Nile Bowie: Malaysia: Victim of America's Irregular Warfare?

The issue of civil society groups receiving funding has been a major point of discussion in Malaysia during recent times, causing controversy and drawing criticism from activists to members of Parliament alike. Some activists tend to view Putrajaya's investigation into rights advocacy groups like SUARAM, a noted recipient of a foreign funded destabilization campaign aimed at regime change in Malaysia a claim that has been generally dismissed by Bersih goers and the like. With the nation's 13th General Election looming, some see talk of foreign plots as tired rhetoric, while others fail to grasp the deeper machinations of foreign influence, and do little more than finger pointing at political opponents. In this instance, the pages of a leaked US military document provide valuable insight into the nature of foreign plots, potentially aimed against Malaysia. TC 18-01 Special Forces  Unconventional Warfare is listed on the US Army's official website, and can only be accessed by authorized officials within the American government, though a leaked copy has been made available and can be viewed by clicking here. The document is significant because it provides a step by step definition of Washington's irregular warfare and unconventional warfare tactics. The manual illustrates the sheer impunity with which the United States conducts its foreign policy, aimed at illegally interfering into the political affairs of foreign nations, with an aim to destabilize and reorder them to further American economic interests. Dr Christof Lehmann describes the manual as: A step by step guide of how to create, manipulate, co-opt and make use of a countries population, persons of special interest inside the country as well as expatriates, organizations inside as well as outside the country, towards a subversion. Beginning with manipulating dissent into demonstrations, the polarization of a population, riots and armed insurgencies that require action by security forces, and psychological warfare by means of media, step by step, in logical sequence, towards a full scale war, based on humanitarian principles and the pretext of bringing democracy and freedom.     

United Nations: Full Text of UN Resolution on Palestine

Sixty seventh session Question of Palestine. Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, China, Comoros, Cuba, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lao, People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Qatar, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe and Palestine: draft resolution. Status of Palestine in the United Nations. The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and stressing in this regard the principle of equal rights and self determination of peoples, Recalling its resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970, by which it affirmed inter alia, the duty of every State to promote through joint and separate action the realization of the principle of equal rights and self determination of peoples, Stressing the importance of maintaining and strengthening international peace founded upon freedom, equality, justice and respect for fundamental human rights, Recalling its resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947, Reaffirming the principle, set out in the Charter, of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force, Reaffirming also relevant Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967, 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973, 446 (1979) of 22 March 1979, of 20 August 1980, 1397 (2002) of 12 1 Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. 12-60736 (E) 281112*1260736* A/67L.28 March 2002, 1515 (2003) of 19 November 2003 and 1850 (2008) of 16 December 2008, Reaffirming further the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, 2

John Glaser: Netanyahu: Palestine Vote at UN is Meaningless!

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the UN General Assembly vote implicitly recognizing Palestine as a state was "meaningless" and will do nothing to realize actual statehood. The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution upgrading Palestine to a "non member observer state," from a "non member observer entity." The upgraded status could make it easier for the Palestinians to bring Israel to trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Court. Israel, and of course the US, along with 7 other marginal outliers, had fiercely opposed the Palestinian bid, but it passed anyway in a 138-9 vote, with 41 abstentions. "This is a meaningless resolution that won't change anything on the ground. No Palestinian state will arise without an arrangement ensuring the security of Israeli citizens," Netanyahu said in a statement on Thursday.  What he meant by this was that no Palestinian state will ever arise, so long as Israel has anything to do about it. The Israeli leadership, especially Netanyahu and his right wing Likud Party, dreams of a Greater Israel with full sovereignty over the territories currently recognized as Palestinian in the West Bank and Gaza. "The way to peace between Jerusalem and Ramallah is through direct negotiations without preconditions, not unilateral decisions at the UN," Natanyahu added. But unilateral is a funny way to describe a resolution that is in accord with an overwhelming international consensus, and anyway, the establishment of the Israeli state after WWWII was exactly the kind of UN authorized unilateral action Netanyahu now supposedly derides for Palestine. Netayahu also said any political settlement needs to come from direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, but Israel has derailed those negotiations by continuing illegal settlement expansion in the West Bank. Decades of the defunct peace process has revealed it to be merely a scheme to provide Israel with more time to colonize additional Palestinian land.     

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya: The Geopolitical Chess Game behind the Israeli Attack on Gazay

The recent hostilities between the Gaza Strip and Israel have to be viewed in context of a broader geopolitical chessboard. The events in Gaza are tied to Syria and the US's regional alliance system. Syria has been compromised as a conduit for weapons to Gaza, because of its domestic instability. Israel has capitalized on this politically and militarily. Bejamin Netanyahu has not only tried to secure his own election victory in the Knesset through an attack on Gaza, but has used the US sponsored instability in Syria as an opportunity to try and target the arms stockpiles of the Palestinians. Netanyahu calculated that Gaza will not be able to rearm itself, while Syria and its allies are distracted. The bombing of the Yarmouk arms factory in Sudan, which Israel says was owned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, was probably part of this plan and a prelude to Israels attack on Gaza. In this chess game, sit the so called "Moderates", a misleading label jointly utilized by Messrs George W Bush Jr, and Tony Blair to whitewash their regional cabal of tyrants and backward regimes alongside the Obama Administration and NATO. These so called Moderates include the desert dictators of the feudal Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Jordan, Mahmoud Abbas, and Turkey. In 2011, the ranks of the Moderates were augmented by the NATO installed government of Libya, and the GCC/NATO supported anti government militias that were unleashed in Syria. On the other side of the chessboard defiantly sits the Resistance Bloc composed of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah partners in Lebanon, like Amal and the Free Patriotic Movement, the so called Palestinian Rejectionist's, and Iraq. The Muslim Brotherhood, which has emerged as a new regional force, is being increasingly prodded into the Moderate camp by the US and the GCC, in an attempt to ultimately play the sectarian card against the Resistance Bloc. Israels attack on Gaza was a litmus test. All those voices continuously pushing for America's McJihad against the Syrian government in the name of freedom vanished from their podiums or suddenly went silent, when Israel attacked Gaza. Al Jazeeras tele- preacher Yusuf Al Qaradawi and Saudi Arabias dictator selected Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz went silent. Adnan Al Arour, the Saudi based exiled kooky Syrian cleric who,as one of the spiritual heads of the Syrian anti government forces, has threatened to punish anyone who says that Al Qaeda is among their ranks, and even berated Hamas and the Palestinians for fighting Israel. The fighting in Gaza really placed them in a fix. Here we see the contradictions in their Arab Spring. We now see who really pays lip service to Palestinian liberation and who does not. Moreover, the foreign supporters of the Syrian National Coalition, a rehash of the Syrian National Council, are ironically all supporters of Israel.       

Jim W. Dean: Here is the Hidden Palestine UN Vote List.

Our Thanks to VT Commenter Blake, and No Thanks to the UN and Mass Media for Hiding the List. Jewish Lobby Bullying Exposed in Australia. The Aussies even showed up to contribute! The next trick is how to bring about regime change and sanctions against Israel. Dear Folks, here it is, a piece on United Nations history, a bookend of sorts to the desperately for post war loans one, where votes for bought and extorted for the creation of Israel. I have to hand it to the early Israeli Intel people for pulling one over on Truman. They bribed him at a key moment in his Presidential campaign. We saw a repeat of that, of sorts, with Netanyahu's crude attempt to match what is expected Israel's leaders during an election year, sell the Jewish vote whether they really control it or not. Their real backer was the Soviet Union, who wanted them right near the Suez Canal to create mayhem, while the Soviets were figuring a way to take over Europe. The boat loads of post war Jews were filled with Soviet Jewish partisan fighters. Some of the captured ones even came from the concentration camps, where they helped the Germans knock off their Orthodox Jewish opponents on orders from Moscow. Those Jews who helped kill off their own, and then went to Israel as atheist, communist Jews to lay claim that to the "Land that God Gave Us" is one of the Intel coups of history despite it's sad toll. Years later a major Zionist, who happened to have been a block commander in the Warsaw ghetto and helped organize the deportations, was spotted on the streets of Tel Aviv by one Jew who survived his work, and took the opportunity to dispatch his former tormentor to the lower regions. There was a big trial of course, where all kinds of nasty things came out about how some of the best Jew killers were welcomed with open arms by the early Zionists, as long as they had helped kill Orthodox Jews who opposed them. All this is virtually unknown in the US, then and now. Why did I share all that with you? Well, it's because I am still pissed off how all the world's mass media all seemed to lose their UN country tabulations last night. All of them. I find that strange, don't you?    

Preston James PhD: UFOs are IFOs (A Detailed Examination)

A Detailed Examination of Available Evidence Strongly Suggests That "Unidentified Flying Objects" (UFOs) are actually "Identified Flying Objects" (IFOs). This article presents what is suspected to be the USG's secret view of UFO's, based on a reasonable interpretation of available facts and anecdotal reports, without meeting the high standard of clear and convincing evidence. Some of the most interesting reports that have been provided are anecdotal first hand witness reports that remain in the "highly possible" category. Despite all the speculation, rumors and hearsay that we have, there are some small but powerful nuggets of truth that have appeared from time to time, which help construct a realistic appraisal of what the USG's actual view of UFO's really is. We know that numerous eyewitness reports have come forth from reliable individuals since 1947, up to the present, which are not easily discounted. We also know that many have claimed that national security was invoked, and they felt threatened to keep quiet about what they saw firsthand, and felt compelled to assume the position that they saw and knew nothing other than the official USG position. Within the last 10 years over 50 excellent and credible witnesses with national security credentials have come forth, and made public disclosures that normally would involve extreme sanction, and yet to date nothing appears to have been done to sanction them, such as was done in the past to such individuals that told what they saw. Several members of Congress had been talked to, and expressed an interest in having these witnesses testify in a special Congressional hearing to get the truth about UFO's out to the public once and for all. Afterwards, for unknown reasons, any such actions have stalled, and nothing has been done so far. Here is the statement of the individuals that spoke out at the National Press Club. Anyone interested can watch the whole presentation and all of the witnesses that made statements that day. We know that Congressman Steven Shiff from New Mexico pressed hard for answers and declassification on Roswell, and like so many witnesses who talked, including Phil Sneider died mysteriously. Then there is the remarkable case of Senator Barry Goldwater from Arizona. Even his power as high ranking Senator and a USAF Major General was not enough to gain access to this highly classified information. Senator Goldwater told friends that while a Major General of the USAF Reserve, he tried to get access to the secrets held at Wright Patterson, and was told by General Curtiss Lemay, "no way, you don't have the necessary security clearances".          

Devon DB: The Legal Creation of Race in America

When examining history, it seems that a narrative has evolved over time that slavery somehow just happened in the United States due to the need for cheap labor, and that Africans were chosen because they could do that labor the best. While this is true, it is far from the full reality of the situation. Like slavery, race took time to be created and accepted by the population, and like slavery, race had to be created from a legal framework. For this, we need to look no further than colonial Virginia. It must be acknowledged that there was and is some debate over whether or not Africans that came to Virginia in 1619 were slaves, or that they slowly but surely transitioned to slavery. Yet, despite this, there is still evidence that in the mid 1600s, laws were being made to create race. Interestingly enough, slavery was not originally sought after in colonial Virginia as, in spite of its seeming superiority, it was actually not as advantageous as indentured labor during the first half of the century "due to the high morality of Virginia immigrants. Such morality created a situation where there would be no advantage in owning a person for their entire lives rather than a few years, especially since a slave cost roughly twice as much as an indentured servant. Though, this morality was in reality due to economics as up until the 1640s, the main crop for Barbados and Virginia was tobacco. However, Barbados made a switch to cotton, and then finally to sugar in the early 1640s. This discouraged white indentured servants from going to Barbados, as sugar production required such strenuous labor that men would not willingly undertake it. Thus, colonial Virginia was given an influx of indentured servants. Virginia's transition to slave labor was slow as even though it became more advantageous to own slaves rather than have indentured servants in 1660, in that year the Virginian assembly allowed Dutch slave ships exemption from local duties, however, in that year the Navigation Acts were passed, resulting in Virginia not implementing slavery as fast as this created a situation which would decrease the number of slaves as fast as this created a situation which would decrease the number of slaves that could be imported. It also did not help that Virginia was now in competition with sugar planters in the Barbados over this smaller supply of slaves.