Kerry to Kiev as Neocon Washington Post Wails for War

Secretary of State John Kerry, fresh off of his whirlwind tour of the Sunday morning lie factories is heading to Kiev to bolster the illegitimate western backed government that just toppled democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych. Kerry has been dispatched with a mandate from the narcissist in chief Barack Obama to ensure that the loathed Russian leader Vladimir Putin is made to lick the star-spangled jackboots of Uncle Sam for his recalcitrance in saving Snowden from one of Obama’s torture black sites and then intervening to stop the war on Syria. The Skull and Bones pedigreed Kerry, with his phony Vietnam war hero mystique and his great wealth from marrying into the Heinz Ketchup family fortune has a full head of steam and the wind in his sails as he will slither into the Kiev HQ of the chosen new boss whose reign is as bogus as those “freedom fighters” that the U.S. state media likes to tout as heroes of democracy while conveniently ignoring that they are chock a block with right-wing extremists, fascists and full blown neo-Nazis.

The entire corrupt domestic media has Kerry’s back – at least as long as his extended stammering about such horseshit as “democracy” and accusing Putin of being the second coming of Satan doesn’t cut into their 24/7 gavel to gavel coverage of the Oscar Pistorious trial. Nowhere is the propaganda of a long ago discredited media spewed forth like so much electronic manure as it is at the Neocon beacon of lies and jingoism that is The Washington Post. Whatever hope that the acquisition of the one-time crown jewel of Operation  Mockingbird by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos would result in a giant enema nozzle being inserted into the building – preferably at the foot of the desk of the as prolific as she is insipid Jennifer Rubin and the bulb being given a good hard squeeze was a false one. But in the age of Obama one is by now used to false hope as well as chump change. The WaPo was in rare form today as it published a call to arms for WW III against the much demonized Putin by its editorial board.

The piece, entitled “President Obama’s foreign policy is based on fantasy” is such an incredible piece of bullshit that any decent managing editor would have fed it directly into the shredder – I only excerpt the lead in as an example of its complete and abject dishonesty:

FOR FIVE YEARS, President Obama has led a foreign policy based more on how he thinks the world should operate than on reality. It was a world in which “the tide of war is receding” and the United States could, without much risk, radically reduce the size of its armed forces. Other leaders, in this vision, would behave rationally and in the interest of their people and the world. Invasions, brute force, great-power games and shifting alliances — these were things of the past. Secretary of State John F. Kerry displayed this mindset on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday when he said, of Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine, “It’s a 19th century act in the 21st century.”

The reference to Kerry’s comparison to the invasion of Ukraine along with the stunning omission that the United States of America and the George W. Bush administration did EXACTLY this by attacking, invading and occupying Iraq back in 2003. Granted Americans in general really don’t bother reading anything other than the sports sections or the funnies and have the attention span of attention deficit-disorder afflicted gnats but Jesus Christ – that is in and of itself not only a national embarrassment but exhibit A in why the blogosphere and alternative media has been kicking the shit out of consolidated, corporate and state megaphones like the Post.

Also in the WaPo was a vomit inducing manifesto by career lickspittle David Ignatius very imaginatively entitled “Putin’s error in Ukraine is the kind that leads to catastrophe” which if you can manage to get through the first paragraph of this substitute for toilet tissue it is obvious that it is cribbed from centrally distributed talking points notably for the term “revanchist” which is not exactly one that is commonly used. The think tanks have been working overtime to provide scripts for warfare state parrots like Ignatius and his ilk:

Napoleon is said to have cautioned during an 1805 battle: “When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.” The citation is also sometimes rendered as “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” Whatever the precise wording, the admonition is a useful starting point for thinking about the Ukraine situation.

Vladimir Putin has made a mistake invading Crimea, escalating a crisis for Russia that has been brewing for many months. It might have been beneficial if President Obama could have dissuaded him from this error. But Putin’s move into Crimea appeared to spring from a deeper misjudgment about the reversibility of the process that led to the breakup of Soviet Union in 1991. The further Russia wades into this revanchist strategy, the worse its troubles will become.

I will give Ignatius some credit though in that he did not compare Putin to “The New Hitler” but "revanchist" is a dead giveaway just as the references to "jitters" in reports on our dismal and doomed economy are. 

The WaPo also trotted out the borderline cadaver that is the insane career anti-Russian bigot Zbigniew Brzezinski (Z-BIG) – author of "The Grand Chessboard" as well as the man whose brilliant idea to sucker the hated Russians into Afghanistan as their “Vietnam” during the 1980’s led to the arming of Islamic fanatics including one Osama bin Laden and we all know how that turned out. Why the fuck that these people are given any credibility as “experts” at anything but destroying America is illustrative of how every single institution in this once great country has been polluted over the past forty or fifty years. I excerpt the following from Z-BIG’s asininely over the top “What is to be done? Putin’s aggression in Ukraine needs a response”:

 Regarding the Russian aggression against Ukraine, much depends on what Vladi­mir Putin does next. But what Putin does depends on not only his calculation of the likely NATO (and especially the U.S.) response but also his estimate of how fiercely the Ukrainian people would respond to any further escalation by Russia. And, to complete the circle, the Ukrainian response would be influenced by citizens’ reaction to any further repetition of Putin’s Crimean aggression and by whether the nation believes that the United States and NATO are truly supportive.

Putin’s thuggish tactics in seizing Crimea offer some hints regarding his planning. He knew in advance that his thinly camouflaged invasion would meet with popular support from the Russian majority in Crimea. He was not sure how the thin and light Ukrainian military units stationed there would react, so he went in masked like a Mafia gangster. In the event of serious Ukrainian resistance, he could disown the initiative and pull back.

His initial success may tempt him to repeat that performance more directly in the far eastern provinces of Ukraine proper. If successful, the conclusive third phase could then be directed, through a combination of political unrest and increasingly overt use of Russian forces, to overthrow the government in Kiev. The result would thus be similar to the two phases of Hitler’s seizure of the Sudetenland after Munich in 1938 and the final occupation of Prague and Czechoslovakia in early 1939.

Why is it that these Goebbels wannabes never apply their sick and dishonest Hitler and Nazi analogies to themselves?

That was a jeremiad befitting of Mein Kampf as a rallying cry to destroy an enemy that only truly exists within the deranged psyches of those most likely to lead the planet into a nuclear cataclysm and what the Christian Zionist zealots who buy into all of the insanity call the “end times” which they covet. Not that it matters to them that Jesus is NOT coming back and all of us – saints and sinners, believers and non-believers, liberals and conservatives and us and them are going to be incinerated. The unlucky ones will be left wander the nuclear wasteland like the walkers in "The Walking Dead" or any of those other very popular zombie-apocalypse flicks but it will really be like “The Road” only with iPads that no longer function due to the busting back to the stone age punishment inflicted upon us all by those choked with hubris, megalomania and the presstitutes and propaganda mills that keep them in power.

Like his buddy Henry Kissinger, Brzezinski should have long ago been euthanized or parked in an insane asylum where he could deliver his diatribes to the fellow lunatics or the rubber walls of the padded room in which he belongs but as such practices are not tolerated in a ‘civilized’ society the very least that could be expected is that he be exiled to a place like Stormfront I know that the Pox on the Potomac was hit by a winter snowstorm again today giving the sucklers and chiselers of our bloated authoritarian government yet another day off to sit around in their jammies and deliver their silly but dangerous babble on the internet but Bezos semi-officially became our own version of Julius Steicher today.

My God, if the man has any principles whatsoever he would brave the weather and fire the entire sordid lot tomorrow morning just as the wretched Obama should do in giving Kerry his pink slip – what a national embarrassment this stammering buffoon has become - it becomes increasingly evident why he got his ass kicked by Bush in 2004.

There's No Debating Over Latest War in Obama's America

The lack of debate over Obama and his Congressional  co-conspirators’ upcoming  Syrian war flies in the face of what a democratic society should be based on but we sadly no longer live in one. The self-righteous, self-serving  jingoist rhetoric that has poisoned the discourse for two weeks now is ratcheting up ever higher on a daily basis. Obama administration apparatchik and their bloodthirsty, warmongering allies like Senator John McCain may babble about “democracy” in the Middle East yet it is all more of the same Orwellian doublespeak. As Barry and the boys move heaven and earth to save face after his moronic “red line” statement on Syrian escalation there is a complete absence of anything but the official state narrative that saturates American media. If you don’t like it then you just may be a traitor, a conspiracy theorist or just downright anti-American, it is just another flavor of the same manure that was peddled by the Bush-Cheney crew when they browbeat Americans into attacking Iraq on bogus pretenses. The imminent Syrian misadventure actually makes it look as though Obama’s predecessor really did have the smoking gun, so shoddy, frantic and made up as they go along is their case for this looming foreign policy fiasco.

The hypnotic drumbeat goes on even as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has just provided the Obama-Kerry-Rice Axis of Evil with another item to check off of the list with an approval for strikes that was just voted out of committee. The corrupt Senate will likely vote on Monday followed by the House and then Barry will have the political cover to swing the big guns in the direction of Damascus for the latest of our modern Crusades. It is imperative that the heavy lifting of propagandizing the sheeple and conducting the sham of a congressional ‘debate’ be done before more facts about the Ghouta gassing seep out to blow a hole in the entire stinking Obama case for war. The last thing that can be allowed is for the U.N. inspection results (which could take 3 weeks) to muck things up and the administration according to a Washington Post story the administration has already dismissed U.N. inspectors citing that: “the findings — expected in less than two weeks — no longer matter, citing its own evidence that the Syrian government was behind the chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs”. Seems like the entirety of the U.N. involvement was nothing more than a dog and pony show as the decision has already been made based on the same type of secret evidence that Obama’s secret FISA court produces. Yet the rulers of  this country have the audacity to preach democracy to the rest of the world, hypocrisy is the coin of the realm in 2013 America.

In our phony “democracy” what the ordinary schmucks want has not mattered for a good long time now, it has been made especially clear under Obama. Despite widespread resistance the regime rammed the bitter pill of Obamacare down the throats of Americans without a chaser. This massive expansion of big government is when it all comes down to it nothing more than a gift to the insurance parasites to whom it delivers yoked and chained millions of new customers with the threat of punitive action by the state levied against those who do not comply.  Obama has also presided over the ongoing strip-mining operations that have destroyed the U.S. economy and provided taxpayer house money for the well-heeled degenerates on Wall Street to gamble with. He has also launched an unprecedented assault on the Second Amendment and has the most powerful surveillance machine in human history at his disposal along with the DEA, DOJ and IRS as his enforcers. The IRS already has gone after political foes under this regime and the abuses of the NSA were only coming to light until the war machine and all of its accoutrements was fired up. None of this was debated nor even mentioned during the 2012 election which rapidly degenerated into the same state media friendly, substance free clash of dueling cults of personality. The only, and I emphasize only reason that Obama was able to win a second term was due to the abysmal quality of his opponent, an arrogant, high-rolling vulture capitalist  flip-flopper from Massachusetts who viewed over half of America with contempt and alienated a good portion of the conservative base. Not to infer that Mitt Romney would not have started another war because when you have a guy like Dan Senor as your top foreign policy adviser it would have been foremost on the agenda.

But I digress…

The Obama war on Syria is as inevitable this morning as the venality and sheer dishonesty of his war cabinet. Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry has repeatedly been caught stretching the truth whenever he wasn’t lying outright. So much so that Russian leader Vladimir Putin even came out and called bullshit on the former Democratic party presidential election loser.  The state propaganda mills are grinding their gears today in portraying Putin as the devil for rightfully pointing out that Kerry is indeed a liar who deliberately played down the role of Al Qaeda groups among the Syrian militants. It takes balls to defend the same terrorist organization that twelve years ago next Tuesday brought such devastation to American shores with the destruction of the World Trade Center, part of the Pentagon and murdered over 3,000 of our citizens in the process. It is remarkable that Kerry and the rest of Obama’s gangster administration would bed down with such wolves as they trump up the gassing of a still undetermined number of Syrians by still undetermined parties to override 9/11 as though those who died that day at the hand of Al Qaeda are somehow insignificant. Kerry also seems to have found a new “Curveball” in falsely attributing claims of an alleged high level Syrian defector. While he was providing testimony in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Kerry trotted out this whopper: “Just today, before coming in here, I read an e-mail to me about a general, the minister of defense, former minister or assistant minister, I forget which, who has just defected and is now in Turkey”. The problem, and give credit to columnist Dana Milbank of the WaPo for pointing it out is that Kerry was referring to a Reuters news story and NOT any such email at all. This administration seems to have an abundant supply of liars to trot out in front of Congress, Kerry is right up there with the perjurer James Clapper yet he wasn’t called on it.

The original Massachusetts flip-flopper continues to throw as much crap against the wall to see what sticks, the latest being that the administration has been assured by unspecified “Arab countries” that they would pick up the tab and pay the full cost of a U.S. ground invasion of Syria. That cost of course is denominated in dollars and not blood, to the decadent and oppressive Saudi monarchy money means nothing. They probably could pay for the war off of the loose change that could be dredged out of their chair cushions. One wonders what the whopper of the day will be for Kerry who married into the Heinz family ketchup fortune and is the consummate inside man representing the will of the global elite. Kerry isn’t the only prevaricator either, newly minted Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is today having to back off of the bald-faced lie thatRussia was providing chemical weapons to the Assad regime in Syria. The Pentagon has been forced to walk back Hagel’s fairy tale, with Obama at the G20 soiree in Russia and tensions between the prince of petulance and Putin already running high over the Snowden affair it doesn’t exactly contribute to civil small talk over dinner. Obama will use the occasion to shill for his new war but once you get outside the borders of Der Homeland it is a horrifying realization to our leaders that people elsewhere and not subject to the media brainwashing actually are able to think for themselves. Now even the Pope has even come out to weigh in on the “futile” military solution in Syria.

Protests and serious moral stances against what could very well be Obama’s bumbling provocation of WW III and subsequent death toll in the millions are indeed futile. The propaganda imagery of the victims of the Gouta gassing which are the sinister pornography of state aggression are are just too mesmerizing. I know people, very smart people who are in a state of high frenzy today and braying for an attack on Syria, they are not O-Bots either. One longtime friend shrilly accused me of being a monster for not buying the war propaganda because by God if Assad is gassing his own people it won’t be long before he has a nuke. This is a man who would sooner sing the praises of Satan himself than Obama who he openly detests yet he has been co-opted as an advocate for the true monsters. The looped video of the poor dead children, victims of a geopolitical game that they will never grow up to understand is just too powerful, to a television lobotomized population they are the most ass-kicking club in the bag for the war machine. As libertarian writer Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com wrote in his most recent column about how Democrat and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is now shamefully exploiting her own grandchild as a prop to sell the war pegs it spot on:

Pelosi wails about “the children.” Yes, it’s always about “the children,” isn’t it? Every war propaganda campaign in modern history has featured them in starring roles as the ubiquitous first victims of the tyrant’s sword. The Kaiser was impaling them on Prussian bayonets, according to Her Majesty’s propagandists intent on dragging us into WWI: more recently, images of newborns thrown out of their incubators and trodden underfoot by Iraqi jackboots were conjured by the Emir’s propagandists as the rationale for Gulf War I. Screaming crying children clinging to their mothers’ skirts served as background music for “news” reports designed to gin up the Kosovo war.

Yet there are some babies the War Party would rather not talk about—such as those who will come under the heading of “collateral damage” as US bombs rain on Syria. They don’t want to talk about the babies caught up in the sectarian cleansing campaign that will be carried out by US-backed Syrian jihadists as our air strikes give them the advantage. There won’t be many Alawite or Christian children left in the whole country by the time US-backed “rebels” overrun the place.

Selectively child-centered war pornography is a staple in the interventionist arsenal, the old stand by resorted to when reason fails: indeed, the failure of reason, and the prevention of rational thought is the cognitive goal of all war propaganda. Facts, logic, evidence, all are thrown out the window and raw emotion overrides thought. Violence is the inevitable result.

It’s easy to manipulate people when their rational faculties are shut down. Under these circumstance, full-grown women and men don’t even know they’re being manipulated – but the Littlest Pelosi wasn’t fooled. That’s because children, being master manipulators themselves, usually know when someone’s trying to put one over on them. Skillfully dodging Grandma’s war propaganda aimed at his heart, he wanted the facts, and his incisive question – “Were these children in the United States?” – goes right to the heart of the matter.

You do have to admit that it works and it especially works for Barack H. Obama who is already well versed in the art of the exploitation of dead children to push a radical political agenda. One needs to only harken back to last December when El Presidente used the tragic slaughter o fgrade schoolers by a heavily armed lunatic at Sandy Hook Elementary School to cynically push for more gun control. The right for Americans to bear arms has been enshrined by the Second Amendment yet this rogue leader would go after that most basic guarantee of liberty, using his government goons and the power of the state to impinge upon that which is most fundamental. He also has shown his obvious contempt for the Constitution by allowing his NSA Stasi, which has now been completely banished from the state media to wage war against the Fourth Amendment and if you include his war on journalists the First Amendment as well. So there will be war in Syria and soon, with the Constitution pretty much already torn to shreds by Barry and his minions all but the willfully blind should be able to see that we no longer live in a functional democracy and no amount of propaganda and lip service by charlatans can obscure that lamentable fact.