An alleged new ‘chemical incident’ in Syria reminds of a similar series of events we saw last year. We are told to believe that each time the U.S. pulls back from the war on Syria the Syrian government is responding with a ‘chemical attack’ that pulls the U.S. back in.
– From Moon of Alabama article: Syria – Timelines Of ‘Gas Attacks’ Follow A Similar Scheme
If you’re genuinely against U.S. wars for profit, power and empire the current moment represents our best opportunity to push back aggressively and launch a real grassroots anti-war movement. The entrenched forces who’ll stop at nothing to get their war with Iran and Russia going seem to believe that time’s running out. As such, they’re resorting to increasingly comical and preposterous interpretations of “events” to get their conflagration going. The war sales-pitch has become increasingly desperate and nonsensical, which provides us with a window of opportunity to push back.
It’s hard to keep track of the timeline of events these days, but it was just last week that the British foreign office was caught deleting a tweet in which it had falsely claimed it confirmed the nerve agent used in the Skripal poisoning had been produced in Russia.
As The Guardian reported:
Boris Johnson is facing embarrassing questions over his claims that Russia had produced the Salisbury nerve agent after it emerged that the Foreign Office had deleted a tweet blaming Moscow for the attack.
With the foreign secretary already under pressure over his remarks two weeks ago that a Porton Down scientist had been “absolutely categorical” that the novichok had originated in the country, Jeremy Corbyn accused Johnson of “completely exceeding the information he had been given” after the emergence of the deleted tweet.
But Johnson later hit back, accusing the Labour leader of “playing Russia’s game”.
The deletion, immediately seized on by the Russian embassy, has deepened the government’s difficulties after British scientists at the UK’s defence research laboratory announced on Tuesday that they had not established that the nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal had been made in Russia.
As I noted at the time.
Let me get this straight.
The U.S. expelled 60 Russian officials based on fake news.— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) April 4, 2018
Fortunately for the UK government, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad decided to do something completely suicidal and entirely against his best interests in the immediate aftermath of the Skripal narrative falling apart. How incredibly convenient for those itching to get a war with Iran and Russia going.
So where do things stand? For those of us against imperial war, the current moment offers the best opportunity I can recall to build a real movement. The Syrian (and by extension Iran and Russia) war sales-pitch has become so clownish and desperate a significant percentage of people simply aren’t falling for it.
I’ve been extremely critical on these pages of Trump supporters I call “cheerleaders” who always make excuses for everything Trump does because they’ve become enamored with a cult politician and can’t admit they were wrong about him. The exact same thing happened with Obama’s cheerleaders, and their stubborn refusal to admit the obvious about his imperial, oligarch-coddling policies gave him the space he needed to further entrench the corrupt power structure in American political and economic life. Whether Obama or Trump, it’s always a President’s cult supporters who give them the needed space to push through the worst policies.
Interestingly, this latest push for war with Syria, Iran and Russia finally seems a bit much for many Trump supporters to stomach. I’ve seen considerable evidence that this is the case over the past 24 hours and I hope it continues. The following poll, conducted by Trump’s favorite show Fox and Friends, is particularly revealing.
Should the U.S. take action against Syria for their reported use of deadly chemical weapons?
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) April 9, 2018
As of the time of publication, over 50,000 people voted, with 68% against U.S. military action. This is encouraging and highlights how crucial the current moment is to build pressure against another idiotic and disastrous war.
*Important Note: Since this post was published the poll mentioned above took a bizarre and shady turn. At 190,000 votes now, 68% suddenly favor war. This implies nearly 100% of the last 140,000 votes were pro war. Highly implausible. We can now be certain Twitter polls can and will be rigged once they become high profile enough.
For more see:
The total vote count on that poll basically tripled in a couple of hours, with nearly 100% of the new votes coming in pro war.
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) April 9, 2018
Here you go…I thought I was going crazy alone on this one – glad others witnessed it pic.twitter.com/822Sc7S26A
— Tom Trotts⏳ (@tom_trotts) April 9, 2018
Now back to the original article…
If Trump voters who claim to be anti-war provide Trump with cover to proceed with a neocon foreign policy, then that’s exactly what you’ll get, especially since that’s also what “the Resistance” and the D.C. bipartisan cadre of imperialists want. The only way to make Trump really sweat is if a unified front consisting of his base, the anti-war left, libertarians and others push back aggressively and simultaneously. I think the time is right for such a movement.
The biggest obstacle we face in achieving this end is ourselves since the American public is all too often its own worst enemy. Too much of the U.S. population is so polarized and convinced their team is right about everything, they’ll never unite to protest against something as monumentally significant as imperial war if they feel the “other side” is also against it. This attitude is extremely childish, but it’s also pervasive. The American public’s been so divided and conquered, so tribal and belligerent against those from the other political tribe, we can’t even come together to push back on an issue as existential as regime change war.
We have a great opportunity to do so now, but will we take the bull by the horns and unite, or will we once again be easily fragmented into tribes the moment the media decides to inflame some new wedge issue?
I don’t know the answer, but I do know that until Americans from various political ideologies can put other differences aside and unite on an extremely important issue, the public will continue to be easy prey for those who really run the show.
As I noted a few weeks ago:
The one mass political movement we need that could cross grassroots ideological lines is one strongly against imperial neocon U.S.foreign policy.
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) March 28, 2018
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Does one have to be 71 yrs old to remember the stampede to the Iraqi war in 2002 using imaginary WMD? This is deja vu all over again..only now it’s ‘chemical weapons’, again with no evidence. How stupid are the American people? how cheap are our kids? And the DNC will repeat it’s performance… warmongers all. Maybe only Bernie will stand with Corbyn, and ask for evidence, before attacking…. I can hear Bolton right now….. evil certainly has the throne… and the Mammonites outnumber the Chrisians.
I (and millions globally) marched in 2002 & 2003, and yet the bloodsuckers won. And they’ll win again in 2018 and 2020, because we have no truthteller to vote for! Only tweedle dums & dees. This is up to today’s young people. They have to demand ‘truth candidates’ …. ‘peace first, war second candidates’ or ‘candidates worth going to war for’….
It’s going to take a miracle… but then, again, the ‘Me Too’ and the ‘kids vs guns’ campaigns have been something new in my lifetime. If women and young folks stand up and make noise…. maybe they won’t be able to pull another one over on us…. I’d carry that sign ‘Don’t let them pull another one over on us!’
Amen, brother.
I believe your article is quite right.
It is also painfully obvious that the general population is outright stupid—- and this is what our rulers depend on.
http://govtslaves.info/2018/04/coincidence-every-time-the-us-threatens-to-pull-out-of-syria-assad-uses-chemical-weapons/
Mike I have nothing more to add. It was a perfect post that I completely agree with. There’s never been a better time to build a non-sectarian anti-war movement.
I agree but leaders are required and right now no one is attempting to organize.
Lets see, Russia has the largest land mass in the world rich in natural resources with as many or more nuclear devices as we do.. China has a population of over a billion people. (America 320 million). These countries have decided its in their best interests to be aligning themselves against our belligerency. – That doesnt make for good odds if youre the typical American and cant afford a New Zealand getaway or a taxpayer provided nuclear bunker. Being your neighbor to the south , I live near the largest collection of nuclear warheads on the planet-3,000 of them or 19%. Its a sad state of affairs when one starts to research blast radii and prevailing fallout patterns.I agree with everything you said here Mike. God bless you. Its hard for a sane person to reconcile mental illness…..
Strange as it may seem Smedley Butler inspired Our group:
https://therulingclassobserver.com/the-ruling-class-preservation-society-rcps/
So what to do? Wait for a ‘leader’ ? I’ve passed out pamphlets in the past… ones that I made myself (re: ‘Debt Free Money’ and ‘Instant Runoff Voting’ and ‘Electronic Voting Machine Hacking’), worked for Bernie, and I’ve called my ‘reps’… I think the # is still 202 224 (or 225) 3121… easy to remember and share with others. (Just give your zip code to be transferred to you Sen’s or Rep’s offices… made your message concise and specific) Easy… at one time I even made and passed out business-size cards with the federal and state contact info…. so, Michael is blogging… how about the rest of us?? At least some … ideas?????
The main obstacle to an anti-war movement in the US is that war is psychologically further away from us than ever before. It’s interesting that today, as opposed to the 1960s or even 2003, the general population tolerates war even though they do not “hate” these countries and claim to be weary of foreign conflicts. At first it seems like inertia is the main force keeping the public on board.
I would say that the lack of hatred toward foreigners is a bright spot in this mess, but that revulsion has been channeled into bitter distrust toward our fellow Americans. The real enemy is someone here who votes the wrong way, has the wrong ideology (libtard/conservatard), is the wrong race, has the wrong religious views, speaks the wrong language, is on the wrong side of the culture war/abortion debate, etc. I see absolutely no sign of the acrimony that divides the USA slowing down.
Strangest of all, this bizarre love/hate toward each other here at home shrinks the world, obscuring most of it from view. When the entire spectrum is on full display here in America, why even look at the rest of the planet?
TPTB only need to consider two scenarios to drive us into war:
1) The people aren’t paying attention? Good. Bombs away.
2) They are paying attention? Okay, just convince them their domestic enemies don’t want war. Tell the left that Trump is a Russian bot and Putin supports Assad. Remind them that military action in Syria started under Obama, and he must have had good reasons. Tell the right that Syrians are evil Muslims that Democrats love and want to threaten Israel. Oh, and ignore the reports that we arm/train/fund ISIS and other terror groups, we would never do that. Then tell both sides to think of the babies in incubators or whatever the 2018 equivalent is.
Voila- war it is. Apologies to the rest of the world, but if it’s any consolation, our idiocy will eventually lead us to tear each other apart, ironically bringing war to the USA like Saddam, Gaddafi, and Assad never could.
Oops, I read this article earlier today and finally got around to typing my comment. I was thinking of the tweets and Fox News poll and now see that I essentially reworded some of Michael’s stuff toward the end. Maybe we should forget about Syria and become enemies over this. Who’s with me?
I voted for Trump for two reasons. First, he was not Hillary. Two, I believed that he would bring total gridlock to D.C., important because of the next part of my comment.
I don’t believe that an anti-war movement will be meaningful against the deep state at this point. What I do believe is that a strong movement by Americans to kick their state legislatures in the ass and demand an Article V Convention of States at which the legislatures can deal with D.C. and the deep state in the best way for the benefit of the American people. Up to, and including a possible amendment to the Constitution to abolish the 3 branches of the Federal government, all departments, agencies and laws created by them and start with a clean slate. If Americans understood the true power that the states have to fix this problem, they would be marching outside their state capitals non-stop until their legislators responded.
I hoped that Trump would give the legislators more time to get the job done. Otherwise, there is only one other way to resolve the problem.
why help, when ‘they’ play both sides. push them over the cliff if they need help
Mike,
You are 100% right in this article!
By the way did you listen to Tucker Carlson over at Fox News?
He was agreeing with you. I couldn’t believe my ears. That Fox News would allow Tucker to go against the Establishment like that.
He will probably be fired tomorrow.
Thanks, and yep I heard it. He did a very good job.
When the nuclear war is over the Earth would be only inhabited by rats, by cockroaches and by the Skripals.
On Sunday I plan to be marching in the streets of NYC for Represent.US. Maybe I will start a “Get out of Syria!!” chant while there.
Heck I might even make it on TV! I will be the old fat guy waving at the camera’s if that happens.
Here’s the problem. Americans are stupid. Mike here disagrees. But it’s blatantly evident. So they get what we have. Cops literrally getting away with murdering our fellow citizens because somehow judges agree that because a cop said the person looked like he was reaching for a gun is justification. How about we ask for a new law that enforces there actually be a gun seen by the cop. Let me continue.
And so here you have war issues. Americans do, nor say anything. And this goes for all issues. Americans just keep getting more stupid by thinking that their little world is more important than what the rest of the world is experiencing. So their face is in their phones. There must be radical change and that should be FORCE Americans to smarten up. Literrally. A U.S. citizen should be forced to study and pass intelligence test in order to keep their drivers license. Their welfare, their Health benefits their Soc Sec etc. Forced to answer definitions to current laws and to show they understand how those laws will impact all of our daily lives. Test scores require a level to maintain their drivers license and other benefits or they must test again. That forces them to study to pass! It’s hollywood and keeping up with Jone’s bullshit that makes people think those things are more important. Ladies with their fashion competition and their fostering that to their kids with making sure they wear the right shoes. (I’m a father of 3) People don’t talk about intelligent matters at all. Because they’re too stupid and lazy to learn important issues. Force them to or nothing will change.
You are forgetting one essential problem. The Elites own the politicians. What rules and regulations that the bottom 95% of America wants has no effect what so ever on what gets passed. The top 1% gets what they want passed with ease. This is according to a Princeton University Study. So don’t put the cart before the horse. Telling the politicians what you or any of the average citizens want has no effect what so ever. So my advice is to not even bother trying. All of this is happening because in America corruption is legal. The first step of fixing the problem is to end corruption.
Phase 1) Join Represent.us and get laws and regulations passed to end corruption!!
Phase 2) Then after we get some politicians voted in that aren’t corrupt then you can tell them what you want.
Phase 2 will never work unless phase 1 happens first.
Agreed.
The record shows that the people have not woken up to reality.
Great Idea!
Reading this book should be a requirement to get a driver’s license in every state….
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Their-Bankers-Persian-Gulf/dp/1453757732
About That War, Fogeddabout It!
https://rebel0007com.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/about-that-war-foggedabout-it/
“resist not evil” is why anti-war demonstrations will only make things worse, not better.
I’m always amazed at how few people understand the true meaning of those 3 words. Petty tyrants of all kinds love resistance. As soon as you actively and openly resist them, you give them your power.
Conversely, there is nothing that defeats a petty tyrant more quickly than purposefully and openly ignoring them. Give them the same amount of non-attention as you give to a gnat buzzing around your ear.
Stop voting for anyone and everyone. Turn the polling places into ghost towns on election days. When that happens they won’t know whether to shit or go blind.
If that has every historically worked.. could you give the evidence?
Hey,
If you are genuinely serious about “unification of the tribes,” please reference G. Edward Griffin.
Mr. Griffin has, BY FAR, the best strategy for implementing such a movement and has already united thousands of like minded people regardless of ideology.
https://freedomforceinternational.org/collectivism/
Martin Luther King and Gandhi are very good modern day examples.
Siddhartha Gautama and the bodhi path. Understanding that evil is not against you, you just don’t know how to use it properly to make it good. Like using poison to create medicine.
I fully understand why Mike (and others) want to actively demonstrate against more war. But the war mongers fully anticipate those demonstrations and so they will use them to their advantage to foster further divisiveness within the general population. Which is the last thing the general population needs any more of right now.
So not doing, instead of doing, can be far more effective and powerful. The pen, instead of the sword.