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2016-02-04 at 7:19 pm

By Eric Zuesse

A major US-backed assault to win Syria’s crucial Golan Heights, by jihadist rebels of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Jabhat al-Nusra (Syria’s branch of al-Qaeda), and Harakat Ahrar Ash-Sham (the largest rebel group in Syria, though it’s ignored by Western news-media), was repelled on Saturday morning, January 30th, by the army of the non-sectarian Syrian government, the Syrian Arab Army, which are the forces of Syria’s non-sectarian Shiite President Bashar al-Assad and his ideologically non-sectarian Ba’ath Party, the only political force in Syria that insists upon separation of church and state. (The Ba’ath Party in Iraq was led by Saddam Hussein, which George W. Bush’s forces eliminated there. American regimes, both Republican and Democratic, are anti-Ba’athist, pro-jihadist.)

All of the anti-Assad – which is to say anti-Ba’ath – forces in Syria are fundamentalist Sunnis, jihadists who are backed by the US and the Arab royal families, the latter of whom are fundamentalist Sunnis themselves. The United States is supporting those royal families, which are trying to seize Syria, because it’s a strategically crucial pipeline route into Europe for Sunni Arabic royal families’ oil and gas. Under Assad, those pipelines are blocked from being built, and the Arabic royals fear that if Assad isn’t overthrown, then Shiite pipelines will instead be carrying oil and gas from Shiite Iran to Shiite-allied Iraq, thence into Syria, and then perhaps into Europe. It’s a commercial war, not just a war between Sunnis and Shiites. The US wants to replace Russian oil and gas in Europe, by the oil and gas of its Arabic friends who finance international jihadism-terrorism, and who dominate the list of nations that buy the most US-made weapons. (Those are weapons-sales that don’t go to the world’s second-largest weapons-producer: Russia.)

The United States sells weapons to the Saud family, which then are transported via Erdogan’s Turkey to al-Nusra, ISIS, Harakat Ahrar Ash-Sham, and other jihadist fighting forces that have been flocking into Syria and backed by the Arab royal families and Erdogan and by the United States government, in order to force a removal from power of the existing non-sectarian Syrian government. One prominent early news-report about this was Seymour Hersh’s «The Red Line and the Rat Line», which was rejected by US print-media and then published in Britain by the London Review of Books. It was subsequently confirmed by a study that was done by a committee of Turkey’s Parliament.

Hersh had reported that US President Barack Obama’s effort with Erdogan of Turkey and the Sauds of Saudi Arabia, to arrange a sarin gas attack and blame it on Assad (who has been demonized in the US press as being the cause of the ongoing civil war in Syria, which is actually between Assad’s non-sectarian Syrian Arab Army versus the foreign Western-supported invading jihadists, fundamentalist Sunnis from all over the world – an invasion of Syria by the US-Saudi-Turkish-UAE-Qatari coalition), was intended to ‘justify’ Obama’s bombing Syria. But Obama needed at least Britain as an ally for that invasion. Britain refused to join it. British intelligence (Hersh found) had confirmed that the sarin attack was a set-up and lies from Washington. David Cameron’s government decided not to do what its predecessor had done – serve as America’s lap-dog (as Tony Blair had done). This time around, Britain wouldn’t invade on the basis of an American President’s lies and fake ‘intelligence’. This time, Britain acted on its own intelligence services, instead of ignored them.

The Golan Heights are strategically important because their altitude provides a great advantage to whichever military force controls there – to shoot down upon and thus provide military advantage over any forces below.

Most of Golan was conquered by Israel in 1967, but all nations except Israel recognize the seizure of that land to be theft and barbaric treatment of its citizens, and to have no legal standing. Even the US recognizes Golan to be part of Syria (because to do otherwise would be too embarrassing internationally).

Wikipedia says, «Israel demolished over one hundred Syrian villages and farms in the Golan Heights. After the demolitions, the lands were given to Israeli settlers». It’s a brutal military occupation. Although Israel is an international pariah-state on account of its apartheid policies and other numerous violations of international law, the Arabic-royal-families-allied US government supports that apartheid nation, so that support of Israel is not even an issue in American elections, because of America’s controlled press. Israel fears Shiite Iran far more than it does the Sunni-controlled nations. The US is allied with Israel and the Sunni-controlled nations, against Russia and its allied nations such as Iran and Syria. Europe is allied with the US as a holdover from Europe’s aristocrats’ ties with the CIA after World War II. George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990 double-crossed the Soviet Union’s Mikhail Gorbachev and set the US on the path of conquering Russia after communism, and this has been continued by all subsequent US Presidents.

On 13 December 2006, the US Ambassador in Syria sent to Washington a cable itemizing the ways in which Assad could be overthrown, and one was «Play on Sunni fears of Iranian influence». A 20 July 2015 article by Jonathan Marshall summarized «The US Hand in the Syrian Mess», and reported that from 2001 on, the US government was aiming for «regime change» in Damascus, despite the fact that, «Not only did the regime provide life-saving intelligence on planned al-Qaeda attacks, it did the CIA’s dirty work of interrogating terrorism suspects ‘rendered’ by the United States from Afghanistan and other theaters». Assad started peace talks with Israel and«offered a far reaching and equitable peace treaty that would provide for Israel’s security and is comprehensive – and [would] divorce Syria from Iran and even create a crucial distance between it and Hezbollah and Hamas… But the Bush administration nixed them… The Bush Administration’s role in scuttling any peace accord was decisive».

The GWB Administration wanted more war; they blocked peace. On 5 March 2007, the New Yorker, not yet under such lockdown mode as to reject Seymour Hersh’s great submitted articles (as they do now), headlined «The Redirection», and Hersh wrote: «The policy shift has brought Saudi Arabia and Israel into a new strategic embrace, largely because both countries see Iran as an existential threat». However, since Assad was willing to «divorce Syria from Iran», that excuse for America’s overthrow-Assad bent was merely a con. Bush demanded Assad’s ouster, not his agreement; and Bush’s successor Obama continued Bush’s policy there. From the very moment when Obama entered the White House, he was a hawk eye looking for an opportunity to invade Syria to overthrow Assad, not to help him to achieve peace with either the US or Israel.

The only way that Americans now can learn the truth regarding international matters is via a few small sites on the Web, which are allowed in the US because America’s aristocracy control all of the major media, both mainstream and alt-news. The audience for the few honest media is too small to matter. The aristocracy control the public’s mind-set about political matters – the principle here is: get the eyes and ears, and you get the brain and then the body; the public then become mere dupes – especially concerning international affairs. And very few Americans even know about the few, small, honest news-media. Those media are inconsequential, except for their integrity.

Because this failure of US-allied forces in Syria concerns too many sub-narratives that contradict what US media issue, it will be ignored in America. But Syria’s military victory on the Golan is, in fact, a significant defeat for the US-Saudi side, and a victory for the country that the US-Saudi proxies are invading – and a victory too for the Syrian people’s Russian and Iranian defenders. Whereas the Syrian public overwhelmingly support Assad and overwhelmingly oppose ISIS and the other invaders, the Saudi public have been so brainwashed that they 92% favor ISIS.

But America is supporting the Saudis, and bombing the Syrians. And the political ‘debate’ in America is about how hard to bomb them. Even famous investigative reporters such as Seymour Hersh are having their best news stories rejected by all of the publishers in America that have significantly large or influential audiences.

Each nation has a market for great journalism, but in a dictatorship there are substantially no publishers or broadcasters for it. The press, even in a ‘free market’, can become merely a different branch of the same aristocracy that controls the government. It’s called «fascism». Mussolini used that term for it, but also «corporationism». In a speech in November 1933, translated in George Seldes’s 1935 Sawdust Caesar, p. 426, Mussolini said: «Corporationism is above socialism and above liberalism. A new synthesis is created. It is a symptomatic fact that the decadence of capitalism coincides with the decadence of socialism… Corporative solutions can be applied anywhere». Aristocrats control the corporations, which control us. That’s the situation.

Here is the best news-source on the Syrian war, Almasdar News, showing a video interview of a Saudi cleric who says that ISIS (called «Daesh») and the Saudi people agree. That polled 92% Saudi figure confirms his view. However, in Syria, 78% of the public disapprove of ISIS, and 82% blame the US and its allies for ISIS.

How come only an inconsequential few Americans know any of these things? How can ‘democracy’ even function in such a misinformed country? Of course, it doesn’t. It can’t.

This report constitutes American samizdat. It’s not ‘major media’ news-reporting, and it’s not even ‘alternative news’ reporting. It is, instead, news-reporting that provides an honest context. This is the reason why it’s samizdat. You are reading what – in the West, at least – is forbidden to know. We had all better watch out, now. Agents for the corporate state might be disturbed at the publication of too much truth, even if it’s only in a small news-medium such as this. They’re watching us, constantly. It’s like «Big Brother». Except: this one’s real.

The original source of this article is Strategic Culture Foundation on-line journal www.strategic-culture.org.

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	Why the ‘Sultan of Chaos’ is freaking out Pepe Escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst. He writes for RT, Sputnik and TomDispatch, and is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and TV shows ranging from the US to East Asia. He is the former roving correspondent for Asia Times Online. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of "Globalistan" (2007), "Red Zone Blues" (2007), "Obama does Globalistan" (2009) and "Empire of Chaos" (2014), all published by Nimble Books. His latest book is "2030", also by Nimble Books, out in December 2015. Published time: 4 Feb, 2016 14:09 Residents inspect damage after airstrikes by pro-Syrian government forces in Anadan city, about 10 kilometers away from the towns of Nubul and Zahraa, Northern Aleppo countryside, Syria February 3, 2016. © Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters Picture sleepless nights at ‘Sultan’ Erdogan’s palace in Ankara. Imagine him livid when he learns the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), backed by Russian air power, started a preemptive Battle of Aleppo – through the Bayirbucak region - cutting off Ankara’s top weaponizing corridor and Jihadi highway. Who controls this corridor will control the final outcome of the war in Syria. Meanwhile, in Geneva, the remote-controlled Syrian opposition, a.k.a. High Negotiations Committee, graphically demonstrated they never wanted to meet with the Damascus delegation in the first place – “proximity” talks or otherwise, even after Washington and Moscow roughly agreed on a two-year transition plan leading to a theoretically secular, nonsectarian Syria. The Saudi front wanted no less than Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam and all Jabhat al-Nusra, a.k.a. al-Qaeda in Syria, collaborators at the table in Geneva. So the Geneva charade, quicker than one can say “Road to Aleppo!” was exposed for what it is. And forget about NATO Notorious Saudi intel mastermind Prince Turki, a former mentor of one Osama bin Laden, has been to Paris on a PR offensive; all he could muster was an avalanche of non-denial denials - and blaming the whole Syria tragedy on Bashar al-Assad. The bulk of the Syrian ‘opposition’ used to be armchair warriors co-opted by the CIA for years, as well as CIA Muslim Brotherhood patsies/vassals. Many of these characters preferred the joys of Paris to a hard slog on Syrian ground. Now the ‘opposition’ is basically warlords answering to the House of Saud even for bottles of water – regardless of the suit-and-tie former Ba’ath Party ministers handpicked to be the face of the opposition for the gullible Western corporate media. Meanwhile, the ‘4+1’ – Russia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, plus Hezbollah – is now winning decisive facts on the ground. The break down; there won’t be regime change in Damascus. Yet no one broke the news to the Turks and Saudis. ‘Sultan’ Erdogan is wallowing in a sea of desperation. He continues to divert the gravely serious issues at stake to his own war against the PYD - the umbrella organization of the Syrian Kurds - and the YPG (People's Protection Units, their military wing). Erdogan and Prime Minister Davutoglu wanted the PYD not only banned from Geneva but they want it smashed on the ground, as they see the PYD/YPG as “terrorists” allied to the PKK. U.N. mediator for Syria Staffan de Mistura gestures during a news conference on the Syrian peace talks outside President Wilson hotel in Geneva, Switzerland February 3, 2016. © Denis Balibouse / Reuters Yet what is ‘Sultan’ Erdogan going to do? Defy the recently arrived 4G++ Sukhoi Su-35S fighters – which are scaring the hell out of every NATO Dr. Strangelove? The Turkish Air Force putting its bases on “orange alert” may scare the odd vagrant dog at best. The same applies to NATO Secretary-General, figurehead Jens Stoltenberg, pleading to Russia “to act responsibly and fully respect NATO airspace.” Moscow is going after the Turkmen with a vengeance and at the same time providing air support to the PYD west of the Euphrates. That hits the ‘Sultan’ in his heart of hearts; after all Erdogan has threatened multiple times that a PYD/YPG advance west of the Euphrates is the ultimate red line. An already scared NATO won’t support the folly of an Erdogan war against Russia – as much as US and UK neocons may crave it; as NATO decisions must be unanimous, the last thing EU powers Germany and France want is yet another Southwest Asia war. NATO may deploy the odd Patriot missiles in southern Anatolia and the odd AWACs to support the Turkish Air Force. But that’s it. Pick your favorite regime change ISIS/ISIL/Daesh, meanwhile, continues to profit from its own Jihadi highway across a 98 kilometer stretch of Turkish/Syrian border, especially in Jarablus and Al Rai across from Gaziantep and Kilis in Turkey. Taking a cue from Israel, Ankara is building a wall – 3.6 meters high, 2.5 meters wide - covering the stretch between Elbeyli and Kilis, essentially for propaganda purposes. Because the Jihadi Highway, for all practical purposes, remains open – even as Turkish Armed Forces may apprehend the odd trespasser (always released). We're talking about a monster smuggler/soldier scam; as much as $300 change hands for each night crossing and a noncommissioned Turkish officer may earn as much as $2,500 to look the other way for a few minutes. The real question is why Gaziantep is not under a curfew imposed from Ankara, with thousands of Turkish Special Forces actually fighting a “war on terra” on the spot. That’s because Ankara and provincial authorities couldn’t give a damn; the real priority is Erdogan’s war on the Kurds. This brings us to the only leverage the ‘Sultan’ may enjoy at the moment. From Brussels to Berlin, sound minds are terrified that the EU is now actually hostage to Erdogan’s Kurd “priority”, while Ankara is doing next to nothing to fight massive migrant smuggling. When Davutoglu went to Berlin recently not only did he make no promises; he re-stressed Erdogan’s vow to "annihilate" the Syrian Kurds. And that explains German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own desperation. How could the alleged most powerful politician in Europe falls for such a crude extortion racket? The ‘Sultan’ wants a lot of cash, a lot of concessions, and even a further shot at entering the EU. Otherwise, he won’t turn off the tap on the grim refugee flood. No wonder the regime change rumor mill is frantic. In Ankara? No; in Berlin. The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
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	Family of murdered ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller speaks out By Michael Isikoff11 hours agoYahoo News Family Mourns Death of ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller, 1 Year Later (ABC News) In a statement honoring American hostage Kayla Mueller on the anniversary of her death in Syria, her family suggests they are preparing to go public with “the heartbreaking story” of their attempts to ransom her from the Islamic State. And, they say, they will be speaking out about “those who hindered us” — an apparent reference to their frustration with officials in the Obama administration over how their daughter’s case was handled. The statement by Marsha and Carl Mueller, Kayla’s brother Eric and other family members and friends is the first they have made since shortly after receiving confirmation last February of the death of the 26-year-old humanitarian worker from Prescott, Ariz., who was killed in Syria after being held captive by the Islamic State for nearly two years. U.S. officials have confirmed that Mueller was tortured by her Islamic State captors — and, according to debriefings of some who were held with her — even taken as a “wife” and sexually abused by the terror group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But much remains unknown about what happened during her horrifying ordeal: Although the family has received photos of her body, it has not been recovered and the way she died, whether murdered by her captors or killed by a coalition bombing, remains unclear. The new statement, along with a newly released photograph of Kayla with her parents taken just months before she was kidnapped in 2013, invokes the memory of a young woman who, in volunteering to help refugees from the Syrian civil war, was committed “to serving the most vulnerable.” “Kayla was given a special heart and mind to not only see suffering in its many forms but to reach out and find a way to help those God placed before her,” reads the statement, released by a spokeswoman for Atlantic Media, the company owned by businessman David Bradley, who attempted to assist the families of Mueller and other American hostages who were being held by the Islamic State. An unidentified woman kneels near a makeshift memorial for Kayla Mueller, a 26-year-old American woman killed by ISIS militants, Feb. 12, 2015, Prescott, Ariz. (Photo: Brian Skoloff/AP) But it strongly hints that the family will have more to say, especially about the actions of the Obama administration and the dispute about whether the families should have been permitted to pay ransom in an attempt to save their loved ones. “The heartbreaking story of our efforts to bring Kayla home and of those who helped and those who hindered us will be told,” the family’s statement reads. As has been recounted in multiple media accounts, the Muellers as well as other families of American hostages — including that of James Foley and Steven Sotloff, both of whom were beheaded in grisly videos released by the Islamic State — ran afoul of administration policies that effectively prohibited them from negotiating a ransom with the captors. *Related Slideshow: Kayla Jean Mueller, an American woman held by Islamic State militants, has been confirmed dead >>>* While the FBI over the years has often quietly assisted families interested in paying ransom, other agencies of the government — especially at the Treasury and the State Department — took a hard line, asserting that any such payments would only encourage further hostage-taking and even violate U.S. laws against providing “material support” to terror groups. At a tense White House meeting, one counter-terrorism official issued what the families took as a threat that they could be criminally prosecuted if they made such payments. After the families of Foley and Sotloff went public with the threat, the White House began a review that led to a new hostage policy last year. While not explicitly condoning ransom payments, the new stance is that the government will not prevent families from “communications with hostage takers” — a formulation that seemed to open the door to paying ransom in some circumstances. (Obama also made clear that official threats to families that they might be prosecuted were “totally unacceptable.") But the Muellers’ anguish over the handling of their case seems to go beyond that and could become politically awkward for the White House. In the one interview they have given so far to NBC News, shortly after their daughter was confirmed killed, members of Mueller’s family confirmed that the family had been in communication with her Islamic State captors, and they were seeking to raise a demanded ransom of $6.2 million. But, they said, the talks fell apart after the White House agreed in 2014 to trade American soldier Bowe Berghdahl in exchange for five Taliban detainees being held at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo. “That made the whole situation worse,” Eric Mueller, Kayla’s brother said. “Because that’s when the demands got greater. They got larger. They realized that they had something. They realized that, ‘Well, if they’re gonna let five people go for one person, why won’t they do ths? Or why won’t they do that.” Sources who have talked to the Muellers say they are still frustrated about the lack of information they have received from the U.S. government about her treatment — and what happened to her. Carl and Marsha Mueller hold candles at a memorial in honor of their daughter Kayla Mueller, on Feb. 18, 2015, in Prescott, Ariz. (Photo: Rob Schumacher/The Arizona Republic) A spokeswoman for the White House did not respond to a request for comment. One of the key figures who could unravel lingering questions is Umm Sayyaf, the wife of the Islamic State official in charge of oil and gas money, Abu Sayyaf, who was killed in a Delta Force raid last May. In the raid, Delta Force commandos captured Umm Sayyaf. During debriefings, she is believed to have confirmed accounts from other rescued Yazidi captives, that Mueller had been sexually abused by al-Baghdadi. But another former U.S. intelligence official familiar with the debriefings said Umm Sayyaf was more responsible than anybody else for the mistreatment of Mueller, saying she was in charge of female captives and participated in “horrific” torture and beatings. Umm Sayyaf is now in Kurdish custody, and when the former official recently inquired about her current status, he was told that “others” — an apparent reference to the U.S. government — had an interest in possibly putting her on trial in the United States. A spokeswoman for the Justice Department declined comment. View Gallery
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	GERMANY'S SPY AGENCY WARNS ISIS SUSPECTS ARE POSING AS REFUGEES BY JACK MOORE ON 2/5/16 AT 11:42 AM Migrants queue in front of the compound Berlin Office of Health and Social Affairs for their registration process in Berlin, February 5. ISIS militants have entered Europe disguised as refugees, the chief of Germany's domestic intelligence service saidFABRIZIO BENSCH/REUTERS Militants from the Islamic State group (ISIS) have entered Europe disguised as refugees, the chief of Germany’s domestic intelligence service said on Friday. “We have repeatedly seen that terrorists…have slipped in camouflaged or disguised as refugees. This is a fact that the security agencies are facing,” Maassen told Germany’s ZDF television. “We are trying to recognize and identify whether there are still more ISIS fighters or terrorists from ISIS that have slipped in,” he added. German citizens have also sent more than 100 tip-offs to the country’s domestic intelligence agency about suspected ISIS militants posing as refugees in Germany, according to a report by the German daily newspaper Berliner Zeitung. However, Maassen warned that some of the tip-offs were misinformation in an attempt to defame refugees. “We are in a serious situation and there is a high risk that there could be an attack,” he said. “But the security agencies, the intelligence services and the police authorities are very alert and our goal is to minimize the risk as best we can,” he said. His comments come just a day after German authorities thwarted a potential ISIS plot, arresting two Algerians allegedly linked to the radical Islamist group. Police retrieved computers and mobiles phones in a series of raids across Berlin and the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. Maassen’s assertion that ISIS militants are hiding among the more than 1 million refugees who entered Germany in 2015 will add fuel to the debate about whether the country should alter its open-door policy. In the aftermath of the coordinated shooting and suicide bomb attacks in Paris in November 2015 that left 130 people dead, German authorities postponed an international friendly match between Germany and the Netherlands in Hanover because of a “concrete plan” to detonate an explosive inside the stadium. The intelligence agency was not immediately available for comment when contacted by Newsweek.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 2/5/2016 4:24:30 PM
	Assad’s Forces Rout American-Backed Jihadists at Golan Heights 2016-02-04 at 7:19 pm By Eric Zuesse A major US-backed assault to win Syria’s crucial Golan Heights, by jihadist rebels of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Jabhat al-Nusra (Syria’s branch of al-Qaeda), and Harakat Ahrar Ash-Sham (the largest rebel group in Syria, though it’s ignored by Western news-media), was repelled on Saturday morning, January 30th, by the army of the non-sectarian Syrian government, the Syrian Arab Army, which are the forces of Syria’s non-sectarian Shiite President Bashar al-Assad and his ideologically non-sectarian Ba’ath Party, the only political force in Syria that insists upon separation of church and state. (The Ba’ath Party in Iraq was led by Saddam Hussein, which George W. Bush’s forces eliminated there. American regimes, both Republican and Democratic, are anti-Ba’athist, pro-jihadist.) All of the anti-Assad – which is to say anti-Ba’ath – forces in Syria are fundamentalist Sunnis, jihadists who are backed by the US and the Arab royal families, the latter of whom are fundamentalist Sunnis themselves. The United States is supporting those royal families, which are trying to seize Syria, because it’s a strategically crucial pipeline route into Europe for Sunni Arabic royal families’ oil and gas. Under Assad, those pipelines are blocked from being built, and the Arabic royals fear that if Assad isn’t overthrown, then Shiite pipelines will instead be carrying oil and gas from Shiite Iran to Shiite-allied Iraq, thence into Syria, and then perhaps into Europe. It’s a commercial war, not just a war between Sunnis and Shiites. The US wants to replace Russian oil and gas in Europe, by the oil and gas of its Arabic friends who finance international jihadism-terrorism, and who dominate the list of nations that buy the most US-made weapons. (Those are weapons-sales that don’t go to the world’s second-largest weapons-producer: Russia.) The United States sells weapons to the Saud family, which then are transported via Erdogan’s Turkey to al-Nusra, ISIS, Harakat Ahrar Ash-Sham, and other jihadist fighting forces that have been flocking into Syria and backed by the Arab royal families and Erdogan and by the United States government, in order to force a removal from power of the existing non-sectarian Syrian government. One prominent early news-report about this was Seymour Hersh’s «The Red Line and the Rat Line», which was rejected by US print-media and then published in Britain by the London Review of Books. It was subsequently confirmed by a study that was done by a committee of Turkey’s Parliament. Hersh had reported that US President Barack Obama’s effort with Erdogan of Turkey and the Sauds of Saudi Arabia, to arrange a sarin gas attack and blame it on Assad (who has been demonized in the US press as being the cause of the ongoing civil war in Syria, which is actually between Assad’s non-sectarian Syrian Arab Army versus the foreign Western-supported invading jihadists, fundamentalist Sunnis from all over the world – an invasion of Syria by the US-Saudi-Turkish-UAE-Qatari coalition), was intended to ‘justify’ Obama’s bombing Syria. But Obama needed at least Britain as an ally for that invasion. Britain refused to join it. British intelligence (Hersh found) had confirmed that the sarin attack was a set-up and lies from Washington. David Cameron’s government decided not to do what its predecessor had done – serve as America’s lap-dog (as Tony Blair had done). This time around, Britain wouldn’t invade on the basis of an American President’s lies and fake ‘intelligence’. This time, Britain acted on its own intelligence services, instead of ignored them. The Golan Heights are strategically important because their altitude provides a great advantage to whichever military force controls there – to shoot down upon and thus provide military advantage over any forces below. Most of Golan was conquered by Israel in 1967, but all nations except Israel recognize the seizure of that land to be theft and barbaric treatment of its citizens, and to have no legal standing. Even the US recognizes Golan to be part of Syria (because to do otherwise would be too embarrassing internationally). Wikipedia says, «Israel demolished over one hundred Syrian villages and farms in the Golan Heights. After the demolitions, the lands were given to Israeli settlers». It’s a brutal military occupation. Although Israel is an international pariah-state on account of its apartheid policies and other numerous violations of international law, the Arabic-royal-families-allied US government supports that apartheid nation, so that support of Israel is not even an issue in American elections, because of America’s controlled press. Israel fears Shiite Iran far more than it does the Sunni-controlled nations. The US is allied with Israel and the Sunni-controlled nations, against Russia and its allied nations such as Iran and Syria. Europe is allied with the US as a holdover from Europe’s aristocrats’ ties with the CIA after World War II. George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990 double-crossed the Soviet Union’s Mikhail Gorbachev and set the US on the path of conquering Russia after communism, and this has been continued by all subsequent US Presidents. On 13 December 2006, the US Ambassador in Syria sent to Washington a cable itemizing the ways in which Assad could be overthrown, and one was «Play on Sunni fears of Iranian influence». A 20 July 2015 article by Jonathan Marshall summarized «The US Hand in the Syrian Mess», and reported that from 2001 on, the US government was aiming for «regime change» in Damascus, despite the fact that, «Not only did the regime provide life-saving intelligence on planned al-Qaeda attacks, it did the CIA’s dirty work of interrogating terrorism suspects ‘rendered’ by the United States from Afghanistan and other theaters». Assad started peace talks with Israel and«offered a far reaching and equitable peace treaty that would provide for Israel’s security and is comprehensive – and [would] divorce Syria from Iran and even create a crucial distance between it and Hezbollah and Hamas… But the Bush administration nixed them… The Bush Administration’s role in scuttling any peace accord was decisive». The GWB Administration wanted more war; they blocked peace. On 5 March 2007, the New Yorker, not yet under such lockdown mode as to reject Seymour Hersh’s great submitted articles (as they do now), headlined «The Redirection», and Hersh wrote: «The policy shift has brought Saudi Arabia and Israel into a new strategic embrace, largely because both countries see Iran as an existential threat». However, since Assad was willing to «divorce Syria from Iran», that excuse for America’s overthrow-Assad bent was merely a con. Bush demanded Assad’s ouster, not his agreement; and Bush’s successor Obama continued Bush’s policy there. From the very moment when Obama entered the White House, he was a hawk eye looking for an opportunity to invade Syria to overthrow Assad, not to help him to achieve peace with either the US or Israel. The only way that Americans now can learn the truth regarding international matters is via a few small sites on the Web, which are allowed in the US because America’s aristocracy control all of the major media, both mainstream and alt-news. The audience for the few honest media is too small to matter. The aristocracy control the public’s mind-set about political matters – the principle here is: get the eyes and ears, and you get the brain and then the body; the public then become mere dupes – especially concerning international affairs. And very few Americans even know about the few, small, honest news-media. Those media are inconsequential, except for their integrity. Because this failure of US-allied forces in Syria concerns too many sub-narratives that contradict what US media issue, it will be ignored in America. But Syria’s military victory on the Golan is, in fact, a significant defeat for the US-Saudi side, and a victory for the country that the US-Saudi proxies are invading – and a victory too for the Syrian people’s Russian and Iranian defenders. Whereas the Syrian public overwhelmingly support Assad and overwhelmingly oppose ISIS and the other invaders, the Saudi public have been so brainwashed that they 92% favor ISIS. But America is supporting the Saudis, and bombing the Syrians. And the political ‘debate’ in America is about how hard to bomb them. Even famous investigative reporters such as Seymour Hersh are having their best news stories rejected by all of the publishers in America that have significantly large or influential audiences. Each nation has a market for great journalism, but in a dictatorship there are substantially no publishers or broadcasters for it. The press, even in a ‘free market’, can become merely a different branch of the same aristocracy that controls the government. It’s called «fascism». Mussolini used that term for it, but also «corporationism». In a speech in November 1933, translated in George Seldes’s 1935 Sawdust Caesar, p. 426, Mussolini said: «Corporationism is above socialism and above liberalism. A new synthesis is created. It is a symptomatic fact that the decadence of capitalism coincides with the decadence of socialism… Corporative solutions can be applied anywhere». Aristocrats control the corporations, which control us. That’s the situation. Here is the best news-source on the Syrian war, Almasdar News, showing a video interview of a Saudi cleric who says that ISIS (called «Daesh») and the Saudi people agree. That polled 92% Saudi figure confirms his view. However, in Syria, 78% of the public disapprove of ISIS, and 82% blame the US and its allies for ISIS. How come only an inconsequential few Americans know any of these things? How can ‘democracy’ even function in such a misinformed country? Of course, it doesn’t. It can’t. This report constitutes American samizdat. It’s not ‘major media’ news-reporting, and it’s not even ‘alternative news’ reporting. It is, instead, news-reporting that provides an honest context. This is the reason why it’s samizdat. You are reading what – in the West, at least – is forbidden to know. We had all better watch out, now. Agents for the corporate state might be disturbed at the publication of too much truth, even if it’s only in a small news-medium such as this. They’re watching us, constantly. It’s like «Big Brother». Except: this one’s real. The original source of this article is Strategic Culture Foundation on-line journal www.strategic-culture.org.
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