WIE IS DE AGRESSOR?

juli 04, 2017

WIE IS DE AGRESSOR?

In het boekje van Joris Luyendijk: "Kunnen We Praten" besteedt hij o.a. aandacht aan zijn vak de journalistiek en hoe hij teleurgesteld raakte over de doelstellingen van de Mainstream Media.

Bij de TV waren de kijkcijfers bepalend en bij de Pers moest alles makkelijk verteerbaar zijn, zodat men de aandacht wist vast te houden.

Diepgaande artikelen waren te inspannend voor de gemiddelde lezer. "Daarom brengen politieke redacties tegenwoordig zo vaak verhalen over de laatste mediastunt van de oppositie, en is politieke journalistiek grotendeels veranderd in journalistiek over politici: "hoe gaat Mark reageren op de opmerking van Alexander dat Geert niet zo gemeen moet doen tegen Sybrand"?

Journalisten moeten tegenwoordig scoren en het probleem is niet politieke maar commerciële correctheid.

Je kan dus weten dat je zelfs de zgn. 'kwaliteitskranten' met enige waakzaamheid/achterdocht? moet lezen.

De hetze tegen Rusland, aangewakkerd door de Mainstream Media die getrouw het overheidsstandpunt nabalken, is daar een goed voorbeeld van.

In Amerika hebben na 9/11 vele journalisten afscheid genomen of moeten nemen van hun krant(en), omdat ze kritiek wilden leveren op het regeringsbeleid dat regelrecht afstevende op een militaire confrontatie met Irak.

Deze kritiek werd als onpatriottisch aangemerkt. Het was in een tijd dat heel Amerika op zijn kop stond en om wraak riep. Een afwijkend standpunt zou de doodsklok kunnen doen luiden voor de betreffende krant.

Vele journalisten weken uit naar veiliger 'Digitale Journalistieke Oorden". Deze moderne vorm van berichtgeving biedt meer kansen op 'alternatief' nieuws. Inmiddels kennen we een aantal gerenommeerde namen in de digitale journalistiek: Voor Nederland moet zeker Stan van Houcke genoemd worden https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_van_Houcke; in het buitenland vooral in Verenigde Staten zijn er meerdere te noemen Robert Parry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Parry_(journalist); Paul Pillar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Pillar Philip Giraldi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Giraldi ; Seymour Hersh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh de Australiër John Pilger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger en vele anderen, die je vanzelf tegenkomt in de diverse links van dit Blog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._F._Stone
Zij proberen in de voetsporen van de legendarische onderzoeksjournalist de I.F. Stone te treden.

In dit 'alternatieve circuit' wordt uitputtend over de ontstane spanning tussen het 'Westen' en Rusland geschreven. Men probeert het naadje van de kous te weten te komen en niet in de val te lopen van de overheidspropaganda. I.F. Stone zei: "All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed".

Wie is de agressor?
De totale omzet in de wapenindustrie wordt door het instituut Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_International_Peace_Research_Institute dat probeert daar informatie over te verzamelen, geraamd op $1500 miljard. Deze raming van het Stockholmse instituut wordt als zeer betrouwbaar aangemerkt, maar is waarschijnlijk aan de lage kant.
Het defensiebudget 2015 van de Verenigde Staten bedroeg $598.5. Dit budget is groter dan de optelsom van de militaire uitgaven van: China, Rusland, Het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Japan, Frankrijk, Saudi-Arabië, India, Duitsland, Italië en Brazilië.

De V.S. hebben wereldwijd 800 militaire bases die gezamenlijk ook nog eens 156 miljard op jaarbasis kosten. In 160 landen hebben de V.S. militair personeel in de vorm van ambassade bewaking, maar voornamelijk in de gedaante van trainers en adviseurs.
Zelfs de C.I.A. heeft een proces van ‘para’-militarisering ondergaan en leidt nu heimelijke “Drone Wars” in Pakistan, Yemen en elders…? De C.I.A. beschikt tevens over “Special Operations Forces” (S.O.F.) ter grootte van minimaal 60.000 man.
De C.I.A. drones zijn de luchtmacht van de President geworden zoals de S.O.F. zijn privé leger is.
De Verenigde Naties werden van de meeste acties uitsluitend van in kennis gesteld!

Na de val van de muur en het begin van het ineenstorten van de Sovjet-Unie bevond zich nog een grote Russische troepenmacht in Oost-Duitsland. Gorbatsjov was bereid deze troepen terug te trekken en zich niet te verzetten tegen de “Hereniging van Duitsland” onder de voorwaarde dat het “Westen” zich niet militair naar het Oosten zou verplaatsen.

WIE ZAL ZICH IN DE LOOP DER JAREN HET MEEST BEDREIGD GEVOELD HEBBEN?
WIJ TOCH ZEKER!
THE “GOOD” GUYS

SAMENVATTING VAN DE AMERIKAANSE ACTIES

I Iraq was invaded and the country destroyed. According to a 2015 NGO report, the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq had led to the deaths of approximately 1 million Iraqis – 5 percent of the total population of the country – by 2011. More than three million Iraqis are internally displaced, and the carnage continues.

The destruction of Iraq and impoverishment of its people is at the root of much of today’s extremism and it’s been demonstrated that it led to the rise of ISIS, as admitted by former British Prime Minister and Iraq war co-perpetrator Tony Blair.

II Libya was invaded in 2011 and its leader violently overthrown; in the post-Gaddafi power vacuum, a 2011 UN report revealed torture, lynching’s and abuse. Five years on, the country was still torn by civil war and ISIS is reportedly expanding into the chaos. A 2016 Human Rights Watch report stated: “Libya’s political and security crisis deepened … the country edged towards a humanitarian crisis, with almost 400,000 people internally displaced.” Warring forces “continued with impunity to arbitrarily detain, torture, unlawfully kill, indiscriminately attack, abduct and disappear, and forcefully displace people from their homes. The domestic criminal justice system collapsed in most parts of the country, exacerbating the human rights crisis.” [Photoshere]

III Sudan: The U.S. engaged in so-called “nation-building” in Sudan, advanced the claim in 2005 that the government was perpetrating a genocide, and some U.S. players ultimately organized the secession of South Sudan from Sudan in 2011. (Neocon Israel partisan Elliott Abrams was one of these players.) One journalist reported the result: “[A]n abyss of unspeakable misery and bloodshed … .

Tens of thousands have been killed, 1.5 million have been displaced, and 5 million are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.”

IV Somalia:

There have been a number of U.S. interventions in Somalia, most recently a clandestine war under Obama using Special Operations troops, airstrikes, private contractors and African allies; Somali extremists, like others, repeatedly cite Israel’s crimes against Palestinians, enabled by the U.S., as motivators of their violent extremism.

V Iran:

Iran has long been targeted by Israel, and Israel partisans have driven the anti-Iran campaign in the U.S. Most recently there has been a public relations effort claiming that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, despite the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies and other experts do not support these accusations. Israel and the U.S. deployed a computer virus against Iran in what has been called the world’s first digital weapon. Young Iranian nuclear physicists have been assassinated by U.S. ally Israel, and the U.S. instituted a blockade against Iran that caused food insecurity and mass suffering among the country’s civilians. (Such a blockade can be seen as an act of war.) Democratic Congressman and Israel partisan Brad Sherman admitted theobjective of the Iran sanctions: “Critics of sanctions argue that these measures will hurt the Iranian people. Quite frankly, we need to do just that.”

(Zie P5+1 deal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal_framework)

VI Yemen:

The US has launched drone strikes against Yemen for years, killing numerous Yemeni civilians and even some Americans. In 2010, a few weeks after Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, he had the military use cluster bombs that killed 35 Yemeni women and children. The Obama administration killed a 16-year-old American in 2011, and a few days ago U.S. forces under Trump killed the boy’s sister. In 2014 American forces attacked a wedding procession, and in 2015 the Obama administration admitted it was making war on Yemen. Today over two million Yemeni children suffer from malnutrition. The Yemeni regime that we’re attacking became politically active in 2003 as a result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

VII Syria: In an email revealed by WikiLeaks, Hillary Clinton wrote that the “best way to help Israel” was to overthrow the Syrian regime.
Syria seems to be a poster child for the destruction recommended by Israeli strategists. As the UK Guardian reported in 2002: “Disorder and chaos sweeping through the region would not be an unfortunate side-effect of war with Iraq, but a sign that everything is going according to plan.”

Half the Syrian population is displaced – 5 million have fled the country and another 6 million are internally displaced – and over 300,000 are dead from the violence. Major cities and ancient sites are in ruins and the countryside devastated. Amnesty International calls it “the worst humanitarian crisis of our time.”
While the uprising against a ruthless dictator was no doubt begun by authentic Syrian rebels, others with questionable agendas flowed in, some supported by the U.S. and Israel. Israel’s military intelligence chief said Israel does not want ISIS defeated. Israel’s defense minister has admitted that Israel has provided aid to ISIS fighters.

ISIS

A major factor in Syria’s chaos and the rise of ISIS was the destruction of Iraq, as revealed by in-depth interviews with ISIS fighters by researchers for Artis International, a consortium for scientific study in the service of conflict resolution:
“Many assume that these fighters are motivated by a belief in the Islamic State… but this just doesn’t hold for the prisoners we are interviewing. They are woefully ignorant about Islam and have difficulty answering questions about Sharia law, militant jihad, and the caliphate.”
“More pertinent than Islamic theology is that there are other, much more convincing, explanations as to why they’ve fought for the side they did.”
One interviewee said: “The Americans came. They took away Saddam, but they also took away our security. I didn’t like Saddam, we were starving then, but at least we didn’t have war. When you came here, the civil war started.”

The report noted that the fighters “came of age under the disastrous American occupation after 2003.”
“They are children of the occupation, many with missing fathers at crucial periods (through jail, death from execution, or fighting in the insurgency), filled with rage against America and their own government. They are not fueled by the idea of an Islamic caliphate without borders; rather, ISIS is the first group since the crushed Al Qaeda to offer these humiliated and enraged young men a way to defend their dignity, family, and tribe.”
The leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was imprisoned for eight months in the infamous Abu Ghraib, a U.S.-run Iraqi prison known for grotesque torture of prisoners. Photos published at that time show U.S. soldiers smiling next to piles of naked prisoners and a hooded detainee standing on a narrow box with electrical wires attached to his outstretched hands.

An Abu Ghraib interrogator later revealed that Israelis trained them in the use of techniques used against Palestinians. General Janis Karpinski (in charge of the unit that ran the prison) and others say that Israelis were involved in interrogations. It was reported that the head of the defense contracting firm implicated in the torture at Abu Ghraib prison had close ties to Israel and had visited an Israeli training camp in the West Bank.

Another major factor in the rise of anti-Western extremism is the largely unconditional support for Israel’s violent oppression of Palestinians. As a UN report documented, “The scale of human loss and destruction in Gaza during the 2014 conflict was catastrophic and has … shocked and shamed the world.”
Professor John Mearsheimer of and Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard have written that U.S. policies promoted by the Israel lobby have given “extremists a powerful recruiting tool, increases the pool of potential terrorists and sympathizers, and contributes to Islamic radicalism around the world.”

Osama Bin Laden cited U.S. support for Israeli crimes against Palestinians among his reasons for fighting the U.S. The U.S. gives Israel over $10 million per day.

Literatuur

1: America at War with Itself by Henry Giroux p. 3-27 2: Who Rules the World? http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176137/ (Noam Chomsky)

Maar het is "even worse than it looks".
Op 25 juni j.l. verscheen een artikel in de digitale krant TomDispatch (zie Link van dit Blog) van de hand van Nick Turse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Turse met de titel "The Commandos of Everywhere". Het blijkt dat de Verenigde Staten in 137 van de ongeveer 194 landen die de wereld rijk is militair actief is. De "Special Operations Command" (SOCOM) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Special_Operations_Command een elite eenheid in het leven geroepen na de rampzalige reddingspoging in 1980 om de gegijzelden in de Amerikaanse ambassade in Teheran te bevrijden. Van enkele duizenden militairen is deze eenheid uitgegroeid tot ongeveer 70.000 man.

"A unit specialysed in raiding, training and advising".

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176300/