The Ziocon
Zugswang Zeitgeist
Freedom's
Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
Ingmar Lee
"Let
me just first tell you that I've never been more convinced
that the decisions I made are the right decisions. I firmly
believe — I'm oftentimes asked about, well, you're stubborn
and all this. If you believe in a strategy, in Washington,
D.C. you've got to stick to that strategy, see? People want
you to change. It's tactics that shift, but the strategic
vision has not, and will not, shift." GWB recently
What
exactly is Bush's stubborn strategic vision, one might ask, as
it's doubtful that he actually understands the word. A
strategy, of course, is a long-range policy designed for a
purpose, and the carrying out of that plan in a skillful way.
The Decider's strategy, as he claims ad nauseum, is to wield
"one of the strongest weapons in our arsenal which is the
power of freedom" in the "decisive ideological struggle of the
21st century." According to Bush, "terrorists fear freedom as
much as they do our firepower." But in analyzing the context,
it becomes clear that freedom is just another word for nothing
left to lose.
After
five years of failure in the feckless foisting of freedom on
Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, Bush claims that this is still
"the early hours of the struggle between tyranny and freedom,"
and that "we [sic] are in a war that will set the course for
this new century -- and will determine the destiny of millions
across the world." Dubya's decisive ideological error reduces
strategy to a divisive idiot's logic of "freedom" vs.
"terror." This is an ambiguous, vacuous, rhetorical chimera,
-not a strategy. Bush is said to enjoy grossing people out
with his gruesome farts. Perhaps that flatulent miasma has
fueled the fatuous ignis fatuus which influences his farcical
fantasy. Nevertheless, there is a strategic programme which is
driving USraeli aggression across the Middle East and Central
Asia, whether Bush understands it or not.
Ziocon ~ a conflation of "Zionist"
and "Neocon."
There's a distinction here that I'd like to make, -there may
be Zionists who are not Neocons, and there may be Neocons who
are not Zionists. I believe that the people who drew up this
horrific programme are both.
The
'Project for a New American Century" (PNAC) pact was designed
by a secretive cabal of Ziocon zealots and is the most
supremely hateful globe-encompassing ideology ever devised by
a diabolical mind-meld of men. The PNAC central tenet is that
America shall seize its opportunity as the sole global
hyperpower to achieve full-spectrum dominance over all the
affairs of the Earth. And the PNAC strategy is to do this by
force.
The
PNAC manifesto is a miserable, sordid and shocking read,
~a gloating supremecist claptrap of wanton warmongering and
ghastly greed. Many of the Ziocons who wrote it are now firmly
entrenched at the pinnacles of USraeli power. Amongst its
chief architects and ideologues is the ambulance-towing,
shrivel-hearted rogue, Dick Cheney. This freakish puppetmaster
runs the American empire and pulls the strings of his
straw-brained figurehead marionette, whose second rate
rote-spoken role is reduced to repeating the PNAC diktat to
the masses. No sooner had America's Dieboldian democracy
allowed the non-elected ascension of Bush and establishment of
the Ziocon regime at power Grand Central, the PNAC train left
the station. The Decider was handed the script and the Ziocons
set out on the track to take down the world.
The
Ziocons require a tightly coordinated henchclaque of
stenographers which craft and disseminate the inconceivably
bizarre PNAC propaganda to a global monopoly of quisling
corporate media. The spinmeisters job is to jingo this
doctrine of repetitive, unending pre-emptive war, which
features resurrected nuclear weapons testing, upgrades and
attacks, microbial warfare, space-based weaponry, control of
cyberspace, and a new plethora of forward bases to enforce an
expanding security perimeter to guard "American interests".
Above all, the PNAC scheme lays out a vision for a vastly
expanded American military dictatorship for the stated
Orwellian purpose of forcing an "American peace" on the world.
Priority #1 on the PNAC agenda is to secure all of the world's
oil assets, by force. American pre-eminence in the world
cannot be maintained without total control of world's
dwindling oil supplies. All of the largest oil fields have
already been discovered and are being produced, and production
is past its peak in its most prolific pools. In 2002, the
world used four times as much oil as was newly found. In the
first quarter of 2005, world oil use was estimated at 83
million barrels per day, and the United States, with 4.6% of
the global population, burnt a quarter of that. Of the 20
million barrels a day that fuels the American economy, 25 per
cent is burned up on the roads. Americans must fuel their
SUV's, and no American administration can allow a hitch in
that flow.To the PNACers nothing, absolutely nothing can stand
between them and that oil, and they are prepared to use any of
the horrific cataclysmic options to secure it.
That more than 60
per cent of the world's proved oil reserves are in the Middle
East, a region wracked by conflict, is a constant source of
anxiety for nations that rely on Gulf supplies. In spite of
stated efforts to reduce its reliance on Middle East oil, the
US has been driven to repeated interventions and support for
autocratic regimes to ensure stable energy supplies. --
Financial Times, July 5, 2006, p. 8
.If
you were to spin the globe and look for real estate critical
to building an American Empire, your first stop would have to
be the Persian Gulf. The desert sands of this region hold two
of every three barrels of oil in the world -- Iraq's reserves
alone are equal, by some estimates, to those of Russia, the
United States, China and Mexico combined. -- Robert
Dreyfuss, Mother Jones. March-April 2003
The magic number is
112 billion. That's how many barrels of oil experts say is
oozing through Iraq's geology -- the second largest proven
reserves of oil on the planet, just behind Saudi Arabias.
-- New York Times -- Nov. 3, 2002
That
the Ziocons have deeply infiltrated into all levels across the
political spectrum of the American power hierarchy has been
made abundantly clear by Professor's John Mearsheimer and
Stephen Walt's carefully researched March 2006 exposé, "The
Israel Lobby." Although US Democrats are also heavily
influenced and financed by the Israel Lobby, the authors
emphasize that "...The situation is even more pronounced in
the Bush administration, whose ranks have included such
fervent advocates of the Israeli cause as Elliot Abrams, John
Bolton, Douglas Feith, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, Richard Perle,
Paul Wolfowitz and David Wurmser [all PNACers -Ingmar]. As we
shall see, these officials have consistently pushed for
policies favoured by Israel and backed by organisations in the
Lobby..."
Mearsheimer and Walt go on to describe the Israel Lobby's deep
infiltration into the American media:
"...The Lobby's
perspective prevails in the mainstream media: the debate among
Middle East pundits, the journalist Eric Alterman writes, is
'dominated by people who cannot imagine criticising Israel'.
He lists 61 'columnists and commentators who can be counted on
to support Israel reflexively and without qualification'.
Conversely, he found just five pundits who consistently
criticise Israeli actions or endorse Arab positions..."
In the
April/May 2004 issue of Adbusters Magazine, the courageous and
unflinchingly ethical editor, Kalle Lasn, took the exposé of
the Israel Lobby's deep infiltration much farther:
"To have 50% of the
most powerful intellectual [sic] group in the world, for half
of them to be Jewish, is something we need to look in the face
and debate and ask, 'What does this mean?' It means that
American foreign policy is distorted in some way that I don't
think is necessarily democratic."
Lasn
lists off the world's most prominent Neocons, and marks the
names of predominant Jewish presence amongst the horde, and
for his trouble was immediately branded with the boringly
predictable label of "anti-semite," a stigma which has now
become de riguer for any self-respecting progressive writer.
Directly commensurate with Israel's sordid massacres in
Lebanon and Palestine, the "anti-semite" stigmatization for
its critics has now become utterly impotent as a Ziocon weapon
of intimidation, as peace-loving people now speak out freely
about Israel's countless atrocities. Lasn writes:
"..Here at Adbusters,
we decided to tackle the issue head on and came up with a
carefully researched list of who appear to be the 50 most
influential neocons in the US. Deciding who exactly is a
neocon is difficult since some neocons reject the term, while
others embrace it. Some shape policy from within the White
House, while others are more peripheral, exacting influence as
journalists, academics, and think tank policy wonks. What they
all share is the view that the US is a benevolent hyper power
that must protect itself by reshaping the world into its
morally superior image. And half of them are Jewish..."
Here's
Lasn's list:
*Norman Podhoretz,
*Irving Kristoll, *Midge Decter, Jean Kirkpatrick, *Paul
Wolfowitz, *Douglas Feith, Peter Rodman, Stephen Cambone,
Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, *I. Lewis Libby, *Elliot Abrams,
Zalmay Khalilzad, John Bolton, *Dov Zakheim, *Robert B.
Zoellick, Richard Perle, R. James Woolsey, *Eliot Cohen,
Robert W. Tucker, Francis Fukuyama, *William Kristoll, *Robert
Kagan, Gary Schmidt, Ellen Bork, *David Wurmser, *Joshua
Muravchik, Reuel Mark Gerecht, Michael Novak, Fr. Richard J.
Neuhaus, *Meyrav Wurmser, *Irwin Stelzer, Rupert Murdoch,
Richard Mellon Scaife, Thomas Donnelly, Owen Harries, *Michael
Ledeen, Frank Gaffney, Max Boot, Gary Bauer, William Bennett,
*Daniel Pipes, *Lawrence Kaplan, *Marty Peretz, *Charles
Krauthammer, *David Brooks, Fred Barnes, *John Podhoretz,
*Neal Kozodoy, *Jonah Goldberg
If the
PNAC manifesto is the Ziocon vision for USraeli world
domination, its message dovetails with an overtly rascist and
vicious predecessor, "The
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," which first
appeared back in 1890. Whether or not the Protocols are a
"forgery" the hideous similarites of vision are
unmistakeable.That Zionists have long supported the American
attacks, invasions and massacres of Afghanistan and Iraq is
clear. That Zionists have long been lusting for the imminent
attack on Syria and Iran is clear. The brutal oppression and
subjugation of the Palestinian people, and the recent
destruction of Lebanon in a grossly disproportionate reaction
to the capture of two IDF soldiers has sent a clear signal to
the world that the Zionists will not be bound by any
humanitarian constraints in the next leg of the project. Such
appalling displays of wanton cruelty and depravity can only be
seen as a precursor to what's next. Given the complexity and
diversity of the stated objective, it is clear that the
Zionist attack on Iran will require the use of nuclear
weapons. At the outset of Bush's second term, Dick Cheney
described in no uncertain terms, that Iran was "right at the
top of the list" of the rogue enemies of America, and that
Israel would, so to speak, "be doing the bombing for us."
Here's Cheney in an MSNBC Interview in Jan 2005:
"One of the concerns
people have is that Israel might do it without being asked...
Given the fact that Iran has a stated policy that their
objective is the destruction of Israel, the Israelis might
well decide to act first, and let the rest of the world worry
about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterwards"
N.B. Iranian President
Ahmedinejad did not call for the destruction of Israel, -he
called for the destruction of the Israeli zionist regime. see
Jonathan Steel:
Lost in Translation
Zugswang ~ n. Chess an obligation to move in
one's turn even when this must be disadvantageous. [German
from Zug move + Zwang compulsion] -The Canadian
Oxford Dictionary
The
PNAC-Ziocon cabal is dominated by oil-men who have quite
rightly recognized the writing on the wall: that without total
domination of the world's largest oil-fields, America as we
know it is toast. The Project for a New American Century is
therefore a risk-all, no holds barred desperation mission to
perpetuate the American status quo. America must control the
Caspian oil basin and pipeline routes across Afghanistan, and
it must secure the oil basins of Iraq and Iran to have the
slightest chance of survival. The mission is unswervable; it's
do or die. I suspect that most of America's Democrat
politicians currently in power also understand this, which
explains their ongoing support for Bush's warmongering. No
American politician can accept the imminent collapse of the
American economy on their watch, so there will be no political
way out of the violence.
When
the Ziocons conquered the White House in 2000, the U.S.
surplus was approximately $5 trillion.That's all gone now and
the domestic deficit stands at somewhere around $500 billion.
The outstanding American public debt as of 17 Sept., 2006,
stands at $8,532,302,172,960.05 ($8.5 trillion) and the
American debt is mushrooming by $1.7 billion a day. Foreigners
hold 48 percent of the U.S. Treasury bond market, 24 percent
of the U.S. corporate bond market and 20 percent of all U.S.
corporations. The only thing that backs up the teetering buck
today is that it is the world's de facto oil transaction
currency. China has more than $800 billion reserved in a giant
stack of green, ink-smeared paper for the purpose of buying
oil. Should countries like Iran, Venezuela and others start
selling oil in euros, China alone could instantly destroy the
US economy by converting that stack of paper to euros and use
real money to buy oil instead. As the world's most bloated
Brobdingnagian debtor nation, America owes the world bigtime,
and they have not the way, nor the will to pay.
Zeitgeist ~ n. 1 the spirit of the times.
2 the trend of thoughts and feelings in a period. [German
from Zeit time + Geist spirit]
The
most prescient and ugly PNAC statement of all is written in
the section of the manifesto entitled, "Rebuilding
America's Defences." It states that, " ...the process of
transformation, [towards the New American Century] even if it
brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one,
absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new
Pearl Harbor." Many people have read into that statement a
clear conspiracy by the PNAC cabal to produce the pretext for
their war plans by committing the monumental crime of 9/11.
Whether or not George Bush, Dick Cheney or their Ziocon cabal
organized and orchestrated the September 11th events,
nevertheless, who could argue that they are not sufficiently
desperate and devoid of conscience to be capable of such
atrocity, and that the technology and the means to pull it off
were available to them? Watching
Cheney and
Rumsfeld actually
choking back crocodile tears at the recent 5 year 9/11
anniversary memorial at the Pentagon clarified the depths of
depravity these monsters are capable of.
As
many as 250,000 Iraqi and Afghan citizens have been murdered
since the Ziocons got their pretext and pre-emptively attacked
those countries. A recent
Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans
found that 36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the
9/11 attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. If growing
numbers of people around the world don't buy the 'official'
version of the 9/11 events, that can only be a good thing. The
'official' version is as murky as the 'conspiracists' version.
It is the twisted lies, slander and disinformation campaigns
of the PNAC cabal that have brought the world to this sorry
pass, so personally, I don't much care if the so-called
'conspiracy nuts' are retaliating in kind. They are certainly
doing some serious damage to the most overarching lie.
Practically speaking, it's not useful to ignore, stifle or
censor such discussion, and in spite of Alexander Cockburn's
disdain, the excellent articles on the subject posted on
Counterpunch by
Bill Christison and
Diana Johnstone were perfectly rational and reasonable.
The total censorship of that discussion by America's busiest
so-called progressive Blog, Daily KOS is counterproductive and
basically adds cred to dreadful Ziocon ravers such as the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporations resident Bush lackey and
war-propagandist, Rex Murphy, who in his recent article, "Conspiracy
Mongering is a Vicious Instrument" wrote this:
"...The overarching
theory is that Bush and the neo-Cons, not bin Laden, not
al-Qaeda, not Mohammed Atta and his virgin-hungry suicide
team, but slow-witted George and his puppet masters, that they
are the real villains, that the president and his plotters
murdered 3,000 of their own citizens. I do not know why we
give any oxygen to these extraordinary libels. Detestation for
George Bush may qualify a person for many things, but it is
not a degree of metallurgy, just as anti-Americanism is not a
branch of physics.These theories that suggest a sitting
president and his advisors would murder their own citizenry
are a calumny, as lunatic as they are contemptible. They come
from the imagination of hate, the pernicious concoctions of
minds allergic to reality, and are beneath the dignity of
reasoning human beings..."
Here
following are some further Canadian contributions to the
Ziocon Zugswang Zeitgeist which is currently ramping up the
drumbeat for a geno-suicidal attack on Iran.
"We Should Nuke Iran" by the total wacko columnist Michael
Coren, appeared last week in the Toronto Sun. Coren starts his
off his schlock-shock screed with this:
"...It is surely
obvious now to anybody with even a basic understanding of
history, politics and the nature of fascism that something
revolutionary has to be done within months -- if not weeks --
if we are to preserve world peace. Put boldly and simply,
we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran..."
Here's
the way another Canadian columnist, Mark Steyn beats
around the bush:
"...Once again, we face a choice between bad and worse
options. There can be no "surgical" strike in any meaningful
sense: Iran's clients on the ground will retaliate in Iraq,
Lebanon, Israel, and Europe. Nor should we put much stock in
the country's allegedly "pro-American" youth. This shouldn't
be a touchy-feely nation-building exercise: rehabilitation may
be a bonus, but the primary objective should be
punishment--and incarceration. It's up to the Iranian people
how nutty a government they want to live with, but
extraterritorial nuttiness has to be shown not to pay. That
means swift, massive, devastating force that decapitates the
regime--but no occupation..."
And
then there's the other blood-lusting Canadian-bred Ziocon
wingnut,
Krauthammer :
"...Which is one of the
reasons the Europeans are so mortified by the very thought of
a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. The
problem is not just that they are spread out and hardened,
making them difficult to find and to damage sufficiently to
seriously set back Iran's program.
The problem that
mortifies the Europeans is what Iran might do after such an
attack -- not just cut off its oil exports but shut down the
Strait of Hormuz by firing missiles at tankers or scuttling
its vessels to make the strait impassable. It would require an
international armada led by the United States to break such a
blockade.
Such consequences --
serious economic disruption and possible naval action -- are
something a cocooned, aging, post-historic Europe cannot even
contemplate. Which is why the Europeans have had their heads
in the sand for two years. And why they will spend the little
time remaining -- before a group of apocalyptic madmen go
nuclear -- putting their heads back in the sand. And
congratulating themselves on allied solidarity as they do so
in unison..."
And
here's Canada's most repulsive Ziocon Repuglican, David Frum:
"...If Iran sees its
goals as strengthening Hezbollah, driving the U.S. out of
Iraq, and obtaining a nuclear bomb for itself, that list of
priorities indicates what the Western world's
counter-priorities have to be: destroying Hezbollah, securing
Iraq, and halting the Iranian bomb program. The campaign to
achieve those counter-priorities begins in Lebanon. It cannot
end there..."
These
are inconceivably dangerous times as the world's most
fanatical, hateful ideologues struggle for total global
domination. American global supremecy was already collapsing,
even before the rise of the PNAC Ziocons. Zionist and Neocon
collusion is essential to forward the plan, although whether
America or Israel leads is unclear. The apocalyptic prophetic
words of the idiot hair-trigger Nucuelar Decider, that "this
is a war that will set the course for this new century -- and
will determine the destiny of millions across the world"
paradoxically ring true. But 'freedom" vs. "terror" is no
strategy for Peace, and no phoenix of freedom will ever rise
from the ashes of the Arabian deserts.
