Syria: ''Iraq 2.0, another false-flag invasion, rated XXX'

From Voice of Russia
By John Robles

''The US and NATO are set to invade Syria, something many of us have been warning about for a while now. It has been obvious that they have been looking for a pretext and that pretext has already been injected into the public debate. That pretext: chemical weapons, revealed by Fox News and the Director of the CIA, the same two sources that brought us all of the Iraq invasion lies.''

''Sadly no matter how questionable or fabricated the pretext is, it appears that there is nothing we can do except sit back and watch the US and its surrogates invade and decimate yet another nation.''

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''Russia says West pushing democracy with "iron and blood"

From Reuters

''Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Western states on Saturday of trying to advance democracy abroad through "iron and blood", defending Moscow's refusal to join nations seeking the exit of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Echoing comments made by Vladimir Putin, Lavrov made his sharply-worded address to a foreign and defense policy council meeting two days before the Russian president travels to Turkey where the war in Syria is expected to dominate talks.''

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''British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg''

its no wonder the Queen is the largest landowner in the world...........From The Telegraph

''A new study has found that at various times the British have invaded almost 90 per cent of the countries around the globe.

The analysis of the histories of the almost 200 countries in the world found only 22 which have never experienced an invasion by the British.''

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''A Leninist critique of Western humanitarian imperialism''

From 'There are no Sunglasses'

''We are living dangerous yet moral times, for a few hundreds of arrogant and powerful men (call them Bilderbergs, Illuminati, Trilateralists) have decided to rule the World together in the name of “the commerce and the imaginative”, as put Cecil Rhodes, the founder of the first version of the NWO which opened first modern concentration camps for the Boers’ families 111 years ago.''

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''American Imperialism''

From 'There are no Sunglasses'
By Aaron Kroeber

''For a country based on republicanism and certain democratic principles, it is odd that we seem to ignore the fact that no one elected us as the world’s policeman. We carry out many of our operations under the auspices of NATO, or (though increasingly rarely) with the permission of the UN Security Council, but neither is a globally representative organization, neither is elected democratically. We have endowed ourselves with universal jurisdiction in ‘liberation’ where we see fit and the right to decide how other nations should be ruled. Democracy is important in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Egypt, in Libya, and in Syria, but only if they elect people we approve of, and it certainly isn’t important in Saudi Arabia. It isn’t our job to dictate democracy to other countries, and it certainly shouldn’t be our job to bomb.''

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''Imperialists prepare for war in Mali''

From 'There are no Sunglasses'

''Western imperialist states, with the support of the United Nations Security Council, are preparing for a full-scale military intervention in the West African state of Mali. Since March, the country has been in a severe political crisis after a military coup and its effective partitioning into north and south.''

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''Toward Barbarism: US Imperialism Unleashed''

From 'There are no Sunglasses'

''The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization.

Rosa Luxemburg, The Junius Pamphlet

With signs of a global economic downturn mounting, US aggression across the Middle East and North Africa ratchets up.  And once again, US imperialism stands poised to swing open the gates of Hell.

The choice presently confronting humanity, then, is one between imperialism on the one hand, and the struggle against imperialism on the other.  It’s a choice of socialism or barbarism.''

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''U.S. Militarism In Africa: Humanitarian Missions Or Imperialist Aggression?''

From Strategic Culture

''With specific reference to Africa, the U.S. government after World War II paid lip service to the anti-colonial struggle, but in actuality supported the perpetuation of the status-quo. Although relationships between the U.S. administration and progressive African states were established in Ghana, Guinea, Algeria, Egypt, Tanzania and others, nonetheless, it became obvious even during the 1950s and 1960s, and was documented later, that successive Washington administrations were more concerned about containing Soviet, Chinese and Cuban influence than assisting a genuine process of de-colonization and independence.''

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''The Eagle Has Crash Landed–Pax Americana is over''

From Immanuel Wallerstein via 'There are no Sunglasses'

''The United States in decline? Few people today would believe this assertion. The only ones who do are the U.S. hawks, who argue vociferously for policies to reverse the decline. This belief that the end of U.S. hegemony has already begun does not follow from the vulnerability that became apparent to all on September 11, 2001. In fact, the United States has been fading as a global power since the 1970s, and the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks has merely accelerated this decline. To understand why the so-called Pax Americana is on the wane requires examining the geopolitics of the 20th century, particularly of the century’s final three decades. This exercise uncovers a simple and inescapable conclusion: The economic, political, and military factors that contributed to U.S. hegemony are the same factors that will inexorably produce the coming U.S. decline.''

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''End of US hegemony brings need for fresh economic thinking''

From QFINANCE
By Ian Fraser

''As global economic power ebbs from the West to the more solvent emerging economies of the East, conventional economic wisdom is being turned on its head.

In a research note published last month (“The End of the Post-war Era -- Sauve qui Peut”), Andrew Smithers, founder and chairman of investment consultancy Smithers & Co, argues the post-war economic era is now well and truly over. He also argues that, if the UK and US economies are to be returned to sustainable health, they must drop outmoded economic dogma and adopt economic policies different to those being imposed by the likes of US treasury secretary Tim Geithner and UK chancellor George Osborne (and their respect central bankers Ben Bernanke and Sir Mervyn King).''

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''US imperialism in Central America''

From RedPepper

''Grace Livingstone gives an overview of overt and covert US military and intelligence interventions''

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''UKIP Nigel Farage - Channel 4 News, speaking on torture in 1950s Kenya''

From Channel 4 News

''Between Imperialism and Repression''

From New Left Project

....... ''Iran’s nuclear energy programme is not the major US concern, especially given that the CIA itself has admitted that there was no evidence that Iran was working on producing nuclear weapons. Iran is a formidable regional power, and one of the world’s largest oil producers, which happens to be implacably opposed to US and Israeli policies. Its policies run counter to US plans and have created problems for the US in Afghanistan and Iraq and for Israeli policies in Palestine and Lebanon.''

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''World War II - The Dual Struggle''

From New Left Project

''Churchill was always very clear that his mission in the war was to defend the British empire, not promote the interests of ordinary citizens. He was not ideologically committed to destroy fascism. He made statements such as the following when he met Mussolini in 1927: ‘If I had been an Italian I would have been with you from the start in your struggle against the bestial passions of Leninism’. During the Spanish civil war he backed Franco (whose survival depended on Hitler and Mussolini’s massive material support), and afterwards he defended Franco when some argued that his regime was the unfinished business of WWII. Churchill also backed the Japanese invasion of Manchuria before the war.''

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'Americans don't share global domination policies of their leaders'

From RT.com

''RT talks to Peter Dale Scott - former diplomat, poet and prominent anti-war advocate. He says that the US corporate superstructure conglomerate - including financial interests, the defense industry, oil companies and the media - brazenly manipulate American society.''

''Imperialism didn't end. These days it's known as international law''

From Guardian


''The bid for power, oil and spheres of influence that Bush and Blair launched in Mesopotamia, using the traditional camouflage of the civilising mission; the colonial war still being fought in Afghanistan, 199 years after the Great Game began; the global policing functions the great powers have arrogated to themselves; the one-sided justice dispensed by international law. All these suggest that imperialism never ended, but merely mutated into new forms. The virtual empire knows no boundaries. Until we begin to recognise and confront it, all of us, black and white, will remain its subjects.''


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''Under Every Leaf: How Britain Played the Greater Game from Afghanistan to Africa''

Book Review From Irish Times
By William Beaver Biteback, 341pp

''EVEN CLOSE TO THE apogee of its power and influence, late in the 19th century, the British Empire was remarkably fragile and its administrators apprehensive, threatened by international colonial rivalry and weakened by the internal disagreements of ill-co-ordinated government departments.

This is an exhaustively researched history of the British intelligence department – called the intelligence division from 1888 and known as the ID of the British war office – between the Crimean War and the establishment of the modern military intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 (or the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, as they are offically known).''

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''Britain’s Misguided Shame Over Its History''

From The Trumpet

..........''the Queen’s advisers are pushing her to ditch the word “empire” from all official awards.

Why?

According to the Daily Mail, the lord lieutenants, the Queen’s most trusted advisers, believe Britain’s history is something to be ashamed of. George Reid, the lord lieutenant of Clackmannanshire, for example, says there is “unease about the use of the world empire on honors awards.” David Briggs, lord lieutenant of Cheshire, adds that in 2012 it is “inappropriate” to have “an award containing empire.''

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''Right after the tragic 9/11 episode, a series of books and debates (on TV) appeared in the US and Europe trying to figure out exactly what had happened''

From Dawn

''In a series of papers and books written after 9/11, these authors (and more) explained how in a two-pronged onslaught, oil-rich Arab monarchies bankrolled a destructive Islamist narrative that, on the one hand, gave birth to violent extremist and sectarian monsters in Muslim countries, and on the other hand, raised a stream of apologists within American and European intelligentsia.

It were these apologists — bred and buttered in some of the finest educational institutions in the west, regularly and liberally funded by ‘petro-dollars’ — who played a major role in keeping western societies ignorant of a growing social and ideological threat that eventually mutated into the horrors of widespread violence perpetrated by men and women in the name of faith.''

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''Africa: Neo Colonialism Swarms Continent?''

From 'There are no Sunglasses'

''Dear reader, the crux of the matter is the hypocrisy of the West. The West has reconstructed their approach and strategies by influencing Africa’s elite responsible for economic and political issues.

They have simply refined methods for attaining the same old interests or what some can refer to as covert colonialism. Visionary leaders like Kwame Nkrumah predicted that Africa would be overtaken by new forms of colonialism. Neo-colonialism is aided by a complex web of influences and is a complicated process.''

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