Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
November 1, 2011
Anyone who hoped the Arab Spring might eventually take over the Persian Gulf and those lands once known as Arabia Felix has enough reason to drown in sadness.
The Arab counter-revolution is stronger than ever – led by the House of Saud and its monarchy minions at the Gulf Counter-revolution Club (GCC), officially known as Gulf Cooperation Council. And their most precious ally is the Pentagon.
The New York Times made it official by relaying related White House/Pentagon spin. Considering the NYT can hardly pose as an icon of credibility since those months in 2002/2003 when its front page peddled outright lies about Iraq’s nukes and/or its carnal ties with al-Qaeda, the spin must be translated.
The further militarization of the counter-revolutionary Persian Gulf – especially via more boots on the ground in Kuwait, and more warships – is being sold as a response to “a collapse of security in Iraq or a military confrontation with Iran”.
Note that both are pure wishful thinking. The NYT’s martial sources insist, “the withdrawal [from Iraq] could leave instability”. The fact is the Nuri al-Maliki government in Baghdad effectively booted the Americans out (the Pentagon wanted at least 20,000 US boots on the ground after late 2011).
Thus the necessity of revamped Pentagon Central Command (Centcom) newspeak, as well as a Plan B, a grand new “security architecture” for the Persian Gulf crammed with air and naval hardware and even missile defense sold as a bland “post-Iraq footprint in the region”.
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People want to be free, but of course Alex Jones always has to portray some sinister plan behind everything.
dhsn Reply:
November 1st, 2011 at 9:55 am
Despite millenia of proof there’s never been a single sinister plan behind everything.
peaceonearth Reply:
November 1st, 2011 at 10:01 am
wake up ass hole
reconscoutsniper Reply:
November 1st, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Hey! Manure-Athon! You’re full of shit! You’re stinking up the place! You talk a lot of “shit”. Shit draws flies, and flies produce “maggots”. Understand? Maneuver you “manure” to another location! I can smell you through the monitor.
Bravo2……out
playing battlefield 2142 with alex playing on the radio in the battle walker =priceless
Defense Supply Center(DSCC)-Columbus located in whitehall, Ohio is currently massing equipment to put down any insurrection or uprising. Troop carriers, armor and supplie vehicals. I have videos of all of this. Will post to Youtube for all to see tommrow. You need to check your areas ASAP. They are preparing to strike.
Thanks
riot-on Reply:
November 1st, 2011 at 11:57 am
Thank you for that,seeing a full parking lot at the national guard armory in Iowa City Iowa where for the last year has only been a half a parking lot full.So it’s not like they were out training for a few weeks.
What an obvious tactic,have your provocater,dumbass right there at the keyboard ready to smear a legitamate news article in hopes of persuading people that it is the popular thinking to cast demons and doubt on any article.Well fuck both you scum.See we arn’t so easily led you dumb yuppie bitches.It doesn’t take a real smart one to see all-ALLLLLL of your corporate run news channels are for children.Every bit of your crap you call legimate news sources are about as credible as dumping Bin Laden in the sea,or NOWWWW,they just discovered another building that may house a nuclear program.Like we arn’t supposed to know whats next.I wish I could tie you bitches up for the rest of your stinking sorry lives and watch videos,one after the other of all the dead children and women and men America refuses to show your punk ass.It would definatly take thay long.You sorry pieces of shit
Hey mouth manure-that was directed at you-you see through plastic fed owned,inside,state bitch
riot-on, you are correct to to take issue with Manure Athon. But you are running the risk of contaminating your cause with the same sort of provocateurism you referenced. Don’t make it easy for the Grand Inquisitor Neyef to say “louche urbanite”, or likewise for Clear Channel/KFI talk jockeys to cast aspersions on a movement that is tempering it’s rage.
The phoney anarchists that bring gasoline and a bic to a protest is not fundamentally different from a forum protest that claims to represent in some way with a potty mouth.
I would on the level ask; if you are in any way aware of the connection between the loss of verbal decency and the corruption of war and tyranny?
riot-on Reply:
November 1st, 2011 at 2:29 pm
I understand what you are saying and I don’t usually resort to this language but I have had so much enough of the spin, and the lies, and the killing in the name of peace,and the traitors who call us traitors,that I am beginning to wonder if there is any peaceful way out.It just seems the some of the coolest people who don’t rant or cuss are the ones who arn’t bothered by the muder and death and limbs torn off,and lies to attack nations.I have personally had enough and am frustrated enough by the blindness of so many when the proof is so obvious,then to have some smooth talker,obvious,probably paid, descreditor come on people who care’s forum and infiltrate or persuade.Thanks for your heads up,I see after rereading what you mean-just woke up and didn’t realize how laced with profanity my reply was.I am sure my language didn’t effect him in the slightest.Good day
Pastor Tekmoses Reply:
November 1st, 2011 at 2:59 pm
I share the anguish. Thank you. Have a better one.
yesss….I can see it now….all the peaceful (Islam means peace) mooslums in the middle east
embracing democracy…all holding hands singing “we are the world”… planting pretty flowers,
flying colorful kites…eating hot dogs…going to the soccer games…their women dancing wild,
ahhhh…the glorious ‘ARAB SPRING’…take a deep wiff of it…smells like goat shit…doesn’t it ?
Mr. Thrillkill Reply:
November 1st, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Smells like dromedary shit.
Pastor Tekmoses Reply:
November 1st, 2011 at 3:26 pm
Peace frog
I know you tried hard to make Islam sound b’gay. It just seems that given any dictatorial monotheism, which they all are; that those who live under it try to find what happiness they can. There is a movement afoot that is made up of many who are fed up with tyranny in all it’s forms, with or without a king, in politics or religion. I’ll call it a cognitive revolution, and then it’s counterpart is mindless violence. I am not at war with any brand name of the one god idea. I hate them all with minor appreciation of differences between them, they are all fundamentally of the same principle.