The Syrian Conflict in 2013 and Beyond

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The Syrian Conflict in 2013

Syria is still important to discuss and mention. The Washington consensus could call for an all-out war

with Syria. The conflict continues. Dozens or more die daily in it. The Syrian forces outmatch the Westernbacked death squad terrorists. These terrorists are not true rebels. They are lawless invaders and hiredkillers sent to harm the Syrian people. Many of these U.S. proxy fighters are imported from dozens ofnations. They are fighting against Syrian independence. Assad's military outguns and outflanksWashington's shock troops. There are reinforcements coming into Syria. Syria could be the next Libya orLibya 2.0. Now, Russia wants a September international peace conference, which should occur. It was atfirst planned for June. Washington still prioritizes war. Its reactionaries spurn peace. Last year'sconference failed. Peace is hard to come by in this situation. European Council President Herman VanRompuy said the following words: "A military solution to the crisis is impossible. (T)he solution is onlydiplomatic. The conflict can end if Washington stops funding proxy terrorists. The White House isinvolved with the Syrian civil war. The White House can end it. Joint Chief Chairman Martin Dempsey saidthat he provided the President with options for the use of force. He said the following words: (I)t would beinappropriate for me to try to influence the decision with me rendering an opinion in public about what

kind of force we should use. John McCain is very hawkish and of course he wants to have a possiblemilitary intervention from the West into Syria. He wants a no fly zone implemented, he wanted more armssent to the terrorists, and there are weapons sent to the rebels now. These actions are illegal withoutSecurity Council authorization. This is meddling in Syria's political, economically, and military affairs.These acts harm international law. The military commanders have asked the White House for options.Even the so-called liberal Senator Carl Levin wants Syria to be bombed. He wants Obama toattack airfields, airplanes, and massed artillery. He supports the terrorist insurgency. Many otherDemocrats love this action. The anti-Assad forces are fighting each other. Extremist Al Nusra insurgentsare clashing with the Free Syria Army elements. On July 19,Russia Todayheadlined Al Qaedasplanned emirate in Syria is Wests own doing. Most Syrians want a secular state. So, Al-Qaeda wants an


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evil theocracy while the people of Syria want a secular state. So, the extremists want the Western forcesto more militarily intervene in Syria. America loves to fight smaller nations. We know that NSA spyingundermines civil liberties. Senator Carl Levin and Angus King are still hawkish against Syria. We knowthat Washington directly aids Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups.

Now, I disagree with a Western military strike in Syria or any U.S. military intervention in Syria. In the finalanalysis, we need to have a political solution to the Syrian civil war. The President of the United Statesand Secretary of State John Kerry want military action in Syria in the form of missile strikes againstinfrastructure of the Syrian government. This action can cause World War III. I find myself in agreementwith Rand Paul and others on this issue. In a Joint US-UK leaked intelligence document back in 1957, theCIA and the SIS wanted to stage disturbances in Syria as a means to control the region more. Syria is astrategic area of the Middle East and that is why the Western elite want to control it (and place a puppetregime there in replace of Al-Assad). We know about the boarder US-NATO-Israeli military agenda in theregion. They want to act as a bulwark against Iran, Russia, and China. There is a fight for the MiddleEastern and Central Asian oil reserves including strategic oil and gas pipelines. The neo-cons and theWestern elite have been involved in a regional political destabilization process (via the rebels and tokenpolitical organizations) all over the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and Central Asia. Therehas been failures made by the U.S. sponsored Al Qaeda insurgency in Syria that was launched back inMarch 2011. They have worked with mercenary forces as well. This insurgency has been funded andsupported by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Israel. Now, the stage is set for a conventional theater war

involving the deployment of air force too. The U.S. and its allies never had conclusive evidence ofclaiming that the Assad regime used Sarin gas against its own population. Yet, we do have conclusiveevidence that the rebels have not only killed Christians, Shias, Sunnis, etc. We have total conclusiveevidence that the rebels have used chemical weapons against civilians in Syria and the rebels have donewar crimes before. Some view this situation as similar to the Kosovo model (where NATO used organizedcrime groups and terrorists with links to Al-Qaeda as a means to break up Yugoslavia. The KosovoLiberation Army was used it was a terrorist group). There has been no conclusive evidence that the attackwas carried out on Assad's order even admitted by the AP: "...An intercept of Syrian military officialsdiscussing the strike was among low-level staff, with no direct evidence tying the attack back to anAssad insider or even a senior Syrian commander, the officials said...So while Secretary of State JohnKerry said Monday that links between the attack and the Assad government are undeniable, U.S.intelligence officials are not so certain that the suspected chemical attack was carried out onAssads orders, or even completely sure it was carried out by government forces, the officials

said..." (AP, August 29, 2013). The war on terror carried out by the US/NATO military arm extends intoAfrica, Central Asia, and throughout the Earth. If the strikes occur in Syria, it could expand the Syrianconflict into a regional war. Remember, America, Turkey, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, etc. are allied intheir agenda of trying to get regime change in Syria. Russia and Iran are military allies of Syria. Recentreports suggest that a cyber-warfare operation has been launched. Allied Special Forces are reported tohave entered Syrian territory from Jordan and Turkey. British Special Forces are reported to be searchingfor Syrian air defense systems in readiness for Allied strikes." Many Israelis are having gas masks,because of fears of a Syrian reprisal to a Western attack. We are in a crossroads since we have complexwar theaters of Afghanistan/Pakistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Libya. There are other wars as well. Such astrike can start the beginnings of WWIII. The civilian deaths made by the rebels are ignored by themainstream media and the Western elite as an excuse to justify imperialism on the faux guise of"humanitarian" grounds. We know that the MI6, the CIA, and Mossad including Western Special Forceshave integrated with the rebel forces from the start. An air campaign including a no fly zone directedagainst Syria has been envisaged since late 2011, largely in view of the failures underlying the US-NATOcovert war in support of opposition rebels, integrated by trained mercenaries.

So, NATO had secret plans for a no fly zone in Syria since 2011. Syria has an advance Russian S-300 airdefense system. Russian technical advisers have been in Syria since November 2011 to assist Syrians toset up an array of S-300 missiles. The weapons attack issue has come in the midst of the defeat of theU.S. sponsored Al Nusrah terrorist brigades by government forces. While there is absolutely no evidenceof the Syrian government having used chemical weapons against its population, there is evidence that theCIA sponsored Al Qaeda affiliated rebels have chemical weapons in their possession and that they arebeing trained by Western Special Forces in the use of chemical weapons by Western Special Forces. The


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United Nations Independent Mission confirms that Rebel Forces Are in Possession of Sarin NerveGas. The UN confirmed that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin according to one of itslead investigators. The mainstream media has been used in a propaganda campaign to claim thatSyria is using chemical weapons attacks against civilians. Many Western establishment liberalshave supported the NATO sponsored intervention. Some are the same ones who agreed with thewicked NATO intervention in Libya. They casually describe the US sponsored Al Qaeda affiliatedrebels (which are on the State Department list of terrorist organizations) as revolutionaries comparableto the landless movement in Brazil and the Zapatistas in the Chiapas region of Mexico. The reality is thatUS/NATO death squads (who were trained and recruited in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey) are harmingSyrian human beings. The ironic thing is that faux progressives advocating imperialism are similar to aNeocon Open Letter to President Barack Obama published in the Weekly Standard signed by ElliottAbrams, Paul Berman, Eliot A. Cohen, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, Bernard-Henri Levy, Karl Rove,among others (that called for a military intervention against Syria). Many human beings are opposed to amilitary strike. Not to mention that the rebels are beheading civilians. These rebels are not freedomfighters. They are terrorists plain and simple. There should be a peaceful settlement to end the Syriancivil war.

The war mongering in Syria remains. The G20 summit in St. Petersburg will soon pass. U.S. PresidentBarack Obama continues to outline his case for a military strike in Syria. He claims to be the moralconscience of the world and the upholder of international law. Yet, he is trying to be the spokesman for

the act of trying to justify unprovoked and illegal military strikes of aggression against Syria. The WhiteHouse believes that the USA has the right to attack another nation even if neither it nor its allies faceimminent attack (and if military action has not been sanctioned by the United Nations). Regardless of howyou feel about the U.N., this is a direct repudiation of the United Nations Charter. That charter definesunilateral and unprovoked actions as criminal act of military aggression. If a military strike comes about, itwill be another example of defiance of the post-World War II framework of international law (it is about theUnited States wanting to attack any country that it sees fit to do so). Explaining his decision to seekauthorization for the use of military force against Syria from the US Congress, Obama said, I could nothonestly claim that the threat posed by Assads use of chemical weapons on innocent civilians andwomen and children posed an imminent, direct threat to the United States I could not say that it wasimmediately directly going to have an impact on our allies. At another point he said, It is my view thatgiven Security Council paralysis on this issue, if we are serious about upholding a ban on chemicalweapons use, then an international response is required and that will not come through Security Council

action. Even the UN Security Council has placed its stamp of approval on many immoral wars like therecently US/NATO assault in Libya from March to October of 2011. Its members are divided on thequestion on what to do about Syria. We know that militarism done by Washington has been based onbrazen lies. There is no evidence that the use of chemical weapons was used by the Syrian regime (inthe August 2013 attack) as a means to kill innocent human life.

Even the UN inspectors had arrived in Damascus at Syria's invitation to investigate previous claims ofchemical weapons attacks. Many of the rebels are linked to al-Qaeda terrorists. The rebels are in thebrink of defeat, so now some want a military strike against the Syrian government. Many of the rebelshave killed innocent human life and some accuse the rebels of having chemical weapons and beingprepared to use them. The claim that it will be, as Obama repeated Friday was that these U.S. militarystrikes would be limited and proportionate. In this connection, it is worthwhile citing an article postedSeptember 3 on the Foreign Policyweb site by Bruce Ackerman, a well-known authority on USconstitutional law and professor at Yale University. Bruce wrote that the words in the draft of authorizationfor use of military force has language that can be used for extensive military involvement since it says thatthe President can act to deter the use or proliferation of chemical or other weapons of mass destruction(to protect American allies and partners). This is an endorsement of military intervention throughout theMiddle East and beyond. Washington cannot, moreover, conceal its own record of violating theinternational norms that Obama claims to be defendingfrom the nuclear holocaust of Hiroshima andNagasaki, to the saturation use of napalm and Agent Orange in Vietnam, to US support for SaddamHusseins use of chemical weapons against Iran in the 1980s, to the use of depleted uranium and whitephosphorus in Iraq. The Bush administration repudiated the Geneva Conventions in relation to prisonerscaptured in the so-called war on terror, opening the way for torture, indefinite detention, rendition, and


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drone assassinationsall of which have been continued and expanded under Obama. So, evil militarismshould not happen. We should fight austerity, war, and the destruction of our democratic rights. We havethe right to have political mobilization to seek freedom for all.

A SPECIAL NOTE: In our generation, we know about reactionaries and wicked Republicans. I haveexposed these reactionaries for years. They include human beings like Rush Limbaugh, Sean HannityGlen Beck, Laura Ingraham, Ted Nugent, Bill O'Reilly, etc. They are dead wrong on numerous domesticand foreign policy issues. We know this and we know the reactionaries sick agendas in the worldpresently. Now, it is clear that we should also expose counterfeit progressives as well. These are also

called Left Gatekeepers. They are used by the establishment as a means to try to gear folks into theDemocratic Party establishment (and they believe that the system needs just reform to changewithout revolutionary, outright changes to the system in general. Radical Structural andinstitutional changes must occur in order for us to be really free indeed ). In history, we knowof the genuine progressives or independent freedom lovers then and now. They include the names ofFred Hampton, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, Betty Shabazz, President Franklin D.Roosevelt (before he died), Malcolm X, Gloria Richardson, Betty Shabbaz, Kwame Ture, Paul Robeson,Henry Wallace (for a time), John Henrik Clarke, and others. The counterfeit progressives are those whoconsciously or unconsciously assist cartel-capitalists as a means to harm workers worldwide. It ismainstream capitalism (in its various forms) that is responsible for the Maafa, the extermination of NativeAmericans, ecological terrorism, and the other forms of harm done to humans worldwide. This is not justme writing these words. One of the greatest speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was when he was inChicago for the National Conference for New Politics in August 31, 1967. This was one of his most radical

speeches that he gave in his life. Dr. King said the following during this speech:

It is this moral lag in our thing-oriented society that blinds us to the human reality around us

and encourages us in the greed and exploitation which creates the sector of poverty in the midst

of wealth. Again we have diluted ourselves into believing the myth that Capitalism grew and

prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hardwork and sacrifice, the fact is that Capitalism was

built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation

of the poor both black and white, both here and abroad The time has come for America to


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face the inevitable choice between materialism and humanism. We must devote at least as much

to our childrens education and the health of the poor as we do to the care of our automobiles and

the building of beautiful, impressive hotels. We must also realize that the problems of racial

injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and

economic power And we say to our nation tonight, we say to our Government, we even say

to our FBI, we will not be harassed, we will not make a butchery of our conscious, we will notbe intimidated and we will be heard.

President Barack Obamas Historic Speech on Syria (in September 10, 2013)

President Barack Obama gave a historic speech on Syria. He said that the military strikes are possible ifdemands are not met. Many extremists still want to have war with Syria. Even the President had to rightlyadmit that America can't militarily intervene in every conflict in the world as a means to solve problems. It

is better to solve international problems with diplomacy and other peaceful methods not full scaleaggressive warfare. He spoke about Syria and foreign policy in general for 15 minutes. He wanted to formUN negotiations emerging from a Russian-Syrian offer to destroy Syria's chemical weapons as a politicalframework for launching a war. This has been in defiance of international law and the mass popularopposition in the United States. He repeated the claim that the Syrian government of Bashar Al-Assadwas responsible for the chemical weapons attack on August 21. There is no conclusive evidence for thatassumption. The assertion is unsubstantiated. The lurid images of the victims are tragic and should besympathized though. A military strike in Syria will cause disastrous consequences for the human beingsin the Middle East not just in Syria. Obama claimed that the strikes will be limited, but harming Assad'scapabilities is beyond limited, especially if large sections of the Syrian military including other institutionsare harmed. The United States military doesnt do pin pricks, he added. The resolution authorizing forcein Syria via the U.S. Congress will be difficult to pass. The President wanted negotiations over the Syrianand Russian offer to turn over Syria's chemical weapons to international monitors and then destroy them.Obama said he had asked Congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force, while we pursuethe diplomatic path. He explained, Ive spoken to the leaders of two of our closest alliesFrance andthe United Kingdomand we will work together in consultation with Russia and China to put forward aresolution at the UN Security Council requiring Assad to give up his chemical weapons and to ultimatelydestroy them under international control Meanwhile, Ive ordered our military to maintain their currentposture to keep the pressure on Assad and to be in a position to respond if diplomacy fails. The Frenchgovernments want to have an UN resolution to allow military action against Syria as an enforcementmechanism. Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted that an UN resolution should not authorize militaryaction against Syria. Russia later cancelled an UN Security Council meeting it had called for Tuesday. He


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said that the U.S. military was standing by to launch air strikes at a moment's notice. The warships in theMediterranean would maintain their current posture to keep the pressure on Assad.

If diplomacy fails, the White House is prepared to strike Syria. If Washington wants to stop Syria fromusing chemical weapons, why it is continuing to press for strikes after the Syrian government has pledgedto give them up. America ironically is supporting opposition militias whom some have ties to Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda linked forced led the U.S. backed opposition militias. They are fighting the Syrian army and theseforces are facing defeat. They will profit from an U.S. attack aimed at disabling and destroying the Syrianmilitary. So, this relates to the fact that Washington claiming to be fighting a global war on terror againstAl Qaeda is politically fraudulent. If such a strike comes about, it can cause a regional confrontation in theMiddle East (with Assad being allied with Iran and Russia). The militias are funded by U.S., European,and Middle Eastern allies. In 2003, we were told lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Even thePresident had to admit the following: The Assad regime does not have the ability to seriously threatenour military Neither Assad nor his allies have any interest in escalation that would lead to his demise.Yet this demonstrates precisely that Syria poses no danger to US security, and that Obamas pretext forwar is a fraud and the planned war is illegal. The military industrial complex has lied before and theycontinue to lie now. The political establishment, some in the mainstream media, etc. is wrong to advancethe agenda of possible military strikes in Syria. There is the discussion about an UN resolution to handlethe Syrian crisis as it deals with chemical weapons. We will see what the future holds.

The Agenda

The agenda behind the possible U.S. military strike on Syria is known now. Many elites want Syrianpipelines and their strategic resources. We know that America started to support the Syrian oppositionyears before any uprising had occurred there. 4-Star General Wesley Clark was told right after 9/11 that Pentagon officials planned to attack 7 countries in 5 years including Iraq, Libya and Syria.General Wesley Clark admitted these words in his following words: "...About ten days after 9/11, Iwent through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I wentdownstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of

the generals called me in. He said, Sir, youve got to come in and talk to me a second. I said, Well,youre too busy. He said, No, no. He says, Weve made the decision were going to war with Iraq. Thiswas on or about the 20th of September...So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by thattime we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, Are we still going to war with Iraq? And he said,Oh, its worse than that. He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And hesaid, I just got this down from upstairs meaning the Secretary of Defenses office today.And he said, This is a memo that describes how were going to take out seven countries in fiveyears, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.Wesley Clark admitted that the planning for regime change in Syria and 6 other countries was started by1991 at the latest. He or Clark admitted that he had a meeting with Paul Wolfowitz (he was the


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Undersecretary of Defense for Policy or the number 3 position at the Pentagon). Wesley Clark askedWolfowitz about if he happy with performance of the troops in Desert Storm. Wolfowitz told him thefollowing: "...Yeah, but not really, because the truth is we should have gotten rid of Saddam Hussein, andwe didnt But one thing we did learn [from the Persian Gulf War] is that we can use our military in theregion in the Middle East and the Soviets wont stop us. And weve got about 5 or 10 years to cleanup those old Soviet client regimes Syria, Iran, Iraq before the next great superpower comes on tochallenge us. We know that the U.S. and British governments considered using a false flag attack 50years ago to topple the Syrian regime. We know that many of the Syrian rebels are terrorists and filledwith other hardliners. We know that a top U.S. military commander said that an attack would be both riskyand expensive (and that he can't even say why we'd go to war with Syria). His name is General MartinDempsey (or the Joint Chiefs Chairman). Many troops and military officers and Pentagon war plannersoppose an attack on Syria. The U.S. and Britain have used chemical weapons in the last 10 years andthey supported the largest chemical weapons attack in history, but they cannot find conclusive evidencethat the Syrian government used chemical weapons in the August attack. Also, an attack on Syria is anact of war being a violation of international law point, blank, period. This attack will grow corporateinterests not us the people collectively at all. We know that many fighters joining al Nusra came fromabroad including those from the recently decimated Libya (where a significant arsenal of chemicalweapons have fallen into the hands of a sectarian extremist government, which is funding and armingterrorists in Syria). The Republican Senator John McCain has, for several years, been supporting andmingling with Al Qaeda commanders in the field in blatant violation of international law as well as in

breach of US anti-terrorism legislation.One of the rebels leading figures was Abdel Hakim Belhaj (picturebelow), a member of the defunct Libyan Islamic Fighting Group LIFG), a terrorist organization on both theUN Security Council and the US State Department lists. It is sick for some to invoke dead children as ameans to justify militarism. Making Syria a puppet client state of the West including their sellout Gulfstates is in league with corporate financier interests.

The Empire has blinked. There is still the wicked war on terrorism after the U.S. deal with Syria.The deal was brokered by Russia and America. Twelve years since the atrocity of 9/11 (whichmany call it a false flag operation), we are still not free. Since 9/11, we have seen the Anglo-American empire do atrocities and manufacture leis as a means to destroy nation after nation.We witness the endless global war on terror or the GWOT. We have seen the attemptedconquest of Afghanistan. That was the first stage. The GWOT and the lies about weapons of

mass destruction or WMD led to the toppling and seizure of Iraq and beyond. Then, there werethe continuous military provocations and the CIA-led regime changes in Libya and Egypt. Weknow that Syria and Iran have been systematically destabilized. This agenda of war mongeringcontinues. Central Asia and the Middle East have experienced chaos. Nations have been gutted.The Empire is seeking to have petro-economic domination of the world's resources includinglasting geo-strategic control. Desperate military violence and brute force did not change the factthat folks are still fighting for recoverable oil and gas. The days of mainstream capitalism arecoming to an end. The economy in the world is still struggling. We have internal stress and theU.S. government has issues with economy. Much of mainstream society is morally bankrupt.The war on terrorism is evil and it has fallen apart. The truth is known and more human beingsare waking up about the truth. The CIA still struggles with its own Al-Qaeda assets. Al-Qaeda

struggles with other Al-Qaeda. The lie about the war on terrorism had become obvious to all ofus. We see the Al-Qaeda military intelligence assets being employed in the world since the endof the Cold War. These very assets and propaganda instruments were used in 9/11. So, CIAfunded assets helped to engineer the 9/11 inside job. Many troops now are even refusing to fightfor Al-Qaeda in Syria. The current White House has been exposed as a continuation of theBush/Cheney machine. Some of the policies of the current administration in some of its foreignpolicies are worse than policies under the Bush years. The American populace is mostly sick ofwar. We have the malaise that derailed the Vietnam War. Yet, both Democrats and Republicans


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seek warfare and other forms of wicked militarism in society. Syria is in danger. Syria could beattacked for real next year. The West wants the Assad government to end and be replaced witha puppet regime. The West and their CIA/Al-Qaeda rebels have failed in causing regime changein Syria now. There is no evidence that Syria have utilized mass chemical weapons in the recentAugust attack. The negotiations brokered by Russia could delay a military strike. Given that

Russia is the Anglo-American empires main long-term adversary (along with China) for finalglobal dominance, Russian involvement is proof that the Anglo-American empires hand is notonly weak, but that its long-term agenda is meeting with resistance that did not exist a decadeago. Simply put, they are being outhustled. The West wants Syria to destroy its entire chemicalweapons stockpile. The rebels' war crimes against civilians in Syria have been heavily ignored bymost of the mainstream media. A disarmed and politically weakened Syria has been the goal ofthe West (with possible partition. Russia has allowed itself to negotiate with Westernimperialists). The Syrian rebels are so extreme that they categorically reject any diplomaticsolution. Skulls and Bonesman John Kerry is allied with these rebels. America has no right to usean illegal, unilateral bombing of another sovereign state, which especially poses no direct threatto American soil at all. We still have been seeing this war on terror since Barack Obamaappointed Robert Ford to the Ambassadorship in Syria. We have troops on the ground trainingterrorist mercenaries in Jordan and Turkey. They are training the cowardly criminals who blowup buses and Mosques and Churches in order to destabilize the country. We call inunconventional warfare in the Special Ops division of our military rank and file. This isWestern terrorism plain and simple. We have imperialism overseas and neofeudalism at homewith record income inequality.

The Kenyan Mall Attack

The deadly assault in Nairobi, Kenya was tragic. The upscale mall in Kenya was harmed byterrorists. The media portrayed the violence as being a product of mindless fanatics. Theterrorist act was evil and unjustified. The roots of the situation deal with Western intervention inSomalia to a great degree. The Kenyan government carried out a military intervention inSomalia with the blessing of the USA. This is the same war on terror action that may haveescalated the mall attack. Kenyan troops with help from Israeli commandos recaptured theWestgate mall on Tuesday four days after an assault by 10 to 15 heavily armed Islamistmilitants. The Somali based Al Shabab militia took responsibility for the attack. It killed morethan 60 human beings and injured more than 170. Some believe that British and American Al


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Shabab members have participate in the attack. Since English is heavily spoken in Kenya asKenya was once ruled by England, some of the attackers spoke English. Al Shabab claimedthat it wanted to punish Kenya for its 2011 invasion and continued occupation of southernSomalia. The nature of Al Shabab's target, a shopping center frequented by foreign tourists,attests to the narrowness of Shabab's aims--the tourism industry is Kenya's largest source offoreign exchange. Some want Kenya to work closer with America in anti-terrorism policies. The

U.S. military and its spy agencies work closely in the region. They work in nations like Uganda,Kenya, and Rwanda. These nations sent troops to occupy Somalia after the U.S. backedEthiopian invasion of 2006. As the New York Timesnoted during the siege at the mall, "Kenya isa crucial American partner, whose security forces work closely with their Western counterpartsto contain Islamist militants in the region." Even the current Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta isindicted now by the International Criminal Court for financing and directing death squads duringthe violence that killed more than 1,200 human beings (and uprooted hundreds of thousandsafter the disputed 2007 election. He is the son of Kenya's prominent founder Jomo Kenyatta).Uhuru is one of the richest men in Africa. President Barack Obama skipped a trip to Kenya,because of Kenyatta. After the attack, he telephoned Kenyatta to reaffirm the strong partnershipbetween America and Kenya.

For years, U.S. operatives have been used in Somalia. Once, Americans supported the Somalidictator Barre. Later, when the Cold War was over, clans overthrew Said Barre. Somalia is ruledby private fiefdoms. Once America supported warlord Mohammaeed Farah Aidid, but he desiredindependence. This influenced the famous Battle of Mogadishu, in which 18 U.S. SpecialForces troops died. Black Hawk Down was a film that talked about this battle in harsh detail.According to Somali specialist Stig Hansen, who wrote Al-Shabaab in Somalia, some of theSomali fighters were veterans of the U.S. proxy war in the 1980s against the Soviet occupationof Afghanistan. The United States and Saudi Arabia had financed and coordinated this firstmajor venture into "international jihad," drawing Muslim militants from around the world, whichgained fighting experience and brought an international outlook back to their home countrieswhen they returned. Some of these Somali veterans of the Afghan war were later founders of AlShabab. Militias rule Somalia now. There is harsh poverty, lack of health care, etc. inside of

Somalia. Al Shabab developed in ca. 2005. So, now we see that Al Shabab wants morerecruits. The whole situation is all in the war on terror era with AFRICOM involved in fighting inAfrica too. AFRICOM is an imperialist operation that seeks to grow Western hegemony inside ofthe Motherland.


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Counterfeit Progressives

They or the counterfeit progressives are readily accepted on reactionary news agencies. Mainstreamcapitalism uses a feudal base and exploits the resources of humanity globally.It readily harms theeconomic rights and achievements that the common people made over the course ofhuman history. The Sister Michelle Alexander documents in her "The New Jim Crow"book that thenew Jim Crow prison industrial complex harms the black community. The private prison system usescapital exploitation all of the time against exploited humanity. The prison industrial complex, as bothMichelle Alexander and Angela Y. Davis notes, are also part of the process for re-establishing racial castein new forms. For if you are praised and supported by the world (in a sick fashion), then you are of theworld. Even some in MSNBC nearly worship the current Presidency of Barack Obama even on austerityissues (since nearly every single major host on that show has agreed with Obama and Boehnercompromising as a means to agree with budget cuts in the social safety net) and most of these hostsagree with the war mongering on Syria. FOX News is still worse than MSNBC in my opinion since at leastMSNBC does not scapegoat the black community as FOX has. I still have more respect for folks like

Tamron Hall, Angela Rye, Melissa Harris Perry than Bill OReilly, Sean Hannity, and Neil Cavuto. At leastTamron Hall, Angela Rye, and Melissa Harris Perry talk about the evils in the criminal justice system orthe problems of poverty in America (in a mature, rational, and progressive fashion). FOX News isreactionary news central with their propaganda and their grotesque war mongering advancements. Manyof the Left Gatekeepers are funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation (whosehistory is filled with counterrevolutionary actions. The Rockefeller family has been linked to a one world

agenda, eugenics, unjust monopolies, and other reactionary actions for decades). We can neversupport imperialism regardless if a Republican is President or a Democrat is President .Now, the counterfeit progressives back then opposed Bush's imperialism and now they want modernAmerican imperialism and even NSA warrantless spying to occur. This is outstanding hypocrisy on thepart of these counterfeit progressives. The mainstream media outlets (ruled by corporate power and havelinks to the CFR including other slick think tanks globally), TV news media, and other instruments ofdeception express approval of Wall Street actions and they love mainstream predatory capitalism.

America is being transformed into a placed where tyranny is justified in a smiling face, but the face of themachine is filled with lies including deception. You cannot have a jobs plan that loot funds from SocialSecurity and other social service programs that will have trouble creating jobs. We live presently in a

fascistic and predatory economic system now (for it was a capitalist junta was responsible forthe war on terror after 9/11, the 2008 terrorist attack on the American economy, the 2013brutal deaths of workers recently in Bangladesh, etc.). We know that imperialism, banksterbailouts, regime change wars, and austerity measures are harming the nations of the world including thepeoples of the world. Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street based banking institutions fund themainstream political establishment in America. That is why the real populists want to replace the evil


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system with a cooperative, commonwealth system (including other alternatives) where all of the peoplebenefit in society. Community based democratic cooperatives are things that I have no issue with.

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*We need to continue to fight for economic justice. We ought to continue to advocate forracial justice including Justice in general for the entire human race. We should continueto oppose war and advocate peace. You know that I will always hold it down and presentthe truth to the masses of the people. In the final analysis, it is all about the people. So,peace to the real members of the human race. So, I will continue to love. I love the Sisterstoo. It is the fact of human power that is important not the embrace of horrendousprejudices and adolescent bigotry. I will keep on fighting for justice.


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Appendix A: The Iranian Nuclear Deal

Iran and Western powers have reached a nuclear deal. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifsaid that Iran and the world powers have finally agreed on a long awaited deal on Tehran's nuclearenergy program. There were days of intense talks in Geneva. President Barack Obama has talked aboutthe deal in his press conference recently. He said that this is a great step in the direction of avertingdisaster in the region. The reactionaries in other nations and in Congress hate the deal completely.French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and European Union foreign policy Chief Catherine Ashton'sspokesman, Michael Mann, also announced a nuclear agreement with Iran. The Iranian foreign ministeralso said that the nuclear crisis is abating. The deal was announced on Saturday night. There wereintense nuclear talks between Tehran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.These members are Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States (including Germany). It wasoriginally scheduled to end on Friday entered into the fifth day. The interim deals allows for Iran tocontinue its activities in its nuclear sites of its cities of Arak, Fordo, and Natanz. The Iranian ForeignMinistry said that the agreement stipulates that no additional sanctions will be imposed on Iran due to itsnuclear energy program. Iran gets access to 4.2 billion dollars USD in foreign exchange as part of the

nuclear deal.

Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi said that the agreement recognizes the country'senrichment program. Araqchi is Iran's top nuclear negotiator. Araqchi had earlier emphasized that Tehrancould not accept any deal that did not recognize Iran's enrichment right. The landmark agreement wasreached in Tehran's third nuclear negotiations with the world powers since Iranian President HassanRouhani took office in August. The agreement in summary dealt with the six month agreement slowsIran's nuclear development program in exchange for lifting some sanctions. "For the first time in nearly adecade, we have halted the progress of the Iranian nuclear program, and key parts of the program will berolled back," Obama said late Saturday night. President Vladimir Putin said that the deal was balancedand will be a positive factor in Middle East relations. He said that Russia had proposed earlier principlesof gradualism and reciprocity. "The IAEA welcomes the agreement reached in Geneva, which is anotherimportant step forward following the agreement reached between the Agency and Iran on 11 November in

Tehran," Yukiya Amano, director general of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, said in a statement. "With theagreement of the IAEA's Board of Governors, the Agency will be ready to fulfil its role in verifying theimplementation of nuclear related measures." Israel and other Sunni dominated nations (except Egypt)fear that the deal was a mistake. The reality is that the deal is better than imperialist warfare.

The reactionary Republicans hate the deal as being premature and detrimental to a real solution to theIranian issue. In the deal, the U.S., Britain and their puppet regimes across the globe have agreed toease some of the harshest sanctions on Iran, freeing up 6 to 7 billion in oil revenues they illegally stolefrom the country, while Iran agreed to a 6 month freeze on nuclear enrichment and tighter inspections bythe IAEA. Netanyahu is a blatantly reactionary and an extremist. He is allied with Lukidnites and he is not


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representative of the progressive genuine Jewish and Arabic folks in the world that want genuine peace inthe globe. The Saudi-Israeli alliance could not defeat the deal. The Saudi-Israeli alliance, with itscombination of wealth and oil on the Saudi side and propaganda and lobbying on the Israeli side, hasrepresented a new pole testing out its combined strength against the more traditional powers ofWashington and Moscow. This is an interim deal. Yet, the signing represents an historic achievement, thefirst time the United States and Iran have joined in a formal diplomatic pact since the Iranian revolution of1979. Obama and Putin worked together on the deal. This deal is certainly better than a militaristic Shockand awe militaristic campaign against Iran. Every nation has the right to have legitimate economicdevelopment period. Iran says that they do not want to create a nuclear bomb. This deal is better thansome military strike against Iran. The war hawks still think that this deal is extreme and appeasement,which is silliness. The bad news is that deal is temporary for a six month period. It doesn't go far enough(in respecting the human rights of the Iranian people) and it can be reversible. It is obvious that Irandeserves peace not war. Yet, this deal never justifies the current, criminal Western imperialism that is stillgoing on in the world. We should always condemn imperialism, unjust wars, Africom, and other evils thatrelate to current Western foreign policy. We know that the CIA (and other nefarious entities) committedterrorism, coups, assassinations, and other evils for decades. We should continue to oppose imperialismin the world.

By Timothy

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