{"id":1481,"date":"2014-03-04T17:37:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T07:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2014-03-04T17:49:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T07:49:39","slug":"look-who-the-us-is-siding-with-in-ukraine-egypt-and-syria-chris-ernesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Look Who the US Is Siding With in Ukraine, Egypt, and Syria – Chris Ernesto"},"content":{"rendered":"

“US quietly partners with neo-Nazis in Ukraine, fascists in Egypt, and al-Qaeda in Syria”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine if protesters \u2013 supported by Russia \u2013 established an encampment in front of the US Capitol, threw Molotov cocktails into government buildings, fired guns at the police, and demanded that the US government relinquish power.<\/p>\n

Obviously, the response from the US government would not be peaceful and there would be a loud call for war on Russia.<\/p>\n

What if there were demonstrators in front of the White House who announced their events on Facebook by saying that members of congress should be incapacitated by having their knees smashed? Or if those same protesters posted YouTube videos saying that buses going into Washington should be set ablaze by dousing the roads with gas and diesel in the hopes of burning all the passengers inside?<\/p>\n

Certainly, every US government official would demand the protesters be immediately arrested and charged with terrorism.<\/p>\n

And what would happen if Islamic fundamentalists who had pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda began to bomb police stations and schools across the US?<\/p>\n

Clearly, the US government would punish the responsible parties, and probably the countries in which they received training.<\/p>\n

These things aren\u2019t happening in the US, but they\u00a0are<\/em>\u00a0occurring in Ukraine, Egypt and Syria by people who are funded, supported, encouraged or tacitly approved by the United States government.<\/p>\n

US \u201cguy\u201d now running Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Ukrainian parliament accepted\u00a0Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the country\u2019s new prime minister<\/a>. Yatsenyuk is the lawmaker from the Fatherland Party who has been Washington\u2019s choice to lead the country, as revealed by the State Department\u2019s Victoria Nuland when she told US Ambassador to Ukraine Jeffrey Pyatt, \u201cYats [Yatsenyuk] is the guy who\u2019s got the economic experience, the governing experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The now infamous \u2018f*ck the EU\u2019 leaked phone conversation between Nuland and Pyatt revealed the role played by the United States in supporting Ukraine\u2019s far-right opposition in its (ultimately successful) attempt to overthrow the left-leaning Yanukovych. \u201cThe utter criminality of Washington\u2019s drive to install a pliant regime in Kiev sharply emerges in Nuland and Pyatt\u2019s discussion of Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of the neo-fascist Svoboda party (who recently met with John McCain in Kiev<\/a>). Nuland describes Tyahnybok as one of the \u201cbig three\u201d within the opposition leadership. These remarks confirm that there is no confusion whatsoever within the Obama administration that it isworking in partnership with fascist movements in Ukraine<\/a>,\u201d wrote Patrick O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n

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Another top Svoboda member, Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn, a deputy in parliament,\u00a0often quotes Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels<\/a>, as well as other Third Reich luminaries like Ernst Rohm and Gregor Strasser.\u00a0Among other things<\/a>, Svoboda seeks to end all immigration and ensure that all civil service jobs are filled by ethnic Ukrainians. The Nation magazine reported that Svoboda also seeks to ban abortions, abolish gun control, \u201cban the Communist ideology,\u201d and prohibit the adoption of Ukrainian children by foreigners.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs for the \u201cprotesters\u201d who came to Maidan Square in November, not all came simply to protest. Many set up tents and shacks, threw up barricades, seized government buildings, burned the headquarters of the ruling party, battled police and demanded the overthrow of the regime.\u00a0How many Western countries would permit a planned putsch in their capital city?<\/a>\u201d asked Pat Buchanan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most aggressive element of the opposition is a group calling itself Pravy Sektor,\u00a0a right-wing nationalist organization that critics liken to Nazis<\/a>,\u201d according to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

In teaming up with\u00a0\u201carmed neo-Nazis, soccer hooligans, a variety of militant separatists, looters, arsonists and cop-killers\u201d<\/a>\u00a0the US eventually got what it wanted in Ukraine. And now it will likely play a leading role in reconstructing Ukraine\u2019s economy, National Security Adviser Susan Rice revealed on \u201cMeet the Press\u201d last week. Ms. Rice mapped out how the Obama administrator will be working with the International Monetary Fund to provide \u2018financial aid\u2019 to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

US once again siding with repressive, \u201cfascist\u201d government in Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Things have gotten so bad in Egypt that the government is now investigating a Muppet-style character that regularly appears on Egyptian television.<\/p>\n

“As stupid as it is, it\u2019s very telling,\u201d Ziad Akl, a political analyst said of the puppet case. \u201cIt says a lot about the patriotism frenzy we are in. There is definitely a sentiment of fascist nationalism that you either subscribe to, or face being labeled a traitor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe swelling nationalism \u2013 fanned by the country\u2019s state- and privately-owned media \u2013 has given the army-backed government the legitimacy to quell further dissent in the name of national security.\u00a0Today, opposition to the government is being suppressed even more brutally than it was under strongman Hosni Mubarak<\/a>, the longtime ruler who was forced out in the Arab Spring revolt in 2011,\u201d wrote the Washington Post\u2019s Erin Cunningham.<\/p>\n

As Egypt spirals out of control, virtually no mention is given to the revelation that\u00a0the US was squarely behind the military overthrow of the democratically elected government of Mohammed Morsi<\/a>. According to an Al-Jazeera analysis of documents obtained by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, the US has paid for some of the most unsavory characters in the coup.<\/p>\n

\u201cMake a road bump with a broken palm tree to stop the buses going into Cairo, and drench the road around it with gas and diesel. When the bus slows down for the bump, set it all ablaze so it will burn down with all the passengers inside. God bless.\u201d Those were the words of Colonel Omar Afifi Soliman, a U.S.-funded anti-Muslim Brotherhood activist.<\/p>\n

Soliman, who served in Egypt\u2019s elite investigative police unit, received funding from the US State Department via the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). IRS documents reveal that the NED paid Soliman $50,000 in 2009, $60,000 in 2010, and $10,000 in 2011.<\/p>\n

Through a program created by the US State Department dubbed a \u201cdemocracy assistance\u201d initiative, the NED has bankrolled numerous \u2018activists\u2019 in Egypt, including an anti-Islamist politician who advocated closing mosques and dragging preachers out by force. Al Jazeera points out that such \u201cdemocracy assistance\u201d may have violated Egyptian law, which prohibits foreign political funding. It may also have broken US government regulations that ban the use of taxpayers\u2019 money to fund foreign politicians, or finance subversive activities that target democratically elected governments. Further, a Congressional mandate is clear in that the NED is only to engage in \u201cpeaceful\u201d political change overseas.<\/p>\n

The US is teaming with the historically repressive Egyptian military and its leader in waiting, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who has achieved cult-like status in whipping up nationalistic fervor. The Obama administration is virtually alone in not labeling last year\u2019s ouster of Morsi as a \u201ccoup,\u201d and with its support of Egypt\u2019s current military government, the US is once again on the side of the repressive, and what many are now calling fascist leadership of Egypt.<\/p>\n

US on same side as al-Qaeda in Syria<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is widely known that the\u00a0US and al-Qaeda are on the same side in Syria<\/a>\u00a0in attempting to oust Syria\u2019s Bashar al-Assad from office.<\/p>\n

On February 12, 2012 the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri,\u00a0called on Muslims from other countries to support rebels in Syria<\/a>\u00a0seeking to overthrow Assad. Two weeks later Hillary Clinton raised serious concerns about calls to arm the Syrian opposition when she said, \u201cwe know al Qaeda leader Zawahiri is supporting the opposition in Syria.Are we supporting al Qaeda in Syria?<\/a>\u00a0And in July of 2012, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said that as many as\u00a0one-quarter of the 300 rebel groups in Syria may be fighting under the banner of al-Qaeda<\/a>. In fact, one of the leading opposition groups, al-Nusra Front, has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States.<\/p>\n

But those warnings didn\u2019t stop the Obama administration from arming the opposition in Syria. One week after Rep. Rogers\u2019 statement, it was revealed that\u00a0President Obama had authorized covert support for Syrian rebels<\/a>. And later, one day after\u00a0al-Qaeda of Iraq announced<\/a>\u00a0that it was fighting with rebels in Syria, Obama pledged an\u00a0additional $10 million<\/a>\u00a0in aid to the opposition. The following week, the Obama administration\u00a0pledged another $123 million<\/a>\u00a0to the rebels.<\/p>\n

The US attempts to ease people\u2019s worries by claiming that American-provided weapons won\u2019t get into the hands of the \u2018bad\u2019 opposition in Syria, but this is clearly unrealistic, particularly in light of the chaos that encompasses cities throughout the war-torn country. In fact, the USA Today reported that\u00a0US arms were showing up in the hands of pro-Assad militias<\/a>. The ability of Assad\u2019s allies to obtain US weapons is one of many reasons the United States should not supply Syrian rebels with weapons, said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., former chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Syria is \u201calready overflowing\u201d with weapons being supplied to the Assad regime and to the rebels \u201cthat could one day be turned against the US,\u201d Ros-Lehtinen said. It\u2019s \u201cextremely difficult\u201d to distinguish between friend and foe in Syria, she said, and \u201cno amount of safeguards can guarantee that weapons will not fall into the wrong hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

As former congressman Ron Paul warned, “There are a lot of factions out there, why don\u2019t we ask about the Al-Qaeda?\u00a0Why are we on the side of the al-Qaeda right now?<\/a>\u00a0So I think they want the weapons. The rebels want the weapons. There\u2019s a bunch of people in there and Al-Qaeda is part of it and this is the test for us to drop a couple of bombs and then send in weapons.”<\/p>\n

The US government tries to spin the hypocritical position of working towards a similar goal as al-Qaeda in Syria while at the same time saying they are a threat to US national security in other parts of the world. Regardless of how it attempts to nuance its aid to the opposition, there\u2019s no hiding the fact that the US is on the same side as al-Qaeda in Syria. Just like they are on the same side as neo-Nazis in Ukraine, and fascists in Egypt.<\/p>\n

Chris Ernesto is co-founder of\u00a0St. Pete for Peace<\/a>, an antiwar organization in St. Petersburg, FL that has been active since 2003. Mr. Ernesto also created and managesOccupyArrests.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0USinAfrica.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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