New geopolitical orientation completed: What do the killings of Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi have in common?
Posted: October 28, 2011 Filed under: Human Rights, II Cold War, Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: Gas, International Criminal Tribunal, Iraq, Libya, Media, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Multinational Corporations, NATO, Oil, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Soviet Union, UN Sanctions, USA, Yugoslavia 10 Commentsby Hannes Hofbauer
Published: Oct. 27, 2011 – Strategic Culture Foundation
On the 20th of October 2011, late afternoon, international news agencies reported the death of Muammar al-Gaddafi. He was killed by some rebels in his hometown Sirte, after NATO-bombs hit his convoy. Only two days later US-president Barack Obama in Washington and NATO-officials in Brussels declared to stop the war on Libya that had lasted for almost eight months. Mission completed.
At this moment of time there was hardly anyone left who believed in the official version legitimating the foreign intervention. UN-resolution 1973 from the 17th of March 2011 empowered a coalition of willing states around NATO to intervene militarily in a regional uprising to build a shelter over the civic population, to protect civilians. The opposite was the case. In these eight months NATO flew 9600 sorties causing an innumerable figure of deaths, both soldiers and civilians. Regional uprising thereby accelerated towards a civil war. The aim of the NATO-intervention did not even respect the text of UN-resolutions 1973 and 1970.
Libya: “The Price of Freedom”
Posted: April 28, 2011 Filed under: Economy, Human Rights, Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power | Tags: Iraq, Libya, Media, NATO, Obama's Wars, Oil, UN Sanctions, Wikipedia 12 CommentsTranslation from German by John Catalinotto
Original article: Libyen – Überlegungen zum drohenden „Preis der Freiheit“
by Joachim Guilliard
Published: Apr. 27, 2011 – Global Research
Libya has the highest living standard in Africa. The “United Nations Development Program (UNDP) confirms that the country has excellent prospects for achieving United Nations development goals by 2015. NATO’s war will have already dashed those hopes. A collapse like the one in Iraq now threatens the country.
There has been little reaching the European public in the past few years about Libya, whose relationship with the West had normalized. European leaders met with their Libyan counterpart Muammar al-Gadhafi often and business flourished. In the course of preparation for war, the country was suddenly transformed into the most evil dictatorship. Even many war opponents accepted this characterization as their own and now want to overthrow the “tyrant.”
U.S. Responsible for Human Toll of Iraq Sanctions
Posted: December 24, 2010 Filed under: Human Rights | Tags: Civilian Casualties, Iraq, UN Sanctions 7 Commentsby Joy Gordon
Published: Dec. 23, 2010 – Common Dreams
Last week the U.N. Security Council voted to lift the sanctions that it imposed on Iraq 20 years ago. Vice President Joe Biden hailed the occasion as “an end to the burdensome remnants of the dark era of Saddam Hussein.”
What he did not say was that the sanctions were more than burdensome. They triggered a humanitarian crisis that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children, and the collapse of every system necessary to sustain human life in a modern society. And he certainly did not mention that among all the nations on the Security Council, it was the U.S. — and the U.S. alone — that ensured that this human damage would be massive and indiscriminate.
USA’s Global Military Dominance: Real Reason for Sanctions Against Iran
Posted: February 15, 2010 Filed under: Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: Full Spectrum Dominance, Iran, Israeli Nuclear Program, Nuclear Weapons, UN Sanctions, USA 6 Comments
by Eric Sommer
Published: Feb. 15, 2010 – Pravda.ru
The U.S.-sponsored drive to impose new economic sanctions on Iran has nothing to do with the noble cause of limiting proliferation of nuclear weapons on the planet. It is directly linked to the U.S. military doctrine of establishing ‘full spectrum dominance’ – i.e., military dominance on land, sea, air, and outer space over all other countries in the world. The logical extension of this doctrine is that only countries firmly allied to the U.S. government should be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons or to even develop the capacity to do so.
Israel , for example, is widely-believed to hold secret Nuclear weapons. Yet there is no call for sanctions or investigations of them. The reason is simple: They are a U.S. ally. India and Pakistan have declined to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and have developed nuclear weapons. Yet there is no call for sanctions or investigations of them. The reason is simple: They are U.S. allies.
Mossadegh and Ahmadinejad
Posted: February 3, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: CIA Coups, CIA Destabilization Operations, Iran, UK, UN Sanctions, USA 1 CommentIran faces almost the same dilemma as 1953
by Ardeshir Ommani
First Published: Feb. 01, 2010 – Iranian
There is a stark similarity between some aspects of the political atmosphere dominant over Iran today and those under Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh right before the U.S.-led coup of 1953 that resulted in the overthrow of the legitimate government of Iran and the establishment of a U.S.-puppet government of the Shah. In the period between 1951-53, the U.S. in a close collaboration with the British colonial power through their channels within Iran’s military and political apparatus, particularly the Shah’s court, was able to contrive division within the ruling circle and as a result the society at large.
The U.S.-U.K. sanctions of Iran’s oil export at the time pursued a multitude of purposes: political instability, economic hardship, and international isolation. In the final year of Mossadegh’s rule, the government was unable to pay the salaries of the civil servants in full, which had resulted in resentment towards the Prime Minister’s policy of oil nationalism and his capability to rule. Secondly, Iran could not import consumer and industrial goods necessary for maintaining the normal course of economic and social reproduction. Thirdly, a layer of the ruling class whose interests were the extension of the U.S.-U.K. domination over Iran’s natural resources and political system, made every effort to turn the wheels back or make the political system unmanageable. As a result, during the first eight months of 1953, Iran was in constant political turmoil and the ground was being prepared for a coup d’etat by the forces hostile to Iran’s nationalization plan, as well as to its independent direction in its domestic and foreign policies.
War Criminals Peddle “Humanitarian” Aid for Haiti
Posted: January 18, 2010 Filed under: Human Rights, Imperial Power, Propaganda, War Crimes, World Hegemony | Tags: Afghanistan, Bush, Civilian Casualties, Clinton, Crimes Against Humanity, Haiti, International Banksters, Iraq, Media, Pakistan, UN Sanctions 13 Comments
by Kurt Nimmo
First Published: Jan. 17, 2010 – Infowars
On Sunday, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush mounted the corporate media propaganda platform and complained about the politicization of the Haitian relief effort.
Clinton said the devastating earthquake offers a chance to put aside politics and help people in despair. “I’d say now is not the time to focus on politics,” said Bush in an interview taped Saturday for CBS’ “Face the Nation” when the ex-presidents’ visited the White House in response to Obama’s call for a “bipartisan effort” to help Haiti.
Clinton and Bush were responding to Rush Limbaugh who said he did not trust the administration to use money donated via the White House website for earthquake victims.
The disaster “reminds us of our common humanity. It reminds us of needs that go beyond fleeting disagreements,” said Clinton.
Fine words coming from one of the world’s foremost war criminals. Not only did Bill Clinton terror bomb to death an untold number of people in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, he also facilitated death squads in Colombia. He is responsible for bombing a crucial pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan. He helped the United Nations kill 500,000 Iraqi children. Bill Clinton’s favorite targets were the sort of poor people he is now claiming to help in Haiti.
Depleted Uranium – Iraq
Posted: December 18, 2009 Filed under: War Crimes | Tags: Crimes Against Humanity, Depleted Uranium, Iraq, UN Sanctions, US Army, You Tube Videos 12 CommentsJune 1999
The effects of fallout from depleted uranium shells used in the First Gulf War is a matter of controversy. What is the reality of DU pollution in Iraq?
In the hospitals of Basra doctors are speaking of a crime against humanity. Flicking though his casebook from the last four years, Doctor Abdul Karin shows pictures of babies born without skin, with over-sized heads and with noses where a mouth should be. Doctors here firmly point the finger of blame at the Allies’ use of Depleted Uranium shells during the Gulf War. Over a million rounds of the weapon were fired during the short and decisive round of bombing. Favoured for its armour piercing qualities, a DU bomb penetrates its target with intense radioactive heat, incinerating its victims. “It’s …a flash, bang sort of toaster,” describes Nuclear Consultant John Range. Once detonated DU particles remain radioactive for 4000 million years. Irradiated particles travel on the wind polluting water and soil and entering the food chain.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3yc3k0LBuQ
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Posted: December 4, 2009 Filed under: Human Rights, Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power, War Crimes, World Hegemony | Tags: CIA, CIA Coups, CIA Destabilization Operations, CIA Drug Operations, Crimes Against Humanity, Depleted Uranium, Documentaries, Iran, Iraq, Latin America, Operation Paperclip, School of the Americas, UN Sanctions, US Army, Vietnam War 32 CommentsThe history of the terrorism conducted by the CIA, since the end of the World War II when countries in Asia and Latin America, were trying to make changes to improve their economical and political situation, the Unite States of North America realized that it was not good for their status as new super power; and began a new campaign, with only one rule, Anything Goes. This is the story of the terrorism of the CIA.
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