AUDIO: Edward Curtin: False Flag Operations Will Start New War

Were I a Muslim rather than a Catholic would you feel so free to slag of my religious beliefs- I think not( esp given the propensity of sections of the Left- such as the Socialist Workers Party- to suck up to Islamists)!

The ascendancy of neo-conservative ideology in the west marks the most virulent, aggregate human pathology yet known; and that includes Attila the Hun and Adolf Hitler. Has there ever been such a global death cult as these guys? Ironically they mostly resemble their jihadi allies – fanatics, only suicide bombers with nukes.
They are quite literally insane and apparently labour under the delusion that they are somehow immortal, impervious to 750 kiloton Russian nukes. The only other immortals I can think of were the elite Persian units which were thrown into battle by Xerxes against the 300 Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae, but got roundly slaughtered.
But no matter, Samantha Power, Nikki Haley, John Bolton, Richard Perle, Bill Kristol and the rest of the anti-human gang will survive any conflict, or so they seem to think. The power-fantasies of the neo-cons have a number of salient characteristics. I am going to use Orwell, again.
”Every nationalist (neo-con) is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should – in which for example the Spanish Armada was a success, or the Russian revolution was crushed in 1918. Much of the propagandist writing of our own time is little more than plain forgery. Material facts are suppressed, dates altered, quotations removed from their context and/or doctored to change their meaning. Events, which it is felt, ought not to have happened are conveniently left unmentioned and ultimately denied … the nationalist (neo-con) not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not hearing about them …”
”Moreover, although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge, the nationalist (neo-con) is actually uninterested in what is actually happening in the real world. What he wants is to FEEL that his own unit is getting the better of some other unit, and he can more easily do this by scoring off an adversary than by examining the facts to see whether they support him. All nationalist (neo-con) controversy is at the debating society level. It is entirely inconclusive, since each contestant believes himself to have won the victory. Some nationalists (neo-cons) are not far from clinical schizophrenia” something of an understatement perhaps? ”living quite happilly amid dreams of power and conquest which have no connexion with the physical world.”
”Indifference to reality. All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts.” Thus Crimea was annexed but Kosovo wasn’t. At least they had a referendum in the Crimea.
”Actions are good or bad not on their merits but according to who commits them. And there is almost no kind of outrage – torture (rendition?), use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassinations, bombing of civilians – which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side.”
(G.Orwell Notes on Nationalism – 1945)
Yes, bombing of civilians – area bombing – was in fact a British invention whose architect was Sir Arthur (Bomber) Harris who sent his Lancasters to fire-bomb Hamburg and later Dresden resulting in aggregate 62000 German civilian deaths. Not to be outdone, chief of the USAAF Curtis Le May fire-bombed Tokyo in 1945 killing 100,000 Japanese civilians. All of which was apparently okay, and even repeated in Ramadi, Mosul, Fallujah, Kobani and Raqqa. It only becomes a detestable crime against humanity when carried out against Aleppo. But there you go.
So here we are. The totalitarian habit of mind is a ubiquitous malignant tumour on the consciousness of mankind. Whether we survive must be in the balance. As for the neo-cons, like the rest of us, they can run, but they can’t hide, even if they think they can.
NOTE:
Orwell is here using the term ‘nationalism’ very loosely. As he explains.
”By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Secondly, and this is much more important, I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good or evil and recognising no other duty from that of advancing its interests.”

A view from inside the neocon padded cell as the ground shivers to the sound of the war drums coming closer…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-new-cold-war-with-russia-no-it%e2%80%99s-worse-than-that/ar-BBKJyIE?ocid=spartandhp

This is beginning to resemble an international intelligence coup: not just against Trump, but against humanity. Now 22 countries have overcome their initial reticence, to cooperate in the biggest mass expulsion of Russian diplomats in history. In America, the reign of the military junta of the Generals seemlessly segues into the installation of the War Cabinet: with the ascension of Bolton, Pompeo, and “Torture Girl” Gina Haspel …with the fielding of the CIA Democrats yet to come in the mid-terms.
Functioning under the pretence of an ideo-cultural and economic war against the Russian Federation: this is in fact the continuation of the ideo-cultural and economic Cold War against the former Soviet Union …the same incriminations and anti-communist diabolisation have been revitalised, rebranded and reapplied. And to the same ends: the years l’entre-deux-guerres; the interegnum between Cold Wars revealed the endgame …the unregulated, rapine and unconscionable plunder of Soviet, sorry, Russian state assets. In the West’s mind: only one man stands against them; the man who pissed on their party and took Russia back into Russian hands in the early years of this century …Vladimir Putin. Make no mistake: this is personal …really personal.
The one man incarnation of greed interrupted and revenge personified is William F Browder. That he was the catalyst of the Russian sanctions regime on one side of the Atlantic: only to be on hand to push the same Magnitsky sanctions agenda here …as Russiagate 1.0 seemlessly segues into Russiagate 2.0 – the UK sequel …is not coincidence. Nor is the transatlantic role of Christopher Steele and his business partners at Orbis/Fusion GPS. But these are only the water carrier and mercenaries of the CIA/MI6 nexus and intelligence Old Boy network … in the service of supra-national power and capital.
What we have is the in plain sight development of the Westernised supra-society: which is once again coalescing around the anti-communism equivalent of Russophobia. It is as if Alexander Zinoviev was writing again today: instead of in the “Apogee of Betrayal” Yeltsin years. This elevated parasitic society is a superstructure vertically integrated into the material wealth of the nation states below. It has its own state apparatus, economy, and ideology that are sovereign above the national level. It is self-legislating; self-administering; unaccountable and post-democratic. It is not just an overclass: but the whole self-maximising system of class perpetuation and preservation. What we are seeing is the breaking of cover. Whilst we focus at the national level: the supra-societal tier converges above. The CIA/MI6 nexus are the fixers and enforcers: the lower echelons of the above which indicates the demarcation between them and us. Now we can clearly see where the apartheid segregational boundary lies.
http://zinoviev.ru/eng/suprasociety.html

Today’s announcement of the expulsion of some 100 Russian diplomatic staff under the pretext of solidarity with the UK over the Skripal affair is not just unprecedented in diplomacy but is raising tensions to a level not seen since the Cuban missile crisis. Given the theatre caught on camera in Salisbury, this event failed to be responded to according to standard practice in response to such an event for starters, there is no conclusion to be reached except this is a false flag event designed specifically to hide in the media storm Western complicity and culpability in the chemical weapons program funded and supplied by the UK/US alliance with Islamic terrorists in Syria. The 40 tons of chlorine and other chemical agents at weapons factories operated by UK funded terrorists in East Ghouta has gone unmentioned by MSM. And the fall of East Ghouta itself will have been enough to enrage The Likudist Terrorist State of Israel enough for Netanyahu to stage this event, as is it is his speciality, and given his subservient minions, May, Trump, Macron and others the script to stick to. It is no coincidence that Corbin is again smeared with anti Semitic nonsense and no coincidence that Russia, amongst others, floated the country Israel as being possibly responsible. To my knowledge this is the first time Russia has directly fingered Israel for anything substantial and it is important. East Ghouta is important in that Israeli strikes on Damascus have only really been possible with East Ghouta in “friendly Islamic hands”. The Russian supply of anti aircraft weapons and support of the Syrian Army in ridding the enclave of Al Zion is a major setback to the the Israelli goal of a Greater Israel. The question is though will the Zionist Empire attempt to engage Russia on its borders to reverse it current trend of losses?

Propaganda designed to prepare public opinion for war-including False Flag operations lose their importance when the major opposition to warmongers comes not from domestic opponents but from the designated target’s defences.
And that is now the case: it really doesn’t matter if 60% of TV viewers in the UK believe that the Skrivals were poisoned by Russian arch villains in the employ of President Putin, so long as the Kremlin is defended not by sympathisers in British living rooms but by armed force.
The era of False Flags was short lived. It lasted until Russia informed the US that, were Damascus to be bombed, its launching sites would be attacked. Mutually Assured Destruction is back.
This is not to argue that vulgar propaganda campaigns, flagrant lies and completely unsubstantiated charges will not remain part of the political landscape, merely that between the damage they do to The Establishment’s credibility-particularly among the Empire’s supporters beyond the metropoli, nobody was embarrassed more by the Skrival hysteria than Putin opponents in Russia- and their ineffectiveness in changing the military balance, they can be seen as trivialities of interest only to stupid people who seek out every opportunity they can find to defer to power. And they don’t count.
I have a constitutional aversion to optimism but it seems to me that, Israeli enthusiasm notwithstanding, chances of Iran being attacked are greatly reduced now. Indeed it strikes me as very likely that the phony “peace” plans that the US dreams of imposing on Palestine are likely to move into high gear now with the aim being to complete the Oslo process by adding the Arab League to the ranks of those who have agreed to recognise Israel. The problem is not that Palestinians are in a position to resist at the moment-they are effectively neutralised- but that the Israeli government, guided by its Jabotinskyite fascist beliefs, will find it hard to make the minimal concessions that will be required. It is a situation rather like that in South Africa when large numbers of the Nationalist Party’s supporters opposed the concessions implicit in the Apartheid system, refusing to go along with the establishment of Bantustans.
The famous Abba Eban aphorism “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity” was a classic piece of projection. Israel has had opportunity after opportunity to make peace on favourable terms it has refused to change its founding belief, however, that peace with the people it has treated so badly is impossible.