STOP Imperialist War against Syria
anon@indymedia.org (Jose Maria Sison) | 03.08.2012 06:55 | London
We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), condermn in the strongest terms the duplicitous scheme of the US and NATO in instigating, funding and arming the so-called Syrian National Council and Free Syrian Army to seek the violent overthrow of the Assad government in Syria and at the same time pushing a “peace plan” and then a “transitional government” under the auspices of the UN in order to politically outmanuever the Assad government and the anti-imperialist and democratic forces.
The US and NATO are hell-bent on effecting a regime change by escalating the war efforts of the mercenary “rebel forces” and exerting various economic and political pressures with the use of the UN and puppet regimes in the region in preparing for an all-out imperialist war of aggression as in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. The Western corporate media are part and parcel of the imperialist war machine in moulding international public opinion to justify this criminal conspiracy.
The imperialist powers headed by the US detest the Assad government for asserting national sovereignty and independence, particularly against the US-Zionist combine, and want to replace said government with a puppet regime closely aligned with the imperialists’ hegemonic policy in the region. Burhan Ghallioun, a leading member of the imperialist funded Syrian National Council has promised to open up Syria to the West, end Syria’s strategic alliance with Iran which includes support for the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance to Israel and bring Syria closer to the arch-reactionary Arab puppet regimes.
Turkey is taking the lead as the US proxy in the war against the Assad government. It is providing the mercenary Free Syrian Army with rear bases close to the Syrian border where French and British special forces are providing training to “rebel” fighters. Weapons seized from the arsenals of the late Muammar Gaddafi are being brought in to the military bases in Turkey by unmarked NATO planes. The so-called Free Syrian Army is funded by governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. These two countries are playing the same shameful role they played in the criminal imperialist operation against the Gaddafi government.
The Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davitoglu, has said in public that Turkey is ready to attack Syria as soon as there is agreement among the Western governments to do so. The naked aggression would be justified by the so-called “responsibility to protect” doctrine that has now become the standard pretext of the imperialists in trampling on the national sovereignty of countries.
The Western corporate media has stepped up its campaign of spreading lies about so-called atrocities by the Assad government. The famous “Homs massacre” attributed by Western governments and echoed by the Western media to the Syrian Army has turned out to be the handiwork of the armed “rebels”. A rebel commander Abu Rami has admitted to Spiegel Online that his death squads had executed more than 200 people in the city of Homs.
Just before Kofi Annan made his scheduled visit to Syria, news spread of a massacre of 108 people in the city of Houla on May 25 that included women and children. Western governments were quick to condemn the Assad government and expelled Syrian diplomats from their countries. The UN Security Council without any investigation similarly denounced the Syrian government. It later turned out that 700 armed fighters of the mercenary Free Syrian Army had carried out the massacre of families suspected of being loyal to Assad.
Annan in a public speech has called the Houla massacre the “tipping point.” The US and NATO have used the massacre in Houla to work more blatantly than ever before for the overthrow of Assad. They are no longer hiding the fact that the CIA is now active in southern Turkey delivering weapons and communications equipment to the mercenary Free Syrian Army.
Turkey has started to make provocations that could produce the pretexts for outright aggression. The shooting down by Syrian air defenses of a Turkish military jet that the Turkish government subsequently admitted to have “accidentally strayed” into Syrian airspace is now being used by the US and NATO in their sabre-rattling and war preparations.
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) resolutely supports the broad masses of the people and the anti-imperialist and democratic forces of Syria in their struggle against the US and NATO for their ongoing intervention in Syria and their preparations for a naked war of aggression against the people and government of Syria.
We call on all member organizations of ILPS, all progressive forces and all people of goodwill to mobilize and organize protest actions against the criminal actions of the imperialists that have already caused so much destruction and suffering in Syria and are tearing that country apart.
US and NATO, Hands off Syria!
Stop imperialist war!
Down with imperialism and all forms of reaction!
Assert national independence and sovereignty!
Long live the international solidarity of peoples!
Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS)
Founding Chairman, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)
Chief Political Consultant, National Democratic Front-Philippines (NDFP)
Related Info:
Hama Massacre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_massacre
Hama Massacre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Hama_massacre
Homs Massacre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homs_massacre
Houla Massacre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houla_massacre
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anon@indymedia.org (Jose Maria Sison)
Original article on IMC London:
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Does the Left want a Middle East war?
03.08.2012 08:46
We were told during the Cold War that the Middle East was the US and West's most strategically important region. We were told that dictators and 'stability' were better than democracy. We were told that the US would invade countries that had revolutions in order to protect its oil supplies.
Now, we are supposed to support revolutions.
Did the Western elite announce some major rethink about their strategic objectives. No.
So, why did anyone believe anything had changed? History told us that Lawrence of Arabia led a Middle East revolution that overthrew the Ottoman Empire and replaced them with Western rule.
The Arab Spring had been arranged by the West before.
So, why did the Left fall for elite propaganda. It was truely Orwellian.
Today, people on the Left support the armed mercenaries against Assad.
The West want a government in Syria that will help them engineer a Sunni- Shia war in the Middle East.
And the Left are supporting them.
Simon
Failure to see the truth
03.08.2012 09:14
Do you really think that the US wanted the Egyptian pro-US President overthrown ?
Do you think that the EU wanted Ghaddafi gone when he was happily selling his oil and gas to France, Italy and Malta and prices lower than the OPEC recommendations ?
Do you believe that France wanted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali out of power in Tunisia when they trained him at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr and with the help of the Italians put him into power in the first place ?
Get a grip.
Sunil
Where's Sunil's brain?
03.08.2012 12:46
03.08.2012 09:14
Some people will just oppose as a matter of principle anything that has the support of the 'West". Does it never occur to you that the revolutions that have taken place and are still taking place in the Arab world are because the people are rising up against oppressive regimes ?
Do you really think that the US wanted the Egyptian pro-US President overthrown ?
Do you think that the EU wanted Ghaddafi gone when he was happily selling his oil and gas to France, Italy and Malta and prices lower than the OPEC recommendations ?
Do you believe that France wanted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali out of power in Tunisia when they trained him at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr and with the help of the Italians put him into power in the first place ?
Get a grip.
Sunil
Get a grip!!??
Sunil,
Do you really think that the US wanted the Egyptian pro-US President overthrown ?
Do you believe that France wanted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali out of power in Tunisia when they trained him at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr and with the help of the Italians put him into power in the first place ?
Were you asleep when the US organized the invasion of Iraq and the killing of the man they put into power and sustained when he was there?
Before he was removed, Mubarak was:
- making big trade deal with China,
- opposing a plan to militarily unite Sunni countries with Israel,
- supporting dialogue with Iran.
Do you think that the EU wanted Ghaddafi gone when he was happily selling his oil and gas to France, Italy and Malta and prices lower than the OPEC recommendations ?
So, that explains why the EU and NATO repeatedly called for his removal and gloated when he was gone.
Does it never occur to you that the revolutions that have taken place and are still taking place in the Arab world are because the people are rising up against oppressive regimes ?
Right, so that’s why the post-Ghaddafy Libya oil minister resigned his position saying the new government had support from 10% the people and would be nowhere without Western support. And I presume the people rising up got the Muslim Brotherhood in power in Egypt.
Some people will just oppose as a matter of principle anything that has the support of the 'West".
I may have got this wrong but I was under the impression that the Left were against the ruling class of the West.
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...Tarhouni, a former professor of economics and finance at the University of Washington, was one of the most visible and internationally respected faces of the Libyan revolutionary leadership that presided over the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi's regime.
But he said he refused an offer to join Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib's transitional Cabinet, because he believes that those now in power are not representative. He accused them of being "supported from the outside by money, arms and PR."
"The voices that we see now are the voices of the elite," he said.
The U.S.-educated Tarhouni, who managed the then-rebel government's financial system, is one of the first senior Libyan politicians to openly question the new government's legitimacy.
He said the countries who backed the rebellion have interests in Libya, "some which we know and some which we don't know." While he didn't elaborate, Tarhouni did not object when a journalist suggested that he was speaking about Qatar.
The Gulf state was a leading Arab backer of the uprising that toppled Gadhafi's regime, providing warplanes to the NATO-led air campaign as well as direct help to the revolutionaries with arms and other equipment
Tarhouni, who spoke several hours after el-Keib's new government was sworn in, said he felt relieved at finally being able to speak his mind freely.
"Some are thinking of imposing their will on the Libyan people and that's a mistake," Tarhouni said...
Sunil, I'm sure you have some brains, start using them.
Simon
Syria's real story
03.08.2012 12:58
Subverting Syria:
Category: False Flag Terror Middle East War
Subtitle:
How CIA Contra Gangs and NGO's Manufacture, Mislabel and Market Mass Murder
Author name: Tony Cartalucci
An E-book to beat the bombing - Expose the Big Lie in time to stop the war. The Syrian "uprising" is actually a cynical US-engineered plot using provocateurs, mercenaries, wahhabi fanatics and corrupt NGO's. The US, UK and Israel are determined to smash this independent Arab socialist state where oil wealth is spent on human welfare, like Libya before it was torn apart in the same way. Neighboring nations move in for the kill, like jackals and hyenas fawning at the feet of the US lion.
The US and Saudi-financed plot turns on the tactic of "Countergangs." Terrorists -- mercenaries and irregulars, the "CIA foreign legion" -- they shoot both demonstrators and police, blow up buildings, massacre innocent villagers -- and then blame the carnage on the targeted government!
NGO's like the "National Endowment for Democracy" (NED) promote "activists," whose leaders are ambitious sociopaths, eagerly carving out a piece of the carcass for the moment the state is brought down. The media eagerly lap up and magnify the Big Lie, creating a fake "reality" that the average person has little chance of seeing through.
Subverting Syria is a warning of the horror that the "Empire of the Almighty Dollar" is preparing to bring down upon Syria, the same horror of last year's obscene war on Libya, in which an egalitarian state was trampled into mud, blood and chaos under the banner of human rights and a pack of vicious lies.
Subverting Syria reveals how the crusade to destroy Syria follows tactics explicitly set out in the Pentagon's Unconventional Warfare Manual, the same maneuvers so recently used to lay waste to Libya. - fund NGO's to create a climate of protest in the target country - provocateurs organize demonstrations, then fire on protesters and security forces alike to stoke violence - staged and mislabeled video footage creates the illusion of repression by the regime - mass media endlessly repeat the Big Lie that the nation's leader is a brutal dictator. Give a dog a bad name and hang him. - invade border towns with special forces death squads, the CIA Foreign Legion of Al Qaeda psychopaths, fanatics and guns for hire - foment a civil war and fabricate pretexts for military intervention by the UN, or NATO - bomb the country into the stone age, to be conquered by NATO’s Islamic terrorist puppets - eradicate Arab socialism and government for the people, replacing it with a corrupt clique beholden to Wall Street and London bankers - isolate Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Iran, giving free rein for Greater Israel to dominate the Middle East - US corporations write multi-billion-dollar contracts for "reconstruction" and "security"
Subverting Syria shows how these wars are engineered by manipulation of the kinder instincts of mankind, the hoodwinking and harnessing of elements that normally oppose "interventions", especially pacifist and leftist forces -- entrapping them in the service of mass murder and the global dictatorship of the money power.
Syria’s situation is truly serious, under ruthless attack by enemies within and without. Please help pass on the word about Subverting Syria. Free copies available on request to book reviewers and social media activists, who will publicize this urgent effort to defeat lies and genocide with an appeal to the facts.
Because of the urgency, a key feature of this book is that it is presented as a work in progress. It will be continually updated until it is a full-length, fully-edited book. Thanks to E-book technology, readers will be able to continually retrieve updates as this work goes forward as quickly as it can -- racing with the work of the warmongers, as they call for NATO aggression unleashing their WMD against the innocent Syrian people.
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For a sampling of the evidence in the book please see the author's blog
Edited, adapted and amplified by Nile Bowie.
Table of Contents Prelude: The Arab Spring (completed) - The Timeline - 2008-2010: Preparing the Battlefield - Year of the Dupe: 2011 Chapter 1, complete. Mystery Gunmen, Armed Militants, and Foreign Intrigue (The covert arming and support given to Syrian rebels and the atrocities they commit. Complete version.) Chapter 2, largely complete. Media Propaganda (distortion by western media, video fakery - largely complete). Perception Management in Psychological Warfare, via Lies, Disinformation, Fabrications and Misrepresentations. Chapter 3: Geopolitical Implications (Analysis, who benefits if Assad falls, prospects for regional war, etc)
Length of 45,000 words as of 7/19/2012 is around two-thirds of the planned full length.
Simon
Stop the Imperialist Syrian Regime
03.08.2012 13:32
Neese