Posted on 06/30/2017 8:12:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The only word I find for it is cloddish. I refer to the latest CIA-instigated attempt to initiate regime change against outspoken Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. The so-called ISIS terror attack in the minerals-rich southern Philippines island of Mindanao, a predominately Muslim part of the mostly Christian nation of 100 million people, took place literally in the midst of President Duterte’s talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Duterte-Putin talks in turn followed Duterte’s attendance in Beijing on May 15 for the first New Silk Road or Belt Road Forum. America’s colonial asset since 1898 was clearly walking away from the Washington “reservation.”
The terrorist siege in Marawi City is blatantly a desperate Washington try to topple the very popular (80% popularity in polls) Duterte, who successfully won the Presidency last June over a US-backed Mar Roxas, a US-educated former Wall Street banker. Since taking office Duterte has made bold and quite courageous steps to steer the former US Colony towards a Eurasian alliance with China and Russia as his major supporters. In Beijing in October last year, Duterte met China’s Xi Jinping and signed numerous trade deals with China. Critically, taking an opposite policy to his pro-US predecessor Benigno Aquino III, Duterte agreed to resolve the South China Sea dispute between Philippines and China through peaceful diplomatic talks, and to as he put it, “seek a separation from the United States.”
Since then Duterte has sought closer ties with Russia as well, in a further effort to bring his nation out from under the yoke of a de facto US control. This does not sit well with the circles of the so-called Deep State in Washington –the CIA and their nefarious friends. Should the US lose the Philippines, it would pose a devastating strategic geopolitical loss to the US military containment strategy against China and Russia in the Pacific. Devastating.
The recent attacks and siege in Mindanao were nominally done by the terrorist Maute gang and Abu Sayyaf criminal terrorist organizations, both nominally tied to the US-created ISIS fake Islamist operation, a CIA terrorist project created with Saudi money going back to the CIA’s Osama Bin Laden Al Qaeda Mujahideen Operation Cyclone during the 1980’s against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Duterte’s Eurasian Pivot
It comes as no surprise to anyone closely following the evolving dialogues between Duterte and the leaders of China and now, Russia that the CIA would try to destabilize Duterte at this critical time. They simply hide behind the black skirts of their psychopathic drug-running Maute and Abu Sayyaf, both now tied to the CIA and Mossad-created and Saudi-financed ISIS.
In Moscow, despite having to cut short his talks with Putin to fly back home and deal with the terrorist crisis in Mindanao, the Philippine leader and his Secretaries of Defense and Foreign Affairs managed to sign a number of critical agreements with Russia. These included 10 major agreements aimed at deepening bilateral defense, strategic and economic relations. The two countries signed an Agreement on Defense Cooperation, a legal framework for military-to-military exchanges, training, intelligence-sharing. The Philippines and Russia also signed an intelligence exchange agreement to bolster counter-terror cooperation. That does not please Washington at all.
A ‘Country Bumpkin’ Not
Western mainstream media has delighted in portraying the 71-year-old veteran politician Duterte as a crude country bumpkin, a lower-than-peasant creature who is only capable of vulgar statements, such as when shortly after his inauguration he called the US Ambassador to Manila a ”gay son of a bitch“ for criticizing Duterte’s war on drug lords and dealers plaguing the country. Whether Duterte was factually correct, he clearly won sympathy of millions of his countrymen for having the courage to stand up against the American power.
After closely watching Duterte and his choice of close advisers now for almost a year, I’ve come to the conclusion a country bumpkin Duterte is definitely not. Rather, he is a shrewd political actor who is determined to bring his country out of the colonial servitude status it has held since the first Spanish colonialization in 1565.
Duterte is the first Mindanaoan to hold the Presidential office. Ethnically he is of Visayan descent. This fact is not irrelevant. The Visayans in Mindanao and other Philippine islands led a war for independence against Spanish occupation in 1896.
The United States, posing as the supporter of the Visayan-led war of independence from Spain, betrayed the trust assured the Philippines, double-crossed them and signed a Treaty with Spain, the Treaty of Paris of 1898, under which Spain ceded Cuba and The Philippines to the United States. The USA refused to recognize the independence of their erstwhile ally, the Philippines, and took the country by military force, America’s first genuine imperial grab. The nascent First Philippine Republic then formally declared war against the United States in 1899, unsuccessfully. It was put under US military control. It took until 1946 before the country could be recognized as an independent sovereign state, at least in name.
That historical heritage of Duterte as a Visayan clearly is a living fact for Duterte. He graduated Philippines University and earned a degree in law in 1972. As a lawyer, he was prosecutor in Davao City in Mindanao and later Mayor, one of the longest-serving mayors of the Philippines with seven terms over 22 years. As Mayor, Duterte passed the city’s Women Development Code, the only such code in the country. Its aim is “to uphold the rights of women and the belief in their worth and dignity as human beings.” He pushed for the Magna Carta for Women in Davao, a comprehensive women’s human rights law that seeks to eliminate discrimination against women. As President he has made a domestic focus on poverty reduction.
There is clearly more to the man than lurid western media reports reveal. Now this very popular President is determined to make his country a sovereign nation able to choose with whom it allies and for what ends, and how its economy develops. This is why the CIA and its fake Jihadist networks are being jacked up to try to get rid of Rodrigo Duterte.
ISIS: Bloody Pawprints of CIA and Mossad
The networks of the US Deep State, primarily the CIA have chosen their favorite cover, the otherwise laughable deception of head-choppers calling itself the Islamic State or ISIS or ISIL or DAESH (CIA central casting seems to have trouble settling on a name). In reality IS, or the groups that spring up conveniently in Syria, in Iraq, in Chechnya–wherever the CIA decides it needs a terror hit squad–are trained mercenary killers, trained variously by CIA or Pentagon Special Forces; by Pakistani ISI intelligence, at least formerly, or by Mossad, also known as Israeli Secret intelligence Service, or by MI-6. In the Philippines, the IS alleged affiliates, especially the Maute group that has laid siege to Marawi City, are little more than a criminal band that finances itself by terror, occasional beheading to exert ransom in a protection racket, recruiting child fighters. Recently the networks of the CIA have been pouring in their foreign mercenaries from Syria, Libya and other places to beef up Maute’s gang for the attack on Duterte’s rule, portraying it as a religious-based “liberation struggle.”
ISIS came out of the CIA’s Al Qaeda franchise called Al Qaeda in Iraq. In 2010 its name was changed to ISIS. Then as Israeli journalists pointed out the embarrassing fact that the English acronym for the Hebrew spelling of Mossad was ISIS (Israeli Secret Intelligence Services abruptly they decided to call their band of mercenaries with their black flags and US M16 assault rifles, IS for Islamic State. Conveniently in Syria they control the very territory where competing Qatari and Iran gas pipelines to the Mediterranean would run. Curiously, despite the fact they are active in the Golan Heights where Israel has its eye on stealing a huge amount of newly-discovered Syrian oil, they have never attacked Israel. The one time an accidental hit on an Israeli target took place, IS apologized…Do real head-choppers ever apologize?
When the fake CIA Sarin gas attack in Ghouta in 2013 failed to get a UN mandate for all-out war to depose Bashar al Assad–Obama’s infamous “red line”–the NATO and NATO-linked networks created the monster they now call IS in 2014.
Today the CIA uses IS as the cover to justify keeping US forces in Iraq after the government asked them to leave; a cover to bomb Syria in order to topple Assad, something Russian presence has made embarrassingly difficult since September, 2015. And they use it to recruit thousands of young psycho recruits from over the Muslim work, train them and send them back to places like Chechnya in Russia or Xinjiang in China, or Balochistan Province in Pakistan where the Chinese have built a new deep water port at Gwadar on the Arabian Sea near Iran, the heart of its $46 billion China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a strategic part of its One Belt, One Road Eurasian infrastructure project.
Now the West’s favorite terrorist mercenaries are being told to take down Duterte in the Philippines. They probably are too late and have badly underestimated their adversaries.
But then with the deterioration over recent decades in the quality of American university education, the current generation of strategists at Langley likely missed the basic course in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, especially the part that cautions generals who wish to be victorious to “know yourself and know your enemy,” something that Duterte seems to have thought about.
How the IS destabilization try in the Philippines unfolds in coming weeks may well determine a major turning point towards creation of the emerging China-Russia-centered Eurasian Century.
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William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
The allegation is that the CIA orchestrated the ISIS attack on Mindanao Island's Marawi City as a payback against Philippine President Duterte for turning to Russia for purchasing arms.
He also claims that the CIA is trying to covertly overthrow Duterte.
The final accusation -- ISIS was a creation of CIA and Mossad.
Your refutations of the article are most welcome.
Fake news
Why on earth would the CIA want to replace Duetrte with ISIS....??? This is stupid on so many fronts
(I know you are not endorsing the info here- just presenting it as an example of what’s out there)
Is there anything in this article of value? I don’t exactly trust our muzzie-loving deep-state anymore either...
Hm. Is there anything in the article that has any kind of evidence or proof? There was nothing that I could see. It appears to be his opinion only.
You know the old saying about opinions...
Notice something about this website.
It uses the logical fallacy of “appeal to authority”. it continually sites supposed sources to validate it wacko claims. But the ONLY source for these supposed claims are other fringe wack job Leftist fake new sites. You cannot actually find any documentation to back up what the author claims this or that source said.
On the rate occasion you do find an original source , what the source actually SAID is not at all what the spin this clown website is putting on the statement.
Standard fake new garbage site posting standard fake new nonsense.
I think the big mistake in this article is to say that our intelligence supports ISIS. I think the more plausible explanation is that there is covert support for some radical Muslims (or pretend radical Muslims), which we will never admit, to destabilize their govt. Whatever “ISIS” is or is not, they represent “badness” and no one will accept the idea that we support badness. That possibly a large chunk of the “ISIS” members could easily also belong to other groups we covertly support, hasn’t been considered. Do our elected representatives even know??
If .... IF ... there proves sometime later that there IS a connection, I feel confident President Trump has no part in it and it is a rogue operation.
Trump is (to the democrats) the bull in the china shop, crass, no class, etc., and Duterte is somewhat the same psychology .. impatient with criminality, drugs and corruption.
BOTH men jumped into their respective positions with heavy footed determination and both men have accomplished SO MUCH for (and to the delight of .. ) their people.
How much uniformed mere conspiracy drivel can someone fill a page with? Apparently an infinite amount.
Neither Al-Qeuda nor ISIS are “CIA creations and tools” anymore than I am a “creation” or “tool” of the founder of this blog.
Yes, the CIA worked with the Pakistani ISI mounting a war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. They - the CIA - did not “create” the foreign Mujahideen that the Pakistani ISI and the Saudis accepted into the ranks of Pakistani & Afghan recruits in the militias against the Soviets. They, the Mujahideen had their own motivations and aims (as did the Pakitsani ISI and the Saudis - THEY gave birth to the Taliban in the midst of the civil war that followed the Soviets retreat. The CIA wanted to help get the Soviets out. The Majahideen, Bin Laden, Pakistan, the Saudis and Al Queda had their own motives - beyond the exit of the Soviets. There is EVERY measure of understanding and proof that the U.S., it’s CIA and its special forces were, outside of material support, the least in charge and the least influential in expelling the Soviets. It - expelling the Soviets - had its own motives to the Pakitanis and the Saudis, and would have most likely resulted in the same “guerrilla” war against the Soviets with less U.S. help anyway. The U.S. did not “create” Al Queda, but for its own motives Al Queda joined the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
ISIS genesis and early retreat in Iraq is similarly NOT a creation of the U.S., but an Al Qeuda leadership response to being kicked the hell out of Kuridstan, with U.S. help, where upon some renamed themselves ISIL and tried to glam on to the sectarian violence in Iraq. By the time GWBush was leaving office ISIL had become a mostly defeated remnant in Iraq - alive, but not robust or very effective.
Then Obama and Maliki gave up the security gains of the previous years in Iraq, while Maliki began governing more as a Shiite than an Iraq, angering Iraqi Sunnis immensely, leading to young Sunni men finding an attraction to violence against Iraq’s government. Then the U.S.-Turkey-Saudi regime change agenda against Assad blossomed as the “Syrian opposition” and resulted in a destabilized Syria. That was blundering (on “the west’s” part), not a design. That ISIS moved into Syria, to take advantage of the situation was an outcome - ISIS taking advantage of an opportunity - not a western design.
I could go on and on, but I know the conspiracy theorists and their inspirational sources among U.S. enemies have endless theories we could dispose of, if our time was as endless as their theories.
A lot of what the author claims does make sense if you accept the fact that the Deep State intelligence apparatus is working its agenda independently and unlawfully from that of the duly-elected President Trump’s administration. Would like to see some sourced references to back up the author’s assertions.
Here is the actual backgroound on ISIS. Totally at odds with the nonsense from this Fake New website.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
You’re linking to HuffPo and NYT and Wikipedia as factual?? LOL!
Fake News? Maybe or President Rodrigo Duterte being sick and tired of the Cartels and ls executing laws that have been lax.
For people who are supposed to be “smart”, the Western leaders sure do a lot of “blundering” when it comes to Islam: Sykes–Picot, Mossadeq and Operation TP Ajax, supplying Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons, toppling Saddam in 2003 and then not partitioning Iraq into 3 parts, overthrowing Kaddafi in Libya, etc.
Its a good thing none of this is planned, otherwise the Middle East might become a real mess.
China is the Philippines greatest geopolitical threat, so I’m not sure how much sense makes to run to their arms.
Was just watching a series on WWI and was struck by the enormity of the consequences of Germany’s move to allow Lenin to return to Russia after the revolution. How like the moment when the Ayatollah was allowed to return to Iran, a decision that as reverberated ever since.
“Its a good thing none of this is planned, otherwise the Middle East might become a real mess.”
More correctly - a “bigger mess”.
Then again, the Middle East has actually not needed the U.S., or excuses about the U.S. to make enough big messes on its own.
As for forcibly partitioning Iraq - in 2003 - into three separate countries, we (1) had no national will for the size of force that would take, (2) would have had zero support anywhere in or out of the Middle East for it, outside of possibly in the Kurdish region, (3) might have triggered Iran formally into war with us in Iraq, (4) might have triggered Russia supporting Iran - and sundry other possibilities.
But you keep dreaming up things “we should have done”, I’m sure you’ll hit one that might work someday.
My guess is the Chinese are funding the Jihadists in Phillipines.
That’s a bingo also. Muslims sell a lot of the drugs in Phillipines.
“Why on earth would the CIA want to replace Duetrte with ISIS?”
Why did the CIA want to replace Assad with ISIS?
So far as ISIS being a creation of the CIA, Obama, and John McCain I think that’s pretty well established by now regardless of who says it.
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