Do people really want to end the war in Syria and the misery of the Syrian people? Then we have to demand the U.S. government do something. It has to stop waging war on Syria. Not to mention the entire Middle East. We have to stop the British government and the German government, the Turkish government, the Israeli government, the Saudi Arabian "so called" government and any other governments that are participating in this U.S. led war against Syria and it's people. But especially the United States government.
We are in a "Stop the War" moment. People ask how? Make the United States government stop it's war.
The Wikileaks Files, The World According to U.S. Empire is a newly released book, evidently the first volume of more to come, that uses experts to collate the most important cables and describe their historical importance.
WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010 after the release of 2,325,961 top-secret State Department cables and the "Collateral Murder" video showing gunsight footage of the murder of innocent civilians in Iraq by a US Apache helicopter and it's crew. This book series, The Wikileaks Files, is a "comprehensive analysis of all of the Wikileaks diplomatic cables, assembled by a team of independent foreign policy experts—an essential reference guide to the 21st century’s most explosive diplomatic revelations."
So some people actually went through these "secret cables" and picked out the most important ones while analyzing the overall content. Yes, this is good stuff.
"The book explores in a series of chapters covering the major regions of the world how the US Empire has imposed its will. It reveals how the US imposes its agenda on the world: a new form of imperialism that uses a variety of tactics from torture and military action, to trade deals and “soft power,” in order to expand its influence. It shows the details of the close relationship between government and big business in promoting US goods around the world.: The WikiLeaks Files is the most comprehensive analysis of US State department cables to date. The introduction by Julian Assange—for the first time—exposes the on-going debates on freedom of information, international surveillance and justice."
http://www.amazon.com/The-WikiLeaks-Files-According-Empire/dp/1781688745
I haven't ordered the book, yet, but an article titled "Decoding the current war in Syria: The WikiLeaks Files" provides some excerpts from cables related to the Syrian conflict. It comes out at a time when the situation in Syria is growing increasingly desperate amid signs the imperialists are near the end game.
"Dec 13, 2006 Influencing the SARG [Syrian government] in the End of 2006 William Roebuck Chargé d’affaires, US embassy, Damascus We believe Bashar’s [Bashar-al-Assad, Syrian President] weaknesses are in how he chooses to react to looming issues, both perceived and real, such as the conflict between economic reform steps (however limited) and entrenched, corrupt forces, the Kurdish question, and the potential threat to the regime from the increasing presence of transiting Islamist extremists. This cable summarizes our assessment of these vulnerabilities and suggests that there may be actions, statements, and the signals that the USG can send that will improve the likelihood of such opportunities arising.” [Emphasis added]
The WikiLeaks Files"
This cable suggests that the US goal in December 2006 was to undermine the Syrian government by any available means, and that what mattered was whether US action would help destabilize the government, not what other impacts the action might have…In public, the US was opposed to ‘Islamist terrorists’ everywhere; but in private it saw the ‘potential threat to the regime from the increasing presence of transiting Islamist extremists’ as an ‘opportunity’ that the US should take action to try to increase."
Robert Naiman
The WikiLeaks Files
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Robert Naiman The WikiLeaks Files"
http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2219-decoding-the-current-war-in-syria-t...
Flashback to 2007 when Seymour Hersh published "The Redirection"
"To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda."
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-redirection
Hersh's report also included:
"The Saudi government, with Washington’s approval, would provide funds and logistical aid to weaken the government of President Bashir Assad, of Syria. The Israelis believe that putting such pressure on the Assad government will make it more conciliatory and open to negotiations."
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, also interviewed by Hersh for his 2007 article, perhaps described best the geopolitical gambit the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel were and are currently attempting to unfold:
"Nasrallah accused the Bush Administration of working with Israel to deliberately instigate fitna, an Arabic word that is used to mean “insurrection and fragmentation within Islam.” “In my opinion, there is a huge campaign through the media throughout the world to put each side up against the other,” he said. “I believe that all this is being run by American and Israeli intelligence.” (He did not provide any specific evidence for this.) He said that the U.S. war in Iraq had increased sectarian tensions, but argued that Hezbollah had tried to prevent them from spreading into Lebanon. (Sunni-Shiite confrontations increased, along with violence, in the weeks after we talked.)"
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/05/syrian-war-prequel.html
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