Now I can't unsee it
Now I can't unsee it
1rst rule of International Law: RESPECT NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY
2nd rule of International Law: RESPECT OTHER COUNTRIES' BORDERS
"Whenever the US war machine moves its crosshairs to a different target I always get people telling me “No no Caitlin, THIS time the Evil Bad Guy really DOES need to be regime changed! THIS time our government and media are telling us the TRUTH!”
And it’s always so stupid, because it’s just the same rehashed lies over and over again. The empire takes whatever actions will help it to dominate our planet and its resources to a greater extent than it already does, and then it makes up justifications for those actions.
They’ll say they’re doing it for humanitarian reasons while ignoring the humanitarian abuses of empire-aligned nations. They’ll say they’re doing it to stop drug abuse while ignoring all the evidence regarding the actual causes of drug abuse, even as Maduro sends 15,000 troops to the Colombian border to help fight drug trafficking. They’ll say they’re doing it to stop interference in US affairs while letting US-aligned nations like Israel interfere in US politics at will.
They’re just lying. The US empire lies about all its acts of war."
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-lying-about-venezuela-while
@MarkHoltom Hope they'll be together real soon
2006. Richard Perle, Jewish nationalist, neoconservative war hawk, Pentagon policy adviser, member of the US Defense Policy Board, of the organization the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), whose goal was "to promote American global leadership", and of the neoconservative think tank The American Enterprise Institute, which is strongly associated to PNAC, argued that Syria “has never been weaker, and we should take advantage of that".
2015. Former NATO supreme military commander Wesley Clark, then US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Paul Wolfowitz, told him in after the first Gulf War in 1991:“We’ve only got five or ten years to clean up the Middle East. These old soviet surrogate regimes like Syria and Iraq, get rid of them before the next superpower comes along to challenge us.”
2001. Donald Rumsfeld, war hawk, four-term U.S. Congressman and US secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977 and from 2001 to 2006, produced a “Road Map for Syria” proposing a number of military options for weakening the Syrian regime, including “docking an aircraft carrier within Syrian territorial waters” and “using proxies to undermine Syrian intelligence agents inside Lebanon.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20151109193656/https://ips-dc.org/the_attack-syria_coalitions_neocon_roots/
https://web.archive.org/web/20151109193656/https://ips-dc.org/the_attack-syria_coalitions_neocon_roots/
2006-2011.USA secretly financed the London-based satellite channel, Barada TV as part of a regime change campaign, funneling $6 million to it.
Barada TV is closely affiliated with the Movement for Justice and Development, founded by Al-Abdah brothers. U.S. cables describe them as "liberal, moderate Islamists", although they were members of the Μuslim Brotherhood, a Sunni fundamentalist, theocratic organization.
Who decides on the future of Syria? The Syrian people? Of course not. The US capital does. Αnd its figurehead announces its decisions in its own diplomatic way.
2006. Elizabeth Cheney, a State Department spokeswoman, said that "The people of Syria deserve the opportunity to build a better future and to live in freedom".
Better future=more profits for US capital.
US State Department's Freedom=a regime that serves our interests
2006. USA announced that they were going to give $5 million to "pro-democracy groups in Syria", in order to "accelerate the work of reformers".
Pro-democracy groups= US puppets. The work of reformers= US regime change plans.
US financial elites identified the status of the US state as democratic and decided that Syria (and many other countries in the world) should follow their own model. It doesn't sound very democratic, but who cares?