France helps to extend the Caliphate to Mali

So France’s new Socialist government is now actively intervening militarily in Mali.

Of course, it may be a ruse to deflect attention from Francois Holland’s humiliation over the tax on the rich issue, with Gerald Depardieu proudly displaying his newly-issued Russian passport, and the French courts declaring the proposed 75% rate unlawful.

But France is also pursuing geopolitical aims which would have fitted well with the policy of  Little Sarko.

The military intervention is against Malian Islamists, whom France is said to be particularly worried about since they are French-speaking and have said they intend to target French persons and interests.

The situation is, however, confused, by the fact that the Algerians, to the north of Mali, are concerned about Al-qaeda in the Magreb (AQIM) and by the fact that Libya has become a nation-sized safe haven for the militantly Islamist Libyan Islamist Fighting Group (LIFG). This latter point is correct, because France, along with its NATO allies installed the Islamists extremists in Libya in 2012.

So France and its allies are supposedly fighting Islamists in Mali when in Libya and elsewhere they have been actively helping them!

It sounds bizarre, and in some ways it is, but we must remember that the British helped create the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood as far back as 1928, and the West has been using these religious extremists to keep secular leftists in check. Heaven forbid that there be some sort of fair economic settlement in these currently impoverished countries.

The money for these bloody operations is provided by the reactionary monarchies of the Gulf, Saudi Arabia and Quatar above all. Already, the Islamists are penetrating Mali, but let’s not forget the Al-qaeda fighters in Syria, gathered from all around the Middle East, from Tunisia, from the Sunni regions of Iraq, and elsewhere.

A Conspiracy Treatise from Academia: Tragedy and Hope

Professor Carrol Quigley of Georgetown University was a consummate insider of the American foreign policy establishment, rooted as it is in organisations like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Quigley, who died in 1977 at the relatively young age of 66, was the subject of a tribute by one of his former students, Bill Clinton, at the 1992 Democratic Convention. Indeed, some have attributed Clinton’s political success to the grounding in foreign affairs that he received under his mentor at Georgetown.

Quigley claims that in the early 1960s he was invited by the foreign policy establishment to look through the various secret archives and come up with a history of the world in his time. Quigley bought into all the stuff about the Anglo-American partnership, the roundtable groups set up by Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner, and believed that these secret organisations should be more open about the good work that they were doing.

The trouble was that when Quigley published his book, Tragedy and Hope, in 1966, it revealed a little too much, to the horror of the foreign policy establishment. On page 324 of the book we find  this extraordinary claim regarding the intentions of the global financial elite.

The powers of financial capitalism had [a] far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations.

This is not a quotation taken out of context. It appears bang in the middle of a discussion about the activities of banks and financial institutions during the inter-war years. Quiqley’s book began to sell, slowly at first, then with increasing rapidity. It attracted not  only the unwelcome attentions of the foreign policy and financial elite. Conspiracy researchers, such as Gary Allen, author of None Dare Call it Conspiracy, sat up and took note. Readers are encouraged to read this well-written account of recent history, either by purchasing a copy of their own, or by encouraging their local public library to get hold of one. There is also an online version, and there is a 40-page summary.

Quigley charged some of the conspiracy writers of attributing views to him which he did not in fact hold. Other writers, such as Antony C. Sutton and F. William Engdahl, accused Quigley of downplaying the role of the Wall Street bankers in financing both Hitler and also the Bolsheviks.

The sales of the book, which was originally published in 1966, started off slowly, but gained in pace and topped 8, 000. Quigley’s publishers, Macmillan, told the author that they would publish a reprint, but they never did, and Quigley subsequently found out that the plates for the book had been destroyed. The professor’s conclusion was that someone was attempting to suppress his work.

Gary North, a friend of Gary Allen, subsequently claimed that Gary Allen had been told by an associate of Quigley’s that the professor had, during the latter days of his life, radically changed his mind about the benevolence of the elites he had once supported.

Putin Digs In

The last couple of weeks, we’ve been subjected to all sorts of stories from the MSM on the question of Syria. The upshot of all these propaganda pieces, especially those from the Beelzebub Broadcasting Coven, is that Moscow has finally decided to cut its ties to the Assad regime. Ergo, stories of Russian naval deployments with the aim of evacuating Russian citizens from that beleagered country.

This line of argument never made any sense to me. The dispute between NATO and Syria is not about human rights violations. If it was, NATO would not be employing Al-qeda fighters from Iraq, Afganistan and Libya. The only remotely rational approach to the NATO aggression is to see it as part of an attempt to undermine the defence of Iran. Syria plays a key part in that defence. In the event of an attack on the Islamic Republic, Syria would be a key conduit for arms supplies to Hezbollah forces on Israel’s borders.

And far from evacuating, Russia is clearly deploying troops and forces, as can be seen here.

Five landing ships containing marines and military equipment are in the area, surrounded by a fleet of combat ships.

meanwhile, let’s just briefly consider the role of western liberal journalists, the ones who staff the Sunday papers. They almost to a man (and a woman) decry Assad and call for his replacement, apparently oblivious to the complex ethnic make-up of Syria, split between Sunnis, Shias, Alawites, Kurds and Christians. Our Al-qeda friends are more than keen to start their ethnic cleansing, but it’s Assad who is the whipping boy.

I guess it’s difficult to get journos like Jeremy Bowen and Joan Williams to understand when their salaries depend on them not understanding! Little wonder that Gerald Celente was forced to come up with the soubriquet “prestitutes” to describe these people.