Press TV – by Dr. Kevin Barrett
The US empire, which might be more accurately termed the New World Order bankster empire, seems to be lashing out blindly as it enters its death spasms.
In Ukraine – as in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere – the Empire’s forces are in disarray. The loss of Crimea, and setbacks in Syria, are merely the latest of many debacles. The cause of this ongoing disaster: A series of self-inflicted wounds.
The worst wounds have been self-inflicted by the Empire’s lunatic fringe: the Israel-centric neoconservatives. This group, which includes both Jewish chauvinists and Christian armageddonites, is burdened by fanatical devotion to an impossible project: The maintenance of a sustainable “Jewish state” in Occupied Palestine.
Irrational attachment to Israel has lured the Empire into a series of disastrous attacks on Muslim-majority states. In 2008, economist Joseph Stiglitz estimated that the war on Iraq alone had cost the US more than $3 trillion. Since then, he has repeatedly revised that estimate upward. Throw in Afghanistan and other theaters of the anti-Muslim pro-Zionist crusade, and we are in the double-digit trillions.
Bottom line: The Zio-con 9/11 wars have crashed the US and world economies.
In a 2010 Washington Post article, Stiglitz wrote: “It seems clear that without this war, not only would America’s standing in the world be higher, our economy would be stronger. The question today is: Can we learn from this costly mistake?”
Alas, the answer is no. Though Obama has thus far resisted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s orders to attack Iran, the US is still doing the bidding of the Zionist bankster oligarchs who are the real power behind the Western throne. And those oligarchs – or at least the hawkish among them – are still pushing for world war.
The Western bankster oligarchs love war because it forces governments to borrow gigantic sums of money at compound interest, condemning whole nations to perpetual debt slavery. The oligarch hawks and their front man Netanyahu, frustrated by US resistance to attacking Iran, are trying to start World War III in less direct fashion. They overthrew the legitimate government of Ukraine in a fascist coup d’état in order to ratchet up tensions between the US and Russia. Now, with the great powers on hair-trigger alert, Netanyahu, who has spent $3 billion preparing a go-it-alone plan to attack Iran, can light the fuse of World War III any time he chooses.
There are indications that Netanyahu may light that fuse sooner rather than later – maybe even this week. On March 23rd, Reuters reported:
“Israeli diplomats launched an unprecedented strike on Sunday, forcing the complete closure of embassies around the world as they escalated a dispute over pay, officials said.”
Now that Israel’s diplomatic facilities are closed, will the Israeli military also “launch an unprecedented strike”?
Barbara Honegger, a former presidential advisor and Senior Military Affairs Journalist at the US Naval Postgraduate School, believes the Israeli diplomatic strike is just a cover story: “Because of the recall of Israel’s Embassy and Consulate personnel worldwide under the guise of a wage strike – assuming this Reuters story is true – I believe Israel is about to go to war on Syria and Iran, which would bring in Russia, the U.S. and NATO. The Malaysia Airlines ‘search’ is probably a cover for moving naval and air force military assets into place…”
The Malaysian Flight 370 incident may also have been intended to serve another purpose:
Inflame Western public opinion against Iran. Since the Malaysian plane disappeared, Fox News and other Zionist propaganda outlets have tried to blame “Iranian terrorists.” They have focused suspicion on two Iranian men who supposedly boarded Flight 370 on stolen passports.
But now it has emerged that the story of the “two Iranian men” may be a fabrication.
On Sunday the London Daily Mail reported:
“Fears of a cover-up over the fate of flight MH370 grew yesterday after claims that a photo of two passengers was tampered with. Images of two men who boarded the Malaysian Airlines jet with stolen passports appear to show them having the same set of legs. CCTV footage stills released by officials three days after the Boeing 777-200 vanished from the skies shows the pair with identical green trousers and brown shoes.”
Sloppy photoshopping intended to incriminate Muslim patsies has been a regular feature of Zionist-sponsored false-flag terror attacks. One stunning example: The only purported security camera footage showing any of the 19 alleged 9/11 hijackers boarding any of the four supposed attack planes – a few frames attributed to security cameras at Washington, DC’s Dulles Airport – is a blatant forgery. Jay Kolar, whose essay proving that no Muslim hijackers were involved in 9/11 was issued by Europe’s leading scholarly publisher Elsevier, has fully exposed the fake “security videos” of alleged hijackers at Dulles Airport. These purported security videos, which represent only a tiny fraction of what would have been caught on film if hijackers had actually boarded the doomed planes at even one airport, have no authentication codes and no date and time stamps. Their shadows prove they were taken in the afternoon, not early morning when the hijackers supposedly boarded. They include zoom-ins and other form of manual camera manipulation proving they were not taken by a fixed security camera. They feature “hijackers” who were alive after 9/11. And they feature an imposter posing as the alleged hijacker Hani Hanjour.
Kolar’s conclusion: “No evidence exists that any of the ‘hijackers’ ever boarded planes that crashed on 9/11.” (Kolar’s article may be read free on-line through Google Books; it is the first essay in The Hidden History of 9/11 edited by Paul Zarembka.)
Another notorious false-flag, the 7/7/2005 London bombings, was also blamed on photoshopped Muslim patsies. The best-known 7/7 photo-forgery is an alleged security camera image of patsy Mohammed Siddique Khan – the only photo supposedly placing him in London that day – showing a railing behind him passing in front of his head. Dr. Nick Kollerstrom’s book Terror on the Tube analyzes the 7/7 photographs implicating the four Muslim patsies and shows that this “evidence” consists of photoshopped hoaxes.
Does the apparent photoshopping of the two Iranians boarding Malaysian Flight 370 have an innocent explanation? Or was this yet another attempt to incite wars against Israel’s enemies?
If Netanyahu attacks Iran and succeeds in dragging the US and Russia into the war, this week could witness not just the end of the US empire, but the beginning of the end of civilization.
I hope Barbara Honegger is wrong. But even if the Empire’s lunatic fringe is stymied this week, they will have many future opportunities to wreak havoc – unless relatively rational Western leaders, assuming that any exist, decide to expose the neocons’ gravest misdeeds and put an end to their reckless warmongering.
KB/SL
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/03/25/355981/will-israel-kill-us-empire-this-week/
“Since the Malaysian plane disappeared, Fox News and other Zionist propaganda outlets have tried to blame “Iranian terrorists.” They have focused suspicion on two Iranian men who supposedly boarded Flight 370 on stolen passports.”
Iranian terrorists? I don’t remember them saying they were Iranian. I though they were Malaysian and the stolen passports were from Italy and used by some European guys? Where do they get Iranian in that story?
With the way they keep changing the damn story, I’m having a hard time keeping track of the MSM lies.
It’s all fiction, and they change the lies to suit their needs, because your average American doesn’t seem to remember very much from one day to the next anyway.
Live footage from 9-11 is the best example. On the day of the incident, many reporters were actually doing their jobs, because it seems as if they hadn’t received the “official story” yet, and everyone on the scene, including many reporters, were talking about the explosions in the buildings. Two days later, there were no explosions, and we were given the “pancake collapse” theory instead.
and the idiots ate it up.
On March 23rd, Reuters reported:
“Israeli diplomats launched an unprecedented strike on Sunday, forcing the complete closure of embassies around the world as they escalated a dispute over pay, officials said.”
BTW, Reuters was founded as the first world-wide media outlet and news aggregator in the late 1800s/early 1900s by none other than the Rothschilds. I am sure Evelyn de Rothschild and his trophy wife Lynn Forrester know exactly why Israel closed its embassies world wide!
“The US empire, which might be more accurately termed the New World Order bankster empire” — Barrett
… or more accurately still, the Jewish Empire. How can Barrett and PressTV get this wrong? Are they uninterested in who’s really behind all the Bad Shit they gripe about?
“Jay Kolar, whose essay proving that no Muslim hijackers were involved in 9/11 was issued by Europe’s leading scholarly publisher Elsevier” — Barrett
I appreciate the tip. Link here (access required): http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?chapterid=1758113
Abstract:
Inconsistencies and contradictions in the US government’s story of hijackers and their masterminds are examined to account for what happened on 9-11. A little-known initial FBI list of 19, scrutinized for four names not on its final list, calls into question the FBI naming process. We discovered 11 of the FBI-named finalists could not have been on those planes, with 10 still alive and another’s identity improvised by a double. The Dulles videotape, essentially the government’s case that hijackers boarded the 9-11 flights, is found to have serious problems including authentication, as does the so-called bin Laden “confession” video.
Were “hijackers” known to be in the US before intelligence alleges it knew? Evidence is examined which shows that they were closely monitored by agencies which denied this knowledge; in particular, an undercover FBI agent lived with them the prior year.
Noting government refusal to disclose evidence called for by investigators, we find some pieces altered or fabricated and others confiscated or destroyed. Other revelations point to hijackers with national security overrides, protection in their alternate roles as drug traffickers, and deep political connections with government elites. We investigate patterns, reminiscent of historical intelligence involvement, revealing the presence of a covert intelligence operation disguised as an outside enemy attack.
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If the abstract is a guide, Kevin Barrett can’t even accurately report to us the significance of Kolar’s article. The article does not ‘[prove] that no Muslim hijackers were involved in 9/11’ (which end would be better be served by showing we have no reason to think any planes really were hijacked at all on 9/11, or that any plane crashed on 9/11, either of which is not hard to do), it merely shows that there are serious problems we should have to overcome before believing that the named ‘hijackers’ really were guilty of any hijacking on 9/11. The article appears to leave open the possibility of that Muslims or others really did hijack one or more planes on 9/11:
Other revelations point to hijackers with national security overrides, protection in their alternate roles as drug traffickers, and deep political connections with government elites. We investigate patterns, reminiscent of historical intelligence involvement, revealing the presence of a covert intelligence operation disguised as an outside enemy attack.
/endquote
How can Barrett and PressTV get this wrong? Are they uninterested in the truth about 9/11?
I said it isn’t hard to show we have no reason to think any planes really were hijacked on 9/11. Yet Kolar writes and Barret quotes,
“No evidence exists that any of the ‘hijackers’ ever boarded planes that crashed on 9/11.”
How about this, dumbasses: No good evidence exists that planes were involved at all in 9/11. In the NY film footage we ‘see’ planes not decelerating as they entered the towers; no breaking apart and falling debris; and impossible speeds for that altitude. While at the Pentagon and Shanksville, there isn’t even phoney film footage to make us believe the impossible: crash sites without debris, planes getting sucked into tiny holes and disappearing forever.
“the Empire’s lunatic fringe: the Israel-centric neoconservatives” — Barrett
In fact, of course, they are hardly the lunatic fringe. Israel-centrism is the norm precisely because the Empire is a Jewish one. How can Barrett and PressTV get this wrong? Don’t they know who runs our media, pays our politicians, owns our financial-parasitism-system and etc.
” the Israel-centric neoconservatives. This group, which includes both Jewish chauvinists and Christian armageddonites” — Barrett
In fact, of course, American Christians of any persuasion have no power at all, Christian Zionists certainly included. On every issue that matters to them – abortion, Church/State division, race-replacement immigration, the whorification of their daughters thru coarsening of the media and myriad other social issues, they get what they don’t want and get what Jews do want. On one issue only – Israel – their desires coincide with Jews and then only they get what they want.
It’s very clear then that Jews control Mideast policy. How can Barrett and PressTV get this wrong?
Here I have an answer after exchanging arguments with Barrett several times over the years. Including Christians in the dealing out of blame is 1) a way for Barrett and PressTV to protect themselves from accusations of antisemitism by attacking (by implication) White people. As a White man I say they’re worse than antisemites – they’re anti-White; and 2) a useful tactic in Barrett’s express ploy of using the prevailing Jew-scripted anti-White culture to advance the global Muslim cause. [See also the reference to ‘Western bankster oligarchs’ when is meant South-west Asian or Middle Eastern or simply Jewish bankster oligarchs.]
I’ll leave it there for now.
“How about this, dumbasses: No good evidence exists that planes were involved at all in 9/11. In the NY film footage we ‘see’ planes not decelerating as they entered the towers; no breaking apart and falling debris; and impossible speeds for that altitude. While at the Pentagon and Shanksville, there isn’t even phoney film footage to make us believe the impossible: crash sites without debris, planes getting sucked into tiny holes and disappearing forever.”
Thank you!
I’ve been saying the same thing for a couple of years now.
Holograms. Damn good ones, too.
“Or was this yet another attempt to incite wars against Israel’s enemies?”
Though many don’t yet realize it, EVERYONE is Israhell’s enemies. The ones who think they aren’t are just useful idiots.
For the moment.