Historical Changes In False Flag Terrorism.
What we need to know for 2008-2009
By Webster G. Tarpley
7-22-8
As students of the manipulation of the political and social process by
intelligence agencies through false flag terrorism and through other forms of
covert operations, we need to be aware that the intelligence agencies are not
Johnny one note, but rather change their tactics as the world political and
economic situation evolves.
One of the main problems we face today is that, by all indications, the phase of
false flag terrorism which began in the late 1990s and which reached its peak
between September 11, 2001 and July 7, 2005 is ending, and is in the process of
being replaced by something quite different. The old phase was centered on
exerting social and political control through mass fear of bin Laden, Al Qaeda,
Islamofascism, and Islamic fundamentalism in general.
The new phase involves a completely different set of targets. Iran and the Arab
countries are no longer the main objectives. They have been replaced by Russia ,
China , the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the other countries that
gravitate around this new pole of world politics. Yet, many of those who have
dedicated much energy trying to expose the false flag operations of the
post-9/11 period which is now essentially behind us are failing to identify the
fact of sweeping change, and are repeating the slogans of the Bush-Cheney-neocon
era as if everything were still as it was. We need to sum up the lessons of the
9/11-7/7 era, above all the central idea that these terrorist attacks were
covert operations by US and British intelligence, and that they were made to
happen on purpose and completely orchestrated from Washington and London. And
then we need to look ahead.
The essence of false flag operations and other covert operations is that the
same methods cannot be used for ever, but must be changed. In the first half of
the 19th century, the British used the extreme nationalism of the Mazzini
networks to destabilize their enemies. Around 1850, the main cover story for
terrorism became the international anarchist movement and this was used well
into the 1930s, especially for purposes of political assassination. In the 1950s
and 1960s, the standard explanation for terrorism was the deranged loner, such
as Lee Harvey Oswald. In the 1960s and 70s, methods radically changed, with
youthful leftists and communist terrorists of college-age taking center stage:
here we see the Weathermen in the United States, the Baader-Meinhof group in
Germany, and the Red Brigades in Italy (this is a phase which resembles the one
now starting). In the 1970s and 1980s, this was supplemented by the radical Arab
and Palestinian political terrorism of Abu Nidal and Black September. Even
during this period, there was also the rise of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.
In the 1990s, especially in the United States, the focus shifted completely to
right wing anarchist militias who wanted to destroy the government: Timothy
McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing are the leading example. By the late 90s
the scene had changed again to focus on Al Qaeda and bin Laden. Now the
credibility and usefulness of the 9/11 mythology has been exhausted, and we need
to ask what will come next.
In order to answer this, we need to see that the historical predicament of US
and British imperialism has qualitatively deteriorated even compared to 2001. We
are living through the death agony of the US dollar, the constant threat of
banking panic and systemic breakdown in the London and New York banking systems
and capital markets, and the specter of worldwide hyperinflation centering on
the dollar. At the same time, a powerful combination of adversary states has
emerged around Russia, China, and the other members of the Shanghai cooperation
organization. The most influential response to this situation is the one
articulated by Zbigniew Brzezinski, the dean of the Democratic Party foreign
policy establishment going back to the Jimmy Carter regime and even earlier.
Brzezinski's name is associated we have a new strategy which calls for a
de-emphasis of the Middle East in favor of a global approach to crushing the
power of Russia and China once and for all. In the short run this new strategy
creates for some the illusion that a relaxation of world tensions might be at
hand. But in the medium to longer term, the dangers of the Brzezinski strategy
are even greater than those of the neocon approach followed under Bush and
Cheney, because Russia and China remain powerful states with intercontinental
ballistic missiles and hydrogen bombs, and a determined to defend themselves.
The Obama candidacy for the US presidency is the vehicle chosen by the
Rockefeller-Trilateral-Bilderberger international banking faction to carry out
this new and more radical approach to securing another century of world
domination for the US and the British. In the course of this, we must remember
that although the so-called global war on terror has been one of the main
features of US propaganda, we have also witnessed a series of CIA people power
coups or color revolutions over recent years in places like Ukraine and Georgia
. It is likely that the US and the British will rely much more unease methods in
the near future than they have in the recent past, including an attempt to
overthrow or at least we can the government of China , perhaps as early as this
year. Irrationalist mass movements reminiscent of the 1920s and 1930s will be
increasingly common in both the US and Europe , and Japan as well.
As far as terrorism specifically is concerned, we can expect the new wave of
false flag actions, when it emerges, to involve groups that will allow popular
anger and fear to be directed against countries like Russia , China , Pakistan ,
Sudan , and others of this group. If we take into account the Virginia Tech
student massacre and the similar shootings at Northern Illinois University
during the past year, we may be able to guess that there will also be a new
round of domestic, homegrown terrorism in the wealthier countries revolving
around college students or young people who are concerned about social justice.
We can also expect a new round of ecological terrorism on the Unabomber of Earth
First models.
It is therefore necessary that we realize that 2008 has been a year of very
rapid change in the world strategic situation, and that we must be ready for new
forms of terrorism as well as for new forms of mass political manipulation in
general. There are numerous signs that we may be entering a new fascist era (or
postmodern fascist era), and that irrationalist mass movements may be the
breeding grounds for new forms of terrorism and new pretexts for top-down police
state controls.