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Saturday 14 July 2012 - 08:46

Assange and Wikileaks join the NATO attack on Syria

Story Code : 178983
Assange and Wikileaks join the NATO attack on Syria
On July 5, the Wikileaks website (which the US National Security Agency could cripple within minutes if it so chose) announced a two-month summer offensive against the Baath party government of President Assad based on the release of some 2.43 million e-mails by Syrian government officials, politicians, and companies doing business with the Syrian government, generated between August 2006 and March 2012. About 400,000 emails are in Arabic, and some 70,000 are in Russian.

Assange and his staffers left no doubt that the goal of this new document dump was to discredit the Syrian government, and even more to harass companies in the NATO sphere who are working as contractors for Damascus.

    A case in point is the Italian defense contractor Finmeccanica, which was accused based on these e-mails of supplying 500 radios to the Syrian police through Selex Elsag, a subsidiary company. The Italian radical chic newsweekly L’Espresso, owned by financier Carlo de Benedetti, attempted to make these dealings into a scandal under the headline “Finmeccanica helped the dictator.” De Benedetti is a predatory speculator with intelligence links who operates under left cover, very much in the manner of George Soros. The goal of Wikileaks is obviously to incite public opinion against Finmeccanica and similar companies, and to mobilize parliamentary witch hunts against them for supposedly contributing to repression in Syria. If Syria’s western equipment suppliers can be shut down, then the weapons shipped into Syria by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the other Gulf monarchies through the CIA distribution network based in southern Turkey could tip the balance in favor of anarchy. Wikileaks is thus complicit in the violent overthrow of the Syrian government by the NATO-backed death squads.

L’Espresso, which is Italy’s largest weekly news magazine, is part of the new media consortium assembled to assist Assange in the current operation. Other media ready to cover Assange’s alleged leaks include Al Akhbar of Lebanon, Al Masry al Youm of Egypt, the first program of German national television (ARD-NDR), the Associated Press, Owni of France, and Publico of Spain. The support of the Associated Press, the largest and almost the only wire service in the United States, with strong connections to the US intelligence community, leaves no doubt that Assange’s activities are viewed with favor by the CIA. Similarly, Time magazine is not known for putting enemies of the Wall Street banking establishment on its cover, yet this privilege was accorded to Assange in 2011.

    Wikileaks had published a series of Afghan war documents in July 2010, followed by Iraq war documents in October, and then a quarter million low-level US government cables between September and November. Not one major political figure of the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, France or any other nation of the imperialist block sustained any significant damage as a result of these leaks. Rather, those targeted included Ben Ali of Tunisia, Qaddafi of Libya, Mubarak of Egypt, Berlusconi of Italy, Putin of Russia, Karzai of Afghanistan, Maliki of Iraq, Kirchner of Argentina, Chavez of Venezuela, and other figures having one thing in common: they were all prominent on the CIA’s hit list, and had been variously marked for ouster, overthrow, or discrediting. By contrast, Wikileaks is reported to have suppressed material about Israeli war crimes against Lebanon during the 2006 war.

Alec Ross, billed as the “Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,” told a France 24 interviewer about a year after the main Wikileaks State Department document dump that the leaks had done no damage whatsoever to US foreign policy, since what they showed, he said, was the US policy of doing good for the world. So much for the claim that Wikileaks makes the US government tremble.

The birth of Wikileaks was announced to the world by Cass Sunstein, currently a top official of the Obama White House, in a February 24, 2007 article in the Washington Post entitled “Brave New Wikiworld” which proclaimed that “Wikileaks.org, founded by dissidents in China and other nations, plans to post secret government documents and to protect them from censorship with coded software.” The original Wikileaks board of directors was indeed heavily loaded with fishy Chinese “democracy activists,” many of them from the orbit of the Soros foundations. The original project might have been an attack on the Great Cyber-Wall of China, but then the priority was switched to the Middle East. Cass Sunstein is now married to Samantha Power, the Middle East director of the White House National Security Council, who directed the 2011 military coup that overthrew President Mubarak of Egypt when he had outlived his usefulness.

    Sunstein became infamous with his January 2008 Harvard Law School Working Paper entitled “Conspiracy Theories,” where he called for the “cognitive infiltration” of “extremist groups” espousing “false conspiracy theories.” This represented Sunstein’s recipe for destroying the 9/11 truth movement in the United States, and there is every indication that Wikileaks is an example of the cognitive infiltration which Sunstein had in mind. When asked about the 9/11 attacks, the landmark CIA covert operation of our time, Assange condemned the quest for 9/11 truth, saying: “I’m constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.” But the problem with the conspiracies Assange is peddling is that they so often target the enemies of the CIA and NATO, especially through the cognitive infiltration of left liberals.

Obama White House official Ben Rhodes has been at work for some time on an operation to take control of the Arabsat and Nilesat television satellites, throw pro-Assad media off the air, and replace them with fake reports of a successful coup against Assad that could be used as the pretext to bring in NATO forces outside of the UN purview. Assange’s dubious revelations clearly help prepare the ground for such an attempt.

    Assange has now taken refuge in the Ecuador Embassy in London. By contrast, US soldier Bradley Manning, who is accused of providing the raw material for Cablegate, has been brutalized by the US government ever since his arrest. The radically different treatment given these two has been a cause for comment. Even so, Assange has duped many across the world. The Russian television channel RT (Russia Today in the US) even broadcast an interview show featuring Assange, despite the fact that the Wikileaks boss is hostile to Russia and its allies, and to President Putin personally. President Rafael Correa of Ecuador, who is now considering Assange’s bid for diplomatic asylum, has also been slimed by Wikileaks’ Cablegate for deliberately tolerating police corruption. Wikileaks has thus shown an astounding capacity for the cognitive infiltration of its targets.

The model for Wikileaks can be found in the Pentagon Papers limited hangout which appeared in 1971, during the Vietnam War. The documents to be leaked were carefully pre-selected by Leslie Gelb and Morton Halperin, both of whom went on to prestigious careers in the US foreign policy establishment - Gelb as former president of the New York Council on Foreign Relations, and Halperin as the current political manager of the Soros group of foundations. The documents were then transferred to Daniel Ellsberg of the RAND Corporation (up to that time profiled as a warmonger), who got them published in major newspapers. Nothing in the Pentagon Papers came as a surprise to readers of the European press. But the Pentagon papers successfully whitewashed the CIA for its drug running and war crimes, which were largely blamed on the US Army. A major goal was to hide the fact that Kennedy was preparing to end US military involvement in Vietnam, against the wishes of the CIA-Wall Street group around Allen Dulles. Naturally, the Pentagon papers cast no light whatsoever on the Kennedy assassination itself. Not surprisingly, Daniel Ellsberg, the chief leaker of this disinformation in 1971, has anointed Assange as his successor.
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