Bulletin 708
Subject : The Up-Coming National Elections as a Contained ‘Un-Civil’ War.
August 8, 2016
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
More on
the up-coming National Elections (as a contained ‘uncivil’ war) and the most
qualified candidates in this democratic process . . . .
Francis Feeley
Professor of American Studies
University of Grenoble-3
Director of Research
University of Paris-Nanterre
Center for the Advanced Study of American Institutions and
Social Movements
The University of California-San Diego
The Green
Party Convention
Houston,
Texas
4-7 August
2016
· Green Party Nominee Jill Stein: "We Are Saying No to the 'Lesser
Evil' and Yes to the Greater Good"
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/8/green_party_nominee_jill_stein_we
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/8/julian_assange_leaked_dnc_emails_shows
+
The
estimable Pepe Escobar asks how giving the nuclear
codes to the Queen of War--Full Spectrum Dominatrix" is not scarier than
Trump"?
Ed
herman
Hillary, Queen of War: The
Road Map Ahead
by Pepe Escobar
August 07, 2016 "Information Clearing House"
- "Sputnik" - It all starts with
a Wahhabi-Zionist lovefest.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry was forced to go on a
non-denial denial overdrive about a visit to Israel on July 22
by a delegation led by retired Gen. Anwar Eshki.
Eshki
happens to be close to Saudi intel
superstar and onetime close Osama bin Laden pal Prince Turki
bin Faisal, who recently met in the open with former Israel Defense
Forces (IDF) generals Yaakov Amidror and Amos Yadlin.
While in Israel, Eshki met
with Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold, and Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the top IDF
honcho in the West Bank.
There’s absolutely no way the House of Saud would not have
given a green light for such a visit – and such high-level meetings. By
the way, the Interior Ministry in Saudi Arabia bans all travel
to Israel – as well as Iran and Iraq.
So what’s the big deal? The Israelis spun it as the Saudis –
fronting for the Arab League — offering a normalization of ties
with the Arab world without Israel abdicating from anything
on the Palestinian front. The only thing Tel Aviv would have to do,
much later, is to adopt the 2002, Saudi-proposed
Arab peace initiative.
That’s nonsense. For starters, the ultra right-wing Zionists
in power in Tel Aviv will never accept reverting to the pre-1967
borders and recognizing the state of Palestine. What was “discussed” was a
non-deal, even as Tel Aviv gloats, “important Arab states are willing
to openly embrace us even though we have not given up one inch
of the West Bank and even as we continue to control Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
If the Arab League would ever embark in such a blatant
non-deal, forever throwing the Palestinians under myriad bulldozers,
chances are oligarchies/petromonarchies all
across the spectrum should start booking that one-way ticket
to London.
That Moscow-Tehran-Ankara alliance
So what did they actually talk about? Predictably,
the imminent prospect of the Full
Spectrum Dominatrix finally taking over the White House.
Both Bibi Netanyahu in Tel Aviv and
de facto House of Saud ruler and Prince of War Mohammad bin Salman in Riyadh have been reduced, under the
Obama administration, to the status of proverbial, euphemistic
“estranged allies”. Between them, they are de facto allies – even as they
cannot admit it to the Arab street. Both are dead sure, under the Queen
of War, there will be – what else – war. The question is
against whom.
Informed speculation points
towards the Saudi/Israeli common enemy, Iran.
That’s complicated. The joint Saudi/Israeli strategy across the Middle
East is indeed in tatters. Tehran has not been trapped in a quagmire
neither in Syria nor in Iraq. ISIS/ISIL/Daesh
and assorted “moderate rebels” – covertly supported by the Saudi/Israeli
axis — are on the run, even if they insist they are not “al-Qaeda”
anymore. Prince of War bin Salman is
entrapped himself in an unwinnable war on Yemen.
And then there’s the spectacular post-coup pivot by Sultan Erdogan in Turkey – for all practical purposes
abandoning those elaborate no-fly-zone dreams of annexing a post-Assad
Syria to his neo-Ottoman set up.
The House of Saud is livid as Turkish diplomats have
started to spread this blockbuster news: Erdogan
has proposed to Iran’s Rouhani an all-embracing
alliance with President Putin to finally solve the Middle East
riddle.
Whatever erratic Erdogan’s agenda may be, a possible ice-breaking new deal between Moscow and
Ankara will be discussed de facto in the upcoming Putin-Erdogan face-to-face meeting. All geopolitical signs at this
stage point – albeit tentatively – towards a revived Russia/Iran/Turkey
alliance, even as a horrified House of Saud is going no holds barred
to gain Moscow’s trust by offering “untold
wealth” and privileged access to the GCC market.
As confirmed by a top Western intel source, “the Saudis are definitely keeping all
contacts open with the Kremlin. The Saudi King is in Tangiers now and
has met Russian envoys there. They mean what they say. But Putin will not
abandon Assad. There has to be a compromise. Both need it.”
President Putin is in a privileged spot. Even
without accepting the Saudi offer – which is just a promise, with no
ironclad guarantees – Russia holds the best cards, as in a quite
problematic but ultimately feasible Moscow-Tehran-Ankara alliance that is
all about Eurasian integration (and a future seat for Turkey,
alongside Iran, in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, SCO.)
A Saudi-Moscow
alliance for its part would inevitably lead a Queen of War
administration towards – what else — regime change in Riyadh
disguised as R2P; “responsibility to protect” the Saudi populace. One
should expect Hillary crony Samantha Power to vehemently defend it
at the UN.
It’s all about The Three Harpies
Yet considering the Queen of War’s instincts, all signs do
point towards Iran.
The manual/blueprint/road map for Hillary’s wars is arguably here,
in this very dangerous intersection between US neocons
and neoliberalcons. The CNAS think tank is led
by one-third (Michele Flournoy) of what I
have dubbed The Three
Harpies; Hillary Clinton, Flournoy and –
the most terrifying words in the English language – Secretary
of State Victoria Nuland, the possible lethal
trio in charge of foreign policy under a Clinton Three
administration.
This is in fact PNAC (the Project for a New American
Century) on steroids, with echoes of the warlike 1992 US Defense
Planning Guidance disguised under the soothing rhetoric of benevolent
hegemony and “rules-based international order”. If the Trump campaign managed
to restrain his motormouth and/or motortweet instincts and focus on what this
warmongering opus means for the US and the world at large they would
strike a chord with millions of undecided US voters.
For all her bluster, and that will be elevated to unheard-of
hysterical levels, the Full Spectrum Dominatrix won’t be foolish enough
to launch a war – which will inevitably be nuclear – against either
Russia (Baltics as a pretext) or China (South
China Sea as a pretext), the Pentagon’s top two “existential
threats”.
In Syria, on the other hand, by January 2017 al-Qaeda/not
al-Qaeda goons formerly known as “moderate rebels” will be mostly
six feet under.
Erdogan may be making NATO’s life
in Turkey unbearable. As the Queen of War is in AIPAC’s pocket,
and considering the Clinton Foundation’s by now legendary cozy ties
with the House of Saud, the war target would have to be the
Saudi/Israeli preferred target, on top of it pro-Damascus and
in close touch with both Ankara and Moscow: Iran.
But how to pull it off? One
avenue, already being explored, is to bomb by all means — and
not figuratively — the Iran nuclear deal. A concerted campaign in US
mainstream media is already
burying the deal; and even Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei – as reported
in the US – is on the record saying Washington cannot be trusted;
‘‘They tell us ‘Let’s talk about regional issues, too.’ But the experience
of the nuclear deal suggests this is deadly poison and in no way can
the Americans be trusted.’’
So expect from Team Clinton the proverbial media barrage
of dodgy spin, baseless accusations and the occasional, perfectly
positioned false flag to lure Tehran intro a trap, like,
for instance, in neoliberalcon wishful
thinking, Iran reviving its nuclear program. Of course this won’t happen,
but a Hellfire barrage of disinformation will be used by the
powerful anti-Iran lobby in the US Congress to sort of make it
happen, even as an illusion.
And all this while Iran, among other development matters, is
busy planning a new transportation corridor from the Persian Gulf
to the Black Sea, connecting to Armenia, Georgia and Bulgaria, and
positioning the nation as a key trade hub connecting the Arab world
in the south and west; Central Asia in the north; and Afghanistan and
Pakistan in the east, all the way to Europe. Once
again, Eurasian integration on the move.
Tehran has myriad reasons to be on red alert if the Full
Spectrum Dominatrix gets her hands on the nuclear codes (how’s that not
scarier than Trump?) She will act as a surefire faithful
servant of the Saudi/Israeli alliance. The road map is ready. And neocons and neoliberalcons alike
can hardly contain their excitement at seeing in action “a force that
can flex across several different mission sets and prevail.”