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Webster Tarpley in Amsterdam, July 22nd:
Historical changes in false flag terrorism |
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Written
by Daan de Wit
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Monday,
21 July 2008 |
by Daan de Wit
What we need to know for 2008-2009
Terrorism expert and bestseller author
Webster Tarpley will hold the presentation Historical changes in false
flag terrorism: What we need to know for 2008-2009 in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands on July 22nd for Docs at the Docks.
The presentation will follow the viewing of the documentary 7/7 Ripple
Effect. Tickets available through reservations at docsatthedocks.nl
by Webster Tarpley
As students of the manipulation of the political and
social process by intelligence agencies through false flag terrorism
and through other forms of covert operations, we need to be aware that
the intelligence agencies are not Johnny one note, but rather change
their tactics as the world political and economic situation evolves.
One of the main problems we face today is that, by all indications, the
phase of false flag terrorism which began in the late 1990s and which
reached its peak between September 11, 2001 and July 7, 2005 is ending,
and is in the process of being replaced by something quite different.
The old phase was centered on exerting social and political control
through mass fear of bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Islamofascism, and Islamic
fundamentalism in general.
The new phase involves a completely different set of
targets. Iran and the Arab countries are no longer the main objectives.
They have been replaced by Russia , China , the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization, and the other countries that gravitate around this new
pole of world politics. Yet, many of those who have dedicated much
energy trying to expose the false flag operations of the post-9/11
period which is now essentially behind us are failing to identify the
fact of sweeping change, and are repeating the slogans of the
Bush-Cheney-neocon era as if everything were still as it was. We need
to sum up the lessons of the 9/11-7/7 era, above all the central idea
that these terrorist attacks were covert operations by US and British
intelligence, and that they were made to happen on purpose and
completely orchestrated from Washington and London. And then we need to
look ahead.
The essence of false flag operations and other covert operations is
that the same methods cannot be used for ever, but must be changed. In
the first half of the 19th century, the British used the extreme
nationalism of the Mazzini networks to destabilize their enemies.
Around 1850, the main cover story for terrorism became the
international anarchist movement and this was used well into the 1930s,
especially for purposes of political assassination. In the 1950s and
1960s, the standard explanation for terrorism was the deranged loner,
such as Lee Harvey Oswald. In the 1960s and 70s, methods radically
changed, with youthful leftists and communist terrorists of college-age
taking center stage: here we see the Weathermen in the United States,
the Baader-Meinhof group in Germany, and the Red Brigades in Italy
(this is a phase which resembles the one now starting). In the 1970s
and 1980s, this was supplemented by the radical Arab and Palestinian
political terrorism of Abu Nidal and Black September. Even during this
period, there was also the rise of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. In
the 1990s, especially in the United States, the focus shifted
completely to right wing anarchist militias who wanted to destroy the
government: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing are the
leading example. By the late 90s the scene had changed again to focus
on Al Qaeda and bin Laden. Now the credibility and usefulness of the
9/11 mythology has been exhausted, and we need to ask what will come
next.
In order to answer this, we need to see that the historical
predicament of US and British imperialism has qualitatively
deteriorated even compared to 2001. We are living through the death
agony of the US dollar, the constant threat of banking panic and
systemic breakdown in the London and New York banking systems and
capital markets, and the specter of worldwide hyperinflation centering
on the dollar. At the same time, a powerful combination of adversary
states has emerged around Russia, China, and the other members of the
Shanghai cooperation organization. The most influential response to
this situation is the one articulated by Zbigniew Brzezinski, the dean
of the Democratic Party foreign policy establishment going back to the
Jimmy Carter regime and even earlier. Brzezinski's name is associated
we have a new strategy which calls for a de-emphasis of the Middle East
in favor of a global approach to crushing the power of Russia and China
once and for all. In the short run this new strategy creates for some
the illusion that a relaxation of world tensions might be at hand. But
in the medium to longer term, the dangers of the Brzezinski strategy
are even greater than those of the neocon approach followed under Bush
and Cheney, because Russia and China remain powerful states with
intercontinental ballistic missiles and hydrogen bombs, and a
determined to defend themselves.
The Obama candidacy for the US presidency is the vehicle chosen by the
Rockefeller-Trilateral-Bilderberger international banking faction to
carry out this new and more radical approach to securing another
century of world domination for the US and the British. In the course
of this, we must remember that although the so-called global war on
terror has been one of the main features of US propaganda, we have also
witnessed a series of CIA people power coups or color revolutions over
recent years in places like Ukraine and Georgia . It is likely that the
US and the British will rely much more unease methods in the near
future than they have in the recent past, including an attempt to
overthrow or at least we can the government of China , perhaps as early
as this year. Irrationalist mass movements reminiscent of the 1920s and
1930s will be increasingly common in both the US and Europe , and Japan
as well.
As far as terrorism specifically is concerned, we can expect the new
wave of false flag actions, when it emerges, to involve groups that
will allow popular anger and fear to be directed against countries like
Russia , China , Pakistan , Sudan , and others of this group. If we
take into account the Virginia Tech student massacre and the similar
shootings at Northern Illinois University during the past year, we may
be able to guess that there will also be a new round of domestic,
homegrown terrorism in the wealthier countries revolving around college
students or young people who are concerned about social justice. We can
also expect a new round of ecological terrorism on the Unabomber of
Earth First models.
It is therefore necessary that we realize that 2008 has been a year of
very rapid change in the world strategic situation, and that we must be
ready for new forms of terrorism as well as for new forms of mass
political manipulation in general. There are numerous signs that we may
be entering a new fascist era (or postmodern fascist era), and that
irrationalist mass movements may be the breeding grounds for new forms
of terrorism and new pretexts for top-down police state controls.
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