Declan Hayes
When all the evidence in Libya, in Syria, in Abu Ghraib or in Bucha point to the usual NATO suspects, we should arrest and imprison their political and military top brass as the serial war criminals that they are.
Remember the Maine: To Hell With Spain. My Lai. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Saddam Hussein will kill us all. Evil Assad. Gadaffi's viagra. We came, we saw, he died. Abu Ghraib. We tortured some folks.
The USA and her closest allies have committed the most unspeakable war crimes in every corner of the earth, their own included. Don't even get me going on the Philippines where the USMC hunted their quarry down like mountain rabbits, made necklaces of their ears and sang about it over half a century later during their Vietnamese extermination campaign.
But what about Bucha and media outlets like SCF, which are on the sanctions' naughty list. Let's take Bucha first. Atrocities were committed in Bucha; that much is clear and agreed upon, as too as are the only suspects, the Russian army and the Ukrainian militias allied against them; that too is clear. Let's take both suspects in turn.
Retreating or frustrated armies sometimes massacre at will; the British Army have done so in Kenya, India and Ireland and the Americans have done it in Texas, Wounded Knee, Vietnam and Iraq. Therefore, using the British and American armies as our metrics, it is possible the Russians, rogue Russians, to use the Anglo-Americans' get out of jail card, are the culprits.
The Russians, in their defense, would argue that theirs was an orderly and tactical retreat, that there are major time and other discrepancies with NATO's accounts and there is evidence that those who were executed were Russian sympathizers.
For me, the jury is still out. I simply do not know because NATO and their Irish lapdogs deny me the means to know. They even want to shut me up, as evidenced by their sanctioning of this very outlet.
Though I cannot be called for a witness over Bucha, I could help appropriate authorities with their inquiries into similar atrocities in Syria, which were timed to allow NATO, to coin NATO's own arch war criminal Curtis LeMay, bomb Syria back into the Stone Age.
In a previous article, I cited Robert Stuart's forensic work about one such atrocity. Though I could cite many more, suffice to say that the Tlass family, who are central players in Stuart's expose and who are also high priests in the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist network, were discovering evidence of Assad's weapons of mass destruction wherever they looked. They and their NATO sponsors wanted an excuse to bomb Syria back to LeMay's Stone Age and Assad's alleged use of biological weapons, despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary, was the contrived excuse.
Cui bono? Who gains by the atrocities NATO uncovers? Not Gadaffi's Libya, which was destroyed and its wealth stolen. Not Saddam's Iraq, which was destroyed, its museums and gold vaults ransacked and its wealth stolen. And not the heroes of the Syrian Arab Army, who, at incalculable cost, have been resisting American occupation and American proxies for over a decade.
So, who benefits from Bucha? The usual suspects, who oppose Russian sovereignty, and mutually beneficial trading relations between Russia, Ukraine and Germany. That much is clear. As regards who pulled the Bucha triggers, we can never know until there is a full, independent inquiry, a process NATO have opposed in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Latin America and a host of African countries just as they now oppose it in Ukraine.
When all the evidence in Libya, in Syria, in Abu Ghraib or in Bucha point to the usual NATO suspects, we should arrest and imprison their political and military top brass as the serial war criminals that they are. But, as NATO confesses to nothing, we cannot arrest them; they've even promised a LeMay on the Netherlands if their puppets ever dare think of indicting one of their butchers. They just deny and lie, deny and lie, deny, deny, deny. Remember the Maine!
As my own gut feeling is that Ukrainian militias committed the Bucha atrocities, I am already being called a Chechen apologist, just as NATO'a media have previously labelled me a dangerous extremist (The Sunday Times), a controversial academic who writes for a think-tank run by a Vladimir Putin ally (Mail on Sunday), an Assad apologist... on an Interpol watchlist (Mail on Sunday), an Assad and Putin apologist (James Bickerton, political editor of Backbencher), an alleged member of a Putin-linked policy group (Daily Mail), a dangerous Assad apologist (Sunday Express), an apologist for tyrant Bashar Assad (Marco Giannangeli, Sunday Express), a dangerous extremist (Sunday Express), a notorious Assad apologist (Order-Order, a notorious far-right Tory website) and on and on.
British MP (and former SAS death squad officer) Crispin Blunt believes "Hayes' views on the merits of NATO and Western values, and the democratic freedoms that NATO seeks to protect, will not give any comfort to those whose duty it is to protect the UK," and NATO chemical and biological weapons' apologist Colonel Hamish de Bretton Gordon has opined that "The fact that the leader of the (British) opposition was getting advice from someone (Hayes) who is peddling the Russian story is worrying and distressing."
Clearly then, despite my experience and qualifications and despite the fact not an iota of my testimony can be credibly refuted, I am not a good egg. As I even write for this publication, which is under sanctions, I best say some words on this further evidence I am Putin's puppet before a Ukrainian hangman comes knocking at my heavily fortified door.
I have written what I want to here and, though I have penned some explanatory notes to the editors, there has been no editorial interference and nor has there been any suggestions of topics to opine on. I have been a free agent, working to my own open and very transparent agendas, which I even adumbrated in prior articles.
Rap Sheet
As my NATO critics would then retort I am a useful idiot, let's look at the rap sheet against this outlet.
- SCF "engaged in foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election".
- SCF has "continued to make attempts to reach an audience."
- SCF posted content alleging that the United States was supporting Ukraine in order to "debilitate Russia."
- SCF media "spread many types of disinformation about international organizations, military conflicts, protests, and any divisive issues that they can exploit."
- One of the SCF's main tactics is to publish Western fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists, giving them wider reach, while trying to obscure the Russian origins of the journal. This tactic helps the site appear to be an organic voice within its target audience of Westerners.
Count 1 alleges that SCF tried to influence the U.S. Presidential elections where the CIA cancelled incumbent President Donald Trump from social media and banned the massive criminal activity in Ukraine of the challenger, Irish Joe Biden from being exposed. Given SCF's very modest reach, these Russophobic charges are ridiculous and part of a wider NATO campaign of controlling and manipulating their war narratives. I would, however, welcome an informed, independent debate on this.
Counts 2 alleges that SCF tries to reach audiences. As that is what all sites try to do, the charge is laughably pathetic, all the more so if, like all media purportedly try to do, SCF is trying, as the rap sheet alleges, to hold NATO to account.
Count 3 alleges that SCF see the USA's Ukrainian campaign as an attempt to debilitate Russia. Though NATO's eastwards expansion and a host of articles, often from their own mouths, cataloguing the USA's complicity in the Maidan coup and its efforts to stop Germany's oil and gas co-operation with Russia show U.S. culpability at every turn, the USA continues its long record of denying and lying. Charge dismissed.
Count 4 charges SCF with spreading misinformation, perhaps the same types of misinformation that the USA employed to kickstart its direct and proxy wars with Spain, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Libya, Syria and a host of Latin American countries. Although I would be happy to debate the USA anywhere on any of that, my own experience, as well as the evidence in front of all our eyes, is that the cancel culture of the USA and her proxies have closed down debate in all NATO's media and university outlets. As the USA's attacks on SCF and allied outlets follow that pattern, charge dismissed.
Though I earlier addressed count 5, a previous article of mine deliberately set out to destroy the oxymoronic conspiracy theory canard. Though there may be "fringe thinkers" writing for SCF, I am not aware of them, I am not one of them and it is not my role to identify, promote or defend them if they exist. My self-appointed role in all this is to put my own compasses in virtual print, my own small and almost insignificant contribution to building peace in our time and in times to come.
If I am involved in some perfidy here or elsewhere, then by all means debate me about it. If I have to be treated as a pariah, just as Jews objecting to joining Israel's massively over-subscribed army are treated in Israel, that is ok as it would put me in good company.
The New Horizons group which, NATO's Irish agents allege, got me to speak at one of their Tehran gatherings, might facilitate such a debate, even though, like so many others, they are under severe sanctions. Though I also allegedly conferred with some of Dugin's Russian chums at that gathering, my main takeaway, which I relayed to the Iranian and Russian Ambassadors in Dublin, was of young Iranian women, who turned to me, imploring me to explain why everybody hates Iranians.
I certainly don't hate Iranians because there is no mileage for me or interest in me in doing any such thing and, like many other visitors, I was struck by their friendliness (and good cooking). It is NATO, post Shah, that spreads that bile, the same hateful and bellicose bile it now spreads against Russia for the same sick reasons.
And then we have Putin and Asma Assad, today's one dimensional James Bond villains. The caricature of Putin as an evil maniac who bathes in lambs' blood and drinks all kinds of age-defying concoctions that would make Dracula wretch is funny, even though it is effective thanks to the West's media, who feed unending streams of sport and porno to its docile men and whatever and whomsoever the British and American Royal Families are wearing or copulating with to their uncritical women.
And then we have the multicultural, multilingual cosmopolitan Asma Assad, Vogue Magazine's Rose of the Desert before she went all Putin with baths in goats' milk and new born babies' blood. Give me a break.
Funny, ridiculous but very effective as these slurs are, outlets like SCF are needed to temper them and the deaths that emanate from them. That is my belief anyway. Here I stand. I cannot and will not do otherwise.
Not only do I share the controlled outrage of Russia's former President Medvedev over how Russia's Paralympians were treated but I would feel defiled if any of their tormentors came anywhere near me. However, I would relish the chance to debate them, preferably in Damascus, Moscow or Tehran.
But debate, which NATO's censorship of SCF and hosts of other sites stifle, is not nearly enough. The graveyards of Damascus, Moscow and Tehran are full of those who were murdered as a result of the failure of NATO to choose war over dialogue and debate with those who represent their victims.
Because NATO's shock and awe tactics, used so effectively to slaughter millions of Iraqis, has stalled in Ukraine, America is now tweaking its tactics for the same nefarious ends. Here in Ireland, as fully fledged Nazis continue to besiege their legation, four Russian diplomats are being expelled because Ireland's secret service has recently determined they are spies.
Coincidentally, this is just when Germany, Lithuania and a host of America's other European dependencies have discovered that vast numbers of Russian diplomats have also being spying on them and so they too are Moscow bound.
Dublin's secret service should buy themselves a celebratory non-Russian vodka over that. This is the same secret service that was thoroughly infiltrated by the British Embassy as long ago in 1972 and that stands complicit in Dublin's massive no-warning bombings, the biggest peace time bombings in either Britain or Ireland, that are still subject to government gagging orders, that occurred at that time and about which no debate is allowed, not even in the Irish Parliament, where Britain's and now America's secret service have long been represented.
This is the same Irish Parliament that the American funded Sinn Féin group want to make Russia's Ambassador, before they ostentatiously expel him, listen to Ukraine's president, a billionaire clown by profession, propound, for the umpteenth time, his scripted side of events.
Perhaps it is time to send in these NATO's bankrolled clowns. After all, when George Galloway, a Scottish fox with a way with words, was George Galloway Senate Testimony (FULL) , he had them all for breakfast when they tried to scapegoat him for their own war crimes in Iraq. Although Galloway indisputably won that round, NATO's hucksters simply retreated and regrouped to fight anew in Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine.
The simple truth of the matter is, whether Galloway says it, whether I say it, whether Southfront, New Horizons, SCF, the Queen of Sheba's "Western fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists" or one of Russia's sanctioned cats say it, NATO cannot debate their crimes with anyone possessing Galloway's linguistic proficiency and they cannot tolerate anyone from the Pope on his throne in Rome to the lowliest SCF scribe saying otherwise.
One only has to consider the plight of political prisoner Julian Assange to see the veracity of all that. Although Wikileaks still exists, whatever Chelsea Mannings are lurking in NATO's long grass are all too aware of the Chinese kill the chicken maxim to pass on information to them. To spill the beans on NATO's crimes is to join Assange in jail for an effective eternity.
As against that, Irish Catholic Bishop Donal Lamont, when faced with imprisonment by NATO's Rhodesian regime, affirmed Dostoevksy's Siberian experience that there is much to be said for the life of contemplation a prison cell offers; Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory express similar sentiments. NATO can ban, bully and block SCF but they cannot kill its message. "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice" , the truth will out and the truth will set us free from NATO's hellish forces.