Cui Bono? by Tony Cartalucci Imagine you are an embattled regime fighting against a rising tide of foreign-funded protesters. The entire world is watching, one nation is already under creeping foreign invasion for “waging war against his own people,” your nation has been warned that it is next and has been on a 20 year waiting list for regime change, and your opposition is gathering to bury dead protesters from a recent clash with security forces. What do you do? Stage concealed snipers in multiple buildings and randomly shoot at mourners ensuring a very public, internationally sensationalized bloodbath that will unequivocally escalate both the protests ……. [Full Post]
By Stephen Gowans – What’s Left Peace scholars are concerned with the question of how to achieve victory, which is to say peace on the terms of whatever side they support, without using violence. They come in two sizes: moralists and instrumentalists. The moralists abhor violence on moral grounds, while the instrumentalists see both violence and non-violence as tools but believe there are circumstances where non-violence has greater instrumental value, that is, is more likely to bring about victory at lower cost. For example, it’s not always possible to take political power by invading another country. And where it is possible, the expense in blood ……. [Full Post]
What do you know about the Bilderberg Group?
by Thierry Meyssan – VoltaireNet An improvement to the Google translation from the French of the original VoltaireNet article For several years, the idea has spread that the Bilderberg Group is an embryo world government. Having had access to the archives of this very secret club, Thierry Meyssan shows that this description is a red herring used to mask the true identity and function of the Group: Bilderberg is a creation of NATO. It aims to convince leaders and to manipulate public opinion through them to make it adhere to the concepts and actions of the Atlantic Alliance. Each year since 1954, one hundred of ……. [Full Post]
Libyan Rebels Fighting the Globalists’ War
How the Devil pays. by Tony Cartalucci – Land destroyer As the global corporate-financier oligarchs prepare the way rhetorically and logistically to send in the ground troops we were told would never set foot on Libyan soil, in a war that was only to last days, then weeks, but now over a month, the discernment, ambition, and true intentions of the Libyan rebels must be called into question. After rebel leader Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi admitted to being trained in Afghanistan and subsequently fighting American troops there, and admitting many of the rebel fighters now joining him in Libya had similarly returned from Afghanistan as well as ……. [Full Post]
By Trowbridge H. Ford When big strategic conspiracies are programmed, like triggering showdowns with the Soviets by assassinating President Kennedy or Sweden’s statsminister Olof Palme, so much has to be connected for them to work as planned that they almost invariably go wrong – what makes critics of conspiracy theories deny that they ever existed. The killing can go wrong, accidents can happen, agents in the know can decide to become turncoats, intended scapegoats can somehow turn sour, and the intended targets can manage to figure out through its own intelligence services what is afoot, and take appropriate countermeasures. As a result, when the conspirators ……. [Full Post]
By James Petras The bailouts of banks, speculators and manufacturers served their real purposes: the multi-millionaires became billionaires and the later became multi-billionaires. Introduction According to the annual report of the business magazine Forbes there are 1,210 individuals – and in many cases family clans – with a net value of $1 billion dollars (or more). There total net worth is $4 trillion, 500 billion dollars, greater than the combined worth of 4 billion people in the world. The current concentration of wealth exceeds any previous period in history; from King Midas, the Maharajahs, and the Robber Barons to the recent Silicon Valley – Wall ……. [Full Post]
Protecting Profits from an Outbreak of Peace
Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy sent a message to the African Union in their jointly written April 14 op-ed: They’ll block any attempt to negotiate peace in Libya that doesn’t include Gaddafi’s ouster and the opening of Libya’s economy. By Stephen Gowans On April 14 US president Barak Obama, British prime minister David Cameron and French president Nicolas Sarkozy wrote an op-ed titled “Libya’s pathway to peace.” Appearing in the International Herald Tribune and two other newspapers, the op-ed set out US, British and French goals for Libya. One would be peace, but the pathway was to be Gaddafi’s exit, and his replacement by the Benghazi ……. [Full Post]
BBC, Libya, & Cluster Bombs
Globalists want to expand Libya war – rhetoric fortuitously changes in tandem. by Tony Cartalucci The ink was not even dry on the joint op-ed in New York Times written under the names of Obama, Sarkozy, and Cameron, when justification for their proposed expansion of the conflict was conveniently rolled out for public consumption. Reports by the corporate-financier funded Human Rights Watch immediately followed up calls to expand the mandate in Libya, claiming “cluster bombs” were being used in the city of Misrata. The Libyan government has denied these allegations stating that, “To use these bombs, the evidence would remain for days and weeks, and ……. [Full Post]
Libya:The Hard-Sell is coming
New York Times op-ed piece by Obama, Sarkozy, and Cameron by Tony Cartalucci When presidents are writing editorials in newspapers a hard-sell is just around the corner. Judging by the recent tripartite op-ed in the New York Times by Obama, Sarkozy, and Cameron regarding Libya, the hard-sell is most likely a protracted air campaign above Libya with an ever increasing ground presence below possibly leading to an all out invasion. Clearly the operation in Libya will exceed the “days or weeks, but not months” we were told it would take. Predictably the UNSC r.1973 mandate of “protecting civilians” has “mission crept” into providing air cover ……. [Full Post]
When War Games Go Live
“Staging” a “Humanitarian War” against “SOUTHLAND” – Under an Imaginary UN Security Council Resolution 3003 by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research Readers are invited to think and reflect on the logic of military planning. Military operations of this size and magnitude are never improvised. The war on Libya as well as the armed insurrection were planned months prior to the Arab protest movement… Libya, 19 March 2011 No Fly Zone under Security Council Resolution 1973. a “Humanitarian War” is Launched. We were led to believe that the protest movement in Egypt and Tunisia had spread to Libya. And that the insurrection in Libya was ……. [Full Post]