“Occupying Syria militarily, for whatever purpose, is a violation of international and U.S. law. The land is indisputably Syria’s and the Constitution requires Congress to authorize war.”…"The US plan to create a Wahhabi enclave in northeast Syria was directly referenced in a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report from 2012."
Image: Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, leader of Islamic Salafist Jihadist terror group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria that controls Idlib province. Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) was among “CIA vetted” terror groups allowed to receive the most coveted US deadly weapons…US also provided HTS terrorists with US taxpayer funded food aid in Syria. “The CIA has spearheaded the anti-Russia campaign against Trump in large part because of resentment over the disruption of its operations in Syria, and it has successfully used the campaign to force a shift in the policy of the Trump administration on that score.…The incredible power of the military-intelligence agencies over the entire government is an expression of the breakdown of American democracy.”...US violates both domestic and international law by invading and dismembering Syria.…US Congress even refuses to pass the Stop Arming Terrorists Act.
3/13/2018, “The CIA takeover of the Democratic Party," Patrick Martin, Worldwide Socialist Website
“The CIA has spearheaded the anti-Russia campaign against Trump in large part because of resentment over the disruption of its operations in Syria, and it has successfully used the campaign to force a shift in the policy of the Trump administration on that score. A chorus of media backers—Nicholas Kristof and Roger Cohen of the New York Times, the entire editorial board of the Washington Post, most of the television networks—are part of the campaign to pollute public opinion and whip up support on alleged “human rights” grounds for an expansion of the US war in Syria.
The 2018 election campaign marks a new stage: for
the first time, military-intelligence operatives are moving in large
numbers to take over a political party and seize a major role in
Congress. The dozens of CIA and military veterans running in the Democratic Party primaries are “former” agents of the military-intelligence apparatus. This “retired” status is, however, purely nominal.
Joining the CIA or the Army Rangers or the Navy SEALs is like joining
the Mafia: no one ever actually leaves; they just move on to new
assignments. The CIA operation in 2018 is unlike its overseas activities in one major respect: it is not covert. On the contrary, the military-intelligence operatives running in the Democratic primaries boast of their careers as spies and special ops warriors. Those with combat experience invariably feature photographs of themselves in desert fatigues or other uniforms on their websites. And they are welcomed and given preferred positions, with Democratic Party officials frequently clearing the field for their candidacies.
The working class is confronted with an extraordinary political situation. On the one hand, the Republican Trump administration has more military generals in top posts than any other previous government. On the other hand, the Democratic Party has opened its doors to a “friendly takeover” by the intelligence agencies.
The incredible power of the military-intelligence agencies over the entire government is an expression of the breakdown of American democracy. The central cause of this breakdown is the extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny elite, whose interests the state apparatus and its “bodies of armed men” serve. Confronted by an angry and hostile working class, the ruling class is resorting to ever more overt forms of authoritarian rule.
Millions of working people want to fight the Trump administration and its ultra-right policies. But it is impossible to carry out this fight through the “axis of evil” that connects the Democratic Party, the bulk of the corporate media, and the CIA. The influx of military-intelligence candidates puts [an end] to the longstanding myth, peddled by the trade unions and pseudo-left groups, that the Democrats represent a “lesser evil.” On the contrary, working people must confront the fact that within the framework of the corporate-controlled two-party system, they face two equally reactionary evils.” Patrick Martin
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Added:
30 military-intel Democrats won their primaries in 2018, 9/21/2018, “The CIA Democrats: A balance sheet of the primaries.”…Eleven won House seats.
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Added: CIA even approved child beheaders to receive elite US weapons in Syria. “Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, (Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki),” Islamic terror group beheaded a male child]
List of 42 Islamic terror groups fighting in Syria “approved” by CIA to receive US-made elite deadly weapons for regime change, as of 10/20/2015:
“The groups that the CIA currently allows munitions to be shared with are:
13th Division (Forqat 13)
101st Division Infantry (Forqat 101 Masha’a)
Knights of Justice Brigade (Liwa’ Fursan al-Haqq)
Falcons of the Mountain Brigade (Liwa’ Suqour al-Jabal)
Grouping of the Falcons of Al-Ghab (Tajamuu Suqour al-Ghab)
1st Coastal Division (Forqat Awwal al-Sahli)
Gathering of Dignity (Tajammu al-Izza’)
Central Division (Al-Forqat al-Wasti)
46th Division (Forqat 46)
Sultan Murad Brigade (Liwa’ Sultan Murad)
Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, (Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki) [This “CIA-approved” group gleefully beheaded a male child]
Mujahideen Army/Army of Holy Warriors (Jaish al-Mujahideen)
Revolutionaries of al-Sham Brigades (Kata’eb Thuwar al-Sham)
1st Regiment (Al-Fauj al-Awwal)
Ahmed al-Abdo Martyrs’ Force (Quwwat al-Shaheed Ahmad al-Abdo)
Al-Rahman Legion (Faylaq al-Rahman)
Martyrs of Islam Brigade (Liwa’ Shuhadah al-Islam)
Yarmouk Army (Jaish al-Yarmouk)
Lions of Sunnah Division (Forqat Usood al-Sunnah)
the 18th March Division (Forqat 18 Adhar)
Southern Tawhid Brigade (Liwa’ Tawhid al-Junoub)
Hamza Division (Forqat al-Hamza)
1st Artillery Regiment (Al-Fauj al-Awwal Madfa’a)
Syria Revolutionaries Front – Southern Sector (Jabhat Thuwar Souriya)
The First Corps (Faylaq al-Awwal)
The Dawn of Unity Division (Forqat Fajr al-Tawhid)
Salah al-Din Division (Forqat Salah al-Din)
Omari Brigades (Tajammu Alwiyat al-Omari)
Unity Battalions of Horan Brigade (Liwa’ Tawhid Kata’eb Horan)
Youth of Sunnah Brigade (Liwa’ Shabbab al-Sunnah)
Moataz Billah Brigade (Liwa’ Moataz Billah)
Sword of al-Sham Brigades (Alwiyat Saif al-Sham)
Dawn of Islam Division (Forqat Fajr al-Islam)
Supporters of Sunnah Brigade (Liwa’ Ansar al-Sunnah)
Horan Column Division (Forqat Amoud Horan)
Emigrants and Supporters Brigade (Liwa’ Muhajireen wal Ansar)
Military Council in Quneitra and the Golan
United Sham Front (Jabhat al-Sham Muwahidda)
69th Special Forces Division (Forqat 69 Quwwat al-Khassa)
11th Special Forces Division (Forqat 11 Quwwat al-Khassa)
Partisans of Islam Front (Jabhat Ansar al-Islam)
Al-Furqan Brigades (Alwiyat al-Furqan)” 10/20/2015, “There are a lot of CIA-vetted Syrian rebel groups taking it to Assad,“ Business Insider, Jeremy Bender, via Yahoo Finance
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Added: The one job the massive US military-intel-security apparatus won’t do is the one job it’s supposed to do: provide security for Americans on American soil by assigning armed military and weapons across every inch of the 2000 mile US southern border.
Added: The one job the massive US military-intel-security apparatus won’t do is the one job it’s supposed to do: provide security for Americans on American soil by assigning armed military and weapons across every inch of the 2000 mile US southern border.
Effectively a lawless “war zone,” Mexico surrenders to terrorist cartels, releases prisoner El Chapo’s son ‘to protect lives’ amid violent riots by criminals in Sinaloa city. 10/18/19, “Mexican president says he ‘supported’ decision to release El Chapo’s son,” NY Post
10/18/19, “Mexico releases El Chapo’s son ‘to protect lives amid chaos in Sinaloa city,” NY Post, Ben Feuerherd
“Mexican officials cut loose the arrested son of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on Thursday “to protect lives” after cartel gunman turned the Mexican city where he was collared into an urban war zone, authorities said.
Ovidio Guzman López, who is wanted in the US on drug-trafficking charges, was detained by Mexican national guard and army troops, who raided a house in Culiacán where he was staying, according to Mexican security secretary Alfonso Durazo.
As word spread of Guzman Lopez’s capture Thursday afternoon, intense gun battles broke out between cartel gunmen--armed with military-grade weapons--and Mexican authorities.
Cartel thugs torched cars and buses and left their burned-out remains blocking main roads in and out of the city. Other roads were shut by the army, according to local reports. Images shared on Twitter show masked gunmen manning a machine gun mounted on the back of a truck on Culiacán streets. Other gunmen loyal to the cartel fired .50-caliber sniper rifles from the backs of trucks.
Meanwhile, heavily armed gunmen who had a “greater force” than the government troops surrounded the house where Guzman Lopez was being held — so officials released him, knowing they were outmatched, Durazo said.
“The decision was taken to retreat from the house, without Guzman, to try to avoid more violence in the area and preserve the lives of our personnel and recover calm in the city,” Durazo said.
A lawyer for Guzman Lopez gave a television interview after his release, praising the move.
“Thank God, Ovidio has appeared,” lawyer José Luis Gonzalez Meza said, according to the Wall Street Journal. “He is free.”
In January, a Brooklyn federal judge sentenced El Chapo to life in prison, which opened up a power vacuum in the cartel once considered the most prolific drug-dealing outfit in the world.
Prosecutors in El Chapo’s trial said last year that his “favorite” sons, Ivan and Alfredo, had stepped in to fill their father’s shoes.”… image above via NY Post.
4/16/2018, “How the US [Illegally] Occupied the 30% of Syria Containing Most of its Oil, Water and Gas,” Whitney Webb, Mint Press News
“While gaining control of key resources for partitioning Syria and destabilizing the government in Damascus, the U.S.’ main goal in [illegally] occupying the oil and water rich northeastern Syria is aimed not at Syria but at Iran.”… Beyond fossil fuels and pipelines, northeast Syria boasts several other key advantages in terms of resources. Chief among those is water – a resource of prime importance in the Middle East. The U.S.-controlled portion of Syria is home to the country’s three largest freshwater reservoirs, which are fed by the Euphrates river.
One of those reservoirs now controlled by the U.S. and its proxies, Lake Assad, is the country’s largest freshwater reservoir and supplies government-held Aleppo with most of its drinking water. It also provides the city with much of its electrical power, which is generated by Tabqa Dam, also located in the occupied territory. Another key hydroelectric power plant is located at Tishrin Dam and is also controlled by U.S.-backed proxy forces….
[map via Mint Press]
In addition to its abundant water resources, northeastern Syria is also home to nearly 60 percent of Syria’s cropland, a key resource in terms of Syria’s sustainability and food independence. Prior to the conflict, Syria invested heavily in bringing irrigation infrastructure into the area in order to allow agriculture there to continue despite a massive regional drought. Much of that irrigation infrastructure is fed by the occupied Tabqa Dam, which controls the irrigation water for 640,000 hectares (2,500 square miles) of farmland.
Game plan for occupation, partition
Unlike the northeast’s fossil fuel resources, the U.S. is not hoping to gain financially from the region’s water and agricultural resources. Instead, the interest there is strategic and serves two main purposes.
First, control over those resources – particularly water and the flow of the Euphrates – gives the U.S. a key advantage it could use to destabilize Syria. For example, the U.S. could easily cut off water and electricity to government-held parts of Syria by shutting down or diverting power and water from dams in order to place pressure on the Syrian government and Syrian civilians.
Though such actions target civilians and constitute a war crime, the U.S. has used such tactics in Syria before, such as in the battle for Raqqa when it cut off water supplies to the city as its proxies took control of the city from Daesh (ISIS). Other countries, like Turkey, have also cut off the flow of the Euphrates on two occasions over the course of the Syrian conflict in order to gain a strategic advantage.
By controlling much of the country’s water and agricultural land – not to mention its fossil fuel resources — the U.S. occupation will not only accomplish its goal of destabilizing Syria’s government by depriving it of revenue; it also invites a broader conflict from Syria and its allies, who are eager to prevent another long-term U.S. occupation in the Middle East and to reclaim the territory for Syria.
Another way the U.S. has the ability to destabilize Syria through its occupation of the northeast is its plan to have the Saudis rebuild much of the area. Though the U.S. initially allied itself with the Kurds in northeastern Syria, opposition from Turkey has led Washington to focus more on working with Arabs in the area, particularly those allied with or formerly part of Saudi-allied Wahhabi groups, in order to create a Saudi-controlled enclave that could be used to destabilize government-controlled areas of Syria for years to come. The area is set to become much like the Idlib province, which is also essentially an enclave for Wahhabi terrorists.
The U.S. plan to create a Wahhabi enclave in northeast Syria was directly referenced in a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report from 2012. That report stated:
“THE WEST, GULF COUNTRIES, AND TURKEY [WHO] SUPPORT THE [SYRIAN] OPPOSITION… THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A DECLARED OR UNDECLARED SALAFIST PRINCIPALITY IN EASTERN SYRIA (HASAKA AND DER ZOR), AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SUPPORTING POWERS TO THE OPPOSITION WANT, IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE SYRIAN REGIME…” [capitalization original]
Despite Daesh’s [ISIS] defeat, their [ISIS] presence in Northeastern Syria, as the DIA reveals, was cultivated to provide a pretext for the foreign control of the region.”…
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Added: “Washingtonians pretend to be shocked by what President Trump does, but it’s Americans who should be shocked by what Washington does” such as illegally occupying a third of Syria:
6/13/19, “End America’s Illegal Occupation of Syria Now,“ Doug Bandow, The American Conservative
“Our presence there is a violation of domestic and international law.”…
“Washingtonians pretend to be shocked by what President Trump does, but it’s Americans who should be shocked by what Washington does—such as illegally…occupying a third of that country. It’s time for Donald Trump to do the right thing and bring our troops home….
The Syria Study Group complains that “current operations will not force all Iranian-backed forces from Syria,” but why is that Washington’s job? Iran’s presence has virtually nothing to do with American security. Iranians don’t need a “land bridge” to Syria and Lebanon when they have airplanes. Nor are the Kurds likely to act as America’s catspaw, confronting Iran for Washington’s ends. There is no way to hermetically seal off Syria from Iran without far more American troops….
While the Syrian Kurds are liberal compared to others in the region, between half a million and a million Kurds effectively rule over 1.5 million Arabs. Guarding the Kurds means a permanent presence while confronting Turkey, which views Kurdish separatism as an existential threat, along with Syria itself, which fought an eight-year…war to protect its territory, and Russia, which is committed to restoring Damascus’s authority and enhancing ties with Turkey. Ankara may be the most dangerous, having launched a major offensive, Operation Euphrates Shield, against Kurdish forces in early 2018. In doing so, it seized the city of Afrin and environs, and threatened to move on Manbij, where Americans are stationed alongside Kurds….
Perhaps most important, though little discussed in Washington, is that occupying Syria militarily, for whatever purpose, is a violation of international and U.S. law. The land is indisputably Syria’s and the Constitution requires Congress to authorize war….
Turning the Assad dictatorship into a liberal, humane democracywas always a long shot. Nor was Washington’s support for the [terrorist] insurgency benign: the Syria Study Group acknowledges that “al-Qaeda is in effective control of Idlib and retains the capacity to conduct external attacks”—yet warns against a Syrian attack on this enclave. The main achievement of Washington’s intervention has been to prolong one of the worst…wars in modern times.”…
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Comment: US government is a state sponsor of terror, has spent billions supporting Islamic terrorism, including child beheaders, even helped al-Qaeda conquer Idlib. It makes sense that the terrorist mob running the US insists the 2000 mile border US shares with terrorist Mexico remain undefended and wide open. US taxpayers are forced to finance defense of every border in the world but are prohibited from having US armed military and equipment defend their own border. There’s no way to change this, election promises are ignored. The fact is we’re slaves of a mob. The only way we can be free again is for US to be broken into parts, southwest states could join Mexico for example.
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