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The Houla Massacre: Free Syrian Army "Killed Families Loyal to the Government" -
The West and it’s “United Nations” are about to go to war with Syria, and they have just the murderous scum needed in their employ, the Libyan LIFG mujahideen/al-Qaeda/CIA army (See Land Destroyer: Syrian Rebels are Foreign-backed Terrorists). noted for their brutal torture/murder of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gadaffi and the destabilization of Libyan society. So it behooves us to look at the people who not only commit these international crimes under color of illegitimate moral authority, but the rationale behind those crimes as well, because there IS commonality and interlocked leadership with similar regional goals.
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, Montreal, June 1, 2012
In the weekend of May 25, 2012, at about 2 PM, big groups of fighters attacked and captured the town of Al – Hula of the Homs province. Al-Houla is made up of three regions: the village of Taldou, Kafr Laha and Taldahab, each of which had previously been home for 25-30 thousand people.
The town was attacked from the north-east by groups of bandits and mercenaries, numbering up to 700 people. The militants came from Ar-Rastan (the Brigade of al-Farouk from the Free Syrian Army led by the terrorist Abdul Razak Tlass and numbering 250), from the village of Akraba (led by the terrorist Yahya Al-Yousef), from the village Farlaha, joined by local gangsters, and from Al Houla.
The city of Ar-Rastan has long been abandoned by most civilians. Now Wahhabis from Lebanon dominate the scene, fueled with money and weapons by one of the main orchestrators of international terrorism, Saad Hariri, who heads the anti-Syrian political movement “Tayyar Al-Mustaqbal” (“Future Movement”). The road from Ar-Rastan to Al-Houla runs through Bedouin areas that remain mostly out of control of government troops, which made the militant attacks on Al Hula a complete surprise for the Syrian authorities.
When the rebels seized the lower checkpoint in the center of town and located next to the local police department, they began to sweep all the families loyal to the authorities in neighboring houses, including the elderly, women and children. Several families of the Al-Sayed were killed, including 20 young children and the family of the Abdul Razak.
Many of those killed were “guilty” of the fact that they dared to change from Sunnis to Shiites. The people were killed with knives and shot at point blank range. Then they presented the murdered to the UN and the international community as victims of bombings by the Syrian army, something that was not verified by any marks on their bodies… [In Full with on-the-scene interviews]
Now Libya is headed for civil war and the West hopes that will happen in Syria as well
because a destabilized nation under siege will not be able to pay attention to the oil the West intends to seize from Iran, most likely in the guise of a “Kurdish breakaway nation” in Iraq next door, and transport via pipelines from Kirkuk (again, next door to Iran) that traverse Syrian territory, moving the oil as far away from the Iranian border as possible by transiting it towards Mediterranean terminals for shipment
A destabilized Syrian government, or an overthrown government with new West friendly leadership, will not interfere with that international oil theft and all other countries on the pipeline route to the Mediterranean are either friendly to the West (Israel and Jordan), lacking the necessary military or diplomatic force to prevent the shipments, or, like Lebanon, under a constant state of siege by Israel and NATO.
![Obama is not the “lesser of 2 evils,” but “the more effective evil.” ~~Glenn Ford, Black Agenda Report
BAR executive editor Glen Ford made the following presentation at the Left Forum, Pace University, New York City, March 17. On the panel were Gloria Mattera, Margaret Kimberley (BAR), Suren Moodliar, John Nichols, and Victor Wallis. The discussion was titled, The 2012 Elections: Lesser Evil or Left Alternative?
Power to the people!
Let me say from the very beginning that we at Black Agenda Report do not think that Barack Obama is the Lesser Evil. He is the more Effective Evil.
He has been more effective in Evil-Doing than Bush in terms of protecting the citadels of corporate power, and advancing the imperial agenda. He has put both Wall Street and U.S. imperial power on new and more aggressive tracks – just as he hired himself out to do.
That was always Wall Street’s expectation of Obama, and his promise to them. That’s why they gave him far more money in 2008 than they gave John McCain. They were buying Obama futures on the electoral political market – and they made out like bandits
They invested in Obama to protect them from harm, as a hedge against the risk of systemic disaster caused by their own predations. And, it was a good bet, a good deal. It paid out in the tens of trillions of dollars.
If you believe that what Wall Street does is Evil, then Obama’s service to Wall Street is Evil, and there is nothing lesser about it.
They had vetted Obama, thoroughly, before he even set foot in the U.S. Senate in 2004.
He protected their interests, there, helping shield corporations from class action suits, and voting against caps on credit card Interest. He was their guy back then – and some of us were saying so, back then.
He was the bankers’ guy in the Democratic presidential primary race. Among the last three standing in 2008, it was Obama who opposed any moratorium on home foreclosures. John Edwards supported a mandatory moratorium and Hillary Clinton said she wanted a voluntary halt to foreclosures. But Barack Obama opposed any moratorium. Let it run its course, said candidate Obama. And, true to his word, he has let the foreclosures run their catastrophic course.
Only a few months later, when the crunch came and Finance Capital was in meltdown, who rescued Wall Street? Not George Bush. Bush tried, but he was spent, discredited, ineffective. Not John McCain. He was in a coma, coming unglued, totally ineffective.
Bush’s bailout failed on a Monday. By Friday, Obama had convinced enough Democrats in opposition to roll over – and the bailout passed, setting the stage for a new dispensation between the American State and Wall Street, in which a permanent pipeline of tens of trillions of dollars would flow directly into Wall Street accounts, via the Federal Reserve.
And Obama had not even been elected yet. [In Full]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4w7uqvBqw1r9ju7do1_400.jpg)
Obama is not the “lesser of 2 evils,” but “the more effective evil.” ~~Glenn Ford, Black Agenda Report
BAR executive editor Glen Ford made the following presentation at the Left Forum, Pace University, New York City, March 17. On the panel were Gloria Mattera, Margaret Kimberley (BAR), Suren Moodliar, John Nichols, and Victor Wallis. The discussion was titled, The 2012 Elections: Lesser Evil or Left Alternative?
Power to the people!
Let me say from the very beginning that we at Black Agenda Report do not think that Barack Obama is the Lesser Evil. He is the more Effective Evil.
He has been more effective in Evil-Doing than Bush in terms of protecting the citadels of corporate power, and advancing the imperial agenda. He has put both Wall Street and U.S. imperial power on new and more aggressive tracks – just as he hired himself out to do.
That was always Wall Street’s expectation of Obama, and his promise to them. That’s why they gave him far more money in 2008 than they gave John McCain. They were buying Obama futures on the electoral political market – and they made out like bandits
They invested in Obama to protect them from harm, as a hedge against the risk of systemic disaster caused by their own predations. And, it was a good bet, a good deal. It paid out in the tens of trillions of dollars.
If you believe that what Wall Street does is Evil, then Obama’s service to Wall Street is Evil, and there is nothing lesser about it.
They had vetted Obama, thoroughly, before he even set foot in the U.S. Senate in 2004.
He protected their interests, there, helping shield corporations from class action suits, and voting against caps on credit card Interest. He was their guy back then – and some of us were saying so, back then.
He was the bankers’ guy in the Democratic presidential primary race. Among the last three standing in 2008, it was Obama who opposed any moratorium on home foreclosures. John Edwards supported a mandatory moratorium and Hillary Clinton said she wanted a voluntary halt to foreclosures. But Barack Obama opposed any moratorium. Let it run its course, said candidate Obama. And, true to his word, he has let the foreclosures run their catastrophic course.
Only a few months later, when the crunch came and Finance Capital was in meltdown, who rescued Wall Street? Not George Bush. Bush tried, but he was spent, discredited, ineffective. Not John McCain. He was in a coma, coming unglued, totally ineffective.
Bush’s bailout failed on a Monday. By Friday, Obama had convinced enough Democrats in opposition to roll over – and the bailout passed, setting the stage for a new dispensation between the American State and Wall Street, in which a permanent pipeline of tens of trillions of dollars would flow directly into Wall Street accounts, via the Federal Reserve.
And Obama had not even been elected yet. [In Full]
“There were many violations, and I think that every one is serious, but collectively they did not affect the basic integrity of the election.”
— Former president Jimmy Carter commenting on his official observance of the Egyptian elections
Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi and Mubarak-era prime minister Ahmed Shafiq won the right to face each other in the final round of voting next month, prompting thousands to gather in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
“The choice can’t be between a religious state and an autocratic state,”…said one protester.A mob set fire to Shafiq’s campaign headquarters, and third-place finisher Hamdin Sabbahi demanded a recount, alleging that hundreds of thousands of serving police officers had voted, in contravention of Egyptian law.
Source, Harpers Weekly Review
Newly released FBI presentations show how the government is training agents to investigate “domestic terrorist” groups such as anarchists, animal rights activists, and environmentalists.
Click through for the full story.And please reblog if you think the FBI has no business monitoring FOIA requests and civil disobedience!.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and NATO officials ordered an investigation into the reported killing of eight civilians — six children and both of their parents — in a NATO airstrike in Paktia Province on Saturday evening (NYT, Guardian, Reuters, Tel, McClatchy, LAT, AP)…
Four NATO service members were killed in roadside bombings on Saturday (AP). Two other NATO service members were killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, and one died in an insurgent attack in the south (AP)…
The ‘Living With War Today’, website hosted by Neil Young
Title Source, The World Can’t Wait
Text Source, Foreign Policy Magazine AfPak Daily
Anonymous hacks, defaces drone maker Alpha Unmanned Systems: “All the drones tango down.”
…Hacktivists claiming allegiance to the international Internet collective known as Anonymous hacked and defaced Alpha Unmanned Systems (http://www.alphaunmannedsystems.com/) Saturday, May 27.
Anonymous hacktivists claim that Alpha Unmanned Systems, experts in designing simple and portable flight control systems, is “just another covert corporation funded by the CIA.”
Anonymous hacktivists claim border patrols and law enforcement agencies will be missing some drones soon, and imply there are serious problems with “manual remote control of the UAVs plus the video transmission.”
The "Fast & Furious" Firearms Fuckup... Government of Mexico Firearms Trace Data 2007-2011 Via ATFE -
The results of the botched “Fast & Furious” gun tracing ‘fuckup’ by the ATF and it’s preceding similar operations. Also available in Spanish.
“Trace information shows that between calendar years 2007 and 2011 the Government of Mexico recovered and submitted more than 99,000 firearms to ATF for tracing. Of those firearms more than 68,000 were U.S.-sourced.”
Jonathan Hafetz, professor at Seton Hall Law School and co-counsel in the court martial trial of PFC Bradley Manning writes:.
May 24, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a petition requesting the Army Court of Criminal Appeals to order the Judge in the court martial of alleged Wikileaks leaker Private Bradley Manning to grant the public and press access to the government’s motion papers, the court’s own orders, and transcripts of proceedings, none of which have been made public to date.
In addition, the petition challenges the fact that substantive legal matters in the court martial – including a pretrial publicity order – have been argued and decided in secret..The petitioners include CCR itself and a diverse group of media figures: Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, The Nation and its national security correspondent Jeremy Scahill, and Wikileaks and its publisher, Julian Assange. Also included are Kevin Gosztola, co-author of Truth and Consequences: The U.S. vs. Bradley Manning and civil liberties blogger covering the Manning court martial, and Chase Madar, author of The Passion of Bradley Manning and a contributing editor to The American Conservative…
[More] A petition is available here.
(Source: theamericanbear)