{"id":264833,"date":"2016-08-31T17:37:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=264833"},"modified":"2016-09-01T23:04:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T23:04:22","slug":"clinton-plan-destroy-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/clinton-plan-destroy-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Plan to Destroy Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Eric Zuesse, originally posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2016\/08\/31\/clinton-plans-destroy-russia.html\"><span class=\"s2\">strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Leaked emails are filling in the picture of a Bill-and-Hillary-Clinton plan to destroy Russia \u2014 a plan which had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-11-19\/understanding-power-contest-between-aristocracies\"><span class=\"s2\">originated with U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990, and which has been followed through both by his son George W. Bush, and by both of the Clintons<\/span><\/a>, but which has only recently started to become documented by leaked publications of personal communications amongst the key operatives who were the insiders running this operation behind the scenes, and who include Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Victoria Nuland, Jeffrey Feltman, Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman al-Saud, and the Emir of Qatar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This operation came out into public view only briefly when the news site Zero Hedge headlined on 6 October 2015\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-10-06\/saudi-clerics-call-jihad-against-russia-iran-nato-warns-airspace-violations\"><span class=\"s3\">&#8220;Saudi Clerics Call For Jihad Against Russia, Iran\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and linked to a number of sources, including to a <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> report the day before, which simply ignored the Saudi involvement and headlined\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-concludes-russia-targeting-cia-backed-rebels-in-syria-1444088319\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cU.S. Sees Russian Drive Against CIA-Backed Rebels in Syria\u201d<\/span><\/a>, as if this matter were merely a U.S.-v.-Russia issue, not an issue involving the Saud family at all. By contrast, the zerohedge article closed with \u201c\u2018This is a real war on Sunnis, their countries and their identities,\u2019 said the\u00a0statement [by the International Union of Muslim Scholars, which is based in Qatar, whose ruling family,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/10\/whats-behind-lower-gas-prices-bombings-syria-southeastern-ukraine.html\"><span class=\"s3\">the Thanis, work closely with the Saud family<\/span><\/a>]. It urged the rebels to join a \u2018jihad against the enemy of God and your\u00a0enemy, and Muslims will back you every way they can.\u2019\u201d As\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/5pillarsuk.com\/2015\/10\/06\/saudi-scholars-declare-jihad-against-russia-for-syria-airstrikes\/\"><span class=\"s3\">a British news-site for jihadists<\/span><\/a>\u00a0put the matter, &#8220;According to experts, by issuing this statement they seek to encourage Saudi, Gulf,\u00a0and Muslim youths to fight against Russian forces, similar to the recruitment of young\u00a0fighters during the Afghan-Soviet war.\u201d (That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/akbar-ganji\/us-jihadist-relations_b_5542757.html\"><span class=\"s2\">joint U.S.-Saudi operation, which was assisted by the Pakistani military and by Pakistan\u2019s heavily-Saudi-influenced Islamic clergy, was the brainchild of Saudi Prince Bandar and of the born Polish aristocrat Zbigniew Brzezinski<\/span><\/a>, and its success at breaking up the Soviet Union is an enduring topic of pride for today\u2019s jihadists.) On 5 October 2015, the British mainstream \u2018news\u2019 site Reuters had called these\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mideast-crisis-saudi-clerics-idUSKCN0RZ1IW20151005\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cSaudi opposition clerics\u201d<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0and alleged that they \u201care not affiliated with the government,\u201d but Reuters\u2019s statement (especially that these were \u201cSaudi opposition clerics\u201d) was simply false, and even ridiculously false, likely an outright lie, because Saudi laws don\u2019t allow any \u201copposition clerics,\u201d especially not Islamic ones, since those would be executed for publicly questioning the legitimacy of the country\u2019s rule by the royal Saud family, which is what an \u201copposition cleric\u201d in Saudi Arabia would, by definition, be doing, if any of them existed there and hadn\u2019t been executed yet. The pretense, by Reuters, that Saudi Arabia is a religious-freedom country, is an insult to their readership, but this falsehood helps to keep their readership thinking that somehow the West can be allied with the Sauds and yet still call itself \u2018democratic\u2019 and allied only with \u2018democratic\u2019 governments, not with some of the world\u2019s worst tyrannies. Realism in foreign affairs (such as to acknowledge that some of the world\u2019s worst regimes are our government\u2019s allies) is fine, but it can\u2019t include lying to one\u2019s own public, because that necessarily entails misinforming the voters on the basis of which any <i>actual<\/i> democracy receives its very legitimacy as <i>being<\/i> a democracy, which seems less and less what countries such as the U.S. and UK are, at least after 9\/11. A \u201cdemocracy\u201d and a \u201cdeceived public\u201d cannot coexist in the same country \u2014 and, at least in the United States, a deceived public is what predominantly exists (as a consequence of the many deceiving \u2018news\u2019 media).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Saud family are always among the top ten foreign buyers of American weapons. On 26 May 2015, David Sirota and Andrew Perez headlined in <i>International Business Times<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cClinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton&#8217;s State Department\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and reported that \u201cIn the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation.\u201d Then, Secretary of State Clinton approved a $29 billion sale of U.S. weapons to <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/summarizing-missing-28-pages-behind-911\/\"><span class=\"s2\">the Saud family<\/span><\/a>, which enables the Sauds to mass-murder Shiites in neighboring Yemen, and (via the Sauds\u2019 surrogate jihadists) in Syria. Moreover, \u201cThe Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration.\u201d Other than to fundamentalist-Sunni Saudi Arabia, this burgeoning of military exports included weapons to the Sauds\u2019 fellow-fundamentalist-Sunni royal friends who own and run Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar, all of whom had donated to the Clinton Foundation and likewise gained Clinton\u2019s clearance to buy America\u2019s weapons, even as the State Department verbally condemned their countries for corruption, tyranny, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/02\/terrorists-arent-hitting-u-s-now.html\"><span class=\"s2\">funding jihadists around the world<\/span><\/a>. These fundamentalist-Sunni monarchies compete against both Russia and Iran in international oil and gas markets, and appreciate a U.S. government that slaps economic sanctions against, and that militarily threatens, their main economic competitors: both Russia and Iran. During Hillary\u2019s time at State, military sales to the Sauds who own Saudi Arabia doubled, to the royals who own Qatar\u00a0increased 14-fold, to the royals who own UAE increased ten-fold, and to <a href=\"http:\/\/yournewswire.com\/cnn-journalist-governments-pay-us-to-fake-stories-shocking-expose\/\"><span class=\"s2\">the royals who own Bahrain<\/span><\/a> increased nearly three-fold. Other top donors to the Clinton Foundation included the top U.S. military suppliers: Boeing, GE, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and United Technologies. This is a charitable operation \u2014 but certainly not to Russia, nor to the operation\u2019s other victims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whois.com\/whois\/clintonemail.com\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/www.whois.com\/whois\/clintonemail.com<\/span><\/a>, one learns that \u201cCreation Date: 2009-01-13T05:00:00Z\u201d, meaning Hillary Clinton had set up her privatized State Department email operation on January 13th of 2009, six days prior to becoming the U.S. Secretary of State. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Here is the operation that has been led by the Bush-Clinton-Obama-Saud-Thani alliance:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The first two exhibits are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/clinton-emails\/emailid\/28723\">https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/clinton-emails\/emailid\/28723<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>SAUD<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i> From: Jeffrey Feltman To: Hillary Clinton Date: 2011-02-20 08:36 Subject: SAUD <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i> UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05778064 Date: 09\/30\/2015<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>RELEASE IN PART B1,B5,1.4(D)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>From: Feltman, Jeffrey D&lt;FeltmanJD@state.gov&gt; Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 3:36 PM H; Sullivan, JacobJ; HumaAbedin To: Subject: RE:Saud Yes, I agree \u2014 Bill should call. That&#8217;s a good idea. He can brief on your call with Saud. \u25a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>B5<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Original Message From: H [mailto:HDR22@clintonemail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 3:34 PM To: Feltman, Jeffrey 0; Sullivan, Jacob J; Huma Abedin Subject: Saud<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>1.4(D) B1 Also, Bill knows the CP <\/i>[Crown Prince, now Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud] <i>very well and wants to call and offer support. Is that ok?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Classified by DAS, A\/GIS, DoS on 09\/30\/2015 \u2014 Class: CONFIDENTIAL \u2014 Reason: 1.4(D) \u2014 Declassify on: 02\/19\/2036<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/clinton-emails\/emailid\/28733\">https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/clinton-emails\/emailid\/28733<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>SAUD<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>From:\u00a0Jeffrey Feltman\u00a0To:\u00a0Jake Sullivan\u00a0Date: 2011-02-20 08:38 Subject: SAUD<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05778115 Date: 09\/30\/2015\u00a0RELEASE IN PART\u00a0B1,B5,1.4(D)\u00a0From: Feltman,\u00a0Jeffrey D &lt;FeltmanJD@state.gov &gt; Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 3:38 PM To: H; Sullivan, Jacob J; Huma Abedin Subject: RE: Saud\u00a0I apologize for the last\u00a0note clearly the Secretary meant President Clinton! When I hear &#8220;Bill&#8221; in a State Department e-mail, I think P. not a President!\u00a0B5\u00a0Original Message\u00a0From: H\u00a0[mailto:HDR22@clintonemail.com]\u00a0Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 3:34 PM To: Feltman, Jeffrey D; Sullivan, Jacob 1; Huma Abedin\u00a0Subject: Saud\u00a01.4(D) B1\u00a0Also, Bill knows the CP <\/i>[Crown Prince]<i> very well and wants to call and offer support. Is that ok?\u00a0Classified by DAS, A\/GIS, DoS on 09\/30\/2015 \u2014 Class: CONFIDENTIAL \u2014\u00a0Reason: 1.4(D) \u2014 Declassify on:\u00a002\/19\/203<\/i>6<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">These were two of the emails that the State Department marked \u201cConfidential\u201d after Hillary\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/clinton-case-obama-administration-nullifies-6-criminal-laws\/\"><span class=\"s2\">blatantly illegal<\/span><\/a> (but <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/hillary-clintons-email-case-still-not-closed\/\"><span class=\"s2\">not even investigated by the FBI<\/span><\/a>) privatized State Department email operation became public, and both emails were then rated by the State Department as being appropriate to declassify only on 19 February 2036. Both of them demonstrate that while Hillary was Secretary of State, her husband, \u201cBill,\u201d was very actively assisting her \u201cdiplomacy.\u201d Both notes are from Jeffrey Feltman, who subsequently became prominently mentioned by the U.S. State Department\u2019s Victoria Nuland when Nuland told the U.S. Ambassador in Kiev, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MSxaa-67yGM\"><span class=\"s2\">4 February 2014<\/span><\/a>, just 18 days prior to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8-RyOaFwcEw\"><span class=\"s2\">her coup<\/span><\/a> that overthrew the democratically elected President of Ukraine, and 22 days prior to installation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/06\/ukraine-international-war-criminal-obama-putin-2.html\"><span class=\"s2\">Russia-hating Arseniy Yatsenyuk<\/span><\/a> to lead the U.S. interim dictatorship there, the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MSxaa-67yGM\">Exhibit #3<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s5\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Victoria Nuland: I think Yats is the guy who&#8217;s got the economic experience, the governing experience. He&#8217;s the \u2014 What he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside. He needs to be talking to them four times a week, you know. I just think Klitsch going in, he&#8217;s going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk, it&#8217;s just not going to work.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Geoffrey Pyatt: Yeah, no, I think that&#8217;s right. OK. Good. Do you want us to set up a call with him as the next step?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Victoria Nuland: My understanding from that call \u2014 but you tell me \u2014 was that the big three were going into their own meeting and that Yats was going to offer in that context a three-plus-one conversation or three-plus-two with you. Is that not how you understood it?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Pyatt: No. I think \u2014 I mean that&#8217;s what he proposed but I think, just knowing the dynamic that&#8217;s been with them where Klitschko has been the top dog, he&#8217;s going to take a while to show up for whatever meeting they&#8217;ve got and he&#8217;s probably talking to his guys at this point, so I think you reaching out directly to him helps with the personality management among the three and it gives you also a chance to move fast on all this stuff and put us behind it before they all sit down and he explains why he doesn&#8217;t like it.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Nuland: OK, good. I&#8217;m happy. Why don&#8217;t you reach out to him and see if he wants to talk before or after.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Pyatt: OK, will do. Thanks.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Nuland: OK, one more wrinkle for you Geoff. I can&#8217;t remember if I told you this, or if I only told Washington this, that when I talked to <\/i><b><i>Jeff Feltman<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i>[who had, in 2011, been in Hillary\u2019s State Department, but was now the U.N.\u2019s Under Secretary-General \u2014 immediately under Ban ki-Moon \u2014 for Political Affairs]<i> this morning, he had a new name for the U.N. guy Robert Serry did I write you that this morning? \u2026<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In other words: Feltman, who had been central in the operation to overthrow one leader who was friendly toward Russia, Assad (to replace him there by jihadists); was now prominently involved also in the operation to overthrow another leader friendly toward Russia, Yanukovych (to replace him there by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/obamas-ukrainian-stooges\/\"><span class=\"s2\">nazis<\/span><\/a>) (and Russia, of course, cannot tolerate either jihadists or nazis, so it tries to eliminate both). (And, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/11\/u-s-among-3-countries-u-n-officially-backing-nazism-israel-parts-company-germany-abstains.html\"><span class=\"s2\">on 21 November 2014, the U.S. was one of only 3 countries at the U.N. voting against a resolution to condemn resurgent nazism and holocaust-denial<\/span><\/a>. The new, nazi, Americanized, Ukraine, was another of the three internationally pro-nazi regimes.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In exhibits 1&amp;2, Feltman\u2019s counsel has been sought by Hillary regarding whether she should receive Bill\u2019s assistance in setting up a discussion with \u201cSaud,\u201d who might have been King Saud, or else it was his #2, the Crown Prince, whom Bill personally knew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s important to note that Exhibits 1&amp;2 are from 20 February 2011, which was right before the demonstrations started against the Syrian secular regime of Bashar al-Assad. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wikipedia\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syrian_civil_war\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cSyrian Civil War\u201d<\/span><\/a> says \u201cThe protests began on 15 March 2011,\u201d and so those two exhibits, both dated 20 February 2011, predated the \u201cprotests\u201d in Syria by exactly 23 days. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Exhibit #4: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/clinton-emails\/emailid\/21376\">https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/clinton-emails\/emailid\/21376<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>QATAR<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i> From: Jeffrey Feltman To: Jake Sullivan Date: 2010-09-08 13:06 Subject: QATAR\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i> UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05772230 Date: 11\/30\/2015<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>RELEASE IN PART B5<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>From: Feltman, Jeffrey D &lt;FeltmanJD@state.gov&gt; Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2010 8:06 PM To: Sullivan, Jacob J; H<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Subject: Re: Qatar <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Topics covered:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Jeffrey Feltman<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Original Message<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>From: Sullivan, Jacob I To: &#8216;H&#8217; &lt;HDR22@clintonemail.com&gt;; Feltman, Jeffrey D Sent: Thu Sep 09 19:19:41 2010<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Subject: RE: Qatar<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Scheduled it and made it. I&#8217;ll give you the readout in the morning.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Original Message From: H Emailto:HDR22@clintonemail.com]<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 7:19 PM To: Feltman, Jeffrey D Cc: Sullivan, JacobJ<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Subject: Qatar<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The leaders of Qatar are its owners, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/10\/whats-behind-lower-gas-prices-bombings-syria-southeastern-ukraine.html\"><span class=\"s2\">the Thani royal family, who are the main funders of the Muslim Brotherhood, and who have long wanted to overthrow the secular Assad and to replace him with a fundamentalist Sunni leader like themselves<\/span><\/a>. Feltman here, on 9 September 2010, was informing Hillary (and her chief counselor, Jake Sullivan), that a meeting had been set up, concerning Qatar, which is a key funder of the tens of thousands of jihadists who have since entered Syria to overthrow and replace Assad. On 3 September 2010, Hillary had sent <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/clinton-emails\/emailid\/7045\"><span class=\"s2\">an email to Jake Sullivan<\/span><\/a>, whose subject-line was \u201cEmir of Qatar\u201d (Qatar\u2019s king) and it said only \u201cLet\u2019s discuss when I get in.\u201d Then, on 14 September 2010, Hillary received <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/clinton-emails\/emailid\/14160\"><span class=\"s2\">an email whose subject line was \u201cSHEIKHA MOSA OF QATAR\u201d<\/span><\/a> (that\u2019s the Emir\u2019s wife) and it was a note from Cheri Blair (Tony Blair\u2019s wife, a friend of both Hillary and her) saying, \u201cShe is available to see you on 24 September either morning or afternoon? Alternatively 28thor 29thSeptember Does that work for you?\u201d The main subject of the conversation was to be <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/clinton-emails\/emailid\/84\"><span class=\"s2\">the drought in the Arabic countries<\/span><\/a>. That drought was especially intense in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The background behind those public demonstrations against the Assad regime is important. As <a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/food\/2010-01-15-drought-drives-middle-eastern-peppers\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Grist<\/span><\/a> reported, regarding the record drought in Syria, on 16 January 2010:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Prices are soaring and supplies are becoming scarce \u2013 not merely because of international demand, but because of drought and agricultural water scarcity triggered by global climate change. The same climate-driven pressures are affecting the survival of the Halaby pepper and its traditional farmers near Aleppo, Syria. In the past three years, 160 Syrian farming villages have been abandoned near Aleppo as crop failures have forced over 200,000 rural Syrians to leave for the cities. This news is distressing enough, but when put into a long-term perspective, its implications are staggering: many of these villages have been continuously farmed for 8000 years. As one expert puts it, this may be the worst long-term drought and most severe set of crop failures since agricultural civilizations began in the Fertile Crescent many millennia ago.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/08DAMASCUS847\/08DAMASCUS847_djvu.txt\"><span class=\"s2\">wikileaked U.S. State Department cable, which was dated \u201c11\/25\/2018\u201d<\/span><\/a> but without the typo was actually originated on 25 November 2008 (near the end of the G.W. Bush Presidency), had been sent from the U.S. Embassy in Syria, to the U.S. Secretary of State and to several U.S. Embassies, and it conveyed the Syrian government\u2019s urgent appeal for drought-assistance:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/08DAMASCUS847\/08DAMASCUS847_djvu.txt\">Exhibit #5<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s5\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Representative Abdullah Bin Yehia is seeking USG commitment to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 2008 Drought Appeal. Yehia proposes to use money from the appeal to provide seed and technical assistance to 15,000 small-holding farmers in northeast Syria in an effort to preserve the social and economic fabric of this rural, agricultural community. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The U.S. did not respond. This appeal fell to U.S. Secretary of State Clinton to respond to, and she (and her Department) ignored it. They knew that Syria was in perhaps the most likely condition ever, to undergo massive civilian protests, even if the rest of the Arabic lands were not quite so much. What, then, was, to the Syrian government, a global appeal for help, was, to the U.S. government, an opportunity to topple and replace, with imported U.S. and Saudi and Thani backed jihadists, the existing, non-sectarian, ideologically secular, Syrian government, to replace it with jihadists who would be grateful to the Sauds and Thanis and the U.S. aristocrats, for installing them into power there. Then, the U.S. and its fundamentalist-Sunni royal allies, could fulfill on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/syria-another-pipeline-war-1882180532.html\"><span class=\"s2\">their goal, ever since 1949, to replace Syria\u2019s secular government with a sectarian, specifically fundamentalist-Sunni, one, which would allow the U.S. and its oil companies to pipeline Saudi oil and Thani gas into the world\u2019s largest energy-market, Europe, displacing Europe\u2019s current biggest supplier, Russia<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Furthermore, Hillary Clinton has, on at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NsZg_maF0ow\"><span class=\"s2\">two<\/span><\/a> different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X2CE0fyz4ys\"><span class=\"s2\">occasions<\/span><\/a>, lied and said that the initial insertion of jihadists into Afghanistan started after the Soviets had \u201cinvaded Afghanistan\u201d \u2014 something that actually happened on 24 December 1979, <i>after<\/i> the U.S.-Saudi-Pakistani operation had already been officially authorized by U.S. President Jimmy Carter on 3 July 1979, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Cyclone\"><span class=\"s2\">following the advice of Brzezinski, who won out over the advice of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance<\/span><\/a>. Here\u2019s Brzezinski speaking about that, in 1998 (long before both of Hillary\u2019s televised lies to the contrary about this, while she was the U.S. Secretary of State):<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dgibbs.faculty.arizona.edu\/brzezinski_interview\">Exhibit #6<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s5\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahiddin began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979. But the reality, closely guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s5\">And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A9RCFZnWGE0\"><span class=\"s6\">here is Brzezinski himself, in Pakistan, in 1979, recruiting jihadists to start the modern jihadist wave<\/span><\/a> \u2014 the wave he\u2019s proud of, notwithstanding the 1993 jihadist bombing of the World Trade Center, which had already resulted from it. (Then, on 11 September 2001, <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/summarizing-missing-28-pages-behind-911\/\"><span class=\"s6\">the Saud family\u2019s \u201c9\/11\u201d operation, with assistance from George W. Bush and his close aides<\/span><\/a>, was carried out.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Of course, Brzezinski and President Carter in 1979, were fighting to end the Soviet Union; that\u2019s very different than what has happened at the top level of the U.S. government after the USSR ended in 1991, because all since 1991 is psychopathic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/stupid-think.html\"><span class=\"s2\">aggression against Russia, and has no ideological justification whatsoever<\/span><\/a>. Brzezinski is still part of that operation, but only as a cheerleader for it. The Bushes, Clintons, and Obama, are the operative culprits in this psychopathic aggression, first to surround Russian with hostile forces, and then to strangle Russia\u2019s economy, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/obamas-new-national-security-strategy-rabidly-anti-russian\/\"><span class=\"s2\">to blame Russia for \u2018aggression\u2019<\/span><\/a> when it takes essential defensive action against the West\u2019s aggression \u2014 such as NATO\u2019s expansion right up to Russia\u2019s very borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s7\">Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Theyre-Not-Even-Close-Democratic\/dp\/1880026090\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1339027537&amp;sr=8-9\"><span class=\"s4\"><i>They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>,<\/i> and of<\/span><span class=\"s8\"> <i>\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B007Q1H4EG\"><span class=\"s9\"><i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Leaked emails are filling in the picture of a Bill-and-Hillary-Clinton plan to destroy Russia \u2014 a plan which had originated with U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990, and which has been followed through both by his son George W. 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