Sowing the Seeds of Violence and Instability

By Ghali Hassan* . Axis of Logic.

Axis of Logic
Tuesday, Jun 7, 2011

“In terms of a violent society and armed citizens, the U.S. is in a league of
its own and sadly the state of disregard for the law and justice filters all
the way down from the White House.

- Yvonne Ridley,
British journalist

In June 2006, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

described the criminal destruction of Lebanon by the Israeli fascist forces
as the “birth pang” of a “New Middle East” characterised by violence and
instability. The aim is to break-up the Arab states and fragment the region
along religious and ethnic lines to advance U.S.-Israel Zionist interests. 

U.S. Violence and Hypocracy

In his much publicised anti-Arabs speech (19 May 2011), President Barack
Obama said: “The United States opposes the use of violence and repression
against the people of the region”. It was a disgusting act of hypocrisy,
devoid of any truth. The entire world has known, the U.S. promotes and
finances violence in every corner of the world. It is not difficult to prove
Obama’s hypocrisy. For nearly four decades, the U.S. unconditionally
financed and armed the Israeli fascist regime’s perpetual ethnic cleansing,
violence and repression against the Palestinians at the expense of peace and
stability. In every major crisis, the U.S. pursued the road to violent
aggression rather than peace. The criminal and illegal 2003 U.S. invasion
of Iraq is a case in point. The U.S. fabricated lies to justify the invasion and
threatened any nation that opposed the use of violence with “dire
consequences”.

Americans (the ruling class) seem to have forgotten the 600,000 Iraqi
infants killed as a result of U.S. enforced genocidal sanctions on the Iraqi
people. It was the most premeditated and criminal infanticide in history.
Americans have never felt remorse or even acknowledged the 1.3 million
of innocent Iraqi civilians, mostly women and children slaughtered since
2003 by America’s unprovoked and premeditated aggression. As a result of
the murderous Occupation and U.S.-generated violence, nearly five million
Iraqi have become displaced refugees – internally and externally.  Iraq as a
modern nation has been deliberately and systematically destroyed. Eight
years after the invasion, the U.S. military Occupation of Iraq continues,
with some 60,000 U.S. forces stationed in giant U.S. military bases across
Iraq. In short, Iraq is nowhere “a free and democratic” nation. Occupation
is more than the worst form of military dictatorship; it is cultural
annihilation.

The unimaginable barbarity of the Americans is often described by U.S.

political establishment and mainstream capitalist media as, “America’s
sacrifice that brought democracy and freedom” to the Iraqi people. The
truth is, in addition to instituting and enforcing the most extreme form of
religious and ethnic sectarianism, the U.S. installed a violent colonial
dictatorship subservient to U.S. interests.

When it comes to violence, the U.S. has a complete monopoly on violence.

U.S. leaders make it clear that international law is obsolete and that
violence is the only way to enforce U.S. will on the rest of the world. In the
U.S., Violence is promoted as a virtue. The American society is addicted to
violence. “In terms of a violent society and armed citizens, the U.S. is in a
league of its own and sadly the state of disregard for the law and justice
filters all the way down from the White House”, writes the British
journalist, Yvonne Ridley.

From childhood, Americans are feed a diet of violence, racism, ugly

nationalism and militarism. “No other activity consumes the American
public from childhood to death like war [of aggression] ... War is part of
entertainment for Americans, fundamental to conditioning the concept of
heroism. War defines who is a ‘good guy’. War offers everyone the thrill
and glory of battle”, writes Barbara Nimri Aziz, an anthropologist in New
York. “Yearning for peace”, as the U.S. elites claim, is yearning for war
and violence. 

According to American ideology, invading and occupying countries,

destroying their infrastructure, terrorizing and murdering a large number of
the civilian population provide “stability” and advance U.S.-Zionist
interests. Meanwhile, Iran’s efforts to pursue nuclear technology and
establish friendly relations with other countries, including Iraq, Lebanon,
Venezuela and Syria is considered by the U.S. and its allies, as promoting
“instability”; hence, the U.S. has threatened to “obliterate”, as Hillary
Clinton argued, 80 millions Iranians if Iran continues its non-violent policy.

Violence Masquerading as “Humanitarianism”

Western “humanitarianism” – an ideology to justify violence against
sovereign and independent nation “human rights” as pretext – is rooted in
violence and fascist ideology. Adolf Hitler used “humanitarian
intervention” to invade and occupied Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. Hitler
was allegedly protecting “native” Germans. Unlike the Nazis who were
discreet, the Americans and their allies are committing their crimes in
broad daylight against defenceless civilians with the support of Western-
controlled organisations like the United Nations (UN) and the International
Criminal Court (ICC).

Furthermore, Western violence against non-Western people is normalised

and supported by a global propaganda machine unprecedented in the
history of humanity. Satellite TV channels, the Zionist-controlled Internet
(Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube) and mainstream media outlets
like the BBC News, Fox News and the Murdoch Press. They all have one
common fascist agenda; manipulating and managing public perception to
normalise and justify violence against defenceless non-Christian dark-
skinned people.

We all know that Western aggression against non-Western civilians had

nothing to do with “protecting civilians”. In fact civilians are the main
victims in mostly smaller, defenceless and resources-rich nations. The
primary aim is destabilisation and ultimately imperialist control of vital
resources, using humanitarianism is a pretext.

The growing anti-imperialism popular uprisings in the Middle East are not
inspired by Western and U.S. democracy, as Western politicians, the
capitalist media and the so-called intellectuals claim. To the contrary,
people in the Middle East know that Western “democracy”, U.S.
democracy in particular, is a delusional democracy controlled by big
corporations and Wealthy Zionists. The people have one thing in common;
opposing Western imperialism and Zionism. The goal is independence and
emancipation in all its forms.

The majority of people in the Middle East rightly perceive the U.S. and its
Western allies as an obstacle to democracy. Egypt is a case in point. The
U.S. supported the Mubarak brutal regime to the last minute, but once the
dictator lost control, U.S. politicians switched side and moved quickly to
back a military rule. The Egyptian army is a proud U.S. client and will
continue the same repression serving U.S.-Israel Zionist interests. The
army has already introduced law criminalises protest movements and
restrict the formation of new parties. For its part, the U.S. government
ordered the IMF and the World Bank to take over the Egyptian economy,
bribing and manipulating the elites to serve U.S.-Israel Zionist interests at
the expense of the Egyptian population. Political “transition” in American
parlance means replacing “friendly” dictator with another “friendly”
dictator.

In his speech, Obama said: “There must be no doubt that the United States
of America welcomes change that advances self-determination and
opportunity”. But, we all know the long history of U.S. role of fiercely (and
sometimes violently) opposing Palestinians self-determination and
unconditionally supporting (militarily, financially and diplomatically) the
Israeli fascist regime and Zionist expansion in Palestine in violations of
international law. Indeed, the U.S. vehemently opposes the Palestinian right
to declare a Palestinian nation. The ongoing U.S. murderous Occupations
of Iraq and Afghanistan are an affront to self-determination and
opportunity. Foreign military occupation is the worst form of military
dictatorship.

Libya, Syria and Iran, countries the U.S. considered independent and not
subservient to U.S.-Israel diktats are targets. Like Iraq eight years ago,
these nations represent obstacles on the path toward global fascist
governance. Libya is a soft target. The premeditated U.S.-led NATO
aggression against Libya designed to deflect attention from the legitimate
popular and peaceful uprisings against U.S.-backed dictators in Iraq,
Bahrain, and Yemen.

Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi is accused of “attacking his

own people”. Without a shred of evidence, Western imperialist
governments (Britain, France and U.S.) were in a stage to readiness to
intervene in Libyan domestic affairs on the side of armed insurrection or
“rebels”. Indeed, the reports turned out to be false and the accusations were
totally unfounded. Even the Pentagon refused to endorse the accusations.
However, the accusations provided the U.S.-led NATO allies with a pretext
for an immediate aggression against Libya. “Some nations may be able to
turn blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of
American is different”, said Barack Obama, America’s top hypocrite.

US Friendly dictatorships: Bahrain, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi and the UAE

However, when tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators jammed the

streets in Bahrain, Iraq and Yemen, the U.S.-armed despots sent their
armies to crush the demonstrators, indiscriminately firing bullets and
missiles on the crowds. In Bahrain – home to U.S. Central Command and
the Fifth Fleet naval headquarters –, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirate (UAE) made a deal with the U.S. to invade Bahrain and violently
put-down the peaceful protest. The organisers of the protests were detained,
tortured and will face the death penalty if found guilty of “wrongdoing”. In
return, the U.S. got Saudi Arabia and eight other despotic regimes in the
Arabian Gulf to support the U.S.-led NATO aggression against Libya. The
irony is that, U.S.-NATO leaders thanked the UAE despot for joining the
Western aggression against Libya.

"Humanitarian Intervention" in Libya

When compared with U.S.-installed despots and dictators, Libya is not a

dictatorship. It is a nationalist state, characterised by “socialist”
government. Colonel al-Qadhafi has no formal position in the Libyan
Government. He is more like a “spiritual guide”. Under Colonel al-
Qadhafi, Libya has attained the highest standard of living in Africa with a
GNP per capital of between $2,200 and 6,000. Unlike other oil-producing
countries, including the artificial Gulf states, Russia and Nigeria, Colonel
al-Qadhafi used the Libyan oil revenue to develop Libya. As a result, Libya
is rated on the UN Human Development Index (HDI) ahead of Russia,
Brazil, and Saudi Arabia.

The pretext for the aggression against Libya – planned in advance by a

nexus of imperialists (U.S., Britain and France) in collaboration with the
pro-U.S. Arab depots – was to “protect civilians”. The UN Security
Council voted (China, Russia, Germany, Brazil and India cowardly
“abstained”) for a “no-fly” zone over Libya. Resolution 1973 (2011) is a
fig leaf for an act of aggression against the Libyan people with UN
blessing. By de-nuclearising Libya in 2003, Colonel al-Qadhafi made a
fatal mistake.

If Western leaders are concerned about “protecting” dark-skinned civilians,

there should be no-fly zones over Gaza, Afghanistan, Bahrain and Yemen,
where violence against civilians is far worse than in Libya. Three days
before the Tunisian dictator fled to Saudi Arabia, devoted “humanitarian”
President Nicolas Sarkozy offered to send French security forces to defend
the Tunisian dictator before he fled to Saudi Arabia.

The so-called “humanitarian intervention” has terrorised the Libyan

civilian population and destroyed much of Libya’s civilian infrastructure.
The aim of the imperialists is to topple the legitimate Libyan Government
no matter how many innocent civilians they are prepared to kill and take
control of Libya and Libyan oil resources. The attacks are accurately
described by former Cuban president Fidel Castro as more blatant than
“when the Nazi bombers attacked target in Spain 75 years ago”. The
attacks on Libya are in violation of international law and UN Charter.
The imperialists have already informed the world that a “representative
government”, a facade of corrupt CIA-trained expatriates, extremists and
terrorists (the Interim Transitional National Council, ITNC) has been
installed in the coastal city of Benghazi. In Benghazi, U.S.-trained and
U.S.-armed death squads and rebels have began terrorising pro-government
civilians and black African immigrants with Western governments’ tacit
approval.

Meanwhile, Colonel al-Qadhafi accepted a ceasefire and agreed to have

international observers sent to Libya, as required by the UN Resolution
1973. However, he was rebuffed by U.S.-NATO allies. A prolonged war is
in the interest of Western imperialists. It will degrade Libya and allows
Western capitalist media to manipulate public opinion in favour of total
invasion. As mentioned earlier, they don’t care how many innocent Libyan
civilians will be killed. Like in Iraq, the seeds of violence and division have
been planted by the imperialists who want to ravage Libya at the expense
of the Libyan people.

Resolution 1973 is not only provides a fig leaf for aggression; it also
provides a cover for the assassination of Colonel al-Qadhafi and his family.
On 30 April 2011, in an illegal act to ‘targeted assassination’, U.S.-led
NATO war planes attacked Colonel al-Qadhafi’s family home, killing
Colonel al-Qadhafi son, Saif al-Arab, and three grandbabies. BBC News
called this criminal murder, an attack on Colonel al-Qadhafi “Command
and Control Centre”. Of course, that is a lie even by the Nazis’ standard.
You wonder what the BBC will call the White House if the Libyan air
force drops few bombs and killed Obama’s wife and his daughters.

According to Asia News (01 June 2011), quoting the Apostolic Vicar of
Tripoli, Mgr Giovanni I. Martinelli:

U.S.-led “NATO has intensified bombings and continues to create victims.

The missiles are falling everywhere and, unfortunately, not only affect
military zones, but also civilian areas. The people in Tripoli are suffering,
even if nobody talks about it”.

U.S.-led NATO attacks have killed 718 Civilians. Some 4,067 civilian had
been injured, 433 of them seriously, according to the Libyan Government.

On 13 May 2011, Sky News reported that U.S.-led NATO war planes
attacked the town of Brega, along the eastern costal road in Libya, killing at
least 18 civilians, including 11 Muslim clerics, and wounded many others.
Local media sources reported that the religious leaders were deliberately
targeted to block any peaceful resolution. Indeed, bombing a peace
conference of religious leaders proved that the imperialists are threatened
by any chance of a cease fire. Two days earlier (10 May 2011), Western
media reported that U.S.-led NATO warplanes have attacked Tripoli, the
Libyan Capital, in the heaviest bombing of the city in weeks. There are
reports that hospitals and civilian infrastructures were the main targets. 

In the early hours of Tuesday 24 May 2011, U.S. and British war planes
attacked the Libyan Capital Tripoli. At least 19 Libyan civilians were killed
and many more were injured. When former U.S. Congresswoman, Cynthia
McKinney, was staying at the Rexis Al Nasr Hotel in the heavily populated
center she stated:

"I could taste the thick dust stirred up by the exploded bombs. I
immediately thought about the depleted uranium munitions reportedly
being used here--along with white phosphorus. If depleted uranium
weapons were being used what affect on the local civilians?” 

The Libyan civilians, the like Iraqi civilians, will face long-lasting
radiation.

As a result of this imperialist intervention, UN “humanitarian” agents have

warned of humanitarian catastrophe as food, water and other basic supplies
are running short in many parts of Libya. "Widespread shortages are
paralyzing the country in ways in which will impact gravely on the general
population in the months ahead, particularly the poorest and the most
vulnerable. We do not yet have an accurate figure of the total number of
casualties since the start of the crisis. The longer the current situation
continues, the graver the humanitarian situation will become. With this in
mind, the United Nations has established a humanitarian presence in both
Benghazi and Tripoli”, said Valerie Amos of the UN. It is reported that as a
result of indiscriminate bombing by U.S.-led NATO forces, hundreds of
thousands of Libyans have fled their homes and that some 60 percent of the
population might need humanitarian aid.

Furthermore, in addition to the UN-imposed sanctions against Libya, the

U.S. and its Western allies have “frozen” (i.e., ransacking) more than more
than $150 billion Libyan sovereign fund in an act reminiscent of the Nazis
unlawful theft of their victims’ wealth. The theft is designed to prevent the
Libyan government from supplying the population with food and living
necessities.

Destabilising Syria
After Libya, Syria is an easy target. Indeed, Syria has always been a U.S.-
Israel target. Like Libya, Syria is not a U.S.-controlled client dictatorship
and therefore Syria is subjected to U.S.-Western destabilisation policy. The
Syrian Government is a nationalist government led by the Arab Socialist
Ba’ath Party. It is not a U.S.-Zionist puppet government. During the 2003
illegal invasion and subsequent Occupation of Iraq by the Anglo-American
fascist forces, Syria was threatened with similar aggression and sanctions
by the Bush-Blair fascist axis. Over a million Iraqis refuges found refuge in
Syria, putting great pressure on the country’s resources. While the Syrian
government of Bashar al-Assad has somehow succumbed to U.S.-Western
threat in recent time, the Syrian government has supported legitimate Arab
causes and it stood against U.S.-Israel Zionist expansion. Unlike Libya,
Syria doesn’t have much oil, but Syria is a frontline country (bordering
Israel) lies strategically between Iraq and Israel which makes it a prime
candidate for U.S.-Israel destabilisation policy.

According to independent French and Arabic media, the destabilisation

campaign against Syria intensified in early February 2011 and during the
popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. On 04 February, Facebook called
for a “Day of Wrath” and was relayed by Al-Jazeera satellite channel. In
few hours, the Facebook page registered some 100,000 ‘friends’, an
unusual feast in a country that had access to ADSL since 01 January 2011
and is not known to have high Internet use.

The mainstream capitalist media, have distorted events in Syria and

propagated a U.S.-sponsored armed-insurrection as a “popular uprising”. 
In contrast to the peaceful popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt that took
place in Tunis and Cairo respectively, the armed insurrection, which was
orchestrated by U.S.-Zionist-Saudi elements, began as “frontier armed-
uprising” in Deraa, a small rural town of 75,000 inhabitants near the
Jordanian border and close to Israel. From the outset, the protesters were
nor peaceful; they were armed and violent. Like in Libya, the aim is to
destabilise and overthrow the current Syrian Government.

In early May 2011, anti-government graffiti vandalism appeared on the

walls of Deraa which prompted police in Deraa to respond violently. A
peaceful protest by the locals against the police duly projected and
amplified by Al-Jazeera channel and the capitalist media as anti-
government protest. Then armed criminal gang killed seven policemen and
burned the Ba’ath Party Headquarter and the town Courthouse provoked
the police to attack. President al-Assad intervened on behalf of the locals
and punished the police. He also deployed the army to protect the civilian
population. When masked snipers fired on demonstrators and on the police,
the Syrian army intervened to restored order. To enflame the situation, the
capitalist media distorted facts on the grounds and accused the army of
“brutality against peaceful demonstrators”. For instance, pro-Assad rallies
were called ‘anti-Assad’ by Al-Jazeera, anti-government protests never
took place when reported by Al-Jazeera and anti-government in Bahrain
and Iraq were attributed to Syria. As the confusion continues giving the
impression that most Syrians are against al-Assad government.

While the capitalist media have exaggerated the protests as an anti-

Government, President Assad remains very popular. I am “surprised at how
much support President Assad himself still has [in Syria]”, said Martin
Fletcher, associate editor at The Times of London, in an interview with All
Things Considered host, Robert Siegel on Friday 13 May 2011. The
destabilisation campaign modelled on Libya. However, this time the UN
was unable to play it imperialist game against Syria. Russia and China
blocked a U.S.-sponsored French, German, Britain and Portugal resolution
condemning Syria, known it will be a criminal resolution like Resolution
1973 against Libya.

Despite President al-Assad’s careful handling of the situation, the armed

“conspirators” – as he called them – were able to move from Deraa through
Syria as far as Aleppo. According to the Washington Post, the U.S. is
secretly financing and arming the opposition to topple President Bashar al-
Assad. “The U.S. money for Syrian opposition groups, including a satellite
TV channel to decimate false propaganda began flowing under President
George W. Bush and has continued under President Obama, even as his
administration sought to build relations with President al- Assad” (WP, 18
April 2011). In fact, the U.S.-sponsored armed resurrection has been in the
making for sometimes waiting for the right moment.

To aggravate the situation, both, the U.S. and the European Union (EU)
have imposed sanctions against Syria and began a campaign to demonise
President Assad. After Libya, Syria is the only independent Arab nation not
subservient to U.S.-Israel Israel diktats. A regime change in Syria will see
the U.S. and Israel in total control of the Middle East through a network of
despotic and weak rulers. Palestinians will lose their only support and any
Iranian influence in the region will be curtailed. It is time for al-Assad to
“get out of the way”, said Hillary Clinton, but not for pro-U.S. despots in
Bahrain, Yemen and elsewhere.

Meanwhile, here in Australia, the “deputy sheriff” of U.S. imperialism in

the Asia-Pacific, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has called on the UN to
“consider a formal referral of President Assad to the International Criminal
Court”. Australia, of course, was one of the U.S.-led ”coalition of the
willing”, complicit in the “supreme international crime” of aggression in
Iraq, including systematic torture, rapes, mass murder of Iraqi civilians and
wanton destruction. Mr Rudd will do well to call on the ICC to investigate
Australians for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Some Australians
should also face a war crimes tribunal over deliberate civilian deaths and
war crimes in Afghanistan.

The ICC and Violence

The ICC has accused Colonel al-Qadhafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and Libya’s
intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanussi of ordering what it called
"widespread and systematic attacks on Libyan civilians” based on very
flimsy and fabricated evidence in the midst of U.S.-led NATO aggression.
While the allegations are unsubstantiated and politically-motivated
allegations, the ICC Brazilian chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo
failed to identify who provided him with the evidence. In fact, Ocampo has
more evidence to charge U.S.-NATO leaders with war crimes.

Like many other countries, Libya does not recognise the ICC jurisdiction.
Stuart Littlewood, author of Radio Free Palestine wrote:

“Yet three months ago the UN Security Council voted unanimously, in

Resolution 1970, to refer the situation in the Libya to the prosecutor of the
ICC. Five of the states that voted for this referral – China, India, Lebanon,
Russia and the U.S. – are not parties to the ICC and don’t accept its
jurisdiction. So here we see the U.S. among those forcing Libya to accept
the jurisdiction of the ICC, when [the U.S.] refuses to do so itself."

Libya rightly acknowledges that the ICC is a tool of Western imperialism

created for the sole purpose of persecuting leaders who refused to serve
Western imperialism. “The ICC has developed into one of the most blatant
illustrations of double standards”. “The United States manipulates the ICC
without recognizing its jurisdiction, and having further protected itself by
bilateral agreements with a long list of countries that provide immunity for
United States citizens [accused of crimes] as well as by Congressional laws
to protect U.S. citizens [accused of crimes] from the ICC”, writes author
Diana Johnstone.

If the ICC is serious about justice and the rules of law, it should investigate
war crimes in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. The situations in these
nations are worse than in Libya. In fact, the 2003 illegal aggression against
Iraq and the deliberate wanton destruction of Iraq and the Iraqi society
were the worst of these crimes. There is overwhelming evidence to justify
the arrest and indictment of the perpetrators – George W. Bush, Dick
Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Tony Blair, Paul Wolfowitz and others – of
war crimes and crimes against humanity according to the Nuremberg
Principles.  The deliberate destruction of the city of Fallujah and the mass
murder of Iraqi civilians by the Anglo-American fascist forces have no
comparison in the history of Western barbarism.

The 2008-2009 indiscriminate Israeli attacks on the besieged and

defenceless Palestinian population in Gaza by Israeli forces were designed
to terrorise the population. The 22-day attacks, with the West’s implicit
blessing have devastated the territory’s civilian infrastructure, white
phosphorous, tank shells and sniper bullets. More than 1,400 defenceless
Palestinians were killed, including 320 children. In short, the ICC proves to
be an instrument to justify and cover-up Western and Zionist war crimes

The Bin Laden Hoax

Osama bin Laden’s usefulness as a bogyman has expired long time ago, so
it has become useful to stage his death on 02 May 2011, “Operation
Fabrication”. Bin Laden who was a CIA asset, had been dead for years,
before the U.S. illegally invaded and occupied Afghanistan. Like there has
been no recent conclusive evidence that bin Laden was involved in the 9/11
attacks, there is no hard evidence he was (supposedly) killed by the
Americans on 02 May 2011.

In announcing the “success” of Operation Fabrication and the “killing”

Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama said:

“There is no doubt that we killed Osama bin Laden. It is important for us to

make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head
are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence, as a
propaganda tool. You know, that’s not who we are.”

As a Harvard-educated law professor, Obama should know that targeted

political murder is a crime in violation of international law. The U.S. is
purveyor of violence. Furthermore, Obama alleged that bin Laden’s body
was abruptly buried at sea in accordance with the Islamic law is a
falsehood. Burial at sea is not an Islamic practice and Islam does not have a
timeframe for burial.

It is important to remember while bin Laden involvement in 9/11 remains

unproven, bin Laden was one of the pretexts to justify the illegal invasions
of Afghanistan and Iraq.  The underlying purposes of “operation
fabrication” are:
 1. to justify and escalate the ongoing murderous campaign of
destabilising and the eventual breakup of Pakistan. Pakistan is
accused of supporting terrorism. This is when Pakistan is on the
receiving end of U.S. terror and an instability campaign.  “Pakistan is
the most dangerous country on earth, also the world's fastest growing
nuclear power, with a huge arsenal”, writes Noam Chomsky,
America’s foremost Zionist propagandist.  What Pakistan has done
to deserve Chomsky’s wrath is anyone’s guess. A clear majority of
the world’s populations rightly believes that Israel and the U.S. pose
the greatest threat to world peace; 

2. to help boost President Barack Obama’s approval ratings for the

2012 elections; 

3. to project an “all-powerful” image of a U.S. “above the law” and

warn other nations that sovereignty and international law are
irrelevant; 

4. to divert public attention away from U.S. domestic problems and

promote U.S. nationalism and militarism; and 

5. to enforce the practice of torture which is not only illegal but also
and ineffective. American politicians, intellectuals and media pundits
or more accurately, torture apologists have began to argue that the
execution of bin Laden would not have been achieved without the
use of torture. It is a falsehood.  In fact, the use of torture proved to
be a disaster for the American ruling elites. “The timeline doesn’t
seem to provide a lot of support for the pro-torture narrative”, writes
Jane Mayor in the New Yorker. Ten years seems to be a long time to
find a sick man in an old mansion in Pakistan, if it is not a hoax.

The fabricated assassination of bin Laden was an opportunity for the

Western mainstream media to continue the racist campaign of demonising
Muslims and Islam. The distorted allegations that bin Laden has used his
wife as a human shield and that he was found with pornographic videos
were headlines in all major Western propaganda organs. A day later, it was
revealed that bin Laden was “killed” unarmed and in the process of
planning another “operation” against America. Pakistanis who protested
against their puppet government and against U.S. violation of Pakistan’s
sovereignty were accused of supporting bin Laden. Bin Laden is not “seen
as a hero for Millions of Muslims”. In fact, bin Laden is resented by most
Muslims around the world.  Even the Arab media have become part of the
capitalist mainstream media, supporting dictators and serving U.S.-Zionist
interests.
The Complicity of the Media

The capitalist mainstream media, particularly the BBC, New York Times
and Al-Jazeera, coverage of U.S.-led NATO attacks on Libya and the U.S.-
sponsored insurrection in Syria is replete with imbalance and distortion. Al-
Jazeera plays its game very cleverly; distorting the truth and manipulating
public opinions. Like the BBC News and major Western capitalist
mainstream media, Al-Jazeera is an imperialist propaganda organ.  Unlike
its distorted coverage of Syria and the U.S.-led NATO attacks on Libya,
Al-Jazeera ignored and conveniently looked the other way to the violence
to crush the popular uprisings in Iraq, Bahrain and Yemen. Its coverage of
the massacres in Bahrain, Iraq and Yemen has always been biased. A
British delegation of civilians who visited Libya in April, found no
evidence of dissent against Colonel al-Qadhafi and accused Western
capitalist media of biased towards U.S.-led NATO military aggression.

The mainstream capitalist media, including the Arab satellite of Al-Jazeera,

focus on Libya and Syria is designed to deflect attention away from truly
legitimate popular uprisings against U.S.-backed dictators in Iraq, Bahrain
Yemen, Morocco and elsewhere in the region. In short, the capitalist media
have to abide by and adhere to a one-sided ‘doctrinal framework’ that
promotes U.S.-Western fascist policies by looking the other way regarding
what is happening in Western-friendly dictatorships.

The Qatar-based satellite channel was created by the Franco-Israeli

brothers, David and Jean Frydman who wanted a medium of
“rapprochement” between Arabs and Israelis. Both brothers were senior
advisors to former Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak.
Al-Jazeera is funded by the Qatari despot, Emir Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-
Thani who is now happily participating in the U.S.-led NATO aggression
against Libya and supplying the rebels with weapons and ammunition.

In Qatar, like in all the artificial states of the Arabian Gulf, 95 percent of
Qatar’s workforce constitutes of Asian immigrants (mostly from the
Philippines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh) who have been denied
their basic human rights and live in slave-like conditions. Qatar is home to
U.S. military base (the Al-Udeid Air Base home to the 379th Air
Expeditionary Wing), a launch pad for U.S. aggressions around the world,
including the U.S. aggression against Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. In
addition, Qatar is also home to one of the most anti-Arabs/anti-Muslims
pro-Israel Zionist think-tanks, the Brookings Saban Centre in Doha. Qatar
is one of the few Arab countries that have diplomatic and commercial
relation with Israel.
Furthermore, Al-Jazeera and its mostly white-Anglo journalists have
adopted “don’t know” attitudes regarding Qatar complicity in U.S. wars of
aggression. The Qatari Government has recently introduced a new “media
freedom law” which restricts journalists writing on issues “concerning
national security and friendly countries”. Al-Jazeera told me: “Al-Jazeera
has specific instruction: no bad news about Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait or Saudi
Arabia ... and don’t mention the [U.S. military] bases.” In short, Al-Jazeera
is an exotic version of the BBC with an Arabic flavour to normalise U.S.
imperialism.

It is not an understatement to describe BBC as a fascist propaganda organ;

it is far worse. The BBC is a sophisticated global propaganda organ,
reaching every corner of the world using several languages to spread its
fascist propaganda. In addition to its public funding, the BBC received
funds from the British Zionist Lobby and several Pro-Israel Jewish
organisations.

The BBC effect on the British public is formidable. For example, the BBC
coverage of the Palestinians struggle against Israel ranged from biased to
deceptive, to outright lies. In their updated study, Professor Greg Philo of
the Glasgow University Media Group and Dr Mike Berry of Nottingham
University, found that more Britons thought that Palestinians occupy Israel
rather than the reverse, and the more they watched BBC TV, the more
confused they tended to be (Philo, G., & Berry, G. More Bad News from
Israel, Pluto Press, 2011).  According to Sut Jally, a professor of
Communication at the University of Massachusetts, between 58 and 63
percent of his students thought that Palestinians are occupy Israel; only 22
percent knew that it is Israel that occupies Palestinian land. Finally, in its
news from Israel and the murder of at least 20 unarmed innocent civilian
protesters by Israeli soldiers at the border with the Syrian Golan Heights,
BBC News described the Golan Heights as a “disputed territory”, not an
illegally occupied Syrian land.

Meanwhile, the New York Times (08 April 2011) demanded that U.S.
military use AC-130 and A-10 flying gunships to escalate the violence and
killing in Libya.  The gunship 105mm shells are able to “destroy buildings
and spread shrapnel over a ‘kill’ area of up to 1,500 yards. You have to be
very luck civilian to escape this form of terror. On the night of 22-23rd
October 2001, a U.S. AC-130 attacked the small farming village of
Chowkar-Karez, about 25 miles from Kandahar in Afghanistan, killing at
least 100 innocent civilians. “The world’s greatest news paper”, as
described by Chomsky, was the leading propaganda mouthpiece for the
U.S. aggression against Iraq in 2003, concocted multitude of inexcusable
lies. Specialised in distortion and warmongering, in 1987 the Times was
found to have fabricated a lie that Colonel al-Qadhafi tried to assassinate
former president Roland Reagan.

Finally, Western capitalist media reported that the U.S.-backed despotic

regime of the UAE has secretly signed a $529 million contract with the
U.S. mercenary company, Reflex Responses (also called R2) to put
together an 800-strong mercenary army. The army will be used in special
operations missions against the civilian if the regime were challenged by
pro-democracy protests like those in Iraq, Bahrain, Egypt and Tunisia. The
mercenary army could also be deployed against any legitimate protest by
foreign guest workers who again form the majority of the workforce in the
UAE. The Obama Administration is backing what is accurately called “a
Christian crusader force” protecting U.S.-backed despots in Muslim
nations.

Conclusion

Only through peaceful cooperation between all countries, the world would
be a peaceful and stable place. Therefore, it is imperative for civilised
people who care about humanity and the rules of law worldwide to seize
the moment to condemn U.S. imperialist aggression against the people of
the Middle East, struggling for freedom and dignity.

*Ghali Hassan is an independent political analyst living in Australia.

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