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#Terrorisme, raison d’État (1/2) | ARTE
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Avant le 11-Septembre, quelque quatre cents personnes avaient prêté allégeance à #Al-Qaida. Seize ans plus tard, on compte des dizaines de milliers de militants djihadistes répartis sur plusieurs continents. Les attaques terroristes se sont multipliées à travers le monde, entraînant en Occident une tension des relations avec les minorités et les pays musulmans. En violant les valeurs démocratiques qu’elle prétendait défendre, la « guerre contre la terreur » lancée par l’administration Bush au lendemain du 11-Septembre a eu l’effet d’"un coup de marteau dans une fiole de mercure" : elle a fragmenté une menace autrefois circonscrite, et s’est muée en un conflit mondial et permanent, formidable terrain pour le recrutement djihadiste, mais aussi pour les groupes #xénophobes qui montent en puissance, en #Europe comme aux #États-Unis. Tel est le sombre bilan qu’établissent, face au réalisateur Ilan Ziv (#Capitalisme), des dirigeants politiques, des responsables de la sécurité et des généraux américains, britanniques, français et israéliens qui ont vécu les événements de l’intérieur et au plus haut niveau.

Qu’ils restent fidèles à leurs actes passés, comme le #néoconservateur Richard Perle, ou qu’ils s’avouent hantés par la culpabilité, comme l’ancien bras droit de Colin Powell au secrétariat d’État, Lawrence Wilkerson, ils permettent de comprendre pourquoi cette #guerre qui a ravagé le #Moyen-Orient et causé des centaines de milliers de #morts constitue une impasse dont il est difficile de sortir. Du #mensonge délibéré qui a déclenché l’invasion de l’Irak aux « sites noirs » où les États-Unis ont pratiqué la #torture, Ilan Ziv décrypte les faits à l’aune du présent, pour montrer combien les concepts forgés par une administration pourtant discréditée restent plus que jamais agissants.

“We are the death merchant of the world” : Ex-Bush official Lawrence Wilkerson condemns military-industrial complex - Salon.com
▻https://www.salon.com/2016/03/29/we_are_the_death_merchant_of_the_world_ex_bush_official_lawrence_wilkerson_co

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Ex assistant de Colin Powell, le genre plein de panache une fois dépourvu de pouvoir

Wilkerson spoke highly of Butler, referencing the late general’s famous quote: “Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

“I think the problem that Smedley identified, quite eloquently actually,” Wilkerson said, “especially for a Marine — I had to say that as a soldier,” the retired Army colonel added with a laugh; “I think the problem is much deeper and more profound today, and much more subtle and sophisticated.”

Today, the military-industrial complex “is much more pernicious than Eisenhower ever thought it would be,” Wilkerson warned.

#Etats-Unis

Bush Official Would Vote for Bernie Sanders Before Donald Trump
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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served in the first term of the George W. Bush Administration as the Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, shares his candid assessments of the Donald...

Le monde du colonel Wilkerson
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Le monde du colonel Wilkerson

Chaque jour confirme la puissance et la qualité du système de la communication que la Russie a développé en quelques années et qui s’impose comme un modèle écrasant, jusqu’à faire paniquer le système de l’américanisme qui ne cesse de ne pas trouver de riposte adéquate hors le silence furieux de ses organes et la censure de son esprit réduit au déni pur et simple. Le réseau Sputnik vient de lancer une nouvelle “rubrique” radiodiffusée, Loud & Clear, orchestrée par Brian Becker. La première émission (durée d’une heure) a été diffusée le 28 décembre, avec comme invité le colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, qui fut chef de cabinet du secrétaire d’État Colin Powell de 2001 à 2005, et qu’on a déjà souvent cité ici. Sputnik.News en donne quelques extraits écrits le même 28 décembre, qui (...)

CIA interrogated suspects on Diego Garcia, says Colin Powell aide | World news | The Guardian

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The UK government is facing renewed pressure to make a full disclosure of its involvement in the CIA’s post-9/11 kidnap and torture programme after another leading Bush-era US official said suspects were held and interrogated on the British territory of Diego Garcia.

Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to Colin Powell at the US state department, said the Indian Ocean atoll was used by the CIA as “a transit site where people were temporarily housed, let us say, and interrogated from time to time”.

#états-unis #royaume-uni #rendition_programme #diego_garcia

Who Makes US Foreign Policy ? - Lawrence Wilkerson On Reality Asserts Itself (1/3)
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... it’s incredibly complex, difficult to analyze from a strictly governmental standpoint, but when you start probing and you start analyzing, you begin to discover that there are centers in this mess (...) that are getting what they want. And what they want is basically wealth and power. And they then turn that wealth and power back into political contributions, which now almost have no limits, no constraints on them, and they influence people like John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Bob Menendez as and Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank when he was in there and so influential with the banking committee, and they get what they want in terms of legislation that oftentimes I’m convinced the legislatures do not even realize they’re doing. They don’t understand that they’re fulfilling this objective of a particular oligarch or conglomeration of oligarchs. And yet they’re doing it. And they’re doing it because they are well paid for doing it, in the sense that their PACs are flush and full and they get reelected.

Is John McCain motivated entirely by this? Is Bob Menendez motivated entirely by this? Of course not. They’re not intellectual giants, and they don’t spend lots of time analyzing this situation in the complex ways that we do. So they think they’re actually fulfilling their principles and bending over a little bit to accept the money and the cash necessary to do that. So that’s how the system works. That’s not even half the explanation, but that’s how the system works. And, incidentally, it has worked that way for a very long time, I would say probably since about Andrew Jackson coming into the White House after we’d really established ourselves.

OP-ED : The Elephant vs. the Shark
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Lawrence Wilkerson sur la dangerosité de la « #stratégie_du_pivot »,

At the top of a letter-sized piece of paper, write “China” and “United States” and beneath those words the allies of each country. Next, put down all the other countries of the region, using India as the pivot point and including all countries to its east. Most countries will fall into this non-aligned group.

Even several countries bound by security treaty to the United States, such as the Philippines, will want to be there. Also list Russia, Turkey, and Iran because they too are in Asia, are important to Asia’s future, and are discounted only by fools.

If we are schooled in the military arts, we immediately see from this exercise the prospect of conflict on a massive scale. Countries will side with the great power most able to compel them to do so or risk being swallowed up.

At the climax of this awesome conflict, the massive land power will confront the formidable sea power. It will be an epic contest between the elephant and the shark. The shark cannot come ashore, and the elephant cannot go to sea. Their attempt to grapple with one another will create a sheer hell for everyone within proximity.

Ultimately, as in every war game in which I have participated that played this scenario, each side will turn to nuclear weapons as the only potentially decisive device left in its arsenal. This resort to the nuclear option will occur after all the economic and cyber warfare, satellite-killer missions, area denial, air-sea battle, and other tools of power have been utterly exhausted.

Tomas de Torquemada in the U.S. armed forces | McClatchy
▻http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/10/190907/tomas-de-torquemada-in-the-us.html

Lawrence Wilkerson, l’ancien chef du personnel de Colin Powell, sur les « fondamentalistes chrétiens » au sein de l’armée US et le soutien qu’ils reçoivent de la part de leur hiérarchie, des médias et du congrès.

About a month ago, I joined the advisory board of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) to replace Glen Doherty, a former Navy SEAL and member of the board who had recently been killed in the Benghazi incident. I was a reluctant recruit, knowing as I did the importance of spiritual solace amid the horrors of battle.

“Why,” I asked myself, “should we meddle with something so important?”

When the MRFF’s director, Mikey Weinstein, allowed me to study the extent and nature of the activities of certain fundamentalists within the ranks of the U.S. Armed Forces - and I poured through records of their obscenities, vicious hatred and other manifestations of their more insidious members’ minds - I changed my mind. That so-called followers of Christ could write and say such things, and their defenders and representatives in the media, Congress and elsewhere could ally with them, made my blood boil.

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Now, we have a breed of fundamentalist Christians trying to proselytize our armed forces into hell.

Perhaps worse, we have news media, members of Congress, research councils and a host of what I can only call radical fundamentalist organizations - American Taliban? - who constantly support them, urge them on, and demonize organizations like the MRFF.

Next, we will have the construction of fundamentalist Christian madrassas all across this great land.

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Syrie. Armes chimiques.
Lawrence Wilkerson, ancien chef d’État-major de Colin Powell, indique qu’Israël pourrait avoir conçu l’histoire des armes chimiques syriennes. N’en restant pas là, il décrit le « régime de Tel Aviv » comme étant « inepte au plan géostratégique et géopolitique » et Nétanyahou comme n’ayant pas « la moindre idée » de ce que signifie la géostratégie.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Chemical weapon use in Syria ‘could have been an Israeli false flag operation’

Interview on Current TVMay 2, 2013

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« Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who was Colin Powell’s chief of staff during the Bush administration, talks with Cenk Uygur about how President Obama should handle early evidence that Syria may have used chemicals weapons. “I think the president’s statement was very circumspect, very prudent,” Wilkerson says. “We don’t know what the chain of custody is. This could’ve been an Israeli false flag operation, it could’ve been an opposition in Syria, … or it could’ve been an actual use by [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad. But we certainly don’t know with the evidence we’ve been given. And what I’m hearing from the intelligence community is that that evidence is really flakey.”

Former Bush administration official: Israel may be behind use of chemical arms in Syria - West of Eden Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
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Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who once served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff, believes that the chemical weapons used in Syria may have been an Israeli “false flag” operation aimed at implicating Bashar Assad’s regime.

Wilkerson made his astounding assertion in an interview on Current TV, the network once owned by former Vice President Al Gore and recently purchased by Al-Jazeera.

Wilkerson said that the evidence that it was Assad’s regime that had used the chemical weapons was “flaky” and that it could very well have been the rebels or Israel who were the perpetrators. Asked why Israel would do such a thing, Wilkerson said: “I think we’ve got a basically geostrategically, geopolitical inept regime in Tel Aviv right now.”