There is a mounting body of evidence of a global alliance directed against the United States, running from Moscow to Tehran, Damascus and Caracas. United by hatred of America, funded by oil and narcotics revenues (including our own), and unanimous in their contempt for free societies, the leaders of Russia, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Bolivia publicly declare their intentions and demonstrate their resolve. Manhattan District Attorney, the legendary Robert Morgenthau, recently spoke of the Iranian-Venezuelan collaboration in very stark terms: “ [Iranian President Mahmoud]Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez have created a cozy financial, political and military partnership rooted in a shared anti-American animus.”
We know some of the consequences already. Secretive flights from Tehran to Damascus and thence to Caracas arrive at a special area in the central airport, where men disembark, are not checked by immigration authorities, and are given Venezuelan passports. Containers are unloaded and do not pass through customs. Similar secrecy attends the return flights. Neighboring countries believe that many of the men are officials of Hezbollah, who then fan out across the region (and perhaps across our southern border) to recruit foot soldiers for their expanding terror bases, and we know, thanks to a paramilitary operation by the Colombians at the beginning of the summer, that Chavez’ regime provided Swedish anti-tank missiles to the Colombian terrorist group FARC. We also know, thanks to years of hard work by the DEA and South American partners, that Venezuela is a major transshipment port for cocaine and other narcotics. The drugs are sent to Africa, and then to Europe, and finally into the United States.
There hasn’t been anything quite like this since the early days of the Second World War, when Argentina’s anti-democratic leaders, in league with like-minded tyrants in other South American countries, forged a secret alliance with Nazi Germany. As today, there were plans for military cooperation to aid anti-American groups all over the continent, with the ultimate aim of establishing control over South America. Both the United States and Great Britain had to devote considerable resources to thwart this scheme.
Today’s evil alliance is broader still, and you can see it easily. Chavez was just in Iran, where he announced that Venezuela would provide Iran with gasoline (and it’s a safe bet that other deals and promises were made). From Tehran and Mashad he went on to Moscow. When he gets back to his own continent, he will no doubt talk with his comrades to explain their next steps. As Morgenthau tells us, they are intent on enabling Iran to launder money, which in turn is closely connected with weapons purchases, drug smuggling, and terrorist finances.
You can see the machinations in several intriguing stories that have appeared in the past few days, all having to do with Russia and Iran.
Russia has begun deliveries of Pantsir S1 air-defense missiles to Syria, some of which are expected to be passed on to Iran, Syria’s strategic ally that has largely bankrolled the deal, according to the Interfax-AVN military news agency.
Interfax quoted Yuriy Savenkov, deputy director general of the Instrument Design Bureau, or KBP, as saying that deliveries started several weeks ago. KBP produces the Pantsir and other high-precision weapons.
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Sep 9, 2009 - 8:25 pm 2. David W. Lincoln:The average person recognizes el toro poopoo, and as long as that is mixed with ice cream (as Mark Steyn wrote), it does not taste like ice cream.
Michael, I still like the idea of preparatory regimes over South and Central America (for I am drawing a blank to think of one country that cannot be characterized as a failed state), Africa, that portion of Eurasia that goes as far west as the Russian borders (plus Belarus), then south from Kazakhstan to the Arabian Peninsula, west to the border with Israel, and south east to the Indian/Pakistani
border. Plus the rest of Asia excepting India, Taiwan, Japan (for the moment), and South Korea.
Which is a partial list of countries, plus Australia, who would alter their foreign policies to be on friendly terms with those countries who adopt the Borjomi Declaration as
their foreign policy. I have the Baltic states, Poland, the Czechs,Slovakia, Hungary, the Balkans, Italy and Cyprus in mind.
It is better to have a backup plan than resort
to putting all the eggs into one basket.
The powers of most
Sep 9, 2009 - 8:56 pm 3. Ranald:Thank-you, Michael.
Someone on the floor tonight, during the Presidential distraction, shouted clearly “Liar!” Apparently that someone in Washington gets it, too.
Sep 9, 2009 - 9:07 pm 4. leo solomon:The list should include the most dangerous of all-the White House itself!!
Sep 10, 2009 - 2:16 am 5. Pajamas Media » The End of the World:[...] Read the entire piece here. [...]
Sep 10, 2009 - 2:22 am 6. Marie Claude:David then you ought to buy your Seven-league boots, and really, forget about thinking that the planet is centered in the north pole
Sep 10, 2009 - 3:02 am 7. Mike2:“feckless leaders” describes the situation exactly.
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:14 am 8. Don:So now the State Dept warns Honduras they had better reinstate their deposed president “or else” . . . The “or else” is the treat not to recognize upcoming elections. If I were the Hondurans I would start throwing the state department apparachiki out. State has been an active participant in the dimunition of American power and prestige for a long time. The best example is Bremer’s outright sabotage of Iraq (any idiot would have realized what the consequences would be of his willful stupidity). Conspiracy theory? With the actions ignored by our current “leadership” what else can it be? We have two choices for the current situations, either the current leadership is composed of the good intentioned (with no common sense), or this is the triumph of idelogical self hatred, with only one endstate desired (the end of Pax Americana).
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:20 am 9. Mary Grabar:A very important article.
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:37 am 10. Bogdan of Australia:Marie Claude is again attempting to sell his “once fired, four times dropped”, French riffle. He is going to have his own “rude awakening” though when facing the islamic barrel pointing towards his tini froggy balls. He shall, for sure, end up like the French Communists before the WW2, who managed to paralyse the Daladier’s government to such a degree that it was unable to fulfill his obligation as the ally of Poland and rush to her succor when that country was attacked by Germans and then Soviets.
Barely one year later the same French Commies were hunted down by Nazis and put in concentration camps even before Germans began rounding up Jews.
The froggish, cowardly sneering of Marie Claude is the best prof that the leftists (and French for that matter) are permanently incapable of learning even from their own bitter experience.
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Sep 10, 2009 - 4:53 am 12. deguello:I wouldn’t worry too much:give OBAMA enough rope to hang himself with,meanwhile organize a political resistance movement,and radicalize the Republican party..The inevitable terror attacks will occur in blue cities,and will therefore be a help rather than a hindrance,the more dead libtards(and euroweenies) the better,and the situation will lead to the widespread repugnanace with democrat stupidity that brought in Reagan.
Sep 10, 2009 - 6:14 am 13. Now and Then:6 the geullo;
“The inevitable terror attacks will occur in blue cities,and will therefore be a help rather than a hindrance,the more dead libtards(and euroweenies) the better”
Spoken like a true psychopath. And congratulations, you’ve obviously passed the “Ann Coulter Home Study Course on Fascist Ranting.” If only you were a she-male you might just be able to make some money off it. You’re not a she-male are you, the geullo? You kind of talk like one.
Sep 10, 2009 - 7:20 am 14. lawrence Kohn:The dangerous developments Michael Ledeen describes is the culmination of events and alliances I publicized in the November 1995 issue of Midstream (Russia’s Iranian Wedge) and the December 2000 issue of Midstream (Russia, Venezuela and the Palestinian Authority). The current administration is certainly going in exactly the wrong direction but both its predecessors failed to publicize and confront the situation adequately (Bush to less of a degree than Clinton or Obama but still insufficiently focused on the broad strategic picture especially vis a vis Putin).
China, too, must be factored in as, since 1989, it has allied itself openly with Moscow. But this dangerous strategic factor was obscured by the victorious cries of conservatives that the US won the Cold War so viewing China as a vast economic market took precedence over national security concerns. Furthermore, anyone, such as I, pointing to the Russian-Iranian-Syrian-(and later Venezuelan) alliance was dismissed for maintaining Cold War thinking. The Israelis, waking up now, fell asleep back then. In the summer of 1994 at a conference in Jerusalem I heard Shimon Peres, at one time a hawk about the PLO and its connections to the Soviets, justifying the Oslo accords allowing Arafat, Moscow’s puppet, into Gaza and Jericho because, he claimed, the strategies that we used to follow no longer apply. Why? He said it was because the Soviet Union collapsed.
It did not. It reinvented itself in an effort to get into Western economic institutions to save its economy. It made some strategic withdrawals but when the time was ripe Yeltsin resigned and passed the baton to Putin and the KGB was back on top with the Soviet system’s alliances mostly in place. But the mind set of the West had changed and conservatives joined the Left in thinking we were in a new world. The chickens are now coming home to roost aided vastly by a US administration that views the allies of Moscow in South America as partners to embrace.
Sep 10, 2009 - 7:20 am 15. dan:Glad you started writing about this.
Sep 10, 2009 - 7:30 am 16. genghis:The many threats that we as a country face are pretty obvious. The indifference and inertia of the current administration is indeed extraordinary. More disturbing is the repetitive pattern of attacking our friends and supporting our enemies. While Obama-san’s domestic agenda has the hallmarks of a Marxist coup, their intermational agenda borders on the criminal. I wonder if the US military has the discipline to resist acting when things really start to fall apart. We seem to be replaying that old movie ‘Seven Days in May’, possible with a new surprise ending.
Sep 10, 2009 - 7:43 am 17. Steve Sampson:We are fighting two wars, Our President has stated that we are not seeking victory in one of these wars. To conduct wars, you must have objectives, strategy, goals, and leadership. Leadership is the key component, without leadership, there is nothing.
Obama seems to indifferent to the welfare of our best young patriots; but if they and their officers were to secure and honorable victory, Obama would parade himself as a modern day Caesar. However, it is possible to win a war and lose the peace. There is a political component to war and peace and without the political component the sacrifices made but valiant troops are for nothing.
Obama does not have the cerebral faculty to deal with two wars let alone an international conspiracy threat against the United States. He is more concerned with acquiring corporations that he “doesn’t want” and providing for unions and quasimilitary political groups like Acorn. Advancing domestic policy toward Socialist Programs and gaining control over the health care industry is taxing this president to the limits of his negligible abilities.
How can he concern himself with international intrigue, when it is doubtful that he can locate the countries involved on a blank map?
The best that we can hope for is that other countries cannot exploit their advantage of us having vacuous leadership for the next three years or until we can elect competent leadership.
The US is in a precarious position, having all these wonderful socialist programs in place enriching the Democrats and their Marxist Henchmen will be of little consolation when the bombs start going off and the enemy troops are on our shores.
Sep 10, 2009 - 7:43 am 18. SteveOfTheNorth:When was the last brave Democrat? Truman?
Truman would have lost Korea if not for MacArthur.
At best,Look to the Bill Clinton/Haiti response,which did nothing.
The question remains:How do you limit a nuke exchange?
What would be a non-nuke response to a rogue launch/use?
What if an allied nation is hit,but not the US?
Is it an accidental byproduct of the two current wars that now protect
the southern flank of the Russian republic?
Wars of proxy no matter who is at the controls of Russia?
It is an unstable time,power will have to be maintained by force,
Sep 10, 2009 - 8:01 am 19. SteveB/Colorado:which leaders will use it,and which will not?
Just gotta love these conspiracy theories. Reminds me of growing up in the ’60s when the danger then was a “commie under every bed.” Then there was that great missile gap “problem” that JFK got suckered into. Wasn’t until years later that we figured out that the Soviet Union was a paper tiger.
Is Iran a problem? Maybe. Is Venezuela a problem? Yeah, a minor one and Chavez is a bimbo. But until the price of oil skyrockets and then Chavez realizes he can’t profit because he hasn’t kept up his infrastructure…… As for Bolivia, maybe Mr. Ledeen should study the country more and maybe even pay a visit……
#10 Steve Sampson: “….when the bombs start going off and the enemy troops are on our shores.” You forgot the black helicopters flying in from Canada. But hey, won’t all those citizens buying guns since Obama got elected be heading for the shores to repel the invaders??
Sep 10, 2009 - 8:08 am 20. bibio44:“We know that Obama does not particularly like America….”
Well, not as much as you do, Mike, but no one else could love America that much.
“Dirty Harry is smiling.”
Ah, the Hollywood-hating right and their never ending Hollywood references.
Sep 10, 2009 - 8:27 am 21. Ran:At WSJ By ROBERT M. MORGENTHAU:
Sep 10, 2009 - 8:27 am 22. Steve Sampson:The Emerging Axis of Iran and Venezuela
Please forgive mu many typos, obviously I wish they weren’t there. I am rushed for time.
Lawrence, that was a nice post. I am anxious to search for more of your material, thank you. Please refer to direct articles if possible, I am new to the computer.
Sep 10, 2009 - 8:40 am 23. Calvin Ball:He’s too busy beating up on Israel and Honduras for being democratic, and following their constitution, respectively.
A truer totalitarian at heart has never been elected to American office.
Sep 10, 2009 - 8:44 am 24. Professor Guvinoff:There are many ambitious candidates for hegemony post-Pax-Americana. Why would they not even try to precipitate America’s stumbling if the game seems playable? Can the rogues be trusted to waste the opportunities created by America’s vacation from reality? The middle East is as always cocked into its chronic state of miraculous quasi-equilibrium, ready to explode into an adrenalin storm the next time something significant happens, or even looks like it could happen.
There was something remarkable about the destruction of the Al-Kibar nuclear plant in Syria just about two years ago: In perfectly synchronized silence, the Israeli did not brag, and the Syrians did not complain (nor did the Iranians). Only the Norks made a few noises, quickly squelched. Right now the only power in a real state of adequate alertness is Israel, the one with the most to lose, and the most motivated to preempt the catastrophe, fully aware of the political ramifications.
The plausible Israeli attack on the Iranian nuclear installations is a difficult and dangerous proposition, in many ways, but what challenge is greater than the explicit threat of annihilation? Obama, the ultimate avoider, follows his well rehearsed exit strategy for preemptive withdrawal from the real scene by voting “present” when the issue suddenly pops up on the radar screen.
But he may not recognize the difference between a manufactured crisis and an authentic one. He is thoroughly unprepared to handle the ramifications of an Israeli self-defensive move, (which by the way will reassure a lot of sunni tyrants who will not admit it).
He may not even conceive that anyone could possibly work on derailing iranian plans after his superior wisdom commands him to accept them in the name of realism.
Any disruption of petroleum delivery will create a crisis which will put the health care alarmist rethoric into a more appropriate perspective. Death panels in Washington? How about death threats in Teheran?
Sep 10, 2009 - 9:22 am 25. Looking at the sum total of the developments can cause severe discomfort « Bent Notes:[...] [...]
Sep 10, 2009 - 9:25 am 26. scott:hmmmmmmm ….Wars and rumors of wars. Widespread overarching apostasy. Israel the focal point of vast worldwide hostilities. A few more earthquakes and we might begin to suspect just exactly where we are in God’s timeline.
Y’all might consider repenting of your unbelief. Just sayin.
Sep 10, 2009 - 9:27 am 27. There is a mounting body of evidence of a global alliance directed against the United States, running from Moscow to Tehran, Damascus and Caracas. United by hatred of America, funded by oil and narcotics revenues (including our own), and unanimous in thei:[...] Michael Ledeen [...]
Sep 10, 2009 - 10:24 am 28. Martin Meenagh:And Lt-Col Chavez called for a new ‘Union of Republics’ (though not a USSR) with Belarus the other day in the culmination of an arms-for oil deal. Something is definitely going on. This piece was definitely an interesting way of putting it together. My question would be, ‘what on earth can the United States afford to do?’
Sep 10, 2009 - 10:31 am 29. Libertyship46:I wonder if the liberals and the Democrats (what’s the difference?) will finally admit that George W. Bush was right when he warned that Iran was working on a nuclear bomb? I wonder if, now that the much-vaunted IAEA pretty much had to admit that Iran is working on a nuclear bomb, liberals and Democrats (again, what’s the difference) will finally admit that Iran is a major danger to world stability, especially in the Middle East? And I wonder if liberals and Democrats (don’t make me say it again) will finally support major sanctions, or possibly even a blockade of Iran, now that they know that Iran is working on a nuclear bomb? Come on, folks, you know the answer to those questions. The only time liberals and Democrats will admit that they were wrong and George W. Bush was right is when Tal Aviv disappears in one giant nuclear fireball. And folks, with this current president in office, that time, tragically, may not be far away.
Sep 10, 2009 - 10:48 am 30. Sara:If any enemy of the US wants to hit us, now is the time to do it with Obama in power and the far left Congress behind him. If the globalists want to take America’s independence and government now is the time to do it while they have Obama and the Marxist controlled Senate. If globalists want to end the dollar and the US economy to get us out of the way even after Obama is out of office, now is the time to do it with Obama’s cooperation and help.
Who would have thought all this would have been possible just a few years ago? It is so huge, it makes one believe there really is a God to carry out the end times final battle with evil – which communism enbodies.
Sep 10, 2009 - 10:49 am 31. Paul M Hupf:Mr. Ledeen: Thank you for this article and others which have preceeded it. They are perceptive and convincing. You state that “Obama does not particularly like America.” I fear that this statement is all too true. Given the repeated statements from men like Chavez et al of pure hostility to the United States of America, one would think that it would be prudent for the man sworn “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States…” to take steps to insure that such efforts be frustrated. Rather the opposite seems to be the case. The President’s efforts seem to be directed more to appeasement than anything else. The President was not yet born when Chamberlain met Hitler in Munich in 1938. I fear he knows little or nothing about that event. Chamberlain freturned to London proclaiming “Peace in our time.” On his death bed Chamberlain, while WWII raged, is reported to have said: “If only Herr Hitler had kept his word.”
Sep 10, 2009 - 10:59 am 32. Ran:More background here at JPost.
Sep 10, 2009 - 10:59 am 33. Scott:Is there any precedent for impeaching an entire Administration, Congress, and nearly half of the Supreme Court?
Sep 10, 2009 - 11:03 am 34. Achse Teheran-Caracas (II) « FREE IRAN NOW!:[...] Ledeen auf Pajamas Media: „The End of the World“ Veröffentlicht in Hintergrund, News. Schlagworte: Chavez, Iran, Venezuela. Kommentar [...]
Sep 10, 2009 - 11:41 am 35. Poor Citizen:America has been hated overseas? Michael must be kidding! I have been going overseas for almost 40 years and I can assure you Michael that people the world over, with the exception of the far east, middle east, europe, central america and south america and the carribean and africa have really always loved america, specially Bush. And since Obama was elected? Actually, some of these countries really do like us now, and that.s a pleasent surprise eh?
Sep 10, 2009 - 11:49 am 36. wadosy:it’s obviously getting to be a critical situation: the neocons’ benevolent global hegemony was stillborn.
soooo…
it’s a good thing the neocons can create their own reality, that they’re committed to creative destruction, and that the ground has been prepared for the neocons’ next “new pearl harbor”… as neocon shills have been doing their best to connect north korean nukes to iran.
so we can expect another new pearl harbor, blamed on north korea and iran, that will complete the trifecta of countries designated “the axis of evil”.
the machinery that facilitated the first “new pearl harbor” is still in place… this new “new pearl harbor” should be duck soup.
and then everything will be all better.
Sep 10, 2009 - 11:49 am 37. genghis:STEVE B:
FYI, Kennedy didn’t get ’suckered into the missile gap’. In fact he knew his claims were a fabrication and used it against Nixon. Eisenhower/Nixon chose not to debunk Kennedy’s wild claim so as not to alert the Soviet Union to the extent of our intelligence capabilities. You need to get your facts straight before mouthing off. Kennedy was a crass politician. Nixon placed the best interests of his country above political expedience. Got it?
Sep 10, 2009 - 11:50 am 38. wadosy:it’s hard to imagine anyone anywhere resisting america’s benevolent global hegemony, especially in light of the fact that we’ve only killed a few hundred thousand people so far.
the benevolence of our intentions is kristol clear, and if you dont believe in our PNAC project, well… i guess we’ll have to do a little of mr. ledeen’s creative destruction on you… shock and awe… shekinah… whatever.
we’re neocons, we make our own reality, and the sooner you people accept that fact, the fewer of you will be blown to hell.
deal with it.
Sep 10, 2009 - 11:59 am 39. wadosy:the PNAC/AEI brains in washington have migrated three blocks northeast from the AEI/PNAC/weekly standard building… to 11 Dupont Circle, NW · Suite 325 · Washington, DC 20036, flying now under the flag of the The Foreign Policy Initiative.
they are working overtime creating a new neocon reality that will endow texas with another trillion barrels of oil, and magically disappear arabs. completely. from the face of the earth, our solar system and the universe.
then everything will be all better.
Sep 10, 2009 - 12:12 pm 40. Is „The End of the World“ (?) « FREE IRAN NOW!:[...] „The End of the World“ (?) 10. September 2009 — Nasrin Amirsedghi PAJAMAMEDIA – There is a mounting body of evidence of a global alliance directed against the United States, [...]
Sep 10, 2009 - 12:22 pm 41. NahnCee:“The indifference and inertia of the current administration is indeed extraordinary.”
Why on earth are you giving them the benefit of the doubt, and assuming only “indifference and inertia”? We *know* that overseas funds were dumped into Obama’s campaign coffers prior to last November’s election. Increasingly, it becomes apparent that he’s also a Marxist at heart, as well as being anti-American. Wouldn’t it make more sense to consider Obama to be a bought-and-paid-for Manchurian candidate, who is actively working with the money men who purchased his Presidency for him?
Every decision he has made since he assumed office (and even before that) has been to America’s detriment, and also to enable our enemies.
I think there is a world-wide cabal working to bring down America. They can’t do it upfront because we have superior military strength, technology and other really good toys. So what they’ve done is to install this puppet / dummy as our President, with the ultimate goal of repealing freedom of speech, separation of church & state, the right to bear arms, and (ultimately) capitalism.
So far it’s not working terribly well, but that’s only because Obama is even more inept than we had hoped (or feared) he would be, and more and more normal American are finding their voices and standing up to his plots and schemes — the silent majority isn’t so silent any more, is it, B. Hussein.
Sep 10, 2009 - 12:54 pm 42. wadosy:“…a world-wide cabal working to bring down America”
america crapped out in 1970 when its oil production peaked. everything since then, until 9/11, was waiting until america was ripe to be looted.
meanwhile, israel has become dependent for its survival on america, and the zionists and the looters are at cross purposes… the zionists need america because america protects them, looters loot, and damage america.
obama is a compromise between these two main factions in the cold civil war.
Sep 10, 2009 - 1:05 pm 43. wadosy:but anyone with any sense has already written off israel and america… and both israel and american have become too chickenshit to survive.
there remains the possibility that a substantial portion of the loot goes to israel.
which doesnt mitigate the chickenshittedness at all.
in fact, it raises questions about the sincerity of israel’s chickenshit leaders, who are probably willing to bail out of israel if the price is right.
Sep 10, 2009 - 1:13 pm 44. wadosy:can you honestly imagine netanyahu or olmert or lieberman pushing the button on the samson option and going down with the ship?
Sep 10, 2009 - 1:18 pm 45. David W. Lincoln:Marie, one of the reasons why the French Foreign Affairs Department didn’t go for Vietnam being a preparatory regime was because less would be transferred to France, than what was the case. Even though I wasn’t around for
it, the 1956 Suez Crisis went the way it did because Eden lost his nerve, and before that France thought it could rely on its colonies to improve living conditions. Well, history became what it became.
So, why the Gallic Shrug regarding what wasn’t tried in the past?
Sep 10, 2009 - 1:52 pm 46. wadosy:the suez crisis was the last time an american president was sucessful in defending america from israel.
Sep 10, 2009 - 1:55 pm 47. George S.:great piece ..it really needs a wider audience then it gets here.
regards
Sep 10, 2009 - 2:54 pm 48. carla:MARIE CLAUDE:
So you are still out there. Sarkozi was zn encouraging diversion, but, I know, and you know, the French only act in their own self interests. Bravoe. So do we.
Sep 10, 2009 - 2:57 pm 49. wadosy:ledeen’s obsolete
they’re going for the big money, because that’s the only thing any of the big guys believe in anymore.
it would be nice if you knew the difference between “then” and “than”
Sep 10, 2009 - 3:06 pm 50. Mike Reynolds:Anyone remember how ‘Godfather I’ ended? These countries can be dealt with without the onerous task of occupying them. Just think ‘Moe Green on the massage table’
Sep 10, 2009 - 3:10 pm 51. wadosy:murder is the chickenshit solution.
who is surprised about that?
Sep 10, 2009 - 3:17 pm 52. wadosy:what it boils down to, is this: is the rest of the world as chickenshit as you?
Sep 10, 2009 - 3:20 pm 53. The end of the world takes second place to a photo-opportunity for President Obama | Newpapers Collected:[...] Michael Ledeen does what few other commentators are doing by joining up the dots – and thus correctly assesses the true and terrifying reality of the threat facing the free world: There is a mounting body of evidence of a global alliance directed against the United States, running from Moscow to Tehran, Damascus and Caracas. United by hatred of America, funded by oil and narcotics revenues (including our own), and unanimous in their contempt for free societies, the leaders of Russia, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Bolivia [...]
Sep 10, 2009 - 3:21 pm 54. nahncee:wadosy – what it boils down to is that no one is listening to you.
Sep 10, 2009 - 3:31 pm 55. Warren Bonesteel:The EOTWAWKI? Yeah. That’s on the table. Almost inevitable, at this point.
Google: ‘News Kontent: A reader’s resources on systemic collapse.’ for additional references and resources.
Sep 10, 2009 - 3:35 pm 56. wadosy:oh.
you’re not listening, but you’re answering… odd… how can you answer without listening?
meanwhile, you’re trying to figure out how chickenshit countries like israel and america will survive.
they wont, but the masters will have stacked up billions, trillions, in loot before it falls down.
and they dont give a shit about any of you.
Sep 10, 2009 - 3:37 pm 57. wadosy:these third-tier people like ledeen… who knows where they’re coming from?
are they israelis? …are they running interference for the looters? …does it make any difference?
ledeen is an idiot.
humanity, such as it is, has succeeded because can cooperate with itself, but apparently ledeen still believes that ashkenazi jews can dominate everyone, and wind up running the world.
there seems to be, from the evidence so far, a real problem with that idea.
Sep 10, 2009 - 3:49 pm 58. mingus:NahnCee
You are quite right. We know what the problem is. FETEKE: path to victory. Semper fi.
Sep 10, 2009 - 3:56 pm 59. Marie Claude:David,
one of the reasons why the French Foreign Affairs Department didn’t go for Vietnam being a preparatory regime was because less would be transferred to France, than what was the case. Even though I wasn’t around for it
it’s half true, while Americans were financing the “pacification”, the purpose was to stop the communists, mind you there were attacking the rubber plantations, that were also loobying our government !
the equity about that supposed colonial war was well shared by our american sponsors.
The adventure ended with Dien Dien Phu, enough was enough for our population, who would have preferred to enjoy a rest after WW2, and to start the “reconstruction” like the Germans, but was denied it. So the French weren’t motivated to fight for such an abstract and far away country, the unions didn’t care of the financial repercutions for the rubber business of rich planteurs and they were the ones that dictated policies in the streets
the 1956 Suez Crisis went the way it did because Eden lost his nerve
Not quite, his big american Daddy would have cut him means, think 1 billion dollars make a man reverse his mind, as they were needed too.
“En fin de matinée, Eden est informé que Washington propose un prêt d’un milliard de dollars si un cessez-le-feu intervient. Le premier ministre anglais cède”
and before that France thought it could rely on its colonies to improve living conditions. Well, history became what it became.
Well, Suez crisis was the premise of Algeria war, Egypt Nasser regime was financing FLN, so if the coalition, UK, Israel, France had finished the job, probably that Algeria wouldn’t have been such a hell.
So, why the Gallic Shrug regarding what wasn’t tried in the past?
what does that mean ?
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:04 pm 60. wadosy:eisenhower knocked the blocks down.
what happened to the next american president, who wanted to inspect israel’s nuke weapons factory?
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:11 pm 61. wadosy:what happened to the american president after that?
why did he turn a blind eye to israel’s nuke weapons, why did he go to such lengths to cover up the liberty incident?
why has no president since been able to defend america from israel?
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:18 pm 62. George S.:the trolls are out so there re-enforces my thinking that this piece is right on the money.
obama lies. he is a serial liar. I think he is a Quisling !
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:19 pm 63. Diddy Kong:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZvPVFesk7M
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:21 pm 64. Leatherneck:It is a full court press aganist America. Iran, and company for sure, but add in hock to CHI-COMM’s, TARP, and STINKULAS, auto bailout, illegal alien invasion, CAIR, and company, etc…
BZO, or DIE! Seems fitting here. Don’t ban my post. I did not write anything about checking Mosques for weapons, and C4.
Over.
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:22 pm 65. wadosy:“Anyone remember how ‘Godfather I’ ended?”
it could be that the murder of an american president would kinda put the fear of god into people, dont you think?
especially if that president was bent on exposing israel’s nuke weapons project.
so eisenhower was the last president that successfully defended america from israel.
the next president tried, but was murdered.
and the presidents since…
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:27 pm 66. wadosy:…so, once the historians get enough distance to make sense of the PNAC project, they have to say… “well, america was under zionist control from eisenhower on.
“things got so bad, mainly because of peak oil and global warming, that israel needed to…”
then 9/11 happened, and the “investigation” was investigated.
so then it was all over.
but, at the time, given the horsepower of the supposed israeli americans, everything was all better, for the time being.
then americans started figuring out that zionists are nazis, at least according to einstein. dummy einstein.
oh well.
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:39 pm 67. wadosy:i mean, you got to admit that it’s problem when the smartest man of the 20th century seems to think that zionists are nazis.
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:43 pm 68. marymcl:wadosy -
Sep 10, 2009 - 6:06 pm 69. Delia:No worries, Michael darlin’. Once 0bama is finished making us into a third world, backwards, DICtator run sh↓t-hole that nobody (in their right mind) will envy, I highly doubt anyone would waste much energy hating us either. BONUS!
Sep 10, 2009 - 6:09 pm 70. marymcl:wadosy – The thing I love about characters like you is the fact your “support” will probably do more to undermine the credibility of the Democratic agenda than anything its critics come up with. With friends like you, Obama doesn’t need enemies.
Sieg heil, dude. Keep up the good work!
Sep 10, 2009 - 6:17 pm 71. Banned by Huffpo:Michael, you are, of course, correct.
Where are they going to strike? Hmmm . . . big cities, where the Obamabots live.
Dang. Guess who’s left?
Sep 10, 2009 - 7:14 pm 72. Ran:Moscow-Caracas honeymoon.
I don’t understand the calculus of this. Beyond the present, it makes little sense. TR once said something about the character of a nation is the aggregate of the individual characteristics. If Putin and Chavez haven’t paid attention to S&W shares, or the rapid growth of FOX or American conservative media… If they can’t see past the Kenyan Safari window dressing…
Sep 10, 2009 - 8:59 pm 73. Oscar the Grump:Hey wadosy,
Sep 10, 2009 - 10:50 pm 74. An evil axis Obama refuses even to acknowledge | America Watches Obama:I want to let you know that everyone I know just skips over your comments, the same barf over and over again. Isn’t interesting to know that you are as important as a fart in the wind.
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Sep 10, 2009 - 11:08 pm 75. REDBall6:Dear Now and Then: THERE IS A “NOW & THEN”, when “THEN” arrives, then would be a good time to respond. However right “NOW” we will have to await the future. “THEN” which by all common sense accounts will “THEN ” not be sweetness and light. In the interim please note the “NOW CLOCK” continues to run dowN to 11, 2, 2010. Check 6, now or then hmmmm!
Sep 11, 2009 - 1:05 am 76. rbell:Well we are all finally catching on. We can’t buy off our enemies nor can we buy the loyalty of those countries that are neutral toward us. After trillions in foreign aid, all our magnanimous generosity amounted to was nothing more than a giant waste of money. Africa is a money pit. By the way it is a continent not a country. It is like constantly giving money to your kid when you realize he is now 32 and still living at home, no job and no prospects. Only he needs a bigger allowance. Well pop is now broke and headed toward a nursing home and the kid is asking for his car. “Money can’t buy you love”. I think I’ll write a song about that.
Wadosy I don’t think Oscar the Commie Grump likes you. Don’t let it bother you. The only people he knows can’t read.
Sep 11, 2009 - 5:19 am 77. lawrence Kohn:To Steve S. #22-you can google Lawrence Kohn Midstream and follow links to some of the articles. Midstream web site seems to archive only those from 2000 on (I wrote under the previous editor, Joel Carmichael, between Dec 92 and Dec 2000) You may want to telephone Midstream in NY. I don’t have number. Leo Haber is the current editor.
Sep 11, 2009 - 5:43 am 78. lefroy:What we’re seeing with the west’s attitude to Putin is a kind of mass delusion, an anxious averting of the eyes, a reluctance to take him at his word. This is a man who described the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century”. Think about that. Not the first world war. Not the rise of nazism and all that came in consequence. No – the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of a brutal, failed state that kept hundreds of millions of people in murderous subjection for 70 years . . the collapse of this evil tyranny was the greatest evil of the last century.
Does the man have to spell out any more clearly his crazy ideas? His model of the selfless public servant, by the way, is the paranoid murderer Yuri Andropov . . if you don’t think Andropov was paranoid, read the Mitrokhin papers. Putin’s idea of a great and selfless man.
He spent his entire working life before politics in the KGB, where he was a no-account, second-rate operative – and that’s not to his credit. All his cronies are now in power; he has restored the FSB to something like the position of lawless privilege of its predecessor.
This is the man we tiptoe around and who we tell ourselves will make a reliable and trustworthy partner.
Hitler spelt out his views in Mein Kampf – no-one wanted to face up to them in the 30s when he came to power. The phenomenon is the same . . another straw in the wind . . the fatal loss of nerve and will of the west.
Sep 11, 2009 - 6:07 am 79. Robert D'Agostino:Iran is preparing for both the annihilation of Israel and an attack on the U.S. It first puts in place the ability to deliver an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) as the Iranian leadership has hinted and a blue-ribbon congressional committee fears. This can be done by use of a ship (perhaps looking like a fishing vessel) or from use of a base in Venezuela. Then Iran informs the U.S. that it either convinces Israel to accept a one-state solution or Iran strikes and if the U.S. interferes an EMP strike will be Iran’s response.
Sep 11, 2009 - 10:13 am 80. Blackwater:Leftists might dismiss your arctile as paranoia but the facts speak for themselves. In Northern Virginia where I live a recent official government report documents that HUNDREDS of al queda, hamas and hezbollah operatives are operating freely right here in Northern Virgina and across the state. Why these people aren’t being arrested or killed I have no idea.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/images/uploads/iniaFusionCenter2009VirginiaTerrorismThreatAssessment%282%29.pdf
Sep 11, 2009 - 11:01 am 81. dan:“I don’t understand the calculus of this.”
At this stage it appears to be about Russia creating regional powers capable of springing on their regional competitors, defeating them, and thereby depriving the international system of its order. Convert that order from US-centric to Moscow/Beijing-centric. The EU will follow because the Russians/Chinese will be careful not to disturb the degenerating Old Europe, and the Eastern is co-opted by Moscow already, and Germany is very very dependent on Russian fuel deliveries. So you build Venezuela/Equador/Bolivia/Nicaragua/Honduras?/etc. vs. Colombia. (That way no one even notices Brazil/Argentina). Then you build Iran-Syria-Lebanon v. Israel/Saudi/Egypt, although the latter two are already 80% scum anyway. And you build up Burma while you meddle in India and Pakistan arming and directing Islamic Militants (TM).
It’s sort of like the USSR’s strategy of “national liberation:” the real strategy is to reduce the imperial powers to their natural borders. You can see the effect of de-colonization in the difference between Europe’s estimation of itself and its actual state of health. Similarly, they are attempting to deprive the USA from its much less direct but no less important relationships with regional powers. Turkey’s already gone, for example.
Anyway. That’s basically what’s going on at that level, IMO.
Sep 11, 2009 - 11:05 am 82. David P:Overcoming cognitive dissonance can have a debilitating impact on your judgment, principals become compromised along with clarity. It’s only obvious if you read “in black and white,” but like the Rolling Stones say, “it’s not easy facing up when your whole world is black.” A sad pun that evolves into our punishment.
Sep 11, 2009 - 3:30 pm 83. Jassem Othman:Axis of Evil! There are warm relations between regimes that dominate Oil extraction in the Middle East and which are pro-evil against the United States such as Venezuela’s Chavies, Iran’s Ahmadinejad, Cuba’s Castro, Syria’s Bashar Al-Asaad, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, North Korea’s Kim Jong , Mugabe Zimbabwe, Nicaragua and BoliviaI. Let alone the underground bad-faith by Libya’s Gaddafi and the Saudi royal family. the US’s friend and at the same time its enemy “Saudi royal family” has maintained its tough commitment to propagating Islamic-fascism widely that funded by enormous Oil revenues, where that revenues became in service of jihad against so-called infidels ” Zionists and Crusaders”. The central aim of evil regimes is to revive the Axis of Evil and enlist additional partners to expand the axis of Evil in order to harm America’s influence on earth by family reunion.
All rogue governments aforementioned are challenging the free existing world order their blunt statements perceive the current world order as the personification of Imperialism and Zionism, which is in the State of Israel. Their stance against Capitalism and Imperialism and Zionism is tangible common denominator of hatred toward the United States, which is one of the central reasons for the formation of the alliance between them. they all “despise the United States influence” on the earth especially in the Middle East.
they intend to vanquish Capitalism and Zionism if they just will be stand together against the Axis of Good, and that hatred toward the United States together with common interests in the sphere of oil. Inevitably they plot to the cartel of oil exporters as challenge weapon against the USA for a fulfillment of evil targets.
And both opportunistic neutrals China and Russia are quite content with their evil behavior toward the United States for strategic targets and economical in order to spreading their red influence on the earth and also to dominate the oil wells in the Middle east. We know that China is Iran’s giant oil consumer and both Russia and China are the biggest suppliers of arms and military expertise to Iran and Syria which necessary for manufactures of the missiles, where the Syrian regime again began to family reunion to strengthening the warm relations with Russia, China and North Korea through bringing some ships of the Russian Navy to the Syrian port. In June 2007, Russia supplied the Syria regime of fighter aircrafts “MIG-31 E”, it was the first export deal for the MiG-31E”, and also missiles anti-armored vehicles and tanks. These days, Russia has begun deliveries of Pantsir-S1 (Pantsyr-S1 systems) air-defense missiles to Syria. And that nuclear North Korea was also cooperating with both Iran and Syria on secret program for nuclear weaponry. We know that on September 6, 2007, Israel bombed a site in northern Syria in Dier Ezzor province, Dier Ezzor City is approx 70 Km from my Town, a site suspected of containing materials for a nuclear weapons program set up in collaboration with North Korea, probably it was a North Korean-built plutonium reactor.
At present we can see most of the United States partners of the Persian Gulf States unfortunately became have tendencies to build warm relations with Russia, North Korea and China. This is proving “bad-faith toward the US”. For example, Saudi Arabia, the close US ally, has long bought most of its arms from the United States and Western Europe, but in recent years has been in talks on buying military equipment from Russia. On 23 November, 2007 the Saudi crown prince who is at the same time is Minister of Saudi defense, Mr. Sultan Ibn Abdul Al-Aziz who visited Russia for deal of arms, where the Saudis bought Strela missiles from Russia. Ditto he had backed and declared that Saudi government entirely is satisfied about Russian policies. In 2008 Moscow and Riyadh signed a military cooperation treaty. Saudi Arabia may purchase from Russia “tanks, vehicles, helicopters, and air defense systems.” Let alone, the tendencies of Jordan and United Arab Emirates to build warm relations with Russia.
However, all regimes aforementioned are high-risk regimes and they form real threat on the West, above all they are real threat on the USA, where all evil leaders are totally megalomaniacs and military hysteria. Certainly the world will be safer without them!!!
God bless the United States of America and bless all of us.
Sep 11, 2009 - 3:43 pm 84. Amber » Blog Archive » The End of the World:Jassem Othman, Syrian, Poland.
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Sep 11, 2009 - 6:55 pm 85. Robohobo:lawrence Kohn @ 14:
Very good synopsis of the current situation. Those who think the Communists and Marxists just magically went away in the late 80’s and early 90’s engage in just that, magical thinking.
I once thought that Now and Then and the other resident trolls were just that but perhaps they do not take their direction from Soros and MoreOn.org but it could be the Lubyanka. That being said, they are still just useful idiots.
SteveB/Colorado @ 19:
Another hippie or something from Co. Let me guess, Boulder? I am going to lump you in with N & T, unless you are careful. You have it backwards, JFK did not get suckered, the data was skewed to show that the USSR was much stronger than publicized and he used to to inflate our forces. That suckering probably staved off WWIII.
Now for the Commie under every bed. It turns out it was every other bed. Sen. McCarthy was a lot of things. A drunk and he had other issues but the damnable thing for you Lefties is that he was right. The USSR and Cuba had active programs running inside the USA. So, at least get your facts right.
Libertyship46 @ 29:
Right next door is Yafo (Jaffa) which is an Arab/Palestinian city. The blast will take out many kindred souls of the Palis. Too frakkin’ bad.
Poor Citizen @ 35:
Actually, I too have traveled extensively around the world and find that most people do like Americans, whether they agree with the current regime’s foreign policy or not. If you are not liked, maybe that says more about you than….
Just sayin’, is all.
We have various outer foes lining up and plotting to try and take their shot. Also, the current pResident, BHO, The Won of The 0bamanation refuses to do anything that is not siding with our sworn enemies. Fer Heaven’s sake, what does that make him? I mena, it just follows.
Sep 11, 2009 - 10:30 pm 86. Stergeye:The irony here is that if Obama would take the right action re: Iran by merely employing the bully pulpit to speak over the Mullahs directly to the people, perhaps move a few assets into the region to indicate that he means business, and the Regime would topple like overripe fruit. Obama would then be free to set his agenda well past 2012, as his re-election would be assured.
Sep 11, 2009 - 11:24 pm 87. M. Simon:Instead, he is willing to give the regime the room it needs to crush dissent, making ony what he deems appropriate noises about “the world standing as one” to condemn such harsh treatment.
The sooner the better, in his mind; so that he will then be free to unleash the ‘O’ charm on Admadinejad, disarming the suspicious Islamic leader by apologizing for the sins of Eisenhower.
Similarly, he seeks to win over Chavez by bullying Honduras into taking back Zelaya, and isolating our ally Columbia.
Mr. Ledeen,
Evidently you are unaware of American Alcohol Prohibition. So let me give you a short version: criminals were driven out of the alcohol business by legalizing the production and distribution of alcohol.
Even decriminalizing users (they were never criminalized during alcohol prohibition) has positive effects. See the results Portugal got from their 2001 decriminalization. No increase of use. Fewer deaths.
Sep 14, 2009 - 12:45 pm 88. M. Simon:Sen. McCarthy was a lot of things. A drunk and he had other issues
He was a heroin addict. Protected by Harry Anslinger and given his heroin by the good Harry to prevent a scandal.
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