{"id":106276,"date":"2018-10-18T10:02:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=106276"},"modified":"2018-10-18T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:05:35","slug":"106276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=106276","title":{"rendered":"April 14th Bombing of Syria Evidence Points to a U.S. War Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Did US and Allies Commit War Crime by Bombing Syria on April 14th?<\/h1>\n

by Eric Zeusse<\/p>\n

INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bombardment (or other military invasion) of a country that has not invaded nor threatened to invade the attacking country(s) is \u201caggression\u201d under international law, and is the chief crime that the Nazis were hanged for at Nuremberg after World War II.<\/p>\n

The US and its allies have routinely committed aggression, in places such as Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. A particular instance of it, to be discussed here, could be especially prosecutable, because the alleged \u2018cause\u2019 for the invasion could turn out to have been a provable lie, an intentional fabrication which had been concocted by the perpetrators so as to \u2018justify\u2019 their invasion. This particular instance was the US-and-allied bombing of Syria, by over a hundred missiles, on April 14th.<\/p>\n

The concept here is\u00a0\u201cWar of Aggression\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in Wikipedia, whose article makes clear that certain types of invasions, such as in boundary-dispute cases, do not constitute a war-crime. That article cites a statement from the Nuremberg Tribunal: \u201cTo initiate a war of aggression \u2026 is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.\u201d Lying about the cause for invading is almost invariably an important part of that \u201caccumulated evil.\u201d Hitler was infamous for doing it. Did the US do this on April 14th?<\/p>\n

That Wikipedia article refers to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the standing body that possesses the authority to judge such cases. However, the US Government has refused to accept that Court\u2019s authority, and prefers instead to be forced to a military surrender as the earlier fascist powers were, before it will yield to any such court\u2019s authority. They know that that won\u2019t happen, so are brazen in what they now are doing. The US Government rejects international law (except as applied to other countries \u2014 especially ones that the US aristocracy wants to conquer, such as Syria, Russia, Iran, and China). Because the US Government has not surrendered, as the earlier Axis powers did in WW II (when the US was a democracy, instead of\u00a0a dictatorship as it now is<\/a>), it maintains its freedom to do what the Germans and the Japanese and the Italians did in WW II \u2014 to do such things: aggressions. Like the earlier fascists, the US and allied aristocracies invade and expect to win and thus\u00a0to possess immunity from prosecution for their crimes<\/a>. Of course, thus far, they have succeeded, even after the blatant lying that had \u2018justified\u2019 the 2003 invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n

This does not mean, however, that the US Government will necessarily be free from the international \u2018court\u2019 of public opinion, if and when a demonstrable act of aggressive war by the US Government can be clearly and incontrovertibly presented to that \u2018court\u2019 (assuming, of course, that the news-media aren\u2019t themselves likewise effectively controlled by the US Government and its allies \u2014 or by their aristocrats, who advertise in and own them).<\/p>\n

For the international \u2018court\u2019 of public opinion to be applicable, a certain modicum of honesty on the press\u2019s part will therefore be essential. The present article is consequently being submitted to all US-and-allied news-media for publication, broadcast, and public discussion, so as to enable the international \u2018court\u2019 of public opinion to function, on this matter (since the US Government blocks the ICC from having jurisdiction over it). The international \u2018court\u2019 of public opinion will be able to function only if these news-media publish the case that\u2019s presented here. Otherwise, the public just won\u2019t even have a chance. So, here is that case:<\/p>\n

THE CASE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US Government and its allies alleged that there had been a chemical weapons attack which the Syrian Government had\u00a0perpetrated in the town of Douma Syria on April 7th<\/sup><\/a>. The US Government organized a bombardment of the Syrian Government, which occurred\u00a0seven days later<\/a>. The US Government\u00a0did everything it could to prevent<\/a>\u00a0the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW, the internationally authorized body which investigates such matters) from inspecting the area, either before or after the US-and-allied bombing. The OPCW wanted to investigate in order to determine whether there had actually been the alleged chemical-weapons attack perpetrated by the Syrian Government, as the US regime and its allies had alleged in order to allegedly justify their April 14th invasion.<\/p>\n

Some UN delegates were even afraid\u00a0that the aggressive US might take \u201cmilitary action\u201d in order to prevent<\/a>\u00a0an OPCW investigation there. Syria\u2019s Government headlined on April 10th,\u00a0\u201cOPCW to send a fact-finding mission to Douma upon request of Syria and Russia\u201d<\/a>. Pamela Falk of CBS News\u00a0reported on April 10th<\/sup><\/a>, that \u201cBecause the US and Russia draft resolutions are unlikely to pass the Security Council, the Russian mission to the UN is planning to introduce a resolution, obtained by CBS News, that supports an OPCW fact-finding mission to Douma.\u201d But events were racing too fast for anything to issue from the UN The US and its allies were determined to invade, and quickly.<\/p>\n

On the night of April 10th<\/sup>, RT bannered\u00a0\u201cEurope air traffic control issues alert over \u2018possible air strikes on Syria within 72 hours\u2019\u201d<\/a>. Infowars headlined on April 11th\u00a0\u201cREPORT: US SET TO TARGET 70 DIFFERENT SITES IN SYRIA\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and reported that, \u201cThe United States is planning to target as many as 70 different sites in Syria, including some at which Russian soldiers are stationed, a source close to the Department of Defense has told Infowars. \u2026 According to the source, evidence provided by the controversial White Helmets group, which some have linked to jihadist groups in the region, will be used to justify the attack. The source added that Trump wasn\u2019t supposed to tweet about the air strikes. Earlier today, Trump tweeted, \u2018Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and smart! You shouldn\u2019t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!\u2019\u201d He was international judge, jury, and executioner, like George W. Bush was regarding Iraq in 2003.<\/p>\n

On April 12th<\/sup>, Breitbart News bannered\u00a0\u201cMay Readies UK for Syria Strikes, Defies Strong Public Opposition\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and reported: \u201cTheresa May is clearing the way to launch attacks on the Syrian regime, despite multiple polls showing only one in five Brits support missile attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

This would be an invasion by the aristocracies, not by the publics; these invading nations are dictatorships; their publics have no control over their nations\u2019 international relations, none really at all. To call these nations \u2018democracies\u2019 is thus to insult democracy. These nations\u2019 respective aristocracies make even such life-and-death decisions \u2014 invasions and other international war-crimes \u2014 regardless of the desires and interests of their subjects (called \u2018citizens\u2019). And they are doing it (like they did against Iraq in 2003, and against Libya in 2011) against a Government and nation that had never invaded nor even threatened to invade any of the invaders. It\u2019s thus clearly \u201caggressive war.\u201d Even if Syria\u2019s Government had perpetrated a chemical attack in Douma, the invading nations have been invading without even having sought from the UN an authorization to do it. Back in 2003, when the same invaders destroyed Iraq, they at least tried to obtain a UN authorization to invade. When that effort failed, they simply ordered the UN\u2019s weapons-inspectors out, so as not to kill them, too, in their war-crime.\u00a0But Donald Trump and his allies didn\u2019t even try to get a UN authorization.<\/a>\u00a0(And he has treated the OPCW\u2019s investigators with just as much impatience and contempt as G.W. Bush had treated Hans Blix\u2019s in 2003.)<\/p>\n

Also on April 12th<\/sup>,\u00a0Russian Television reported<\/a>, \u201cThe first four chemical weapons experts from the OPCW have arrived in Syria on a fact-finding mission (FFM) into the April 7 Douma incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US\u00a0had barred at the Security Council any OPCW findings prior to any invasion<\/a>; but on the day of the US-and-allied invasion, April 14th,\u00a0the OPCW announced its determination to investigate Douma<\/a>, notwithstanding the US regime\u2019s opposition to that. The OPCW insisted upon doing their job, maybe even to expose that this invasion had been a war-crime, if that\u2019s what it was. So, the OPCW simply took upon itself to act, to gather evidence.<\/p>\n

This investigation had been wanted by Syria and Russia, but the US and its allies tried at the United Nations to block it. Now that the OPCW was in Syria, the US and its allies charged that the Syrian Government didn\u2019t want any such investigation, and was delaying it so as to hide evidence; the Syrian Government responded that it needed some time in order to be able to make Douma safe enough to allow OPCW investigators to work there. Some armed anti-Government fighters still remained inside Douma. The OPCW were waiting for the Government\u2019s go-ahead to enter Douma.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, April 18th, Reuters headlined\u00a0\u201cHead of chemical weapons watchdog: UN security team was shot at in Douma\u201d<\/a>, and reported that,<\/p>\n

The head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Wednesday that a UN security team doing reconnaissance in Douma, Syria came under gunfire a day earlier, sources told Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n

OPCW Director General Ahmet \u00dcz\u00fcmc\u00fc told a meeting at the organization\u2019s headquarters in The Hague that the security team was forced to withdraw, delaying the arrival of chemical weapons inspectors due to visit the site.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

America\u2019s allegations that Syria was overstating the dangers to the OPCW investigators were now clearly lies. It was manifestly the case. The lies from the American side poured like a river, just as usually had been the case \u2014 most infamously during the lead-up to the 2003 invasion and destruction of Iraq, which likewise was rushed through on the basis of lies, by the US and its allies.<\/p>\n

Also on April 18th, TruePublica bannered\u00a0\u201cSyrian \u2018Rebels\u2019 Used Sarin Nerve Gas Sold By Britain\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and reported that the UK Government had \u201cgranted licences for the sale of chemical weapons ingredients and components to Syria ten months after the uprising began.\u201d The poorly written text in that news-report failed to make unambiguously clear in its opening, whether these chemicals had been sold to Syria\u2019s Government and\/or\u00a0to the US-UK-backed jihadists who were trying to overthrow it.<\/em>\u00a0But both seem to have been the case, and some of these were \u201cdonations\u201d and not merely sales; so, at least some of them went to the jihadists whom UK was backing, and weren\u2019t sales to the Syrian Government. (See bottom of page 50 in\u00a0this document<\/a>, saying \u201cthe revision of the Syria sanctions regime led to some licence revocations in July 2012 for the export of chemicals,\u201d and \u201cthe Government is satisfied that no gifting package contravenes its policy,\u201d but the TruePublica report failed to link to any documentation whatsoever, for its vaguely written allegation here, neither to this document nor to anything.) So: the chemical incidents that the US and UK regimes were blaming against Syria\u2019s Government might actually all have been due instead to \u201cchemical\u201d \u201cdonations,\u201d by the accusing countries, those foreign invader-regimes, donated to their jihadist allies now in Syria, working in conjunction to provide fake excuses for the US and its allies to invade. Britain might have supplied the terrorists chemical weapons, in this particular instance. Furthermore, on 8 September 2013, London\u2019s\u00a0Metro\u00a0<\/em>newspaper had headlined\u00a0\u201cBritish government confirms chemicals were sold to Syria between 2004 and\u00a02010\u201d<\/a>. And on 7 October 2013, Christof Lehmann\u2019s NSNBC news-site bannered\u00a0\u201cTop US and Saudi Officials responsible for Chemical Weapons in Syria\u201d<\/a>. Those were alleged to have been donations of such chemicals to the jihadists. Furthermore, America\u2019s two leading scientists on such matters, Theodore Postol and Richard Lloyd, issued\u00a0the most-detailed investigation ever of the 21 August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack<\/a>\u00a0in Syria that US President Obama was trying to use as a \u2018justification\u2019 to invade that nation, and they concluded \u201cthe US Government\u2019s Interpretation of the Technical Intelligence It Gathered Prior to and After the August 21 Attack CANNOT POSSIBLY BE CORRECT.\u201d Furthermore Robert Parry at his Consortium News reported on\u00a023 December 2013<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cAke Sellstrom, the head of the United Nations mission investigating chemical weapons use in Syria, agrees that the vector analysis \u2013 at the heart of the New York Times\u2019 indictment of the Syrian government for the deadly Aug. 21 Sarin gas attack \u2013 doesn\u2019t stand up to scrutiny.\u201d That fact explained why Gareth Porter at Inter Press Service had headlined on 27 August 2013,\u00a0\u201cIn Rush to Strike Syria, US Tried to Derail UN Probe\u201d<\/a>. As Seymour Hersh reported in\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0London Review of Books<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a019 December 2013<\/a>, \u201cThe White House\u2019s misrepresentation of what it knew about the attack, and when, was matched by its readiness to ignore intelligence that could undermine the narrative.\u201d Obama continued in George W. Bush\u2019s footsteps, though as a candidate he had condemned Bush\u2019s international policies. Trump now was doing the same. The US regime (like in 2003) simply didn\u2019t want the truth to become publicly known. America\u2019s Republican Party aristocrats and their politicians and news-media had blamed Obama for being too soft against Assad for not bombing Syria, but actually Obama was merely less brazen than his successor Donald Trump (financed by Republican Party aristocrats who had financed Bush) has turned out to be. The US and its allies were clearly lying about the Ghouta incident, just like they had done about \u201cSaddam\u2019s WMD.\u201d So, UK firms, and also \u201cUS and Saudi Officials,\u201d might have given jihadists such chemicals. What\u2019s especially damning is the \u201cdonations,\u201d since those would have been to the jihadists, in order for them to set up \u201cfalse-flag\u201d attacks (such as they did in Ghouta), to be blamed against Assad. And still today in the US and allied countries the politicians and news-media refer to Obama as having been indecisive instead of a liar on the Ghouta incident, and Assad is unquestioningly presumed to have been to blame for the Ghouta chemical attack, just as the US-and-allied aristocracies want.<\/p>\n

Finally,\u00a0on April 21st<\/sup>\u00a0of 2018<\/a>, the Syrian Government announced that Douma was sufficiently safe for the OPCW inspectors to be able to investigate, and the OPCW entered there, and began its work.<\/p>\n

On April 22nd, RT headlined\u00a0“\u2018Whole story was staged\u2019: Germany’s ZDF reporter says Douma incident was false flag attack\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and reported that \u201c\u2018People told us in a very convincing manner that this whole story was staged,\u2019 Uli Gack, a reporter with the German ZDF public broadcaster, said (referring to the alleged Douma chemical attack) while he spoke live on ZDF Heute (\u2018Today\u2019) show on Saturday.\u201d He had entered along with the OPCW investigators.<\/p>\n

The OPCW receives funding from the US Government and so has never yet made public their findings regarding Douma. On 5 November 2013,\u00a0Reuters reported<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cThe United States has been the biggest contributor to the OPCW\u2019s fund for the Syria mission, with Britain, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland also contributing.\u201d Obviously, if the OPCW findings indicate that this alleged event wasn\u2019t really a chemical attack by the Syrian Government but instead was staged by the anti-Government fighters who are supported by the US Government, or otherwise was not planned by the Syrian Government, then the US and its allied Governments (UK, and France) who bombed Syrian Government facilities on April 14th are war-criminals, irrespective of whether they can be prosecuted for that, or for anything else. They\u2019re then just international gangsters, but will be known to be that by an honest OPCW report. So, the US has done everything possible to block it.<\/p>\n

Since the OPCW has refused, even as of this late date, to make public its findings, that ZDF Heute news-report, from their reporter who accompanied the OPCW investigators, is perhaps the only independent evidence yet available regarding whether the US-and-allied bombing-campaign on April 14th was a war-crime. (Of course, also, no US or British or French \u2018news\u2019 medium has done any follow-up report regarding whether their Government is a war-criminal on this.)<\/p>\n

The journalist in that April 20th ZDF report speaks German very fast there, and no translation-option is provided in the video. Furthermore, the video will be gone entirely, after a year (“Video available until 20.04.2019, 19:00\u201d) even in its spoken-only, German-only, version, and so my written news-report and translation here won\u2019t merely make the ZDF report\u2019s contents available to English-speaking audiences for the first time, but it will also provide these contents in a permanent form, which can be included in the various web archives, which that video is not. (Videos are often not archivable. They unfortunately have this severe problem, as historical evidence.)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a two-minute and 29 second video. Here is the video (for as long as it\u2019s\u00a0still online<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In it, ZDF\u2019s reporter Uli Gack said:\u00a0\u201cIS [Islamic State] had created the attack. The place was a commando post for the Islamists who had installed chlorine containers and were waiting that this place, highly interesting for the Syrian airforce, would be bombarded, which happened, and the chlorine containers were bombarded. People say that several provocations of this type had happened in Douma. During one of these so-called exercises by the IS, people had been exposed to the gas, which was filmed and then shown as proof for the April 7 attack. I cannot put my hand into the fire for this, but there seems truth in the stories.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Interviewer (also from ZDF, which is a German Government channel, and Germany is allied with the US and therefore supports US propaganda against Syria\u2019s Government) then asks:\u00a0\u201cSo, why would Assad or the Russians hinder the examinations of the facts?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Gack:\u00a0\u201cThe terrain under places like Homs is like Swiss cheese, everywhere cells appear from the underground and it is dangerous for the examiners. At least, this could be true. The traces of the gas are disappearing slowly and it may be impossible to know who is responsible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

On May 4th<\/sup>, the OPCW announced<\/a>\u00a0that their collection of evidence regarding the Douma incident was now over, the analysis of it would require \u201cthree to four weeks,\u201d and \u201cAt this time, it is not possible to give a timeframe for when the Douma report will be issued to States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention,\u201d meaning that they were struggling to find a way to present an honest report which wouldn\u2019t hurt their employer, OPCW.<\/p>\n

The OPCW reported on July 24th<\/sup>, that\u00a0“The Secretariat has verified the destruction of all 27 chemical weapons production facilities (CWPFs) declared by the Syrian Arab Republic.”<\/a><\/p>\n

On September 6th<\/sup>, the UN reported<\/a>\u00a0that, \u201cIZUMI NAKAMITSU, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, updating the Council on the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013) on the elimination of Syria\u2019s chemical weapons programme, said that the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had verified the destruction of all 27 chemical weapons production facilities declared by that country.\u201d This announcement was made at that time because the jihadists in Syria\u2019s most-densely pro-jihadist province, Idlib, the American Government\u2019s allies there, had been documented by the Syrian and Russian Governments to have prepared in Idlib yet another assembly of chemicals to be ready to be spread by a Syrian and Russian bombing campaign, which had been planned by Syria and its ally Russia, in order to exterminate the jihadists in Idlib. So, clearly, any further banned chemicals on Syrian territory would be from the US and its allies, not from Syria and its allies. This crucial fact has not been reported to the American people by American \u2018news\u2019 media. The US regime still harbors hopes of sparking a chemical release in Syria that they can blame against Syria\u2019s Government as an excuse to bomb it further \u2014 to commit still more aggressions against Syria.<\/p>\n

On September 24th<\/sup>, the OPCW reported<\/a>\u00a0that, \u201cThe FFM [Fact-Finding Mission] continues to collect and analyse information with regard to the alleged use of toxic chemicals as a weapon in Douma and will provide a final report on its findings in due course.\u201d Presumably, the OPCW wants to find a way to phrase their report so that the US Government and its allies won\u2019t discontinue funding the OPCW. Perhaps by the time it is finally issued, the \u2018news\u2019 media won\u2019t need to give it more than a perfunctory and extremely brief \u2018news\u2019 report, with a dull headline. (If even that.) After all:\u00a0On May 4th<\/sup>, the OPCW had announced<\/a>\u00a0that their collection of evidence regarding the Douma incident was over, and the analysis of it would require \u201cthree to four weeks,\u201d so that the analysis was completed by around June 1st \u2014 and yet it hasn\u2019t been made public.<\/p>\n

This is like a repeat of what the US regime and its allies had done to Iraq in 2003, regarding \u201cSaddam\u2019s WMD\u201d that didn\u2019t exist \u2014 invasion on the basis of\u00a0lies about \u201cweapons of mass destruction\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 as if the US regime isn\u2019t itself\u00a0the world\u2019s worst producers of such things<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0users of them<\/a>, too: \u201cpots calling the kettle black\u201d and then invading that kettle. The UN is\u00a0terrifically exercised about<\/a>\u00a0eliminating chemical-and biological weapons stockpiles from\u00a0weak countries such as Iraq and Syria<\/em>, but what about eliminating them from the world\u2019s most powerful countries, which are even storing ebola virus for military use (or at least\u00a0the US and UK Governments are<\/a>)? What about that? Nothing. There\u2019s no International Criminal Court to judge\u00a0these\u00a0<\/em>leaders, who really\u00a0are\u00a0international war-criminals, even\u00a0if\u00a0OPCW ends up saying that Assad had been a\u00a0domestic\u00a0<\/em>war-criminal. To be an\u00a0international\u00a0<\/em>war-criminal is vastly more heinous, and there can be no reasonable doubt that the leaders of the US alliance\u00a0are\u00a0that.<\/p>\n

In the international court of public opinion, today\u2019s fascist powers could yet be internationally responded-to by consumer boycotts of their mega-corporate brands (whose owners\u00a0control those fascist governments<\/a>), and by other means. Furthermore, there exists the possibility of international economic sanctions against such fascist regimes, which kill millions and endanger the whole world. And, also, why are politicians in the US-allied nations being re-elected by the publics there? Certainly those voters don\u2019t want to be controlled by the US regime\u2019s stooges, as now is the case there. An exposure of the US regime as being an international fascist dictatorship could produce real results, even if the US regime continues stiffing the International Criminal Court. Whether the OPCW will risk doing this \u2014 calling out the US alliance\u2019s lie on this occasion \u2014 is the question. But, for the sake of world peace, they ought to do it, not cave to their funders. Otherwise, how much longer will this decades-long string, of invasions by the US and its allies (such as of Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, and Syria and Yemen now), continue? If the ICC cannot prosecute America\u2019s Presidents, then what use is it, really? So, all that is left here is an honest OPCW \u2014 if it is honest \u2014 and honest news-media (if they too will be honest).<\/p>\n

What is at stake here could be whether fascist control of the world will be stopped, at all \u2014 ever.<\/p>\n

A typical example of the depth of the enormously profitable corruption in the US, by which millions of Americans get routinely destroyed in order to expand yet further the wealth of America\u2019s billionaires, the aristocrats, is summarily described\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>. This documentary, which is only summarized there, demonstrates that not only the people in the invaded countries are being destroyed by these aristocrats. Fascism is bad for everyone except the very few people who are enriched (enormously) by it, the super-rich who stand behind it, and who control it.<\/p>\n

PS:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the historical and ideological source of this fascism, which is now gripping the world? On 10 July 2018, I headlined at The Saker,\u00a0\u201cVladimir Putin\u2019s Basic Disagreement with The West\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and attributed the source of the US-UK alliance to the UK magnate, Cecil Rhodes, late in the 1800s. He saw that in order for the British Empire to continue expanding, it would need to do so in alliance with the then-emerging US empire \u2014 a tight alliance between these two aristocracies \u2014 and that it should include also Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In 1877, he wrote: \u201cI contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. I contend that every acre added to our territory means the birth of more of the English race who otherwise would not be brought into existence. Added to this, the absorption of the greater portion of the world under our rule simply means the end of all wars.\u201d He rationalized: further conquest by this \u2018race\u2019 would be the only path to permanent peace. The concept of \u2018national security\u2019, then, means, to them, expanding\u00a0this particular\u00a0empire, until it rules the entire planet. That\u2019s their goal. That\u2019s their \u2018Paradise\u2019. As I document also there, the American billionaire George Soros carries on today in Rhodes\u2019s footsteps, to expand the US-UK empire. But the idea is not his; it is Rhodes\u2019s. And today it has come to be based on two specific mechanisms. The US dollar as the world\u2019s reserve currency is one bastion of this neo-Rhodes-ian system. The City of London\u2019s constituting the bastion of the half of the world\u2019s privately-owned wealth (most of the global aristocracy\u2019s wealth) that\u2019s hidden in offshore locations, where there is complete secrecy and non-accountability to any government, is the other half of this Rhodes-ian Paradise. It\u2019s actually a global aristocratic gangland. That\u2019s the reality of the Rhodes-ian system, which is\u00a0today\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>fascist Axis.<\/p>\n

Here are three Snowden-released confidential documents that are typical as being Rhodes-ian:<\/p>\n

One document, dated 12 November 2004<\/a>, is headed \u201cTOP SECRET\u201d and to be sent \u201cTO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL\u201d or to the entire core Rhodes empire, and it related that \u201cFrom 4 \u2013 6 October, Lt Gen Hayden and GCHQ [Government Communications Headquarters, in Cheltenham, England] Director David Pepper co-chaired the annual NSA-GCHQ Joint Management Review (JMR) at Chevening House. The fine Palladian house, the country residence of the UK Foreign Secretary, dates back to 1630. It is set in 27 acres of gardens, within an estate of 3,000 acres, and is located 23 miles south of London, in the Kent countryside.\u201d It said \u201cthat NSA and GCHQ must work hard to keep one another apprised and well connected throughout (actually one of NSA’s Special US Liaison Officer, London’s key responsibilities); A validation of the common cause that joins our two nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another document, dated 19 November 2004<\/a>, is likewise headed \u201cTOP SECRET\u201d and to be sent \u201cTO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL.\u201d It\u2019s headlined \u201cLeaders Peer into the Future, See Global System.\u201d It said: \u201cLast week, SIGINT leaders flew in from around the world to attend the annual SIGINT Site Commanders Operational Review here at Fort Meade. This year’s SCOR conference focused on how we are to govern the global SIGINT network in the 21st century. It went very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another document, dated 24 November 2004<\/a>, is likewise headed \u201cTOP SECRET\u201d and to be sent \u201cTO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL.\u201d It\u2019s headlined \u201cFinding the Achilles\u2019 Heel.\u201d It said: \u201cJWAC [Joint Warfare Analysis Center] provides the combatant commands, Joint Staff, and other customers with effects-based precision targeting options for selected networks and nodes in order to carry out the national security and military strategies of the United States during peace, crisis, and war.\u201d It discussed \u201cOperation ENDURING FREEDOM<\/a>. As we continue the Global War on Terrorism, new opportunities are identified and analytic partnerships are formed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tim Shorrock at Salon wrote on\u00a010 June 2013<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe largest concentration of cyber power on the planet is the intersection of the Baltimore Parkway and Maryland Route 32,\u201d says Michael V. Hayden, who oversaw the privatization effort as NSA director from 1999 to 2005. He was referring not to the NSA itself but to the business park about a mile down the road from the giant black edifice that houses NSA\u2019s headquarters in Fort Meade, Md. There, all of NSA\u2019s major contractors, from Booz to SAIC to Northrop Grumman, carry out their surveillance and intelligence work for the agency.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So: Lt. Gen. Hayden in London on 12 November was preparing what would be presented at Ft. Meade on 19 November to America\u2019s SIGINT from around the world. Then, on 24 November, JWAC was discussing \u201ceffects-based precision targeting options\u201d that the entire SIGINT would adopt, after that meeting which Hayden had had 12 days earlier at the luxurious and private country residence of the UK Foreign Secretary. This \u201cTOP SECRET\u201d meeting seems to have been an instance of close coordination between US and UK. No announcement was ever made regarding what was said or agreed-to at any of those top-secret meetings.<\/p>\n

But, above all: Why were\u00a0only\u00a0<\/em>the Rhodes circle of nations\u2019 leaders (\u201cTO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL\u201d) included in these \u201cTOP SECRET\u201d US Government communications? Why not also French? Why not also Israeli? Why not also Saudi? Why not also Japanese? Etc.? (In other words: why not all other aristocracies that are allied with America\u2019s aristocracy.) None of those countries were allowed to participate in these crucial and secret meetings.<\/p>\n

Is \u201cthe special relationship\u201d the core of the US empire? Is that what it basically is? If so, it\u2019s what Rhodes wanted. And it certainly isn\u2019t democracy, not anywhere. It\u2019s privatized government, in the hands of the US and UK aristocracies, which control the generals and the weapons-making firms whose boards the generals join after their \u2018public\u2019 service. This is an entity that\u2019s independent of any treaty the US Government has. It stands above\u00a0any\u00a0of America\u2019s treaties. And, yet, this alliance never faced the US Constitution\u2019s requirements in order to be able to become a treaty obligation or right with\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>foreign nation. The US Government has \u2014 to put this matter in clear terms \u2014 been taken over by international gangsters, US and foreign, who work closely together, via agents everywhere, answerable ultimately only to the US and UK aristocracies, and beyond any laws at all, entirely unConstitutional.<\/p>\n

It is fascist, and it is trying to expand \u2014 they\u2019re more like Adolf Hitler, than like Francisco Franco. It\u2019s aggressive war, to control the world. It\u2019s clearly war-criminal.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the OPCW is now facing.<\/p>\n

To understand it more fully, I recommend especially two videos:<\/p>\n

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The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire (Documentary)<\/p>\n