Western-Supported Secessionism is Hypocritical
| Wayne MADSEN | 21.03.2012 | 00:00 |
The United States and its Western
allies have championed the secession of certain aspirant nations whose
independence is in the national and economic security interests of
globalization. For example, the United States has cajoled, threatened,
and incentivized nations around the world to recognize the independence
of the artificial “Republic of Kosovo,” carved from historical Serbia,
while refusing to support the national aspirations of a number of
nations-in-waiting around the globe.
Abkhazia and South Ossetia have received rather limited recognition
after Washington, London, Berlin, and Paris threatened various African
and Pacific nations with severe repercussions if they granted Abkhazia
and South Ossetia the same diplomatic recognition the West has pressured
a number of nations to confer on Kosovo. The United States, like a
schoolyard bully who failed to get his way, cut off funding for the UN
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) when it
admitted Palestine as a full and sovereign member state.
Similarly, the West, using propagandized celebrities like George
Clooney and Angelina Jolie, led the charge for South Sudan’s secession
from Sudan. South Sudan is now a virtual colony of Western
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are financed by the George
Soros/U.S. Agency for International Development nexus, which are
representing the interests of Western oil companies eager to exploit the
new nation’s vast petroleum reserves.
The NATO/Gulf Cooperation Council alliance that intervened to overthrow
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has permitted, without military
intervention, the eastern region of Libya, Cyrenaica, declared the
“Emirate of Barqa” by Salafist Wahhabi Muslims on the payroll of Qatar
and Saudi Arabia, to declare its autonomy from the transitional
government based in Tripoli. An autonomous or fully-independent
Cyrenaica would be a coveted gem for the West since it contains
two-thirds of Libya’s oil reserves. The Congress of the People of
Cyrenaica, which declared the region’s autonomy, was led, in part, by a
Libyan-American. The Cyrenaica Transitional Council is led by Ahmed
Zubair al-Senussi, a member of the corrupt royal family ousted by
Qaddafi in 1969. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the other Gulf Arab monarchies, as
well as Jordan and Morocco, would like nothing more than to see the
restoration of at least one Arab monarchy to justify their own regimes
as popular stirrings for change have reached all the Arab monarchies.
The United States, Britain, and other Western nations have turned a
blind eye on Cyrenaica’s autonomy while paying lip service to appeals
from Tripoli that Libya must remain united. There are now calls for
autonomy for the Fezzan region of southern Libya, the third part, along
with Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, of the old federal kingdom of Libya.
While Washington and its allies are comfortable with independence for
Kosovo and South Sudan and autonomy for Cyrenaica and Fezzan, they are
as adamant as ever that there will be no recognition for South Ossetia
or Abkhazia. Even more astounding, Britain has stymied the independence
wishes of its former colony of British Somaliland, which was briefly
independent for a few days in 1960 before uniting with the former
Italian Somaliland in what would eventually become a failed state. In
1991, after years of being attacked by first, the Soviet, and then the
U.S.-supported forces of Somali dictator Mohammed Siad Barre, Somaliland
reverted to independence. The United States and Britain failed to
recognize Somaliland’s independence and echoed the African Union’s
stance that the nation should remain part of Somalia, a failed state.
Recently, Somaliland’s government, after years of refusing to
participate in any talks with the U.S.-supported Transitional National
Government in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, agreed to attend a
conference on Somalia’s future held in London. Many observers worried
that Somaliland walked into a trap and that it will be forced to
re-enter a Somalia and be governed by an Anglo-American regime in
Mogadishu, which is backed up by U.S., British, and South African
mercenary “private security contractors,” U.S., British, and French
special forces, and regular ground troops from Uganda and Burundi.
The United States, Britain, and its allies have also shown no
compunction to support the independence of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic
Republic, a member of the African Union, whose territory in Western
Sahara, the former Spanish Sahara, has remained illegally occupied by
Morocco since 1975. With oil being discovered off the Western Saharan
coast, Washington and London have curried favor with the Moroccan
occupiers to be granted off-shore drilling rights. Meanwhile, the
Sahrawis remain confined to squalid refugee camps on the
Moroccan-Algerian border. The camps have also received the added
indignation of being referred by the West as fertile recruiting centers
for the dubious “Al Qaeda in the Maghreb,” which, like “Al Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula,” “Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia,” “Boko Haram” in Nigeria,
and “Al Shabaab” in Somalia, appears to be a hyped-up propaganda raison
d’etre for continued Western military intervention in North Africa, the
sub-Sahel region, and across the Red Sea in southern Arabia.
In Pakistan, the West has been covertly supporting Baluchi separatists
who have carried out terrorist attacks on Iran. However, the Baluchis
are as intent on separating from Iran as they are in secession from
Pakistan. Many regional observers have pointed out that an independent
Baluchistan would further the interests of the United States, Britain,
and Israel in the region. The. U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, a
bastion of pro-Israeli sentiment and policy-making in Washington, has
held hearings on a possible independent Baluchistan carved out of
Pakistan and southeastern Iran.
Meanwhile, U.S. special operations teams have joined their Indian
counterparts in helping to stamp out separatist guerrilla activity in
the state of Kashmir, which, in a controversial move unrecognized by
Pakistan, became a state of India in 1947. Pakistan argued that Kashmir,
with its majority Muslim population, should have joined Pakistan or
become independent. In addition to playing favorites in the Kashmir
dispute, U.S. special forces have also provided training to and
conducted anti-insurgency operations against tribal groups in
northeastern India that have fought for independence ever since Britain
put the region under Indian control upon Indian independence n 1947. It
may come as a surprise to the evangelical neo-conservative power clique
in Washington, which continues to dance to the tune of the globalists,
that U.S. special forces in northeastern India are helping Indian troops
kill Nagas, Mizos, and Meghayala tribal members who are mostly
Christian. But such details matter not to the evangelicals who are awash
in money thanks to their daily crusades on behalf of Wall Street, the
Pentagon, and Israel.
From the Franklin D. Roosevelt to the John F. Kennedy administrations,
the United States supported decolonization of European colonies around
the world. Beginning with the Lyndon Johnson administration and
continuing ever since, the United States has supported the continuation
of European colonialism abroad because colonies equal current and
potential military bases: from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to Aruba
in the Caribbean and Tahiti in the Pacific to Greenland in the Arctic.
As a result, the United States and its allies have sought to curtail the
work of the United Nation’s decolonization committees and activities.
With U.S. hypocrisy over the issue of self-determination and
colonialism at an all-time high pitch, it is time to just simply call
for every aspirant nation to become independent; Scotland, Wales,
Cornwall (Kernow), Quebec, West Papua, Kurdistan, South Yemen, Brittany,
Basque Lands (Euzkadi), Catalonia, Hawai’i, Northern Italy (Padania),
Zanzibar, Cabinda, Ogoniland, Casamance, Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia),
New Caledonia (Kanaky), Bougainville, Nagaland, Khalistan, Guam, and
Martinique. Such independence and a world of 500 nations would help
curtail American globalist and imperialist goals. Having large swaths of
the interior United States, including the Lakotah Sioux and Navajo
nations, become independent and expelling U.S. military bases, including
intercontinental ballistic missile silos and nuclear weapons sites,
will do more to bring the world to peace than having CIA-influenced and
-controlled NGOs and think tanks carve up the world for the selfish
goals of Wall Street, the Pentagon, and Israel.
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