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July 8, 2013
July 2, 2013
“Breaking the Set” on the Patriot Act as a Weapon Against Whistleblowers
Abby Martin had the guts & smarts to investigate how the Patriot Act attacks whistleblowers. We had a great interview on “Breaking the Set”! Abby gets 5 Gold Stars for asking about the CIA’s advance knowledge of 9/11. This chic’s not afraid of anything!
June 30, 2013
Shocking video of Syrian Rebel cannibalizing dead soldier
By Susan Lindauer When FederalJack.com & I teamed together to expose video evidence of Libyan Rebels cannibalizing, castrating and decapitating Gadhaffi soldiers, some of you protested that such things must be video inventions. Horribly, they are not. Gruesome videos are surfacing out of Syria, depicting identical crimes by Islamic fighters.
Imagine if Vietnam War protesters had financed the Khmer Rouge bloodbath in Cambodia. That’s exactly what Pro-War Progressives are doing now.
On this, I agree with Glenn Beck. Americans must demand that Progressive Democrats and Republicans in Congress cut off supplies to Syrian rebels immediately. We are being dragged into World War III. For myself, I will go kicking and screaming.
June 24, 2013
(Video) Syrian Army battles insurgents in heart of Damascus
Published on Jun 23, 2013
A car bomb rocked the central Mezzeh district of the Syrian capital Damascus killing and injuring a number of civilians. A three-year-old child was also among the people killed there. The explosion, which happened in the heavily populated al-Madraseh neighborhood, also caused material damage to the shops and apartments. Residents of this often-targeted neighborhood say armed men frequently attack them because they support resistance against the Israeli enemy. Elsewhere in the Rukn al-Deen neighborhood in north Damascus several bombers attacked a police station leaving several people dead, many of them the terrorists. Also, the insurgents attacked a criminal security branch in Bab Musalla in southwest Damascus. Authorities say at least 11 people died in the two attacks.
Mohamad Ali, Press TV, Damascus
June 23, 2013
Syria: One Death Among 93,000
World View: Ghassan al-Khouly was a builder, husband and father killed by a mortar while guarding an Old City gate in Damascus last week. This is his story.
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Ads by GoogleThe second of two mortar bombs killed Ghassan al-Khouly as he stood guard last Thursday at an ancient gate into the Christian quarter of the Old City of Damascus. It exploded right beside him killing him instantly, dark bloodstains and a small heap of stones today marking where he died.
Barakat al-Shamas who was standing guard with him, said: “I heard the sound of a shell coming in and I threw myself on the ground. When I got up I saw there was so much blood that I knew Ghassan must be dead.” Barakat was wounded with a piece of shrapnel penetrating his right hand as well as his neck and left leg.
Ghassan al-Khouly, an unemployed labourer who specialised in tiling floors, was one of the latest of an estimated 93,000 Syrians to have died since the start of the civil war in March 2011. Other than the fact he was a Greek Orthodox Christian, his experiences were not very different from those of many other Syrians caught up in the war.
His widow, Nour al-Sabek, says that until two years ago he was fully employed but when the rebels came all that was finished. They hold outer suburbs of Damascus where most of the new construction was, and as a Christian he did not dare go there. Everybody who is not a Sunni Muslim Arab assumes they are in danger of being killed, kidnapped or robbed in rebel-held areas. Forced to stay in the centre of the city he tried to eke out a living by doing odd jobs fixing electrical wiring, setting up satellite dishes and flooring. His family became poorer.
I started to learn about the life and death of Ghassan al-Khouly after I heard four rifle shots fired at regular intervals while I was walking to the great Umayyad Mosque in the Old City just before Friday prayers. It did not sound like a gunfight, and it turned out the shots had been fired by an honour guard bringing a body home for the funeral later in the afternoon. We learned the name of the dead man but were told that it was not a good moment to see his widow and her two sons. But if we wanted to know what had happened we should talk to Barakat al-Shamas, who had been wounded in the same incident but was just back from hospital.
I knew that Ghassan and Barakat had both been in the National Defence Force (NDF), a 60,000-strong militia organisation that has been publicised abroad as being a ferocious pro-government paramilitary organisation, freshly trained to turn the tide of war in Syria. The NDF may contain such units but in the Old City of Damascus its members are very much like the Home Guard in Britain in 1940. Everybody between the ages of 20 and 65 is meant to join, and many are quite elderly.
We met Barakat, not looking at all intimidated by his experiences, surrounded by friends sitting in the guest room of his house. He extended his right hand which was covered with a blood-stained bandage as if he had forgotten for a moment that he cannot shake hands with anybody.
I was surprised by the age of the two men who had been doing sentry duty: Barakat said he is 65 and Ghassan, the dead man, was 10 years younger. A photograph of Ghassan was on his death notice announcing funeral arrangements which had been pasted to walls in the Old City. The picture had the de-personalised look of head-and-shoulders ID photos, but showed a narrow-faced serious-looking man with a black moustache.
The rebels regularly fire mortars into districts of Damascus they do not control. This is difficult to stop because the rebels jump out of a car, take a mortar and a shell from the boot, fire it and are gone in a few minutes. This is their reply to government artillery which fires constantly at rebel-held districts. Ghassan and Barakat could not do much about the mortar attacks, but they were meant to stop rebels infiltrating through the Bab al-Sharqi, the Eastern Gate, into the Old City. “Old men are better at this because they know everybody who lives here and can pick out strangers,” said a local observer.
“Our shift was meant to end at 2pm,” recalled Barakat. He and Ghassan had moved to the north side of the gate to stay in the shade. It was then that the mortar bombs came down, one on either side of the gate. They did not leave much of a crater in the hard ground, but, aside from hitting the two guards, the shrapnel peppered an empty school bus and smashed its windscreen.
Nobody could be certain where the mortar was fired from but they thought it might have been Eastern Ghouta, a rebel stronghold to the east of Damascus under pressure from government forces. The mortar fire is the rebels’ way of showing they are still in business.
The outside world focuses on the Syrian refugees that have fled the country, but millions have also fled to the uncertain safety of Damascus where they are crammed into houses. Christians, once 6 per cent of Syria’s 23 million population, feel particularly vulnerable. Wael al-Shamas, the son of Barakat who works in a bank and speaks fluent English, described how the world he lived in was increasingly confined to a few Christian districts. He said: “I don’t have the courage to go outside these areas.” He said a problem for the Christians is that they do not have many places to flee to where they are safe. They are also often unemployed.
There are other less obvious difficulties. Wael said his father suffered from diabetes, and so far the government provided medicine free but he was worried what would happen if that stopped because buying it privately was very expensive. He added: “There is also a transport problem simply getting the medication from one side of the city to the other.”
All over Damascus day-to-day living is getting more difficult and expensive. There is still cheap government-subsidised bread, but there are long queues outside bakeries. Everything which is not subsidised is costing more and even people with jobs are paid in rapidly devaluing Syrian pounds. Last weekend, the pound’s value fell 30 per cent against the dollar before making a partial recovery. The streets of the Old City which would have been packed with pilgrims and tourists around the great monuments two years ago are empty. The restaurant of the Four Seasons Hotel still serves four different wines by the glass but had only a single customer.
I went to see Ghassan’s widow, Nour al-Sabek, in the family house where she was living with her two sons, Shadi and Sherbel. A friend had said he was worried that she would have nothing to live on, her close relatives and friends had also lost their jobs. As people came to pay their respects, the family sat near a large picture of the dead man. I asked Nour why her husband had joined the National Defence Force since it paid almost no money.
She replied that he loved his country and was frightened for his church, his children and his friends. Others said there were about 600 Christians in the neighbourhood who had joined the NDF and eight had been killed by mortars, snipers and bombs. Nour described how her husband had tried to scrape together a living by doing occasional jobs in the last two years. There was discussion among family members about the probability of Nour getting a lump sum from the government and a pension because her husband had been martyred. They thought this likely, going by past experience, but not absolutely certain.
While we spoke there was the booming of outgoing artillery in the background but nobody paid any attention to it since this has been typical background noise in Damascus for the past year. There was not much talk of general politics until Ebtisam, a thin, short, nervous-looking woman who was the sister of the dead man, asked me: “Why does your country send weapons to Syria? Without foreign support we would finish the rebels.” She said that in the past she could walk home in the middle of the night, but now I must ask my brother to pick me up.”
Everybody who had gathered to mourn Ghassan al-Khouly said how good relations between Muslims and Christians had been in Syria before the revolt. This has not always been true historically, since between 5,000 and 10,000 Christians were massacred in Damascus over eight days in 1860. But somebody remarked that there had been more Muslims than Christians in Ghasan’s funeral procession. His sons had remained silent while their older relatives talked about their dead father.
But just before I left, Shadi, aged 13 and looking grief-stricken, suddenly said in a loud voice: “The people and the world loved Ghassan al-Khouly.”
A Call to Police & Military to Defend the Constitution
As the second non-Arab American ever indicted on the Patriot Act, I tell you straight up, it can happen to you.
They hit me with secret charges, secret evidence and secret grand jury testimony. They locked me up on Carswell Air Force Base without a Trial or guilty plea. I was terrified when my demands for a hearing got denied. The military police refused to allow my Uncle, acting as my attorney, to enter Carswell Air Force Base, so I could plan my defense strategy. On the third try, U.S. Marshals were required to flank my Uncle/Attorney at the gates to the base with the Judge on stand by in his courtroom, in order to gain admission to see me.
It was unConstitutional as hell.
They did it to me, regardless of the fact that I love the values of our Country deeply. They did it to me, regardless of the fact that I was dedicated to protecting our society from violence and terrorism. They did it to me, regardless of the fact that I am a passionate activist and fully capable of fighting to defend myself.
I was the first. I will not be the last. We’ve got to put our country back on track right now.
Or it’s over for all of us.
June 13, 2013
Take It From Debka: Israel is Losing the Syrian War
by GILAD ATZMON
In the last week we have been following British and French’s desperate attempts to push for a military intervention in Syria. It is far from being a secret that both British and French government are dominated by the Jewish Lobby. In Britain it is the ultra Zionist CFI (Conservative Friends of Israel) – apparently 80% of Britain’s conservative MPs are members of the pro Israeli Lobby. In France the situation is even more devastating, the entire political system is hijacked by the forceful CRIF.
But in case anyone fails to grasp why the Jewish Lobby is pushing for an immediate intervention, Debka, an Israeli news outlet provides the answer. Seemingly, the Syrian army is winning on all fronts. Israel’s military and geo-political calculations are proved to be wrong.
According to Debka, “the battle for Damascus is over”. The Syrian army had virtually “regained control of the city in an epic victory”. The rebels, largely mercenaries, have lost the battle they “can’t do much more than fire sporadically. They can no longer launch raids, or pose threats to the city centre, the airport or the big Syrian air base nearby. The Russian and Iranian transports constantly bringing replenishments for keeping the Syrian army fighting can again land at Damascus airport after months of rebel siege.”
But it isn’t just the capital. Debka reports that “Hezbollah and Syrian units have tightened their siege on the rebels holding out in the northern sector of al Qusayr; other (Syrian army) units have completed their takeover of the countryside around the town of Hama; and a third combined Syrian-Hizballah force has taken up positions around Aleppo.”
Debka maintains that senior IDF officers criticized the Israeli defense minister (Moshe Ya’alon) who “mislead” the Knesset a few days ago estimating that “Bashar Assad controlled only 40% of Syrian territory.” Debka suggests that Israeli defense Minister drawn on a “flawed intelligence assessment and were concerned that the armed forces were acting on the basis of inaccurate intelligence.” Debka stresses, “erroneous assessments… must lead to faulty decision-making.”
Debka is clearly brave enough to admit that Israeli military miscalculations may have lead to disastrous consequences. It reports, “the massive Israeli bombardment of Iranian weapons stored near Damascus for Hezbollah, turned out a month later to have done more harm than good. It gave Bashar Assad a boost instead of weakening his resolve.”
Debka is obviously correct. It doesn’t take a genius to predict that an Israeli attack on an Arab land cannot be accepted by the Arab masses, not even by Assad’s bitterest Arab opponents.
Debka maintains that the “intelligence focus on military movements in Syria especially around Damascus to ascertain that advanced missiles and chemical weapons don’t reach Hezbollah laid to a failure of in detecting major movement by Hezbollah militia units towards the Syrian-Israeli border.”
Israel is now facing a new reality. It is facing Hezbollah reinforcements streaming in from Lebanon towards the Golan heights and its border with Syria.
Israel, Debka concludes, will soon find itself “face to face for the first time with Hezbollah units equipped with heavy arms and missiles on the move along the Syrian-Israeli border and manning positions opposite Israel’s Golan outposts and villages.”
Debka is correct to suggest that instead of “growing weaker, Iran’s Lebanese proxy is poised to open another warfront and force the IDF to adapt to a new military challenge from the Syrian Golan.”
Rather than The Guardian or the Le Monde, it is actually the Israeli Debka that helps us to grasp why Britain and France are so desperate to intervene. Once again, it is a Zionist war which they are so eager to fight.
Sadly enough, it isn’t The Guardian or The New York Times that is there to reveal the latest development in Syria and expose Israeli lethal miscalculations. It is actually a ‘Zionist’ Israeli patriotic outlet that is providing the good. I actually believe that this form of harsh self-criticism that is embedded in Israeli culture, is the means that sustains Israeli regional hegemony, at least monetarily. This ability to critically examine and disapprove your own leadership is something I fail to encounter in Western media. Seemingly, the media in Israel is far more tolerant toward criticism than the Zionist dominated Media in the West.
Gilad Atzmon’s latest book is: The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics
June 12, 2013
NSA’s Total Surveillance Exposed Many Times Over a Decade, Then Buried by Corporate Media
What Is the Government’s Agenda?
Wednesday, 12. June 2013
USA: Where there is No Democracy that Holds Government Accountable; Only a Brainwashed People who are Chaff in the Wind
It has been public information for a decade that the US government secretly, illegally, and unconstitutionally spies on its citizens. Congress and the federal courts have done nothing about this extreme violation of the US Constitution and statutory law, and the insouciant US public seems unperturbed.
In 2004 a whistleblower informed the New York Times that the National Security Agency (NSA) was violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by ignoring the FISA court and spying on Americans without obtaining the necessary warrants. The corrupt New York Times put the interests of the US government ahead of those of the American public and sat on the story for one year until George W. Bush was safely reelected.
By the time the New York Times published the story of the illegal spying one year later, the law-breaking government had had time to mitigate the offense with ex post facto law or executive orders and explain away its law-breaking as being in the country’s interest.
Last year William Binney, who was in charge of NSA’s global digital data gathering program revealed that NSA had everyone in the US under total surveillance. Every email, Internet site visited and phone call is captured and stored. In 2012 Binney received the Callaway Award for Civic Courage, an annual award given to those who champion constitutional rights at risk to their professional and personal lives.
There have been a number of whistleblowers. For example, in 2006 Mark Klein revealed that AT&T had a secret room in its San Francisco office that NSA used to collect Internet and phone-call data from US citizens who were under no suspicion.
The presstitute media handled these stories in ways that protected the government’s lawlessness from scrutiny and public outrage. The usual spin was that the public needs to be safe from terrorists, and safety is what the government is providing.
The latest whistle blower, Edward Snowden, has sought refuge in Hong Kong, which has a better record of protecting free speech than the US government. Snowden did not trust any US news source and took the story to the British newspaper, the Guardian.
There is no longer any doubt whatsoever that the US government is lawless, that it regards the US Constitution as a scrap of paper, that it does not believe Americans have any rights other than those that the government tolerates at any point in time, and that the government has no fear of being held accountable by the weak and castrated US Congress, the sycophantic federal courts, a controlled media, and an insouciant public.
Binney and Snowden have described in precisely accurate detail the extreme danger from the government’s surveillance of the population. No one is exempt, not the Director of the CIA, US Army Generals, Senators and Representatives, not even the president himself.
Anyone with access to a computer and the Internet can find interviews with Binney and Snowden and become acquainted with why you do have very much indeed to fear whether or not you are doing anything wrong.
James Clapper, the lying Director of National Intelligence, who would have been perfectly at home in the Hitler or Stalin regimes, condemned Snowden as “reprehensible” for insisting that in a democracy the public should know what the government is doing. Clapper insisted that secretly spying on every ordinary American was essential in order to “protect our nation.”
Clapper is “offended” that Americans now know that the NSA is spying on the ordinary life of every American. Clapper wants Snowden to be severely punished for his “reckless disclosure” that the US government is totally violating the privacy that the US Constitution guarantees to every US citizen.
President Obama allegedly educated in constitutional law, justified Clapper’s program of spying on every communication of every American citizen as a necessary violation of Americans’ civil liberties that “protects your civil liberties.” Contrast the lack of veracity of the President of the United States with the truthfulness of Snowden, who correctly stated that the NSA spying is an “existential threat to democracy.”
The presstitutes are busy at work defending Clapper and Obama. On June 9, CNN rolled out former CIA case officer Bob Baer to implant into the public’s mind that Snowden, far from trying to preserve US civil liberties, might be a Chinese spy and that Snowden’s revelations might be indicative of a Chinese espionage case.
Demonization is the US government’s technique for discrediting Bradley Manning for complying with the US Military Code and reporting war crimes and for persecuting Julian Assange of Wikileaks for reporting leaked information about the US government’s crimes. Demonization and false charges will be the government’s weapon against Snowden.
If Washington and its presstitutes can convince Americans that courageous people, who are trying to inform Americans that their historic rights are disappearing into a police state, are espionage agents of foreign powers, America can continue to be subverted by its own government.
This brings us to the crux of the matter. What is the purpose of the spying program?
Even if an American believes the official stories of 9/11 and the Boston Marathon Bombing, these are the only two terrorist acts in the US that resulted in the loss of human life in 12 years. Far more people are killed in traffic accidents and from bad diets. Why should the Constitution and civil liberty be deep-sixed because of two alleged terrorist acts in 12 years?
What is astounding is the absence of terrorist attacks. Washington is in the second decade of invading and destroying Muslim governments and countries. Civilian casualties in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya are extremely high, and in those countries that Washington has not yet invaded, such as Pakistan, Yemen, and Syria, civilians are being murdered by Washington’s drones and proxies on the ground.
It is extraordinary that Washington’s brutal 12 year assault on Muslim lives in six countries has not resulted in at least one dozen real, not fake FBI orchestrated, terrorist attacks in the US every day.
How can something as rare as terrorism justify the destruction of the US Constitution and US civil liberty? How safe is any American when their government regards every citizen as a potential suspect who has no rights?
Why is there no discussion of this in American public life? Watch the presstitutes turn Snowden’s revelations into an account of his disaffection and motives and away from the existential threat to democracy and civil liberty.
What is the government’s real agenda? Clearly, “the war on terror” is a front for an undeclared agenda. In “freedom and democracy” America, citizens have no idea what their government’s motives are in fomenting endless wars and a gestapo police state. The only information Americans have comes from whistleblowers, who Obama ruthlessly prosecutes. The presstitutes quickly discredit the information and demonize the whistleblowers.
Germans in the Third Reich and Soviet citizens in the Stalin era had a better idea of their government’s agendas than do “freedom and democracy” Americans today. The American people are the most uninformed people in modern history.
In America there is no democracy that holds government accountable. There is only a brainwashed people who are chaff in the wind.
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Paul Craig Roberts, Boiling Frogs Post contributing author, is a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has been reporting on executive branch and cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. He has written or co-written eight books, contributed chapters to numerous books, and has published many articles in journals of scholarship. Mr. Roberts has testified before congressional committees on 30 occasions on issues of economic policy, and has been a critic of both Democratic and Republican administrations. You can visit his website here.
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June 3, 2013
Mass Anti-Erdogan Protests in Turkey: Demand Ruling Party Step Down
Turkey Defies The AKP – Muslim Brotherhood Coup D´Etat and the Rewriting of Turkey´s History.
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc),- Mass protests in Turkey as well as violent police crack downs in 48 cities have resulted in approximately 1000 injured and several dead. After the AKP government of R. Tayyip Erdogan took on itself the responsibility for the most violent police crack-down the Turkish population has witnessed for decades, the protests increasingly begin to reflect the increasing popular discontent and frustrations which have been building since the AKP government came to power in Turkey. After the Erdogan government, with the words of protesters “has gotten blood on its hands”, protesters throughout Turkey rally around a simple and unequivocal demand. The Erdogan Government has to step down. The mass protests are an artifact of a Turkish population that defies the AKP – Muslim Brotherhood Coup D´Etat.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The protests began with a peaceful occupation of Gezi Park near Taksim Square in central Istanbul. Besides being a breathing hole and oasis in the city, Gezi Park and Taksim Square are important symbols for progressive, secular, nationalist and Kemalist Turks. The park and square have been used as traditional rally points since the liberation of Turkey and the victory of the Turkish Revolution on 29 October 1929.
The main reason for, why the police crack-down on the park protesters on Friday morning could ignite mass protests with more than 200.000 protesters in more than 30 cities throughout Turkey on Friday evening is, that the crack-down on the people who protested for the preservation of the tradition-laden park equaled a police crack-down on the founding principles of the Turkish nation-state, the republic, as a democratic and secular state that does not interfere in the internal affairs of its Arab neighbors. The plan to build not only a shopping mall, but to re-erect military barracks from the Ottoman period in the square is by the vast majority of Turks perceived as a direct provocation and slap into the face of the Turkish Republic which is based on Kemalist principles.
On Friday, after crack-down on the protesters in Gezi Park, and after the mass protests began throughout Turkey, R. Tayyip Erdogan remained defiant and announced that he was determined to go ahead with carrying out the construction plans in Taksim Square.
Photo from twitter.com user @SelenCanB
Photo from twitter.com user @SelenCanB
“Police will be on duty today and also tomorrow because Taksim Square cannot be an area where extremists are running wild” Erdogan stated to the press and continued, blaming the protesters for the violence and for having escalated their opposition to the governments policies over the past months. “We will rebuild the military barracks according to the project and it is unclear if the site would include a mall,” said Erdogan, while calling for an immediate end of the protests.
The rebuilding of the military barracks from the Ottoman period are by many Turks perceived as one more attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood associated AKP government to re-write the history of Turkey and to reverse the victory of the Turkish revolution in 1929.
Traditionally, on 29 October, Turks are taking to the streets in the tens or hundred of thousands to celebrate ” Republic Day” which most Turks consider as one of the most important, if not as “the” most important public holiday in Turkey. On Republic day, Turks are celebrating the victory of the Turkish revolution on 29 October 1923 under the leadership of Kamal Attaturk over imperialism and its proxies.
In 2012 the AKP government of Prime Minister R. Tayyip Erdogan officially banned any public marches and celebrations on 29 October. Most opposition parties described the ban as an attempt by the AKP and the Muslim brotherhood to re-write history. More than 200.000 Turks went into the streets on Republic Day 2012, defied the governments ban and marched toward police barricades which had been erected in Istanbul. The number of protesters was so overwhelming for the police forces, that they voluntarily removed the barricades – and themselves – before being removed.
The Erdogan administrations plan to re-build the Ottoman period military barracks and eventually the mall is perceived as a direct slap into the face of Turkish nationalism, of Turkish independence from imperialism and the foundation of Turkey as a secular state.
Over the last years, the Erdogan administration has increasingly come under fire for despotism and for attempts to “Islamize” Turkish society. Although the vast majority of Turks are Muslims, the vast majority of Turks is also highly suspicious against any attempts to change Turkey´s status as a nation state with a secular constitution.
Among the events that have provoked wide spread discontent are numerous cases in which the police has been turning a blind eye to women being harassed and threatened for not veiling their face in public.
Another source of wide spread discontent and frustrations with the Erdogan administration is the Ergenkonen Case, which leading members of the opposition, high-ranking military officers and large segments of the Turkish population perceive as a de facto coup d´etat by the Muslim Brotherhood, the AKP and the Erdogan administration. In the Ergenkonen case some 300 military officers have been arrested and charged with espionage. Some 300 more military officers as well as dozens of civilians have been arrested and charged on a milder espionage paragraph for “passing on secret information”.
Both leading members of the Turkish opposition and analysts, including the author of this article, have repeatedly stated that the arrests and imprisonment of 600 key military officers and dozens of leading members of the opposition constitute a de facto coup d´etat by the AKP government of R. Tayyip Erdogan.
The Ergenkonen case and the arrests on manufactured and trumped-up charges was not only a coup d´etat, but most likely also one of the primary steps taken by the AKP government of Erdogan, to prepare the ranks of the Turkish military for a military aggression against Syria.
It must be remembered, within this context, that the initial main fighting force of the so-called “Free Syrian Army” consisted of Muslim Brotherhood dominated corps which were heavily supported with mercenaries or volunteers from within the Turkish Muslim Brotherhood, and who from day one of the uprising in Syria were supported with weapons, logistics, as well as with special forces. This initial fighting force was heavily reinforced by Libyan fighters. Only after the decisive defeat of the Free Syrian Army after two failed campaigns to secure the city of Aleppo as seat for a transitional government, the massive influx of Wahhabi and Salafist mercenaries, organized primarily via al-Qaeda´s Turkey – Syria franchise Jabhat al-Nusrah began.
The mass protests in Turkey, with hundreds of thousands of protesters in the streets of Istanbul, Ankara and more than 40 other cities have little to do with 600 trees.
erdogan – a fair fighterThe protests in Turkey are a manifestation of a Turkish population that is waking up to the fact that they have to take their country back from the grip of the Muslim Brotherhood and from the grip of an AKP government which has aligned itself with imperialism, against its neighbor Syria, and which ultimately facilitates long-term US-strategies to “balkanize” Turkey.
While this article is being written, police forces in Istanbul are firing tear gas into the masses in yet one more attempt to disperse the protesters. Given the years of frustration and built-up anger with the Muslim Brotherhood and the arrogance of the AKP government of R. Tayyip Erdogan in the face of masses who demand that the government, which came to and held on to power by a coup d´etat,; which has led the nation into a war on its neighbor by sponsoring al-Qaeda mercenaries and terrorists; which has arrested hundreds of military officers and opposition leaders on false and trumped-up charges; the situation has a propensity toward developing into a protracted and violent stand off. The question is, how many rounds will the AKP – Muslim Brotherhood alliance or the opposition stand, and does Erdogan fight like Mike Tyson ? (In that case, opposition, take care of your ears.)
June 1, 2013
“Turkish Spring–” Violent Clashes Erupt in Istanbul
Violent clashes erupted on the streets of Istanbul, as Turkish people battled President Erdogan’s soldiers in scenes reminiscent of Tahrir Square. It does appear the Arab Spring has moved into Turkey.
Turkish Anti-Erdogan Protester Killed on Live Television. No weapon in sight.
A Night of Clashes in Istanbul
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