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November 17th, 2015

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Macey Tomlin

Macey comes on the show to talk about the success of The FREEDOM! Line Tour and Adam Kokesh having to go back to D.C. on moment's notice for a hearing...

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Hour 2

Hour 2 -- Scott Horton (Host of Scott Horton Radio) on Yemen, Syria, and Paris

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Hour 2

Scott Horton (ScottHorton.Org)

 

Scott comes on the show to discuss Yemen, Syrian and Paris

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TOPICS AND REFERENCES...

Clean Break to Dirty Wars

June 30, 2015 Dan Sanchez

 

Shattering the Middle East for Israel's Northern Front

To understand today's crises in Iraq, Syria, and Iran one must grasp their shared Lebanese connection. This assertion may seem odd. After all, what's the big deal about Lebanon? That little country hasn't had top headlines since Israel deigned to bomb and invade it in 2006. Yet, to a large extent, the roots of the bloody tangle now enmeshing the Middle East lie in Lebanon: or to be more precise, in the Lebanon policy of Israel.

Rewind to the era before the War on Terror. In 1995, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's "dovish" Prime Minister, was assassinated by a right-wing zealot. This precipitated an early election in which Rabin's Labor Party was defeated by the ultra-hawkish Likud, lifting hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu to his first Premiership in 1996.

That year, an elite study group produced a foreign policy document for the incipient administration titled, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm." The membership of the Clean Break study group is highly significant, as it included American neoconservatives who would later hold high offices in the Bush Administration and play driving roles in its Middle East policy.

"A Clean Break" advised that the new Likud administration adopt a "shake it off" attitude toward the policy of the old Labor administration which, as the authors claimed, assumed national "exhaustion" and allowed national "retreat." This was the "clean break" from the past that "A Clean Break" envisioned. Regarding Israel's international policy, this meant:

"…a clean break from the slogan, 'comprehensive peace' to a traditional concept of strategy based on balance of power."

Pursuit of comprehensive peace with all of Israel's neighbors was to be abandoned for selective peace with some neighbors (namely Jordan and Turkey) and implacable antagonism toward others (namely Iraq, Syria, and Iran). The weight of its strategic allies would tip the balance of power in favor of Israel, which could then use that leverage to topple the regimes of its strategic adversaries by using covertly managed "proxy forces" and "the principle of preemption." Through such a "redrawing of the map of the Middle East," Israel would "shape the regional environment," and thus, "Israel will not only contain its foes; it will transcend them."

"A Clean Break" was to Israel (and ultimately to the US) what Otto von Bismarck's 1862 "Blood and Iron" speech was to Germany. As he set the German Empire on a warpath that would ultimately set Europe ablaze, Bismarck proclaimed:

"Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided?—?that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849?—?but by iron and blood."

Before setting Israel and the US on a warpath that would ultimately set the Middle East ablaze, the Clean Break authors were basically saying: Not through peace accords will the great questions of the day be decided?—?that was the great mistake of 1978 (at Camp David) and 1993 (at Oslo)?—?but by "divide and conquer" and regime change. By wars both aggressive ("preemptive") and "dirty" (covert and proxy).

"A Clean Break" slated Saddam Hussein's Iraq as first up for regime change. This is highly significant, especially since several members of the Clean Break study group played decisive roles in steering and deceiving the United States into invading Iraq and overthrowing Saddam seven years later.

The Clean Break study group's leader, Richard Perle, led the call for Iraqi regime change beginning in the 90s from his perch at the Project for a New American Century and other neocon think tanks. And while serving as chairman of a high level Pentagon advisory committee, Perle helped coordinate the neoconservative takeover of foreign policy in the Bush administration and the final push for war in Iraq.

CLICK HERE for the rest of the article

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Seize the Chaos

October 5, 2015 Dan Sanchez

Israel, the Neocons, and their Bloody, Blundering "Art" of War

Israel lacks a national motto. If its leaders are looking for a Latin one, "carpe chaos" would be an apt and honest choice. 

"Seize the chaos" is half of Israeli foreign policy in a nutshell (the other half being the instigation of that chaos in the first place). Indeed, even its friends in the media cannot help but put it in such terms. For example, The New York Times recently reported about the: 

"…many Israeli leaders and thinkers seizing on the chaos in Syria to solidify Israel's hold on Golan." 

This refers to the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967 and has occupied ever since. Even the Israel-enabling United Nations considers that occupation and subsequent annexation to be unjust and illegal. Returning Golan to Syria has long been advanced as part of a potential peace deal. 

But now, Israel is using the civil war in Syria as an excuse to expand settlements in the Golan Heights; a senior minister wants 100,000 new residents in the next five years. Its potential uses are manifold: 

"The 400-plus square miles of the Israeli-controlled Golan on the northeast border with Syria is both strategic plateau and lush agricultural terrain yielding prize apples, cherries and beef. It is also a vast playground that drew 3 million tourist visits last year." 

This is Israel's usual M.O. in the Palestinian West Bank as well: forging ahead with illicit settlements to establish "realities on the ground" that will be too intractable to reverse, thereby fixing the occupation permanently in place. 

Advocates of the new Golan settlements defend them by citing the chaos in Syria: 

"With Syria 'disintegrating' after years of civil war, they argue, it is hard to imagine a stable state to which the territory could be returned." 

The Times quotes Israeli MP Michael Oren who adds a blatantlebensraum argument to the case for good measure: 

"We need places to build, and the world doesn't want us to build in the West Bank. I don't think anyone in the world can come at us and say we're building on land that's going to be part of a peace deal if we build on the Golan Heights." 

"Seize the chaos" is not a new doctrine: neither is it limited to Israeli halls of power. A veritable "carpe chaos" manifesto was written in 1996 for a Washington think tank by David Wurmser, an Israel-first neocon (but I repeat myself) who would later play a key role in the Bush administration's drive to the Iraq War: advising Dick Cheney in the Vice President's Office, assisting John Bolton at the State Department, and fabricating fanciful "connections" between Iraq and Al Qaeda at the Department of Defense. 

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Tomgram: Nick Turse, America's Empire of African Bases

Posted by Nick Turse at 8:00am, November 17, 2015.

[Note for TomDispatch Readers:  Last week, Nick Turse appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss his superb TomDispatch work on Special Operations forces and his new Dispatch book, Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa. Click here to check him out at DN! (or here for the online extended interview). Then, if you'd like a personalized, signed copy of his new book, just go to the TD donation page. For $100 -- and the knowledge that you've helped this website roll into 2016 -- it's yours! Tom]

As I've written elsewhere, what Chalmers Johnson called America's "empire of bases" was "not so much our little secret as a secret we kept even from ourselves" -- at least until Johnson broke the silence and his book Blowback became a bestseller in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.  In those years, however, if (like Johnson) you actually wanted to know about the way the U.S. garrisoned the world, you could profitably start simply by reading the Pentagon's tabulations of its global garrisons, ranging from military bases the size of small American towns to what were then starting to be called "lily pads," which were small sites in potential global hot spots stocked with pre-positioned materiel and ready for instant occupation.  It was all there on the record for those who cared to know.  Well, perhaps not quite all there, but enough of it certainly to get a sense of what the "American Raj" (as Johnson called it) looked like from Europe to Asia, Latin America to the Persian Gulf. 

And it was impressive, that empire of bases, once you took it in.  It represented a garrisoning of the globe unprecedented in the history of empires.  That we Americans didn't generally know much about it was, in a sense, a matter of choice, a matter, you might say, of self-blinding behavior.  To hazard a guess: as a people, we were uncomfortable enough with the idea of ourselves as a global imperial power that we preferred not to know what "we" were doing, or at least not to acknowledge what we had become, even though every year hundreds of thousands of Americans, military personnel and civilians alike, lived on, worked on, or cycled through those bases.  In this context, it was startling how seldom they were part of our everyday news cycle.  For those in other countries, they often loomed large indeed as the local face of the United States, but you'd never know that if your source of news was the mainstream media here. 

That, of course, hasn't changed.  What has changed is Washington's attitude toward the public record.  Its latest basing moves are taking place enveloped in a blanket of secrecy, which means that even if you want to know, it's increasingly tough to find out.  Washington's latest garrisoning strategy is based on a new premise: a "small footprint," meaning a tiny-bases, rapid-deployment, special-ops and drone-heavy way of war that's being put into place across Africa in the twenty-first century, as TomDispatch's Nick Turse lays out today.  While the U.S. has always pursued parts of its imperial strategy in "the shadows," to use a phrase from my Cold War childhood, in this new strategy everyday basing, too, is disappearing into those shadows, which is why Turse's latest piece on the subject is a small reportorial triumph of time and effort.

For this site in these last years, Turse has regularly revealed much that has been out of sight when it comes to Washington's expanding military focus on Africa, including the cascading number of U.S. military missions across that continent, a similar spike in missions to train proxy forces there, and soaring deployments of U.S. Special Operations forces -- that secret military-within-the-military of 70,000 that now thrives solely in a world of shadows.  It took a year of his efforts, but today he finishes off his portrait of the garrisoning of a whole continent in a new way with a look at the basing policies of U.S. Africa Command.  It's a piece that couldn't be more important or hard-won, and it offers us our first look at how a continent is being prepared for what Turse, in his latest book, has called "tomorrow's battlefield." Tom

Does Eleven Plus One Equal Sixty? 
AFRICOM's New Math, the U.S. Base Bonanza, and "Scarier" Times Ahead in Africa 
By Nick Turse

In the shadows of what was once called the "dark continent," a scramble has come and gone. If you heard nothing about it, that was by design. But look hard enough and -- north to south, east to west -- you'll find the fruits of that effort: a network of bases, compounds, and other sites whose sum total exceeds the number of nations on the continent. For a military that has stumbled from Iraq to Afghanistan and suffered setbacks from Libya to Syria, it's a rare can-do triumph. In remote locales, behind fences and beyond the gaze of prying eyes, the U.S. military has built an extensive archipelago of African outposts, transforming the continent, experts say, into a laboratory for a new kind of war.

So how many U.S. military bases are there in Africa?  It's a simple question with a simple answer.  For years, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) gave astock response: one. Camp Lemonnier in the tiny, sun-bleached nation of Djibouti was America's only acknowledged "base" on the continent.  It wasn't true, of course, because there were camps, compounds, installations, and facilities elsewhere, but the military leaned hard on semantics.

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Hour 3

Hour 3 -- Freedom's Phoenix Headline News; Macey gives another update; Dr. Phranq Tamburri (last segment) on 'Audit the Fed' Bill before the Senate

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Hour 3

Ernest Hancock

Freedom's Phoenix Headline News

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TOPICS:

Tomorrowland Speech (Publisher: The Solution to War & Fear - Generation Next's IMAGINATION)

Just imagine, if you glimpsed the future, were frightened by what you saw, what would you do with that information? Would you go to...politicians? [Captains?] and industry. And how would they take this data, facts? Good luck. Any facts they won't challenge are the ones that keep the wheels greased and the dollars rolling in.

Now what if, what if there was a way of skipping the middleman, putting the critical news directly into everyone's head? The probability of widespread iniolation kept going up. The only way of stopping it is to show it, and to scare people straight. What reasonable human being wouldn't be galvanized over the by the potential destruction of anything they've ever known or loved? To save civilization...I would show it's collapse. How do you think this vision was received? How do you think the world responded, to imminent doom? They gobbled it up, like chocolate eclair. They didn't fear their demise, they repackaged it! [If you enjoyed] video games, TV shows, books, movies. The entire world, wholeheartedly embraced the apocalypse. They sprinted towards it with gleeful abandon.

Meanwhile, your Earth, was crumbling, all around you. You put civil epidemics of obesity and starvation! Explain that one. Bees, butterflies start to disappear, the glaciers melt, algae blooms all around you, coal mine canaries are all dropping dead, and you won't take the hint! In every moment, there is the possibility of a better future, yet you won't believe it! [But] because you won't believe it, your doom is necessary to make it a reality. So you dwell on this terrible future, and you resign yourselves to it for one reason; because that future doesn't ask anything of you, TODAY. So yes, you saw the iceberg, you're the Titanic. But you just steer for it anyway. Full steam ahead. Why? Because you want to sink. You gave up.?

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Ron Paul ATF Emergency Senate Vote - PASS 'AUDIT THE FED' NOW...

Written by Donna Hancock
Date: 11-17-2015
Subject: Ron Paul Says...

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