What is a Conspiracy Theory? What is the Truth?

Written on February 10th, 2015 in politics Comments Off

Published on Global Research.ca, by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Feb 05, 2015.

… Xenophobia and the Military Agenda:

  • The wave of xenophobia directed against Muslims which has swept across Western Europe is tied into geopolitics. It is part of a military agenda. It consists in demonizing the enemy.  
  • –Muslim countries possess more than 60 percent of total oil reserves. In contrast, the United States of America has barely 2 percent of total oil reserves. Iraq has five times more oil than the United States. (See Michel Chossudovsky, The “Demonization” of Muslims and the Battle for Oil, Global Research, Jannuary 4, 2007).
  • A large share of the World’s oil lies in Muslim lands. The objective of the US led war is to steal and appropriate those oil reserves. And to achieve this objective, these countries are targeted: war, covert ops, economic destabilization, regime change.

The American Inquisition: … //

… What is the Truth:

  • The real threat to global security emanates from the US-NATO-Israel alliance, yet realities in an inquisitorial environment are turned upside down: the warmongers are committed to peace, the victims of war are presented as the protagonists of war.
  • The homeland is threatened.
  • The media, intellectuals, scientists and the politicians, in chorus, obfuscate the unspoken truth, namely that the US-NATO led war destroys humanity.
  • When the lie becomes the truth there is no turning backwards.
  • When war is upheld as a humanitarian endeavor, Justice and the entire international legal system are turned upside down: pacifism and the antiwar movement are criminalized. Opposing the war becomes a criminal act. Meanwhile, the war criminals in high office have ordered a witch hunt against those who challenge their authority.
  • The Big Lie must be exposed for what it is and what it does.
  • It sanctions the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children.
  • It destroys families and people. It destroys the commitment of people towards their fellow human beings.
  • It prevents people from expressing their solidarity for those who suffer. It upholds war and the police state as the sole avenue.
  • It destroys both nationalism and internationalism.
  • Breaking the lie means breaking a criminal project of global destruction, in which the quest for profit is the overriding force.
  • This profit driven military agenda destroys human values and transforms people into unconscious zombies.
  • Let us reverse the tide.
  • Challenge the war criminals in high office and the powerful corporate lobby groups which support them.
  • Break the American inquisition.
  • Undermine the US-NATO-Israel military crusade.
  • Close down the weapons factories and the military bases.
  • Bring home the troops.
  • Members of the armed forces should disobey orders and refuse to participate in a criminal war.

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Links:

Is Syriza About to Score a Tactical Win Against the Troika? on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Feb 9, 2015;

Swiss leaks: Govt, SIT widen black-money probe as big industrialists figure in new HSBC list, on The Times of India, Feb 9, 2015;

Huge explosion at Donetsk chemical plant, military ‘don’t know what they hit’ (VIDEO), on Russia Today RT, Feb 9, 2015;

Europe: No country for young people, on VOX cepr’s policy portal, by Juan Dolado, Feb 9, 2015: Youth unemployment has been a problem in Europe for several decades, but some European countries have fared much better than others in recent years. This column summarises the policy lessons to be drawn from a new VoxEU.org eBook that compares the labour market experiences of different European countries and provides an early evaluation of the European Commission’s Youth Guarantee scheme …;

Egypt: Path to the Presidency – The Swift Rise of Egypt’s Sisi, on Spiegel Online International, by Dieter Bednarz and Klaus Brinkbäumer in Cairo, Feb 9, 2015: In June 2014, former military officer Abdel Fattah el-Sisi became Egypt’s president. Did his election represent the will of the people or was it the product of a coup? And will it mark the end of the Arab Spring or is he a leader who can provide needed stability? Some cities and countries seem as if they had simply spent too much time focusing on self-destruction — as if they had passed over the critical moments, the moments and the many years in which development and modernization would have been possible, and as if it were now too late …;

The Rich and the Great Recession, on VOX cepr’s policy portal, by Bas Bakker and Joshua Felman, Feb 6, 2015: Much research about the Great Recession in the US has focused on the boom-bust in housing wealth and spending of the middle class. This column argues that a large role was actually played by the rich. The savings rate of the rich went through a similar cycle as that of the middle class with rising wealth first stimulating their consumption and falling wealth restraining it. Most importantly, the wealth of the rich has become so large and volatile that wealth effects on their consumption could impact the whole economy …;

Alexis Tsipras hat mit Präsident Putin telefoniert, auf Alles Schall und Rauch, von Freeman, Feb 5, 2015;

Being Left: Part 9, Conclusion, on ZNet, by Michael Albert, Feb 3, 2015; Index on ZNet for Being Left: In December 2013 David Marty did an extensive interview with Michael Albert. We present it in nine parts – of which this is the ninth. Other parts address: Radicalization, Media, Debating Vision, Venezuela, Occupy and IOPS, Fanfare, Chomsky …;

Greens ditch citizens’ income from election manifesto, on The Telegraph,co.uk, by Ben Riley Smith, Feb 2, 2015;

Welfare Doesn’t Destroy Families, Poverty Does, on New Republic, Feb 2, 2015;

Quand les éternels gagnants veulent continuer à jouer sans changer les règles, dans Mediapart.fr, par MY-KAROL, le 2 février 2015;

The Precariat Charter, from Denizens to Citizens – Professor Guy Standing, on Scoop.co.nz, Press Releaseby New Zealand Fabian Society, Feb 2, 2015;

FRANCE: Renowed author and basic income supporter Bernard Maris among Charlie Hebdo victims, on Basic Income Earth Network BIEN, by André Coelho, Feb 1, 2015;

Man arrested in Saudi Arabia for filming execution of woman ‘child killer’, on Russia Today RT, Jan 19, 2015: Members of Magic Movement, a group of young Bangladeshis, stage a mock execution scene in protest of Saudi Arabia beheading of eight Bangladeshi workers in front of National Museum in Dhaka …;
(see also: S. Arabia beheads over 80 people in 2014, highest level in five years, on Russia Today RT, Jan 2, 2015);

Special Report: Money and Lies in Anti-Human Trafficking NGOs, on truthout, by Anne Elizabeth Moore, Jan 27, 2015;

Three Minutes to Midnight: Can We Turn the Clock Back in Time? on truthout, by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Jan 22, 2015;

Guaranteed Annual Income program a pipedream in Canada – Fraser Institute, on Business Vancouver, by Emma Crawford Hampel, Jan 6, 2015;

Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Challenging the Divine Right of Big Energy, on Tom Dispatch, by Rebecca Solnit, Dec 25, 2014;
(see also – Book-Review: Rebecca Solnit’s Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, on The Independent, by ELENA GRAY-BLANC, Sept 27, 2007;
Her website: Rebecca Solnit; /Books; /Essays;
Rebecca Solnit on en.wikipedia; /Externa Links);

Hostile to privacy: Snowden urges internet users to get rid of Dropbox, on Russia Today RT, Oct 12, 2014;

What drives the EU labour-market mismatch? on VOX cepr’s policy portal, by Alfonso Arpaia and Alessandro Turrini, March 7, 2014: The surge in unemployment in many EU countries has prompted concerns that the underlying structural unemployment has shifted upwards, so that high rates of joblessness could persist also once the recovery is on a solid footing. In this column we draw on recent analysis (European Commission, 2013) and focus on two issues: to what extent the reduced efficiency of labour market matching is contributing to growing structural unemployment? Which are the main drivers of matching efficiency across the EU?

Is America Becoming Europe? 5.52 min, uploaded by Encounter Books, Feb 25, 2013: Across the Atlantic, Americans see European economies faltering under enormous debt, overburdened welfare states, governments controlling close to fifty percent of the economy, high taxation, heavily regulated labor markets, aging populations, and large numbers of public sector workers. They also see a European political class that is unable — and, in many cases, unwilling — to implement economic reform …;

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