Maliki's military forces in Mosul "melted away." Interestingly, the Haass op-ed was followed by a piece by David Gardener who used almost the very same language. He said the "army melts away." So, I decided to thumb through the news a bit and see how many other journalists were stung by the ...
Pentagon proposes U.S. special forces for Iraq
Post Date: 2014-06-19 12:20:20 by Jethro Tull
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Watch President Obama's statement on Iraq on CNN and CNN.com at 12:30 p.m. ET on Thursday. Washington (CNN) -- Up to 100 U.S. special forces -- probably Green Berets, Army Rangers and Navy SEALs -- would go to Iraq to advise its military and collect intelligence under a Pentagon plan offered to President Barack Obama, according to several U.S. officials. An announcement on the plan could come Thursday, though the officials made clear that Obama will decide whether to accept it and when to announce it. The White House said Obama would make a statement on the situation in Iraq at 12:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, after he meets with his national security team. Obama is under pressure to help ...
How Statism Drove Iraqis into the Arms of Terrorists
Post Date: 2014-06-19 06:15:39 by Ada
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The Tragic Story of Fallujah The rapid territorial gains in Iraq of the Al Qaeda splinter group ISIS in recent days has seized the attention of American news followers, many of whom don’t realize that ISIS’s rise in Iraq started back in January, when it took over at least parts of the city of Fallujah. It is no accident that this particular beleaguered city should become the cradle of the world’s first ever overt jihadist terror state. That nightmare development was the outcome and culmination of 11 years of Fallujah being subjected to full-spectrum statism of the purist form. It all started quietly enough at the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003. The Fallujahns put up ...
Why ISIS Won't Stop With Iraq
Post Date: 2014-06-19 01:14:21 by Lorie Meacham
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Submitted by Claude Salhani of OilPrice.com, The slaughterhouse that Iraq has become in the past week is the stuff that nightmares are made of. And this is just the beginning. The threat emanating from the group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is so serious to the stability of the region -- and beyond – that even Iran said it would not oppose U.S. military intervention if it were aimed at the Islamists who have embarked on a rampage of murder and looting across Iraq. The stunning and unexpected victories by the Islamists are very worrisome. In a region that is no stranger to conflict, this one is particularly frightening and has far-reaching consequences, ...
War Industry Stands to Make Billions Off ISIS Threat
Post Date: 2014-06-19 00:05:15 by Lorie Meacham
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In the war business, timing is everything. For instance, timing appears to be a factor in the ISIS advance in Iraq and the dysfunctional Iraqi government’s response to it, at least for the war industry. Last month it was announced a few outstanding members of the military-industrial complex would stand to rake in around a billion dollars if an arms sale to the Iraqi government was approved by Congress. Considering the current situation in Iraq and alarm bells echoing through the halls of Congress, the sale will undoubtedly go through without a hitch. On Monday AllGov.com posted details of the sale to the floundering Shia regime in Baghdad: Beechcraft Defense Co. and eight other ...
BREAKING! Obama Uses "War Powers Act" To Insert 275 U.S Special Forces into Iraq
Post Date: 2014-06-18 22:50:09 by Lorie Meacham
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ISIS Stunner: Terrorist Organization's Annual Reports Unveiled; Reveal Full "Investment Highlights"
Post Date: 2014-06-18 22:02:06 by Lorie Meacham
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In a day and age in which corporations rule the world, the brutal Al-Qaeda spin off known as ISIS is learning from the best, and as part of its credentialising and image-building has done something only major corporations do at the end of every year: it has issued annual reports for the past 2 years (unaudited, unless Ernst & Young has quietly upgraded from "massaging" the books for Lehman's Repo 105 and, of course, the New York Fed, without our knowledge). That's right: as the FT reported earlier, "Since 2012 the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, (known as Isis) has issued annual reports, outlining in numerical and geographical detail its operations – ...
‘America can’t be part of any solution to stop the ISIS violence’
Post Date: 2014-06-18 04:08:38 by Tatarewicz
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rt... The solution has to be within the region itself and that is why the people in the way should oppose any further involvement of the Americans or their allies as they have created this terrible scenario inside Iraq, political analyst Chris Bambery told RT. RT:What's next for Iraq if ISIS continues to capture cities? Chris Bambery: I think what ISIS is going to discover is that a number of countries in the region which up to now have been on different sides of the civil war in Syria are going to step in. Iran can’t simply watch the Shia holy places fall and Baghdad itself fall to ISIS. But also the Turks must be worried and the Kurds are going to worry about an intrusion into ...
Feinstein Wants Full Military Response In Iraq
Post Date: 2014-06-17 17:49:08 by Lorie Meacham
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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) called Tuesday for the U.S. to take “direct action” in Iraq and launch a military strike to prevent Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants from taking control of Bagdad. “Most important is that we take direct action now against ISIS, marching down to Baghdad, and prevent them from getting into Baghdad,” Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee said. On Monday, the Obama Administration announced that about 275 U.S. Army troops where on the ground in Iraq “to provide support and security for U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.” Senior Administration officials have been quick to point out ...
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