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Syria Blamed for Turkish Provocation
Syria Blamed for Turkish Provocation
by Stephen Lendman
On June 22, two Turkish warplanes provocatively entered Syrian airspace low and fast. Doing so showed hostile intent.
The Obama administration's dirty hands are all over this incident. Washington and Ankara wanted a reaction and got it. Expect what's ahead to unfold as planned.
Turkish officials claim Syria downed its aircraft in international waters. They lied.
A previous article said the Istanbul-based Hurriyet daily reported that "wreckage of a Turkish jet shot down by Syria (was found) in Syrian waters....Turkish news channels reported (it) on Sunday, without citing a source."
Doing so refutes claims that Syria acted in international waters.
On June 24, the UK government controlled BBC sent mixed messages. On the one hand, it reported high-level British and US condemnations.
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague called Syria's act "outrageous." He stressed "how far beyond accepted behavior the Syrian regime has put itself."
Hillary Clinton said the following:
"The United States condemns this brazen and unacceptable act in the strongest possible terms. It is yet another reflection of the Syrian authorities' callous disregard for international norms, human life, and peace and security."
"We will work with Turkey and other partners to hold the Assad regime accountable."
Ten paragraphs into its online report, BBC also said:
"The Turkish foreign ministry said it knew the coordinates of the jet, which was in Syrian territorial waters at a depth of 1,300m (4,265ft)..."
At the same time, it quoted Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu saying:
"According to our conclusions, our plane was shot down in international airspace, 13 nautical miles (24km) from Syria."
Territorial waters extend 12 nautical miles from coastlines.
Downed aircraft, at depths of 4,265 feet at the bottom of the Mediterranean, don't move on their own one nautical mile (6,076 feet) in a matter of hours.
Davutoglu was caught red-handed in a bald-faced lie. BBC highlighted his comments. It noted the truth on three lines buried well into a detailed report. It featured misinformation, not truth and full disclosure.
US media scoundrels also suppressed the story. On June 24, Reuters headlined the truth in a two paragraph report, saying:
"Wreckage of downed Turkish jet found in Syrian waters: TV."
"Search teams have located the wreckage of a Turkish fighter jet shot down by Syria on Friday in Syrian waters at a depth of 1,300 meters, Turkish news channels reported on Sunday, without citing a source."
Mossad-connected DEBKAfile (DF) headlined the same information, saying:
"Turkish TV: downed plane wreckage found in Syrian waters."
DF said Syria used Russian-made "self-propelled medium range anti-air Pantsyr-1 missiles...."
It's capable of downing aircraft and cruise missiles at altitudes up to 12 km.
Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said Turkish planes flew at an altitude of 100 meters. Anti-aircraft fire, nor radar-guided missiles, downed one. Unauthorized entering Syria's airspace "clear(ly) breach(es its) sovereignty.”
He added that Damascus seeks friendly relations with Ankara. It'll respond in kind to any positive overtures.
On June 24, CNN buried the truth, saying:
"Turkish search-and-rescue teams found the wreckage of the fighter jet in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday, about 1,300 meters (4,260 feet) underwater...."
Omitted was saying the aircraft was found in Syrian waters. Other major US media also suppressed what most needs explaining.
UK-based ITV News, without elaboration, said:
"Search and rescue teams have located the wreckage of downed Turkish jet in Syrian waters at a depth of 1,300 metres, according to Turkish TV."
Haaretz ran a more detailed June 24 Reuters report. Citing Turkish news channels, it said, without elaboration, that:
"Search teams have located the wreckage of a Turkish fighter jet in Syrian waters at a depth of 1,300 meters...."
On June 24, The New York Times buried the news in a report headlined "Turkey to Consult NATO Over Downing of Jet by Syria," saying:
Emergency talks will be held.
"(V)isual and communications date had confirmed that (the) aircraft was struck by Syrian antiaircraft weapons outside of Syrian airspace."
It added that aircraft wreckage was found without explaining where.
The Washington Post replicated The Times headlining "Turkey calls for emergency NATO meeting over Syria downing of jet."
"Investigations....suggested that it was not an accident or a mistake, and that Syria was aware it was firing at a Turkish plane....without warning...."
Downing the plane in international waters was stressed despite evidence proving otherwise.
It quoted Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal saying:
"It was an act of war. They shot down a plane over international waters, and this is unacceptable. (Turkey) reserves the right to respond."
According to Brookings Doha Center director Salman Shaikh:
"....Syria has now presented NATO with a pretext for involvement that could potentially bypass the United Nation."
"Assad has made a very big mistake. He's shown the very real dangers of this regime to its neighborhood."
Former US Turkish ambassador Ross Wilson said downing the plane "further escalat(es) tensions (and) rais(es) the stakes for Turkish leaders who have heretofore limited themselves to diplomatic efforts and mostly quiet support for Syrian refugees and opposition leaders."
Ross, in fact, knows Turkey runs point for Washington's war on Syria. It supplies weapons and training.
It provides safe havens. Insurgents launch cross-border raids, then return.
Turkey is complicit in crimes of war and against humanity. What's next remains unknown.
"Will it end up in war," asked Hurriyet?
"(I)t's not that far yet."
However, it's clear that Ankara won't let "Syria get away with the incident."
It claims Syria's attack was "deliberate and it should pay for it."
"Payment does not necessarily mean war, there are other options."
"Turkey doesn't want war, but is keeping all options on the table."
Turkey "will do everything to make Syria pay for the attack...."
On June 24, Today's Zaman (TZ) headlined "Turkey protests Syria over jet attack, seeks NATO response," saying:
"Turkey dismissed on Sunday Syrian statements that a military jet downed in the eastern Mediterranean on Friday was in Syrian territorial waters, saying the unarmed plane was shot down in international airspace without warning while on a solo mission to test Turkey's radar system and that the mission had no connection with the crisis in the neighboring country."
The comment defies reality. The report nearly ducked Hurriyet and Turkish television saying wreckage was found in Syrian waters.
Paragraphs into the article, it said with no elaboration:
"Officials said the wreckage of the plane was 1,300 meters underwater on the seabed in Syrian waters, although it was not yet found when Today’s Zaman went into print."
What should have been headlined got short shrift. Most readers likely missed it.
Churchill was almost right, saying:
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Even fully clothed, a tsunami of lies buries it. Headlines repeat them. Truth is suppressed or hardly noticed. Scoundrel media bear full responsibility.
A Final Comment
London-based Middle East analyst Peter Eyre calls Turkey's provocation "a possible 'False Flag' incident to justify an action against Syria."
It's coming, he believes, despite its legitimate response under international law, including UN Charter provisions.
Washington planned regime change years ago. Key NATO partners willingly go along. They're "hell bent into forcing yet another Libya style (conflict) all in the name of misinformation....."
Naked aggression looms. If Turkey's provocation isn't pretext enough, look for others to point fingers the wrong way for war.
Eyre calls it a "New World Order....master plan....to take out many (regional) countries that are not user friendly towards the west or countries that do not have the western fraudulent banking system in situ or (that) do not give lucrative oil and gas contracts to western countries."
How far into Syrian territory Turkish warplanes penetrated isn't known. Very likely they were well within the 12 nautical mile limit, then reversed course when Syrian defenses spotted them and reacted.
Damascus acted according to international law provisions. Turkish warplanes were threatening. Flying fast and low showed clear hostile intent. Scoundrel media bury the truth.
Eyre is right saying Syria isn't Libya. Its military is strong and capable. Full-scale intervention could launch general war "with Russia, China and Iran standing firmly should to shoulder with" their regional ally.
Irresponsible Western leaders may attack anyway. Doing so could threaten humanity. Imagine officials willing to risk it. Imagine the potential consequences.
TS Eliot (1888 - 1965) once said:
"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."
He wasn't up to speed on US imperial intentions and leaders willing to risk all going for broke.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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Social classes around the world need to do to NATO THUGS, WAR CRIMINALS, what they need to do to their own class, Empire, Fascist Elites. The Arab Spring, occupy movements, all social movements around the world need to realize that it is their "mainstream", (class) parties, "mainstream" (class) politicians who are serial liars, serial aggressors, degenerating into global Fascists. All class parties, all class politicians INHERENTLY betray their social classes because the function of class hierarchies and its Patriarchal, generic class mechanism, is to serve parasitical ruling classes and their fascist mercenaries who embrace EXCLUSION, CO OPTION, CORRUPTION, INVERSION of social values, social principles into class power.
The central class myth for all class systems since it began the enslavement of Humanity and subjected it to class patriotism, class nationalism, is endless wars and degeneration of crippled class republics into permanent militarism and class Empires. Expecting ruling classes and their mercenary, exclusionary thugs ensconsed in class hierarchies, itself a rigged, Zero sum game, negation of social control, social wealth and universal human rights, to represent social demands, social agendas is DELUSIONARY, FALSE CLASS IDEOLOGY, self enslavement, expecting Elephants to birth kittens. Only real social parties, with social agendas that INVERT, (turn right side up) the INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM, CLASS, ORWELLIAN principle, establishing a social agency, much like the Social Matriarchy and its primitive communism, made social control over wealth and labor, social egalitarianism, and democracy its full OPTIMAL, SOCIAL OUTCOME. Class History, with its failed class states, has enslaved humanity with economic totalitarianism and Militarism. It is a class totalitarian outcome , Empire outcome, which today has taken on the form of military Fascism, which follows the Economic totalitarianism, Fascist Capitalism:
TPP -- America Going (Gone?) 100% Fascist
http://www.opednews.com/articles/TPP--America-Going-Gone-by-Tracy-Turner-120624-814.html
excerpt:
When George H.W. Bush, an oilman who was so bad as President he only served one term, talked of a New World Order" what did he mean? A new era, when oil companies did not have to deal with pesky EPA laws and rules? When the US could attack two countries at once with drones and an all-volunteer army? When the US Constitution was entirely suspended, and corporate rights would always trump individual rights?
A Huffington Post Article titled, "Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises" was posted June 13 and updated June 14, 2012. A few articles, blogs and discussion thread groups are criticizing Obama for closed door negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership, which gives both US Citizens rights and US Law (all branches of all US courts) over to jurisdiction of corporate tribunals. The corporate Tribunals consist of three lawyers.
The full, leaked TPP document is here: http://olivebiodiesel.com/tppinvestment.pdf
There are two things that most or all of the blogs and articles describing the TPP and Obama don't seem to mention: 1) That Obama, himself is a lawyer, and 2) That Obama is a cool as a cucumber lawyer. Not only is Obama a lawyer, he is a former US Constitutional Scholar. Who would know best, how to thwart, unwind, disassemble and circumvent the US Constitution but a Constitutional Scholar? Obama can quite literally order the deaths of an entire family right before going to wolf down a cheeseburger, no loss of appetite, and no guilt..."
The Social Enlightenment realized that class systems, from Patriarchy to Feudalism, could not birth kittens, social justice, nor could be reformed into evolutionary social outcomes, re claiming the social historical mechanism of the Social Matriarchy, because History has shown that class systems do not reform themselves towards social control over wealth, towards the dissolution of Human enslavement, class deformed Human Nature, its class mercenaries in class hierarchies. History has shown from Plato's attempt to graft social reforms, partial democracy into Patriarchy, or Napoleon's partial social reforms and partial middle classes into the new class form, Capitalism, only reproduced DEGENERATING class cycles INTO NEW FORMS OF TOTALITARIANISM, TODAY'S SECOND AXIS and WESTERN FASCISM, NOW A GLOBAL THREAT. History has shown that evolutionary Socialism was always a false strategy created by class appeasers, class compromisers, Empire apologists, and only was a temporary, strategic retreat by Capitalist, Capitalist reformers, like FDR, to save the Class system, Late Capitalism from outright social revolution. Partial social strategies, whether based on incomplete social theory, (Plato grafting democracy into the class Patriarchy) or outright class opportunism, Social Betrayers( Social parties who betrayed social theory for Capitalist appeasement, all Social democratic and Labor parties, Democratic party, who are social only in name and social rhetoric, while serving class tyranny):
Obama Push For World War III Shocks Putin
Posted by EU Times on Jun 19th, 2012 // 8 Comments
excerpt:
"A highly disturbing report prepared by the Foreign Ministry on yesterdays nearly 3 ½ hour meeting between President’s Putin and Obama at the G-20 Summit in Mexico states that Russia’s leader was “shocked” after he told the US leader that America’s Middle East policies were bringing the world to brink of total war to which Obama replied… “I don’t care, maybe that’s what we all need anyway.”
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Putin further was enraged at Obama, this report says, by the West’s constant beating of “war drums” through the use of outright propaganda designed to inflame the American and Western publics into supporting a global war against those Middle Eastern nations that have moved against the US Dollar and include Iraq, Libya, Syria and Iran.
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OF COURSE MAINTAINTING A TOTALITARIAN CLASS SYSTEM, FACIST AUSTERITY, FASCIST CRAPITALISM, REQUIRES MAINTAINING A TOTALITARIAN FASCIST MILITARISM BY WESTERN FASCIST AND ITS FASCIST ALLIANCE, NATO:
A secondary argument, parallel link to class totatlitarianism is the class myth that partial social outcomes, whether Post Colonialism, or still born socialist revolutions, Stalinism, Maoism, are independent players, social agents WITHIN dominant Western class systems like Late Capitalism degenerating into global Fascism and can be compared as independent social systems to class tyranny. The answer is clearly NOT, one which both the Enlightenment and classical Marxists and Trotsky followers understood, namely the Russian Revolution, like the French revolution could only be a starting point, holding point for global social control, which defined the establishment of a social historical mechanism, like the Social Matriarchy, or the agenda of the Social Enlightenment, to establish the creation of social middle classes around the world, as the means to end, dissolve, dismantle all class hierarchies, which would mean the destruction of the Patriarchal class mechanism. Real Social independence meant social control over wealth, labor and the means of production which defined INCLUSIVE, SOCIAL principles that optimizes both social job creation, social wealth and universal, human rights, NOT DEFORMED BY CLASS MERCENARIES, CLASS HIERARCHIES. The failure of the French, Russian revolution to move towards global social revolution, the establishment of social classes, middle layers to kick start the social historical mechanism, meant that Stalin's partial , false strategy, "socialism in one country" within a dominant global class system, degenerated much like the Post colonial states, with its partial independence. THEY WERE ALL STILL SUBORDINATED TO A GLOBAL CLASS SYSTEM that would deform the still born revolution, EVEN FURTHER THROUGH ISOLATION, INWARD TYRANNY, into parallel totalitarianism, Fascism and Stalinism, both class outcomes.
Partial social reforms, partial social revolutions, whether the French, Russian, Post colonial world meant the same degenerating class outcome, similar to the attempt by Plato to graft democracy into a class system, Patriarchy. It inverted social reforms into evolutionary degeneration, from crippled class republics to totalitarian class Empires. Western Enlightenment must be seen as a PARTIAL DEGENERATING CLASS OUTCOME, WHICH TODAY HAS DEGENERATED INTO GLOBAL FASCISM, GLOBAL TOTALITARIANISM, FASCIST MILITARISM. Only a complete rejection of all class parties, WHO CANNOT BIRTH KITTENS, CANNOT BRING SOCIAL JUSTICE, CANNOT SERVE SOCIAL CLASSES, BUT BETRAY THEM AS OBAMA AND DEMOCRATS HAVE DONE, will end OBAMA'S FASCISM. THE BI PARTISAN FASCISM and the class degeneration of all class parties around the world ENSLAVES the world, with the help of SELF ENSLAVING, DELUDED VOTERS WHO EXPECT SOCIAL JUSTICE FROM CLASS PARTIES, WHEN THEY INHERENTLY BETRAY THEM. TO STOP FASCISM, GLOBAL WAR, the social classes must reject all class deformed outcomes, all class deformed institutions, because all three branches of government have degenerated, colluded in torture, rendition, covert wars, war crimes, and cheered by the corporate media fascist propaganda. Time for the social classes TO KICK OUT ALL MAINSTREAM CLASS PARTIES, ALL CLASS POLITICIANS, TO SMACK THEIR ELITES AND THEIR FASCISM, THEREBY DISMANTLING THE FASCIST NATO AND ITS GLOBAL FASCISM. When Turkey and its President, Erdogan admits it violated Syrian air space and accepts apology from Syria, who helped Turkey find and return its pilots, yet NATO FASCIST THUGS and the Turkish military use this provocation to start a Western War against Syria, we have FASCIST ELITES:
Syria and Turkey's phantom war
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Syria-and-Turkey-s-phantom-by-Pepe-Escobar-120626-229.html
NATO War Council To Target Syria
http://www.opednews.com/articles/NATO-War-Council-To-Target-by-Rick-Rozoff-120625-387.html
YES, OBAMA IS RECKLESSLY PROMOTING WORLD WAR III TO SERVE FASCIST CAPITALISM AND FASCIST NATO, REFLECTING THE BI PARTISAN FASCIST CLASS PARTIES, WHERE DEMOCRATS HAVE DEGENERATED INTO NAZIS. OBAMA LOVES FASCIST POLICE LAWS, FASCIST TRADE TREATIES, FASCIST MILITARY ALLIANCES AND GOES AFTER ANYONE WHO CHALLANGES HIS LIES, HIS WAR CRIMES, BUSH WAR CRIMES, ISRAELI WAR CRIMES AND NATO FASCISM. EVEN HIS MILITARY KANGAROO FASCIST TRIAL AGAINST BOTH BRADLEY MANNING AND ASSANGE OF WIKI LEAKS IS TO GO AFTER SOCIAL POWER FOR FASCIST TOTALITARIANISM. THE MILITARY JUDGE, A WOMAN CANNOT STOMACH THE FASCIST TACTICS, LIES MADE BY OBAMA AND HIS FASCIST MILITARY TO HER, MAKING HER LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT, HENCE THIS RULING:
Bradley Manning Defense Claims Victory on Due Process Motion
Prosecutors Ordered to Explain Misleading Statements to Court
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/06/26
YES, THE CORRUPT, CRIMINAL, FASCIST JUSTICE/INJUSTICE DEPT. , FASCIST STATE DEPT., FASCIST FBI, CIA, NSA,FASCIST SUPREMEC COURT, WESTERN ELITES HAVE ALL BECOME FASCIST CRIMINALS.
Putin and social classes around the world have every reason to fear a Second Axis of Fascism, second round of Western Fascism from the U.S. and Fascist Zionists in Isreal. The first axis of Fascism, Western Fascism was linked to German Fascist Capitalism and was supported by most class elites around the world in the hopes that Hitler would topple the deformed, still born totalitarian regime, Stalinism, challanging Western class despotism. Notice I did not use socialist regime, as Stalinism, like Post colonialism, and Fascism itself, are parallel forms of class totalitarian outcomes produced by the global class system, itself, creating its own dark , deformed shadow, fascist totalitarianism, deformed bureaucratic totalitarianism, at war with its own creations.
So long as social classes are not independent from class hierarchies and its Patriarchal class mechanism, all partial social reforms, degenerate like all class systems, as deformed class outcomes, producing the parallel totalitarianism, Fascism and Stalinism, the latter still victim of German Fascist Capitalism when Hitler, like Napoleon, two class tyrants moved into Russia to subordinate its partial independence, still totalitarian, into the Fascist orbit of Western capitalism. It was a war between a den of thieves, between German fascist Capitalists, and the Allied powers who were forced to join the Soviet Union in its defeat, though only militarily, in order to set up Late Capitalism and its degenerating class cycle into today's global Fascism, embraced by all class parties, fake social and labor parties that have appeased Amerikan Fascist Capitalism. Today the defeat of global Fascism must be won IDEOLOGICALLY, because a defeat of a particular military power of a Fascist , Capitalist state, can only, falsely claim, as the rotten liberal intellectual class did for the U.S., THAT FASCISM IS NOT LINKED TO CAPITALISM.....NOT!!!
All class systems start off as crippled , deformed social principles, the definition of class power and crippled class republics, that can only over tim degenerate into totalitarianism, its Capitalist form called Fascism. In Adam Smith's time, under the Feudal state this monopoly power relation between the class state and corporate trading companies was called (totalitarian) MERCANTILISM. Adam Smith's antidote to totalitarian class power, monopoly power, class-corporate alliance was to promote social wealth, the defintion of his free markets, where symmetry between demand and supply meant social control over wealth and labor, and the means of production, was counter to the deformed class liberals, established after the defeat of the social Enlightenment. Napoleon, like Hitler were similar class tyrants, in the emerging Capitalistic industrial revolution, which produced class empires, class tyrants, as Beethoven exclaimed against Napoleon, and the first axis of Fascism under HITLER, FRANCO AND MUSSOLIN. After World War II, Late capitalism and its degenerating class cycle was re established by Western class/fascist elites, under the U.S. empire promoting fascist military juntas, enslaved post colonial states, and finally the destruction of all partial middle layers within the Western capitalist states, through fascist austerity, fascist capitalism, fascist Nato alliances and coddling FASCIST ZIONISM, under Israel, which promises to drag AMERIKA INTO A FASCIST STATE, in spite of Obama's own Fascism, support for Fascist trade treaties, Nato fascism, by PROMISING A REGIONAL, MAYBE GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR, through aggression against Iran
Folks you have only a few months to stop WAR AND FASCISM, NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION, by Western fascist elites. The only way to stop this global fascism, endless wars, provocation, fascist regime changes, acts of aggression against the Arab world, is for the world , collectively to REJECT ALL CLASS PARTIES, ALL CLASS POLITICIANS, by installing middle class control, social control, throughout the world, against class hierarchies, against the Patriarchal class mechanism which gets its power by the DELUSION, class myth, self enslavement of voters who think social power comes from class systems which betray them for PARASITES AND WAR MONGERS. End their class power by voting for real social parties who make it their goal to create social control over wealth , labor and the means of production, ending ALL PARASITIC CLASS DESPOTISM, CLASS HISTORY. DO THIS AND YOU SAVE YOURSELF FROM CLIMATE DESTRUCTION, FROM CLASS ENSLAVEMENT, FROM PERMANENT WAR, BY ENDING THE MILLENIUMS OF FAILED CLASS HISTORY, ENSLAVEMENT OF HUMANITY, CLASS DEFORMED HUMAN NATURE AND RECLAIMING THE SOCIAL HISTORICAL MECHANISM THAT MAKES HUMANS, SOCIAL AND MORAL, ONCE FREE FROM CLASS THUGS, MERCENARIES AND FASCISTS:
For maximum political impact and minimal diplomatic responsiveness, the time of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC - September 3-6 comes within this window of opportunity as well as the days immediately prior to the US election - say from Halloween till the 6th of November.