Why the Present Depression Will Be Deeper than the Great Crash of 1929

(June 4, 2009)

Galbraith’s conclusions about the causes of the Great Depression point to why the current Depression will be deeper.

Continuing our analysis of The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith: by understanding the causes of the Great Depression as elucidated by Galbraith, we can observe the differences between the present and 1929. These reveal why today’s Depression will be even deeper than the 1929-1941 one and why today’s policy “fixes” as pursued by that great student of Depression, Ben Bernanke, are fighting the last war–a Keynesian stimulus strategy doomed to catastrophic failure.

I hesitate to call this topic “important” because such announcements instantly cut my readership in half. Thus I am inclined to call this topic “edgy,” “explosive” and “contrarian,” all of which sound more interesting than “important” (yawn).

Galbraith begins his exploration of causes by noting that “economics does not allow final answers on these matters. But, as usual, something can be said.”

First, he demolishes the notion that abundant credit caused a speculative orgy.

The long-accepted explanation that credit was easy and so people were impelled to borrow money to buy common stocks on margin is obviously nonsense. (page 169) On numerous occasions before and since credit has been easy, and there has been no speculation whatever. Furthermore, much of the 1928 and 1929 speculation occured on money borrowed at interest rates which would have been considered especially astringent.

Far more important that rate of interest and supply of the credit is the mood. Speculation on a large scale requires a pervasive sense of confidence and optimism and conviction that ordinary people were meant to be rich. (emphasis added, CHS)

Next, Galbraith looks to the wellspring of credit which has been virtually nonexistent in our current speculative boom: savings. (Or at least domestic i.e. U.S. savings.)

Savings must also be plentiful. If savings are growing rapidly, people will place a lower marginal value on their accumulation; they will be willing to risk some of it against the prospect of a greatly enhanced return.

Speculative excess is somewhat self-regulating–or should be unless manipulated by the very state which is pledged to protect the economy from such excesses. Galbraith notes:

Finally, a speculative outbreak has a greater or less immunizing effect. The ensuing collapse automatically destroys the very mood speculation requires.

Moving from the causes of speculative excess to that of Depression, Galbraith rejects a cyclical cause: “No inevitable rhythm required the collapse and stagnation of 1930-1940.”

As for the business cycle–expansion of plant, credit and inventory once over-extended, requires a contraction to restore balance–Galbraith grants it viability, but he rejects it as the cause of the Depression:

In 1929 the labor force was not tired; it could have continued to produce indefinitely at the best 1929 rate. The capital plant of the country was not depleted. In the preceding years of prosperity, plant had been renewed and improved.

Finally, the high production of the twenties did not, as some have suggested, outrun the wants of the people. There is no evidence that their desire for automobiles, clothing, travel. recreation or even food was sated. A depression was not needed so that people’s wants could catch up to their capacity to produce.

So then what did trigger the Great Depression? Galbraith sets aside the speculative collapse itself for a moment and digs for problems in the real economy. He begins by noting worker productivity rose by 43% between 1919 and 1929 even as wages, salaries and prices all remained comparatively stable. This enabled increasing profits, which due to the large income disparities of the era, flowed largely to the well-to-do.

What did the wealthy do with this new-found capital?

A large and increasing investment in capital goods was a principal device by which the profits were spent. (page 175) It follows that anything that interrupted the investment outlays–anything, indeed, which kept them from showing the neessary rate of increase–could cause trouble.

The effect, therefore of insufficient investment–investment that failed to keep pace with the steady increase in profits–could be falling total demand reflected in turn in falling orders and output.

As I understand this, the proximate cause was a vast income disparity which placed much of the prosperous era’s profits in the hands of a small wealthy class, who then mal-invested the profits. If that isn’t ringing some bells in your head, then please recall that income disparity, which fell from 1946-1970 or so, has been rising ever since. Bingo–profits flowed increasingly into the hands of a elite wealthy class who then squandered/mal-invested the vast profits, undermining the entire economy.

Galbraith then turns to the causal relations between the collapse of the speculative stock market and the ensuing Depression. Once again, Galbraith fingers income disparity: 5% of the populace garnered a full third of personal income.

This highly unequal income distribution meant that the economy was dependent on a high level of investment or a high level of luxury consumer spending or both. The rich cannot buy great quantities of bread. If they are to dispose of what they receive it must be luxuries or by way of investment in new plants and new projects.

As the stock market crashed, those with the most to lose–the wealthy–found their cashflow and capital massively crimped. Since the entire economy was dependent on them spending and investing freely, the economy crashed, too.

You see where this leads in terms of the 1990s-2006 boom. The stupendous profits skimmed in the great dot-com boom flowed disproportionately into a few hands, who then mal-invested the gains (in a macro context) in a completely unproductive burst of overbuilt housing and commercial real estate. The ensuing bubble drew in all those who in Galbraith’s words believed they deserved to be rich and as those hapless speculators crashed they took the entire middle class of homeowners with them.

Galbraith also fingers two other causes of the Great Depression: Faulty corporate structure and flawed banking structure. The parallels to the present are achingly obvious; here’s Galbraith’s terse description:

The fact was that American enterprise in the twenties had opened its hospitable arms to an exceptional number of promoters, grafters, swindlers, imposters and frauds. This, in in the long history of such activities, was a kind of flood tide of corporate larceny.

As gargantuan as the flood of corporate larceny was in the 20s, the present era certainly exceeds it by a large margin.

Here is Galbraith’s trenchant comment about the banking practices of the 20s:

Since the early 30s, a generation of Americans has been told, sometimes with amusement, sometimes with indignation, often with outrage, of the banking practices of the late 20s. In fact, many of those practices were made ludicrous only by the depression. Loans which would have been pefectly good were made perfectly foolish by the collapse of the value of the collateral he had posted.

The same, I fear, cannot said of the present: millions of guaranteed-to-default mortgages made to impossibly unqualified borrowers were never good nor prudent. The same can also be said of millions of auto/truck loans, millions of credit cards, millions of home equity lines of credit, etc.

Even worse, of course, the banks of the present era achieved heights of leverage via off-balance sheet derivatives, the securitization of mortgages and other financial legerdemaine that even the greediest, most venal bankers of the 20s could not even imagine.

Lastly, Galbraith blames “the dubious state of the foreign balance,” i.e. the imbalance of foreign trade and flow of funds. In 1929, the problem seems to be that the U.S. was a magnet for capital inflows even as it managed a trade surplus. That imbalance doomed the global economy. Now of course we face the opposite imbalance but the same result will follow: the U.S. continues to run a staggering, unprecendented trade imbalance even as it sucks up an unprecedented share of global capital/savings.

Galbraith concludes: “Had the economy been fundamentally sound in 1929 the effect of the great stock market crash might have been small. But business in 1929 was not sound; on the contrary it was exceedingly fragile. It was vulnerable to the kind of blow it received from Wall Street.”

You mean like the evaporation of $12 trillion wealth we’ve just experienced in the U.S.?

But the present is far more fragile and vulnerable than the U.S. economy of 1929, for the following reasons. In 1955 Galbraith could not possibly have foreseen or anticipated these current conditions:

1. A Federal government which since the “Reagan Revolution” of 1981 (e.g. don’t tax and spend, just borrow and spend) has borrowed during so-called good times on a scale once reserved for rare Keynesian stimulus to combat serious recession. Thus we find ourselves at unprecedented levels of debt (comparable in terms of GDP to the entire cost of World War II) and our current Depression has barely begun.

2. A corrupt-to-the-core corporate structure riddled with bogus accounting, reliance on financial trickery for profits and misdirected/worthless regulatory oversight.

3. A banking sector of such debauchery and fraud that the excesses of the 1920s are reduced to the pranks of slighty-naughty choirboys and girls.

4. A Federal system of entitlements (Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security) which has grown far faster than the underlying economy for decades and now threatens the very solvency of the government itself, so stupendous are the future obligations.

5. A global military hegemony which costs more than all the other militarys and intelligence operations of the entire world put together. The U.S. military consumes more oil than the nation of Sweden (9 million residents).

6. An industrial, transportation and energy infrastructure that, rather than being rebuilt during the past 26 years of debt-based “prosperity,” has crumbled in a long decline. Rather than invest in electrical power grids and energy-efficient transport systems, the U.S. squandered the trillions of borrowed dollars on toys, gewgaws, electronics made elsewhere, malls and commercial towers with only transient value and millions of bloated, inefficient poorly constructed homes no one needed or could afford: “assets” which were not productive at all, “assets” which are now capital traps on a scale heretofore unimaginable

7. A paucity of U.S. savings (and thus of domestic capital) with only one historical parallel: the depths of the Great Depression when unemployment was 25%.

8. A huge reliance on financial leverage, debt, borrowing and trickery for corporate profits; the U.S. exports soybeans, increasingly worthless dollars and “financial innovations” which are now exploding in economies from Ireland to India with the destructive force of superweapons. In exchange for this dubious paper, we have accepted actual tangible goods from the rest of the world.

They are now slowly waking up to the fact they’ve been conned on a scale few can grasp.

9. Globalization has reworked the global supply chain in an astonishingly brief period of time. As a result, the arbitrage of currencies (foreign exchange a.k.a. forex), wages, governance (less is more profitable) and environmental regulations (zero is the most profitable) have all placed advanced post-industrial economies like the U.S. at great structural disadvantages.

10. The U.S. claims to be competitive but much of this competitiveness is highly selective and thus illusory. Everything in the U.S.–labor, goods, buildings and taxes–is high-cost, overregulated (except for finance, banking and governance) and vulnerable to unpredictable lawsuits and officially sanctioned looting. Other than recent immigrants, non-U.S. employers find the workforce is often surly, unappreciative, narcissistic, entitlement-obsessed, unhealthy, poorly educated, unmotivated and more inclined to get-rich-quick schemes than actual enterprise or productivity.

The middle management labors under impossible demands to enrich stockholders next quarter and heavy turnover insures few stay in any job long enough to learn it effectively. Team cooperation is a doublespeak fraud imposed by “facilitators,” creating a phony work environment where employees and managers alike pretend to care. This bogus environment breeds a looting, game-the-system mentality in which everyone is grabbing for all they can before retirement, restructuring, reassignment, resignation or getting fired.

A “quarterly profits are God” mentality reduces the workforce (even the good workers) to units of input which are pared back or hired without regard to morale or loyalty. This managerial and cultural pathology makes a mockery of worker loyalty and breeds the very qualities of distrust and “I got mine” attitude which undermines both productivity and workplace happiness.

11. Last but certainly not least, the U.S. economy is highly depedent on cheap, abundant fossil fuels–the very fuels which are in the global depletion phase, happy stories about unlimited natural gas and tar sands to the contrary.

For all these reasons, we can anticipate the Depression currently unfolding will be deeper, longer and more destructive than the Great Depression.

Let’s recount the chain of events which partly parallel the Great Depression and partly diverge in meaningfully more destructive ways from that previous era:

1. The postwar income convergence (i.e the rise of the great middle class, the reduction of poverty and the relative reduction of the Plutocracy’s share of national income) reverses in the early 1970s as the “true prosperity” of the postwar era ends and is replaced by income flowing increasingly to the top as stagflation, globalization and the decline of dollar gut the purchasing power of the middle class.

2. The rising productivity of the 50s and 60s slips to the flatline through the 70s and early 80s, only picking up again as computer software and hardware revolutionize the back office, sales, manufacturing, just-in-time shipping/production, etc.

3. Concurrent with this gradual return to productivity is the rise of finance as the key profit-center of corporate America. As income skews ever more heavily to the top 1%/5%, then capital (productive assets) become ever more heavily concentrated in the hands of the financial Plutocracy. The top 1% now owns some 2/3 of the nation’s entire productive wealth.

4. As profits rise (from rising productivity) then the profits flow not to wages (which remain flat to down 1975-2009 for all but the top 10% professional class) but to those who own the capital.

5. As the middle class experiences a decline in their income and purchasing power (for reasons cited above: declining dollar, rising income disparity, and wages falling due to global wage arbitrage) then they turn more and more to borrowing and ever greater debt to fund what they have been brainwashed by the media to believe is “the American dream” of imported luxury goods, bloated homes, vacuous cruises, etc.

The only other mechanism available to the middle class to increase household income is for Mom/Aunt/Grandmom to enter the workforce, which she does in the tens of millions, with sociological consequences which are still unfolding.

6. This advert/media-driven desire to borrow to fund the “good life” is hugely profitable to the money-center banks, which expand rapidly into mortgage securization, derivatives and consumer credit to the point that they come to dominate corporate profits.

7. The financial Plutocracy, observing that actually producing goods is not very profitable unless you can fix prices as per ADM (Archer Daniels Midlands) or gain government subsidies and tax giveaways (oil lease depreciation, etc.) sinks its capital into the FIRE economy (finance, insurance and real estate), eschewing real-world investments as comparatively unprofitable.

Though rarely noted, this is a longstanding trait of capitalism stretching back to 1400-era Venice. When trade became less profitable than mainland farmimg, the Venetian Elite stopped funding trading and bought farms on the mainland. As a side effect, Venice ceased to be a military and trading power. But the Elite remained immensely wealthy.

8. As the tech bubble expands, middle-class investors see the Plutocracy (those with enough capital to qualify as angel investors and vulture, oops, I mean venture capital) reaping huge gains, and they enter the dot-com stock bubble buildup with a vengeance.

9. In a happy accident, the Soviet Empire collapses just as productivity begins its computer-fueled rise in the U.S. In a so-called Unipolar World in which U.S. military, political and financial influence is unrivaled, non-U.S. investors seek the relative safety and high returns (based on appreciation of the dollar) of U.S. financial instruments.

10. The dot-com bubble implodes in a speculative meltdown (dot-bomb), and retail investors (a.k.a. the middle class 401K investors) are devastated. The ephemeral wealth they once possessed, however briefly, fuels their speculative desire to get into the next get-rich-quick game, which just so happens to be “something everyone understands:” real estate and housing.

11. Having exhausted the dot-com play, Elite capital is seeking a new high-profit home. The miracles of derivatives (CDOs, credit default swaps, etc.) and securitized debt (mortgage tranches, etc.) open up vast new opportunities for leverage, off-balance sheet shenanigans and outright fraud/debauchery of credit. As chip wafer plants disappear from Silicon Valley (too dirty, too costly, etc.) then they’re replaced with paper: mortgage-backed securities.

12. Sniffing gold in them thar exurban hills, the under-capitalized and over-indebted U.S. working class and middle class reach for the chalice of easy-money gold: leveraged real estate.

13. With the Federal financial regulatory agencies in a Republican/Democrat-enforced somnambulance, the coast is clear for brigands, shysters, fraudsters, con artists, liars, cheats, and assorted riff-raff in the realtor, mortgage and appraisal businesses, who all feed the ravenous maw of the money-center banks’ apparently limitless appetite for real estate assets to securitize and leverage in exotic and highly profitable ways.

14. For a wonderful five years circa 2001-2006, the game is afoot and no-down-payment Jill and $100 million bonus Jack are immensely enriched. Meanwhile, the underlying real economy is becoming ever more imbalanced and ever more fragile as real production and real productivity plummet as everyone rushes to the speculative riches of exurban McMansions and malls.

15. This last best speculative leveraged bubble pops, gutting a Wall Street which had grown utterly dependent on leverage, debt, gamed/fraudulent accounting and bubbles for its rising profits.

16. Doubly devastated by the implosion of housing and their stock investments (mostly in retirement funds), the middle class faces the terrible consequences of its 26-year stupor of ever-rising debt and leverage. Alas, the Emperor’s clothes are revealed as remarkably transparent.

17. Just as in the Great Depression, to its great surprise, the Elite has also suffered catastrophic losses and declines in capital and income.

18. Having borrowed and squandered trillions of dollars since 1981 on unaffordable entitlements, military misadventures and assorted worthless bridges-to-nowhere pork spending, the Federal government (The Fed and the Treasury) finds that its ability to borrow its way out of its current debt hole somewhat annoyingly limited. The rest of the world has finally caught on to the con, and Chinese university students are openly mocking Treasury Secretary Geithner’s Orwellian claim of “we support a strong dollar.” The miracle is that he was not pelted with tomatoes and tarred and feathered for making such absurd statements.

19. With the global media concentrated in a scant few corporate hands (less than 10), this pulling away of the curtain is deleted/excised from media coverage in a ruthless campaign of pure “green shoots” propaganda.

20. As the wheels fall off the U.S. economy and the bubbles cannot be re-inflated, fruitless attempts at holding back the tide with incantations (stop, tide, I am Obama/Geithner/Bernanke!) and loopy sand castles (the bottom is in, buy now! Green shoots are sprouting everywhere except in the real economy!) abound. Unresponsive to propaganda, the real world grinds down into a global Depression without visible end.

Is this “edgy” enough to be worthy? I hope so.

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http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjune09/depression06-09.html

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The Washington Child Sex Ring Coverup

UK Supermarkets – Lawsuits Over Israeli Food Labels

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Key figures in global battle against illegal arms trade lost in Air France crash

ARGENTINA: Argentine campaigner Pablo Dreyfus and Swiss colleague Ronald Dreyer battled South American arms and drug traffickingFrom Andrew McLeod

AMID THE media frenzy and speculation over the disappearance of Air France’s ill-fated Flight 447, the loss of two of the world’s most prominent figures in the war on the illegal arms trade and international drug trafficking has been virtually overlooked.

Pablo Dreyfus, a 39-year-old Argentine who was travelling with his wife Ana Carolina Rodrigues aboard the doomed flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, had worked tirelessly with the Brazilian authorities to stem the flow of arms and ammunition that for years has fuelled the bloody turf wars waged by drug gangs in Rio’s sprawling favelas.

Also travelling with Dreyfus on the doomed flight was his friend and colleague Ronald Dreyer, a Swiss diplomat and co-ordinator of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence who had worked with UN missions in El Salvador, Mozambique, Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Angola. Both men were consultants at the Small Arms Survey, an independent think tank based at Geneva’s Graduate Institute of International Studies. The Survey said on its website that Dryer had helped mobilise the support of more than 100 countries to the cause of disarmament and development.

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Buenos Aires-born Dreyfus had been living in Rio since 2002, where he and his sociologist wife worked with the Brazilian NGO Viva Rio.

“Pablo will be remembered as a gentle and sensitive man with an upbeat sense of humour,” said the Small Arms Survey. “He displayed an intellectual curiosity and a determined work ethic that excited and enthused all who worked with him.”

According to the International Action Network on Small Arms Control (IANSA), Dreyfus’s work was instrumental in the introduction of landmark small arms legislation in Brazil in 2003. Under this legislation, an online link was created between army and police databases listing production, imports and exports of arms and ammunition in Brazil.

Dreyfus was an advocate of the stringent labelling of ammunition by weapons firms, arguing that by clearly identifying ammunition not only by its producer but also its purchaser, the likelihood of weapons being sourced by criminals from corrupt police or armed forces personnel is greatly reduced.

Though a Brazilian referendum on the right to bear arms was rejected in 2005, Viva Rio says the campaign should be considered a success because half a million weapons were voluntarily handed in to the authorities. Anti-gun activists put the referendum defeat down to fears criminals would circumvent the law and continue to gain access to small arms the usual way – through Paraguay and other bordering countries. This was not an irrational fear: until 2004, when Paraguay bowed to Brazilian pressure, even foreign tourists were allowed to purchase small arms simply by presenting a photocopy of their identity card. Dreyfus knew that many of the weapons from the so-called tri-border area between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina were reaching Rio drug gangs.

When unidentified gunmen made off with a stash of hand grenades from an Argentine military garrison in 2006, Dreyfus deplored what he said was lax security at military depots across the world. “If a supermarket can keep control of the amount of peas it has in stock, surely a military organisation could and should be able to do the same with equal if not greater efficiency with its weapons,” he said. “The key words are logisitics, control, security.”

When Rio agents smashed a cell of drug traffickers who had sourced their weapons from the tri-border area, Dreyfus noted its leaders were prominent businessmen living in apartments in the plush Rio suburbs of Ipanema and São Corrado, “not in the favelas”.

In a recent report posted on the Brazilian website Comunidade Segura (Safe Community), Dreyfus noted that the Brazilian arms firm CBC (Companhia Brasileira de Cartuchos) had become one of the world’s biggest ammunition producers by purchasing Germany’s Metallwerk Elisenhutte Nassau (MEN) in 2007, and Sellier & Bellot (S&B) of the Czech Republic in March. This would not be particularly noteworthy but for the fact that CBC’s exports had tapered off in recent years due to legislation restricting exports to Paraguay, arms that often found their way back into Brazil and on to the Rio drug gangs – the “boomerang effect”, as Dreyfus called it. “The commercial export of weapons and ammunition from Brazil to the bordering countries stopped in 2001,” wrote Dreyfus. “CBC lost commercial markets in Latin America, but Brazil won in public security.”

However, manufacturers from other countries had moved in to fill the void, and before its purchase by CBC, S&B was already “one of the marks most currently apprehended” by Brazilian police. Dreyfus said that, in view of the fact the Czech Republic was bound by the EU Code of Conduct on weapons exports – which states that EU countries must “evaluate the existence of the risk that the armament can be diverted to undesirable final destinations”, CBC should “consider the risk that some of these exports end up, via diversions, feeding violence in Brazil”.

Though his focus was on Latin America, Dreyfus also advised the government of Mozambique and at the time of his death was preparing to do the same for the government of Angola, where stockpiles of weapons left over from the civil war continue to pose a security problem.

Dreyfus and Dreyer were on their way to Geneva to present the latest edition of the Small Arms Survey handbook, of which Dreyfus was a joint editor. It was to have been their latest step in their relentless fight against evil.

http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational

The Taliban will ‘never be defeated’

‘Colonel Imam’, the Pakistani agent who trained Mullah Omar and the warlords to fight the Soviets, says the US must negotiate with its enemies.

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The Taliban have Nato forces trapped says ‘Colonel Imam’. Eventually the West will tire

Christina Lamb in Rawalpindi

THE Pakistani intelligence agent who trained Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, to fight has warned that Nato forces will never overpower their enemies in Afghanistan and should talk to them rather than sacrifice more lives.

“You can never win the war in Afghanistan,” said so-called “Colonel Imam”, who ran a training programme for the Afghan resistance to the Soviet Union’s occupation from 1979 to 1989, then helped to form the Taliban.

“I have worked with these people since the 1970s and I tell you they will never be defeated. Anyone who has come here has got stuck. The more you kill, the more they will expand.”

A tall, bearded figure, whose real name is Amir Sultan Tarar, he trained at Fort Bragg, the US army base where America’s special forces are stationed.

During the late 1970s and 1980s he controlled CIA-funded training camps for 95,000 Afghans and often accompanied his students on missions.

After the Soviet defeat and the collapse of communism, he was invited to the White House by the first President George Bush and was given a piece of the Berlin Wall with a brass plaque inscribed: “To the one who dealt the first blow.”

Today western intelligence agencies believe Imam is among a group of renegade officers from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) who continued to help the Taliban after Pakistan turned against them following the attacks of September 11, 2001.

United Nations officials and Afghanistan’s intelligence service have reported sightings of him in the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Uruzgan. It is a charge he shrugs off, claiming that at 65 he has not worked for almost eight years.

“I wish I could do it but they don’t need me any more,” he says. “My students are far ahead of me now. They are giving a lesson to the world. I am very proud of them.”

Although he expresses great admiration for the British military (“far more gallant than the Americans”), Imam says that in sending troops to Helmand, Britain had forgotten its previous wars in Afghanistan.

In particular, he chides, they should have remembered the battle of Maiwand in 1880, in which 2,500 British troops took on 25,000 Afghans and suffered a devastating defeat.

“When people in Helmand heard the British were coming back, the cry went up all over: ‘Remember Maiwand? Our old enemy has come to the same area where they were once defeated to take revenge’. Then everyone, Taliban and nonTaliban, joined together. They told me on the phone, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll make sure the Brits don’t have an easy time’.”

His comments come as the number of British soldiers killed by enemy action in Afghanistan has risen to 137, one more than the number who have died in Iraq.

According to Imam, Helmand is particularly difficult because of the character of the people. “They couldn’t care less about loss of property or loss of life,” he said.

It is unlikely that anybody alive today knows the Afghans as well as Imam. All the key figures were trained in his camps, from the late Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panj-shir, to warlords such as Gul-buddin Hekmatyar, his “naughtiest” student. “It was a matter of pride for me that my students later became big commanders,” he said.

“The Afghan is a very cunning soldier,” he added. “He picks things up very quickly and never forgets. As a Pakistani unit commander I’d be training my men for six months and maybe they would remember 70%. But in Afghanistan teenagers came, had only three days’ weapon training and they remembered 100%. In just 15 days they mastered the Stinger [the shoulder-mounted surface-to-air missile].”

Omar passed through his camps in 1985. “He was a simple man, a small commander leading a maximum of 40 people and didn’t have much weaponry,” Imam recalled.

One of Imam’s biggest backers was Congressman Charlie Wilson, the Texan who was instrumental in securing funding for Operation Cyclone, the CIA programme to supply arms with which the mujaheddin would fight the Soviet troops.

“He used to dance with happiness at seeing our training camps,” said Imam.

Within 10 years the Russians had been forced out. “Total expenditure just $5 billion and not a single American life,” said Imam. “Now the Americans are spending hundreds of billions and losing hundreds of lives.”

The last time he saw Wilson was after the 1988 Geneva accords on the Soviet withdrawal. Imam told him: “You’re abandoning the Afghans. They need financial support for rehabilitation.” Wilson replied: “Dollars don’t grow on trees.” “Do Afghan youth grow on trees?” asked Imam. “Over 1.5m Afghans have died.”

Furious at the American betrayal and devastated by the resulting infighting in the Afghan resistance, he became close to Omar. “I love him,” he said. “He brought peace to Afghanistan.”

Imam was Pakistan’s consul-general in Herat when the Taliban captured the city in 1995 from Ismail Khan, the mujaheddin commander, who claims the ISI agent oversaw the whole Taliban operation. From there he guided the Taliban as they took over the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif and Jalalabad and eventually captured Kabul.

Like many Pakistanis he refuses to believe the September 11 attacks were carried out by Osama Bin Laden. “An operation like that needs ground support,” he said. “I have no doubt it was carried out by the Americans to give a bad name to the Taliban government as an excuse to topple it.”

When General Pervez Musharraf, then president of Pakistan, agreed to American pressure to cut ties to the Taliban, the colonel was outraged.

Recalled to Islamabad, he told Musharraf: “You cannot defeat these people, they are well trained, they have a lot of ammunition and the more you kill, the more supporters will come.”

Today he adds: “It was the blunder of his life and because of it we are all doomed.”

Imam left Afghanistan when the US bombing of the country ceased in 2001 and claims he has not returned. “I can go any time on my old routes, even the Americans cannot stop me, but there is no need,” he said. “I have friends roaming all over there. At times they give me a call, they like to hear my voice.

“I’m quite happy with the current situation because the Americans are trapped there. The Taliban will not win but in the end the enemy will tire, like the Russians.”

He has offered to find the Americans a way out: “We can give them a face-saving solution but they must change their strategy.”

First, he says, they must spend billions on reconstruction. Then they must open talks with Omar rather than the so-called moderate Taliban with whom negotiations are under way.

“When are you people going to understand there are no number two Taliban?” he asked. “Those who break away from mainstream Taliban have no place in society. You may make deals in Dubai or Saudi Arabia, but when they come back to Afghanistan and people know they have compromised with the Americans, they are finished.

“In Afghanistan the only man who can make a decision and people listen is Mullah Omar. He’s a very reasonable man. He would listen and work for the interests of his country.”

He insisted the Taliban leader was not in Pakistan: “He’s in the hills of Uruzgan, his home province. If there’s a requirement he will listen to me, but why should I get him involved in a risky situation?”

Imam said he had watched with horror as fighting spread into Pakistan and had been shocked to see his fellow officers having to fight against their own countrymen in the Swat district.

“These are not Taliban, they are tribals,” he said. “Mullah Omar told them time and time again not to fight against Pakistan. They are fighting against the government of Pakistan because it is supporting the enemies of Islam. Everybody knows our government is supporting the US drone attacks in our own area.

“This is an American plan to make us a subjugated country and have an excuse to get our nukes. Everybody, your prime minister, President Obama, all go, ‘Oh, the nuclear weapons are unsafe’. I say you’re making them unsafe. When you were not in the region there was no problem.”

The call for prayer brings our interview to an end. Before he goes he has one last warning: “I tell you when my nation rises up it is not Afghanistan, not Iraq. There will be tremendous killing.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6445981.ece

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June 7, 2009 at 10:05 pm

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Sarkozy’s Secret Plan for Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccination

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Sarkozy’s Secret Plan for Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccination

F. William Engdahl
Global Research
June 3, 2009

The French Government is developing secret plans to impose mandatory vaccination of the entire French population, allegedly against possible Swine Flu disease according to reports leaked in a French newspaper. The plan is without precedent and even defies recommended public health advice. Pharmaceutical giants benefit from the move, as the Swine Flu increases the trend to militarization of public health and use of needless population panic to advance the agenda.

The Sarkozy government has authorized spending of an estimated €1 billion to buy vaccines allegedly to combat or protect against H1N1 Swine Flu virus.

According to a report in the May 30 edition of the French newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche, the Sarkozy government has authorized spending of an estimated €1 billion  to buy vaccines allegedly to combat or protect against H1N1 Swine Flu virus. The only problem is that to date neither the WHO nor the US Government’s Center for Diseases Control (CDC) have succeeded to isolate, photograph with an electron microscope and chemically classify the H1N1 Influenza A virus. There is no scientifically published evidence that French virologists have done so either. To mandate drugs for a putative disease that has not even been characterized is dubious to say the least.

Even more bizarre is the admission by the US Government’s Food & Drug Administration, an agency responsible for health and safety of its citizens, that the ‘test’ is approved for premature release to test for H1N1 is not even a proven test. More to the point, there is no forensic evidence in any of the deaths reported to date that has been presented that proves scientifically that any single death being attributed to H1N1 Swine Flu virus was indeed caused by such a virus. European epidemiologists believe the deaths reported to date are ‘coincidental’ or what are called opportunistic infections.

What we know conclusively is that the people who died often had prior respiratory complications of an undisclosed nature. People die every day with respiratory diseases. In the USA alone some 36,000 flu-related deaths are recorded yearly with no undue panic or alarm. Most are elderly or patients with lung diseases. To date in all France, 24 people have been identified by health authorities as even having ‘symptoms’ of H1N1. It is worth noting that the WHO and CDC list the symptoms of H1N1: temperature, coughing, headache, runny nose. Hmmmmm. Do you know anyone with such Swine Flu symptoms? Also worth noting is that in the counting of the more than 15,000 ‘confirmed’ H1N1 Swine Flu cases worldwide the vast majority made miraculous recovery within three to seven days, just as in the case of a bad cold.

The goal: Militarization of Public Health

Increasingly it is becoming clear that the successive waves of mass panic created in recent years by CDC, WHO and leading government agencies has an ulterior motive. We have been hit with mass panic over eating beef when cattle in the UK and elsewhere developed fatal illness that was called BSE or ‘Mad Cow’ disease. Later evidence emerged that BSE was the result of vaccination of the cows to kill harmless insects that got under the animal’s skin. More recently, after reports of incidence of what is called ‘Blue Tongue’ disease in cows, sheep and goats in Belgium and Holland in 2006, animal veterinary authorities in Germany, Switzerland and Austria imposed mandatory vaccination or treatment with drugs allegedly to protect the animals from bites by insects allegedly carrying the usually harmless illness.

The vaccinations of the animal herds has been made mandatory for an illness that typically was so mild as to go unnoticed and in only extreme rare cases could be tied to death. All animals after three months must be vaccinated. The vaccines, according to a report in the Swiss publication Aegis-Impuls from 2008, resulted in mass deaths, decreased birth rates, decline in milk yields, heart attack and other severe effects. The vaccines were used despite the fact none apparently had been previously certified as safe. They typically contained aluminium hydroxide and Thiomersol or mercury, as adjuvants and or preservatives, both highly toxic and both also used in most human vaccines.

Despite mass protests and reports to the veterinary authorities in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, the warnings went unheeded and mandatory mass vaccinations continued. Little wonder that farmers are taking their tractors to the streets to protest.

The report of a secret French government plan to vaccinate every French citizen over three months of age, over 100 million doses, is more than alarming. According to the French Le Journal du Dimanche, anticipating a probable return of the virus in the fall, the government will spend nearly a billion euros to buy vaccines. Authorities will announce in the fall if they decide to make the vaccine mandatory.  “We will be ready to go in a very short time”, explains the Minister of Health. According to sources, the state wants to order 100 million doses of flu vaccine from three laboratories, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi and Novartis. The latter two are French companies.

The French report comes just after the State of Massachusetts State Senate passed a mandatory vaccination bill that authorizes mandatory vaccination against purported H1N1 Swine Flu. In  New York State the state hospital planning authority is debating making mandatory annual vaccination against flu of all public health employees, despite the fact that no approved vaccine for H1N1 exists. More and more it is beginning to appear that the scare about pandemic from flying birds or flying pigs is an excuse to justify mandatory vaccination with substances whose harmful side effects are demonstrably worse than any flu they should guard us against.

Novavax, a US pharmaceutical company based in Rockville, Maryland, conveniently enough just announced it is developing a vaccine for H1N1 based on “virus-like particles” that contain three key proteins of the flu virus without the genes required for replication. The vaccine is produced by techniques of genetic modification of organisms or GMO. The announcement came within days of the company announcing losses for the fiscal year of $36 million.

The drug Tamiflu which is officially recommended by the WHO as treatment to ‘ameliorate’ the symptoms of possible Swine Flu or H1N1 Influenza A as it has been renamed, is itself highly toxic. Health Canada informed Canadians of international reports of hallucinations and abnormal behaviour, including self harm, in patients taking the antiviral drug Tamiflu. In some cases death was the result and severe lung complications are widely reported associated with Tamiflu, the drug whose main financial benefactor is believed to be its largest stockholder, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

In 1976 in the US  President Gerald Ford, nervous about winning a close election ordered  mass immunisation of the population in the face of a possible pandemic to show voters he was a ‘hands on’ President. The 1976 pandemic never came but a vast number of people suffered serious neurological side effects from the vaccine that was rushed into production, including 25 reported deaths from Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Mandatory vaccination with drugs whose side effects are unknown because they have not been rigorously and independently tested begins to smack of the kind of inhuman mass human experiments carried out in the United States with mentally retarded, prisoners and other disadvantaged  people or in Germany during the 1930’s.

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June 5, 2009 at 3:39 am

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IMBROGLIO GEOPOLITIQUE : Idriss Deby pion d’Israël contre le Soudan !

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IMBROGLIO GEOPOLITIQUE : Idriss Deby pion d’Israël contre le Soudan !

L’agent israelien Sarkosy et le pantin de la DGSE Deby

A l’issue du sommet des Etats Sahélo-Sahariens qui vient de se tenir à Sabratha en Libye sous l’égide du président Mouammar Kadhafi, toute l’opinion africaine a retenu que le guide Libyen a promis de trouver une solution définitive au conflit Tchad- Soudan, fût-ce – a – t – il précisé – par les sanctions ou la force.

L’Afrique toute entière souhaiterait bien que cette promesse ne soit pas un simple vœu pieux. Surtout que ce qui se passe en réalité entre ces deux pays – du moins depuis 1990 – est loin, bien loin, de ce que s’entêtent à marteler bon nombre d’objecteurs ou de directeurs de consciences, à savoir des agressions alternées de l’un contre l’autre.

Et si cette entreprise de normalisation est menée jusqu’au bout, ce que l’on se complait à qualifier d’opinion internationale aura droit à de bien cocasses surprises. Notamment sur ces mouvements de rébellions Tchadiens et Soudanais qui n’ont rien de commun ni de comparable, et surtout – comme cerise sur le gâteau – la vérité sur la cynique détermination de certains lobbies à déstabiliser et à faire main basse sur le Soudan.

Seuls les observateurs les plus perspicaces de la politique Africaine, ou les moins formatés par cette prétendue bienpensance sentant bon la condescendance occidentale, ont compris, depuis belle lurette, la profonde réalité de ce qui se passe au Soudan. Et corrélativement au Tchad voisin.

Ils ne sont en tout cas pas nombreux à admettre que l’incendiaire instabilité qui calcine le Soudan depuis près d’une dizaine d’années, ainsi que cet acharnement irréductible d’une certaine « opinion internationale » à l’endroit de son président, ne sauraient uniquement être expliqués par l’explosion des velléités sécessionnistes de quelques groupuscules ethniques militarisés – aussi antagonistes qu’aux motivations échevelées – , ou encore du fait de la gesticulation juridico- terroriste de quelques apprenti-sorciers au service d’une justice internationale en mal d’expérimentation.

La réalité est beaucoup plus effrayante : car il est de plus en plus visible qu’une coalition désormais identifiée veut à la fois la peau du président El Béchir, le contrôle politico-administratif du Soudan, ainsi que la mainmise absolue sur ses énormes richesses minières et énergétiques. En somme, le beurre, l’argent du beurre, la vache, la fermière, et même… la ferme !

De même, les offensives militaires effectuées depuis bientôt six ans contre le régime Tchadien voisin – systématiquement qualifiées « d’agressions du Soudan contre le Tchad » – ne sont, et n’ont jamais été, que la solution du désespoir de patriotes Tchadiens. Des patriotes et non des « mercenaires » – comme on se complait à dire uniquement au palais rose à N’djamena – ayant été contraints à la solution extrême de l’affrontement militaire face au président Idriss Deby qui a verrouillé toute possibilité d’alternance politique, et même du moindre dialogue objectif et sincère avec les acteurs politiques de son pays où, ce n’est un secret pour personne, la dictature et la violation constante des libertés fondamentales sont la seule règle de gouvernement.

La plus flagrante preuve du cynisme politique du président Deby est la démarche absolument absurde qu’il adopte ces temps derniers où il crie à hue et à dia, après la tenue du sommet des États Sahélo-Sahariens, sa volonté de faire la paix avec le Soudan. Il ne fait nullement allusion à dialoguer, ou à faire la paix avec l’UFR qui est le mouvement politico-militaire le plus important, et par voie de conséquence incontournable dans le contexte politique Tchadien.

Cela veut clairement dire que le problème du président Deby ne se situe pas au niveau des politico-militaires qu’il connait bien, et dont il n’ignore rien des nobles motivations ni des objectifs politiques. Sa seule obsession étant de pouvoir se mettre d’accord avec le Soudan, ainsi – pense-t-il – l’UFR, qu’il croit soutenu par le Soudan, n’aura plus de protecteur, et devrait donc logiquement se retrouver hors- jeu.

A la limite, daigne-t-il inviter tout opposant à – non pas dialoguer dans un cadre formel mais – plutôt de venir se joindre à la plate forme du fameux accord du 13 Août 2007 qui est – à l’heure qu’il est – fort décrié par ses malheureux signataires qui n’en finissent pas de le qualifier d’escroquerie politique.

Il serait difficile d’évoquer les rebelles tchadiens sans parler de ceux, Soudanais, qui logent au vu et au su du tout N’djamena à l’hôtel Kempinsky et sont entretenus au doigt et à l’œil par le régime en place. Ces rebelles sans réelle idéologie, et seulement animés par une rigide logique de sécession du Soudan, n’ont jamais reculé devant rien pour atteindre leur principal objectif : la partition de cet immense pays, et au bout du compte l’instauration d’une république islamique.

Pourtant, le président Omar El Béchir n’a jamais hésité à négocier avec ces mouvements, certes sans foi ni loi, mais animés par des Soudanais. D’ailleurs après le succès de la médiation Qatarie avec le MJE il y a quelques mois- suivie de leur offensive d’il ya quelques jours- le président El Béchir est toujours disposé à dialoguer. Contrairement à Idriss Deby !

En dépit de cette positive propension à la normalisation du climat politique dans son pays, le président Omar El Béchir a fort à faire sur d’autres plans. Car depuis près de huit ans, une insidieuse et cohérente stratégie de déstabilisation d’envergure internationale s’est tissée autour de sa personne et de son régime. Elle aura atteint son point d’orgue avec ce mandat international que vient de lancer la Cour Pénale Internationale à son encontre, lui un président de République en fonction.

Cette hallucinante conspiration contre le Soudan a fini par être étalée ces derniers temps au grand jour à la suite de la divulgation de scandaleux documents qui font aujourd’hui le tour des salles de rédactions ainsi que des salons feutrés de certaines chancelleries Africaines.

En effet, dans la cynique et criminelle optique d’envahir le Soudan, mettre son président sur la touche ou en prison – et accessoirement l’exécuter – et surtout assouvir des appétits pétroliers gargantuesques, et couper l’herbe sous les pieds des chinois – ainsi que des éventuels partenaires économiques nouveaux en Afrique – les États Unis ont mis les petits plats dans les grands. L’accusation pourrait sembler excessive s’il n’y avait pas, pour recouper les faits, des documents, des témoignages, des rapports officiels vérifiables.

Et bien évidemment, quand on parle des USA, Israël n’est jamais loin. Israël que l’on imaginerait encore plus enflammé par sa haine atavique contre tout ce qui est arabe, n’a guère hésité à mettre en marche – et les preuves foisonnent à ce sujet – une sorte d’Internationale Juive pour s’occuper particulièrement du Soudan, particulièrement impardonnable à ses yeux d’héberger sur son sol des supposés Palestiniens militants actifs du Hamas.

Et pour régler ses comptes avec Khartoum, l’État Hébreu n’a eu qu’à appuyer sur un bouton pour mettre à contribution deux prestigieuses personnalités, aujourd’hui aux premières loges en France, que sont le juif Nicolas Sarkozy à la Présidence de la République, et le non moins Juif Bernard Kouchner, à la tête de la diplomatie française. Cela pourrait paraitre tout simplement incroyable, mais les agissements de l’un comme de l’autre ne laissent guère beau coup de doutes quant à l’authenticité de cette insolite collusion.

Personne n’a d’ailleurs oublié que, par solidarité politico ethnique vis – à -vis de son frère juif Sarko, Kouchner avait préféré jeter ses convictions socialistes aux orties au lendemain de la dernière élection présidentielle en France afin d’obtenir en contrepartie ce que de nombreux observateurs considèrent comme le plus grand ministère du gouvernement français. La France n’étant rien dans le monde sans sa diplomatie.

Ce lobby juif en question – à la détermination féroce quant à la déstabilisation du Soudan – a néanmoins tenu à avancer à visage couvert, et pour ce faire, il a pu et su trouver un pion en or en Afrique, près du Soudan, tout près du Soudan : il s’agit de l’ogre de N’djamena, le bien nommé Idriss Deby Itno.

C’est ainsi qu’il serait simpliste de penser que tout ce qui se passe aujourd’hui au Soudan ne pourrait s’analyser uniquement qu’à l’aune des turbulences politico sociologiques ayant installé une guerre insupportable ainsi qu’un véritable drame humanitaire sur le sol du pays le plus vaste d’Afrique.

En fait, les malheurs du Soudan proviennent de ce qui fait sa force : l’immensité de son territoire, la multiplicité de ses énormes richesses pétrolières, minières, et énergétiques qui ont suscité d’indescriptibles convoitises de la part des grandes puissances en mal d’hégémonie néo coloniale. Bien entendu, la plus grande force de ce pays n’étant autre que son chef d’État, El Hadj Omar Hassan El Béchir, un homme de fortes convictions et de caractère qui – contrairement à bon nombre de dirigeants Africains – sait ce qu’il veut pour son pays, et surtout n’a jamais accepté la moindre compromission dès lors qu’il est question de la souveraineté de la Nation Soudanaise.

UNE INTERNATIONALE JUIVE CONTRE KHARTOUM.

A en croire donc tout ce qui se dévoile aujourd’hui sur l’opération planifiée de la fragilisation du Soudan, il s’est posé un problème sérieux aux yeux des puissances conjuguées et déterminées à faire main basse sur l’un des sols les plus riches du continent Africain : comment mettre Omar El Béchir à terre en donnant l’impression de rendre service à la communauté internationale ?

C’est ainsi que l’option de désarticulation de ce vaste territoire fut méthodiquement planifiée et mise en marche : des groupuscules prétendument rebelles se formèrent – armés et soutenus par des sponsors identifiés par la suite – montèrent violemment et sauvagement à l’assaut du gouvernement de ce pays qui, jusque là, ne s’était distingué en Afrique que par sa bonne santé économique et le nationalisme indestructible de son leader.

Qu’une certaine presse occidentale hagarde ait tenté de justifier les motivations séparatistes de ces groupuscules rebelles, et même, que certains gouvernements aient – contre toute décence – refusé de condamner les inadmissibles actes de barbarie perpétrés sur les pauvres populations par de prétendus « libérateurs » aux mains rouges de sang, n’ont guère détourné le chef de l’État Soudanais de son obsession à faire face, et même de faire front à cette cabale internationalisée. Une cabale que l’on a scientifiquement saupoudrée de sensiblerie en criaillant sur tous les toits au génocide et à la catastrophe humanitaire.

En fait, la vérité est toute simple : Israël et ses alliés naturels – que sont les États-Unis d’Amérique et la France – s’acharnent en coulisses, depuis près d’une dizaine d’années, à tenter de renverser le régime du président Béchir afin de placer à la tête de l’État soudanais des hommes plus réceptifs à leurs … appétits pétroliers.

Surtout que, pour la commercialisation du pétrole soudanais, le président El Béchir a opté depuis de nombreuses années de traiter avec des partenaires plus sensibles à la notion de commerce équitable comme la Chine, qui est, on le sait, l’antithèse des puissances impérialistes d’occident qui trouvent un incroyable plaisir à dépouiller les pays d’Afrique de leurs ressources minières, pour ne leur offrir en contrepartie que des brimborions et des cacahuètes.

Encore que, par ailleurs, outre le fait de ne penser qu’à dépouiller le Soudan à peu de frais de son pétrole, la coalition israélo-franco-américaine affiche une soif inextinguible à traquer les résistants des mouvements nationalistes palestiniens, notamment ceux du Hamas, ayant trouvé refuge dans ce pays ou ailleurs. On peut donc comprendre la haine viscérale d’Israël pour le Soudan, coupable à ses yeux d’accorder égards et gîte à ses ennemis jurés.

Mais bien avant la mise en marche de la vendetta Israélienne contre le Soudan, il faut dire que depuis au moins l’année 2002, les États Unis d’Amérique poursuivent une vicieuse politique de contrôle géostratégique en Afrique. C’est ce qu’on a appelé au pays de l’oncle Sam : « la nouvelle course à l’Afrique »

En effet, si le grand déploiement économique des pays d’Asie en Afrique est qualifié par les spécialistes de « Grand Jeu », ceux-ci parlent plutôt de nouvelle “Course à l’Afrique” pour ce qui concerne le nouvel intérêt de la part des grandes puissances occidentales, notamment les USA.
Ainsi, selon « The National Security Strategy of the United States de 2002 » – la balise directrice des stratégies globales du gouvernement Américain – le “combat contre le terrorisme mondial et la nécessité d’assurer la sécurité énergétique des USA requièrent des États Unis qu’ils augmentent leur engagement en Afrique. »

« Combat contre le terrorisme », « assurer la sécurité énergétique des États-Unis » : Voilà les prétextes fourre-tout qui ont toujours justifié les pires vilénies des américains à travers le monde. Personne n’a oublié que c’est au nom de ces deux motifs que l’Irak avait été envahi en 2001 et Saddam Hussein exécuté.

En parlant de nouveau « d’assurer la sécurité énergétique » pour justifier un « engagement des USA en Afrique », il est clair que ce sont les pays producteurs de pétrole qui sont visés. Et quand on ose seulement penser que le Soudan possède d’immenses gisements d’or noir, le compte est bon pour le pays d’Omar El Béchir qui, en plus, traine la réputation d’avoir hébergé Ben Laden à une certaine époque.

Ainsi, le prétexte de terrorisme peut tranquillement être accolé au « souci de la sécurité énergétique »pour réserver au Soudan le sort de tous les États étiquetés de « voyous » par les administrations Américaines.

C’est donc dans cette logique que les USA ont ameuté – dès 2004 – tous leurs alliés objectifs et affidés pour une « coalition volontaire » afin d’établir des arrangements sécuritaires sur le continent Africain. Dans la même foulée, le Commandement US d’Europe, basé à Stuttgart, en Allemagne – et chargé des opérations militaire en Afrique subsaharienne, notamment au Tchad – a augmenté ses activités en Afrique de l’Ouest, tout en focalisant son attention sur les pays affichant d’importantes productions ou réserves de pétrole dans ou autour du Golfe de Guinée (en gros de la Côte d’Ivoire à l’Angola).

Précision de taille : depuis 2004 le Commandement militaire US pour l’Europe consacre pas moins de 70% de son temps et de ses moyens logistiques à la collecte, la compréhension, et la gestion des affaires africaines, alors que celles-ci avaient une part encore insignifiante en 2003.
Ce n’est pas gratuit, et de nombreuses études sont menées en permanence au Département d’État Américain pour que les États-Unis occupent désormais une position d’importance sur le continent noir.

Il n’est donc pas surprenant que Richard Haass, actuel président du Conseil sur les Relations étrangères au Département d’État, ait jugé utile et opportun d’affirmer dans la préface de son rapport de 2005, sous le titre « More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa »( Plus que de l’humanitarisme : une approche stratégique US de l’Afrique): « À la fin de la décennie, l’Afrique subsaharienne est susceptible de devenir une source d’importations énergétiques US aussi importante que le Moyen-Orient.»

Et de préciser dans le même rapport que : «l ’Afrique de l’Ouest dispose de quelques 60 milliards de barils de réserves pétrolières avérées. Son pétrole, à faible teneur en soufre, est un brut doux fort apprécié par l’économie US. Les agences et les boîtes à idées Américaines prévoient qu’un baril de pétrole sur cinq entrant dans le circuit économique mondial dans la deuxième moitié de cette décennie viendra du Golfe de Guinée, et que la part provenant du Golfe de Guinée dans les importations US passera de 15 à 20 % en 2010, et à 25% en 2015. Le Nigeria fournit déjà 10% du pétrole importé par les USA. L’Angola en fournit 4%, et sa part devrait doubler d’ici la fin de la décennie. La découverte de nouvelles réserves et l’expansion de la production pétrolière sont en train de faire d’autres pays de la région des exportateurs importants de pétrole, notamment la Guinée équatoriale, São Tomé et Principe, le Gabon, le Cameroun et le Tchad. La Mauritanie deviendra un exportateur de pétrole en 2007. Le Soudan, limité par la Mer rouge à l’Est et le Tchad à l’Ouest, est un important producteur de pétrole. »

Un important producteur de pétrole dont aucun chiffre n’est précisé sur la production ni sur les potentialités, mais qui – à d’autres niveaux – mérite des attentions particulières.

UNE AMBASSADE D’ISRAEL AU SOUDAN.

Des attentions qui ont commencé par la recherche de la maitrise politique de ce pays grand comme cinq fois la France, et dont le président est du genre pas malléable du tout. C’est alors qu’Israël s’engagea jusqu’au cou dans le soutien matériel et logistique des rebelles Soudanais.

En 2008, Abd Al-Wahed Al-Nour, le chef du très sanguinaire Mouvement de libération du Soudan, dans un élan d’enthousiasme irrépressible à cause du soutien qu’apporte Israël à leur mouvement par le biais du Tchad – affirmait sur les antennes de la chaîne de télévision Al-Arabiya : « le Mouvement de libération du Soudan déclare haut et fort que dès que nous arrivons au pouvoir, nous ouvrirons une ambassade israélienne à Khartoum». Ils sont en tout cas nombreux à savoir, de N’djamena à Tel Aviv, que le Tchad reçoit depuis plus de cinq ans des armes fournies par l’État hébreu, et destinées aux différents mouvements rebelles du Soudan, et du Darfour plus particulièrement.

Ceux qui pouvaient encore douter de l’implication directe ou induite d’Israël dans tout ce qui peut se passer au Soudan n’ont qu’à se référer auprès de ceux qui se souviennent de la réunion tenue le 20 mars 2007 à la Mutualité à Paris par les membres d’un certain “collectif Urgence Darfour”, où la volonté des lobbies juifs d’en finir avec le président El Béchir et son régime avaient clairement dépassé le stade des simples intentions.

En effet, appuyés par les juifs français, Bernard-Henri Lévy et Bernard Kouchner, le Conseil représentatif des institutions juives, l’Union des étudiants juifs de France, la Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme, entre autres, des orateurs aux yeux injectés de sang avaient exigé « une intervention internationale au Darfour contre le gouvernement de Khartoum, et recommandé à la communauté internationale d’armer les rebelles du Mouvement de libération. »
C’est pourquoi, aujourd’hui plus qu’hier, Israël qui – bien que niant avoir signé des accords de défense avec le Tchad – ne se limite pas seulement à l’envoi du matériel militaire aux rebelles du Darfour du SLA d’Abd Al-Wahed Al-Nour – quoique ces derniers soient jugés ces derniers temps un peu timorés, mais se charge également de leur formation tant en Israël qu’en France.

C’est surtout le cas du MJE de Khalil Ibrahim dont ses éléments sont assimilés aux troupes de Deby. Ce sont d’ailleurs les hommes du MJE entraînés et armés à Am-Djéres et Tiné, puis emmenés à N’djamena par des avions français qui ont combattu, début Février 2008, les forces de l’UFDD dirigées par le Général Mahamat Nouri et les autres dans le cadre de la Coordination Militaire Unifiée (CMU), aux côtés de la soldatesque de Deby et des soldats français d’origine africaine et antillaise.

Assuré donc du soutien d’Israël dans la croisade contre le président Omar el Béchir, Idriss Deby Itno multiplie rodomontades et bravades contre le Soudan.

On l’a vu, il y a une semaine, avec l’aviation tchadienne qui a effectués – avec insolence – des raids aériens en territoire soudanais, pratiquement jusqu’à 60 kilomètres à l’intérieur des terres de ce pays, bien qu’aucun rebelle tchadien ne se trouve en territoire soudanais. Alors que les doungourous de Idriss Deby, avec à leur tête le chargé des relations publiques pour le Tchad devant le Conseil de Sécurité, le Franco-juif et très anti-arabe, Bernard Kouchner qui n’a jusqu’ici cessé de présenter le Soudan comme l’agresseur… par rebelles interposés du Tchad.

LE TCHAD AGRESSE LE SOUDAN SOUS LE SILENCE INTERNATIONAL.

Bien évidemment, l’agression tchadienne perpétrée contre le Soudan, au nez et à la barbe du monde entier, qualifiée par N’djamena – de « droit de poursuite » – n’a pas ému le moins du monde les bien pensants de la communauté internationale qui savent jouer très promptement les vierges effarouchées quand il faut condamner « l’agression du Tchad » pour un oui ou pour un non.

Il y a quelques jours encore, des rebelles du MJE darfouri armés par le Tchad, et partis de N’djamena, ont tenté une incursion dans les localités de Kornoi et Umm Burra avant d’être repoussés fermement par une armée Soudanaise qui a su, à l’occasion, faire montre de sa vigoureuse puissance de feu. Là encore, ni la France, ni le Conseil de Sécurité des Nations Unies n’ont condamné. Pourtant tout le monde avait vu ces rebelles partir de la capitale Tchadienne et prendre la direction de la frontière Soudanaise.

Ces deux attaques consécutives ont étonné le monde entier, les Africains, notamment, surpris de voir le Tchad faire preuve d’un tel culot et attaquer une armée aussi puissante que celle du Soudan – classée 7ème parmi les plus grandes armées d’Afrique.
Il faut dire qu’en fait le Tchad tire sa petite audace – à laquelle le Soudan aurait répliqué depuis, si de nombreuses personnalités et chefs d’États africains ne lui conseillaient la retenue – au soutien que lui apporte de plus en plus l’armée sioniste.

Pendant ce temps, la propagande israélo-occidentale peut toujours en mettre plein les oreilles au monde entier, en évoquant de supposés génocides perpétrés au Darfour par le régime du président El Béchir, alors qu’en réalité celui-ci ne fait que défendre son pays contre les attaques d’un immense mafia internationale dont les racines se trouvent en Europe (la France), en Amérique (Les États-Unis), au moyen Orient (Israël) et surtout en Afrique, à ses portes : le Tchad.

Le Tchad où le combat des patriotes de l’UFR est présenté à une certaine opinion internationale – et même devant le Conseil de Sécurité – comme une folle cavalcade de mercenaires Soudanais. Voilà un ridicule amalgame qui ne profite à personne, et surtout pas au régime d’Idriss Deby qui s’obstine à vouloir croire qu’il pourrait éternellement faire de la symétrie avec de fausses fenêtres.

Un amalgame qui n’honore pas non plus la France qui connait parfaitement la réalité du contexte politique Tchadien, mais s’obstine à maintenir au pouvoir – au grand dam de tout le peuple Tchadien – un autocrate dénué de toute ambition démocratique pour son pays.

En 1989, la manne du pétrole au Tchad avait suscité les convoitises des multinationales occidentales, notamment ELF Aquitaine, une société française d’extraction pétrolière. C’est ainsi que fut propulsé Idriss Deby par le gouvernement français de l’époque pour servir de pion. La machination a marché sur le dos du peuple tchadien. Une minorité de la population tchadienne avait cru en Deby un temps, quand il est arrivé au pouvoir…par les armes en 1990 avec son fameux slogan : « je vous apporte, ni or ni argent, mais la liberté ». Bluff ! Mais le masque fut tombé trois mois après l’avènement de MPS. Beaucoup de cadres civils et militaires, paysans, commerçants, étudiants et autres ; ont été contraints au maquis et au choix des armes auquel ils ont été acculés par un régime autiste, corrupteur, et criminel qui broie et élimine tous ceux qui s’imaginent que la Démocratie pourrait changer le Tchad.

La lutte des combattants de l’UFR est légitime, et le temps finira par leur donner raison. La France le sait, toute l’Afrique le sait, et tout le peuple Tchadien le sait.

La Rédaction de Tchadvision

http://www.tchadvision.com/Detail2.asp?item_id=467&

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June 5, 2009 at 3:13 am

Posted in Africa, Israel, Soudan

Y-a-t-il un lien entre les tensions americano-sioniste aux Emirats et au Bresil sur le nucleaire civil, Areva gene-t-il la diplomatie israelienne ?

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Y-a-t-il un lien entre les tensions americano-sioniste aux Emirats et au Bresil sur le nucleaire civil, Areva gene-t-il la diplomatie israelienne ?

La liste des passagers du vol AF 447 devrait etre publiée bientot, elle sera tronquée, mais il vous sera tres facile alors de comprendre que ce vol etait tres sensible. Sarkosy recoit la diplomatie iranienne ce Mercredi et le Bresil est considéré comme la chasse gardée des anglo-saxons. Ce qui est étonnant c’est que Sarkosy n’a meme pas voulu envisager la piste ‘terroriste’, de peur que les francais ne decouvrent reellement ce qu’est sa diplomatie ? On comprend également que ni les autorites ni les journaleux ne se sont defoulés sur les Musulmans comme a l’accoutumé, le syndrome des attentats de Londres peut etre ? La reponse est dans la liste des passagers… et le manque de cooperation des Etats-Unis… la competition entre Areva et l’industrie nucleaire US, du Moyen Orient a l’Amerique du Sud, il vous faut comprendre les tenants et les aboutissements de la strategie ‘Areva’ de Sarkosy pour comprendre que la nucléairisation de certains pays fait dresser les cheveux des israeliens et d’une partie de l’establishment americain et britannique!

Areva -a-t-il plus d’influence sur Sarkosy que la destinée d’Israel ?

Nous avons a ce jour notre idée sur ce qui s’est passé mais nous attendons que Sarkosy accuse certaines personnes pour le griller devant toute la planete, c’est peut-etre pour cela que la racaille de la DCRI n’a pas encore fait sa sortie mediatique sur demande du CRIF ! A mon avis, il vous sera difficile de faire taire Lulla !

Souvenez de l’avion de la Flash Airline en 2004, les israeliens avaient pris les commandes de l’appareil a distance et l’avaient precipité dans la mer rouge, puis il s’en etait suivi des prise d’otages aussi bidons les unes que les autres, de Chenot Malbrunot a Aubenas… Chirac refusait alors de s’engager dans la guerre contre l’Iraq et de soutenir l’effort de guerre israelien, aujourd’hui l’Iran est dans le collimateur, Sarkosy est un farouche supporter d’Israel mais peut-il reellement se ranger a ses cotes sans qu’il ne mette son pouvoir en danger, les militaires suggerant clairement dans l’article ci-dessous que la construction d’une base militaire a Abu Dhabi, gage de garantie de la securité d’installation nucléaire francaise la bas ? entraine de facto la France dans n’importe quel mecanisme militaire au Moyen Orient. La strategie ‘Areva’ est a plusieurs niveaux de lecture, et elle gene incontestablement ses rivaux US, britannique ainsi que la diplomatie de Tel Aviv…

Abu Suleyman

Airbus AF-447 : et s’il s’agissait d’un attentat ?

2 juin 2009

2 juin 2009 (Nouvelle Solidarité) – Si l’hypothèse principale retenue par les médias pour expliquer « la disparition » étrange de l’Airbus A330 d’Air France reliat Rio à Paris est celui de la foudre, de plus en plus de spécialistes s’accordent pour croire que l’hypothèse d’un attentat ne peut être écartée d’un revers de manche.

Dans un entretien au Figaro, un pilote de ligne désirant garder l’anonymat, relève d’abord que « dans l’histoire de l’aviation, on ne connaît pas aujourd’hui de cas de foudroiement qui aboutisse à la perte d’un avion. »

Ensuite il s’interroge sur le message électronique annonçant une panne de circuit électrique : « Il y a cinq sources d’énergie électrique à bord d’un appareil. Pour qu’il y ait une panne totale, il faudrait que ces cinq sources ne fonctionnent plus. Lorsque tout tombe en panne, une batterie prend de façon transitoire et partielle le relais, ainsi qu’un moteur qu’on utilise généralement au sol. Une sorte d’éolienne est déclenchée pour générer de l’électricité. Pour que le commandant de bord n’ait plus aucune capacité à piloter l’avion, il faudrait que toutes ces sources d’électricité soient endommagées. Ça me paraît difficile. »

Enfin, il n’hésite pas à affirmer que l’on « peut très bien imaginer qu’une bombe a provoqué une dépressurisation de l’appareil, et que l’avion prenne du temps à se démonter en morceaux. De même, ça peut carrément être une grosse bombe qui a fait exploser tout l’avion, ce qui expliquerait que l’appareil n’a pas eu le temps d’envoyer un signal d’alerte. »

Dans un point de vue publié par Le Télégramme de Brest d’aujourd’hui, le spécialiste du renseignement Jean Guisnel, pourtant en guerre contre le conspirationnisme, évoque également la thèse de l’attentat :

« Nous n’évoquons pas cette éventualité pour nourrir une quelconque théorie du complot, d’autant moins que les services spécialisés estiment n’avoir pas eu d’indice d’une particulière montée de tension, ni avoir identifié de menace spécifique. Pour autant, ne laissons pas complètement de côté cette éventualité, à tout le moins tant que des éléments techniques ne l’auront pas exclue. N’oublions pas que des groupes moyens-orientaux sont très implantés en Amérique du Sud, et qu’ils y font d’ailleurs l’objet d’une surveillance attentive des services spécialisés. L’histoire ne manque pas, hélas, d’attentats non revendiqués, non annoncés, et ne faisant l’objet d’aucune explication. Mais la France, très engagée au Moyen-Orient, dans le Golfe, en Afghanistan, et ailleurs, n’aurait-elle reçu aucun avertissement ? Et si c’était le cas, l’aurait-elle dit ? Il ne s’agit que d’une hypothèse parmi d’autres, et rien de plus. Mais ne la balayons pas d’un revers de manche… »

Sans tirer de conclusion, signalons l’inquiétude exprimée par certains de nos militaires depuis le retour de la France dans le commandement intégré de l’OTAN.

D’après Le Canard Enchaîné du 27 mai, parlant de la nouvelle base française d’Abou Dhabi, située à 220 km des côtes iraniennes et que le président Sarkozy vient d’inaugurer, ces spécialistes « décèlent chez Sarkozy ‘un comportement à risque’, car, lors d’une crise majeure, la France pourrait être impliquée dans un éventuel conflit. Et sans qu’elle l’ait voulu, en cas de raids israéliens ou américains contre des sites nucléaires iraniens. »

A lire : France/OTAN : Jeune recrue déjà cocufiée !

http://www.solidariteetprogres.org/article5491.html

AREVA strengthens its ties with Brazil in the nuclear and transmission & distribution sectors
December 23, 2008
On the occasion of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to Brazil, AREVA announces that it has signed several contracts and agreements which strengthen its longstanding privileged relationship with the country:

Anne Lauvergeon, CEO of AREVA, and Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva, CEO of Brazilian electric utility Eletronuclear, today signed a memorandum of understanding confirming the industrial cooperation between the two groups and underlining their commitment to working together to extend Brazil’s fleet of nuclear plants. AREVA has also indicated its willingness to provide its partner with the expertise it requires to fabricate the nuclear fuel needed for the new reactors.

AREVA and Eletronuclear have also signed a services contract for the Angra 1 plant*.

In the electricity transmission and distribution sector, Anne Lauvergeon and Jorge Palmeira, CEO of electric utility Eletronorte, have signed a contract worth around 20 million euros for the supply of an electricity sub-station.

AREVA has a strong presence in Brazil where it employs 2 700 people. The group built Brazil’s Angra 2 reactor and is supplying many of the components for Angra 3.

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With manufacturing facilities in 43 countries and a sales network in more than 100 countries, AREVA offers customers reliable technological solutions for CO2-free power generation and electricity transmission and distribution. We are the world leader in nuclear power and the only company to cover all industrial activities in this field. Our 71,000 employees are committed to continuous improvement on a daily basis, making sustainable development the focal point of the group’s industrial strategy. AREVA’s businesses help meet the 21st century’s greatest challenges: making energy available to all, protecting the planet, and acting responsibly towards future generations.

AREVA’s T&D division is an active player around the globe. It designs, manufactures and supplies a complete range of equipment, systems and services for all stages in the transfer of electricity, from the generator to the large end-user.

Written by eldib

June 3, 2009 at 9:17 pm

Posted in Brasil, France, Islamic world, Israel, USA, eau

A Hyperbolic Cataclysm Made Possible By Citizen Ignorance

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1. A Hyperbolic Cataclysm Made Possible By Citizen Ignorance

   Persons reading my essays sometimes ask why it’s possible for me to continue writing such critical material if, indeed, we are now living in a police state. Part of the answer was given in a movie entitled My Dinner With Andre.

   America is “the new model for the new concentration camp where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves and the inmates are the guards and they have this pride in this thing they’ve built. They’ve built their own prison and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners. And as a result, having been lobotomized, they no longer have the capacity to leave the prison they’ve made or to even see it as a prison.”"My Dinner With Andre” by Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory

   The minds of Americans have been so “lobotomized” by mis-education, television, and ubiquitous societal brainwashing that they don’t YET require the jack-book kind of police state the German Nazis instigated in the 1930s. TV commercials “sell” not merely products, but a lifestyle based on a consumer mind-set. Day in and day out, twenty-five thousand times a year, television commercials hypnotize us into seeing ourselves as consumers to be entertained rather than citizens to be informed and actively engaged in sustaining and improving our society.

   
   

   “Democracy, whether in Sweden or the United States, depends on the voter’s capacity to think. If you have read the best of what has been thought and said, then your cognition and understanding is on a much higher level than if you have read Harry Potter or Stephen King. So what this decline into half-literature and mediocre media really means is de facto a self-destruction of democracy.” Harold Bloom, January 12, 2008

   Progressive material, such as this essay and others on our Website, isn’t seen as dangerously subversive by the cabal because they know that most Americans don’t have the mental capacity to understand:

What they read

What’s going on

How they’re being systematically destroyed

Unfortunately, some emails we receive from readers bear out the cabal’s negative judgment. As I’m writing this essay, for example, I received an email that asks:

“Would it not be better to have a completely free market than to have a socialistic system as you suggest? A free market takes care of itself, and shows what the people want. On the other hand, a socialist society is easily corruptible, and takes away freedoms of the individual.”

This person lacks the mental acuity to understand that recent events have conclusively demonstrated that the so-called “free-market,” never free from manipulation by moneyed crooks, has imploded. He says he’s read my material but he erroneously asserts that I suggest a “socialistic system.” His mind is so programmed that he can only repeat the capitalist mantra:

“a free market takes care of itself, and shows what people want.” Such a person is like a man who’s being threatened by a killer pointing a gun in his face who asks you benightedly: “Isn’t it nice that this man pays me so much attention?”

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   Training Workers Worldwide to Think and Act Progressively

   The present catastrophic world situation has been created by:

2. The capitalist cabal organizing itself to seize and abuse political-economic-social power in the United States, Europe, and Asia
3. The working class worldwide:


• Allowing itself to be programmed and brainwashed by the capitalist cabal
• Allowing itself to degenerate to the status of brain-dead robots
• Failing to inform itself as to the world situation
• Failing to organize itself to overthrow the capitalist cabal
• Failing to reorganize society so the means of production are owned by the people and used for their essential needs

To prepare for revolutionary restructuring of our entire culture, it will require thinking people throughout the world to re-educate themselves. They must first realize what a debilitated, sub-human intellectual, social, and spiritual state they are now in and use this as incentive to inform and organize themselves for non-violent revolutionary action.

“‘Wait a minute,’ you say to [capitalists]. ‘No one ever asked you to stay up all night eight days a week trying to get filthy rich shorting what’s left of the American auto industry or selling $600 billion in toxic, irredeemable mortgages to ex-strippers on work release and Taco Bell clerks. Actually, come to think of it, why are we even giving taxpayer money to you people? Why are we not throwing your ass in jail instead?’”But before you even finish saying that, they’re rolling their eyes, because You Don’t Get It. These people were never about anything except turning money into money, in order to get more money; valueswise they’re on par with crack addicts, or obsessive sexual deviants who burgle homes to steal panties. Yet these are the people in whose hands our entire political future now rests.” Matt Taibbi, “The Big Takeover: The global economic crisis isn’t about money – it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution, Rolling Stone, March 19, 2009 http://hermes-press.com/societal_apocalypse.htm

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June 1, 2009 at 9:39 pm

Posted in Conspiration, US collapse, USA, manipulation

Netanyahu’s new quest: The game is on

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Netanyahu’s new quest: The game is on

By Ramzy Baroud

Online Journal Contributing Writer

Jun 1, 2009

“We’ve accomplished quite a few things, and I think the most important one is to cement the principle that the path to peace is through negotiations and not through violence.”

These were the ‘encouraging’ words modestly uttered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference with the US president. The president was Bill Clinton, and the date was October 2, 1996.

In the occupied Palestinian territories, the situation then seemed incredibly grim. But there was no Israeli wall. The settlements were smaller in size and in population. Gaza was besieged, but not to the point of total suffocation.

Prime Minister Netanyahu paid a highly anticipated visit to the White House on May 18, 2009, this time meeting with Barack Obama.

“I share with you very much the desire to move the peace process forward. And I want to start peace negotiations with the Palestinians. I would like to broaden the circle of peace to include others in the Arab world,” said Netanyahu.

One need not emphasize the harm inflicted upon the Palestinian people during those years. The violence, which Netanyahu seemingly decried in ’96, visited Palestinians countless times. Starting December 27, 2008, and for 22 frightening days, much of Gaza was decimated by the Israeli army, using US weapons, killing and wounding thousands. There is now a giant wall, hundreds of miles in length, snaking around the West Bank, separating Palestinians from their land, livelihoods and any possibility of a true state. There are Jewish settlements, joined by Jewish-only roads that hopelessly fragment the occupied West Bank. They all are illegal under international law, as is the so-called Separation Wall, as are the brutal attacks and siege on Gaza, as is the Israeli military occupation altogether.

We are told that Obama is serious about peace in the Middle East. He maybe is. But even such assumed seriousness might not be able to change the disturbing pattern that forced Clinton before him, according to former top Middle East advisor Aaron David Miller to utter the following words: “Who the f*** does he think he is? Who’s the f***ing superpower here?”

In recent meetings between the two leaders, Obama clearly highlighted his country’s commitment to a Palestinian state, and, surprisingly, made mention of “Gaza” during the press conference. But the words of praise of Israel’s greatness were at an all time high. “Obama talked about the ‘extraordinary relationship [with Israel], the special relationship . . . the stalwart ally . . . the historical ties, emotional ties [and] the only democracy in the Middle East . . . a source of admiration and inspiration for the American people,’” observed commentator George Hishmeh.

Following his meeting with Obama, Netanyahu made a visit to the US Congress, where he conferred with the “great friends of Israel.” On his visit to Capitol Hill, he met House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner. The Israeli leader also met members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Jewish legislators. He was given the same exceptional treatment enjoyed by other Israeli leaders. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry was “encouraged by a number of things” Netanyahu had said. Following meeting with congressional leaders, Netanyahu observed, as if breaking some unexpected news: there is “an American consensus” regarding “the special relationship we have between Israel and the United States.”

The game is on. Netanyahu will once again try to overwhelm the president of the United States by rallying the Congress behind him in preparation for any possible confrontation with Obama’s administration. Obama, on the other hand, will attempt, however bashfully, to assert a new direction in US foreign policy — through tempting Israel by embracing harsher Iran policies and pressuring the Arabs to normalize with the Jewish state in exchange for Israel’s mere promise of moving the peace process forward.

In 1996, Netanyahu spoke of the immediate danger facing Israel, in reference to Iraq. Now Iraq — which had no weapons of mass destruction, after all — is no longer an “existential threat” to the state of Israel.

And now the Israeli leader has set his sights on Iran. “The challenge is the potential arming of Iran with nuclear weapons capabilities. That is a great danger to all of us . . . We have to do this in tandem . . . I was very encouraged to learn that this is the American policy. We’re going to try to do it together, because if we do it together we’ll get a lot further, a lot faster.”

It might not take 13 more years before Netanyahu’s wishes come true, before getting a lot further, a lot faster, i.e. unleashing a war against Iran. But mark my words, Netanyahu, as well as those before him, as well as those after him, have no intentions of making peace with the Palestinians. He is simply waving a carrot before Obama to get what Israel wants, an attack on Iran. It’s as simple as that.

If Obama hesitates in confronting the new Israeli agenda, and if the Congress continues to treat Israel’s security obsessions as top American priorities, there is no telling what the Middle East will look like the next time Netanyahu arrives in Washington to meet the new American president.

Ramzy Baroud is an author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His work has been published in many newspapers and journals worldwide.

His latest book is The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle Struggle” (Pluto Press, London), and his forthcoming book is, “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story” (Pluto Press, London).(Pluto Press, London,) and his forthcoming book is, “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza The Untold Story” (Pluto Press, London).

http://onlinejournal.com

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June 1, 2009 at 3:34 pm

Posted in Conspiration, Iran, Israel, USA, War, War crime, imperialism, manipulation

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