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Belgian MP Laurent Louis Tears Down Empire Project – Amazing!

Feb 2

Posted by Michael Collins in 9/11, antiwar, Arab Spring, Corruption, Violence, War (endless) | Comments off

Speech by Laurent Louis – Posted by Michael Collins

“It is about time to stop lying to us and treating people like imbeciles.”

Tearing Down the Empire Project:  This speech represents a moment of extreme truth for the NATO powers. The United States, Great Britain, France and the lesser powers have been throwing their weight around Asia and Africa without regard to the norms of civilized behavior Their drill includes attacking countries that pose no threat to any NATO member; engaging in ruinious sanctions as a negotiating tool; threatening war; and, engaging in military actions as a matter of routine. Laurent Louis, a Belgian MP and crusader for human rights, spoke to parliament and laid out the truth behind naked aggression and the lies that justify it. Michael Collins
(Originally found at Kenny’s Sideshow)

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LAURENT LOUIS, MP: Thank you, Mr President. Dear Ministers, dear Colleagues.

Belgium is indeed the land of surrealism.

This morning we learned from the media that the Belgian army is incapable of fighting some extremist soldiers having radical Islamist beliefs existing within its own ranks but who cannot be dismissed for lack of legal means.

However, at the same time, we decide to help France in its war against “Terror” by providing logistical support for its operation in Mali. What wouldn’t we do in order to fight against terrorism outside our borders? I just hope we took care not to send for this anti-terrorist operation, in Mali, these much talked about Belgian Islamists soldiers!

I seem to be joking, but what is going on in the world today does not make me laugh at all. It doesn’t make me laugh, because without any doubt, the leaders of our Western countries are taking the people for imbeciles with the help and support of the Media which are nothing more today than an organ of propaganda of the ruling powers.

Around the world, military actions and regime’s destabilization are becoming more and more frequent. Preventive war has become the rule.

And today, in the name of democracy and the fight against terrorism, our states grant themselves the right to violate the sovereignty of independent countries and to overthrow legitimate leaders. Read the rest of this entry »

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What happens when they start killing Christians?

Aug 26

Posted by Michael Collins in Arab Spring, Syria, War (endless) | Comments off

Michael Collins

What really scandalizes us is that the Western world is encouraging this rise of sectarian violence just to topple the [al-Assad] regime. Mother Agnes Miriam, Syria

NATO and Saudi supported Free Syrian Army democracy warriors are attacking and killing Christians in Syria. Reports indicate that various Christian denominations are special targets for kidnapping, violence and intimidation. (Image) For example:

“Syrian rebel forces have trapped over 12,000 Greek Catholics in a village near the Lebanese border, causing shortages of food, medicine and other urgent supplies.” CNA, August 25

The Greek Catholics in the village of Reblah may suffer the same fate as Christians in Qusair who were forced to seek refuge in Lebanon recently after their village lost supplies for days thanks to the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The residents were told to leave or face annihilation. They chose to leave.

Mother Agnes Miriam of the Melkite Catholic monastery near Homs provided important first hand reporting on the fate of Syria’s 10% Christian population (July at 3:30 and August 2012). She noted that FSA fighters destroyed six Christian churches in the city of Homs. Due to this and other attacks, up to 90% of the Christian population were forced to flee for their lives without their possessions. Read the rest of this entry »

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No more wars – Obama, NATO and the oil dictators need to get real on Syria

Apr 12

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Middle East, War (endless) | Comments off

Two sides of the same event, one promoting a war friendly narrative based on some human rights group, the other from Pepe Escobar in the Asia Times.

“Syrian forces fired across the border into a refugee camp in Turkey, wounding five people, authorities said. The soldiers were firing at rebels who tried to escape after ambushing a military checkpoint, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights [SOHR]. On the border with Lebanon, a cameraman for Lebanon’s Al Jadeed TV station was killed by shots fired from Syria, the station said.

“Turkey shelters thousands of refugees fleeing Assad’s military, which has killed 9,000 people since March 2011 in an attempt to put down an uprising, according to the United Nations.” USA Today, April 9

What is the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights? “SOHR is run out of a two-bedroom terraced home in Coventry by one man using the name Rami Abdulrahman (or Rami Abdul Rahman, or Rami Abdelrahman). He also runs a clothes shop.” Wikipedia  This source is a new low, even for McPaper, USA Today.

Here’s what Pepe Escobar says about the same situation.

“Turkey is sheltering the FSA right on the border, only a few meters – and not kilometers – away from Syrian territory. Way beyond hosting a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) command and control center in Iskenderun for months now – a fact already reported by Asia Times Online – Turkey has now advanced right to the border, enabling a back-and-forth by heavily weaponized guerrillas/mercenaries to attack a sovereign state.

“Imagine a similar scenario happening, say, at a Mexican-US border in Arizona or Texas.”
.Pepe Escobar – What’s goin’ on at the Turkish-Syrian border? April 11

Where did USA Today get the 9,000 figure, the guy in Coventry?  The Turks are certainly smart enough to move refugees away from the border and stop military incursions from occurring proximate to the refugees.  This is all war promotion.

An overwhelming majority of citizens who have the correct position on this – stay out!  But those who profit from war and their minions in the corporate media continue their relentless and endless death march.  For what?

And week end and week out we have to endure the arrogant, pathetically reasoned, myopic judgements out of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on this or that nation’s progress toward democracy.  She as become simply unbearable.  How did democracy work out in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya?

 

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Admission that Libya was a war crime and the shift

Apr 6

Posted by Michael Collins in Corruption, Criminal Justice, War (endless) | Comments off

By Michael Collins

Foreign Policy just published a roundup of weapons contributed to the Libyan rebels in the regime change effort.  The e-Journal is a publication of the Washington Post.  Colum Lynch’s April 4 article relies on the March 20 UN report to the UN Security Council by a panel of experts appointed to track the UN resolutions and responses from the start of the conflict.

These two paragraphs, noncontroversial in establishment world, outline clear violations of Principle VI (a), (b), and (c), of the Nuremburg Principles, affirmed by the United Nations General Assembly.

“As the late Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi’s forces prepared to crush the Libyan uprising last summer in Benghazi, Britain, France, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and other allies moved quickly to reinforce the beleaguered rebel forces.

“With military supplies, training, advice — and of course the backing of NATO war planes — this coalition of governments provided critical support to change the course of the conflict, ultimately leading to Qaddafi’s downfall. ” Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy, March 4

It’s right there. The rebels were getting their clock cleaned by the legal government of Libya.  The UN Security Council approved a humanitarian mission run by NATO to protect Libyan civilians based almost exclusively on evidence from one questionable source, an activist who was part of the Libyan rebels group. Read the rest of this entry »

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The not-so-glorious revolution in Libya

Feb 19

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, War (endless) | Comments off

Guardian: Amnesty finds widespread use of torture by Libyan militias  Thursday 16 February
Hundreds of armed militias operating independently of central authorities, according to report by human rights group

A damning report by Amnesty International says that a year after the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s militias are “largely out of control”, with the use of torture ubiquitous and the country’s new rulers unable – or unwilling – to prevent abuses.  (Image can3ro55o)

Edmonton Journal: One Year Later, Libya’s Future Still Very Much Up in the Air  Febuary 18
The rebels, who would not have come to power if it weren’t for NATO’s bombing, and who once complained about the brutality of Gadhafi’s regime, are now themselves brutalizing others.

The Sydney Morning Herald: Prisoners tortured by Libyan militia Ian Black, London, January 28, 2012

THREE months after the killing of Muammar Gaddafi, concerns are mounting about the mistreatment and torture of prisoners held by Libyan militiamen.

The militia are operating beyond the control of the country’s transitional government and officially recognised security bodies.

West Point: Al-Qa’Ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq, The Sinjar Records
The apparent surge in Libyan recruits traveling to Iraq may be linked the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group’s (LIFG) increasingly cooperative relationship with al‐Qa’ida, which culminated in the LIFG officially joining al‐Qa’ida on November 3, 2007. 11

The LGIF/al Qaeda fighters went back to Libya, were reformed in some crazy program by Gaddafi’s son Saif, and released.  A couple of months later they helped lead the military effort against Gaddafi.  Is it any surprise that torture prevails?  The use of Humiliation and Death as a Tool of National Policy becomes a war crime.  While our leaders put on a clown show over here, the wind they sowed in Libya has become a whirlwind of pain and suffering.  Wonder if any of those pious preachers at the churches they attend will mention this?  Not on your life.

 

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Military Commander of Tripoli, Belhadj, Has Men in Syria

Dec 21

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Corruption, Intelligence | Comments off

From ABC.ex, Spanish newspaper, we find that military commander of Tripoli,  Abdelhakim Belhadj, has what looks like an adanced party on the ground in Syria.   Belhadj led a Libyan group that aligned with al Qaeda.  He was once a US detainee and graduated from Saif Gaddafi’s absurd jihadist therapy camp just before playing a key role in the anti Gaddafi revolution. (Libyan Rebel Army Led by Rehabilitated al Qaeda Linked Terrorists)

This is what Obama paid for with our taxes at a time when the nation is struggling with ongoing recession/depression.

It is past the time to doubt much of what is said about Syria.  Even if you don’t, keep in mind it is not our business.  Syria is not a threat to the United States.

Here are excerpts from the Spanish new article


December 17, 2011

Libyan Islamist move to Syria to “help” to the revolution

ABC interview with a Libyan group linked to former jihadist Belhadj who have traveled to Syria to “evaluate” the means of support for the insurgency. Read the rest of this entry »

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Humiliation and Death as a Tool of National Policy

Oct 23

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Constitution, Corruption, People's Revolution, Populism | 3 Comments


“It’s not acceptable to kill a person without trying him,” said Louay Hussein, a Syrian opposition figure in Damascus. “I prefer to see the tyrant behind bars.” New York Times, October 20

The New York Times reported that a NATO jet and drones disabled vehicles in a convoy carrying Muammar Gaddafi near the besieged town of Sirte on October 20. Loyalists in the remaining vehicles scattered becoming easy prey for the emboldened fighters of the new Libyan state.

Reuters expanded the narrative on the 21st by reporting that Gaddafi fled from his jeep, hid in a drainage pipe, and emerged with an automatic weapon and side arm. He was manhandled and slapped by the soldiers of the new Libya. He allegedly asked the crowd, “Don’t you know right from wrong?” They took exception to the question and shot him twice in the head. He was transported to Misurata, scene of one of the few decisive victories by the former rebels. Gaddafi’s corpse was placed on a bare mattress and put on display for the public on the 22nd. It remains there today, although it is now reportedly covered by a blanket (Reuters, October 23).

There’s a new sheriff in town, NATO.

(See a lively discussion of the article and issues raised at The Agonist).

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