Fri Jun 29, 2012 5:58PM GMT
Rodney Shakespeare
All in all, it’s time for all sensible people and all sensible countries (there’s quite a lot of them) to consciously question any assertion by the USA that this or that regime is at fault and needs to be overthrown. Instead all sensible people and countries should start to say that the world is fed up with war-mongering as well as angry at the Wall Street machinations which are destroying the world economy.”
With breath-taking arrogance, the USA is opposing the presence of Iran at the discussions about Syria in Geneva.
Turkey – now openly playing the sectarian card and deliberately causing a Phantom jet to fly in fast and low in order to provoke a reaction and so involve NATO – can be present. The USA – supplying arms to al-Qaeda; organizing Salafists, Wahhabists and death squads; broadcasting lying propaganda – can be present. Russia and China can be present. But not Iran.
Yet Iran has political, religious and cultural links with the Alawite (Shia sect) government of Syria. Iran is the one country – not the USA, not Russia, not China, not Turkey, Saudi Arabia or Qatar – which can have frank talks with Syria. Iran is the one country which Syria can trust as understanding its situation. And Iran is the only country which can give hope of avoiding a civil war bloodbath, at the very least, or a probable decade-long regional war.
But Iran is not to be at Geneva because the USA, riddled with bigotry and an example of Ancient Greek hubris if there ever was one, hates any country which wants to be independent. It particularly hates Iran. Indeed, so extreme is the hatred that anything (including war) can be done to achieve regime change in Tehran. It is therefore no surprise that, at all times, the USA quickly side-lines democracy and justice if there is any likelihood that Iran might be involved in the solution. And just to spell out the point, in Syria, the USA is co-operating with Saudi Arabia – a vicious, totalitarian tyranny supplying guns and money – and with Qatar – an anti-democratic country, supplying guns and money.
Furthermore, bent on regime change in Syria, the USA is comprehensively ignoring the Kofi Annan Peace Plan just as the referendum and election held by Syria are also being ignored. When the USA wants regime change, anything goes – particularly the torturing and slaughter of Shia women and children which, by twisting the facts to their opposite, are blamed on the government when they were really the work of the American-backed Wahhabi and NATO death squads who, when not killing, like to ransack Christian churches.
Nor is Iran banned only from a solution for Syria. It is also banned from the solution for Afghanistan. Iran is next to Afghanistan. It has linguistic, religious, cultural and trading links with Afghanistan. If ever there was a country which can talk to all parties in Afghanistan, it is Iran. However, the USA – full of self-important haughtiness and the major cause of the problem – determines that Iran can never be part of the solution and, by doing so, condemns Afghanistan to many more years of misery.
Yet the world is turning: change is afoot and Russia, wanting Iran to be at Geneva, is one of the countries which is not only sensing the change but is actively doing something about it. All the way around the globe countries are quietly banding together. They can do so because they are directly experiencing a decline in the economic and political power of the USA. On top of which the USA’s moral authority went out of the window long ago so countries are quietly plotting a new course for themselves – one which involves breaking free from Western hegemony. Thus the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation brings together Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and others, with India, Pakistan and Iran as observer members. China and Japan have decided to trade in their own currencies and not the dollar – there’s a sign of the times! And in South America a number of countries are beginning to band together to run their own international bank (the Banco del Sud) thus causing the diminution of American financial and political influence.
Indeed, the amazing thing is that the USA is completely failing to see what is going on. It was completely caught off balance by the Arab Spring so perhaps it is not surprising that it does not understand that it is hated more than it knows; that its traditional mixture of bullying, bribery and attack are not quite as impressive as it thinks; and that, in short, others are fed up with a short-sighted arrogance and even more short-sighted stupidity which is always prepared to go to war (even if that means that the USA is now virtually bankrupt because of its military spending).
All in all, it’s time for all sensible people and all sensible countries (there’s quite a lot of them) to consciously question any assertion by the USA that this or that regime is at fault and needs to be overthrown. Instead all sensible people and countries should start to say that the world is fed up with war-mongering as well as angry at the Wall Street machinations which are destroying the world economy.
Then the way will be opened for impressing on the American people what the situation really requires – regime change in the USA.
BroAsa – I like what you have said. Politics have never been my thing- and am just now beginning to understand from all of the great postings here what I have been missing? A non -violent resistance is easy to get started you said. I think a lot of the sleeples(sleepy people – I don’t like sheeple) are waking up to understanding something is going on. Do you know how to make this resistance happen if need be? You are right -if we expect outside assistance then we must show them we are willing to stand up for our rights.
I am aware that most of the world has the view reflective of Tony’s which is that the U.S. including most of its citizens are as they see. But the reality is that we lost control of our own country long ago. Many thought that Obama would be the one that brought us back from the brink but instead we got more of the same.
If we make it to November and the elections I have no faith in either of the candidates, as for that matter I have no faith even in Ron Paul. I no longer have faith that anyone involved with the established government in any way is other than a plant to give the rabble something to hang their hat upon.
In November whoever has been chosen as the one will be the victor someway, somehow. If it turns out that Drake, Ben Fullford and others are well meaning but simply misinformed then I hope that enough “average joes” will begin to take to the streets to let everyone know we are feed up with the status quo.
It is a simple process to organize non-violent resistance beginning with the filing of W-4 withholding forms stating withholding exemptions of 12. It is legal and if done in mass then it will send a message to the political establishment that American citizens have had enough. This action combined with the magnitude of protests as was staged in the 1960′s will return this country back to the people. I recall protests in Washington, DC during those times that actually had more people in attendance than attended Obama’s inauguration.
If we want regime change no one else is going to do it for us. We must be prepared to show the world and those not of this world that we are willing to stand up for our own future. If I learned nothing from serving in Vietnam and later watching our young people go off and die in foreign places it is that unless the citizens of a country are willing in a great majority to commit themselves to create the change all the outside help in the world will be for naught. If we expect outside assistance then we must actively show them that we are willing to stand tall for what is right in the Universe. That does not mean to violently react but to simply do as Ghandi and Martin Luther King and use non-violent civil disobedience.
It is a simple process to organize non-violent resistance beginning with the filing of W-4 withholding forms stating withholding exemptions of 12. It is legal and if done in mass then it will send a message to the political establishment that American citizens have had enough. ”
Could you clarify this? What is “…stating withholding exemptions of 12.”?
I hope they do know something, time will tell if we see this story and the class actions against the federal reserve and the vatican and british monarchy actually break into the mainstream media.
Only when this happens will we truly see their grip falling away from our reality and when this does happen the media moguls will be left as naked to prosecution as the rest of the “THEY SAY” establishment.
I will envision that this is so with the rest of you.
Whatever you think of Queen Elizabeth II in the UK.
History was made this week when she publicly shook hands with Martin McGuiness the former head of the IRA who was responsible for murdering her uncle Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and many other so called atrocities perpetrated by the IRA in the past.
Jimmy Carter maintains there can be no peace between Israel in the middle East until Hamas is involved in talks.
Iran is a very powerful country whose roots go back to Babylon.
The United States of America needs to wake up and realise that its high handed actions are not welcome in the wide world, you have lost many friends in the world by your continued war rhetoric and are seen as unwelcome trouble makers. Remember Sadam Hussein in Iraq and the non existent weapons of mass destriction. Propoganda and lies perpetrated by the US.
This article is balanced and well written and contains a great deal of truth, I hope Iran can help sort out the mess – Hillary Rodam Clinton needs to be ignored, as do most of the losy warmongers in the US and Europe.
Remember terrorism is in the eyes of the beholder!
Please be mindful around the use of “you.”. Obviously, we are all not war mongering. We sadly have a war mongering gov’t. I’m sure you realize that. Thank you <3
Of course aimed at the regime there and Europe – not the public as they good and bad like everywhere else…