Die staatshoofde van die wêreld se vernaamste ekonomieë, die G20, kon nie daarin slaag om hulle diepe verdeeldheid oor die konflik in Sirië te oorkom by samesprekings by die G20-beraad wat tans in St Petersburg in Rusland plaasvind nie.
Die VN en Arabiese Liga se gesant vir Sirië, Lakhdar Brahimi, het hom ook by die leiers aangesluit en die hoofsekretaris van die VN, Ban Ki-Moon het druk probeer toepas vir ‘n internasionale vredeskonferensie oor Sirië.
Wêreldleiers het hulle eie standpunte probeer stel in toesprake van 10 minute elk, maar geen deurbraak kon bereik word nie.
Die Italiaanse Eerste Minister, Enrico Letta, het na afloop daarvan gesê die diepe verdeeldheid oor Sirië is nou slegs bevestig.
Amerika se gesant by die VN het vanuit New York, Rusland daarvan beskuldig dat hy die VN-Veiligheidsraad gyselaar hou, terwyl die Britse Eerste Minister, David Cameron, aangedui het dat Londen nuwe bewyse het van die gebruik van chemiese wapens. – RSG
London het “nuwe bewyse” regtig? Hoe geloofwaardig van die Poms?
Kan jy dit nou oor vertel? Die land wat skuldig is aan verskeie volksmoorde het nuwe bewyse gekook, skuus!!, gevind…..Sirie, Iran, Belarus, Rusland……….
Wat ‘n heuglike gebeurtenis sal dit nie wees as boelie veglustige Amerika op sy eie staan met geen ondersteuning en besef hy is nie meer so verhewe bo die res van die wêreld nie.
Dogs of
war versus the emerging caravan
By Pepe Escobar The dogs of war bark and the emerging-powers caravan … keeps
on trucking. That’s the Group of 20 meeting in St Petersburg in a nutshell.
Count on the indispensable (bombing) nation – via US President Barack “Red
Line” Obama – to disrupt a summit whose original agenda was to tackle the
immense problems afflicting the global economy.
Economy is for suckers. Get me to my Tomahawk on time. The Obama doctrine – Yes
We Scan, Yes We Drone – reached a new low with its Yes We Bomb
“solution” to the chemical weapons attack in Ghouta, Syria,
presenting world public opinion in the run-up towards the G-20 with the
illusionist spectacle of a “debate” in the US Senate about the merits
of a new bout of humanitarian bombing.
What in fact was served was the appalling spectacle of serial wacko Republicans
of the John McCain and Lindsey Graham mould squeezing the desperate Obama
administration like little lemons. Their Orwellian gambit – “reverse the
battlefield momentum” – pushed by the senile McCain, was duly approved by
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This means bombing the hell out of
Damascus during a “window of opportunity” of three months, with a
possibility of extension. Red Line Obama is on board, assuring, before leaving
to Sweden and the G-20, that his former “slap on the wrist” would
“fit in” with regime change.
Not even the ghost of Machiavelli would come up with an adjective to describe
the whole planet waiting in disbelief to see whether the almost universally
despised House of Representatives (15% approval rating, according to
RealClearPolitics) decides, Roman Empire style, to give the thumbs down and
authorize the bombing of one of the oldest cities in humanity (well, they have
an illustrious precedent of applauding Shock and Awe over Baghdad, which topped
the Mongols going medieval in the 13th century).
And all this against the will of the “American people” who, according
to a Reuters/Ipsos poll support this folly by an overwhelming 9%.
Yes We Bomb. But what for? The following exchange might have come straight from
Monty Python. Unfortunately, it’s real.
Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey: “The answer
to whether I support additional support for the moderate opposition is
yes.”
Senator Bob Corker (R, Tennessee): “And this authorization will
support those activities in addition to responding to the weapons of mass
destruction.”
Dempsey: “I don’t know how the resolution will evolve, but I
support – ”
Corker: “What you’re seeking. What is it you’re seeking?”
Dempsey: “I can’t answer that, what we’re seeking … ”
The
Pentagon may be clueless – rather, playing clueless. But Bandar Bush, AIPAC/Israel
and vast sectors of the industrial-military complex know exactly what they are
seeking. And Secretary of State John Kerry knows not only what they are seeking
but also who’s footing the bill, as in “if the United States is prepared
to go do the whole thing the way we’ve done it previously in other places,
they’ll carry that cost. That’s how dedicated they are to this.”
Free bombing. For three months. With inbuilt free upgrading. Operation Tomahawk
With Cheese but also bacon, onions, chilies, mayo, guacamole, the works. All
courtesy of Saudi Arabia’s Prince Bandar bin Sultan – aka Bandar Bush – plus
minions Emirates and Qatar. What’s not to like? The inestimable Vijay Prashad,
author of The Poorer Nations, has been using his calculator:
Exhibit
A: Saudis have put ”on the table” their offer to pay for the entire US
assault on Syria. Exhibit B: in case of an attack on Syria, the price of oil is
slated to go from $109 to $125 per barrel (base case scenario), with an upside
scenario of $150 per barrel. Saudi Arabia will produce 9.8 million barrels of
oil a day. Which means if the spike is only the base case scenario, Saudi will
gross a super-profit of $156.8 million per day. If it is the upside scenario,
then the Saudi super-profits will be $401.8 million per day. Not a bad
arbitrage game from Mr Bandar and his gang of Saudi “democrats”.
Addendum: each Tomahawk costs only US$1.5 million.
With a prospective free flow of Bandar Bush’s cash, no wonder there’s a
compatible free flow of Krug at Raytheon’s HQ.
Confronted with the sumptuous marriage of the industrial-military complex and
the House of Saud producing lethal cruise offspring duly employed as al-Qaeda’s
Air Force, a pesky detail like hardcore Chechen jihadis forming their own
militia, The Mujahedin of the Caucasus and the Levant, is, well, irrelevant. As
irrelevant as the fact that these jihadis are run by none other than Bandar
Bush, who bragged to President Vladimir Putin he can turn them on and off at
will.
So if these Chechens are Bandar’s minions, they are also Friends of
Obama/Kerry/Rice/Power. Just like the jihadis who are fighting to take over the
“crusader” village of Maloula – where people still speak Aramaic, the
language of Jesus – so they can proceed to gleefully behead a few Christian
infidels.
What would Zbig say?
Red Line Obama anyway has already telegraphed that he’s bombing – whatever
congress decides. Obama of course is just a cipher – he couldn’t point to Maloula
on a map (not to mention his “security advisers” of the Ben Rhodes
mould). Syria is a peach – and it has to be devoured. Too independent. Allied
with Iran and Russia. Those river sources in the Golan coveted by Israel. The
chance to further provoke Russia in the Caucasus. The chance, in the long run,
to destabilize China in Xinjiang. The chance to isolate Hezbollah, allow a new
Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon, open the (lethal) road to Tehran.
Yet the agendas will keep diverging. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in
Turkey would bless regime change, but he’s terrified of Syrian Kurds becoming
totally independent and further giving toxic ideas to Turkish Kurds. The House
of Saud wants all-out regime change, so it may be able, in one swoop, to wound
Iran, Iraq and Hezbollah. So what if those Allahu Akbar Friends of Kerry and
company run amok? They are not on Saudi Arabian soil threatening the
petromonarchy; let them fight those “apostate” Shi’ites in assorted
latitudes.
Let’s see what the man who in theory instilled little nuggets of international
relations realities into Red Line Obama’s brain think about all this. Zbigniew
“Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski is in favor of
“some symbolic military action”. Well, a cost-effective version would be
to parachute Kerry in Maloula.
Dr Zbig also wants to “involve the oriental powers”, as “they
have to be very worried as to where this is headed”. Correct; that’s what
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Putin, he worries about – oil at $150 a
barrel. The Russians, according to Dr Zbig, are using “aggressive and
insulting language”. Ridiculous – when Putin dubbed Kerry a liar that was the
understatement of the year. Dr Zbig is in fact terrified that “the
Russians may use this conflict, if it explodes, to undermine overall our
position in the Middle East.” Memo: your “position” is already
undermined all over the planet, not only the Middle East.
And when Dr Zbig says that the Russians are “fearful of stability in the
Caucusus”, and “Putin has a stake in the Winter Olympics”, and
“there is leverage here that we can use intelligently”, he sounds
eerily like Bandar Bush threatening Putin to unleash “his” Chechens
in Sochi in 2014.
More enlightening, and with no double talk, is what the manipulated
“opposition” wants. It’s all about Iran – and “terrorist
ally” Hezbollah (scroll down to page 6 here.)
The Xi-Putin show
Even immersed in all this hysteria, the BRICS caravan managed to engage in
serious business at the G-20. They held a mini-summit to coordinate their
common position – which, as far as Syria is concerned, is totally anti-war (you
won’t see this reported in Western corporate media). They did say, en bloc,
that Obama’s war will have “an extremely negative effect on the global
economy”.
So they discussed, as a group, how to increase their trade using their own
currencies; how to develop their markets (that’s part of the original Russian
agenda for this G-20); and how to improve trade relations. Common strategy:
multiple escape routes against US dollar hegemony.
They advanced on negotiations relative to the capital structure, shareholding
and governance of the BRICS development bank; initial capital of $50 billion
and an emergency fund of $100 billion, a sort of emerging powers International
Monetary Fund. The bank should have a head start in the next BRICS summit in
2014 in Brazil.
And as far as Russia and China are concerned, there’s the annual meeting of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) next week. Before that, already
contemplating the prospect of $200 billion in bilateral trade by 2020, Xi and
Putin discussed a rash of mega-projects – not only revolving around
Pipelineistan – and the proverbial “further strategic international
coordination”. The official Chinese version to their strategic partnership
is a beauty: “Sowing in spring and harvesting in autumn.”
It’s like sleeping in one of those fabulous beds at a Four Seasons resort. No
hysteria. No “red lines”. No Tomahawks. No “credibility on the
line.”
This is what Obama said in August 2012:
We have
been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground,
that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons
moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would
change my equation.
Note the “my” and then again another “my” invoking
responsibility, not “the world”.
So while the Xi and Putin caravan reenacts the spirit of the Silk Road, the
dogs of war keep barking; and informed public opinion everywhere starts to
consider the possibility that Obama, by not assuming full responsibility for
what he said, and blaming “the world”, may also be a coward.
Warmongering, whoremongering. The same thing. The whore of Washington and the Abominations of the earth, spoiling for war.
“Western-backed aggression rages in Syria. Likely escalation’s planned. Under UN Charter provisions, the Security Council’s obligated to confront it, not Assad. He and nonviolent Syrians are victims, not villains.”
Google Fort Hunt. Die Odessa Nazi’s wat vir die Jode gaan werk het, is nou almal dood. Dit is waar Amerika se probleme vandaan kom