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miércoles, marzo 14, 2012

Afganistán: barbarie estructurada


Ayer, de acuerdo con información divulgada por el gobierno de Afganistán, un soldado estadunidense asesinó a 16 habitantes de Kandahar. Según los datos disponibles, el militar incursionó en tres viviendas y, al parecer, disparó indiscriminadamente contra quienes se encontraban en ellas.

Este acto de barbarie ocurre en el contexto de la indignación que recorre a la población afgana por la quema de ejemplares del Corán por las tropas invasoras y por la reciente difusión de un video en el que puede verse a elementos del cuerpo de marines que orinan sobre los cadáveres de tres afganos abatidos.

Aunque desde el primer momento el presidente estadunidense, Barack Obama, lamentó la masacre del domingo y la calificó de incidente aislado, la barbarie de las tropas extranjeras en Afganistán obedece a una pauta de agresiones regulares y sistemáticas contra la población local. A los casos mencionados deben agregarse los frecuentes bombardeos aéreos perpetrados por aviones de la coalición occidental invasora sobre concentraciones de civiles no involucrados en el conflicto. Si a ello se agrega la información contenida en los 92 mil documentos sobre la guerra en Afganistán que dio a conocer Wikileaks en julio del año pasado (The War Logs), y que registran toda suerte de atrocidades perpetradas por los invasores entre 2004 y 2009, resulta difícil creer que la más reciente carnicería sea consecuencia de la acción excepcional de un soldado que enloqueció.

Las documentadas prácticas criminales de Washington y sus aliados en la infortunada nación centroasiática son, por lo demás, consistentes con los manuales clásicos de contrainsurgencia elaborados por el Pentágono y coinciden con la barbarie estructural que caracteriza a los ejércitos colonialistas. De hecho, un modelo semejante de abusos y atropellos contra la población civil fue aplicado en Irak por los invasores estadunidenses.

Existen numerosas pruebas sobre el carácter mendaz del Pentágono y de otras dependencias de Washington en lo tocante a violaciones de derechos humanos cometidas por sus tropas. Desde la divulgación de los Papeles del Pentágono (Pentagon Papers) en 1971 por The New York Times hasta la difusión en Youtube del video Asesinato colateral (Collateral Murder) por Wikileaks, en abril de 2010, la opinión pública internacional ha podido contrastar las duras realidades de la barbaria bélica estadunidense con las versiones oficiales que atribuyen acciones criminales a equivocaciones, excepciones e incidentes aislados.

Tras la más reciente masacre de civiles afganos por un integrante de las tropas invasoras, resulta inocultable la urgencia de que el gobierno de Barack Obama ponga fin a la brevedad a la presencia militar de su país en la nación centroasiática, ofrezca una disculpa de Estado por la agresión iniciada en 2001 y emprenda un programa de indemnizaciones y compensaciones para las decenas de miles de víctimas civiles y sus familiares que las fuerzas occidentales han causado en Afganistán. De no hacerlo así, podría ocurrir que Washington estuviera plantando las semillas de un nuevo 11 de septiembre.

jueves, abril 21, 2011

Chomsky: Who Owns The World?

Chomsky: Is the World Too Big to Fail? The Contours of Global Order

There are sure to be far-reaching consequences of what is taking place both in the decaying industrial heartland of the U.S. and in the Arab world.

The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular forces -- coinciding, fortuitously, with a remarkable uprising of tens of thousands in support of working people and democracy in Madison, Wisconsin, and other U.S. cities. If the trajectories of revolt in Cairo and Madison intersected, however, they were headed in opposite directions: in Cairo toward gaining elementary rights denied by the dictatorship, in Madison towards defending rights that had been won in long and hard struggles and are now under severe attack.

Each is a microcosm of tendencies in global society, following varied courses. There are sure to be far-reaching consequences of what is taking place both in the decaying industrial heartland of the richest and most powerful country in human history, and in what President Dwight Eisenhower called "the most strategically important area in the world" -- "a stupendous source of strategic power" and "probably the richest economic prize in the world in the field of foreign investment," in the words of the State Department in the 1940s, a prize that the U.S. intended to keep for itself and its allies in the unfolding New World Order of that day.

Despite all the changes since, there is every reason to suppose that today's policy-makers basically adhere to the judgment of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s influential advisor A.A. Berle that control of the incomparable energy reserves of the Middle East would yield "substantial control of the world." And correspondingly, that loss of control would threaten the project of global dominance that was clearly articulated during World War II, and that has been sustained in the face of major changes in world order since that day.

From the outset of the war in 1939, Washington anticipated that it would end with the U.S. in a position of overwhelming power. High-level State Department officials and foreign policy specialists met through the wartime years to lay out plans for the postwar world. They delineated a "Grand Area" that the U.S. was to dominate, including the Western hemisphere, the Far East, and the former British empire, with its Middle East energy resources. As Russia began to grind down Nazi armies after Stalingrad, Grand Area goals extended to as much of Eurasia as possible, at least its economic core in Western Europe. Within the Grand Area, the U.S. would maintain "unquestioned power," with "military and economic supremacy," while ensuring the "limitation of any exercise of sovereignty" by states that might interfere with its global designs. The careful wartime plans were soon implemented.

It was always recognized that Europe might choose to follow an independent course. NATO was partially intended to counter this threat. As soon as the official pretext for NATO dissolved in 1989, NATO was expanded to the East in violation of verbal pledges to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It has since become a U.S.-run intervention force, with far-ranging scope, spelled out by NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who informed a NATO conference that "NATO troops have to guard pipelines that transport oil and gas that is directed for the West," and more generally to protect sea routes used by tankers and other "crucial infrastructure" of the energy system.

Grand Area doctrines clearly license military intervention at will. That conclusion was articulated clearly by the Clinton administration, which declared that the U.S. has the right to use military force to ensure "uninhibited access to key markets, energy supplies, and strategic resources," and must maintain huge military forces "forward deployed" in Europe and Asia "in order to shape people's opinions about us" and "to shape events that will affect our livelihood and our security."

To read more HERE.

sábado, diciembre 25, 2010

Video: The Time Julian Assange Hacked the Pentagon



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhTfOL9_HBE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRF3gYxz1XQ


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The nearly 500,000 U.S. Army documents published by WikiLeaks this year didn’t mark the first time founder Julian Assange thumbed his nose at the Pentagon. A new documentary about the secret-spilling site captures Assange in a rare moment of reminiscence as he reflects on his hacking of a Defense Department network in the 1990s, where he evidently kept a backdoor in place for some two years.

The documentary WikiRebels, produced by Sveriges Television in Sweden, was recently posted on the web in four parts. It provides an overview of Assange and WikiLeaks from the time the site published a classified Army video last April showing an Apache gunship attack in Iraq, to the latest release of U.S. State Department cables.

It also includes interviews with several current and former WikiLeaks activists, including former spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Icelandic volunteer Herbert Snorrason, who discuss the internal conflict at WikiLeaks that led them to resign.

It’s a compelling documentary, even if it provides little new information. In one segment (above, at 3:53), Assange reflects on his work as a black hat hacker in the early 1990s, recalling wistfully how he and others hacked into the Pentagon’s Security Coordination Center. The SCC was a Chantilly, Virginia, office that handled computer security issues for MilNet — later NIPRNet — the U.S. military’s portion of the public internet.

“We had a backdoor in the U.S. military Security Coordination Center –- this is the peak security for controlling the security of MilNet … U.S. military internet. We had total control over this for two years,” he tells the interviewer.

A backdoor refers to a malicious tool that hackers place on a network, once they’ve gained entry, to provide them with easy and continued surreptitious access to the network, allowing them to come and go at will.

The Defense Department did not immediately respond to an inquiry about the decades-old hack. The statute of limitations, it should be noted, has long since expired.

The intrusion was previously mentioned in an early version of Assange’s bio published by WikiLeaks when the site launched in 2006, which reads in part: “As a teenager he became Australia’s most famous ethical computer hacker. After referrals from the United States government his phone was tapped in 1991, and he spent six years in court. He hacked thousand of systems, including the Pentagon and the U.S. military Security Coordination Center.”

Assange, who used the handles “Proff” and “Mendax” during his black hat years, teamed up with two other hackers who called themselves the International Subversives. The group broke into networks in Europe and the U.S., including networks belonging to NASA, the Defense Department and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Assange continued the activity until he was 21, when he was charged with 31 counts of hacking and other related activities and ultimately pleaded guilty to 25 charges.

Currently, U.S. authorities are reportedly trying to build a conspiracy case against Assange for his WikiLeaks work that would likely revolve around the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the federal anti-hacking legislation.

Alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, who is suspected of leaking the Iraq video and war documents to Assange, has been charged under the CFAA and the Espionage Act. The CFAA makes it illegal to gain unauthorized access on a computer network or to exceed authorized access, as Manning is accused of doing.

If U.S. authorities can show that Assange encouraged or advised Manning on how to obtain the classified documents or how to cover his tracks after downloading them, they could charge Assange with conspiracy in Manning’s unauthorized computer activity.

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martes, enero 06, 2009

Obama Orders Destruction Of NASA, Removes All Jews From Pentagon

Obama Orders Destruction Of NASA, Removes All Jews From Pentagon

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

Russian Military Analysts are reporting in the Kremlin today that USPresident-Elect Barack Obama has ordered the American NASA SpaceProgramme abolished and integrated into the United States Air Force’svast and deeply secret Space Forces.
The militarization of their civilian space programme by Obama is sure toevoke strong feelings among the American scientific community but is,nevertheless, now being pushed forward, and as we can read as reportedby the Bloomberg News Service:
“Obama’s transition team is considering a collaboration between theDefense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administrationbecause military rockets may be cheaper and ready sooner than the spaceagency’s planned launch vehicle, which isn’t slated to fly until 2015,according to people who’ve discussed the idea with the Obama team.”
These reports, however, state that Obama’s move to militarize NASA canonly be fully understood when viewed by one of his most forceful actionsin removing all Jewish American citizens from their civilian positionsin the Pentagon, and which from US News Sources it has been reportedthat “their services will not be needed after Inauguration Day”.
It is important to note about this action by Obama that the United States Military is the only power bloc in America that does not allowJewish peoples into its higher ranks as they all hold duel citizenshipwith the state of Israel, and which after the 9/11 attacks causedPresident Bush to replace all Jewish American intelligence heads withthose from within the US Military, such as US Air Force General MichaelV. Hayden put in charge of the CIA.
The fears of America’s Military Leadership about the Jewish peoplesl iving among them were again realized this past week when anotherJewish-American spy was convicted for his traitorous acts against theUS, and as we can read:
“An 85-year-old former U.S. Army engineer on Tuesday admitted he passed classified documents to the Israelis in the 1970s and 1980s.
Kadish, a U.S. citizen who lives in New Jersey, pleaded guilty only toone of the four charges of conspiracy he originally faced during histrial in Manhattan.
He had been charged with slipping classified documents about nuclear weapons, fighter jets and air defense missiles to an Israeli Consulate employee who also received information from convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, who was arrested during the same time period, authorities said.”
The most disturbing aspects of these reports read more like a derangedscience fiction novel than an intelligence report in that it states thatour World is fast entering the final ‘end-game’ with the ‘ancient god’of the Jews written in the English language as YHWH and known as theTetragrammaton, and whose aim is the total destruction of our humanrace.
Most interesting to note is the summery of this report that states: “Inwhat in our future history will go down as the largest hoax to have everbeen played upon our race, hundreds of millions of Christians have beenfalsely deluded into believing that this ‘ancient god’ of the Jewishpeoples has any association whatsoever with the Christ Jesus and have noidea that, in fact, Jesus was our human races most important figure inwarning us all of the dangers of anyone following this ‘ancient god’ asits sole aim was the destruction of everything.
Even more distressing for these Westerns, is the fact that in our Worldtoday it remains only the Russian Church and Muslims peoples standingagainst our World’s planned destruction by this most sadistic ‘ancientgod’ who through his assigned ‘chosen people’ has commanded the Jewishpeoples, throughout all of their history, to ‘totally annihilate’everyone else but them.”
Unfortunately though, this report appears to echo the statements givento the World by the German Nazis of last century who, likewise,attempted to warn the World about these things, but which culminated ina World War extinguishing the lives of nearly 100 million human beings.
It goes without our saying that our World today has, indeed, enteredinto its most critical phase in our human races centuries old battlewith the most ancient of these gods and the evil they have not onlywrecked upon us all, but for the even worse catastrophes planned for ourvery near future. However, what goes almost unnoticed, and even morerarely said, is that in this struggle for our very existence we are nota defenseless species, far from it, as our history has shown that for usto survive we can only do so as one people as our greatest power liesnot in our actions as individuals, but as an holistic whole.
Though most peoples would be familiar with the term ‘Group Mind’, it is,most unfortunately, associated with its most negative terms andhistorical apparitions instead of it being known for what it truly is,our human races most natural state of being. How foolish it is forpeoples to view in amazement the mass movements of schools of fish,flocks of birds and herds of animals, all seemingly moving in unison asif they were all ‘connected’ by some mysterious force directing theactions of all, and not realize that our human race has the sameability.
But, and as our long sad history has shown, our human race, thoughpossessing this most greatest of powers in the Universe, is easilydivided by just about any subject imaginable, the most important beingrace, religion and nationality.
It would be one matter if we were talking about a group of schoolchildren being made to behave with each other and learn how much morepowerful they are when acting in concert, and in love, with each other,but, when you have these children not having learned these simplelessons of our race becoming adults, instead of throwing their crayonsat each other they begin to throw bombs. So, as we begin this New Year, the vast majority of humanity findsitself in the most unfortunate of situation that it is being led byadults who failed to learn the most fundamental lessons of childhood andnow have their angry fingers upon the buttons controlling nuclearweapons, and who will, most assuredly, begin using them without everrealizing they are contributing to the destruction of our human race.
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domingo, enero 04, 2009

Israel Doesn't Want You to See

From the CBC Website:http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view....

Israeli army embarrassed by video broadcastLast Updated Tue Mar 19 19:52:12 2002JERUSALEM - The Israeli army has expressed a note of contrition after a television station aired a videotape showing an army assault on a Palestinian home in which a mother of five children died.When CBC News spoke with Ismail Hawarjeh at Bethlehem's hospital earlier this month, there was no way to verify the story he told about how his wife had died, until Israel's Channel 2 broacast the tape last weekend"

ASI TRABAJAN LOS SOLDADOS DE ISRAEL EN GAZA

Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See

Aquí se puede ver la forma como trabajan los soldados israelíes durante un cateo televisado, rompiendo paredes, amenazando con armas de alto calibre a niños, causando con el operativo un terror que alimenta odios.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1-_JmXQt0