Tunisian Wikileaks Putsch: CIA Touts
Mediterranean Tsunami of Coups; Libya, Egypt, Syria, Algeria, Jordan,
Italy All Targeted; US-UK Want New Puppets to Play Against Iran, China,
Russia; Obama Retainers Cass Sunstein, Samantha Power, Robert Malley,
International Crisis Group Implicated in Destabilizations
Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
January 16, 2011
Washington DC, January 16, 2011 – The US intelligence community is
now in a manic fit of gloating over this weekend’s successful overthrow
of the Tunisian government of President Ben Ali. The State Department
and the CIA, through media organs loyal to them, are mercilessly hyping
the Tunisian putsch of the last few days as the prototype of a new
second generation of color revolutions, postmodern coups, and
US-inspired people power destabilizations. At Foggy Bottom and Langley,
feverish plans are being made for a veritable Mediterranean tsunami
designed to topple most existing governments in the Arab world, and well
beyond. The imperialist planners now imagine that they can expect to
overthrow or weaken the governments of Libya, Egypt, Syria, Jordan,
Algeria, Yemen, and perhaps others, while the CIA’s ongoing efforts to
remove Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi (because of his friendship with
Putin and support for the Southstream pipeline) make this not just an
Arab, but rather a pan-Mediterranean, orgy of destabilization.
Hunger revolution, not Jasmine revolution
Washington’s imperialist planners now believe that they have
successfully refurbished their existing model of CIA color revolution or
postmodern coup. This method of liquidating governments had been
losing some of its prestige after the failure of the attempted
plutocratic Cedars revolution in Lebanon, the rollback of the hated
IMF-NATO Orange revolution in Ukraine, the ignominious collapse of June
2009 Twitter revolution in Iran, and the widespread discrediting of the
US-backed Roses revolution in Georgia because of the warmongering and
oppressive activities of fascist madman Saakashvili. The imperialist
consensus is now that the Tunisian events prefigure a new version of
people power coup specifically adapted to today’s reality, specifically
that of a world economic depression, breakdown crisis, and
disintegration of the globalized casino economy.
The Tunisian tumults are being described in the US press as the
“Jasmine revolution,” but it is far more accurate to regard them as a
variation on the classic hunger revolution. The Tunisian ferment was
not primarily a matter of the middle class desire to speak out, vote,
and blog. It started from the Wall Street depredations which are
ravaging the entire planet: outrageously high prices for food and fuel
caused by derivatives speculation, high levels of unemployment and
underemployment, and general economic despair. The detonator was the
tragic suicide of a vegetable vendor in Sidi Bouzid who was being
harassed by the police. As Ben Ali fought to stay in power, he
recognized what was causing the unrest by his gesture of lowering food
prices. The Jordanian government for its part has lowered food prices
there by about 5%.
Assange and Wikileaks, Key CIA Tools to Dupe Youth Bulge
The economic nature of the current unrest poses a real problem for
the Washington imperialists, since the State Department line tends to
define human rights exclusively in political and religious terms, and
never as a matter of economic or social rights. Price controls, wages,
jobless benefits, welfare payments, health care, housing, trade union
rights, banking regulation, protective tariffs, and other tools of
national economic self-defense have no place whatsoever in the
Washington consensus mantra. Under these circumstances, what can be
done to dupe the youth bulge of people under 30 who now represents the
central demographic reality of most of the Arab world?
In this predicament, the CIA’s cyberspace predator drone Julian
Assange and Wikileaks are providing an indispensable service to the
imperialist cause. In Iceland in the autumn of 2009, Assange was
deployed by his financier backers to hijack and disrupt a movement for
national economic survival through debt moratorium, the rejection of
interference by the International Monetary Fund, and re-launching the
productive economy through an ambitious program of national
infrastructure and the export of high technology capital goods, in
particular in the field of geothermal energy. Assange was able to
convince many in Iceland that these causes were not nearly radical
enough, and that they needed to devote their energies instead to
publishing a series of carefully pre-selected US government and other
documents, all of which somehow targeted governments and political
figures which London and Washington had some interest in embarrassing
and weakening. In other words, Assange was able to dupe honest
activists into going to work for the imperialist financiers. Assange
has no program except “transparency,” which is a constant refrain of the
US UK human rights mafia as it attempts to topple targeted governments
across the developing sector in particular.
“Yes we can” or “Food prices are too damn high!”
Tunisia is perhaps the first case in which Assange and Wikileaks can
make a credible claim to have detonated the coup. Most press accounts
agree that certain State Department cables which were part of the recent
Wikileaks document dumps and which focused on the sybaritic excess and
lavish lifestyle of the Ben Ali clan played a key role in getting the
Tunisian petit bourgeoisie into the streets. Thanks in part to Assange,
Western television networks were thus able to show pictures of the
Tunisian crowds holding up signs saying “Yes we can” rather than a more
realistic and populist “Food prices are too damn high!”
Ben Ali had been in power for 23 years. In Egypt, President Mubarak
has been in power for almost 30 years. The Assad clan in Syria have
also been around for about three decades. In Libya, Colonel Gaddafi has
been in power for almost 40 years. Hafez Assad was able to engineer a
monarchical succession to his son when he died 10 years ago, and Mubarak
and Gaddafi are trying to do the same thing today. Since the US does
not want these dynasties, The obvious CIA tactic is to deploy assets
like Twitter, Google, Facebook, Wikileaks, etc., to turn key members of
the youth bulge into swarming mobs to bring down the gerontocratic
regimes.
CIA Wants Aggressive New Puppets to Play Against Iran, China, Russia
All of these countries do of course require serious political as well
as economic reform, but what the CIA is doing with the current crop of
destabilizations has nothing to do with any positive changes in the
countries involved. Those who doubt this should remember the horrendous
economic and political record of the puppets installed in the wake of
recent color revolutions – people like the IMF-NATO kleptocrat agents
Yushchenko and Timoshenko in Ukraine, the mentally unstable warmongering
dictator Saakashvili in Georgia, and so forth. Political forces that
are foolish enough to accept the State Department’s idea of hope and
change will soon find themselves under the yoke of new oppressors of
this type. The danger is very great in Tunisia, since the forces which
ousted Ben Ali have no visible leader and no visible mass political
organization which could help them fight off foreign interference in the
way that Hezbollah was able to do in checkmating the Lebanese Cedars
putsch. In Tunis, the field is wide open for the CIA to install a
candidate of its own choosing, preferably under the cover of
“elections.” Twenty-three years of Ben Ali have unfortunately left
Tunisia in a more atomized condition.
Why is official Washington so obsessed with the idea of overthrowing
these governments? The answer has everything to do with Iran, China,
and Russia. As regards Iran, the State Department policy is notoriously
the attempt to assemble a united front of the entrenched Arab and Sunni
regimes to be played against Shiite Iran and its various allies across
the region. This had not been going well, as shown by the inability of
the US to install its preferred puppet Allawi in Iraq, where the
pro-Iranian Maliki seems likely to hold onto power for the foreseeable
future. The US desperately wants a new generation of unstable
“democratic” demagogues more willing to lead their countries against
Iran than the current immobile regimes have proved to be. There is also
the question of Chinese economic penetration. We can be confident that
any new leaders installed by the US will include in their program a
rupture of economic relations with China, including especially a cutoff
of oil and raw material shipments, along the lines of what Twitter
revolution honcho Mir-Hossein Mousavi was reliably reported to be
preparing for Iran if he had seized power there in the summer of 2009 at
the head of his “Death to Russia, death to China” rent-a-mob. In
addition, US hostility against Russia is undiminished, despite the
cosmetic effects of the recent ratification of START II. If for example
a color revolution were to come to Syria, we could be sure that the
Russian naval presence at the port Tartus, which so disturbs NATO
planners, would be speedily terminated. If the new regimes demonstrate
hostility against Iran, China, and Russia, we would soon find that
internal human rights concerns would quickly disappear from the US
agenda.
Key Destabilization Operatives of the Obama Regime
For those who are keeping score, it may be useful to pinpoint some of
the destabilization operatives inside the current US regime. It is of
course obvious that the current wave of subversion against the Arab
countries was kicked off by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her
much touted speech last week in Doha, Qatar last week, when she warned
assembled Arab leaders to reform their economies ( according to IMF
rules) and stamp out corruption, or else face ouster.
Given the critical role of Assange and Wikileaks in the current
phase, White House regulations czar Cass Sunstein must also be counted
among the top putschists. We should recall that on February 24, 2007
Sunstein contributed an article entitled “A Brave New Wikiworld” to the
Washington Post,
in which he crowed 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.” This was in fact the
big publicity breakthrough for Assange and the debut of Wikileaks in
the US mainstream press — all thanks to current White House official
Sunstein. May we not assume that Sunstein represents the White House
contact man and controller for the Wikileaks operation?
Every Tree in the Arab Forest Might Fall
Another figure worthy of mention is Robert Malley, a well-known US
left-cover operative who currently heads the Middle East and North
Africa program at the International Crisis Group (ICG), an organization
reputed to run on money coughed up by George Soros and tactics dreamed
up from Zbigniew Brzezinski. Malley was controversial during the 2008
presidential campaign because of the anti-Israeli posturing he affects,
the better to dupe the Arab leaders he targets. Malley told the
Washington Post
of January 16, 2011 that every tree in the Arab forest could now be
about to fall: “We could go through the list of Arab leaders looking in
the mirror right now and very few would not be on the list.” Arab
governments would be well advised to keep an eye on ICG operatives in
their countries.
Czar Cass Sunstein is now married to Samantha Power, who currently
works in the White House National Security Council as Special Assistant
to the President and Senior Director (boss) of the Office of
Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights – the precise bureaucratic home of
destabilization operations like the one in Tunisia. Power, like
Malley, is a veteran of the US intelligence community’s “human rights”
division, which is a past master of using legitimate beefs about
repression to to replace old US clients with new puppets in a
never-ending process of restless subversion. Both Malley and Power were
forced to tender pro forma resignations during the Obama presidential
campaign of 2008 – Malley for talking to Hamas, and Power for an obscene
tirade against Hillary Clinton, who is now her bureaucratic rival.
Advice to Arab Governments, Political Forces, Trade Unions
The Arab world needs to learn a few fundamental lessons about the
mechanics of CIA color revolutions, lest they replicate the tragic
experience of Georgia, Ukraine, and so many others. In today’s
impoverished world of economic depression, a reform program capable of
defending national interests against the rapacious forces of financial
globalization is the number one imperative.
Accordingly, Arab governments must immediately expel all officials of
the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and their subset of
lending institutions. Arab countries which are currently under the yoke
of IMF conditionalities (notably Egypt and Jordan among the Arabs, and
Pakistan among the Moslem states) must unilaterally and immediately
throw them off and reassert their national sovereignty. Every Arab state
should unilaterally and immediately declare a debt moratorium in the
form of an open-ended freeze on all payments of interest and principal
of international financial debt in the Argentine manner, starting with
sums allegedly owed to the IMF-World Bank. The assets of foreign
multinational monopolistic firms, especially oil companies, should be
seized as the situation requires. Basic food staples and fuels should
be subjected to price controls, with draconian penalties for
speculation, including by way of derivatives. Dirigist measures such as
protective tariffs and food price subsidies can be quickly introduced.
Food production needs to be promoted by production and import bounties,
as well as by international barter deals. National grain stockpiles
must be quickly constituted. Capital controls and exchange controls are
likely to be needed to prevent speculative attacks on national
currencies by foreign hedge funds acting with the ulterior political
motives of overthrowing national governments. Most important, central
banks must be nationalized and reconverted to a policy of 0% credit for
domestic infrastructure, agriculture, housing, and physical commodity
production, with special measures to enhance exports. Once these
reforms have been implemented, it may be time to consider the economic
integration of the Arab world as an economic development community in
which the foreign exchange earnings of the oil-producing states can be
put to work on the basis of mutual advantage for infrastructure and hard
commodity capital investment across the entire Arab world.
The alternative is an endless series of destabilizations masterminded by foreigners, and, quite possibly, terminal chaos.
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