Vanessa Beeley Washington and London’s latest war against Syria was incubated in CIA and MI6 offices long before the manufactured “uprising” erupted in 2011. This was not the first time that the US neocolonialist alliance had attempted regime change in Syria. Historian Stephen Gowans writes about Washington’s Long War on Syria in his comprehensive book …
The Brzezinski Interview with Le Nouvel Observateur (1998) Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs that the American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahiddin in Afghanistan six months before the Soviet intervention. In this period, you were the national security advisor to President Carter. You therefore played a key role in this affair. Is this […]
When we watch the current scenes of panic at Kabul airport, and listen to journalists and generals in distant TV studios bewailing the withdrawal of “our protection”, isn’t it time to heed the truth of the past so that all this suffering never happens again?
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Au vu de la triste actualité en Afghanistan, nous ressortons cette importante interview de 1998, dont il est fascinant de voir qu’elle n’a eu aucun impact dans notre mémoire collective. Rappelons que Zbigniew Brzezinski était le conseiller du président Carter pour les affaires de sécurité – et que Barack Obama l’a nommé conseiller aux affaires […]
CIA Operation Cyclone: Afghanistan Trap for the USSR 1978-79 1978-79: NSA head Zbigniew Brzezinki engineered a trap for the USSR in Afghanistan: “The purpose for coordinating with the Pakistani’s will be to make the Soviets bleed, for as much as long as possible..” Forty years on, the tragic result. 1978-79: NSA head Zbigniew Brzezinki engineers […]
The situation in Afghanistan remains bleak. In late April 2021, US President Joe Biden announced an apparent withdrawal from the Central Asian country. However, the facts on the ground indicate that America’s longest war has merely been downsized. 16,000 military contractors and more than 1,000 US troops will stay in Afghanistan; aerial bombardments, drone strikes […]
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In Part 1, we left off in our story at the SIS-CIA overthrow of Iran’s Nationalist leader Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. At this point the Shah was able to return to Iran from Rome and British-backed Fazlollah Zahedi, who played a leading role in the coup, replaced Mosaddegh as Prime Minister of Iran. Here we will resume our story.
By Stephen Lendman
On Monday, a surprising Washington Post report headlined:
“The Afghanistan Papers — A secret history of the war. At War With the Truth,” saying:
“US officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.” More on this below.
Last month, 2020 U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders stirred controversy at a CNN town hall after answering a loaded question about whether his position on extending voting rights to incarcerated felons barred any exceptions such as the Boston Marathon bomber currently on death row. It was impossible for Sanders to respond honestly without being entrapped by the inclusion of Dzhokar Tsarnaev as an example, but the self-professed ‘democratic socialist’ gave a reflective explanation of the complexities of the issue behind his reasoning.
Submitted by Steve Brown…
Brzezinski’s al Qaeda Doctrine as defined by the US Department of Defense’s Dictionary of Military Terms:
” Brzezinski’s al Qaeda Doctrine is the calculated use of violence or threat of violence by proxy to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological in nature.”
Read why, after decades of global destabilization, Brzezinski’s terror policy has failed:
