The Last Word on Terrorism

The Last Word on Terrorism

By James Corbett
The Corbett Report
22 February, 2011

TRANSCRIPT:

Welcome. This is James Corbett of corbettreport.com with the last word on terrorism.

In an interview with Bloomberg earlier this month regarding the unfolding political unrest in Egypt, Henry Kissinger made at least one very telling statement:

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That Kissinger would equate Nasserism with terrorism is particularly galling to those who are even passingly familiar with the history of the region. As is typical with such pronouncements by the mouthpieces of the global elite, the easily demonstrable truth is precisely the opposite of what Kissinger asserts. He just thinks his audience is too historically ignorant to call him on his lie.

In 1952 British troops in the Suez Canal area became embroiled in a fight with local police, resulting in the slaughter of 50 Egyptian policemen and the wounding of 100 more. The furious Egyptian public, long suffering under the reign of King Farouk, a pro-British regent who lived in opulence while his people struggled, organized into riots and a cadre of Egyptian army officers calling themselves “The Free Officers Movement” overthrew the king and instituted a republic. They were led by Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein who became the second president of Egypt in 1956.

From the beginning, Nasser was hated and feared by the international oligarchs who had become used to having a puppet regime in power over the key Suez Canal shipping route. Nasser was nothing like King Farouk. Young, charismatic and polished, Nasser set about creating a modern, secular Egyptian state that was to become the template for a new movement, Pan-Arab Nationalism, that threatened the status quo of Western imperial dominance over the region.

Foregoing the royal lifestyle of Egyptian leaders past, Nasser redirected the state’s resources into building up housing, education and health services for the Egyptian people. An adherent to neutralism and the Non-aligned movement, Nasser assured the eternal enmity of the imperial powers and the eternal love of the Arab people by nationalizing the Suez Canal in 1956. For the first time the Egyptian people would have control over their most strategic asset.

Naturally, the prospect of a defiant, viable, secular Arab nationalist state as a model for other Arab nations to follow was anathema to British-U.S.-Israeli interests, and plans to derail Nasser were hatched before he had even become President. Among these plans was the now-infamous Lavon Affair, an Israeli military intelligence plot to plant bombs throughout Egypt in order to blame on nationalists, communists, Muslims or “unspecified malcontents” in order to justify continued British occupation of the Suez Canal zone.

The Israeli military-intelligence cell, code-named Unit 131 and led by Colonel Avram Dar, firebombed a post office in Alexandria, and planted bombs in two U.S. Information Agency libraries and a British-owned theater in Cairo. When the outrageous operation was foiled and one of the bombers was apprehended in the act, the truth was exposed. Israeli intelligence was using false-flag terrorism to manipulate public opinion and achieve their desired result: political destabilization that would induce Britain to maintain their military control over the area.

The easily-documented truth, then, is precisely the opposite of Kissinger’s fact-free assertion. Nasser was not the cause of terrorism in Egypt, but the target of it. But why would someone like Kissinger, someone whose very reputation depends upon his “historical knowledge” and “political acumen,” tell such a transparent lie? The answer is simple. When Kissinger uses the word “terrorism” he is not using it as a descriptive term about acts of political violence and bloodshed. He is using the word itself as a political weapon.

You see, to Kissinger and the other adherents of the globalist ideology, “terrorism” is simply a word for any act or any person or any movement that threatens the agenda of the globalists. In this twisted worldview, those who believe that national autonomy is more important than the needs of international finance capital are terrorists. Those who are opposed to the free trade agreements that have offshored the manufacturing base of the first world and consigned the developing world to squalor are terrorists. Those who uphold the principle that the people are the arbiters of their own lives and that these lives should not be subject to the whims of multinational corporations are terrorists.

That Nasser was so vehemently and treacherously opposed by the globalists with a vested interest in stopping a stable, secular, Arab state is not surprising, nor is it by any means the only example of this phenomenon. On the contrary, the twentieth century is littered with such examples.

In 1951 Mohammed Mossadegh, the democratically-elected leader of Iran, nationalized British Petroleum interests in the country. Two years later a CIA team led by Kermit Roosevelt, the president’s grandson, provocateured, funded and fomented a coup d’état against Mossadegh, a coup that installed the autocratic Shah as leader and paved the way for SAVAK security forces to begin a reign of terror and torture, To the globalists, however, the Shah was the good guy and Mossadegh had been the terrorist.

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