Is the Foolhardy Obama About to Start World War III?

2014 is the one-hundred year anniversary of the beginning of World War I, a conflict of such savagery, really the first time in history that mass slaughter was industrialized and the resulting carnage was unprecedented. The war itself was the result of a series of events that rapidly careened out of control. The spark that ignited the whole conflagration being the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria that was followed by a cascading series of events that led to a conflict of empires that forever changed the world. WW I in particular leading to the rise of the Nazis and the resultant post-World War II global structure that is still playing out although now in it's latter stages. There have been many who have written of similarities between 1914 and 2014 and the increasingly unstable regime in Washington, with ongoing hostilities with Syria, Iran, Russia-Ukraine and now Iraq again is dragging the world, and billions of people closer to the brink of what could be history's next great disaster.

President Barack Obama, his fanatic packed State Department and the neocons in the state-corporate media who keep up the pressure in instigating him to launch another war in Ukraine, Syria or the opportune location of the week - right now it is Iraq are recklessly lurching towards an Archduke Ferdinand moment. It is only a matter of what exactly it will be. While the hew and cry of the chattering classes with their preying upon the fears of timid Americans of the new "caliphate" being established by the mysterious ISIS it would seem that a reentry into Iraq could be the catalyst. This will be the topic of of choice during the Sunday morning circle jerk where neocon war criminal after war criminal will inevitably be trotted out to make their case for war. My money however is on Obama doing something historically stupid over the ongoing resistance to the US installed junta in Kiev and his colossal inferiority complex over being punked repeatedly by Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

While nearly completely overwhelmed in the US media by the necessity to push the ISIS story Ukraine is on the brink of something extremely ugly. The recently crowned US puppet Petro Poroshenko aka "the Chocolate King" has indicated that the violence in the east is about to be be unleashed after his phony cease fire, basically a call for complete surrender of anti-austerity, anti-fascist rebels was rejected. In an article at Russia Today Porshenko is quoted as being ready to go to "plan B" which inevitably will lead to an increased use of the Kiev junta's military forces against civilians. Russia has responded to the Poroshenko's  cease-fire offer and implied threat with both an acknowledgement as well as a huge one of those military exercises that are so often utilized by the USA!, USA! USA! and NATO who are predictably crying foul. According to a story in The Guardian entitled  "Vladimir Putin backs Ukraine ceasefire but orders huge military exercise":

Putin’s qualified backing for Poroshenko's effort to halt the conflict was another in a series of shifting moves and statements by the Kremlin that still leave unclear Moscow's level of commitment to de-escalating the conflict.

Putin's conciliatory words on Saturday were made on the same day as he ordered large-scale military exercises that NATO criticised as likely to raise tensions. United States officials also accused Russian troops of moving back into positions near the border with Ukraine's troubled east.

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On Saturday, a NATO spokeswoman, Oana Lungescu, lamented Moscow’s military exercises, saying that “it can be seen as a further escalation of the crisis with Ukraine”.

The insanity isn't just limited to Washington and the Obama gang and that only increases the danger of some massive fuckup by some lunatic - for example NATO boss Anders Fogh Rasmussen delusional assertion that the Russians have infiltrated the anti-fracking movement. Per a story in The Guardian entitled "Russia 'secretly working with environmentalists to oppose fracking'" from which I excerpt:

The head of one of the world’s leading groups of democratic nations has accused Russia of undermining projects using hydraulic fracturing technology in Europe.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), and former premier of Denmark, told the Chatham House thinktank in London on Thursday that Vladimir Putin’s government was behind attempts to discredit fracking, according to reports.

Rasmussen said: “I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations - environmental organisations working against shale gas - to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas.”

He declined to give details of those operations, saying: “That is my interpretation.”

This is the man in charge of fucking NATO for Christ's sake - and with the ongoing provocation of Russia over the fiasco in Ukraine this is a man who could start World War III - why isn't this insane accusation of not only Russia but the accusation of US environmental groups as being essentially "terrorists" an illustration of his manifest unfitness for his job? It is like Dr. Strangelove is now our reality in 2014 and Rasmussen could be General Jack D. Ripper.

This is serious foray into John Birch Society tin-foil hatter territory for Rasmussen although with the masturbatory glee with which big US energy companies have seized upon the potential disruption in Russian gas supplies to Europe to continue to frack away in America in the orgasmic quest for energy export profits while pushing similar horseshit propaganda designed to transform anti-fracking activists into the increasingly catch-all category of "terrorists" it is just another indicator of how rotten that the entire system is. Rasmussen, the former Danish Prime Minister was an outspoken supporter of Bush's Iraq adventure and the descent into frenzied Cold War conspiracy theories (remember back when the Russians were accused of infiltrating the Civil Rights Movement to sow discontent?) shows why he got the gig with NATO in the first place.

But while the NATO militarists with their 20th century European worldviews and their itchy trigger fingers ready to shoot at anything Russian represent a grave threat to order the real danger is Obama himself. There has been more talk of economic sanctions against Russia due to the Empire's fury that the Russian leader will neither back down and lick Uncle Scam's red, white and blue jackboots nor take the bait by invading eastern Ukraine to stop the atrocities. This could very well be the week that Obama green-lights the dropping of that "financial neutron bomb" that the Wall Street swine who are embedded within the US Treasury have been working on. I excerpt the following from The Telegraph article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard entitled  "US financial showdown with Russia is more dangerous than it looks, for both sides":

The United States has constructed a financial neutron bomb. For the past 12 years an elite cell at the US Treasury has been sharpening the tools of economic warfare, designing ways to bring almost any country to its knees without firing a shot.

The strategy relies on hegemonic control over the global banking system, buttressed by a network of allies and the reluctant acquiescence of neutral states. Let us call this the Manhattan Project of the early 21st century.

"It is a new kind of war, like a creeping financial insurgency, intended to constrict our enemies' financial lifeblood, unprecedented in its reach and effectiveness," says Juan Zarate, the Treasury and White House official who helped spearhead policy after 9/11.

“The new geo-economic game may be more efficient and subtle than past geopolitical competitions, but it is no less ruthless and destructive,” he writes in his book Treasury's War: the Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare.

Bear this in mind as Washington tightens the noose on Vladimir Putin's Russia, slowly shutting off market access for Russian banks, companies and state bodies with $714bn of dollar debt (Sberbank data).

The stealth weapon is a "scarlet letter", devised under Section 311 of the US Patriot Act. Once a bank is tainted in this way - accused of money-laundering or underwriting terrorist activities, a suitably loose offence - it becomes radioactive, caught in the "boa constrictor's lethal embrace", as Mr Zarate puts it.

This can be a death sentence even if the lender has no operations in the US. European banks do not dare to defy US regulators. They sever all dealings with the victim.

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The US Treasury faces a more formidable prey with Russia, the world's biggest producer of energy with a $2 trillion economy, superb scientists and a first-strike nuclear arsenal. It is also tightly linked to the German and east European economies. The US risks endangering its own alliance system if it runs roughshod over friends. It is in much the same situation as Britain in the mid-19th century when it enforced naval supremacy, boarding alleged slave ships anywhere in the world, under any flag, ruffling everybody's feathers.

President Putin knows exactly what the US can do with its financial weapons. Russia was brought into the loop when the two countries were for a while "allies" in the fight against Jihadi terrorism. Mr Putin appointed loyalist Viktor Zubkov - later prime minister - to handle dealings with the US Treasury.

Mr Zarate said the Obama White House has waited too long to strike in earnest, clinging to the hope that Putin would stop short of tearing up the global rule book. "They should take the gloves off. The longer the wait, the more maximalist they may have to be," he said.

This would be a calibrated escalation, issuing the scarlet letter to Russian banks that help Syria's regime

This would seem to be a perfect time for Obama to issue a devastating strike against Russia's economy by the use of what Zarate is referring to - it would likely be justified by finding some bogus tie between Putin and ISIS in Syria and the corrupt media will eagerly provide cover for it. Such a move however will like everything that Barry and the boys have touched blow up in their faces when Russia inevitably retaliates. Such a strike against the Russian financial system, largely based on Obama's petty narcissistic tantrums and a festering grudge against Putin (who is not a stupid man and understands exactly what this is all about) would be an act of war and as history has shown, the act of a desperate man like Gavrilo Princip busting a cap into the Archduke's ass things can spiral out of control very, very quickly.

Unless Obama gets a grip we are all about to fine out exactly how bad that things can really get when fools, lunatics and charlatans have a monopoly on power. 

Are Corporate Mercenaries Assisting Neo-Nazis in Ukraine?

With the coup installed government in Kiev about to engage in some very serious skull cracking in order to put down a mounting rebellion in Eastern Ukraine cities there have been some accounts that hired guns from corporate mercenary firms are augmenting the local paramilitary police forces.  With the pushback against the US backed “Yats” regime and it’s neo-Nazi shock troops it is imperative that a real version of the Euromaiden “revolution” not be allowed to take root to oust the stooges of the corporate global finance mafia.  Foretelling what will likely be a massive orgy of state sanctioned violence against Ukranians who reject the coming forced austerity and repression are statements made by the Interior Minister of the occupying government Arsen Avakov that there would be a resolution within 48 hours either by negotiation or through the use of force. Translation: unleash the goon squads for the "anti-terrorist" action.

The corporate and high finance vultures that would reap a windfall off of the toppling of the elected president Viktor Yanukovych are furious over the loss of an estimated $10 billion in natural resource loot from Crimea and are not about to let any more money slip through their bloody claws. The US establishment as well as the EU and the Cold War relic that is NATO, an organization that should have been relegated to the scrap heap of history have too much invested in this already disastrous situation to do anything but double down. It is only standard operating procedure for paid mercenaries to be used and the denials, such as that from the US firm Greystone do not pass the smell test.  This is the way that we roll in America, the taxpayer funded killing sprees of the notorious Blackwater in Iraq are the template, it is just one more way to circumvent the system in order to spread “democracy” at the point of a gun.

In a brief video posted on You Tube that allegedly shows a man in paramilitary police gear being captured after an austerity government push in Kharkov on Thursday the man in black states that “I’m a US citizen” as though it is a magic talisman. It is about 40-45 seconds into what appears to be a video that was taken with a cellphone or similar device in what appears to be an underground setting. While information on the video is sparse and yet to be authenticated could be proof that western backed corporate mercenaries are indeed operating in coordination with the "Yats" regime in putting down dissent. Hey, it is not like big corporations or the US State Department aren't known for using those "security contractors" and it would be foolish to believe that with all that the lunatic push to topple Putin through Ukraine that it would be beyond possibility.  The video, if it is authentic and backed by additional pictures, videos and accounts could be the proverbial smoking gun that the poisonous US establishment and their Deep State propagandists within the media are once again and predictably lying but anything even remotely resembling the truth long ago left the building in The Homeland.  

The video snippet of the alleged mercenary (no word as to his fate was posted to my knowledge)  is an example of the ability for the oppressed to communicate in the interconnected global world.  When the wave of brutal  beat downs of those who do not support the illegitimate government in Kiev there will be more video coming, that much is inevitable. The neocon establishment continues to fight the last war and in their pure, unbridled arrogance believe that the ability to use social media and the internet to expose human rights abuses does not threaten their longterm goal of planetary conquest and neoliberal pillaging - it won’t.  The technologies and platforms such as You Tube and Twitter simply did not exist at the level of sophistication that they do now and the news about marauding, murdering US mercenaries - primarily Blackwater - in Iraq got out anyway.

There is at least an understanding of the potency of social network tools to some degree though, take for example the ZunZuneo aka Cuban Twitter scheme in which the Obama administration used relief agency USAID as a cover for fomenting an uprising in Cuba. While this is indicative of the same Cold War lunacy that is behind the Ukraine debacle and the ongoing pissing contest with Vladimir Putin’s Russia social networking technology is given the degree of importance that it deserves. The problem along with the ongoing blundering of an Obama foreign policy team that is a fucking embarassment to America to put it kindly is that the blinders of American exeptionalism and neocon ideology - that rather closely aligns with the visions of Hitler and Stalin - prevent the acknowledgment that the criminal deeds of the Deep State are more easily exposed than ever. This despite the full spectrum dominance that is evident in the extreme propaganda and dishonest coverage of the events in Ukraine. The anti-Austerity freedom fighters in Donetsk, Kharkov and other eastern cities, on the brink of a pitched battle with paramilitary police, mercenaries and thugs from Pravy Sektor and Svoboda will prove to be a serious, long term detriment to the plans of chopping up the country and selling it to corporate and financial parasites.

NATO is upping the rhetoric and wailing about massed Russian military forces on the border in the latest effort to create a Gleiwitz style pretense for a hot war and Obama and Kerry, both of whom are hellbent at avenging the Syria and Snowden humiliations are showing no signs of backing off.  Were the state-corporate media to bother with the truth it would be that this entire mess is the fault of those two thin-skinned narcissists and their foreign policy team’s billions of dollars in US taxpayer money spent on destabilizing the region.  In the coming sweep and destroy “anti-terrorist” campaign the hotheads and neo-Nazis had best exercise a caution that they have yet to display in that any murder that they perpetrate has the potential of becoming a viral internet video even as those in Eastern Ukraine will be presented with a martyr to further galvanize their opposition to the Washington-Brussels-Kiev Axis of Evil.

I wonder what the American taxpayer who has already been bled dry by government subsidized sprees of gambling by politically connected, unaccountable Wall Street casinos and corporate plunderers who enjoy total impuinty in the corrupt, star-spangled shithole that is The Homeland. There is also the trillons of dollars stolen away by a miltary/surveillance moster that has a vested interest in endless wars to justify their existence - it still smells like a rat that the Cold War II meme began at a very convenient time to prevent cuts in military spending. Billions of dollars pumped into Ukraine alone and Christ knows how many more billions elsewhere - Venezuela, Cuba etc. to destabilize democratically elected governments that do not heel to the whims of the rapacious global finance mafia. Not to mention the money spent to back blatantly in our face neo-Nazis, were the all encompassing bubble of official state-corporate lies and propaganda to ever burst - even temporarily even idiotic Americans have a breaking point.

That breaking point could come if there were a realizaiton that none of this even remotely benefits the average American but only the same global corporate hydra that serves the interest of a very small proportion of a corrupt elite and the institutions that they have erected to protect them. Americans should look at the situation unfolding in Ukraine and ask themselves a very serious question: how long will it be until the mercenaries and the fully militarized police right here in the US of A begin to conduct their own “anti-terrorist” operations because that is exactly the direction that we are heading.