America and Lackeys Insult People of the World
By Finian Cunningham
November 03, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "SCF" - And
it’s not just Russia that Washington is insulting – it's the entire
world. Such is the preposterous hypocrisy of US leaders and their
international network of cronies.
US
client regime Saudi Arabia – the world's most repressive – being given a
seat on the UN human rights council over the weekend while Russia was
forced out of it is just one glaring insult among many.
Russia’s top diplomat was referring to US
officials and Western allies accusing Russia of “barbarism” and “war
crimes” in its ongoing military intervention in Syria.
Yet
these unverified, hysterical charges that Washington levels
against Moscow in Syria are proven against the US and its allies who
have committed huge war crimes in dozens of countries over recent years.
Crimes that go unaccounted for.
Lavrov
cited the case of former Yugoslavia in particular where, in 1999,
US-led NATO warplanes killed thousands of civilians in air strikes
on public infrastructure. Since then, illegal overseas wars launched
by Washington – in brazen violation of international law – have
proliferated with a death toll counted in millions.
Currently,
US forces are bombing seven countries, including Iraq, Syria and Yemen,
inflicting civilian deaths on a daily basis. Yet it is Washington and
its Western minions who have the audacity to condemn Russia over its
military operations to salvage Syria from a US-led covert war for regime
change. That the US has orchestrated a criminal covert war in Syria
since March 2011 – violating the human rights of millions of Syrians –
is a shocking reality that only the servile Western media continues
to conceal.
Last week, the Western propaganda campaign to demonize Russia scored a dubious “victory” by having Russia dropped from the
United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). That move was achieved
on the back of a media-driven agenda claiming that Russian air strikes
were indiscriminately targeting civilians in the northern Syria city
of Aleppo.
Never
mind that Russian (and Syrian) aircraft have not been carrying
out combat missions around Aleppo for nearly two weeks in order
to facilitate humanitarian aid efforts in the war-torn city. Never mind
that those aid efforts have been continually sabotaged by foreign-backed
terrorist groups holding civilians under siege in eastern Aleppo
for the past four years.
Russia’s
military intervention in Syria over the past year has helped Syrian
government forces liberate hundreds of towns and villages from a reign
of terror imposed by foreign-backed mercenaries, all of which are
integrated with the internationally outlawed terrorist networks Islamic
State (Daesh) and Nusra Front. None of this is given any acknowledgment
by the West and its subservient news media, which instead inverts
reality by amplifying spurious claims leveled against Russia by the
terrorist sponsors.
The
battle for Aleppo is fully consistent with the objective of liberating
Syria from a US-led criminal conspiracy to destroy the country and
to replace the elected government of President Bashar al-Assad with a
pro-Western puppet regime.
Over
the weekend, Western media strained credulity by referring to “rebels
breaking the regime’s siege on Aleppo”. These so-called rebels are none
other than Al Qaeda-linked terrorists of Nusra Front and its myriad
offshoots, like Ahrar al-Sham and Jaish al-Fatah. It isn’t the Syrian
army and its Russian ally that are holding the city siege. It is the
terrorists. And over the weekend their shelling resulting in dozens
of civilians being killed, including reportedly 14 children
in government-held western Aleppo.
Even
the abjectly one-sided Western media could not conceal the slaughter
by terrorist “rebels” whom the United States and its allies have
supported with money, weapons and training to do their geopolitical
bidding in Syria since 2011.
Meanwhile,
in neighboring Iraq, a US coalition that includes Britain, France and
Turkey continued bombing the city of Mosul, ostensibly to defeat
extremists holding a civilian population as human shields – extremists
whom the US and its partners have covertly supported next door in Syria.
US-led aerial bombardment of Mosul has resulted in heavy civilian
casualties since the offensive was launched on October 17, according to local sources.
Elsewhere
over the weekend, Saudi warplanes, supported by the US, Britain and
France, ratcheted up even more crimes against humanity. Some 10,000
people have been killed since the Saudi coalition began bombing the
region’s poorest country in March 2015. In an air strike on the Red Sea
port city of Hodeida, Saudi warplanes attacked a prison, killing more
than 60 inmates and security staff. It was just the latest atrocity
in a litany of such deadly strikes on civilian centers, including
hospitals, schools, markets, mosques, family homes and even funeral
halls.
Last week, UN agencies reported that
nearly half the Yemeni population of 24 million is facing starvation.
Images of skeletal children are emerging, wracked by dysentery and
cholera. This barbaric nationwide ordeal has been created by the Saudi
regime and its Western patrons imposing a sea and air blockade on the
country. It is no exaggeration to say that the whole Yemeni nation is an
imprisoned population that is being bombed over and over without the
slightest compunction for women and children being blown to pieces.
Without
American, British and French military support the Saudi slaughter
in Yemen would cease immediately. Western-backed Saudi claims of Iranian
subversion in Yemen, from allegedly supporting Houthi rebels, are a
risible pretext. Washington and its clients are destroying Yemen simply
because they can’t abide a popular, genuinely pro-democracy uprising
succeeding in a vital oil-rich region that underpins US hegemony
through despotic Arab rule, as in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf
monarchical dictatorships.
On
the same weekend that Russia was sanctioned at the UNHRC, it was yet
another blood-soaked orgy of state-sponsored terrorism carried out by
the US, its allies and their mercenary surrogates.
The
US, Britain, France and Saudi Arabia are among the 47 member states
represented on the Geneva-based human rights council. The Saudi
feudalist monarchy, which executes prisoners
convicted of “sorcery” and other crimes by public beheading, and which
bans women from driving cars, only obtained its seat on the UNHRC due
to Britain fixing the votes.
Russia,
which has stood against the terrorist-sponsoring aggression in Syria
by Washington and its rogue-state partners, is singled out for sanction
over allegations of committing violations.
This
censure is insulting because not only is it a travesty of justice. It
is an insult to common intelligence which can see through the
preposterous lies of the US and its accomplices.
The
utter disconnect and deception by Washington and other Western
governments may fool some of the people some of the time, but over the
long-run such corruption is coming unstuck. The turmoil, anger and
disdain among ordinary people towards criminals in high office is
reaching boiling point in the US, Europe and across the world.
The
more that these illegitimate rulers seek to justify their existence and
criminal enterprises the more it offends ordinary human intelligence.
Russia
is right to be aggrieved by the public insults that emanate
from Washington and its lackeys. But Russia is certainly not alone
in being grotesquely wronged. The whole world is aggrieved by putting
up so far with an international oligarchy of thieves, exploiters and
sponsors of terrorism. So far.
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