Wars ─ remember Gaza, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia,
Libya, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria ─ to protect and defend 1 percent’s
hegemony
Editing, commentary and bracketed comment by Carolyn Bennett
“It is … essential to disarm not only the mainstream media
but also a segment of the self proclaimed ‘progressive’ alternative media,
which has provided legitimacy to NATO’s ‘Responsibility to protect’ (R2P) mandate, largely with a view to dismantling
the antiwar movement. The road to Tehran Iran goes through Damascus. A war on
Iran would involve, as a first step, the destabilization of Syria as a nation
state. Military planning pertaining to Syria is an integral part of the war-on-Iran
agenda. The war on Syria could evolve towards a U.S.-NATO-Israel military
campaign directed against Iran, in which Turkey and Israel would be directly
involved.
“It is crucial to spread the word and break the channels of
media disinformation. A critical and unbiased understanding of what is
happening in Syria is of crucial importance in reversing the tide of military
escalation toward a broader regional war. Our objective is ultimately to
dismantle the US-NATO-Israeli military arsenal and restore World Peace. It is
essential that people in the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy,
Israel, Turkey, and around the World prevent this war from occurring.” [Professor
Michel Chossudovsky]
British diplomat bent on buttressing and preserving
imperialism
“A world that started the [twentieth] century divided among
European empires,” Robert Cooper wrote longingly, “finishes it with all or
almost all of them gone: the Ottoman, German, Austrian, French, British and
finally Soviet Empires are now no more than a memory.
“This leaves us with two new types of state,“ he says:
Often former colonies where in some
sense the state has almost ceased to exist, a ‘pre-modern’ zone, where the
state has failed and a war of
all against all is underway (countries such as Somalia and, until
recently, Afghanistan).
Post-imperial, postmodern, states [that]
no longer think of security primarily in terms of conquest.
Traditional ‘modern’ states [that]
behave as states always have, following Machiavellian principles [a view that
politics is amoral and any means however unscrupulous can justifiably be used
in achieving political power] … (countries such as India, Pakistan, China). …
[He conveniently leaves out his own country and the United States, Italy, France
and other western states].
his author-diplomat also conveniently omits the fact that “post-modern”
states have been historically the creators of disorder, disaster and failed
development in basics like water, electricity, sanitation as they have stolen
developing countries' vital resources.
With and because of their empires and
imperialism armed with brute “force” to maintain their own comfort, their
empires, hegemony, imperialism, they have deliberately failed states, created chaos,
promoted conflict, divisiveness and disorder where there had been none within countries, between and among
tribes and factions, between and among regions near and far. But facts do not stop Cooper’s blinding, bigoted disparaging of nations.
Pre-moderns
“…All of the world’s major drug-producing areas [what of nations demanding illicit drugs?] are part of the pre-modern world,” he says. “Until
recently there was no real sovereign
authority in Afghanistan; nor is there in upcountry Burma or in some parts
of South America, where drug barons threaten the state’s monopoly on force [what of big
western banks that launder drug money and so traffic in illicit drugs]. All over
Africa countries are at risk. No area of the world is without its dangerous
cases.
“In such areas, chaos
is the norm and war is a way of life. In so far as there is a government, it
operates in a way similar to an organized crime syndicate.
“The pre-modern state may be too weak even to secure its
home territory, let alone pose a threat internationally, but it can provide a
base for non-state actors
[such as western invaders and occupiers] who may
represent a danger to the postmodern world. If non-state actors, notably drug, crime, or terrorist syndicates take to using pre-modern bases for attacks on
the more orderly parts of the world, then the
organized states may eventually have to respond.“
The West commits the cause and chaos they later claim to“cure” by waging war.
Cooper’s solution: more of the brute of the past
“If they [his
“inferior” states or non-states or “pre-modern” states] become too dangerous
for established states to tolerate, it is possible to imagine a defensive imperialism. It is not going
too far to view the West's response to Afghanistan in this light.…”
Endless
wars on the world, Cooper seems to be advocating: the definition of madness.
“What form should intervention take?” he asks and answers: “The
most logical way to deal with chaos, and the one most employed in the past is colonization
but colonization is unacceptable to postmodern states (and, as it happens, to
some modern states too)” [Really?].
“It is precisely because of the death of imperialism,”
Cooper says, “that we are seeing the emergence of the pre-modern world. …
“All the conditions for imperialism are there; but the supply
and the demand for imperialism have dried up. And yet,” he says, “the weak still need the strong and the
strong still need an orderly world. … [The old naturally “inferior” versus
the naturally “superior” ─ where have we heard that before?]
“What is
needed then is a new kind of imperialism, one acceptable to a world of
human rights and cosmopolitan values. …
The challenge to the postmodern world is to get used to the
idea of double
standards. Among ourselves,
we [who is this “we”?] operate on the basis of laws and open cooperative
security. But when dealing with more old-fashioned kinds of states outside the
postmodern continent of Europe, we need to revert to the rougher methods of an
earlier era –
Force
Pre-emptive attack
Deception
Whatever is necessary to deal with
those who still live in the nineteenth century world of every state for itself
mong ourselves, we keep the law but when we are operating in
the jungle, we must also use the laws of the jungle.…”.
This is an unconscionable piece of war propaganda, sheer drivel, given the
carnage that Western states have perpetrated and the lies told to justify unspeakable
cruelty since and before the incidents of September 11, 2001. As we are deeply concerned
about Syria and another imperialist war against another country and its people,
we recall this drivel from an imperialist Neanderthal let loose in major media.
Citing Cooper’s horrific statement advocating “double
standards” in world relations as a mandatory “norm” to sustain, protect and
defend the imperialists, William Bowles in the Global Research article “The
Criminal Voices of Media Propaganda: The Insidious Role of the BBC” published
today notes that “Robert Cooper’s ‘law
of the jungle’ was written in part to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.
… But the BBC operates according to Cooper’s view of the world:
…One that represents white people ─
and rich white people at that ─ numbering no more than a few tens of thousands
of individuals: that 1 percent.
…In ‘Tomahawking’ [missile-attacking]
Syria, we are saving ‘civilization’ for the 1 percent.
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| U.S. Warship |
n “U.S. and Allied Warships off the Syrian Coastline: Naval
Deployment Was Decided ‘Before’ the August 21 Chemical Weapons Attack,” Professor
Michel Chossudovsky says, “Military planning involves intricate scenarios and
war games by both sides including military options pertaining to advanced
weapons systems [and] A Third World War scenario has been contemplated by
US-NATO-Israeli military planners since early 2000.”
But, he says ─ and people all across the Middle East are painfully
aware of this as should be Americans ─ “Any
form of US-NATO direct military intervention against Syria would destabilize
the entire region, potentially leading to escalation over a vast geographical
area, extending from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Afghanistan-Pakistan
border with Tajikistan and China.”
Beware of War propaganda
Waging war for justice and democracy
War for women
War is peace
“The role of war propaganda is paramount, not only in
molding public opinion into accepting a war agenda,” Chossudovsky writes; but
also in establishing a consensus within the upper echelons of the
decision-making process. A selective form of war propaganda intended for ‘Top
Officials’ (TOPOFF) in government agencies, intelligence, the Military, law
enforcement, etc., is intended to create an unbending consensus in favor of War
and the Police State.
“For the war project to go ahead, it is essential that both
politicians and military planners are rightfully committed to leading the war ‘in
the name of justice and democracy.’ For this to occur, they must firmly believe
in their own propaganda, namely that war is ‘an instrument of peace and
democracy.’”
Chossudovsky concludes, pointedly, mincing no words
“…Wars are invariably decided upon by civilian leaders and
corporate interests rather than by the military. War serves dominant economic
interests which operate from behind the scenes, behind closed doors in
corporate boardrooms, in the Washington think tanks, etc.
Realities are turned upside down.
War is peace. The Lie becomes the Truth.
War propaganda, namely media lies,
constitutes the most powerful instrument of warfare.
Without media disinformation, the
US-NATO-Israel led war agenda would collapse like a deck of cards. The
legitimacy of the war criminals in high office would be broken.
Martin Luther King said of the years’ long Western-perpetrated carnage in Southeast Asia: “The great initiative in this war is ours [and] the
initiative to stop it must be ours.”
Chossudovsky lays out more detail
“It is … essential to disarm not only the mainstream media
but also a segment of the self proclaimed ‘progressive’ alternative media,
which has provided legitimacy to NATO’s ‘Responsibility to protect’ (R2P) mandate, largely with a view to dismantling
the antiwar movement.
“The road to Tehran Iran goes through Damascus. A war on
Iran would involve, as a first step, the destabilization of Syria as a nation
state. Military planning pertaining to
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| Syrian head of State |
Syria is an integral part of the war-on-Iran
agenda.
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Consequences of war
Refugees |
The war on Syria could evolve
towards a US-NATO-Israel military campaign directed against Iran, in which
Turkey and Israel would be directly involved.
It is crucial to spread the word
and break the channels of media disinformation.
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Caught in crossfire
Syrian refugees |
A critical and unbiased
understanding of what is happening in Syria is of crucial importance in
reversing the tide of military escalation toward a broader regional war.
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Syrians protest
foreign interference |
Our objective is ultimately to
dismantle the US-NATO-Israeli military arsenal and restore World Peace.
It is essential that people in the
United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Israel, Turkey, and around the
World prevent this war from occurring.
Sources and notes
“The new liberal imperialism” (Observer Worldview Extra,
Robert Cooper), Observer.co.uk, Sunday April 7, 2002 07.14 EDT, , http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/07/1
Senior British diplomat Robert Cooper is credited with
having helped shape British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s calls for a new
internationalism and a new doctrine of humanitarian intervention which would
place limits on state sovereignty. “[His]
call for a new liberal imperialism and admission of the need for double
standards in foreign policy have outraged the left but the essay offers a rare
and candid unofficial insight into the thinking behind British strategy on Afghanistan,
Iraq and beyond, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/07/1
“The Criminal Voices of Media Propaganda: The Insidious Role
of the BBC” (William Bowles, Global Research), September 3, 2013, http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-criminal-voices-of-media-propaganda-the-insiduous-role-of-the-bbc/5347915
“U.S and Allied Warships off the Syrian Coastline: Naval
Deployment Was Decided ‘Before’ the August 21 Chemical Weapons Attack” (Prof
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research), September 2, 2013, http://www.globalresearch.ca/massive-naval-deployment-us-and-allied-warships-deployed-to-syrian-coastline-before-the-august-21-chemical-weapons-attack/5347766
Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of
Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the
Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal and Editor of the
globalresearch.ca website.
Chossudovsky is the author of Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011),
America’s “War on Terrorism” (2005),
and The Globalization of Poverty and The
New World Order (2003). He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica
and his writings have been published in more than twenty languages. http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/michel-chossudovsky
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