by Andrew Kahn
14 years have passed and what has changed? That’s the question always asked and perhaps that is the wrong question – the implicit idea being that nothing has changed. In a way, nothing has really changed, while so much has changed.
It is easy for middle class US citizens to sit in front of the television and think “Nothing has changed.” For them, what has really changed is the temporary inconvenience of opening their bags in public places and having increased security wait times at airports. Yet this is an inconvenience that is dwarfed by the centuries-old attacks on minorities in the United States. For what is heightened screening for “security” if not a pale resemblance of racial profiling and its daily, continuous and unavoidable “security measure” for the crime of being a minority in a broken windows world?
Yet much has changed. The so-called “war on terror” – a clever term used for the justification of capitalist imperialism – has changed plenty…just not for those whose lives matter within the world. The imperial trajectory of capitalism has changed lives since the attacks of September 11, 2001 for those whose lives do not matter in this throwaway culture of capitalism.
Ask the young children in Afghanistan what this nearly decade-and-a-half long war waged by the United States superpower has meant for them. Indeed though, one can say nothing has changed in the grand historical context as Western attacks on Afghanistan are nothing new. But things have changed. For Afghanistan, the Soviet-allied government which spread domestic stability and rights for women and workers was toppled in a Western and Saudi-backed counter-revolution. As we know, our bastards – to borrow a phrase – came into power. Osama and the Taliban and what we called, after September 11, radical jihadis. They were our bastards. And then September 11, 2001 changed things. So we were told. They were now simply bastards. Things had changed.
Our boys become our enemies and bit the hand that had fed them…and would feed them again. 14 years later. Now that they can serve a purpose again. For little has changed. Nothing truly changes outside of the myopia of viewing history as beginning when we open our eyes in the morning.
Now, 14 years later, the same war hawks who called for the blood of Al Qaeda – Saudis no less, our bastards…the ones who are always our bastards – are speaking of a cold use of these bastards yet again. Now the enemy is ISIS – again, our bastards-turned-enemies – and it is Al Qaeda who may be our moderates today in our battle versus the Butcher Assad. For today, the enemy du jour is President Bashar al-Assad of the Syrian Arab Republic. And in the imperial push for hegemony, the United States – indeed, imperial capitalism in toto – needs to remove his presence in the Middle East. Cleverly, yesterday’s bastards – Al Qaeda – who once were our bastards in Afghanistan are now the bulwark, however sinister, against independent Syria. The descendants of the terrorists who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, are once more the foot soldiers of imperialism. Everything has changed, yet nothing has changed.
As the towers lay in smoldering ruins and U.S. citizens thumped their breasts in patriotic fervor and Democrats outdid Republicans in reactionary calls for bombings – for liberals are the staunchest patriots in times of patriotism and rallying before the ribbons and flags – since we needed to massacre anyone in a turban or looking like an Afghan or an A-rab or dark skinned. Things had changed, but nothing changed.
Who would have imagined that these descendants of the September 11 killers would now be our bastards? Well, one can say, it was easy to script. For imperialism and capitalism, the former being the inevitable outgrowth of the latter, there is no ideals beyond expansion and oppression. Mercenaries of one day become enemies to become mercenaries again. And so it is. With Al Qaeda.
Things have changed, yet nothing has changed…historically.
Yet the bombs rained down on Afghanistan did change the lives of young Afghans. Their fathers were slaughtered, their mothers raped, their uncles tortured, their lives shattered. And imperialism changed their lives but remained immutable in its drive to achieve profits and control.
And what changed? Opium production returned with a vengeance to Afghanistan and the Taliban, our bastards against the Soviets, had their poppy eradication eradicated and they became mere bastards again. And our new bastards – Hamid Karzai and his concessionist puppet regime oversaw, but was in reality hopelessly incapable of stopping, the resurgence of Western-sanctioned opium production. And nothing changed. And everything did.
So as dumb U.S. citizens beat their tribal tom toms of war in trailer homes across Middle America, calling for blood revenge against allegedly bloodthirsty brown people, they turned from FoxNews only for a moment so they could shoot up Afghan heroin – brought to their drug den off the backs of dead Afghan children. Because our bastards had become mere bastards. And are now our bastards again. And nothing had changed except more Afghans were slaughtered and a generation of U.S. citizens enjoyed their red white and blue patriotic drug addiction.
And nothing changed. And everything changed.
A generation of children born in the short years before September 11 and in the years that followed will never know a time when you didn’t have to say something if you believed you saw something. So we inform on our fellow working class because we see every move as furtive and every action as unpatriotic. And everything has changed with Manning arrested and Snowden in exile. Yet nothing has changed. Myopia – fueled by capitalism – doesn’t let anyone realize that nothing has changed. The Palmer Raids and McCarthyism morphed into finding and hunting “terror”. And don’t forget the COINTELPRO or the earlier imprisonment of Eugene Debs for the crime of questioning World War 1 – a war of capitalism. For everything changed, yet nothing changed.
And as September 11 passed into the lexicon of iconism – a date that has become an existential identity for U.S. citizens and one that all must genuflect before – nothing even changed there. September 11, 1973 was the original terror attack in America. The date of the imperial coup in Chile when the socialist leader Salvador Allende was toppled in a coup after the bombing of the presidential palace. So not even September 11 itself is changed as a new time of terror.
Nothing has really changed.
Yet everything has changed after the lies of the government in the United States telling those who responded to the attacks that the air was safe. And fathers died of lung disease because the government lied about reality. And for their families, everything changed.
Yet lies to create working class heroes – deemed heroes by their oppressors as they use them to clean up imperial messes that are messes only for the working class itself – is nothing changed from the past. Yesterday it was the working class “hero” who died in invasion of the Philippines and Cuba during the imperial Spanish American War who was told that it was a war for freedom that he must engage in. After all, the Maine was sunk in a treacherous fashion. Was it not?
And everything changed and nothing changed.
And the bastards of September 11 are now our moderates. We need to end the rule of Assad who were used to torture a couple people after September 11. He was our bastard in a couple isolated renditions. Supposedly. But now he’s a bastard again. An independent bastard who won’t bow to imperialism. And everything changed and nothing changed.
And the Syrians uprooted, their nation blighted by a war which it has been revealed was plotted long ago by imperialism, now flee to Europe to escape death by imperialism. Death by the guns of “freedom fighters” against Assad. Moderates. Our bastards today. Al Qaeda bastards, but our bastards. Mere bastards on September 12, 2001. The day after everything changed but nothing really changed.
So Arabs flee yet again when imperialism uproots them. Recall Al Nakba when Palestinians were forced to flee by European Zionists. And imperialism reigned then as it does now. And everything changed for those Palestinians then and for Syrians today. And everything changed, but nothing really changed.
And the towers crashed and we sang God Bless America and French fries became freedom fries and patriotism became synonymous with rallying behind the national capitalist ruling class. Our bastards.
And everything has changed but nothing has changed. The towers fell and now they have returned.
And everything has changed but nothing has changed.
So genuflect before our bastards my working class comrades. Genuflect before them because they are our bastards. Just like Al Qaeda is once again. Terrorists all. Some wear turbans and fly the black flag of jihad. And some wear suits and American flag pins. But they are our bastards.
And everything has changed but nothing has changed.
Andrew Kahn lives in New York City. Unabashed Bolivarian socialist. A pharmacist by degree, a rebel by decision, he blogs at http://akahnnyc.blogspot.com/
back during Vietnam war days, US tried to scare Soviet Union by showing they will use nukes on Vietnam:
http://warisboring.com/articles/when-nixon-threatened-to-nuke-vietnam/?mc_cid=eb7e88e556&mc_eid=83d96bf5c9
“If we do engage in more extensive escalation, I believe it should be aimed at the Soviet Union not Hanoi,” Kissinger wrote to his boss. “We must worry the Soviets about the possibility that we are losing our patience and may get out of control.”
Knowing that the Soviets were not looking for a fight, especially a nuclear one, Kissinger wanted to threaten a bigger war that would drag Moscow in and maybe even start World War III.
Their intention back then was the same as NATO’s today.To “fool” the Soviets that they would start WW3.NATO isn’t insane enough to destroy themselves by attacking Russia over Ukraine.But if they can make Russia believe they might, they hope to win the game.Its pure and simple buffing on their part.They knew the worse case scenario was the break-up of Ukraine when they destabilized the country.And they accepted the risk,knowing if it happened they would be forced to accept it.Its the Russian response (or lack of a strong reaction) that is giving NATO the hope their buff can work.So far the bravery of the peoples of Novorossia.The answering the call of arms among Russian volunteers .And most especially,the incompetence of the junta in Kiev, that has so far saved Russia and Donbass from defeat or the need for actual Russian intervention.And has spoiled NATO’s trickery.
Then they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Kissinger.
It set the standard for war mongers.
Then they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama so he feels free to personally pick the targets for Drone Strikes, to bomb and destroy any country someone suggests ought to be broken into pieces, like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Syria.
The insane and megalomaniacal have been and are in power.
War is peace… Nobel War Price = Nobel PeacePrice = NATO Peace Price….
I hope my drift is clear…
Cheers :-)
Update: ‘IMF Debt Slavery is Freedom’; ‘War is Peace’ and ‘Ignorance is Strength’ both stay the same.
By order of the Ministry of Truth
That bastard nixon also threatened to nuke India & tried to attack it with england when the Su-7 Mig-21 combo decimated their pakistani armor.
Russian subs in bay of bengal ended it:
http://www.defencenews.in/defence-news-internal.aspx?id=2$$3/ZDbdMJQ=
Very good article.He basically has said everything I’ve seen over these last years.
“Why can’t we just get along?” — Rodney King
Well, evidently we cannot. Too bad for us.
I suppose some will think I’m a Harpy (greek strange ‘gods’ of conscience) but I want to say this…again…
The reason things have not moved forward is that the truth of 9/11 remains only half true.
Dr. Judy Wood has a book that all serious and intelligent people should have. Her website is also good, but like anything good, takes some time to ‘get into’.
Where Did the Towers Go ? that’s the name of her book and her website.
If truth is really on ‘our side’ then we must seek the truth. And when enough of us truth seekers find it, then the Spirit of Truth will be a force unconquerable.
Ann on September 15, 2015 · at 5:09 am UTC said:
“And when enough of us truth seekers find it, then the Spirit of Truth will be a force unconquerable.”
If you understood the truth you probably wouldn’t be so eager to find it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil
wikipedia is a gross thing..I never use it…and sorry anon..the man/woman with no name…I’m not going to read your link…whatever it is.
The logical problem of evil:
“God exists.
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent.
An omnibenevolent being would want to prevent all evils.
An omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come into existence, and knows every way in which those evils could be prevented.
An omnipotent being has the power to prevent that evil from coming into existence.
A being who knows every way in which an evil can come into existence, who is able to prevent that evil from coming into existence, and who wants to do so, would prevent the existence of that evil.
If there exists an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God, then no evil exists.
Evil exists (logical contradiction).”
and a further discussion on the evidential problem of evil http://www.iep.utm.edu/evil-evi/
Here’s some nutjob’s strongest refutation of the logical problem http://americanvision.org/7989/epicurus-problem-of-evil/
“If God is God, then evil is not defined merely as a bunch of bad actions “out there”, but rather as “anything and everything which is opposite of God.” Now if this is the case, then what this means – amongst many other things – is that Epicurus’ riddle itself falls into the category of evil. I doubt very much whether this possibility actually crossed his mind when he wrote it, but if evil is defined by God as being that which is opposite to him, then Epicurus is guilty of that very thing in even proposing his conundrum. In which case, his only legitimate questions would be these: why doesn’t God come and strike me down for even daring to state such a thing? Why doesn’t he come and deal with my evil?”
At least that guy doesn’t believe in the bondage of the will, apologies to quote from your favourite once more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Bondage_of_the_Will:
“Luther in response maintained that sin incapacitates human beings from working out their own salvation, and that they are completely incapable of bringing themselves to God. As such, there is no free will for humanity because any will they might have is overwhelmed by the influence of sin. Central to his analysis, both of the doctrines under discussion and of Erasmus’s specific arguments, are Luther’s beliefs concerning the power and complete sovereignty of God.”
http://www.truecovenanter.com/truelutheran/luther_bow.html
ББС призвание! ББС призвание!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/bbc-to-face-down-vladimir-putin-with-plan-for-new-world-service-russian-tv-channel-10487565.html
Don’t you just love this line:
“The BBC believes it has a vital role in upholding global democracy through the delivery of impartial and accurate news, as a counterweight to state-backed broadcasters….”
Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha! Splendid comedy; best laugh of the day -where’s Monty Python and the BBC Inquisition?
Big Brother’s Ministry of Truth had nothing on the BBC, particularly lacking the Beeb’s lip-curling arrogance, self-delusion and condescension. I nominate the plum-voiced Bridget Kendall as the epitome of BBC presumption, but it was a neck and neck race with a large field.
As I recall the BBC gets funding from the British government? So what would they be complaining about,themselves?
Uncle Bob 1,
I heard part of BBC’s funding comes from a source morally superior to being state-funded: the PENTAGON!
I wouldn’t doubt that.They certainly wouldn’t be the only one to share in the “abundance” provided by the US taxpayer.
British Bloody Crackpots committed 100% to ‘European values’. OK, fine. If spouting anti-Russian drivel and throwing tantrums against Putin is the “vital role” to be played here, it might well be worth a try with the Ukronazis. Like draws to like.
like your BBC, though I personally prefer Bloody British Crackpots!
BBC = Brit Bollix Corporation
Just watched this very powerful interview full of insight, intelligence and love, thought I might share.
Adrian Salbuchi & David Duke on Argentina TV
What an amazing piece of writing. As a writer, I must salute the author. This is an incredibly difficult thing to write, and it’s faultless from beginning to end. Surely, it comes straight from a heart filled with the passion to live and bear witness even though despair is all around. It comes as a new Howl. It should almost be in verse.
Who is Andrew Kahn? How can he write such a masterful, black paean to the age? Saker, thanks for the link to his blog – someone to read, I reckon. He wrote the song of our time.
Bastards change sides, and nothing changes as everything is made to change.
But the very most important fact about 9/11 is that our killers on 9/11 were NOT middle-easterners. They were a rogue element of our own US govt, aided by some Israeli hirelings.
Webster Tarpley’s online free book informs about false flags generally and 9-11 in particular. http://bestfree.bookrix.website/download-ebook/235161.9_11_Synthetic_Terror.html
A little-known aspect of 9-11 is that elements of a coup were commited on that day and remain in force today. Peter Dale Scott & Continuity of Govt interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ7tVb5rskE
There are many Peter Dale Scott interviews on the net, especially about Continuity of Govt.
I haven’t had time to read all the comments. But the article contains not one mention of Israel, AIPAC, the Neocons etc. Since the Manhattan Project, if not before, certain members of the organised Jewish comminity have exerted a malign influence, disproportionate to their numbers, on US foreign and domestic policy. Could Mr Kahn be another gatekeeper, in the style of Noah Chomsky and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now ? You are all doubtless familiar with Gilad Atzmon’s seminal work (Cf. infra). Less well known is Laurent Guyénot who, among others, including the late Michael Collins Piper, also provides us with some first rate pointers.
The Wandering Who ? Gilad Atzmon Paperback Zero Books ©2011
Israel, the psychopathic nation Is Zionism a collective personality disorder? By Dr. Laurent Guyénot, translated and introduced by Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor February 3, 2015 http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/02/03/psycho-israel/.
JFK-9/11: 50 Years of Deep State Laurent Guyénot Paperback © 2014
Laurent Guyénot Engineer (National School of Advanced Technology, 1982) and medievalist (PhD in Medieval Studies at Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2009). He has authored numerous books on the subject. He has dedicated the past three years to studying the behind-the-scenes history of the United States, where he lived for five years. 12 articles http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125605.html?lang=en.
FINAL JUDGMENT : The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy by Michael Collins Piper ©1994. Sixth edition, second printing, published in 2005. kindly made available by America First Books as an ebook http://www.amfirstbooks.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=17
Most important or not, the most astonishing fact about 9/11 is that the perpetrators walked away scot-free. Imagine, murdering 3000 civilians live on TV while wreaking destruction on the world’s greatest financial and military centers, knowing full well that your victims’ government, and indeed all the world’s governments and media, will go into a full court press to protect your identity.
Now that’s absolute impunity, and as close to absolute power as one gets in the nuclear age. No wonder they thought themselves invincible…
Erebus on September 15, 2015 · at 11:49 am UTC said:
“No wonder they thought themselves invincible…”
You put it very well. The rot will be hard to stop.
Erebus,
“Impunity” is the right word. We didn’t stop them after they killed a sitting president, so their group and its hands-on implementers continued to grow.
The link I supplied of Peter Dale Scott was not the best. I’ll have to look for better ones. I remember his showing that some of the same individuals who showed up around the Kennedy assassination showed up at other deep events. Creepy seeing the same individuals show up again & again.
Also there’s a very good interview of his where he explains in great detail about Cheney’s movements on 9-11 & the detail he supplied about Continuity of Govt was among the most shocking things I’ve ever heard.
The State of Emergency that was declared after 9-11 he says is still being renewed by Congress, and under it the Constitution is suspended! If it were anyone other than Peter Dale Scott I wd be tempted to dismiss such a report.
Anonymous, thank you for the links. You are adding to my reading list.
Peter Dale Scott’s most recent book – The American Deep State – is an excellent summary of his work on Continuity of Government and deep state provocations. He also has a personal web site which has links to many of his online articles.
http://www.peterdalescott.net/q.html
Twenty years ago, Scott was mocked and sneered at by establishment media organs who today use the term “deep state” without hesitation.
False Flags For Dummies:
The single most important factor is MEDIA CONTROL. And as far as the Western World is concerned, the control of media has been in Zionist hands for the last 100+ years.
If you don’t control the media, don’t even bother. Because what is a false flag good for, if nobody ever hears about it? Or the media has the power to spin it against your intention? Get it?
That is all you need to know about 9/11 all other false flags since then (Charlie Hebdo, Kiev putch, Sandy Hook, ISIS beheadings, Boston Bombing and hundreds more):
They are all done by a) Zionist agencies or b) by anyone as long they go along with the Zionist agenda. That’s it.
There is a very interesting Italian documentary here:
http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=167
Warning: it is 5 hours long in 3 segments, but truly comprehensive in its research into the false flag attack and how it was carried out. No rational person who has watched this video would believe the official story about 19 Saudi’s taking orders from a guy in a cave in Afghanistan organizing or carrying out the attack. It took the top levels of the US government, intelligence agencies, and military to organize all the pieces that had to be in place for this to succeed. Bin Laden didn’t arrange for the entire US air force to be “out of town” that day, or for multiple simultaneous fake hijacking exercises to confuse the air traffic controllers, or to divert the only two remaining fighter jets near Washington out to sea while whatever hit the Pentagon came in from the west, etc.
Tower 3 wasn’t hit by any aircraft or significant debris, but magically fell down, taking with it all the records of the branch of govt that investigates corporate crime, like the Enron scandal that was zeroing in on Bush. And so forth. There are more layers of intertwined crime involved in the 9/11 false flag than an onion. It was contrived to give the Bush illegitimate Presidency credibility, enable the attacks on Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, and make a lot of money for crooked insiders like Larry Silverstein.
If you have the time, watch all three segments and inform yourself. Also watch Loose Change: http://www.loosechange911.com/
By the way, speaking of false flags, what became of the MH17 inquiry?
pending–but this was interesting
re lack of evidence from autopsies for various reasons including? coverup? incompetence?which might help solve the riddle……..
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/breaking-scoop-mh17-dutch-prepare-missile-attack-moscow/ri9711
The author seems captured by the myth of 911. The perpetrators were who the hegemon says they were. Anyone who possesses rudimentary analytical skills knows the main stream narrative was conjured by the maniacs who lead. Why is it so easy for some to recognize the scam? It’s the passport. Lying there, out in the open amongst the rubble of two, make that three skyscrapers. Miraculous.
I just recently saw a “truther” documentary on the 9/11 WTC attack. I had been avoiding watching any “truther” video for many years, thinking that these people were just being contrarian. (This explains why I’m a late-comer in these matters.)
https://youtu.be/tKvJValLcXg
Anyway, IF indeed the WTC buildings were covertly demolished by military-grade thermite, rather than wholly destroyed by terrorists, then Al-Qaeda likely could not have had any hand at all with 9/11. But rather, it was used as a convenient scapegoat, perhaps even with the terrorist organizations’s complicity behind it.
This could explain why, especially in recent times, we hear and/or read about these dark organizations being under the umbrella of US military campaign against Bashar al-Assad; even functioning as a US attack dog. It could be that, even in these present times, as it was then, Al-Qaeda (and now the IS) is still being used covertly as a means to achieve an end.
In fact, if my reasoning may be permitted to venture further, present US collusion MAY even, partially or wholly, validate Al-Qaeda’s guiltlessness in the destruction of the towers.
Yes I know that my reasoning appears INSANELY insane, but this is just an ad-lib, off-hand musing of mine.
And oh, talking about offhand musings, how is it that people from various countries can find their way to ISIS, but the US military can’t? The dog is not barking?
Robert,
Thanks for considering ideas outside of your former worldview. It’s unconfortable, but sometimes necessary for growth.
If you’re interested in what you might have missed about almost any event in the past, I recommend globalresearch.ca. I constantly go there to use the internal search of their archives.
Since you mention doubts that the US is actually trying to destroy ISIS, here”s something:
8/28/15 http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-not-targeting-islamic-state-training-camps/ –Bill Gertz
The Pentagon has not conducted airstrikes against an estimated 60 Islamic State (IS) training camps that are supply a thousand fighters each month, according to defense and intelligence officials. The camps are spread throughout Islamic State-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria and are off limits in the U.S.-led international bombing campaign because of concerns about collateral damage, said officials familiar with planning and execution of the yearlong bombing campaign.
Study by Stanford Law School and New York University’s School of Law finds only 2% of airstrike casualties are Islamic terrorists.
Thanks, Penelope. I do go to Global Research sometimes, but only read what is current there. I’ll give it a try and dig deeper using their search feature. The article “The Truth Behind 9/11: Who Is Osama Bin Laden?” by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky was very interesting. This paragraph especially caught my attention:
“Al Qaeda was a creation of the CIA going back to the Soviet-Afghan war. This was a known fact, corroborated by numerous sources including official documents of the US Congress. The intelligence community had time and again acknowledged that they had indeed supported Osama bin Laden, but that in the wake of the Cold War: “he turned against us”.
I was always under the impression that Al-Qaeda was already doing nasty things long before 9/11. It was a revelation to know that they only became “bad” in the wake of 9/11. Since Al-Qaeda was on CIA payroll, who’s to say that they were not conveniently (and knowingly) set-up to be the patsy?
Robert,
I agree w you that al qaeda had nothing to do with 9/11. I agree that a demolition device brought down the two towers. How cd anyone possibly believe that being struck by an airplane cd cause the towers to collapse?
But for me the most amazing lie was the silly bit of film where we “see” an airplane strike a tower, then burrow through structural steel and concrete so that the entire airplane enters the building, leaving the imprint of fuselage and wings upon the building’s exterior. Neither wings nor engine fall off. Quite impossible.
Early pictures at the Pentagon show the hole to be far, far too small to accommodate a plane. Afterward, 4 men were photographed carrying out a covered object the size of a small missile, and there were a few metal fragments strewn around outside. The rest of the plane was never brought out: We were told it just disintegrated!
People who are awake as to the impossibility of 9/11 having happened as we have been told are often contemptuous of the American people for believing the lies. I’m not so certain they do believe them. About half doubt the official version in spite of the tremendous propaganda:
http://rethink911.org/news/new-poll-finds-most-americans-open-to-alternative-911-theories/
I’m glad you’ve joined us. I must tell you that the treatment of almost every substantive issue in the corporate media is full of lies.
Your question, “how is it that people from various countries can find their way to ISIS, but the US military can’t?” Here’s somebody on your wavelength, asking the very same question.
http://sputniknews.com/radio_connecting_the_pieces/20150911/1026881635.html
Thanks, Anonymous. I’m very new to this topic, and it’s nice to hear info pertaining to the matter.
Know what? I still can’t believe that people could be so evil as to commit such an atrociously unwarranted act. But the evidence is really so overwhelming. It is so overwhelming, that in order for me to go back to the official story, I’d have to really try hard to fool myself.
To date, the cause of millions (and counting) of death originates from just this one false flag event. In fact, I think this must be the costliest false flag event in history in terms of lives sacrificed.
An excellent rant leaves a void of sadness and defeat.
No suggestion for resistance.
Take another shot of Jameson for the pain.
May be quite realistic.
But Anarchists are not realists.
We of the Anarchist Collective spit at reality while we breathe.
This is our program in the USA.
1. Restore the Republic Assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
2. Create Alternate Government (even Alternate Reality – if that is what it takes).
3. Vote for who we like. No money allowed in our campaigns.
4. The Constitution – all of it – all the amendments – especially the 2nd – will be respected, until the next generation decides to write another.
5. Legalize drugs.
6. Free all prisoners arrested for drug and alcohol related offenses.
7. Bring all American soldiers home.
8. Right to work at $15hr minimum wage – no price rises.
9. Right to an affordable place (home) to live.
10. Restore independence of the United States – end financing of Zionist entity in Tel Aviv.
For the Democratic Republics!
IMAGINE
1) I am decidedly not an anarchist which should be self-evident from the article.
2) Please check my blog where I have begun a platform for change. http://akahnnyc.blogspot.com (Check for “A Working Platform”
Andrew Kahn on September 15, 2015 · at 3:59 pm UTC
“1) I am decidedly not an anarchist”
” I have begun a platform for change.”
Congratulations,
Above are the only self-identified Anarchists within the USA. That is our 10 point advocacy.
Our political foundation is the Democratic Republic. What is yours?
Our International Anthem is IMAGINE. What is yours?
Our favorite humorist is Dieudonné. Who is yours?
We support Alan Soral’s -Equality and Reconciliation- in France and everywhere, do you?
Anarchists understand that the survival of the human spirit is the emotion that will enable us to triumph over the imperialist Oligarchs.
We are not sectarian. We do not worship property or possessions, although we respect those of others. We can cooperate with anyone who wishes cooperation.
Durruti fought to save the Spanish Republic of many flaws. Despite those flaws, that Republic resisted the fascists, Spanish Military, and world imperialists. And Durruti was there. He died in the streets of Madrid far from his home of Catalonia. The Republic asked him to come and he came, and with a thousand of his militia.
No, you are not an Anarchist. Heaven forbid!
We suggest as a resistance to the upcoming American 2016 electoral circus:
Alternate elections.
To establish – Alternate government foci.
Dual Power.
Arrest the Terrorists! And their Prostitute Politicians.
Return the $13Trillion Bailout funds stolen from the people.
Power to the People!
For the Democratic Republics!
IMAGINE
*Yes we like Ron Paul; he’s not running. We like Ralph Nader; he’s not running. We like Dennis Kucinich; he’s not running. McKinny, Ventura, we like them. Carter is 90 and ill, Sanders is a Zionist and an imperialist who voted for war appropriations for both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Clintons, the Bushes, hmm, Trump?
well, Rand Paul is running and his dad likes him…I think I’d vote for him
Ann,
Visited Rand Paul’s DC office & signed his ledger & left a friendly message. If Rand Paul ran an Alternate Government election campaign (which he won’t) I, and the AC would support him.
The days of the so-called 3rd Party effort, or the 1 dimensional – Oligarch approved so-called ‘2 party’ electoral farce are also over for us.
Yes, we like Senator Rand Paul. How can anyone not like the son of Ron Paul? And how can Ron Paul not like his own son? We can even overlook Rand Paul’s trip to occupied Palestine and his donning of a Yarmulka, and his praying at the ‘Wailing Wall’ for the media TV cameras.
As I can overlook the Saker’s not choosing me to write the Rebuttal to Catire (which I volunteered to do – after The Saker complained that no one had volunteered to do the job). He has awarded the high paying job to Kahn (the man who is no Anarchist).
I will now enter my private sanctuary and proceed to suck my thumb.
Your admirer,
Peter
Sanders revealed himself, for me, utterly and comprehensively, when he called Hugo Chavez, ‘..a dead Communist dictator’. Yet another utter phony, like scores of others.
maybe for americans a lot hasn’t changed, but the world has changed nd i has changed very negatively for the way that america is viewed from abroad. I am afraid the rose tinted spectacle, and the idea f the ‘cavalry’ coming to the rescue is over for most. Its strange, I watched a documentary on TV te other night and it struck me just how much HAS changed. 2001 was such a pivotal year when you look back, the crash, the decline in the US economy, the utter stagnation of europe, the utter destruction of the middle east, the millions dead and dying at the hands of NATO/US/UK that has brought untold hatred upon their heads .. and just plain puzzlement s to how ‘big friendly america’ has changed into a cyclops, rampaging monster. The fact is they haven’t become anything, they always where that monster, thanks to the internet we all know the truth about that nowadays.In comparison you look to the east at a thriving (for the most part) China, even a Russia with sanctions is doing well and a multipolar eastern concept of the world looks like the future as the west dissolves into financial dictatorship, discontent and stupidity. The world has changed a helluva lot,maybe not for the willingly dumb (of any nationality) they will always be that, the dumb, naive pawns of the elites. More than anything the idea becoming embedded in our minds that there are the 99% and the 1%. and that the latter do not deserve and have not earned their status is becoming a force to be reckoned with. We have seen in the last 14 years the beginning of the decline of western powers and their decent into a hell of their own making which could easily culminate in nuclear catastrophe at the behest of the Dr Strangeloves of US/NATO idiocy. War is money and why talk peace when you can make war eh?
I understand your points however I feel that in the grand scheme of history – which is what I was trying to point out – little has changed and if anything the changes which you do point out regarding the decline of Western power is more related to the decline of capitalism and the rise of other forms of power – quasi-socialist in the form of China or outright socialist in the form of Latin America’s ALBA.
I think my point – which I hope was somewhat clear – is that things have changed in the sense of families being massacred and peoples’ lives being uprooted but when one thinks historically, this aspect is a result of imperialism and definitely nothing new.
I thank you for taking the time to read my article and commenting! Much appreciated!
It may be a point worth repeating that “Capitalism”, “Socialism”, “Terrorism” or “Fascism” are but tools of Power. The authorities in 1984 understood this well and eschewed all “-isms”, using them in turn to maintain the only thing they were interested in, maintaining power. So it is with all power centers, and so it was with Washington after 9/11. To view geo-power-politics through the “-ism” lens is to miss this lesson.
The disturbance in the world’s Power Calculus stems from a gross error on the part of the world’s primary Power (the USA). The USA’s myopic, ignorant hubris, exemplified by GrandmaR’s Karl Rove quote below @9:37 pm UTC, has driven it into a corner. Instead of grasping that final ring of absolute Global Power, it finds itself stumbling, outwitted and outmaneuvered in an incomprehensible reality created by power centers it had taken for subordinates.
Its allies, vassals and rivals have noticed, and are positioning themselves for this new reality according to their lights while the USA, from its elites to its common folk, blunders forward in increasingly solipsistic delusion.
This won’t end well. Soon, things will change in the US in ways that are almost unimaginable today.
This is a great piece. Really enjoyed reading it and agree with every word.
Much appreciated! Thank you for taking the time to read my article!
I saw an article the other day that confirms for me something I’ve always believed.The Empire used to at least be truthful with themselves.No less evil,but newer at it.Just they weren’t so blinded by total hubris that they needed to lie to “themselves” as well as all of us.In 1948 the CIA put out a paper on what the US should do if they went to war with the USSR and won it.How they would deal with Russia.Now most of it of course was wishful thinking.But the section dealing with Ukraine is the interesting part for us.Here are the important highlights for you.
“CIA in 1948: Ukraine is inseparable from Russia and incapable of independence”
While the Ukrainians have been an important and specific element in the Russian empire,
they have shown no signs of being a “nation” capable of bearing successfully the responsibilities of independence in the face of great Russian opposition.
The Ukraine is not a clearly defined ethnical or geographic concept.
In general, the Ukrainian population made up of originally in large measure out of refugees from Russian or Polish despotism shades off imperceptibly into the Russian or Polish nationalities.
There is no clear dividing line between Russia and the Ukraine, and it would be impossible to establish one.
The cities in Ukrainian territory have been predominantly Russian and Jewish.
The real basis of “Ukrainianism” is the feeling of “difference” produced by a specific peasant dialect and by minor differences of custom and folklore throughout the country districts.
The political agitation on the surface is largely the work of a few romantic intellectuals, who have little concept of the responsibilities of government.
The economy of the Ukraine is inextricably intertwined with that of Russia as a whole.
There has never been any economic separation since the territory was conquered from the nomadic Tatars and developed for purposes of a sedentary population.
To attempt to carve it out of the Russian economy and to set it up as something separate would be as artificial and as destructive as an attempt to separate the Corn Belt, including the Great Lakes industrial area, from the economy of the United States.
Furthermore, the people who speak the Ukrainian dialect have been split, like those who speak the White Russian dialect, by a division which in eastern Europe has always been the real mark of nationality: namely, religion- if any real border can be drawn in the Ukraine, it should logically be the border between the areas which traditionally give religious allegiance to the Eastern Church and those which give it to the Church of Rome.
Finally, we cannot be indifferent to the feelings of the Great Russians themselves. They were the strongest national element in the Russian Empire, as they now are in the Soviet Union. They will continue to be the strongest national element in that general area, under any status. Any long-term U.S. policy must be based on their acceptance and their cooperation. The Ukrainian territory is as much a part of their national heritage as the Middle West is of ours, and they are conscious of that fact. A solution which attempts to separate the Ukraine entirely from the rest of Russia is bound TO incur their resentment and opposition, and can be maintained, in the last analysis, only by force.
There is a reasonable chance that the Great Russians could be induced to tolerate the renewed independence of the Baltic states. They tolerated the freedom of those territories from Russian rule for long periods in the past; and they recognize, subconsciously if not otherwise, that the respective peoples are capable of independence. With respect to the Ukrainians, things are different. They are too close to the Russians to be able to set themselves up successfully as something wholly different. For better or for worse, they will have to work out their destiny in some sort of special relationship to the Great Russian people.
It seems clear that this relationship can be at best a federal one, under which the Ukraine would enjoy a considerable measure of political and cultural autonomy but would not be economically or militarily independent. Such a relationship would be entirely just to the requirements of the Great Russians themselves, it would seem, therefore, to be along these lines that U.S. objectives with respect to the Ukraine should be framed.
It should be noted that this question has far more than just a distant future significance. Ukrainian and Great Russian elements among the Russian emigre-opposition groups are already competing vigorously for U.S. support. The manner in which we receive their competing claims may have an important influence on the development and success of the movement for political freedom among the Russians. It is essential, therefore, that we make our decision now and adhere to it consistently. And that decision should be neither a pro-Russian one nor a pro-Ukrainian one, but one which recognizes the historical geographic and economic realities involved and seeks for the Ukrainians a decent and acceptable place in the family of the traditional Russian Empire, of which they form an inextricable part.
It should be added that while, as stated above, we would not deliberately encourage Ukrainian separatism, nevertheless if an independent regime were to come into being on the territory of the Ukraine through no doing of ours, we should not oppose it outright. To do so would be to undertake an undesirable responsibility for internal Russian developments. Such a regime would be bound to be challenged eventually from the Russian side.
If it were to maintain itself successfully, that would be proof that the above analysis was wrong and that the Ukraine does have the capacity for, and the moral right to, independent status.
Our policy in the first instance should be to maintain an outward neutrality, as long as our own interests—military or otherwise—were not immediately affected. And only if it became clear that an undesirable deadlock was developing, we would encourage a composing of the differences along the lines of a reasonable federalism. The same would apply to any other efforts at the achievement of an independent status on the part of other Russian minorities.
It is not likely that any of the other minorities could successfully maintain real independence for any length of time.
However, should they attempt it (and it is quite possible that the Caucasian minorities would do this), our attitude should be the same as in the case of the Ukraine. We should be careful not to place ourselves in a position of open opposition to such attempts, which would cause us to lose permanently the sympathy of the minority in question. On the other hand, we should not commit ourselves to their support to a line of action which in the long run could probably be maintained only with our military assistance.
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/09/cia-in-1948-ukraine-is-inseparable-from.html
(Side note: So once again as I’ve said before.The US and NATO are buffing in Ukraine.They know they won’t get into a war over Ukraine.They have over many years (1948-2009) done studies,reports,and war gaming.They know it would be a disaster for them to do that.But as long as their actions can stop Russia from toppling the junta they will play the game.If/when the junta is toppled they will know their bluff got called and will back off.But until that happens this mess will continue.)
It would be interesting to read this same type of analysis as applied to the greatest empire of them all, the American Empire.
Given that the “United” States of America is nothing more than an Anglo colonizer empire based upon the land theft of an entire continent and the subjugation of various nations within–Native Indian, Hawaiian, Mexican–the USA itself should be subject to “empire-oppoistion” within its own fictional borders.
What does around comes around.
And you reap what you sow.
America will learn this reality teh hard way.
34 and counting, State Secession movement gathers steam
http://www.greeleygazette.com/press/?p=21523
There is a real possibility that in the event of a total economic or military collapse some parts of the US would declare independence.Hawaii and Alaska I think would certainly try it.As well as parts or all of the South.And maybe parts or all of the Southwest.Maybe even the New England region.But it will take those collapses and possibly a race war breaking out (the US is a tinder-box on that score) to make that happen.But just like with maidan and Novorossia.Once it starts,it could very well succeed.It would certainly be the smartest move for the US to stop trying to dominate the World.And put their attention towards saving the US.But I don’t see the system being smart enough to understand that.
Regarding 911, I embrace wholeheartedly the following submission by Fightback after the attacks:
“We do not mourn, but welcome, the death of any workers at the Pentagon or any bankers at the World Trade Center; they have killed many times over before in their careers. Those cleaners, waiters, cooks and technicians who died were a tragic loss in a war that sees many millions of ordinary, innocent people die every year. The war against oppression will continue and many more will fall before its completion.”
And erstwhile World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer was even more blunt:
“This is all wonderful news. It’s time for the ****ing US to get their heads kicked in. It’s time to finish off the US once and for all. (…) This just shows you that what goes around comes around, even for the United States”
Given the Pindos’ passionate yearning for instant, unlimited death and destruction, the interpretation of 911 as a false-flag — courtesy of the Pindostani Government — becomes quite interesting. If correct, none less than good ol’ GWB gave his ‘Exceptional Nation’ a treatment that in the eyes of most people worldwide was ironically appropriate.
We live in intersting times. There is a lot of smellovision activity going.
The little boy found dead on the beach. There was something odd about the placement of the body. There was no sign of water movement displacing sand close to the body as might be expected for water draining downwards. The was also no sign of disordered arrangement of the limbs as would happen with water flowing around the body as the waves moved back and forth. This suggests the body was photographed very shortly after it was deposited on the beach by the incoming tide, which was also still at same level at the time of the photograph. Why does it seem fishy? Well what do you know. The body was originally found elsewhere and placed on the sand for a more photogenic shot in the western MSM.
More recently there was the typical FEMEN stunt at some Islamic meeting in France. Given past behaviour of this crowd, the presence of FEMEN has the smell of an AnglioZionist action. The two apparently entered the meeting disguised under burqas. Shame about the dead giveaway western style black military boots at least one of them was wearing. They then used to timeworn strategy of flashing breasts. In France and probably most of western Europe this would be ‘yawn, not again’. However it would guarantee mass exposure in the prurient US media (see ZH for the ZH’s fawning over photogenic semi-naked ‘libtards’ in contrast to the usual hatred). There are then unmaned sources supporting the anti-women viewpoint of the meeting. Someone in the crowd apparently also supporting it, apparently speaking English (unless the FEMENistas have developed very good Arabic) triggering FEMEN’s actions. Finally someone conventiently there to film the action in an otherwise obscure meeting.
So why now? Without FEMEN, the meeting would have passed unoticed. Will the protest cause the hardcore muslims to change their minds? Not very likely. So the intent appears to be further stirring up of hatred of Muslims in a western audience.
What story is being hidden under this act? A good question. By some strange coincidence, Israel has started its action to clear the al-Asqa mosque in Jerusalem. The intent appears to carve off half or more for Jewish religious nutcases. Similar clearance in at a mosque Hebron has possibly served as a test bed.
Is this start of the end game to make Jerusalem a purely Jewish city? Any followup actions damaging, destroying or sealing off the al Asqa mosque will start a mass wave of anger amongst Muslims. If Israel really is going follow up and make Jerusalem purely Jewish, it is going to need some massive false flag to deflect western opposition and outrage from it onto the Arabs/Muslims. We already have masses of Muslims suddenly descending on Europe for no aparent reason (according to superficial western MSM) stirring up fear and hatred there. These people have apparently been living in well-supplied refugee camps in Turkey for years and all of a sudden the funding stops. We have the (AngloZionist trained, supplied and aided) ISIS butchers on the loose (the western MSM blaming Putin) in Syria and possibly within the refugees/migrants moving northwards. Is the stage being set?
MH17 served as a distraction for the massive ground invasion and slaughter in Operation Protective Edge against Gaza. Chemical weapons have been unsuccessfully used as false flag acts against Assad in Syria. What next? A dirty bomb? If so, the likely fall guy would be Iran. Maybe some biological disaster – Ebola found in the refugees perhaps?
Sometimes, this just has to be said again:
The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore.” He continued “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
— Ron Suskind, NY Times Magazine (quoting Karl Rove)
I highly recommend reading this entire collection of Karl Rove quotes:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Rove
We are left to study what they do, and indeed we do.
Dear Anonymous on September 15, 2015 · at 4:37 pm UTC who wrote :
“The little boy found dead on the beach. There was something odd about the placement of the body. There was no sign of water movement displacing sand close to the body as might be expected for water draining downwards. The was also no sign of disordered arrangement of the limbs as would happen with water flowing around the body as the waves moved back and forth. This suggests the body was photographed very shortly after it was deposited on the beach by the incoming tide, which was also still at same level at the time of the photograph. Why does it seem fishy? Well what do you know. The body was originally found elsewhere and placed on the sand for a more photogenic shot in the western MSM …”.
FYI and for other Saker readers : This is from commentary (with pictures) on an Oceania Saker article (Cf. ilinks infra) tal September 10, 2015 at 9:30 am
Just found this link in a comment on hat4uk. The child’s body was repositioned for a more photogenic presentation : http://english.farsnews.com/imgrep.aspx?nn=13940617001240
Source : http://www.vineyardsaker.co.nz/2015/09/09/the-phony-refugee-crisis-by-thierry-meyssan/#comments
The phony “Refugee Crisis”, by Thierry Meyssan September 9, 2015 Augmented Ether 5 Comments
Original source: Voltaire Network http://www.voltairenet.org/article188623.html
The phoney « refugee crisis » by Thierry Meyssan 7 September 2015
9/11 was a Mossad job.
14 years later, the Western world is still in complete denial about it.
And pays a heavy price for it – by disintegrating and falling apart ever since.
An unbelievable farce that has no parallel in human history!
Dear Zweisten … Following to my previous post :
I have now had time to read the comments. The article by Andre Kahn contains not one mention of Israel, AIPAC, the Neocons etc. Since the Manhattan Project, if not before, certain members of the organised Jewish comminity have exerted a malign influence, disproportionate to their numbers, on US foreign and domestic policy. Could Mr Kahn be another gatekeeper, in the style of Noah Chomsky and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now ? You are all doubtless familiar with Gilad Atzmon’s seminal work. Less well known is Laurent Guyénot who, among others, including the late Michael Collins Piper, provides us with some first rate pointers.
The Wandering Who ? Gilad Atzmon Paperback Zero Books ©2011
Israel, the psychopathic nation Is Zionism a collective personality disorder? By Dr. Laurent Guyénot, translated and introduced by Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor February 3, 2015
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/02/03/psycho-israel/.
JFK-9/11: 50 Years of Deep State Laurent Guyénot Paperback © 2014
Laurent Guyénot Engineer (National School of Advanced Technology, 1982) and medievalist (PhD in Medieval Studies at Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2009). He has authored numerous books on the subject. He has dedicated the past three years to studying the behind-the-scenes history of the United States, where he lived for five years. 12 articles http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125605.html?lang=en.
FINAL JUDGMENT The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy by Michael Collins Piper ©1994. Sixth edition, second printing, published in 2005. kindly made available by America First Books as an ebook http://www.amfirstbooks.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=17.