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http://thenewsdoctors.com/lawrence-wilkerson-on-the-70-years-old-and-counting-us-national-security-state/
“Wilkerson: Ever since the 1947 National Security Act, the United States has been in a state-building effort, the purpose of which is to create a national security state. What that means in short is: The reason for the state’s existence is to use the military.
There are all kinds of pernicious influences that make this the case in this country now —everything from the military-industrial complex to the penchant for decision making inside the White House minus the Cabinet, minus diplomacy, minus economics, minus finance, minus trade. Everything turns to the hard power, to the military.
Any president of any type, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Donald Trump — God forbid, any president is going to be immediately captured by this apparatus that we’ve been building since 1945. And it’s very difficult to break out of this apparatus, particularly if you don’t have much experience with a bureaucracy and you have to trust people like John Brennan at the CIA and others who are going to tell you what they want you to hear, not necessarily what’s true. They tell you what’s conducive to this state-building effort, to maintaining this national security state — not what’s necessary for US national security interests necessarily.
So this is a very dangerous situation for our republic, an extremely dangerous situation. If we don’t have someone soon inside that Oval Office to do something about this, or the American people to do something about this (and I think the latter is probably a better case than having someone in the Oval), we’re going to be in real trouble — real trouble. If nothing else, we are going to bankrupt ourselves.”
Capitalist Economy get’s a capitalist state and an armed gang to both enforce and expand the social relations on which capitalism is based. In crisis, the façade of democracy is dispensed with. Fascism at home, Imperialism abroad prevails. The military is that “armed gang” in the service of it’s master’s. Of course, all the crap that goes along with it-graft, corruption anything to make a buck corrupts any virtue that the military may try to utilize to justify it’s existence. Hence, boogeymen; national threats, false flags, assassination….all fair play in a political economy based on survival of the fittest and all the perversions of humanity such a philosophy entails.
This was the funniest episode of the south front videos ever!
Why couldn’t all South Front video reports posted here be as serious and informative as for instance the one from 8 October below? This one from 9 October again features that sorry broken-English-speaking clown with “humour” that appeals to adolescents. Is Saker interested merely in the number of “hits” on his site?
***really negative and solitary opinion about a great news source – mod
Personally,I think there is a time for serious,and a time for sarcasm,to insult the pompous.South Front is quite good at both.You also have to remember,the subject matter also determines which line is appropriate.In Ukraine at present we don’t have any serious news going on.So sarcasm directed at the junta’s stupidity and corruption seems the best now.
Yes, you are right. Thank you for the comment
Every Friday, we make a video about the Kiev’s military efforts. It’s hard to make this with a serious face. Also, we think that we shouldn’t forget about Ukraine in any case.
In other days, you can find a deep analysis of the military operations and international situation in our videos, at our website.
Kind regards,
SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence
I like his reports most.
This site is one of my favorites and this guy is great. It is a serious situation in Ukraine right now but humor helps relieve the stress.
sexy female sniper was not included in the deal….but she sure sold alotta weapons.
Hi South Front ! You guys seem happy these days !!! Syria is exciting for us all…stupid Porkoshanko is stewing in his own juices now….
Hello, Ann! We are happy that we have a chance to do our work due to: the audience’s support, volunteers and experts contributing their time and skills to SF and our friends and information partners, as Saker, helping to distribute content.
The situation over the world is becoming tenser and tenser, new hot points are arising. We’ve been talking about this since the start of the project. For instance, our forecast from the “Foreign Policy Diary ‘Central Asia’ – Advance of ISIS” is becoming reality right now (http://southfront.org/central-asia-advance-of-isis/). Definitely, it isn’t good news, but it clearly shows that mass media prefer to ignore important thing.
This is the reason why we believe it’s important to continue to analyze and cover ongoing developments over the world.
Kind regards,
SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence Team
Hi South Front – I hope your financial situation is improving….pretty soon to send donation again….
And thanks for link. – Really good link…very interesting…Central Asia Taliban…
By the way South Front … Is Taliban just another affiliate of ISIL ? I suppose so.
OT…headline from RT
https://www.rt.com/politics/318018-any-nato-movement-toward-russias/
No, Taliban isn’t affiliate of ISIS.
A very short explanation is here:
Taliban is a local (Afghanistan, Pakistan) movement and it has own interests. One of them is a peace deal with the Afghani government to get official political representation on the highest level. But it a problem coz Taliban stands against the US, the Afghani government stands with the US. Also, peace will mean the the US contingent should leave Afghanistan. So, we could suppose that the ISIS activity is aimed on destabilization of the country: to hold US troops there, to avoid a peace deal between Taliban and the Afghani government and to hold Afghanistan in the USA’s sphere of influence.
P.S. Taliban members aren’t “good guys”, but they are better then ISIS militants, definitely.
And they destroyed 90% of opium production. Afghanistan is just as much an opium war as anything else. Heroin being just another commodity whose illegality makes it even more lucrative. No banker’s jailed for laundering billions of dollars of drug money. Gov’t fines amount to a tax at best. During the crisis of 2008, it was drug money that provided any liquidity available. HOT CASH!
That illustrates the extent of the corruption. When the City of London adds drug deals and prostitution to it’s GDP you see how far the corruption has been normalized…mainstreamed. Decadence is to soft a term for the West. Nihilism and Decay much closer. Barbaric most appropriate.
Yes, that has been the plan all along. Few people realize that you can drive overland from Damascus to Moscow. Events in Syria are an existential threat to Russia and a part of PNAC. America is even trying to open a second front against China in the South China Seas….they believe or their strategy has been to be able to carry out full fledged war in two different theatre’ simultaneously. And of course they will always find generals and munitions maker’s who will demonstrate with video games how this is possible. Then the Congress votes to spend half their budget on military expenditures while the infrastructure of the country and it’s economy collapses. And they then justify privatizing water plants as government can’t do anything right mantra goes into high gear. 24/7 for decades well since the capitalist counter revolution that took place in the USSR.
Remember the “shock” and “outrage” at the “palace” that Yanukovich lived in.Well I thought it might be “interesting” to see Poroshenko’s home.What you think about these “digs”?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153599861099831&set=a.10152277464824831.1073741830.824699830&type=3&theater
Could you imagine the ‘Glory to the Ukraine’ warriors organizing like this? Say what you like about North Korea, but they sure know coordinated discipline:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhHU6nHUEmU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
great link Eimar…thanks.
A military parade staged by the Ukro-trash would have meant no survivors — every soldier (and every bystander) dead in ‘heroic battle’.
USS Theodore Roosevelt suddenly requires maintenance? Nothing to do with cruise missiles?
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-bombs-syria-u-s-pulls-aircraft-carrier-out-persian-n440731
Military officials said Thursday that they’ve pulled the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which is home to about 5,000 service members and 65 combat planes, so that it can undergo maintenance. The ship officially exited the gulf around 11 p.m. ET. The temporary measure is also the result of mandatory budget cuts.
@Peter
Same day the Houthis destroyed a Saudi warship in the Gulf with a missile attack:
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?fromval=2&cid=31&frid=23&seccatid=31&eid=233385
OT – Syria/ISIS update
Russia seems to have supplied the Syrian Army with some of its TOS-1A systems. These are a combination of multiple launch rocket system and rockets with thermobaric warhead. These, if used, will seriously demoralise anyone on the receiving end.
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/bmpd.livejournal.com/1514943.html
Three ISIS members returned to Grozny, Chechnya. Kadyrov’s men promplty disposed of them. The report includes some graphic photos but thay hare hidden unless you click the ‘hotos strictly 18+ click to read’ link.
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2421555.html
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAH
HILARIOUS!
The bit where we have the clip from “Avengers Assemble” and the narrator talks about Ukraine’s “Western partners” really cracked me up.
I think we need a satirical clip with the reactions of McCain, Fiorina, Cotton and Clinton to the Russian Air Strikes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3&v=LpeBlOGxSqw
I had forgotten that October 9th was the anniversary of the murder of an enemy of the Empire of historic importance.On that date in 1967 the Empire finally silenced his voice,but inspired a generation to love and follow him.RIP Hasta siempre Che!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UClHAH8nFVY&list=RDUClHAH8nFVY&index=1
Another great article on the US involvement in supporting terrorists in Syria:
“Russia’s Casualties Will Be Ash Carter’s Worst Nightmare”
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/10/10/us-defense-secretary-ash-carter-said/
Ashton Carter – another toddler who never grew up.
Did anyone notice that all Western so called ‘leaders’ are exemplary cases of arrested development? Baby faces, punkish talk, girlish tantrums. Not a single one of them made it to adulthood. Incredible!
Has the world ever seen a greater farce?
I posted a couple of items earlier that have not appeared – perhaps because I had linked to MSM?
The US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf departed today headed for the US for urgently needed repairs. Nothing to do with Russian cruise missiles though :)
Also apparently Almaz-Antey have tested a BUK missile on a plane on the ground and will present their findings on the day the Dutch report into MH17 is released.
The other thing of interest that is not mentioned here yet is the bombings in Turkey. Apparently an area where anti government demonstrators (unions not Kurds) were gathering was hit with two explosions. A lot of casualties.
A lot of trouble brewing in Turkey at the moment.
Peter, I think this will not be a problem,. if you want to post MSM just keep trying…if you think its relevant…its not a Saker policy that there is no MSM allowed to be posted here.
A series of bombs exploded at a peace rally in Ankara today,killing at least 30 and injuring over a 100.I suspect Erdogan will blame the Kurds for it (they may have done it,I don’t know).But since the rally was a peace rally.And the peace group blames Erdogan for the violence in Turkey. It doesn’t seem likely the Kurds would bomb people supporting them.It seems more likely a false flag by the Turkish government.
https://www.rt.com/news/318185-ankara-road-junction-blast/
Another report is showing a village newly liberated by the Syrian army.Where the US’s pet killers slaughtered civilians before they fled:
https://www.rt.com/news/318184-captured-syrian-village-atrocities/
And finally a clear video of Russian helicopter strikes on terrorist forces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJr_p-mEEmM
Must watch!
A British reporter who gets so angry with his boss that he decides to tell the REAL news, or in his own words, The $%^#* News.
https://www.facebook.com/homesnotbanks/videos/1648032872121263/
People on FB are saying the video is sarcasm (The Onion style).They are saying its funny,but its not real.It looked a bit fake to me too.
I posted that link yesterday.
Uncle Bob,
Yes, it is a spot-on satire on the British/American controlled media.
What struck me is that the guy is genuinely angry.
The days when mainstream media could operate their ‘Left-Right’ faux duopoly are over. Never has the journalistic profession been so widely despised right across the political spectrum.
I am increasingly wondering if traditional broadcast media has any real political function anymore: nobody who matters (i.e. intelligent organized dissent)
is listening.
And why influence sheep? They are herd animals anyway.
Eimar, this that you say nobody that’s worth anything is listening any more..is not true…the alternative media ‘family’ is tiny compared to the mass population and I completely disagree with you that those folks ain’t worth it anyway. Most family and friends are still innocent, which is what the wonderful creature called a sheep is…who’s made more sacrifices to the world than any other except perhaps cows…and pigs…
But anyway, most of my family is still watching the news and they are super wonderful people.
there’s no way this is a fake staged temper flare…its for real..look at how tired he looks..really excellent video…thanks for the link…good for him…now he’s out of a job…but will join the ranks of Alternative Media hopefully…he looks very competent.
re: SouthFront military report 10/9/15
Here is an article about a military touchstone for the world
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/09/russia-s-new-mega-missile-stuns-the-globe.html
Thanks for this interesting link…good the mods let it through
SouthFront: Kudos to SouthFront. I have been watching all your creations since the Donbass was hanging by its fingernails over a cliff last year. You are the best—it is incredible how hard you work, how much you have become polished presenters of the facts in an attractive modern format yet at the same time not too stuffy to have some fun.
I Love your humor and you have learned to hone it well and to use it clearly in appropriate ways ( that is not easy). After all a purely humorous presentation actually distracts attention from news requiring serious consideration and if done poorly or if the timing is off just a bit can get confusing with the message ; yet you have found the balance in the performance of it.
Your analysis of Central Asia was way, way ahead of everyone–no wonder you got kicked off Facebook. The lackeys of the Hegemon do not want such effective people making contact with their audience.
And I positively adore the guy with the cool Russian accent– he has improved also and has the right dour voice for subtle sarcasm.
I wonder just how much of this incompetence is deliberate….a lot of sabotage was going on during the hottest phase of the war.
The Kiev hyenas are having a grand time shelling the Kievskyi district in Donetsk right now. Direct hits to appartment building.
But of course Minsk is sacred. There is no alternative to Minsk. None whatsoever. Because Minsk is a stroke of genius, how can you fail to see that. And besides, we don’t want to upset our partners.
Therefore all Russians, not just in Donetsk, must stop worrying and learn to love the charms of life under oligarchic fascism throughout the Russian world.
OT: The Ukrainians claim that the MH17 report due for release in October (16th?) will now not come out until February 2016. Prediction – come February 2016, it will be delayed yet again. … and again … Ther Ukrainians really are desperate to bury this thing.
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/www.e-news.su/in-world/79606-smi-niderlandy-obnaroduyut-zaklyuchitelnyy-otchet-po-mh17-v-fevrale.html
Remember those S&R helicopters a week ago?—they’re there.
Erdogan has an “election” slated NOV1 there, but that says as much as Harpoon having one here OCT 19 Monday. I haven’t heard this late if his handlers have found another creative way to steal it like he did the last one, using robodialers.
Putin’s “Endgame” in Syria
Politics / Russia Oct 10, 2015 – 05:19 PM GMT
By: Mike_Whitney
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article52613.html
“A tent city within İncirlik has been undergoing reconstruction for modern prefabricated houses, which will host 2,250 US military personnel, the Doğan news agency reported on Friday. During the Gulf War of 1991, a tent city was established to accommodate military personnel serving with Operation Provide Comfort (OPC) and was shut down with the end of the OPC.
On Aug. 20, work began to transform the site of the tent city into a new area named “Patriot Town.” After construction is completed, the İncirlik base will have the largest capacity among the US bases in Europe…
The expansion of the İncirlik base’s capacity comes at a time when Russia has launched the biggest intervention in the Middle East in decades….Moscow’s intervention means the conflict in Syria has been transformed from a proxy war.. into an international conflict in which the world’s main military powers… are directly involved in fighting.” (“İncirlik base to increase capacity by 2,250 to accommodate new personnel“, Today’s Zaman)
This article smacks of US ambitions in the Middle East. As readers can plainly see, Washington is gearing up for another war just like it did in 1991. And the US air war is going to be launched from “Patriot Town” at Incirlik just like we’ve been predicting since July when the deal was finalized. Here’s more background from an article at Hurriyet:
“U.S. Air Force Central Command has started deploying search and rescue helicopters and airmen at Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır Air Base in order to help with recovery operations in neighboring Iraq and Syria, it has announced….
NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and the commander of U.S. European Command, Gen. Phillip Breedlove, has said the mission will be temporary.
Dear The Saker,
There were lots of rumours and comments the other day about Lukashenko and Russian airbases. He has come out today with this:
http://tass.ru/en/world/827854
Rgds,
Veritas
In the midst of all the abuse rained on the Donbass this past year and a half..they are moving with the times:
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&u=http://dan-news.info/culture-ru/doneckie-uchenye-razrabotali-strategiyu-perexoda-dnr-k-vodorodnoj-energetike.html&usg=ALkJrhgD7x_Z7EF9KHOuRCv74bfu7IZeqw
Developing a transition to hydrogen fuel that will reduce dependency on natural gas and reduce ecological damage.
Yep, the brains of Ukraine are overwhelmingly located in the East :)