America’s war plans for full spectrum dominance in the oil-rich Middle East and Central Asian region shifted up a gear this week with three significant and inter-related developments. Forget about viewing events in countries as separate incidents. Syria, Iran and the Gulf monarchies are closely bound up in US-led war plans in the Middle East that are aimed at projecting American political, economic and military power across this vital region and beyond.
Businesses have suggested it. The government has all but confirmed it. And according to one alleged member, they both might very well be right. A hacker tied to Anonymous says the loose-knit collective may be the most powerful organization on Earth. “The entire world right now is run by information,” Chris Doyon tells Postmedia News from an undisclosed location in Canada. “Our entire world is being controlled and operated by tiny invisible 1s and 0s that are flashing through the air and flashing through the wires around us. So if that’s what controls our world, ask yourself who controls the 1s and the 0s”. “It’s the geeks and computer hackers of the world,” says Doyon.
The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has condemned a course taught against Islam at one of America’s top military schools as “totally objectionable,” Press TV reports. According to the BBC, the story, which was first broken by Wired website, has been astonishing enough to enrage General Martin Dempsey. The “Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism” course for senior officers was taught at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, for a year. The instructor, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Dooley, taught officers there was no such thing as moderate Islam and that they should consider the religion their enemy. The course advocated “total war” against all the world’s Muslims, including possible nuclear attacks on the holy cities of Mecca and Medina and the wiping out of civilian populations.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal yesterday found former US president George W Bush and seven of his associates guilty of the charge of ‘Crime of Torture and War Crimes’. The associates were former US vice-president Dick Cheney; former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld; Bush’s former counsel Alberto Gonzales; Cheney’s then-general counsel David Addington; Rumsfeld’s then-general counsel William Haynes; then-assistant attorney-general Jay Bybee; and former deputy assistant attorney-general John Yoo.
