On August 7 night, while Bush and Putin were ‘enjoying’ the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Georgia's president Saakashvili ordered military attack on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia. Perceptive observers noted that, parting time, Putin was pointing finger at Bush. Something was terribly wrong.
”Russia said at least 1,600 civilians were killed by Georgian forces during the attack. A total of 34,000 people are also reported to have fled across the Russian border.” “Top Georgian intelligence officer arrested in Russia”, 12/08/2008; http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080812/115981425.html Russia had powerfully responded to attack on its citizens in South Ossetia.
Big news in MSM because Russia had finally woken up, it seemed. Why it has woken up remains part of NWO conundrum. Let us analyse what analysts say.
“The media is spewing venom about Russia every hour, out right vicious lies. Wonder how would the US president like it if Russia aided Mexico so they could take back territories. Oh but that's different, right? What safety zone does the CNN,ABC, CBS, FOX AND MSNBC networks think they will be able to report from when Nuclear WW3 breaks out? Are their egos that big that they think this is just another war to report on?” says Kathy Fisher, an American writer/blogger.
“You have to use media. In Germany during WWII they would say "Truth is not what happened, truth is what we tell people". http://russia-insider.livejournal.com/25329.html
As usual, the mainstream media in the West is talking of a ‘Russian attack on Georgia.” The creepy sidekick, our own “The Times of India” ToI, where truth sometimes prevails, says “Russian raids kill 2000 in Georgia” in what should rightly be called “lies always prevail in India’s mainstream media.” 10/August/08, page 20, Delhi Edition, ToI] I always quote this prostituted broadsheet because Mike Ruppert quoted a key news item from ToI on how the chief of Inter Services Intelligence ISI] of Pakistan was involved in a payout to Mohammad Atta, the ring leader of 9/11 events. Mike Ruppert, “Crossing the Rubicon”] I respect Mike Ruppert and no more trust the Times of India, which degenerated from a respectable broadsheet to a disreputable, untrustworthy, calculated liar, peddling the globalized fascistic dope ever since World Bank-IMF induced restructuring of Indian economy started under the despicable stewardship of the then Finance Minister Man Mohan Singh, now India’s PM.. The referred ToI article presents the fact exactly as the criminal Bush, Brown and their handlers in Tel Aviv would want it.
Michael Munk, a former veteran, quoted The NYTimes's Thom Shanker report on the military aspects of the conflict in Georgia. The NYT report here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/world/europe/17military.html?pagewanted=2on Munk goes on to ask a basic question: (Shanker had) noted that Georgia's army of about 30,000 is able to field four combat brigades of about 3,300 soldiers each. i.e. a total of 13,200]. He described their deployment as follows: (1) First Brigade was in Iraq, and was airlifted home aboard American aircraft - but without their war-fighting gear. (2) The Fourth Brigade was in training for the next rotation to Iraq. (3) and (4)The Second and Third Brigades were in western Georgia, closer to Abkhazia than to South Ossetia. So I've written to Mr. Shanker, asking him to identify which units of the Georgian military began the conflict by attacking South Ossetia?”
Munk’s website here: http://www.michaelmunk.com].
This valuable insight was given me by John McCarthy a few days ago when I sought some clarification on military side of the picture.
What Munk is pointing out are two vital questions: [a] How could Georgian army attack the Ossetians and Abkhazians in the first place when it was ‘dispersed’ doing the dirty work for the US and NATO forces? [b] And if the army was dispersed who attacked the Russian citizens in the two Georgian regions? The plot thickens when you consider this:
“Forty-nine Georgian soldiers, whose bodies were found in the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, and in surrounding areas, were buried in a communal grave in a suburb of the city. Each body was placed in a coffin. ITAR-TASS was informed of the burial by the South Ossetian General Public Prosecutor Eduard Kokoev. According to Kokoev, the Georgians never made any requests for the transfer of the bodies of victims.” http://tarjimani.blogspot.com
In any ethical war, bodies of fallen soldiers are always claimed. And that raises another vital question: did mercenaries attack unarmed Ossetians?
Pravda’s Sergei Balmasov wrote, “A report from Stratfor particularly mentions that the operation in South Ossetia has exercised three things. First off, Russia has proved to have the army capable of conducting successful operations, in which many Western observers doubted before. Secondly, the Russians have showed that they can defeat the forces trained by US advisors. Finally, Russia has shown that the USA and NATO do not find themselves in the situation when they can interfere into a conflict from the military point of view.”
John McCarthy, a veteran of the Vietnam war, supports the thesis that “another military force trained by the US goes down the tubes..” However he is more balanced in his view of the geo-politics of oil in the Caucasus in that he points to the relatively little known trade-off between NATO and Russia in matters of Kosovo. August 7-12, personal communications] Note: if you wish to have a detailed view of what is going on in the world I strongly suggest please do visit John’s website here: http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com]
Furthermore, John says, “Russians are not, are not, leaving Georgian territory. They have also moved SS21 short range ballistic missiles into South Ossetia. The main east/west rail bridge has been blown in Western Georgia. US has taken over Afghanistan NATO command and will continue to operate without NATO assistance. The Surge is on. What does this say to the NATO capability even if Georgia is welcomed into NATO? This powder keg is soon to be set afire.” http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSLI15694420080819
What is Georgian war all about?
Georgia, like our own Northeastern region, has many ethnic minorities, many feel more comfortable with Russia than as subaltern group within Georgian hegemony. Since the creation of Georgia in 1991, following Soviet Russian collapse, two regions in particular, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, evolved into semi-autonomous regions whose status has been protected and supported by Russia. This has been a major source of resentment from the Georgian Government which insists that these regions come entirely under Georgian control.
“When the Soviet Union collapsed, both regions sought to separate themselves from Georgia in bloody conflicts - South Ossetia in 1990-1, Abkhazia in 1992-4. In December 1990 Georgia under Gamsakhurdia sent troops into South Ossetia after the region declared its own sovereignty. This Georgian move was defeated by Soviet Interior Ministry troops. Then Georgia declared abolition of the South Ossete autonomous region and its incorporation into Georgia proper. Both wars ended with cease-fires that were negotiated by Russia and policed by peacekeeping forces under the aegis of the recently established Commonwealth of Independent States. The situation hardened into "frozen conflicts," like that over Cyprus. By late 2005, Georgia signed an agreement that it would not use force, and the Abkhaz would allow the gradual return of 200,000-plus ethnic Georgians who had fled the violence. But the agreement collapsed in early 2006, when Saakashvili sent troops to retake the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia. Since then Saakashvili has been escalating preparations for military action.” Source: Engdahl, “The Caucasus —Washington Risks nuclear war by miscalculation; http://www.globalresearch.ca]
The genesis of the present conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia and Abkhazia lies in the following factors:
First, the Southern Ossetian wish to unite in one state with their co-ethnics in North Ossetia. Until 1990 the Ossetians formed an autonomous region of the Georgian Soviet republic of the then USSR. Second, Abkhazian and South Ossetian have their own language, culture, and history. The Ossetian fear of Georgian nationalistic violence and the Georgian hatred of ethnic minorities is an historical fact. Third, the Ossetians are Russia’s oldest allies in the Caucasus and have provided soldiers to the Russian Army. Russia does not wish to abandon Ossetians and the Abkhazians to be brutalized. 99% of South Ossetians voted for independence from Georgia in a referendum held in November 2006. Since most of them had long held Russian passports, it enabled Medvedev (Russian President) to defend on 15th August his counter-attack of Georgia as an effort to “protect the lives and dignity of Russian citizens, wherever they may be.”
Complicating the matter further, there is a substantial Jewish population in Georgia; some are in the Government with close ties with Israel. And it is well known that Israelis have about 1000 military advisors and trainers in Georgia.
The Georgians assert that South Ossetia and Abkhazia are part of their national territory and must remain so. Assurances by NATO leaders to bring Georgia into the alliance, and the well-orchestrated declarations of support from Washington, emboldened Saakashvili to allow military offensive against the two provinces, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. According to William Engdahl, “Saakashvili was brought to power with US financing and US covert regime change activities in December 2003 in what was called the Rose Revolution. Now the thorns of that rose are causing blood to spill.” Ibid] Given that the US wants to install its missile shield as they are already planning to do in Poland and elsewhere on the doorstep of Russia], these moves were a direct threat to Russian security and territorial integrity.
Michael Chossudovsky, in his “Caucasus: Towards a Broader Russia-US Military Confrontation?” wrote, “Contrary to what was conveyed by Western media reports, the attacks were anticipated by Moscow…..timed to coincide with the opening of the Olympics, largely with a view to avoiding front page media coverage of the Georgian military operation.” And that is why the Russians were well prepared to respond swiftly.
Why is Indian media so complicit?
The media is psychologically preparing the Indians to accept the inevitability of a broad alliance with US-NATO and Tel Aviv to counter the intermittent attacks by Muslim terrorists and the projected security threats from China. The second reason clearly is that any dispassionate analysis of Georgian events will embolden the many separatist groups within India itself, chiefly Kashmir.
The question is this: since the Indian government itself is drifting closer to being repressive, fascistic regime of the likes of US, UK and Tel-Aviv, should not the media respond powerfully to the brutalization of innocent people around the world? India? Georgia? No they won’t. They are now part of the Bollywood entertainment industry.
What about the global mainstream media?
Which society, which nation is in peace today and not facing a massive socio-economic upheaval, when all that the mainstream media can do is dish out inane absurdities?
Globalization of fascism started in 1945, with the fall of the Nazis, the elimination of Nazis was itself the greatest global mainstream media generated psy ops. Fascism was imposed as the global ruling ideology around early nineties, especially with the fall of Soviet Russia. What is happening today? Just a handful of corporations control our seeds, food and medicines and they control the regulators, in nearly every country, and decide what seeds we sow, what foods we eat and what medicines we MUST take to survive after eating those lethal foods.
Let us recap: On 9/11 New York was attacked and 3000 innocent citizens died. Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden were blamed for the attacks even before any proper investigations had been carried out. In what turned out to be globalized trial by the mainstream media, Muslims were openly demonized. Then followed the baseless criminal attack by US and NATO forces on Afghanistan followed by an insane brutalization of Iraqi men, women and children. The illegal invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq caused (i) over a million dead, (b) over five million displaced, (c) the regions totally contaminated with depleted uranium and are now uninhabitable. And all this to steal oil from Iraq and secure the southern flanks of Caspian basin oil and gas resources. And not a word in cocaine snorting mainstream media.
The cocaine snorting crackpots in Washington, London and Tel Aviv wanted to steal more. Georgia was the next staging post. At one stroke the crackpots could deny Russian control and Chinese and Indian access to Caspian basin resources and be at close range to disrupt Russian oil and gas operations that serve the European countries.
Seven years of murder and mayhem all over the world engendered by cocaine snorting leaders of Tel Aviv, London and Washington, using the military might of the US to promote private wealth of a handful of families when these very cocaine snorting criminals were behind the 9/11 events?
There is a general consensus within the alternative media that 9/11 events were engineered from within the US Government and these events were used to occupy West Asian and Caspian oil and gas resource. The analysis is based on hard evidence but there is no hard evidence to link who actually was behind the 9/11 events. There is, however, much circumstantial, as Richard Heinberg says “bits and pieces,” that strongly indicate that 9/11 was black ops. Webster Tarpley’s researches show that Bush suspected that it was an inside operation. Tarpley’s ‘9/11-Synthetic Terror’ actually documents how the Prezzie of world’s most powerful country was running away from his own black ops experts. Subsequent events indicate that Bush ritually genuflected to his handlers in Tel Aviv, London and Washington, in that order.
Every household wants to secure its fence and that is a natural right. But that natural right can be violated at will by the neo-crazies, the cocaine snorting “Adventurers” today. They follow Harold Robbins. The globalized Follywood of mainstream media ain’t gonna tell you the truth.
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August 20, 2008 Arun Shrivastava, MA, MBA, MBIM, CMC is an accredited management consultant, author of many books, reports, policy papers and articles and regular contributor to several news websites (www.globalresearch.ca, www.thepeoplesvoice.org, www.mynews.in/ etc). A former officer of Economic Development Unit Birmingham, UK] and former visiting professor of Strategic Management and Business Policy at International Management Institute, New Delhi (1990-94), he is a founder-member of Himalayan Policy Campaign Committee. He lives in Delhi and can be reached at arun1951@yahoo.com.
