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RT: My name is Daniel Bushell. Senators warn of nuclear attacks on America as Israel explores Syrian land. Coming up . . . Announcer: Rebels warn they’ll strike the US; Even weather forecasts are now used as a weapon and why Syria is being called 'The last battle'. RT: Sixteen degrees in Homs means at 1600, cameras for Saudi Al Arabiya and Qatar's Al Jazeera will be in Homs town square. Turn up, shout a rebel slogan for five minutes and get paid in cash by the Saudi-US networks, which can then show this country's in chaos. Highly skeptical of the CNN and BBC versions, parliamentarian Nick Griffin went to see what Syria was actually like. He found it fairly different. Nick Griffin: This place is really quite normal. Look at this, how do you explain that? This is a warzone. But there is still a war being waged against these poor people and obviously it has a human effect as well. Having said that, I hope you’ve seen in last few minutes just how banal, just absolutely ordinary and normal most life here is. RT: Nick joins us now great to see you. So whether Saudi Wahhabis or US-backed Al-Qaeda, is this foreign-driven? Nick Griffin, Member of European Parliament: It clearly is foreign-driven and it's most definitely Islamist. I did an interview with a rebel who was a suicide bomber - failed - who still believed he was in a rebel hospital because of head injuries and so on. And so I asked him posing as a British jihadi volunteer, I asked him 'Where you gonna go once you've conquered Syria?' and quick as a flash he comes back and says: 'We're gonna attack Europe, we're gonna attack America, because they are the real enemy'. RT: What happens when Obama gets enough Congress support to bomb Syria? Nick Griffin: A US attack on Syria will drag in Iran, it will drag in Israel, even the Egyptians have said that they will probably close the Suez Canal. If the Straits of Hormuz are closed as well, then oil will go up to $400 a barrel almost overnight, which will snuff out any form of economic recovery all over the industrialized world, and plunge us into a depression which will go on for years. There’s the incredible tensions in the Far East between China and Japan and again America. Look back on this and think well this was the summer like 1913. RT: Israel's bombed a Russian depot in Syria. Russia's moved warships to the region, and called the biggest military drills since the Cold War. Moscow and Beijing held their biggest joint military exercises in history. Former NSA intelligence officer Scott Rickard joins us, great to speak to you. What happens when one of these countries actually retaliates ? Scott Rickard, former intelligence officer: Honor that I believe Assad has because had he retaliated against Israel there would be an all-out war and he basically saved the lives of his people by not retaliating. What surprised me the most this week is you had McCain say 'They haven’t retaliated, so we can attack them any time we want.' Help Kickstart World War III video by The Second City Network: - Hi! I’m Steve. - I’m Irene. - I’m Lisa. - My name is Tom. - I’m a graphic designer. - College freshman. - Stay-at-home mum with a full time job. - Scholar on social policy and a barista. - And I’m just like you. - I’m an Obama supporter. - I support President Obama. - But the president needs your help. - Our president can’t launch into another war without YOU. - That’s why we here at the ‘American's for Whatever Barack Obama Wants, did you know he’s friends with Jay-Z?’ have launched a kickstarter campaign, to fund World War III. - And America is deada** broke, so our goal is to raise $1.6 trillion dollars on behalf of the US government. - That’s where you come in. - Even a small donation will make all the difference. - A $100 donation gives you a day pass to leave your local refugee camp. - You will probably end up in a refugee camp, but it will have free Wi-Fi. - Why? Because Obama. - Because Obama. RT: Senator Graham warns if the US won't attack Syria, a nuke will hit South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. On the very same day a nuclear warhead without authorizing signature was transferred to South Carolina notes investigative site Storyleak. Storyleak editor Anthony Gucciardi joins us, thanks a lot for speaking to us. Nuclear war - this is another level. Anthony Gucciardi, Storyleak editor: Senator Lindsey Graham is essentially threatening the United States, whether he’s got intel on this, or another high-level source, elements of the government are now threatening us that if we don’t attack Syria there could be a nuclear incident, right after they transported a nuclear weapon. They need something crazy - the chemical attack was not enough. We're looking at a potential serious false flag event to push us into this, because Obama can’t slime his way into Syria. Jeanine Pirro, Fox News: There's no endgame, and we can’t afford, nor do we want a War World III. And speaking of that mister president, didn’t you win the Nobel Peace Prize? Yeah, you were the one. Give it back! RT: Obama previously admitted Syria isn't a threat or even strategically important for the States. Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar joins us, great to speak to you, so who's actually gaining from Syria's breakup? Pepe Escobar, Asia Times: That’s very important to remind people all the time the Israeli state does not have fixed borders, they’re not delimitated on a map, they can expand all over from the Sinai to the borders of Iran one day. That’s the problem. This idea of Eretz Israel, Greater Israel is the number one impediment. If they would sit down on a table to discuss Palestine they would have to delimitate their borders… finally! This is what everybody's expecting, they would not be able to annex people’s territories any more. Nothing is corroborated historically in fact, this is a wet dream. In the case of Southern Lebanon in fact it's because of water. There’s a lot of water in Southern Lebanon and Israel needs water, so we go back to ‘It’s the water, stupid’. This explains everything that happens in terms of Israel trying to annex Southern Lebanon. RT: We're now seeing the same dual-citizenship politicians who pushed the US into Iraq disaster, back on our screens. Escobar: The return from the living dead of neocons, which never disappeared, Paul Wolfowitz came back from the dead like he was a Michael Jackson video extra this past weekend on CNN plugging, what else? War in the Middle East! Nothing has changed. The false flags and all that crazy stuff happening 12 years ago in the runup to the war in Iraq. The difference now it’s crazier, mad mad world as we were discussing, much faster and out of control, because we know, if anything happens in Syria, even Kissinger said that many times, Syria is the fulcrum in the Arab world, whatever happens in Syria spreads all over. RT: Spreading all over the region unrest in Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Egypt. Tel Aviv's already granted gas fields in Syria's occupied Golan Heights, reports Intellihub, to a company of Rupert Murdoch, whose media are currently banging Syria's war drums. The book Questioning the War the Terror notes chaos may be good for Israel's expansion, but the US just gains new enemies. The book's author joins us. Dr. Kevin Barrett, great to speak to you. How can US policy be against its interests? Dr. Kevin Barrett, author of Questioning the War the Terror: Traditionally the Democrats got more than two thirds of the campaign contributions that flow in to their federal elections from the aggressively pro-Israeli fraction and that was earmarked, support for Israel was the condition of taking that money. The Clean Break document was issued by Benjamin Netanyahu and the neoconservative mostly Americans who also happen to be dual citizens. People like Wolfowitz, Perle, Scooter Libby all of those people. And this document proposed regime change in these Middle Eastern countries, essentially overthrowing all of these independent Middle Eastern countries and imposing imperial control. These people really do want to create Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates. Israel working with its Saudi partners underwrote this coup d'etat against the first democracy ever in the 5,000 year history of Egypt. The indications are that they're going to keep stealing territory. Not only they will refuse to give back the Golan Heights, they're going to take Sinai they’re already creating all kinds of instability in Sinai. They came right out and said that what they want is three mini rump-states in Syria. RT: An Israeli general said Syria's part of a new axis of evil. Is that fair? Barrett: Israel, Saudi Arabia and the hardliners here in the US who are in the pockets of both parties, primarily the Israelis, are the real axis of evil. RT: But it's not going as Washington planned. Since US invasion, Iraq's become a best friend of Iran. For two years Obama has said Syria's president must go, he's still in place. And Middle East reporter Sharmine Nawarni notes even the destabilization isn't really succeeding. Nawarni interviewed international doctors and aid workers in Syria who say there is no deep humanitarian crisis no real lack of food or medicine. Yet Common Dreams notes while Obama goes round the world trying to regime change, back home the streetlights don't work. Sharmine joins us, great to see you. Are people in the region actually grateful for what the US president's doing? Sharmine Nawarni, Senior Associate, St. Antony’s College: US popularity was at 1% in Egypt. The US WILL lose, the more its allies, who are just monsters – Israel and Saudi Arabia and Jordan, that can’t be even called a state any more, it’s a parking lot for Western and Gulf troops. RT: Yeah, but surely a world superpower can get its way. Nawarni: It's a dead word – superpower. It’s just isn’t true any longer and it's not a bunch of countries getting together against America, it's people wanting to live. You will never win against people who have more self-interest in tomorrow than you do, and we've seen this in every intervention from Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, you have tribal Afghanistan. These are the last breaths of empire, because no strategic-minded power ever reacts this rashly in such complex and sensitive situations. Backing the very same Salafist extremists who they were attacking in Iraq and Afghanistan. This smacks of desperation and what I call short-termism, because they're so eager to gain a win, in any way, shape or form, and looking at military solutions as one size fits all, the solution for all your problems. And a mentality of militarization does tend to permeate one's society as well. And you are seeing an undermining of freedoms and democracy in these countries, and you’re seeing the rise of surveillance states, using the 'threat of terrorism”, which is far less than car crashes or airplane crashes, to justify all kinds of surveillance on their own populations. They’re going to make mistakes, they’re going to humiliate themselves. There's always the last battle for any empire throughout history and I think Syria is it for the United States and its allies. RT: The end of this elite’s imperial ambitions, notes Veterans Today, will first and foremost benefit the US people, bring back their prosperity and rights. But growing numbers fear before the empire goes, it could take the rest of the world out with it. Seek truth from facts. This is The Truthseeker.
RT: My name is Daniel Bushell. Senators warn of nuclear attacks on America as Israel explores Syrian land. Coming up . . . Announcer: Rebels warn they’ll strike the US; Even weather forecasts are now used as a weapon and why Syria is being called 'The last battle'. RT: Sixteen degrees in Homs means at 1600, cameras for Saudi Al Arabiya and Qatar's Al Jazeera will be in Homs town square. Turn up, shout a rebel slogan for five minutes and get paid in cash by the Saudi-US networks, which can then show this country's in chaos. Highly skeptical of the CNN and BBC versions, parliamentarian Nick Griffin went to see what Syria was actually like. He found it fairly different. Nick Griffin: This place is really quite normal. Look at this, how do you explain that? This is a warzone. But there is still a war being waged against these poor people and obviously it has a human effect as well. Having said that, I hope you’ve seen in last few minutes just how banal, just absolutely ordinary and normal most life here is. RT: Nick joins us now great to see you. So whether Saudi Wahhabis or US-backed Al-Qaeda, is this foreign-driven? Nick Griffin, Member of European Parliament: It clearly is foreign-driven and it's most definitely Islamist. I did an interview with a rebel who was a suicide bomber - failed - who still believed he was in a rebel hospital because of head injuries and so on. And so I asked him posing as a British jihadi volunteer, I asked him 'Where you gonna go once you've conquered Syria?' and quick as a flash he comes back and says: 'We're gonna attack Europe, we're gonna attack America, because they are the real enemy'. RT: What happens when Obama gets enough Congress support to bomb Syria? Nick Griffin: A US attack on Syria will drag in Iran, it will drag in Israel, even the Egyptians have said that they will probably close the Suez Canal. If the Straits of Hormuz are closed as well, then oil will go up to $400 a barrel almost overnight, which will snuff out any form of economic recovery all over the industrialized world, and plunge us into a depression which will go on for years. There’s the incredible tensions in the Far East between China and Japan and again America. Look back on this and think well this was the summer like 1913. RT: Israel's bombed a Russian depot in Syria. Russia's moved warships to the region, and called the biggest military drills since the Cold War. Moscow and Beijing held their biggest joint military exercises in history. Former NSA intelligence officer Scott Rickard joins us, great to speak to you. What happens when one of these countries actually retaliates ? Scott Rickard, former intelligence officer: Honor that I believe Assad has because had he retaliated against Israel there would be an all-out war and he basically saved the lives of his people by not retaliating. What surprised me the most this week is you had McCain say 'They haven’t retaliated, so we can attack them any time we want.' Help Kickstart World War III video by The Second City Network: - Hi! I’m Steve. - I’m Irene. - I’m Lisa. - My name is Tom. - I’m a graphic designer. - College freshman. - Stay-at-home mum with a full time job. - Scholar on social policy and a barista. - And I’m just like you. - I’m an Obama supporter. - I support President Obama. - But the president needs your help. - Our president can’t launch into another war without YOU. - That’s why we here at the ‘American's for Whatever Barack Obama Wants, did you know he’s friends with Jay-Z?’ have launched a kickstarter campaign, to fund World War III. - And America is deada** broke, so our goal is to raise $1.6 trillion dollars on behalf of the US government. - That’s where you come in. - Even a small donation will make all the difference. - A $100 donation gives you a day pass to leave your local refugee camp. - You will probably end up in a refugee camp, but it will have free Wi-Fi. - Why? Because Obama. - Because Obama. RT: Senator Graham warns if the US won't attack Syria, a nuke will hit South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. On the very same day a nuclear warhead without authorizing signature was transferred to South Carolina notes investigative site Storyleak. Storyleak editor Anthony Gucciardi joins us, thanks a lot for speaking to us. Nuclear war - this is another level. Anthony Gucciardi, Storyleak editor: Senator Lindsey Graham is essentially threatening the United States, whether he’s got intel on this, or another high-level source, elements of the government are now threatening us that if we don’t attack Syria there could be a nuclear incident, right after they transported a nuclear weapon. They need something crazy - the chemical attack was not enough. We're looking at a potential serious false flag event to push us into this, because Obama can’t slime his way into Syria. Jeanine Pirro, Fox News: There's no endgame, and we can’t afford, nor do we want a War World III. And speaking of that mister president, didn’t you win the Nobel Peace Prize? Yeah, you were the one. Give it back! RT: Obama previously admitted Syria isn't a threat or even strategically important for the States. Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar joins us, great to speak to you, so who's actually gaining from Syria's breakup? Pepe Escobar, Asia Times: That’s very important to remind people all the time the Israeli state does not have fixed borders, they’re not delimitated on a map, they can expand all over from the Sinai to the borders of Iran one day. That’s the problem. This idea of Eretz Israel, Greater Israel is the number one impediment. If they would sit down on a table to discuss Palestine they would have to delimitate their borders… finally! This is what everybody's expecting, they would not be able to annex people’s territories any more. Nothing is corroborated historically in fact, this is a wet dream. In the case of Southern Lebanon in fact it's because of water. There’s a lot of water in Southern Lebanon and Israel needs water, so we go back to ‘It’s the water, stupid’. This explains everything that happens in terms of Israel trying to annex Southern Lebanon. RT: We're now seeing the same dual-citizenship politicians who pushed the US into Iraq disaster, back on our screens. Escobar: The return from the living dead of neocons, which never disappeared, Paul Wolfowitz came back from the dead like he was a Michael Jackson video extra this past weekend on CNN plugging, what else? War in the Middle East! Nothing has changed. The false flags and all that crazy stuff happening 12 years ago in the runup to the war in Iraq. The difference now it’s crazier, mad mad world as we were discussing, much faster and out of control, because we know, if anything happens in Syria, even Kissinger said that many times, Syria is the fulcrum in the Arab world, whatever happens in Syria spreads all over. RT: Spreading all over the region unrest in Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Egypt. Tel Aviv's already granted gas fields in Syria's occupied Golan Heights, reports Intellihub, to a company of Rupert Murdoch, whose media are currently banging Syria's war drums. The book Questioning the War the Terror notes chaos may be good for Israel's expansion, but the US just gains new enemies. The book's author joins us. Dr. Kevin Barrett, great to speak to you. How can US policy be against its interests? Dr. Kevin Barrett, author of Questioning the War the Terror: Traditionally the Democrats got more than two thirds of the campaign contributions that flow in to their federal elections from the aggressively pro-Israeli fraction and that was earmarked, support for Israel was the condition of taking that money. The Clean Break document was issued by Benjamin Netanyahu and the neoconservative mostly Americans who also happen to be dual citizens. People like Wolfowitz, Perle, Scooter Libby all of those people. And this document proposed regime change in these Middle Eastern countries, essentially overthrowing all of these independent Middle Eastern countries and imposing imperial control. These people really do want to create Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates. Israel working with its Saudi partners underwrote this coup d'etat against the first democracy ever in the 5,000 year history of Egypt. The indications are that they're going to keep stealing territory. Not only they will refuse to give back the Golan Heights, they're going to take Sinai they’re already creating all kinds of instability in Sinai. They came right out and said that what they want is three mini rump-states in Syria. RT: An Israeli general said Syria's part of a new axis of evil. Is that fair? Barrett: Israel, Saudi Arabia and the hardliners here in the US who are in the pockets of both parties, primarily the Israelis, are the real axis of evil. RT: But it's not going as Washington planned. Since US invasion, Iraq's become a best friend of Iran. For two years Obama has said Syria's president must go, he's still in place. And Middle East reporter Sharmine Nawarni notes even the destabilization isn't really succeeding. Nawarni interviewed international doctors and aid workers in Syria who say there is no deep humanitarian crisis no real lack of food or medicine. Yet Common Dreams notes while Obama goes round the world trying to regime change, back home the streetlights don't work. Sharmine joins us, great to see you. Are people in the region actually grateful for what the US president's doing? Sharmine Nawarni, Senior Associate, St. Antony’s College: US popularity was at 1% in Egypt. The US WILL lose, the more its allies, who are just monsters – Israel and Saudi Arabia and Jordan, that can’t be even called a state any more, it’s a parking lot for Western and Gulf troops. RT: Yeah, but surely a world superpower can get its way. Nawarni: It's a dead word – superpower. It’s just isn’t true any longer and it's not a bunch of countries getting together against America, it's people wanting to live. You will never win against people who have more self-interest in tomorrow than you do, and we've seen this in every intervention from Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, you have tribal Afghanistan. These are the last breaths of empire, because no strategic-minded power ever reacts this rashly in such complex and sensitive situations. Backing the very same Salafist extremists who they were attacking in Iraq and Afghanistan. This smacks of desperation and what I call short-termism, because they're so eager to gain a win, in any way, shape or form, and looking at military solutions as one size fits all, the solution for all your problems. And a mentality of militarization does tend to permeate one's society as well. And you are seeing an undermining of freedoms and democracy in these countries, and you’re seeing the rise of surveillance states, using the 'threat of terrorism”, which is far less than car crashes or airplane crashes, to justify all kinds of surveillance on their own populations. They’re going to make mistakes, they’re going to humiliate themselves. There's always the last battle for any empire throughout history and I think Syria is it for the United States and its allies. RT: The end of this elite’s imperial ambitions, notes Veterans Today, will first and foremost benefit the US people, bring back their prosperity and rights. But growing numbers fear before the empire goes, it could take the rest of the world out with it. Seek truth from facts. This is The Truthseeker.
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