That’s the dialogue that accompanies the final scene of the classic movie Planet of the Apes, starring the fine actor Charlton Heston.  As Heston’s character (Taylor) finally escapes from Ape Society, he is seen riding a horse along a beach with his female, human companion.  A wide shadow appears in front of the horse Heston is riding and he is seen dismounting. He then falls to his knees overcome by grief, pounding the sand whilst uttering the dialogue above. The camera then cuts to the top third of the Statue of Liberty, the remainder buried in the sand.

News that General Wesley Clark, USA (Ret.) visited the Ukraine at the behest of the National Security Advisor there-and also a senior member of Ukraine’s parliament—should be a cause for alarm.

A nonprofit foundation was involved in this exercise (more below). There is a sense of open, almost joyful viciousness in all this pro-war, anti-Russian sentiments on opinion pages and television broadcasts. It is certainly racist and demeaning in tone. Such is the first step in convincing the public that the “transgressor” is equivalent to a retrovirus.

Interim Report #1: Immediate Improvements Needed in Rapidly Implementing Non-Lethal US Military Assistance for Defense of Ukraine is available at Cryptome (and the New York Times) for viewing.

General Clark and a former strategy advisor to Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger named Dr. Phillip Karber, indicates that the two “participated in 35 meeting [sic] with senior officials, military commanders and various politicians; with Karber visiting front line formations on the Northern, Eastern and Southern Fronts.”

The two aging Cold War Warriors recommend immediate shipments of American Body Armor, Night Vision Devices, Communications Equipment, Aviation Fuel and “to maximize their defense potential” Clark and Karber recommend the acquisition of Mig-29’s, T-72 tanks, Man-Portable Air Defenses, and Anti-Tank weapons.

Mig-29SMT

72 Tank

RBS 70 NG man portable air defense missile …

French – MILAN Anti-Tank Missile System

Partial expenses for the Clark and Karber expedition were paid for by the Potomac Foundation, a nonprofit foundation in Vienna, Virginia. According to three of its Form 990’s, over the years it has received grants from the Smith Richardson Foundation, Soros/Open Society Fund, and Boeing.

According to an official at the Potomac Foundation, some support is provided to Georgetown University, in particular, to Karber (the Chinese Tunnel guy). The official stated that the group does not have a website.

The Potomac Foundations also runs China Vitae as a charitable activity.

According to China Vitae’s website it “was founded in 2001 with two objectives: to raise the quality and quantity of English language, biographical information on China’s top leadership; and to create a centralized repository of such information available to a worldwide audience.”

China Vitae is run by husband and wife team David and Susan Gries.

David Gries is on the board of the Washington Institute for Foreign Affairs and has affiliations to the CIA and Georgetown University. Members listed on the China Vitae website have an assortment of affiliations to universities, corporations and the US government.

The Sith Order Returns from the Dark Side: The General who wanted war with Russia

According to Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, writing in 1999, General Clark is a madman. “…anyone seeking to understand the bloody fiasco of the Serbian war need hardly look any further than the person of the beribboned Supreme Allied Commander, General Wesley K. Clark…A vain, pompous brownnoser, and the poster child for everything that is wrong with the GO (general officer corps)…”

In Wesley Clark: The Guy Who Almost Started World War III by Stella Jatras, “No sooner are we told by Britain’s top generals that the Russians played a crucial role in ending the West’s war against Yugoslavia than we learn that if NATO’s supreme commander, the American General Wesley Clark, had had his way, British paratroopers would have stormed Pristina airport, threatening to unleash the most frightening crisis with Moscow since the end of the Cold War.

‘I’m not going to start the third world war for you,’ General Sir Mike Jackson, commander of the international KFOR peacekeeping force, is reported to have told Gen. Clark when he refused to accept an order to send assault troops to prevent Russian troops from taking over the airfield of Kosovo’s provincial capital.

The Times of London reported on 23 May 2001 in an article titled, ‘Kosovo clash of allied generals,’ that ‘General Sir Michael Jackson [was] told that he would have to resign if he refused to obey an order by the American commander of NATO’s forces during the Kosovo war to stop the Russians from seizing control of Pristina airport in June 1999.

If General Clark had had his way, we might have gone to war with Russia, or at least resurrected vestiges of the Cold War and we certainly would have had hundreds if not thousands of casualties in an ill-conceived ground war”

Foreign Internal Defense Operations (FIDO): Standard Playbook

Given that US President Obama has blessed the new Kiev government with legitimacy, America now seeks to stabilize the country with infusions of cash, arms and advisors. And that means that FIDO is likely underway there. Former special operations soldiers—now defense contractors—are on the ground in Ukraine, and so are active duty special operators/advisors perhaps out of US Special Operations Command. They are training/tutoring Ukrainian security personnel.

The execution of US national security/military strategy, operations, tactics are very predictable and based on using the impressive US Instruments of National Power to shape the target environment in America’s favor. There are many simultaneous operations underway both covert and quite overt. In particular, military information support operations (MISO) begin with manipulating the public consciousness through cyber and meat-space means.

That effort is clearly seen in the hyper-hypocritical statements on Russia’s annexation of Crimea made by all top national security officials and members of the US Congress. The official words-of-war are gleefully reproduced by the mainstream media and assorted NGO’s for a public seemingly unaware or uncaring of such serious international matters. There is little opposition to the anti-Russian, pro-war madness.

Then again American infrastructure is crumbling from sea-to-shining sea and so there is a solid rational that can be made for not caring about foreign affairs.

But Americans have seen this movie over and over again since the end of World War II. The script is the same, the bullshit propaganda/myth making is the same, the goals and objectives are the same, and the demonization of the adversary is the same.

It is just so formulaic: the USA instigates and creatively destroys; Russia (or any opponent) attempts to counterpunch; … ; and the rest of the world cowers, as they should, selecting to side with whatever one of the three giants can give them the best financial deal or “muscle.”

At any rate, according to Joint Publication 3-22, Foreign Internal Defense, 12 July 2010,

“…joint operations, involving the application of all instruments of national power, support host nation efforts to build capability and capacity to free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, and insurgency… An internal defense and development program (IDAD) program blends four interdependent functions to prevent or counter internal threats. Balanced development attempts to achieve national goals through political, social, and economic programs, allowing all individuals and groups in the society to share in the rewards of development, thus alleviating frustration. The security function includes all activities implemented in order to protect the populace from violence and to provide a safe environment for national development. The security effort should establish an environment in which the HN can provide for its own security with limited US support. Neutralization, a political concept, physically and psychologically separates an insurgent or criminal element from the population, thereby making threatening elements irrelevant to the political process. It includes all lawful measures (except those that degrade the government’s legitimacy) to discredit, disrupt, preempt, disorganize, and defeat the insurgent organization. Mobilization provides organized manpower and materiel resources and includes all activities to motivate and organize popular support of the government. Mobilization allows the government to strengthen existing institutions, to develop new ones to respond to demands, and promotes the government’s legitimacy…”

The ideals stated in the American Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution are currently being crushed by those addicted to warfare, power, money and a view that “they” are the anointed ones, the ones that know what’s best for the masses.

Great leaders—with all their faults—do not exist any longer in America, nor does a citizenry that vigorously debates and then instructs their representatives to compromise for the sake of the nation, not an ideology.  The efforts of George Washington, George C. Marshall, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt may one day be viewed by future historians/generations as folly.

The maniacs are in charge. “God damn them all to hell!”

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In dealing with Iran's nuclear program, threats of military operation and economic sanctions have been the two sides of the same coin for the U.S., Israel and EU. From one hand, they impose hard-hitting sanctions to derail Iran's economy, create instability in the country and sow the seeds of discord and disagreement between the people and the government, and from the other hand, they vehemently talk of a possible military expedition so as to demoralize the country's statesmen, forcing them into giving up the nuclear program and also make other political and economic concessions. 

However, there are still people of conscience in the world who have voiced their opposition to a possible war with Iran which will portend incredible insecurity for the Middle East, bring the oil prices to a historically unprecedented price and inevitably engage many regional countries which are by far unwilling to see another catastrophic confrontation in a tumultuous Middle East.

Among the Nobel Prize laureates who advocated against potential military strike on Iran are the Irish Mairead Corrigan-Maguire and Betty Williams who have also been strong opponents of the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, the late Nobel Prize laureate in literature Harold Pinter and American peace activist Jody Williams. 

Another strong opponent of a war against Iran is the legendary linguist and political commentator, Noam Chomsky, who is said to be the mostly cited author writing in English after William Shakespeare. 

In a recent article for the AlterNet website, Chomsky has argued that it is Israel, and not Iran, that is perceived by the majority of Arab people to be the most dangerous threat to the Middle East. He says that the Non-Aligned Movement, consisted of about 120 countries has frankly supported Iran's right to enrich uranium for research and medical purposes, and that the majority of Americans, as indicated by public opinion polls, oppose an Israeli or American war against Iran. He even cites polls in which the participants have expressed their belief that the world will be a safer place if Iran had nuclear weapons, while Iran has always rejected the claims that it intends to develop nuclear technology for military purposes: "Europeans regard Israel as the greatest threat to world peace. In the Arab world, Iran … is seen as a threat only by a very small minority. Rather, Israel and the U.S. are regarded as the pre-eminent threat. A majority think that the region would be more secure if Iran had nuclear weapons: In Egypt on the eve of the Arab Spring, 90 percent held this opinion, according to Brookings Institution/Zogby International polls. Western commentary has made much of how the Arab dictators allegedly support the U.S. position on Iran, while ignoring the fact that the vast majority of the population opposes it – a stance too revealing to require comment."

On the justifiability of Israel's war threats against Iran, Gareth Porter, the renowned American historian and journalist writes that "of course the threats are not justifiable. They are the behavior of hegemonic state seeking to maintain its hegemony." However, he doesn't believe that Israel will be attacking Iran: "I don't actually believe Israel is going to attack Iran. I believe Netanyahu has been bluffing all along, and I believe the vast majority of intelligence and military people in Israel believe that too, because they know that an attack against Iran would be suicidal for Israel." Porter says that an Israeli attack against Iran will bring about unimaginable consequences for the Zionist regime: "If Israel did attack Iran, it would be enough for the Iranian rockets to cause a significant social crisis in Israel. I believe immigration would essentially stop and a significant emigration from Israel would begin. As Meir Dagan has said, it would be the end of the state of Israel."

Fredrick Toben, a German/Australian author and a loyal supporter of Iran also thinks that Israel is not in the position to attack Iran because it is suffering severe internal problems and predicaments. He believes that an Israeli attack on Iran will be tantamount to the annihilation of Israel. "Israel is not a normal state because it is a military dictatorship that occupies some land and pretends to own it – when in fact it is operating/occupying stolen land… The Israeli threats are real because of the problems the regime faces from within. The threat is a 'scapegoat' mechanism that effectively deflects from its own social, economic and political problems. The maxim is "if Israel is destroyed, then we'll destroy the world before we are destroyed". However, such self-destructive mindset needs to understand that this is not a civilized way of solving the demographic problem, i.e. that Palestinians will outnumber 'Israelis' within the next few decades and so the solution to the problem should be focusing on developing one Palestine and not the two state solution. If Iran is attacked first then I see the end of the Zionist entity as Iran effectively retaliates."

Along with the individuals who have expressed their disapproval of the Israeli-American ploys for attacking Iran, many peace organizations have also planned campaigns against sanctions and military intervention in Iran. International Action Center which is a peace organization associated with Ramsey Clark, the US Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, has posted several articles on its websites, calling to end the campaign of intimidation and coercion against Iran. 

In an article written by Ramsey Clark, the mostly overlooked issue of the assassination of Iran's nuclear scientists by Israel's intelligence agents was raised and the intolerable indifference and deafening silence of the West to Israel's state-sponsored terrorism was questioned. The article which was written immediately after the assassination of Iran's 32-year-old nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, condemned using violence against Iranian civilians and called for a comprehensive scrutiny into the case: "Another Iranian Scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, has been assassinated in Iran by a car bomb. This is the fifth Iranian scientist targeted by assassins working in Iran in two years. Four attacks succeeded. This is a deadly escalation of the covert criminal activities conducted by the U.S., Israel and their terrorists and domestic spies in Iran against the government and people of Iran."

"While Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has denied any U.S. involvement, the important and undeniable truth is that the governments of the U.S. and Israel have openly declared Iran as an enemy and have publicly stated that they will use all means necessary, not excluding military attack, to change the Iranian government using Iran’s efforts to produce nuclear energy as an excuse," wrote Clark.

U.S.-based organizations such as American Friends Service Committee, Bay Area United Against the War, Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace and Justice, Berkeley Gray Panthers, Courage To Resist, Crabgrass, Declaration of Peace SF Bay Area, Ecumenical Peace Institute/Calc, Grandmothers for Peace and South Bay Mobilization are among the groups which are advocating diplomacy and non-violent solutions to standoff over Iran's nuclear program and have urged the U.S. government to stop its war rhetoric on Iran.

"Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran" and "Hands Off the People of Iran" are two UK-based organizations which work toward the aim of bringing to an end the artificial controversy over Iran's nuclear program. These organizations support Iran's nuclear program and have programmed rallies and demonstrations across the UK to engage people who want to join the anti Iran war voices. 

The Stop War on Iran movement is also a well-known campaign organized by Ramsey Clark, British MP George Galloway, former UN Assistant Secretary General Dennis Halliday, former First Lady of Greece Margarita Papandreou and Bishop Thomas Gumbleton who are all opposed to the Israeli-American plans for attacking Iran.