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THE OTHER SIDE OF JOHN MCCAIN</h2>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">By Max Blumenthal, <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2018/08/27/the-other-side-of-john-mccain/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova' !important;" class="">Consortiumnews.com</a></span></div>
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Above Photo: McCain with Abdelhakim Belhaj, leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a former Al Qaeda affiliate.</p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">If the paeans to McCain by diverse political climbers seems detached from reality, it’s because they reflect the elite view of U.S. military interventions as a chess game,
with the millions killed by unprovoked aggression mere statistics</span><span id="more-29775" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">As the Cold War entered its final act in 1985, journalist Helena Cobban participated in an academic conference at an upscale resort near Tucson, Arizona, on U.S.-Soviet
interactions in the Middle East. When she attended what was listed as the “Gala Dinner with keynote speech”, she quickly learned that the virtual theme of the evening was, “Adopt a Muj.”</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">“I remember mingling with all of these wealthy Republican women from the Phoenix suburbs and being asked, ‘Have you adopted a muj?” Cobban told me. “Each one had pledged
money to sponsor a member of the Afghan mujahedin in the name of beating the communists. Some were even seated at the event next to their personal ‘muj.’”</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The keynote speaker of the evening, according to Cobban, was a hard-charging freshman member of Congress named John McCain.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">During the Vietnam war, McCain had been captured by the North Vietnamese Army after being shot down on his way to bomb a civilian lightbulb factory. He spent two years
in solitary confinement and underwent torture that left him with crippling injuries. McCain returned from the war with a deep, abiding loathing of his former captors, remarking as late as 2000, “I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.” After
he was criticized for the racist remark, McCain <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/McCain-Criticized-for-Slur-He-says-he-ll-keep-3304741.php" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">refused</a> to
apologize. “I was referring to my prison guards,” he said, “and I will continue to refer to them in language that might offend some people because of the beating and torture of my friends.”</span></p>
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‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison where McCain was tortured. (Wikimedia Commons)</p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">McCain’s visceral resentment informed his vocal support for the mujahedin as well as the right-wing contra death squads in Central America — any proxy group sworn to the
destruction of communist governments.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">So committed was McCain to the anti-communist cause that in the mid-1980s he had <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chip-berlet/mccain-advised-ultra-righ_b_132612.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">joined</a> </u>the
advisory board of the United States Council for World Freedom, the American affiliate of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL). Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, a former leader of WACL’s British chapter who had turned against the group in 1974, described the organization
as “a collection of Nazis, fascists, anti-Semites, sellers of forgeries, vicious racialists, and corrupt self-seekers. It has evolved into an anti-Semitic international.”</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Joining McCain in the organization were notables such as Jaroslav Stetsko, the Croatian Nazi collaborator who helped oversee the extermination of 7,000 Jews in 1941; the
brutal Argentinian former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla; and Guatemalan death squad leader Mario Sandoval Alarcon. Then-President Ronald Reagan honored the group for playing“a leadership role in drawing attention to the gallant struggle now being waged by the
true freedom fighters of our day.”</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Being Lauded as a Hero</b></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">On the occasion of his death, McCain is being honored in much the same way — as a patriotic hero and freedom fighter for democracy. A stream of hagiographies is pouring
forth from the Beltway press corps that he described as his true political base. Among McCain’s most enthusiastic groupies is CNN’s Jake Tapper, whom he chose as his personal stenographer for a 2000 trip to Vietnam. When the former CNN host Howard Kurtz asked
Tapper in February, 2000, “When you’re on the [campaign] bus, do you make a conscious effort not to fall under the magical McCain spell?”</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">“</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Oh, you can’t. You become like Patty Hearst when the SLA took her,” Tapper </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/05/rs.00.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">joked
in reply</a>.</span></p>
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Ocasio-Cortez: Called McCain ‘an unparalleled example of human decency.’</p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">But the late senator has also been treated to gratuitous tributes from an array of prominent liberals, from <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/georgesoros/status/1033536211103756288" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">George
Soros</a></u> to his soft power-pushing client, Ken Roth, along with <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/rosendo_joe/status/1033777167262474245" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">three
fellow directors</a></u> of Human Rights Watch and “democratic socialist” celebrity Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1033538876370046977" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">hailed</a></u> McCain
as “an unparalleled example of human decency.” Rep. John Lewis, the favorite civil rights symbol of the Beltway political class, <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1033520633467023361" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">weighed
in</a></u> as well to memorialize McCain as a “warrior for peace.”</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">If the paeans to McCain by this diverse cast of political climbers and Davos denizens seemed detached from reality, that’s because they perfectly reflected the elite view
of American military interventions as akin to a game of chess, and the millions of dead left in the wake of the West’s unprovoked aggression as mere statistics.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">There were few figures in recent American life who dedicated themselves so personally to the perpetuation of war and empire as McCain. But in Washington, the most defining
aspect of his career was studiously overlooked, or waved away as the trivial idiosyncrasy of a noble servant who nonetheless deserved everyone’s reverence.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">McCain did not simply thunder for every major intervention of the post-Cold War era from the Senate floor, while pushing for sanctions and assorted campaigns of subterfuge
on the side. He was uniquely ruthless when it came to advancing imperial goals, barnstorming from one conflict zones to another to personally recruit far-right fanatics as American proxies.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">In Libya and Syria, he cultivated affiliates of Al Qaeda as allies, and in Ukraine, McCain courted actual, sig-heiling neo-Nazis.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">While McCain’s Senate office functioned as a clubhouse for arms industry lobbyists and neocon operatives, his fascistic allies waged a campaign of human devastation that
will continue until long after the flowers dry up on his grave.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">American media may have sought to bury this legacy with the senator’s body, but it is what much of the outside world will remember him for.</span></p>
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McCain with Abdelhakim Belhaj, leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a former Al Qaeda affiliate.</p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">When a violent insurgency swept through Libya in 2011, McCain parachuted into the country to meet with leaders of the main insurgent outfit, the Libyan Islamic Fighting
Group (LIFG), battling the government of Moamar Gaddafi. His goal was to make kosher this band of hardline Islamists in the eyes of the Obama administration, which was considering a military intervention at the time.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">What happened next is well documented, though it is scarcely discussed by a Washington political class that depended on the Benghazi charade to deflect from the real scandal
of Libya’s societal destruction. Gaddafi’s motorcade was <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8839964/Col-Gaddafi-killed-convoy-bombed-by-drone-flown-by-pilot-in-Las-Vegas.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">attacked
by NATO jets</a></u>, enabling a band of LIFG fighters to capture him, <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-10-24/gaddafi-sodomized-video-shows-abuse-frame-frame-graphic" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">sodomize</a></u> him
with a bayonet, then murder him and <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-60088220111024" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">leave
his body to rot</a></u> in a butcher shop in Misrata while rebel fanboys snapped cellphone selfies of his fetid corpse.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">A <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16051349" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">slaughter
of Black citizens</a></u> of Libya by the racist sectarian militias recruited by McCain immediately followed the killing of the pan-African leader. ISIS took over Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte while Belhaj’s militia took control of Tripoli, and a war of the
warlords began. Just as Gaddafi had <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/khadafy-offers-flee-libya-exchange-safe-passage-libyan-rebels-turn-report-article-1.122939" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">warned</a></u>, the
ruined country became a staging ground for migrant smugglers on the Mediterranean, fueling the rise of the far-right across Europe and enabling <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.cnn.com/specials/africa/libya-slave-auctions" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">the
return of slavery</a></u> to Africa.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Many might describe Libya as a failed state, but it also represents a successful realization of the vision McCain and his allies have advanced on the global stage.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Following the NATO-orchestrated murder of Libya’s leader, McCain <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/105390009615523841" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">tweeted</a></u>, “Qaddafi
on his way out, Bashar al Assad is next.”</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">McCain’s Syrian Boondoggle</b></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Like Libya, Syria had resisted aligning with the West and was suddenly confronted with a Salafi-jihadi insurgency armed by the CIA. Once again, McCain made it his personal
duty to market Islamist insurgents to America as a cross between the Minutemen and the Freedom Riders of the civil rights era. To do so, he took under his wing a youthful DC-based Syria-American operative named Mouaz Moustafa who had been a consultant to the
Libyan Transitional Council during the run-up to the NATO invasion.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">In May 2013, Moustafa convinced McCain to take an illegal trip across the Syrian border and meet some freedom fighters. An Israeli millionaire named Moti Kahana who coordinated
efforts between the Syrian opposition and the Israeli military through his NGO, Amaliah, </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.amaliah.org/team" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">claimed</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> to
have “financed the opposition group which took senator John McCain to visit war-torn Syria.”</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">“This could be like his Benghazi moment,” Moustafa remarked excitedly in a scene from a documentary, </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="http://sparkmedia.org/projects/red-lines/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">“Red
Lines,”</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> that depicted his efforts for regime change.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">“[McCain]
went to Benghazi, he came back, we bombed.”</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">During his brief excursion into Syria, McCain </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0paLxAv49c" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">met
with</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> a group of CIA-backed insurgents and blessed their struggle. “The senator wanted to assure the Free Syrian Army that the American people support their
cry for freedom, support their revolution,” Moustafa said in an interview with CNN. McCain</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">’</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">s
office promptly released a photo showing the senator </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">posing beside a beaming Moustafa and two grim-looking gunmen.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Days later, the men were </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/May-30/218852-mccain-crosses-paths-with-rebel-kidnapper.ashx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">named</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> by
the Lebanese </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Daily Star</i></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> as
Mohammad Nour and Abu Ibrahim. Both had been implicated in the kidnapping a year prior of 11 Shia pilgrims, and were identified by one of the survivors. McCain and Moustafa returned to the U.S. the targets of </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fj5ymo/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-john-mccain-s-syrian-photo-op" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">mockery
from Daily Show host</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> John Stewart and the subject of harshly critical reports from across the media spectrum. At a town hall in Arizona, McCain was </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TMfhdH2aRY" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">berated</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> by
constituents, including Jumana Hadid, a Syrian Christian woman who warned that the sectarian militants he had cozied up to threatened her community with genocide.</span></p>
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McCain with then-FSA commander Salam Idriss, an insurgent later exposed for kidnapping Shia pilgrims.</p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">But McCain pressed ahead anyway. On Capitol Hill, he introduced another </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2013/09/07/shady-pr-operatives-pro-israel-ties-anti-castro-money-inside-syrian-oppositions-dc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">shady
young operative</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> into his interventionist theater. Named Elizabeth O’Bagy, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Study of War, an arms industry-funded
think tank directed by Kimberly Kagan of the neoconservative Kagan clan. Behind the scenes, O’Bagy was consulting for Moustafa at his Syrian Emergency Task Force, a clear conflict of interest that her top Senate patron was well aware of. Before the Senate,
McCain cited a </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Wall Street Journal</i></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> editorial
by </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">O’</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Bagy to support his assessment of the Syrian rebels as predominately </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">“</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">moderate,</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">” </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">and
potentially Western-friendly.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Days later, O’Bagy was </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/09/27/exclusive-mccain-hires-controversial-syria-analyst-elizabeth-obagy/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">exposed</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> for
faking her PhD in Arabic studies. As soon as the humiliated Kagan fired O’Bagy, the academic fraudster took another pass through the Beltway’s revolving door, striding into the halls of Congress as McCain’s newest foreign policy aide.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">McCain ultimately failed to see the Islamist “revolutionaries” he glad handled take control of Damascus. Syria’s government held on thanks to help from his mortal enemies
in Tehran and Moscow, but not before a billion dollar CIA arm-and-equip operation helped spawn one of the worst refugee crises in post-war history. Luckily for McCain, there were other intrigues seeking his attention, and new bands of fanatical rogues in need
of his blessing. Months after his Syrian boondoggle, the ornery militarist turned his attention to Ukraine, then in the throes of an upheaval stimulated by U.S. and EU-funded soft power NGO’s.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Coddling the Neo-Nazis of Ukraine</b></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">On December 14, 2013, McCain materialized in Kiev for a </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-meets-oleh-tyahnybok-in-ukraine-2013-12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">meeting
with Oleh Tyanhbok</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">, an unreconstructed fascist who had emerged as a top opposition leader. Tyanhbok had co-founded the fascist </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Social-National
Part</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">y, a far-right political outfit that touted itself as the </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">“</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">last
hope of the white race, of humankind as such.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">” </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">No fan of Jews, he
had </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/us-backing-neo-nazis-ukraine" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">complained</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> that
a “Muscovite-Jewish mafia” had taken control of his country, and had been photographed throwing up a sieg heil Nazi salute during a speech.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">None of this apparently mattered to McCain. Nor did the scene of Right Sector neo-Nazis </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/us-backing-neo-nazis-ukraine" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">filling
up</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> Kiev’s Maidan Square while he appeared on stage to egg them on.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">“Ukraine will make Europe better and Europe will make Ukraine better!” McCain proclaimed to cheering throngs while Tyanhbok stood by his side. The only issue that mattered
to him at the time was the refusal of Ukraine’s elected president to sign a European Union austerity plan, opting instead for an economic deal with Moscow.</span></p>
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McCain met with Social-National Party co-founder Oleh Tyanhbok.</p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">McCain was so committed to replacing an independent-minded government with a NATO vassal that he even mulled a military assault on Kiev. “I do not see a military option
and that is tragic,” McCain lamented in an interview about the crisis. Fortunately for him, regime change arrived soon after his appearance on the Maidan, and Tyanhbok’s allies rushed in to fill the void.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">By the end of the year, the Ukrainian military had become bogged down in a bloody trench war with pro-Russian, anti-coup separatists in the country’s east. A militia affiliated
with the new government in Kiev called Dnipro-1 was </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2014/12/eastern-ukraine-humanitarian-disaster-looms-food-aid-blocked/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">accused</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> by
Amnesty International observers of blocking humanitarian aid into a separatist-held area, including food and clothing for the war torn population.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Six months later, McCain </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://ukrstream.tv/en/videos/john_mccain_at_the_base_of_regiment_dnipro_1#.W4NLXZNKjBV" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">appeared</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> at
Dnipro-1’s training base alongside Sen.’s Tom Cotton and John Barasso. “The people of my country are proud of your fight and your courage,” McCain told an assembly of soldiers from the militia. When he completed his remarks, the fighters belted out a World
War II-era salute made famous by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators: “Glory to Ukraine!”</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Today, far-right nationalists occupy key posts in Ukraine’s pro-Western government. The speaker of its parliament is </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/07/02/video-congress-welcomes-an-actual-fascist-as-nazi-violence-rages-in-ukraine/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">Andriy
Parubiy</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">, a co-founder with Tyanhbok of the Social-National Party and leader of the movement to honor World World Two-era Nazi collaborators like Stepan
Bandera. On the cover of his 1998 manifesto, </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">“</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">View From The Right,”
Parubiy appeared in a Nazi-style brown shirt with a pistol strapped to his waist. In June 2017, McCain and Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/john-mccain-and-paul-ryan-hold-good-meeting-veteran-ukrainian-nazi-demagogue-andriy" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">welcomed
Parubiy</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> on Capitol Hill for what McCain called a “good meeting.” It was a shot in the arm for the fascist forces sweeping across Ukraine.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The past months in Ukraine have seen a </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/ukrainian-militia-behind-brutal-romany-attacks-getting-state-funds/29290844.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">state
sponsored</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> neo-Nazi militia called C14 carrying out a pogromist rampage against Ukraine’s Roma population, the country’s parliament erecting an </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/248608" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">exhibition</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> honoring
Nazi collaborators, and the Ukrainian military </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/250641" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">formally approving</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> the
pro-Nazi “Glory to Ukraine” greeting as its own official salute.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Ukraine is now the sick man of Europe, a perpetual aid case bogged down in an endless war in its east. In a testament to the country’s demise since its so-called “Revolution
of Dignity,” the deeply unpopular President Petro Poroshenko has promised White House National Security Advisor John Bolton that his country — once a plentiful source of coal on par with Pennsylvania — will </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://www.rt.com/business/436753-ukraine-us-coal-us-locos/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">now purchase
coal</a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> from the U.S. Once again, a regime change operation that generated a failing, fascistic state stands as one of McCain’s greatest triumphs.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">McCain’s history conjures up memory of one of the most inflammatory statements by Sarah Palin, another cretinous fanatic he foisted onto the world stage. During a characteristically
rambling stump speech in October 2008, Palin </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/04/palin.obama/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(187, 10, 33); text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; outline: none 0px;" class="">accused </a></u></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Barack
Obama of “palling around with terrorists.” The line was dismissed as ridiculous and borderline slander, as it should have been. But looking back at McCain’s career, the accusation seems richly ironic.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">By any objective standard, it was McCain who had palled around with terrorists, and who wrested as much resources as he could from the American taxpayer to maximize their
mayhem. Here’s hoping that the societies shattered by McCain’s proxies will someday rest in peace.</span></p>
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