the burbank digest

The Future Visible in St Petersburg
The Roving Eye, Pepe Escobar, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-290514.html

The unipolar model of the world order has failed – Vladimir Putin, St Petersburg, May 22, 2014

In more ways than one, last week heralded the birth of a Eurasian century. Of course the US$400 billion Russia-China gas deal was clinched at the last minute in Shanghai, on Wednesday (a complement to the June 2013, 25-year, $270 billion oil deal between Rosneft and China’s CNPC.)
Then, on Thursday, most of the main players were at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum — the Russian answer to Davos. And on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin, fresh from his Shanghai triumph, addressed the participants and brought the house down.
It will take time to appraise last week’s whirlwind in all its complex implications. Here are some of the St Petersburg highlights, in some detail. Were there fewer Western CEOs in town because the Obama administration pressured them – as part of the “isolate Russia” policy". Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley may have snubbed it, but Europeans who matter came, saw, talked and pledged to keep doing business. Asians were ubiquitous....yet another chapter in China’s counterpunch to Obama’s Asian tour in April, widely described as the “China containment tour”.1

Re:7/20 MH 17 & Gaza: 'Game Changers' for Whom? http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/506

correction comment:
BRICS, MH17 & Gaza: Game Changers for Whom? reflects the geopolitical situation and stakes. Also, the original commentary should have specifically mentioned the
inter-capitalist-rivalry game changer: BRICS in Brazil, where the most feared US rivals Russia & China, with a 'pro-american' bloc, birthed The New Development Bank as MH17 crashed and intensified genocide of Palestinians began:

Putin was attending the BRICS summit in Brazil, as was Chinese president Xi, with Caribbean and Latin American leaders

“The BRICS bank will be one of the major multilateral development finance institutions in this world,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday..

A Chinese oil rig exploring near disputed islands in the South China Sea is moving towards China's Hainan island after it had reported it had found signs of oil and gas.
7/16/14 http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN0FL04920140716

Powerful typhoon hits southern Chinese island Hainan
7/18 http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2024098188_20140718_apxasiastor...

BRICS Create Development Bank to Rival IMF, World Bank
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/559570/20140718/brics-development-bank-im...
July 15 the five-member nations BRICS group announced it will be ... Monetary Fund dominated the field will face competition from now on 

Emerging Nations Bloc to Open Development Bank
7/15/14 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/world/emerging-nations-bloc-to-open-de...

Commentary:
As the US 'global sweep' to salvage its world supremacy focuses on Ukraine & Gaza, its state terror continues ripping the entire world into pieces to destroy capitalist rivals Russia & China -unless they cooperate - and to eradicate anti-imperialist resistance, aka 'terrorism'.
This issue to tries illustrate not only the fascist depravity of US imperialism, but its geopolitical strategic weakness and last-stand desperation
For in-depth background and analysis of the US 'global restructuring' operation, obviously planned long before the "ISIS crisis pretext, see recent digest issues including:

Palestine: Gaza holocaust part of US desperate restructuring plan greenlighted by bogus "ISIS crisis'
http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/505

What's behind the ISIS Crisis"
http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/500

'ISIS' used to kick-off US global restructuring operation (see recent digest series)
US 'al qaeda spinoff death squads pretexts for all occasions
ISIS 'We are operating in Gaza
http://www.vocativ.com/world/israel-world/isis-operating-gaza/>http://www.vocativ.com/faq/
Beyond the claims and counter-claims, ISIS support among Gazans is growing—at least on on Twitter and YouTube, and in forums.

Fox confronts Kerry with hot-mike comment on Israel: ‘Hell of a pinpoint operation’
7/20/14 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/07/20/fox-conf...

"The three great imperatives of geopolitical strategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant, and to keep the barbarians from coming together."
Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997 - (Obama foreign policy adviser)

Theodore Hertzl founder of political zionism
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Israel/Hidden_Roots_Zionism.html
In 1896, Theodore Hertzl published The State of the Jews, the manifesto for a new political Zionist movement. Hertzl said Israel is to become "a bulwark against Asia...an advance post of civilization against barbarism." Israel is to become the watchdog. There is no fear Israel will undertake any aggressive policy towards the Arab states when this would explicitly contradict the wishes of the U.S. and Britain. But, if for any reasons the western powers should sometimes prefer to close their eyes, Israel could be relied upon to punish one or several neighboring states whose discourtesy to the west went beyond the bounds of the permissible.

US Vice President Joseph Biden Lays Wreath at Tomb of Theodor Herzl;
Merom gave Biden a copy of Herzl's book, Altneuland devoted to Zionism. In response Biden said: "You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. I am a Zionist.
http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/About/Updates/Personal+...

Document: 'Clinton told us to be quiet'
6/16/09 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/palestine-papers-documents/4660
Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian negotiator, summarizes Palestine Authority meetings in D.C. of Negotiation Support Unit and Committee Heads with Barack Obama (BO), Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden, Gen. Jim Jones, Rahm Emmanuel and at US Dept. of Defense request, with Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff and AM, Abu Mazen (Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas)

digest note:
USA dominated world soccer, suddenly like its "ISIS/ISIL/IS" dominated the 'middle east', as the US desperately tries to 'restructure' its gameplan by wrapping up the festering crisis of its world destruction into a massive sweep to 'recover'. piecemeal defeats. (Iraq crisis with Robin Wright and Les Gelb, CFR President Emeritus 6/15/14 http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60406197)
From the revved-up 'final solution' to Palestine, splitting Iraq, Syria and any nations it can't dominate into manageable pieces, US strategic communications revises its bizarre 'narratives', as the full-spectrum dominance information and surveillance war wraps the world with DARPA help, while also helping lead research on the neurogenomic 'reverse-engineering' BRAIN project.
The US finance capitalist state's internal and external crises interact dynamically: defeated by national resistance guerilla wars, confronted by the growing collaboration among 'upsurging' capitalist rivals' blocs allied with the two major US rivals China and Russia, its national security agenda necessarily becomes a less 'friendly face' fascist dictatorship by the hour.
The soccer 'go-usa-ims-puking-uber-nationalism driven,and framed by this geostrategic context, also signals desperate new developments.

Brazil's World Cup run over but political ramifications still unclear...analysts split over impact on Dilma Rousseff's re-election campaign
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/brazil-world-cup-postmortem...

Everyone wants to talk to Brazil's President Rousseff, except Obama
www.theguardian.com/ commentisfree/ cifamerica/ 2012/ apr/ 11/ brazil-president-rousseff-obama-

Brazilian president Rousseff: US spying a 'breach of international law'... scathing speech to UN general assembly the most serious diplomatic fallout over US spying revelations
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/24/brazil-president-un-speech-...

7/7/14 1pm Information Clearing House liz burbank · less than 1 minute ago Comment posted.
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ICH administrator Tom Feeley needs to explain why he deleted my comment on The Superpower And The Caliphate By Glen Ford, http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/superpower-and-caliphate
comprised of links below, original intro. sentence "Proof of Glen Ford's egregious error", resent with sentence "facts of the matter":

censored LINKS:

Gelb, author of Iraq tripartition plan and Wright another big US geostrategist discuss "ISIS" as opportunity for US to deal with the real crisis by re-ordering the entire region
Iraq crisis discussion with Robin Wright and Les Gelb, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations
6/15/14 http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60406197

The Three-State Solution
11/25/03 By LESLIE H. GELB, www.nytimes.com/2003/11/25/opinion/the-three-state-solution.html
Gelb, former Times editor and columnist, is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The only viable strategy may be to...move in stages toward a three-state solution: Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center and Shiites in the south. Almost immediately, this would allow America to put most of its money and troops where they would do the most good quickly -- with the Kurds and Shiites. The US could extricate most of its forces from the so-called Sunni Triangle, north and west of Baghdad, largely freeing US forces from fighting a costly war they might not win...then wait for the troublesome and domineering Sunnis, without oil or oil revenues, to moderate their ambitions or suffer the consequences....

Obama likes Biden-Gelb 'Soft Partition' Plan -- 'facilitate' eliminating Iraq by 'stabilization'
8/16/07 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lH0w_103Ec

Text of Biden-Gelb Amendment incorporated in H.R. 1585 and Sec. 1537 passed by both Houses of Congress

commentary:
The digest analyzes the US GWOT as a world war of a new type, born of US capitalism's deep structural political-economic crisis which can only be forestalled by restructuring the post WW2 US dominated world order. Today, at the expense of the planet and humanity, the US fascism stops at nothing to salvage its grip on global supremacy. Forced to adjust its tactics, it produced the 'al-qaeda' ISIS crisis as a pretext for an extremely desperate and dangerous regional 'restructuring' of the 'middle east' to achieve its bipartisan National Security domination geostrategy.
From the 1870s to 1914 World War I British imperialism ruled the the world... after WW1, US imperialism replaced UK as #1 imperialist power and set the stage imperialist 'peace' preparations for new world-division wars.
Throughout its history, the fundamental threat to western capitalism's survival has been and is now its class overthrow led by the working class with oppressed nations and peoples worldwide.
Billion dollar 'strategic communications & public diplomacy' indoctrination from birth to grave can't trump this reality,as US defeats by national liberation resistance wars (aka "terrorists", etc)
prove. Even in its 'homeland', knowing its war on the working class must intensify, the ruling class state has emergency 'civil strife' and martial law plans -- 'we the people' are the enemy, all resistance is 'terrorism'. Bandaids like Roosevelt's New Deal pacification program, subsequent capitalist 'bailouts', etc. designed to save the system and divert revolutionary warning signs, only deepen capitalism's inherent contradictions. Capitalist economic theorists' analyses promote bury the actual causes and role of capitalist crises -- analyzed by Marx in its rising stage and in its end stage by Lenin's 1916 'Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism' :

"People who shut their eyes to reality invite their own destruction, anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster."
James Baldwin 1924-1987

Commentary:
Note how NYT deflects the nature of the imperialist war for global hegemony -- which incidentally "also featured the initial step of the United States as a global power" - turning the world destabilizing effects into causes of US-led wars today to maintain the global domination won through imperialist wars. Plus its revealing omission of the world-shaking 1917
Bolshevik revolution that has driven US-European geostrategy even after Putin signed the SU's dissolution - before it became a forbidden US capitalist rival:
World War 1 brought fundamental changes to the world
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/world/europe/world-war-i-brought-funda...
World War I could be said to have begun in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, by a young nationalist seeking a greater Serbia. The four and a half years that followed, as the war spread throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia, reshaped the modern world in fundamental ways.

'Eliminating' Iraq, 'Unity by Dismemberment, has always been US 'exit strategy
US strategic communications/public diplomacy is the lynchpin since revising its state terror crisis 'news'''narrative' is critical to its never-ending--in-crimes-in-progress
"Dismemberment for unity": Imperialist geostrategists must rewrite US divide-to-conquer history to sell an 'enduring regional" solution to salvage its failed global supremacy

US-IRAQ sudden miraculous discovery of ISIS threat to the entire 'middle east' and US 'homeland'
How an arrest in Iraq revealed ISIS $2bn jihadist network
6/14/14 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/15/iraq-isis-arrest-jihadists-...
Seizure of 160 computer flash sticks revealed the inside story of the ISIS band of militants that came from nowhere with nothing, to having Syrian oil fields and control of Iraq's second city
Officials, including CIA officers, were still decrypting and analysing the flash sticks when Abu Hajjar's prophecy was realised. ISIS swept through much of northern and central Iraq over three stunning days, seizing control of Mosul and Tikrit and threatening Kirkuk as three divisions of the Iraqi army shed their uniforms and fled. The capitulation of the military and the rapid advances of the insurgents have dramatically changed the balance of power in Iraq, crippled prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, allowed Kurdish forces to seize control of the disputed city of Kirkuk and galvanised a Shia fightback along sectarian lines, posing a serious threat to the region's fragile geopolitics...

National Strategy for Victory in Iraq
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/iraq_strategy_nov2005.html

CONTERINSURGENCE is COUNTER-REVOLUTION:
Just 2 examples below of what's an integral part of US-UK history: state terror plus training military forces of dominated nations to kill & die for the enemy
This wad only one campaign in 36 years US genocide in Guatemals
Special Forces "Operation Guatemala" counterinsurgency campaign led by Col. Carlos Arana Osorio kills more than 8,000 people...White Hand and other right wing death squads, believed to be responsible for more than 30,000 deaths over the next seven years.
http://isla.igc.org/Features/Guatemala/guate1.html

1970-1990: US counter-insurgency war in El Salvador
9/8/06 www.libcom.org/ history/ 1970-1990-the-war-of-counter-insurgency-in-el-salvador -
The US was losing a major base for regional exercise of force...

'proposal' for more of the same: 'shift' even more burden onto 'partners'...to 'end wars' it cannot win - and 'producing its own gravediggers'
Obama proposes foreign policy shift..
5/28/14 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/28/obama-foreign-policy-shift-...
“We must shift our counter-terrorism strategy – drawing on the successes and shortcomings of our experience in Iraq and Afghanistan – to more effectively partner with countries where terrorist networks seek a foothold”...“We have been through a long season of war,” he told the first West Point class to graduate since 9/11 who are unlikely to be sent immediately into combat. In the future “US military action cannot be the only – or even primary – component of our leadership in every instance...."

Afghanistan Troop Draw-Down: Shift from CounterInsurgency to Counterterrorism
7/8/11 CHHS, University of Maryland, Center for Health & Homeland Security
http://www.mdchhs.com/blog/afghanistan-troop-draw-down-shift-counter-ins...

FYI: US military doc. sources
http://www.securityinfonet.com/military/counterinsurgency-COIN.htm#Repor...