Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
The United States is allied with Sunni Moslem aristocracies (and therefore with Sunni-headed nations), against Shia Moslem aristocracies (and therefore also against Shia-headed nations).\u00a0Sunni aristocracies provide the huge ($1 million and larger) financial donations that sustain ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other jihadist armed movements, commonly called \u201cterrorists.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Islamic terrorism is virtually entirely a phenomenon of Sunni Islam, and\u00a0the U.S. is allied with the aristocracies that fund it.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The only major Shia organization that is even slightly comparable to those Sunni terrorist organizations is Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon and answers to Shia Iran; but, as wikipedia<\/span><\/a> has noted:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “The\u00a0Gulf Cooperation Council,[15]\u00a0Canada,[16]\u00a0and\u00a0Israel[17]\u00a0have classified Hezbollah as a\u00a0terrorist\u00a0organization, though in 2015 an assessment from the\u00a0U.S. director of National Intelligence removed it from\u00a0its list of terror threats.[18]\u00a0The\u00a0European Union\u00a0and\u00a0New Zealand\u00a0have proscribed Hezbollah’s military\u00a0wing, but do not list Hezbollah as a whole as a\u00a0terrorist organization.[19][20] “<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n The Gulf Cooperation Council, Canada, and Israel, are all, like the Sunni aristocracies are, U.S.-allied, not Russia-allied. They all want Hezbollah to be thought of as if it were like Al Qaeda, etc., so as to be able to hide the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s alliance with the very same aristocrats who are funding global jihad, but they know that it\u2019s just a lie. They know that global jihadism is essentially just a Sunni movement, which has its roots in the U.S.-Saudi alliance backing of the\u00a0Mujahideen guerillas in Afghanistan during 1979-1989<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0as part of the West\u2019s war against communism, which war now turns out to have been actually, in the real intent of the U.S. aristocracy, a still-ongoing war against Russia, because America’s NATO military alliance has continued on, long after the U.S.S.R.\u2019s Warsaw Pact military alliance dissolved and ended entirely in 1991. Every single moment of NATO\u2019s continued existence beyond that moment in time has been a clear indication that America\u2019s aristocracy hope actually to conquer Russia \u2013 that anti-communism was, for them, just an excuse for their war to conquer the U.S.S.R., a war which is now raging hot again in the very bloody Ukrainian anti-Russian coup and follow-on Ukrainian civil war, and with preparations on both sides for an outright nuclear war<\/span><\/a> between NATO and Russia.\u00a0Because it\u2019s all based on lies.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Islamic terrorism is allied with the U.S., not with Russia. (Russia experiences it in places like Chechnia.)\u00a0Sunni extremists were even key U.S.-Saudi tools in weakening Russia and ending the U.S.S.R.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0This (and especially\u00a0the Saudi aristocracy’s funding of Al Qaeda<\/span><\/a>) is the reason why\u00a0the U.S. White House refuses to allow the blocked 28 pages of the U.S. Senate\u2019s Feinstein terrorism\/torture report to be made public.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0The U.S. White House is, and has been at least since 2000, and maybe even before that, controlled by the U.S. aristocracy, no longer by the public. The U.S. Federal Government is, already,\u00a0a dictatorship \u2013 actual rule by the country\u2019s aristocracy or \u201coligarchs\u201d \u2013 no authentic democracy anymore. This is a scientifically proven fact.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Democracy in this country is now merely mythological, whatever the case might possibly have been before (when there were unfortunately no rigorous scientific studies yet regarding the question).<\/span><\/p>\n Sunni Islam is comprised of the Wahhabi variety and its offshoots, and it is comparable, in the Christian context, to fundamentalist or literalist Christianity, the extremist form of its own faith. That\u2019s what the U.S. has been allied with after 1945.<\/span><\/p>\n U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is negotiationg with Iran about far more than Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Iran is the world\u2019s leading Shiite Muslim nation, just as\u00a0America\u2019s ally since 1945 Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is the world\u2019s leading Sunni Muslim nation; and there is\u00a0a global conflict between Shia and Sunni Islam,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0just as there had been in the past a global conflict between Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christianity. Even within the same religion, history is full of very bloody and lengthy wars between contending sects. It\u2019s rather normal. <\/span><\/p>\n Above all: Iran is Shia, and has therefore been allied with Russia, the country that Obama\u2019s Administration (including Kerry) are seeking to destroy. An inevitable part of Kerry\u2019s negotiations with Iran is to turn Iran against Russia; it would be a geostrategic sea-change.<\/span><\/p>\n In the Arabic world, the standard variety of Islam is Sunni; and all of the royal families are Sunni, even in Shiite Bahrain, where the Sunni al-Khalifa family basically imprison the public, who are Shia, in their country, and\u00a0they do it with American military support, so that without the U.S. there would be no Sunni dictatorship in Bahrain, at all. The al-Khalifas pay U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media to not cover the barbaric means they employ to subdue their population.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0The United States is no friend to democracy; it often imposes dictatorship, and Bahrain is the best example of this, because it is so brutal. However, the mirror-image of that on the Russian-allied side is in the Shite-led Sunni-majority nation of Syria. The only difference is that, if the Alawite Shiite dictatorship in Syria gets overthrown, it will be replaced by Sunni terrorists \u2013 which would be far worse. But that\u2019s what Obama evidently wants \u2013 if he is to be judged by his actions and not by his words.<\/span><\/p>\n On Wednesday, March 18th, Iran\u2019s Fars News Agency headlined\u00a0\u201cIraqi Commander: Tapped Communications Confirms US Aids to ISIL,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and opened as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n A commander of Iraq’s popular forces disclosed that\u00a0wiretapping of ISIL’s communications has\u00a0confirmed the reports that the US planes have been\u00a0airdropping food and arms supplies for the Takfiri\u00a0terrorists.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n “The wiretapped ISIL communications by Iraqi popular\u00a0forces have revealed that the US planes have been\u00a0dropping weapons and foodstuff for the Takfiri terrorist\u00a0group,” Commander of Iraq’s Ali Akbar Battalion told\u00a0FNA on Wednesday.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n He noted that tapping on ISIL disclosed the terrorist\u00a0group’s regular contacts with the US army, and said,\u00a0“They exchanged sentences like if they would have a\u00a0share of the ammunition dropped near (Spiker Military\u00a0Base) or responses such as ‘you will also receive your\u00a0share’.”<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n “The US forces by dropping weapons and ammunition\u00a0for ISIL, specially in Yassreb, Al-Ramadi and near\u00a0Spiker Base in Hay al-Qadessiya have provided a lot\u00a0of help to the ISIL,” he added.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Many similar reports by Iraqi officials and forces have\u00a0surfaced in the last few months.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n In February, an Iraqi provincial official lashed out at\u00a0the western countries and their regional allies for\u00a0supporting Takfiri terrorists in Iraq, revealing that the\u00a0US airplanes still continue to airdrop weapons and\u00a0foodstuff for the ISIL terrorists.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n On March 2nd, I headlined\u00a0\u201cObama Prioritizes Weakening Russia, Over Weakening ISIS,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and linked to a news report from Michael Snyder the day before, titled\u00a0\u201cIs Barack Obama Actually Trying to Help \u2026 ISIS \u2026 Take Over Syria?\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0which concluded in the affirmative, because the air-drops of weapons were specifically into areas that were firmly under the control of ISIS. I placed this into the broader context of Obama\u2019s overriding foreign-policy objective: weakening or even destroying Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n So: the U.S. President is not only dropping bombs onto some ISIS positions, but is dropping weapons onto others \u2013 so that they can in turn fire weapons to weaken the Shiite Assad in Syria and the Shiite regime in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n George W. Bush was allied with Sunni aristocracies, and so is Barack Obama. That\u2019s because Sunni aristocracies, like the American aristocracy, aim, above all, to destroy Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n The only Russia-friendly Sunni dictator was Libya\u2019s Muammar Gaddafi; and, as Hillary Clinton proudly and joyously said of him after bombing to hell his forces,\u00a0\u201cWe came, we saw, he died.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n On 17 April 2014 in the London Review of Books<\/i>, Seymour Hersh bannered\u00a0\u201cThe Red Line and the Rat Line,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and he reported that after eliminating Gaddafi, the Obama Administration arranged to transfer from Libya into Syria the Libyan sarin that the Obama Administration claimed Bashar al-Assad\u2019s forces in Syria had created and fired during 19 March 2013 onto the Syrian village of Khan al-Assal, and which gas-attack Obama was trying to use as a \u2018justification\u2019 for bombing Assad\u2019s forces in the Syrian civil war \u2013 which a proposal from Russia caused to be canceled.<\/span><\/p>\n Although the United States Government pretends to be opposed to terrorism, the United States Government is also the global leader in militarily supporting the aristocracies that fund terrorism; and is, in the final analysis, more of a friend than a foe of terrorist organizations, because Russia is allied with the Shiite side in the Sunni-v.-Shiite conflict, and the U.S. is allied with the Sunni side \u2013 the side that sponsors terrorism and that supplies almost all of the actual terrorist fighters.<\/span><\/p>\n This explains a lot of the inconsistencies and absurdities in U.S. Government allegations about terrorism and its causes.<\/span><\/p>\n The U.S. is a crucial sponsor of terrorism, but only in the shadows, because our aristocracy provide the military muscle that retains in power the Arabic aristocrats who \u2013 also in the shadows \u2013 actually finance terrorists (and who pay them very well, it seems<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n What the U.S. Government alleges in international relations today has just about as much reason to be believed as did the statements by Adolf Hitler\u2019s German Government about international relations during the 1930s and \u201840s; and the U.S. actually has\u00a0adopted<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0refined<\/span><\/a>\u00a0many of that Government\u2019s\u00a0propaganda-tactics.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0As a consequence, the predominant view that the American public has of what\u2019s happening in international matters is\u00a0dangerously false.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0It will benefit the few at the very top, each one of whom knows personally virtually every other one \u2013 and whose lawyers are constantly dealing with each other to negotiate the details \u2013 and whose deals are almost always made in private, even deals that determine which politician will be backed and become a government official, and which particular office that he or she will hold. Hiring the top executives, who hire all other people, at the think tanks, and at the \u2018news\u2019 media, shapes the way the public sees public affairs, and it also shapes their votes. These things can be arranged \u2013 and they are arranged; they are manipulated.<\/span><\/p>\n The world\u2019s richest 0.7% own 13.7 times as much as the world\u2019s poorest 68.7%.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0They spend enough of it buying controlling interests in the significant \u2019news\u2019 media and endowing tax-free foundations and think tanks, so that the \u2018authoritative reality\u2019 will be what they want it to be; and, when the public sees it and believes it, politicians will likeliest win who don\u2019t contradict the aristocratically shaped \u2018reality.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n And this is the reason why, at least in the United States,\u00a0aristocrats control the Government.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0It\u2019s not mysterious; it\u2019s just secret. It\u2019s the way things actually are, rather than the way they are propagandized to be. The actual government isn\u2019t publicly seen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And what are the people at the top actually like?\u00a0Scientific studies find that successful people tend to be bad. The people at the top tend to be psychopaths.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0And, of course, psychopaths tend to be very good liars.<\/span><\/p>\n So: it all makes sense, when you stop to think about it. But unfortunately, few people do.<\/span><\/p>\n ———-<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0of\u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse The United States is allied with Sunni Moslem aristocracies (and therefore with Sunni-headed nations), against Shia Moslem aristocracies (and therefore also against Shia-headed nations).\u00a0Sunni aristocracies provide the huge ($1 million and larger) financial donations that sustain ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other jihadist armed movements, commonly called \u201cterrorists.\u201d\u00a0 Islamic terrorism is virtually entirely a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":144269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,34,38,59,5624,526,524,893,754,92,523,49,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-144825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-iraq","16":"tag-military","17":"tag-money","18":"tag-propaganda","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-saudi-arabia-islam","21":"tag-syria","22":"tag-terrorism","23":"tag-ukraine","24":"tag-usa-news","25":"tag-warfare","26":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}