[Peace-discuss] Diana Johnstone says…

Sun Mar 23 10:56:35 UTC 2014

In strong support of Diana Johnstone's report, here is a similarly referenced and detailed report about the recent Ukraine events by Wayne Madsen
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20140320_1

March 20-21, 2014 -- Ukraine and Latin America: Same neocon cabal behind political disruption

The neocons are as an influencing factor in America's foreign policy today as they were during the darkest days of the Bush administration. The coup d'etat by globalist bankers allied with neo-Nazis and Zionist cadres in Ukraine is linked through several neocon operations in Washington, DC to the aggressive push by the United States to topple progressive governments and politicians in Latin America.

And with the arch-neocon former U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, Jeffrey Feltman, now serving as the Undersecretary General of the United Nations for Political Affairs, the United States can enlist the United Nations and the "Slippery Eel," the name South Korean journalists applied to Ban Ki-moon, to provide cover for its covert operations in Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Georgia, Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador, and other targeted nations.

Feltman works hand-in-glove with other neocons, such as the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, the wife of arch neocon from the Bush era Robert Kagan of the infamous Kagan family of "New American Century" advocates; U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt; and Daniel Rubinstein, the special envoy for Syria who helped punish Russia for the retrocession of Crimea by kicking out the Syrian embassy and consulates from U.S. shores. The U.S. neocons who continue to influence U.S. foreign policy act as a "cabal" in the truest sense of the dark and sinister school of thought from which its name in derived: Kabbalah, a doctrine which can best be described as Machiavellianism on steroids.

It is because of their belief that any ends justify their means, individuals like Feltman, Nuland, Pyatt, and others have no problem supporting the neo-Nazi takeover of Ukraine's internal security, defense, justice, and other critical agencies. Giving Nazis control over Ukraine's national security infrastructure hastens the possibility of armed conflict with Russia in many contested areas of the region, from Crimea to eastern Ukraine and Odessa to Transnistria in Moldova. To ensure events are steered in the direction the neocon cabal want them to be directed, "former" members of the Israel Defense Force are providing consultation to the neo-Nazis now running Ukraine's security and law enforcement ministries and agencies.

Coordinating U.S. foreign policy between Ukraine and Russia on one hand and Latin America on the other, are non-governmental and para-governmental organization ideolgical heirs of similar extreme right-wing organizations who operated on behalf of the CIA, the "Captive Nations" initiative, which employed many World War II-era Nazis and fascists among Eastern European emigres in the United States. Today it is the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Freedom House, American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hudson Institute, and the National Endowment for Democracy that are assisting individuals like Nuland, Pyatt, and Feltman is carrying out the neocon policy of destabilization and violence to further the aims of an imperialistic U.S. foreign policy, a policy little changed from the Bush to the Obama administration.

One neocon who spans the generational transition from the Cold War era to the present "Cold War II" redux is Paula Dobriansky, who was placed in charge of the Bush administration's "Freedom Agenda" as the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs and Democracy Promotion. It was during her tenure at State that the U.S. attempted to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in an abortive coup. Dobriansky and her fellow neocons from the Bush administration, Dov Zakheim, Eric Edelman, Robert Kagan (Nuland's husband), Eliot Cohen, Paul Wolfowitz, William Kristol, and Dan Senor, all major league cabalists in their own right, now help provide the "talking points" and other propaganda services relied upon by their cohorts inside the Obama administration.

Fires burning in Kiev's Maidan Square and central Caracas: all the work of the same neocon cabal of Kabbalists.

Dobriansky today is a fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center but she got her start in neocon politics when her father, the founder of the "Captive Nations, Dr. Lev Dobriansky of Georgetown University, an anti-Communist emigre from Ukraine, was calling many of the shots against the "Evil Empire" during the Reagan and Bush I administrations. Paula Dobriansky served on Ronald Reagan's National Security Council and as an assistant director of the defunct U.S. Information Agency during the George H W Bush administration. Her father, as the founder of the right-wing National Captive Nations Week Committee, which employed a number of ex-fascists and Nazis from Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltic states, Hungary, and Romania, also was close to a number of Zionist organizations and their leadership. 

Lev Dobriansky was a true cabalist from the Kabbalah mold -- he could deal equally with Nazi war criminals who helped exterminate Europe's Jews, many members of his Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, while supporting the efforts of the Campaign for Soviet Jewry, which advocated strong sanctions against the Soviet Union for its Soviet Jewish emigration policies. As a member of the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, Dobriansky worked under OSS chief William Donovan in running many Ukrainian SS officers and their Ukrainian Nazi collaborators to safety in the United States and Latin America via the infamous "rat line" used by the OSS's Operation Paperclip. Many of these Nazis later found employment with the Ukrainian Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, over which Lev's daughter Paula had oversight as the assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency under Bush 41. Dobriansky's death in 2008 was mourned
 by many of the products of CIA- and George Soros-financed anti-Russian and pro-globalist "themed revolutions," including Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko (who is married to Katherine Chumachenko, a Reagan administration colleague and friend of Paula Dobriansky) and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

Up until his death, Dobriansky was active in operations aimed at toppling Russian President and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin from power. He was an ardent supporter of the themed revolutions in Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and abortive "color revolutions" in Moldova and Belarus. His friends included American Enterprise Institute-trained and current Polish Foreign Minister and chief NATO sabre-rattler Radek Sikorski, who is married to the neocon former Washington Post editor Anne Applebaum and many of the second generation of Cold Warriors inside the Radio Free Europe/Liberty structure. One of them, Paul A. Goble, continues to talk about "Captive Nations," but these are inside the Russian Federation itself: North Caucasus, Middle Volga (Idel-Ural), and the land of the Cossacks. The fascist and imperialistic rhetoric by the neo-fascists and neo-Nazis in the employment of the U.S. propaganda structure pose an existential threat to Russia, a threat that a
 clear majority of Russians will support Putin to eradicate at its very roots. 

Lev Dobriansky, like his daughter and her neocon pals, also had an interest in supporting Latin America's worst fascist regimes. Lev's leadership of the American Security Council, based in CIA-lousy Culpepper, Virginia, brought him into close contact with other members of the extreme right-wing World Anti-Communist League (WACL), including Madison Avenue advertising executive Marvin Liebman, and members of the John Birch Society, including Spruille Braden, the former U.S. ambassador to Argentina. Another WACL alum, Roman Zwarycz, became a close adviser to President Yushchenko after the 2004 "Orange Revolution."

Liebman's history matched that of so many of the fathers and grandfathers of today's neocons. Formerly a member of the Young Communist League in New York, Liebman eventually became the brains behind the American media's "Red Scare" propaganda operations. Liebman, an arch-Zionist, hated the Soviet Union for its alleged harsh treatment of Jews and he supported the terrorist Irgun in its campaign against the British mandate authorities in Palestine. Liebman also was opposed to UN membership and U,S. recognition of mainland China, which he referred to as "Red China." Liebman converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism, a path taken by so many other right-wing Jews, including columnist Robert Novak, CNBC host Larry Kudlow, and Rite Aid owner and right-wing cause deep-pocketed donor Lewis Lehrman.

And Liebman had a big secret. Just as with those who are calling for sanctions against Russia today over Ukraine today, Liebman had another reason to despise the Soviet Union in addition to its alleged Jewish emigration policies. Liebman was a closeted homosexual who "came out" in a 1990 letter to his close friend William F. Buckley. Many of those cabalists who are currently calling for sanctions against Russia over Crimea have other motives and they include a pathological opposition to Russia's policies against government advocacy for and recognition of homosexual lifestyles.

Dobriansky would also establish a close relationship with another right-wing emigre from eastern Europe, Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser. Dobriansky and his daughter became champions of arming radical Islamist guerrillas to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and later the Russian government in Chechnya.

Lev Dobriansky is said to have acted in a U.S. government "official capacity" in Chile from 1975 to 1976, a few years after the CIA helped to topple and assassinate Chile's socialist President Salvador Allende. There is reason to believe that Dobriansky was working in Chile for the CIA in support of Operation Condor, which targeted leftists across the southern cone of South America who opposed the fascist regimes of Augusto Pinochet in Chile and other dictatorships in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil.

From 1982 to 1986, Dobriansky served as the U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas. However, there is evidence that Dobriansky was helping to coordinate the delivery of CIA money to Nicaraguan Contras and El Salvadorean death squads through international bank branches in Nassau while his daughter Paula was tending to the details of what would become known as the "Iran-Contra" scandal from her perch inside the Reagan National Security Council. Lev Dobriansky and his daughter were close to the former chief of El Salvador's intelligence service, Roberto D'Aubisson, the head of the largest and most notorious death squads, Union Guerrera Blanca. D'Aubisson was one of the conspirators behind the 1980 assassination of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero.

While Dobriansky was in Nassau, two of his WACL colleagues served as U.S. ambassadors in Central America: Lewis Tambs in Costa Rica and Alberto Piedra in Guatemala.

Concurrent with State Department involvement in the coup against the democratically-elected government of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is the current neocon campaign to destabilize the democratically-elected government of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela; the undemocratic ouster of Bogota's former leftist guerrilla and democratically-elected mayor Gustavo Petro by the CIA-supported Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos; an attempt to overturn the election of leftist former guerrilla Sanchez Ceren of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front in favor of Norman Quijano of the ARENA party, founded by death squad leader D'Aubisson: and corporate media smear campaigns against Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, a former leftist Tupamaro guerrilla; Ecuador's leftist president Rafael Correa; and Bolivia's progressive president Evo Morales.

Massive amounts of neocon cash have been delivered to the neocon cabal's main hope to replace the Chavistas of Venezuela: failed presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski, the grandson of alleged Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland.

Among the lobbyists in Washington for the Ukrainian junta in Kiev, including its neo-Nazi members, is the NCSJ, the former National Campaign for Soviet Jewry, one of Lev Dobriansky's closest allies. NCSJ provided lobbying support to acting Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk during his recent visit to Washington and has maintained close liaison with Pyatt in Kiev.

America's foreign policy toward Russia and eastern Europe, along with Latin America, has been taken hostage by the same sinister cabal of neocons, neo-Nazi collaborators, and global bankers who have, since the 1950s, hijacked American foreign policy in the Middle East.

Update: To the list of anti-Russian cabalists, we can also add Jacob Lew, the Treasury Secretary who is helping to formulate and enact U.S. sanctions against dozens of Russian officials and businessmen, and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman. Both are earnest Zionists and advocates of the return to a Cold War stance with Russia.

Trade sanctions against Russian government officials, businessmen and the Bank Rossiya, which are authorized by President Obama, were drawn up by Tresury's 
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Major input for the sanctions list came from David Cohen, yet another Zionist neocon, who is the Under Secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.

On Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:59 PM, Morton K. Brussel <mkb0029 at gmail.com> wrote:

  Ukraine and Yugoslavia

Diana Johnstone
March 22, 2014
ZNet

So up to now, I have remained speechless in the face of what appears to me to be utter madness.   

Diana Johnstone, Red Ice,   
  PARIS
Five years ago, I wrote a paper for a Belgrade conference commemorating the tenth anniversary of the start of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. In that paper I stressed that the disintegration of Yugoslavia had been used as an experimental laboratory to perfect various techniques that would subsequently be used in so-called "color revolutions" or other "regime change" operations directed against leaders considered undesirable by the United States government.
At that time, I specifically pointed to the similarities between the Krajina region of former Yugoslavia and Ukraine. Here is what I wrote at the time:
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Where did the wars of Yugoslav disintegration break out most violently?  In a region called the Krajina.  Krajina means borderland.  So does Ukraine – it is a variant of the same Slavic root.  Both Krajina and Ukraine are borderlands between Catholic Christians in the West and Orthodox Christians in the East. The population is divided between those in the East who want to remain tied to Russia, and those in the West who are drawn toward Catholic lands.  But in Ukraine as a whole, polls show that some seventy percent of the population is against joining NATO.  Yet the US and its satellites keep speaking of Ukraine’s "right" to join NATO.  Nobody’s right not to join NATO is ever mentioned.
The condition for Ukraine to join NATO would be the expulsion of foreign military bases from Ukrainian territory.  That would mean expelling Russia from its historic naval base at Sebastopol, essential for Russia’s Black Sea fleet.  Sebastopol is on the Crimean peninsula, inhabited by patriotic Russians, which was only made an administrative part of Ukraine in 1954 by Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian.
Rather the way Tito, a Croat, gave almost the whole Adriatic coastline of Yugoslavia to Croatia, and generally enforced administrative borders detrimental to the Serbs.
As the same causes may have the same effects, US insistence on "liberating" Ukraine from Russian influence may have the same effect as the West’s insistence on "liberating" the Catholic Croats from the Orthodox Serbs.  That effect is war.  But instead of a small war, against the Serbs, who had neither the means nor even the will to fight the West (since they largely thought they were part of it), a war in Ukraine would mean a war with Russia.  A nuclear superpower.  And one that will not stand idly by while the United States continues to move its fleet and its air bases to the edges of Russian territory, both in the Black Sea and in the Baltic, on land, sea and air.
Every day, the United States is busy expanding NATO, training forces, building bases, making deals. This goes on constantly but is scarcely reported by the media.  The citizens of NATO countries have no idea what they are being led into. (…)
War was easy when it meant the destruction of a helpless and harmless Serbia, with no casualties among the NATO aggressors.  But war with Russia – a fierce superpower with a nuclear arsenal – would not be so much fun.
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So, now here we are five years later, and I am about to attend another commemoration in Belgrade, this time of the fifteenth anniversary of the start of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.  And this time, I really have nothing to say.  I have already said it, over and over.  Others are saying similar things, with more authority, from Professor Stephen Cohen to Paul Craig Roberts.  Many of us have warned against the dangerous folly of seeking endlessly to provoke Russia by enlisting her neighbors in a military alliance whose enemy could <foolsjohnstone.jpeg>only be… Russia.  Of all Russia’s neighbors, none is more organically linked to Russia by language, history, geopolitical reality, religion and powerful emotions. The U.S. Undersecretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, Victoria Nuland, has openly boasted that the United States has spent five billion dollars to gain influence in Ukraine – in reality, in order to draw Ukraine away from Russia and
 into the U.S. military alliance.  It is now no secret that Ms Nuland intrigued even against America’s European allies – who had a less brutal compromise in mind – in order to replace the elected President with the American protégé she calls "Yats", who indeed was soon installed in a far right government resulting from violent actions by one of the very few violent fascist movements still surviving in Europe.
True, Western media do not report all the facts at their disposal.  But the internet is there, and the facts are on the internet.  And despite all this, European governments do not protest, there are no demonstrations in the streets, much of public opinion seems to accept the notion that the villain of this story is the Russian president, who is accused of engaging in unprovoked aggression against Crimea – even though he was responding to one of the most blatant provocations in history.
The facts are there.  The facts are eloquent.  What can I say that are not said by the facts?
So up to now, I have remained speechless in the face of what appears to me to be utter madness.  However, on the eve of my trip to Belgrade, I agreed to answer questions from journalist Dragan Vukotic for the Serbian daily newspaper Politika.  Here is that interview.
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Q. In your book  Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO, and Western Delusions, you have brought a different stance about NATO bombing of Yugoslavia than many of your intellectual colleagues in the West. What prompted you to make such an unpopular conclusion?
A. Long ago, as a student of Russia area studies, I spent several months in Yugoslavia living in a student dormitory in Belgrade and made friends there.  I turned to such old friends for viewpoints rather than to the sources consulted by Western reporters.  And I have a lifelong interest in US foreign policy.  I began my inquiry into Yugoslav conflicts by reading key documents, such as speeches of Milosevic, the Serbian Academy memorandum and works by Alija Izetbegovic, noting the inaccuracy of the way they were represented in Western media.  I was never under instructions from editors, and indeed my editors soon refused to publish my articles.  I was not the only experienced observer to be excluded from Western media coverage.
Q. Although subsequent events have confirmed that the operation of illegal bombing of one country without permission of the Security Council was completely wrong, the mainstream western media and politicians still refer to successful „Kosovo model". Can you please comment on this matter?
A. For them, it was a success, since it set a precedent for NATO intervention.  They will never admit that they were mistaken.
Q. When it came to the preparation of the "humanitarian intervention" against Syria, Obama administration reported they were studying "the NATO air war in Kosovo as a possible blueprint for acting without a mandate from the United Nations". (Please comment on this)
A. This is not surprising, since setting such a precedent was one of the motives for that air war.
Q. In one of your articles you asked the question about what the ICC stood for in the case of Libya. You recalled the "familiar pattern" with the case of ICTY and Yugoslavia. What do you really think of those instruments of international justice and their role in international relations?
A. In the context of the present world relationship of forces, the ICC like the ad hoc tribunals can only serve as instruments of United States hegemony.  Those criminal tribunals are used only to stigmatize adversaries of the United States, while the main role of the ICC so far is to justify the ideological assumption that there exists an unbiased "international justice" that ignores national boundaries and serves to enforce human rights. As John Laughland has pointed out, a proper court must be the expression of a particular community that agrees to judge its own members.  Moreover, these courts have no police of their own but must rely on the armed force of the United States, NATO and their client states, who as a result are automatically exempt from prosecution by these supposedly "international" courts.
Q. What is, in your opinion, the main purpose of declaring the so-called humanitarian intervention? Does it have more to do with the domestic public opinion or with the international partners?
A. The ideology of Human Rights (a dubious concept, incidentally, since "rights" should be grounded in concrete political arrangements, not on abstract concepts alone) serves both domestic and global purposes.  For the European Union, it suggests a "soft" European nationalism based on social virtue.  The United States, which is more forthright than today’s Europe in proclaiming its national interest, the ideology of Human Rights serves to endow foreign interventions with a crusading purpose that can appeal to European allies and above all to their domestic opinion, as well as to the English-speaking world in general (Canada and Australia in particular).  It is the tribute vice pays to virtue, to echo LaRochefoucauld.
Q. You often use the term "US and its European satellites". Please explain.
A. "Satellites" was the term used for members of the Warsaw Pact, and today the governments of the NATO member states follow Washington as obediently as the former followed Moscow, even when, as in the case of Ukraine, the United States goes against European interests.
Q. How do you see current goings on in Ukraine and Crimea, especially in terms of US-Russia relations?
A. US-Russian relations are determined primarily by an ongoing U.S. geostrategic hostility to Russia which is partly a matter of habit or inertia, partly a realization of the Brzezinski strategy of dividing Eurasia in order to maintain US world hegemony, and partly a reflection of Israeli-dominated Middle East policy toward Syria and Iran.  Between the two major nuclear powers, there is clearly an aggressor and an aggressed. It is up to the aggressor to change course if relations are to be normal.
Simply compare.  Is Russia urging Quebec to secede from Canada so that the province can join a military alliance led by Moscow?  Evidently not.  That would be comparable, and yet mild compared to the recent U.S. gambit led by Victoria Nuland aimed at bringing Ukraine, including the main Russian naval base at Sebastopol, into the Western orbit. The material reality of this political orbit is NATO, which since the end of the Soviet Union has systematically expanded toward Russia, which stations missiles whose only strategic function would be to provide the United States with a hypothetical nuclear first strike capacity against Russia, and which regularly holds military manoeuvers along Russian borders.  Russia has done nothing against the United States, and recently provided President Obama with a face-saving way to avoid being voted down in Congress in regard to military action against Syria – action which was not desired by the Pentagon but only by
 the fraction of Israeli-oriented policy makers called "neocons". Russia professes no hostile ideology, and only seeks normal relations with the West.  What more can it do?  It is up to Americans to come to their senses.
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Diana Johnstone is the author of Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO, and Western Delusions.   She can be reached atdiana.johnstone at wanadoo.fr  

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