What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism, or the holy name of liberty and democracy? ~ Mahatma Gandhi Like Orwells 1984, Western Governments Deceptively Sell Imperial Wars to Peace groups: “War is peace” double-speak has become commonplace these days. And, the more astute foreign policy journalists and commentators are beginning to realize the extent of how “liberal interventionists” work in sync with neocon warhawks to produce and sustain a perpetual state of U.S. war. Since the anti-war protests on Vietnam, the U.S. government has made “perception management” of the American people a high priority, feeding them a steady diet of propaganda about foreign crises, even getting “peace groups” to buy into “pro-democracy” wars, write Margaret Sarfehjooy and Coleen Rowley. ■ More and more “peace and social justice” groups are even being twisted into “democracy promotion,” U.S. militarism style. But rarely do we get a window to see as clearly into how this Orwellian transformation occurs as with the “Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria” (CISPOS) based in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, a spin-off of “Friends for a Nonviolent World” (FNVW), steering its Quaker-inspired founding in nonviolence to promote speakers and essayists with strong ties to the violent uprising to topple the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad, resulting in a war that has already taken some 200,000 lives. Middle Eastern expats who support U.S. intervention in their countries are especially effective in promoting the US Govt narrative to Western audiences because they provide “proof” of the demonization of governments that the U.S. plans to invade and dominate, and often peace groups include these expats in presentations believing them to be representatives of an entire country. Do the real pacifist members approve? Or even know who is behind US interventionism? ■ Israels influence on U.S. War Policy: James Prince, the founder and President of the Democracy Council, is an adviser to CyberDissidents.org , a project created in 2008 by the Jerusalem-based Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies, founded and funded by Sheldon Adelson, a patron and confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu. Syrian dissidents received funding from the Los Angeles-based Democracy Council, which ran a Syria-related program called the “Civil Society Strengthening Initiative” funded with $6.3 million from the State Department. The program is described as “a discrete collaborative effort between the Democracy Council and local partners” to produce, among other things, “various broadcast concepts.” ■ With all of the information about Syria, what are we to believe as true? We know the facts about questionable U.S. interventions in other Middle Eastern countries. Why would Syria be any different? Afghanistan is still in shambles with the majority of the people living in extreme poverty; Libya, which had the highest GDP per capita and life expectancy on the continent, is now a failed state; Western intervention transformed Iraq from an emerging country with moderate prosperity into an impoverished country with a starving population. In the lead-up to each intervention, “experts” emerged to explain that while anti-imperialism is good in general and in past scenarios, this time is different. Is it? Isn’t it time for war-weary Americans to wise up and stop falling for these pretexts of bringing democracy and human rights to foreign countries through training and funding of “color (and umbrella) revolutions,” inciting of coups and regime changes and eventually, through U.S.-NATO military might? Liberal interventionists clearly assist neocon warhawks towards their mutual goal of “full spectrum dominance” under the euphemistic guise of Pax Americana. Only the “Pax” always turns out to be endless war and occupation. ■ Helen Marshall commented: Given that we have an administration whose ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power is famous for her advocacy of “humanitarian intervention,” pushed for Libya’s destruction and helped write the speech that Obama gave on accepting the Nobel Peace Prize making the case for the use of force, it is hardly surprising that the State Department is encouraging such action. Democracy promotion has become nothing but a tool for regime change (of regimes that the USG finds annoying). If the US manages to bring Ukraine into NATO and Ukraine’s neo-Nazi-infested government claims that Russia is threatening it, are we prepared to take “R2P” right up to nuclear war? https://consortiumnews/2014/12/25/selling-peace-groups-on-us-led-wars/
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