“The world is tired of U.S. lies. They did not start with Donald Trump, a pathological liar who may genuinely believe—in the moment—that his father was born in Germany, or that Obama was born in Kenya. The U.S. has been losing credibility for many years, while the crimes attending its wars-based-on-lies have spread fear and hatred of this country.”
20 June 2019 | GARY LEUPP | CounterPunch
Japan since 1945 has been the most abjectly deferential of U.S. allies, even more so than the U.K. Tokyo rarely strays far from Washington’s line on any global issue. It notoriously supported the Iraq wars if 1991 and 2003-present, both based on lies. Japan’s loyalty, like Britain’s, is strategic; while all alliances with the U.S. are promoted as based on “common values” they are mainly based on capital and global capitalists’ needs. Both the U.K. and Japan are for the time being part of the U.S. imperialist camp, under strong pressure to side with it when it decides to provoke war.
When George W. Bush turned to Tony Blair’s Britain and asked for support for a war on Iraq, Blair became Bush’s poodle. The slavish cooperation with the U.S. in that disastrous, criminal war remains a matter of national shame. Germany and…
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Trump the demented, evil, greedy warmonger . It is frothing at the mouth to use a few tactical nukes on iran and its nuclear complexes. Something the Dick cheney-George W bush, war criminals bolton, pompeo, abrams have been frothing at the mouth to do since 2004.
Nuke nuclear complexes to send radioactive plumes worse than chernobyl and fukushima, around the world.
Trump the lying facist and imperial dictator, whose script is so well layed out . The same script of the Insane mass murderers in iraq. The insane genocidal-war-criminal-neoconservatives of the bbloody george w bush regime. The ones that were complicit with the saudis in 911 . The ones who consolidated the DHS , the Patriot Act , the daily terror alerts and martial law in america for 6 solid years. The fascist neoconservative devils that are about to institute a far more draconian and brutal version of george w bushs fascist, martial law state.
Imperial Hubris and of Trump
Partially reblogged from opednews
By harvey wasseraman
“Imagine yourself in Greece just after WW2. Revolution is in the air. The chances for social democracy are real.
Then, in comes the US to impose a junta of history’s most brutal generals. They torture and kill, lie, cheat and steal … all with the backing of our military.
Imagine yourself in Iran, 1953. Your nation has just duly elected a social democrat named Mossadegh. You and your family anticipate a bright future of free speech and economic opportunity.
Then comes Kermit Roosevelt and the CIA. They foist the House of Pahlavi onto a horrified populace. The Shah runs humankind’s most gruesome torture chambers. He pumps oil for the West while stealing billions from his people. He’s ultimately hugged by none other than Jimmy Carter, America’s great “human rights pioneer,” who pays for the embrace with his presidency.
Or put yourself in Congo/Zaire, 1961. Arising from the horrors of Belgian colonialism, you elect Patrice Lumumba, a grassroots postal worker. But CIA founder Allen Dulles “disappears” him to be replaced by Mobutu, a kleptocrat so brutal only the Agency could have invented him.
Then try Chile, September 11, 1973. The western hemisphere’s second-oldest democracy has just chosen the brilliant, Bernie-esque Salvador Allende to lead the country to social democracy. Then we murder him. We install the unspeakable Pinochet, who lets Milton Friedman and his “Chicago School” of “free market” fanatics join the general in utterly raping the nation.
This list goes on and on. It dates back to our endless slaughter of the Indigenous. It follows with the invasions of Tripoli (and then the Halls of Montezuma) starting early in the 1800s. Our “Empire for Liberty” installs an endless array of savage imperial beasts to rip the throats from so many innocent nations. Somoza, Suharto, Marcos, the Duvaliers, Batista, Diem, Thieu, Ky … they are all Donald Trump and he is them, along with the next one (like in Venezuela) and the one after that.
The murders of those children at the border, the public billions he shoves into his mobster pockets, the rape of our air, water and food they all just come with the territory. They are the business he and we are in.
As Congress grovels to see petty pieces of paper that will mean virtually nothing to the general public, the Democrats utterly ignore Trump’s essential career as a mafia money launderer. It was, after all, Steve Bannon who originally predicted it would be money laundering that would bring The Donald down.”
https://www.opednews.com/articles/1/We-Have-a-Trump-Because-We-by-Harvey-Wasserman-Trump-Against-Democracy_Trump-As-The-Messiah_Trump-Bully-In-Chief_Trump-Warmonger-190621-12.html
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The news from the US is so surreal, Gloria, I can’t imagine how anyone in Congress can keep a straight face. He called off a bombing strike because someone told him it would kill 150 people? I want to know who’s feeding him this bullshit. What a cruel joke.
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He did not call off a bombing attack. It has taken 40 years to build the military infrastructure and the dozens of military bases around iran, they need to mount an attack. That is a bogus fairy-tale narrative. You probably know that already.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/pre-emptive-nuclear-war-role-israel-attack-iran/5677025/amp
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Pre-emptive Nuclear War: The Role of Israel in Triggering an Attack on Iran
Prof Michel Chossudovsky 1 week ago Categories: English Tags: Iran, israel, United States
The text below is Chapter III of Michel Chossudovsky’s book entitled: The Globalization of War. America’s Long War against Humanity, Global Research Publishers, Montreal, 2015. To order the book directly from Global Research click here
This chapter provides a historical perspective of US war plans directed against Iran, including the use of a preemptive nuclear attack, using low yield, “more usable” tactical nuclear weapons.
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While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction resulting from present-day wars including Iraq and Afghanistan, it is impossible to fully comprehend the devastation which might result from a Third World War, using “new technologies” and advanced weapons, until it occurs and becomes a reality. The international community has endorsed nuclear war in the name of world peace. “Making the world safer” is the justification for launching a military operation which could potentially result in a nuclear holocaust.”
The stockpiling and deployment of advanced weapons systems directed against Iran started in the immediate wake of the 2003 bombing and invasion of Iraq. From the outset, these war plans were led by the U.S. in liaison with NATO and Israel.
Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration identified Iran and Syria as the next stage of “the road map to war”. U.S. military sources intimated at the time that an aerial attack on Iran could involve a large scale deployment comparable to the U.S. “shock and awe” bombing raids on Iraq in March 2003:
American air strikes on Iran would vastly exceed the scope of the 1981 Israeli attack on the Osiraq nuclear center in Iraq, and would more resemble the opening days of the 2003 air campaign against Iraq.1
“Theater Iran Near Term” (TIRANNT)
Code named by U.S. military planners as TIRANNT, “Theater Iran Near Term”, simulations of an attack on Iran were initiated in May 2003 “when modelers and intelligence specialists pulled together the data needed for theater-level (meaning large-scale) scenario analysis for Iran.”2
The scenarios identified several thousand targets inside Iran as part of a “Shock and Awe” Blitzkrieg:
The analysis, called TIRANNT, for “Theater Iran Near Term,” was coupled with a mock scenario for a Marine Corps invasion and a simulation of the Iranian missile force. U.S. and British planners conducted a Caspian Sea war game around the same time. And Bush directed the U.S. Strategic Command to draw up a global strike war plan for an attack against Iranian weapons of mass destruction. All of this will ultimately feed into a new war plan for “major combat operations” against Iran that military sources confirm now [April 2006] exists in draft form.
… Under TIRANNT, Army and U.S. Central Command planners have been examining both near-term and out-year scenarios for war with Iran, including all aspects of a major combat operation, from mobilization and deployment of forces through postwar stability operations after regime change.3
Different “theater scenarios” for an all-out attack on Iran had been contemplated:
The U.S. army, navy, air force and marines have all prepared battle plans and spent four years building bases and training for “Operation Iranian Freedom”. Admiral Fallon, the new head of U.S. Central Command, has inherited computerized plans under the name TIRANNT (Theatre Iran Near Term).4
In 2004, drawing upon the initial war scenarios under TIRANNT, Vice President Dick Cheney instructed U.S. Strategic Command (U.S.STRATCOM) to draw up a “contingency plan” of a large scale military operation directed against Iran “to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States” on the presumption that the government in Tehran would be behind the terrorist plot. The plan included the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear state:
The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than four hundred fifty major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing –that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack– but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.
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