Tag Archives: Syria and Turkey
Horror Beyond Description: Noam Chomsky on the Latest Phase of the War on Terror
Chomsky: One informative discussion, in Business Week (Feb. 12, 1949), recognized that social spending could have the same “pump-priming” effect as military spending, but pointed out that for businessmen, “there’s a tremendous social and economic difference between welfare pump-priming and military pump-priming.” The latter “doesn’t really alter the structure of the economy.” For the businessman, it’s just another order. But welfare and public works spending “does alter the economy. It makes new channels of its own. It creates new institutions. It redistributes income.” And we can add more. Military spending scarcely involves the public, but social spending does, and has a democratizing effect.
The Red Line and the Rat Line: Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels
Operations are always so super-secret in the planning but that all flies out the window when it comes to crowing afterwards. There is no greater vulnerability than in the perpetrators claiming credit for success.’ Erdoğan’s problems in Syria would soon be over: ‘Off goes the gas and Obama will say red line and America is […]
▶ Bruce Gagnon: Creating False Pretext for War on Syria
Standby NATO: Turkey plots justification to Syria strike By Bruce K. Gagnon Organizing Notes March 29, 2014 The Turkish government is red-faced after a leak on YouTube revealed a daring plot to justify invading neighboring Syria. An anonymous source posted audio of a secret meeting between top Turkish officials – discussing a false flag operation […]
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