Understanding the US/NATO Profit-Driven Military Agenda

Understanding the US/NATO Profit-Driven Military Agenda

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, July 11, 2018

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Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War by Michel Chossudovsky Available to order from Global Research in print AND pdf formats! CLICK TO LEARN MORE The US has embarked on a military adventure, “a long war”, which threatens the future of humanity. US/NATO weapons of mass destruction are portrayed as instruments of peace. Mini-nukes are said to be “harmless to the surrounding civilian population”. Pre-emptive nuclear war is portrayed as a “humanitarian undertaking”. While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction resulting from present-day wars including Syria and Yemen, it is impossible to fully comprehend the devastation which might result from a Third World War, using “new technologies” and advanced weapons, until it occurs and becomes a reality. The international community has endorsed nuclear war in the name of world peace. “Making the world safer” is the justification for launching a military operation which could potentially result in a nuclear holocaust. Nuclear war has become a multi-billion dollar undertaking, which fills the pockets of US defense contractors. What is at stake is the outright “privatization of nuclear war”. The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US/NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously. Central to an understanding of war, is the media campaign which grants it legitimacy in the eyes of public opinion. A good versus evil dichotomy prevails. The perpetrators of war are presented as the victims. Public opinion is misled. Breaking the “big lie”, which upholds war as a humanitarian undertaking, means breaking a criminal project of global destruction, in which the quest for profit is the overriding force. This profit-driven military agenda destroys human values and transforms people into unconscious zombies. Excerpt by author Michel Chossudovsky: “The object of this book is to forcefully reverse the tide of war, challenge the war criminals in high office and the powerful corporate lobby groups which support them. Break the American Inquisition. Undermine the US-NATO-Israel military crusade. Close down the weapons factories and the military bases. Members of the armed forces should disobey orders and refuse to participate in a criminal war. Bring home the troops.” Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War by Michel Chossudovsky ISBN: 978-0-9737147-5-3 | Year: 2012 | Pages: 102 Available to order in print AND pdf formats! CLICK TO LEARN MORE (Special Offer: Receive this book FREE with your Global Research  Membership! Click for details.)   Reviews “This book is a ‘must’ resource – a richly documented and systematic diagnosis of the supremely pathological geo-strategic planning of US wars since ‘9-11’ against non-nuclear countries to seize their oil fields and resources under cover of ‘freedom and democracy’.” –John McMurtry, Professor of Philosophy, Guelph University “In a world where engineered, pre-emptive, or more fashionably “humanitarian” wars of aggression have become the norm, this challenging book may be our final wake-up call.” -Denis Halliday, Former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations Michel Chossudovsky exposes the insanity of our privatized war machine. Iran is being targeted with nuclear weapons as part of a war agenda built on distortions and lies for the purpose of private profit. The real aims are oil, financial hegemony and global control. The price could be nuclear holocaust. When weapons become the hottest export of the world’s only superpower, and diplomats work as salesmen for the defense industry, the whole world is recklessly endangered. If we must have a military, it belongs entirely in the public sector. No one should profit from mass death and destruction. –Ellen Brown, author of ‘Web of Debt’ and president of the Public Banking Institute DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE A New War Theater in North Africa Operation Odyssey Dawn Nuclear Weapons against Libya? How Real is the Threat? America’s Long War: The Global Military Agenda How to Reverse the Tide of War World War III Scenario Acknowledgments CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION The Cult of Killing and Destruction America’s Mini-nukes War and the Economic Crisis Real versus Fake Crises CHAPTER II: THE DANGERS OF NUCLEAR WAR Hiroshima Day 2003: Secret Meeting at Strategic Command Headquarters The Privatization of Nuclear War: US Military Contractors Set the Stage 9/11 Military Doctrine: Nuclear Weapons and the “Global War on Terrorism” Al Qaeda: “Upcoming Nuclear Power” Obama’s Nuclear Doctrine: The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review Post 9/11 Nuclear Doctrine “Defensive” and “Offensive” Actions “Integration” of Nuclear and Conventional Weapons Plans Theater Nuclear Operations (TNO) Planned Aerial Attacks on Iran Global Warfare: The Role of US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) Nuclear Weapons Deployment Authorization Israel’s Stockpiling of Conventional and Nuclear Weapons The Role of Western Europe Germany: De Facto Nuclear Power Pre-emptive Nuclear War: NATO’s 2010 Strategic Concept The World is at a Critical Crossroads CHAPTER III: AMERICA’S HOLY CRUSADE AND THE BATTLE FOR OIL America’s Crusade in Central Asia and the Middle East “Homegrown Terrorists” The American Inquisition Washington’s Extrajudicial Assassination Program The Battle for Oil The Oil Lies in Muslim Lands Globalization and the Conquest of the World’s Energy Resources CHAPTER IV: PREPARING FOR WORLD WAR THREE Media Disinformation A “Pre-emptive” Aerial Attack Directed Against Iran would Lead to Escalation Global Warfare US “Military Aid” The Timetable of Military Stockpiling and Deployment World War III Scenario The United Nations Security Council The American Inquisition: Building a Political Consensus for War CHAPTER V: TARGETING IRAN WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Building a Pretext for a Pre-emptive Nuclear Attack “Theater Iran Near Term” The Military Road Map: “First Iraq, then Iran” Simulated Scenarios of a Global War: The Vigilant Shield 07 War Games The Role of Israel Cheney: “Israel Might Do it Without Being Asked” US Israel Military Coordination Tactical Nuclear Weapons directed against Iran Radioactive Fallout “The Mother of All Bombs” (MOAB) Slated to be Used Against Iran Extensive Destruction of Iran’s Infrastructure State of the Art Weaponry: “War Made Possible Through New Technologies” Electromagnetic Weapons Iran’s Military Capabilities: Medium and Long Range Missiles Iran’s Ground Forces US Military and Allied Facilities Surrounding Iran CHAPTER VI: REVERSING THE TIDE OF WAR Revealing the Lie The Existing Anti-War Movement Manufacturing Dissent Jus ad Bellum: 9/11 and the Invasions of Yugoslavia and Afghanistan Fake Antiwar Activism: Heralding Iran as a Nuclear Threat The Road Ahead The Antiwar Movement within the State Structure and the Military Abandon the Battlefield: Refuse to Fight The Broader Peace Process What has to be Achieved CLICK HERE TO ORDER FROM GLOBAL RESEARCH! Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, Editor of Global Research.  He has taught as visiting professor in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Latin America. He has served as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has acted as a consultant for several international organizations. He is the author of eleven books including The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003), America’s “War on Terrorism” (2005), The Global Economic Crisis, The Great Depression of the Twenty-first Century (2009) (Editor), Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011), The Globalization of War, America’s Long War against Humanity (2015). He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.  His writings have been published in more than twenty languages. In 2014, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit of the Republic of Serbia for his writings on NATO’s war of aggression against Yugoslavia.

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