{"id":235766,"date":"2016-04-03T18:22:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T18:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=235766"},"modified":"2016-04-03T18:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T18:22:01","slug":"german-economic-news-reports-obama-abandoned-neocons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/german-economic-news-reports-obama-abandoned-neocons\/","title":{"rendered":"German Economic News Reports Obama Has Abandoned His \u2018Neocons\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

German Economic News (Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, or DWN), the most reliable news-source on geostrategic matters,\u00a0reported,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on March 31st, that U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin had secretly reached agreement on working together to kill the jihadists in Syria, even despite Obama\u2019s having long been carrying out instead the policies of his Administration\u2019s neoconservatives, such as Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, which prioritize first America\u2019s longstanding effort to overthrow and replace the Russian government (by overthrowing governments that ally with Russia).<\/span><\/p>\n

If this news-report is correct, then it indicates that Obama has finally come around to the position that Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, had,\u00a0according to the great investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, been urging upon Obama:<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to place the destruction of the jihadists as being a higher priority than the anti-Russian campaign (which has been carried out by overthrowing Russia\u2019s allies \u2014 especially Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine, successfully done in February 2014 \u2014 and Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Unlike Yanukovych, Assad seems to have become the all-but-certain winner of the American-and-jihadists\u2019 war to overthrow his secular government.)<\/span><\/p>\n

In the U.S. Presidential contests, Bernie Sanders has been arguing against Hillary Clinton, to prioritize the anti-jihadist effort higher than any anti-Russian strategy; and Donald Trump in the Republican Party has been campaigning against Ted Cruz and John Kasich similarly. The DWN report seems to suggest that, finally, President Obama has come around to Sanders\u2019s and Trump\u2019s position \u2014 and, to what, before that, was Martin Dempsey\u2019s position \u2014 on this central geostrategic issue: What is the top priority?<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the DWN news-report also makes clear that both Obama and Putin have, on certain occasions, been deceptive, so that no certainty can be attributed to any consclusions at this stage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One can, however, say with certainty \u2014 and Hersh\u2019s news-reports ever since the last one he did on geostrategy for the\u00a0New Yorker<\/i>,\u00a0\u201cThe Redirection,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in 2007, have been about this, the redirection of U.S. foreign policy (since 2007) to prioritize conquering Russia \u2014 one can say that, ever since Obama first entered the White House in 2009, Obama\u2019s top priority in international relations has, indeed, been to move forward with what has been America\u2019s top foreign-policy objective, ever since 1990 (other than during the conquest of Iraq period, 2003-2007): the goal of placing Russia under U.S. control (i.e, to continue the process that was under way in Russia under Boris Yeltsin). When the editor of the\u00a0New Yorker<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0accepted that 2007 article by Hersh for publication, perhaps it was because the word \u201cRussia\u201d wasn\u2019t even used in it \u2014 instead, Hersh cast America\u2019s central post-2007 target as being Iran \u2014 which has been Russia\u2019s chief ally in the Middle East ever since the 1953-CIA-installed dictator-Shah had been overthrown by the Shiite Ayatollah Khomeni\u2019s supporters in 1979. After that 2007 article was published, Hersh hasn\u2019t gotten any more geostrategic submissions accepted there. When he did articles starting in 2013 reporting Obama\u2019s follow-through of Bush (Obama\u2019s targeting Russia\u2019s allies for being overthrown), none of the paying U.S. newsmedia would publish them. Hersh\u2019s geostrategic articles have\u00a0all been published instead<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0London Review of Books<\/i>. Basically, Hersh became too good for his best work to be able to be accepted by the\u00a0New Yorker<\/i>\u00a0(which he\u2019d prefer to have published them, because it pays lots more and has a bigger audience than LRB<\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\n

A good example of this top priority, against Russia, was Obama\u2019s\u00a0National Security Strategy 2015<\/i><\/span><\/a>, which named Russia on 17 of the 18 occasions in which the term (or equivalent) \u201caggression\u201d was being charged by Obama. Here, Obama was, in long form, stating the view that had been more simply expressed about Russia by his Republican opponent during the 2012 Presidential campaign: Mitt Romney\u2019s\u00a0“This is without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0They fight for every cause for the world’s\u00a0worst actors.\u201d Obama\u2019s deception of U.S. voters, by attacking that statement from Romney (though he secretly agreed with it and was already preparing his second Administration to carry it out), was typical of Obama\u2019s strategic brilliance (at deceiving voters). (He was such a superb deceiver, that he even won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, by pretending to support a peaceful world.) It helped him to win the U.S. Presidency (since the American public considers jihadists to be vastly more of a threat); but, at least until now, Obama\u2019s Presidency, even overtly, has, indeed, been guided by his agreement<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>with the view that Romney there had so pithily expressed. In fact, Obama\u2019s overthrow of Yanukovych in Ukraine was such a successful fraud so that even today there is no mention in American \u2018news\u2019 media of the fact that it was a\u00a0coup<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0and, moreover,\u00a0an extremely bloody one<\/span><\/a>, which was followed very quickly by\u00a0an ethnic cleansing campaign<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to eliminate\u00a0the residents in the areas of Ukraine that had overwhelmingly voted for Yanukovych<\/span><\/a>. Furthermore,\u00a0foreign elites know that it was a coup,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0but the U.S. public are still kept in the dark about it. In fact,\u00a0the one time when the American geostrategic expert George Friedman, the head of Stratfor, called it \u201cthe most blatant coup in history,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0he was addressing an audience of elite Russians who already knew, from overwhelming evidence, that it was that. In the United States, it\u2019s still<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>called a \u201cdemocratic revolution\u201d (which merely happened<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>to replace the democratically elected leader of that country). The\u00a0recording<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of Obama\u2019s operative (the super-neoconservative Victoria Nuland) giving instructions to the U.S. Ambassador in Ukraine regarding whom to get appointed to lead Ukraine after the coup, still isn\u2019t enough for U.S. newsmedia to refer to the overthrow in Ukraine as having been a \u201ccoup\u201d instead of as something like \u201cthe Maidan revolution.\u201d Nothing will be enough, for that. Perhaps one won\u2019t even be able to trust U.S.-published \u2018history\u2019 books, ever to get that right. The U.S. retrospectively acknowledges that its overthrow of the democratically elected leader Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 was a U.S. coup there, but perhaps the U.S. elite\u2019s fascism, which was then just beginning to seep into and poison the American body-politic, has by now become far more deeply embedded \u2014 too deeply embedded for U.S. \u2018history\u2019 books to be much more than U.S. mythology.<\/span><\/p>\n

While no one can say with certainty whether Obama is changing course on this overthrow-Russia campaign (which was begun in 1990 by U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush<\/span><\/a>) as his Presidency winds down, there is at least a possibility that Obama is now becoming somewhat more like Sanders and Trump on this central matter, than like Clinton, Cruz and Kasich (who are neo-conservatives, like Obama if not even more so).<\/span><\/p>\n

Only time will tell for certain, whether DWN is correct in its reading of the situation. If Obama issues a\u00a0\u2018National Security Strategy 2016<\/i>\u2019<\/span><\/a>, then perhaps there will be more-substantial verbal evidence, at least (if one can even trust such coming from Obama), regarding this matter. However, any effort to end what has been America\u2019s leading geostrategy ever since 1990 would be extremely difficult for any U.S. President, and the entrenched power-structure in the U.S. would resist it every step of the way. Simply deceiving the American public is so much easier to do. It has been the path of least resistance, at least since 1990. From that time till this, there is, as yet, no movement, either in the U.S. or in Europe, to end America\u2019s anti-Russian military club, NATO, despite the fact that the Soviet Union\u2019s equivalent, the Warsaw Pact, ended in 1991, when the Soviet Union itself did. For some reason, a U.S. President can still refer to Russia 17 out of 18 times as the world\u2019s \u2018aggressor\u2019 even while it is the U.S. that so routinely overthrows foreign leaders \u2014 even democratically elected ones. The American public don\u2019t trust the U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media much<\/span><\/a>, but they evidently still trust it way too much. Perhaps one would expect that to be the case in a dictatorship<\/span><\/a>. But once a country reaches such a stage as this, what can possibly follow after? What happens in a former<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>democracy?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org German Economic News (Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, or DWN), the most reliable news-source on geostrategic matters,\u00a0reported,\u00a0on March 31st, that U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin had secretly reached agreement on working together to kill the jihadists in Syria, even despite Obama\u2019s having long been carrying out instead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":235769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,59,543,524,754,92,523,49,76,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-235766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cia","11":"tag-cover-up","12":"tag-global-news","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-putin","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-syria","17":"tag-terrorism","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-usa-news","20":"tag-warfare","21":"tag-white-house","22":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}