Cross-posted from presstv.com, author Finian Cunningham writes:
The United States of America stands exposed in the eyes of the entire world as the number-one terrorist threat to the future of humanity. Many have known this fact already, but now it is universally clear.
As the US prepares to launch an overt war on Syria (the covert war has been raging for 30 months), the vast majority of humanity can finally see through all its decades of pretense and conceit as the world’s model of democracy and international law. And what they see is the ugly opposite. The US is a terrorist state that holds international law, democracy and human rights in utter contempt. It is ready, as it always has been, to kill countless civilians for its selfish political ambitions. That is the conventional definition of “terrorism”.
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad made a profound point recently when he said that his country has faced aggression for more than two years, but only now is the real enemy revealing itself – the US and its minions. But the US terrorist state is not just being called out over Syria. It is being revealed as the enemy to the entire world.
From past wars in the Caribbean, Central America, Philippines, Vietnam and Indochina, through coups and covert ops in Iran, Iraq, Africa, to recent killing fields in Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia, the historical picture is now complete. All these conflicts and many more – too many to mention here – integrate into one indisputable truth. The US is the world’s biggest terror state. If it is not dealt with definitely, then the future of the world is in peril more than ever.
In previous crimes of aggression, the US ruling elite could invoke the spurious cover of “a coalition of the willing”, or the abused authority of the United Nations or NATO. It was able to do that through deployment of lies, fabrications and a supine mass media that would lend credibility to the mendacity. Now, thanks to alternative, critical media and instant global communications, the American lies don’t work any longer. In an instant, they are exposed; just like the attempt in the last few hours of US Secretary of State John [Kerry] to frame up Syria over alleged chemical weapons use.
The New York Times, BBC and the usual Western media mouthpieces for imperialist propaganda dutifully facilitated Kerry and his US state terrorism with bombastic, important-sounding headlines: “Kerry lays out evidence against Syria”. There was hardly a critical question raised, even though there are grounds for dozens such questions. Years ago, that kind of herd-think might have been enough to buy the US warmongers enough time to launch a war – but not any more. Within minutes of Kerry’s supposedly definitive condemnation, statements, articles, tweets and blogs were pulling the charade asunder, showing that apart from Western-media-amplified bombast, Kerry was not saying anything of value. It was just another risible repetition of earlier hyperbole and empty rhetoric. Or in short, lies.
The people of the world have reached a critical mass of intolerance towards the rogue terror states of the US, Britain, France, Israel and a few other accomplices. We have watched their relentless mass murder and exploitation of fellow humans in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We have witnessed how this tiny group of state terrorists imposes on the vast majority of humanity their vile criminality and in the process then insult us with grotesque lies and justifications. We have seen how these rogue states have stolen land, poisoned people’s water, burnt their crops, dispossessed their homes, assassinated families with aerial drones and ground drones in the form of death squads. They have committed all these shocking crimes with lies and impunity to the point where now these state terrorists are operating in more than one country simultaneously in a permanent state of relentless war, pushing the very future of humanity to the brink.
However, despite this lawlessness and gangsterism, the people of the world are fighting back.
This week the British parliament voted against the London government’s arrogance to provide its usual criminal special relationship to the Americans. In the execution of past war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya – to mention a few – Washington could rely on the trusty British imperialists to give a veneer of “coalition of the willing”. British premier David Cameron’s plans to repeat the criminality by backing Washington’s plans to bomb Syria were dealt a crushing blow by the British parliament voting against any such military action. Cameron was forced to withdraw. The vote in the British parliament is not so much a sign of ethics among Britain’s political class. It is more a reflection of the global awakening among ordinary citizens that this insane state terrorism must stop.
The French government has also backed off earlier bellicose bravado, with French President Francois Hollande belatedly calling for a “peaceful, political solution” over the Syrian crisis. Even Washington’s reliable Canadian puppet Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that his country will not be getting involved military in Syria. It is also reported that 10 members of the NATO alliance – one-third of the total – are not willing to support American strikes. This latter grouping comprises the usual minions of the US. And we haven’t even yet acknowledged the more strident opponents, such as Russia, China, Iran and the majority of nations elsewhere in Asia, Africa and the Americas.
The people of the world have had it with elite Western rulers acting as terrorists who are holding humanity to ransom. The rulers are presiding not only over military terrorism. They are inflicting economic, social and ecological terrorism with their bankrupt capitalist smash-and-grab system. That system has reached the point of meltdown and that is why we are being pushed into relentless wars – in order for the rulers and their politician puppets to corner the remaining resources. The ultimate solution to end the wars is for the people to overthrow the economic system that US and Western elite rulers preside over. The insane criminality of the US rulers over Syria is exposing this historic challenge facing humanity.
After the British parliamentary setback the US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said: “Our approach is to continue to find an international coalition that will act together. It is the goal of President Obama and our government… whatever decision is taken, that it be an international collaboration and effort.”
Can you believe how ridiculous these American puppets sound? What the deluded Americans do not seem to realize is that they are on their own. The only entities willing to support their aggression on Syria is Saudi Arabia and Israel. So, how’s that for credibility? The only support Washington can muster is from a feudal, sword-wielding, head-chopping regime and a criminal pariah genocidal state. Coalition of the Willing? More like Coalition of the Killing.
Barnaby Is Right 
As an American, I wish you were wrong.
But sadly I share many of your concerns.
Contact with reality was replaced by false illusions of grandeur in 1945:
http://omanuel.wordpress.com/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36191.htm
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From Hiroshima to Syria, the enemy whose name we dare not speak
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By John Pilger
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September 10, 2013 “Information Clearing House – On my wall is the front page of Daily Express of September 5, 1945 and the words: “I write this as a warning to the world.” So began Wilfred Burchett’s report from Hiroshima. It was the scoop of the century. For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues. He warned that an act of premeditated mass murder on an epic scale had launched a new era of terror.
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Almost every day now, he is vindicated. The intrinsic criminality of the atomic bombing is borne out in the US National Archives and by the subsequent decades of militarism camouflaged as democracy. The Syria psychodrama exemplifies this. Yet again, we are held hostage to the prospect of a terrorism whose nature and history even the most liberal critics still deny. The great unmentionable is that humanity’s most dangerous enemy resides across the Atlantic.
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John Kerry’s farce and Barack Obama’s pirouettes are temporary. Russia’s peace deal over chemical weapons will, in time, be treated with the contempt that all militarists reserve for diplomacy. With Al-Qaida now among its allies, and US-armed coupmasters secure in Cairo, the US intends to crush the last independent states in the Middle East: Syria first, then Iran. “This operation [in Syria],” said the former French foreign minister Roland Dumas in June, “goes way back. It was prepared, pre-conceived and planned.”…………………………….
Yes, Kevin, “It was prepared, pre-conceived and planned.”
But the planners lost contact with reality in 1945 and now have little more than delusions of grandeur:
http://omanuel.wordpress.com/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/09/10/christians-worship-the-authority-of-the-state/
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Voting is an Act of Violence
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There is a new meme going viral on the internet, that voting is the most violent act any person can commit. The state kills more people than any other entity, it gets ‘permission’ to do this by the act of voting. So the logic goes like this, voting is cited as evidence of consent and thus agents of the State need your vote to legitimize their authority to tax, war, and judge.
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Message To Voting Cattle (Shortened edited Version)
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Why would you submit to the ‘authority’ of the court and the judge unless their was an elective process and an impartial system of courts? Voting is an integral part of deriving consent from the governed, voting gives the politicians the right to write laws you must obey and taxes you must pay. If you resist, they can legally arrest you, take away your possessions and even kill you. They do it everyday and they get away with theft and murder because of voting. By voting you are allowing the state to commit theft and murder. That is a fact Jack………….”
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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/09/07/hitler-or-stalin-in-syria/
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In this link – gruesome photos of a rebel beheading a man using a knife.
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“……Maaloula, a mountain village some 40 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Damascus, is home to about 2,000 residents, some of whom still speak a version of Aramaic, the ancient language of biblical times believed to have been spoken by Jesus.
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The rebels, in a widely seen video, beheaded two Syrians who were said to be Christians. Noted historian Philip Jenkins of Pennsylvania State University recently declares that the United States seems determined to eradicate Christianity in one of its oldest heardlands [Syria]
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Sadly, Westerners tend to assume that Arabs are, necessarily, Muslims, and moreover, that Muslims are a homogeneous bunch. Actually, 10 percent of Syrians are Alawites, members of a notionally Islamic sect that actually draws heavily from Christian and even Gnostic roots: they even celebrate Christmas……
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……………What Jenkins did not point out is that this present revolution is Jewish at its ideological and political core. It is the Jewish neoconservatives who desperately want to obliterate the Christian and Muslim populations for Israel, and they will not be satisfied until their goal has become a fait accompli……….”
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Its not the act of voting where the problem lies. It is that fact that decisions made be politicians are not able to be pursued in the courts. So the bastards can act corruptly. No worries. Then the Press comes in to stop the corruption…..and there the plot thickens WHEN THE MEDIA AND THE INCUMBENT GOVERNMENT ARE IN CAHOOTS. Welcome to government Mr Abbott.
The Courts as with the Commonwealth of Australia are registered corporations owned by the same organisation.
Perhaps, but they are from all accounts the only mechanism whereby a citizen is able to contest an issue with the state albeit a very expensive one. You know full well that many cases have resulted in individuals winning against the casino and the stacked deck. The movie The Castle epitomised the right of the individual to beat the casino at its game. Having said that it rarely happens due to the prohibitive cost. Simply referring to the entity ignores the facts and the (theoretical) function of the courts Kevin.
From Protocol 10.
“……..VOTING, WHICH WE HAVE MADE THE INSTRUMENT WHICH WILL SET US ON THE THRONE OF THE WORLD BY TEACHING EVEN THE VERY SMALLEST UNITS OF MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE TO VOTE BY MEANS OF MEETINGS AND AGREEMENTS BY GROUPS, WILL THEN HAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSES AND WILL PLAY ITS PART THEN FOR THE LAST TIME BY A UNANIMITY OF DESIRE TO MAKE CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE WITH US BEFORE CONDEMNING US.
5. TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF CLASSES AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot be got from the educated propertied classes…………….”
Awesome article. Finally the truth becomes mainstream and the Emperor is Butt-naked for all to see. Excellent find Blissful Ignoramus . 🙂
I thought so.
“A War For Israel”
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/09/a-war-for-israel/
http://dprogram.net/2013/09/09/united-states-will-hit-syria-in-72-hours-says-pentagon-source/
On Friday the 13th, ie, Yom Kippur 2013? As revenge for the Syrians attacking Israel on Yom Kippur exactly 40 years ago (1973)? I wouldn’t be shocked.
Iraq-Esther.
We have an enemy within…. Gus
We don’t have to worry about Australia as we have sold out to the US and to any other nation which wants to rape the country. The method of operation of American companies is basic. They simply buy any good asset and expatriate the profits. The Gorgon gas deposit is now i n the hands of Chevron as our lack lustre liberal government could see no value in the deposit and let it go. Most of the other huge LNG deposits are also gone. At the present time freehold farmland is available to foreign governments. Take all you like. Its only food.
Overthrow the economic system and bring in the planned cashless society Keynes spoke of; Lord Bertrand Russell talked of the non-accruable distribution of weekly credits in lieu of money. Yes, energy credits as outlined by Technocracy Inc.
Carbon credits, anyone?
So, rise up, rise up, because they have the next scene ready to play. (No, you can’t actively participate; all the actors are already provided; you just have to react as programmed.)
Mr. “Rise Up” himself, at the epicenter:
Yes NP, I’ve little doubt that there will at some point in time be an “overthrow” of the present economic system, one way or another. The real issue that should occupy us in regards that topic, is who designs (and perhaps even more importantly, who controls) that new system.
Nobody need design it & nobody need control it. That was the classical, as in pre 1914, gold standard.
“nobody need control it”
Indeed, agree with that JMD.
JMD, Thought you may find this video interesting –
The urls throw light on important actors, TBI. The actual designers don’t perform on the stage usually.
The overthrow will be executed by “them” at the predesignated time, with prepared fake mass-participation footage broadcast over the media to convince the spellbound audience.
You can peruse these archives for insights. (Ignore the mistakes; the overall approach is spot-on and taboo because it leads to the backstage).
http://dallasgoldbug.com/wall/
http://mychal-massie.com/premium/us-troops-receive-orders-to-deploy-to-syria/
This frightening event could occur in Australia with the sale of Australian farms and manufacturing industries to foreigners –
http://investmentwatchblog.com/jim-rogers-us-economy-is-no-longer-producing-there-are-no-more-farmers-just-wall-street/
Nigel Farage gives them both barrels in EU Parliament –
http://xrepublic.tv/node/5320