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Syria’s Oil: The EU Al-Qaeda Oil Consortium
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May, 2013
The
decision of the European Union to lift the embargo on Syrian
government’s energy exports by importing oil from the ‘armed
opposition’ is another flagrant violation of international law. It
violates the UN General Assembly declaration of 1962 on Permanent
Sovereignty over Natural Resources and is yet another violation of
the 1981 UN declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention and
Interference in the Internal Affairs of States. But it is much more
than a technical violation of the law. It marks the decent of
civilization into barbarism.
London
and Paris, have more than Washington, been at the forefront of
aggression against Syria. In spite of the fact that it has now been
confirmed by most media sources that the Syrian ‘opposition’ is
Al-Qaeda, London and Paris persist in their insane drive to
arm the terrorists, using the spurious argument that if they don’t
arm the ‘moderates’ the ‘extremists’ will take over the
country. However, in the words of the New York Times, ‘nowhere in
rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak
of’. [1] The fact that the Syrian ‘rebels’ are in fact Al-
Qaeda has even been admitted by the war-mongering French daily
Le Monde.[2]
So,
Paris and London are pushing for further arming of Al-Qaeda and the
legalization of oil trading with the jihadi terrorists. In plain
language this means that the loose, terrorist network known to the
world as Al-Qaeda will soon become one of the EU’s partners in the
oil business. A new absurd chapter in the Era of Terror is about to
be enacted.
International
law and its violators.
The
1962 UN Resolution 1803 on the Permanent Sovereignty Over Natural
Resources states:
‘Violation
of the rights of peoples and nations to sovereignty over their
natural wealth and resources is contrary to the spirit and
principles of the Charter of the United Nations and hinders the
development of international co-operation and the maintenance of
peace’[3]
Japhat
Al-Nusra and other Al-Qaeda affiliated groups do not in any way
represent the Syrian people, nor do they constitute a sovereign
state according to the categories of international law. The
‘armed opposition’ IS Al-Qaeda. Therefore, the European Union’s
decision to officially buy oil from terrorist gangs currently
occupying territories in the Syrian Arab Republic constitutes a
heinous crime and makes a further mockery of the basic principles
governing the relations between states.
The
1981 UN document explicitly condemns:
‘the
increasing threat to international peace and security owing to
frequent recourse to the threat or use of force, aggression
,intimidation, military intervention and occupation, escalation of
military presence and all other forms of intervention or
interference, direct or indirect, overt or covert, threatening the
sovereignty and political independence of other States, with the aim
of overthrowing their Governments’,
The
declaration goes on to categorically condemn the deployment of
‘armed bands’ and ‘mercenaries’ by states for the use of
overthrowing the governments of other sovereign states:
‘Conscious
of the fact that such policies endanger the political independence
of States, freedom of peoples and permanent sovereignty over their
natural resources, adversely affecting thereby the maintenance of
international peace and security,
Conscious
also of the imperative need for any threat of aggression, any
recruitment, any use of armed bands, in particular mercenaries,
against sovereign States to be completely ended, so as to enable the
peoples of all States to determine their own political, economic and
social systems without external interference or control’ [4]
Western
governments, who for many years have been openly and shamelessly
violating all known and agreed principles of international law,
arming terrorist gangs who murder and maim civilians, funding common
criminals who traffic drugs and recruit child-soldiers, have now
descended to a new low by purchasing oil and gas from these same
terrorist gangs, natural resources which are legally the property of
the Syrian Arab Republic and its citizens.
EU
governments colluding with terrorists
Europe’s
descent into absolute moral turpitude and lawlessness is further
reflected in the fact that EU authorities are doing nothing to
prevent brainwashed Muslim youths from traveling to Syria in order
to fight NATO’s war. Yet, the officials of EU states readily admit
that hundreds if not thousands of jihadis from Britain, Ireland,
Spain, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and other states are now
joining the ranks of the so-called ‘Syrian rebels’. But
they also admit that their only concern is that these terrorists
might be a threat to European security if they ever return. The fact
that these terrorists are putting bombs in busy market squares;
cars; universities; schools; hospitals and mosques throughout Syria,
and that US State Department’s own reports confirm this, doesn’t
seem to bother the EU’s governments. Their only concern is that
they might eventually bite the hand that feeds. [5] The EU
‘anti-terror’ chief Gilles de Kerchove tells the BBC:
“Not
all of them are radical when they leave, but most likely many of
them will be radicalized there, will be trained
“And
as we’ve seen this might lead to a serious threat when they get
back.”[6]
We
know from Israeli intelligence sources that most of the terrorists
are being trained in US/NATO military bases in Turkey and Jordon.[7]
So,
why doesn’t the EU’s ‘anti-terror’ chief seem to know about
this? This is the man responsible for protecting Europe from
terrorism? As I reported before, France’s ‘anti-terror’
magistrate actually admitted on French state radio in January
11th that the French government was on the same side as
Al-Qaeda in Syria:
“There
are many young jihadists who have gone to the Turkish border in
order to enter Syria to fight Bachar’s regime, but the only
difference is that there France is not the enemy. Therefore we don’t
look on that in the same way. To see young men who are at the moment
fighting Bachar Al-Assad, they will be perhaps dangerous in the
future but for the moment they are fighting Bachar Al-Assad and
France is on their side; they will not attack us’’.[8]
The
cynical double standard which states that all territories outside
the EU are barbaric and therefore outside the realm of international
law has now become a policy that goes unnoticed by Europe’s
brainwashed masses. Euro-Atlantic powers are not only behaving
like criminals but are now openly displaying their criminality. One
should also note that the French government has now decided to call
the Syrian president by his first name. Calling a state official by
his first name is a sign of deep disrespect in French etiquette.
Since the Sarkozy regime, French diplomacy has been dragged through
the mud, with France’s diplomatic corps now behaving like a cross
between spoilt brats and fascist thugs.
Syria’s
Oil Geopolitics
The
quest for sources of cheap energy is one of the geopolitical
contexts driving the war in Syria. Christof Lehmann has written that
the discovery of the Iranian Pars gas field in 2007 and Teheran’s
plan to pipe the gas to the Eastern Mediterranean by constructing a
pipeline through Iraq and Syria holds the potential of turning Iran
into a global economic power, giving Teheran enormous leverage over
the EU’s Middle East policy. This development would pose a threat
to the Zionist entity. It would pose an existential threat to the
despotic emirates of the Gulf, who depend on the power of the
petro-dollar for their survival.[9]
That
is one of the reasons why NATO and the Gulf Cooperation Council are
using Al-Qaeda terrorists to break the Shite-led alliance of Iran,
Iraq, Syria and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. As Italian geographer Manlio
Dinucci has reported, contrary to received opinion, Syria actually
has massive energy reserves.
Dinucci
writes:
‘The
U.S. / NATO strategy focuses on helping rebels to seize the oil
fields with a twofold purpose: to deprive the Syrian state of
revenue from exports, already strongly decreased as a result of the
EU embargo, and to ensure that the largest deposits pass in the
future, through the “rebels” under the control of the big
Western oil companies. [10]
The
first implementation of the ‘humanitarian intervention’ ideology
was during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Since then, the
truncated entity called Kosovo has become Europe’s number one
criminal state, run by a convicted organ and drug trafficking mass
murderer called Hacim Al Thaci, a protégé of Brussels and
Washington. This is the kind of narco-mafia anti-state NATO has
installed in Libya since the Blitzkrieg against that country in 2011
and it is the type of criminal regime that will rule over Syrians if
NATO succeeds in bombing that country.
One
can read hundreds of articles in the mainstream press about the
criminality of the Kosovar regime and articles describing the chaos
in post-Gaddafi Libya have not been rare. But the same media outlets
will systematically ignore the fact that they were the ones cheering
on the CIA’s Kossovo Liberation Army during the destruction of
Yugoslavia. The same prestitutes are now pushing for more arming of
the terrorists in Syria and for military intervention by NATO.
The
closing of the European mind
The
pontificators of European integration and Europe’s role in the
world like to pepper their speeches with pompous references to the
‘rule of law’ and the universality of ‘European values’.
This
specious rhetoric is unceasingly drummed into European students
throughout our universities and institutions of higher learning and
it is repeated ad nauseum by the mass media. The people now using
Al-Qaeda terrorism to further their interests in the Middle East
teach courses in prestigious European universities on ‘international
relations’.
It
is no wonder ordinary people are incapable of seeing and
understanding what is happening before their very eyes. The sheer
scale and complexity of the global institutional networks built upon
an empire of lies, self-righteousness and deceit is simply too
overwhelming for the unschooled intellect to comprehend. Something
in our order-seeking minds rejects reality when its horror surpasses
our horizons of tolerance and intelligibility. As a result, the mind
recoils, filters out the real, preferring instead to see in our
masters the expression of complex, contradictory and arcane
policies, whose moral content is consigned to the studies of
‘experts’ and ‘specialists’, who are themselves the products
and propagandists of the same corrupt institutions.
There
are now so many academic institutions, conferences; foundations;
think tanks; policy institutes and university courses proclaiming
the virtues of ‘humanitarian intervention’ that it has acquired
the status of a dogma. The repetition and reproduction of this dogma
by the scholastics of neo-liberal academia has turned that which
critical reason would normally scoff at into an apriori principle of
‘global governance’.
In
chapter 22 of his seminal work on international law De Juri Belli ac
Pacis, (On the Law of War and Peace), the great 17th century
Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius wrote:
‘Some
wars were founded upon real motives and others only upon colorful
pretexts. This distinction was first noticed by Polybius, who calls
the pretexts, profaseis and the real causes, aitias.
Thus Alexander made war upon Darius, under the pretense of avenging
the former wrongs done by the Persians to the Greeks. But the real
motive of that bold and enterprising hero was the easy acquisition
of wealth and dominion, which the expeditions of Xenophon and
Agesilaus had opened to his view.’ [13]
Little
has changed since the days of Alexander the Great. Wars are still
fought for pillage and plunder and the furtherance of empire.
Polybius’s vocabulary of ‘profaseis’ and ‘aitias’ will be
useful here. Since the start of the Syrian nightmare in 2011, the
‘profaseis’ propagated by corporate media agencies calling for
military intervention in Syria has been the desire to ‘protect
civilians’ from a ‘brutal regime’. Only the naïve and
ignorant could now defend such nonsense as the same media agencies
have finally admitted that the ‘opposition’ is in fact Al-Qaeda,
a fact the alternative media have been pointing out since the
beginning of the violence in Deraa in March 2011.
NATO’s
‘aitias’ in this conflict is clear: break up and destroy an
independent sovereign state; rob and pillage all of its resources;
rape and terrorize its citizens into submission by unleashing
drugged and brain-washed death squads on the population; constantly
blame all of this on the ‘regime’, then finish the country off
with an intensive aerial bombing campaign before installing a crime
syndicate to run the country. Finally, call that holocaust freedom.
Call that holocaust democracy. It’s a tried and trusted formula
which is now being deployed all over the world in NATO’s
megalomaniacal drive for global supremacy.
Grotius
again:
‘Others
make -use of pretexts, which though plausible at first sight, will
not bear the examination and test of moral rectitude, and, when
stripped of their disguise, such pretexts will be found fraught with
injustice. In such hostilities, says Livy, it is not a trial of
right, but some object of secret and unruly ambition, which acts as
the chief spring. Most powers, it is said by Plutarch, employ the
relative situations of peace and war, as a current specie, for the
purchase of whatever they deem expedient.’
In
the war-ravaged 17th century Europe of Hugo Grotius, to
establish the distinction between profaseis and aitias or the
pretexts and real reasons for war was not considered heretical in
the domain of rigorous juridical discourse. Today, those who make
such distinctions are dismissed as ‘paranoid conspiracy
theorists’. In an interview entitled LA PENSÉE CRITIQUE
COMME DISSOLVANT DE LA DOXA,(Critical Thought as a solvent of
Doxa)French sociologist Loic Wacquant argues that ‘never before
have false thought and false science been so prolix and
ubiquitous.’[14]
In
this age of technological lawlessness, the basic precepts of
international and domestic law have been dismantled. With the
promulgation of the Patriot Act and now the National Defense
Authorization Act, the United States has regressed to the kind of
juridical tyranny that preceded the drafting of the Petition of
Right in the England of 1628, a document denouncing imprisonment
without trial, torture and martial law and providing the legal and
moral groundwork for the English Revolution of 1640.
Conclusion
It
behooves us all to reflect upon the current war in the Levant. What
we are witnessing is the destruction of the Westphalian state system
and a return to the kind of chaos of the 17th century’s
Thirty Years War, except this time it is festering on the borders of
Europe where the principle of bellum se ipsum alet, war will feed
itself, is being acted out by private military corporations, drug
gangs, terrorist networks and international crime syndicates linked
directly and indirectly to the ideological state apparatuses of the
Atlantic powers.
And
so, the KLA have been training the ‘Syrian Free Army’, while
Libya’s Islamic Fighting Group has also joined the ‘holy war’
in Syria. Like the Thirty Years War, the armed gangs and mercenaries
are funding themselves by pillaging the local economies and selling
their booty as contraband. Whole factories in Syria have been
dismantled and stolen by mercenaries in the service of Turkey and
Qatar, while the drug trade is now booming like never before. When
one country is destroyed and reduced to despotic fiefdoms and
emirates, Western corporations move in with their private military
companies and proceed to pillage the country’s resources,
unhindered by the rules and regulations of the Sovereign State. The
terrorist hordes then move on to the next country on NATO’s hit
list. This is NATO’s strategy of chaos, a form of liquid warfare
that is spreading rapidly throughout the Southern Hemisphere.
Given
the criminality of Western oil companies in the past, it is perhaps
not entirely surprising that they would now, in the form of the EU,
be openly buying oil from terrorist organizations. What is
surprising, however, is the morbid insouciance of Europe’s
populations. How could there be so many ‘respectable’
people in our media and academic institutions prepared to
collaborate with these mobsters? Why have there been few if any
significant demonstrations against NATO? How is it possible that the
powers that be should be allowed to get away with such unmitigated
criminality?
The
Roman poet Horace wrote- neglecta solent incendia sumere vires -a
neglected fire always gathers in strength. Since the destruction of
the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan by the Western-backed
Mujahedeen terrorists in the 1979, sovereign states have fallen prey
to mercenaries and terrorist gangs backed by Western imperialism,
while civil liberties have been curtailed in America and Europe in
the name of the ‘War on Terrorism’.
The
fire has since spread to the former Yugoslavia; Rwanda; Côte
d’Ivoire; Sudan; Somalia; Iraq; DRC; Chechnya,Libya and now Syria.
If people don’t wake up and mobilize against the criminals
planning these wars, the flames of destruction will eventually come
home in the form of martial law, and a fascist, panopticon police
state which will be deemed necessary during the prosecution of a
Third World War against Iran, Russia and China. If this fire of
terrorism is not put out in Syria, it will continue into the
Caucasus, Central Asia, the Russian Federation and Eastern China
until all possible resistance to NATO’s drive for ‘full spectrum
dominance’ is eliminated and a tyrannical, corporate hyper-state
rules over the planet.
World
wars have happened in the past and given the scelerate Will-to-Power
of our current rulers, there is no reason to believe that a world
war will not happen again. Many in the West, inured to televised
violence and indifferent to distant wars, have a tendency to believe
that politics is a domain that does not affect them. But in the
words of the French politician Charles de Montalambert ‘Vous
avez beau ne pas
vous occuper de politique, la politique s’occupe de vous tout de
même.’[It
is easy for you not to be concerned about politics, but politics,
however, is concerned about you] In the light of current events the
statement merits reflection.
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