A new world order that eliminates the neocons and neo liberal war mongers of death and destruction

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Why Bernie Sanders should be the next Commander in Chief!

In regards to Bernie Sanders suggestion "bring Russia into NATO", which I know on the surface appears to be incomprehensible (at least to neocons and neoliberals) is really brilliant when considering:

"The United States toppled Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gaddafi, and in doing so helped annihilate the old order across a broad section of the Middle East. ISIS is now a heavyweight contender for the new order,"

In this article you will find references that since Bernie Sanders had made this proposal in Democrat Presidential Debate that leaders in Europe, NATO and the European Union have come out on a daily basis to suggest this same proposals as the current events escalate out of control and again we are hearing the same 9/11 refrain from the US the "be afraid, very afraid" rhetoric.

The current United States Administration and President immediately came out in support of Turkey's action publicly with the normal neocon, neoliberal war rhetoric while most of NATO alliance balked in the emergency meeting of NATO due to Turkey's past actions and change in its government where Erdogan and his purge of the military and intelligence arm and installing Muslim Brotherhood (Wahhabi) throughout his government and war on the Kurds has decided his countries direction. It was not in his country's best interest and was very short sighted. There will be no re-establishing the Ottoman Empire, there will only be civil war that is sure to accelerate after the canceling of existing and future planned commerce between them and Russia after the downing of the Russian aircraft under the circumstances. I expect in the near future we will see another military take over and if history is any gauge in Turkey it will be back to pre-Erdogan policies.

We are seeing a break minimally here carried out by a few (see links) in western media where normally propaganda is carried out under a media that is the problem and a barricade to US citizens participating in a free and democratic society. It would be good for its citizens to revisit our history to see exactly what has happened and to work from that understanding to break the shackles one more time in our history as painful a struggle as that may be. See JFK speech on secret societies transcript or video audio.

Imagine building a pipeline from Russia across the short distance to Alaska and down through the existing pipeline infrastructure into the lower states. Then investing the treasure saved (shipping, the cost of wars in the ME and keeping control of the money from warring tribal complexities and the military industrial complexes) into, renewable energy sources advancement and implementation, high speed transportation and other infrastructure in the US (jobs, economy). Imagine a high speed transportation and trade from North America through to South America similar to the new Silk Road from China through Russia and into Europe. Imagine the repairing of existing infrastructures (jobs and money circulation locally). The possibilities are endless to rebuilding our economies and our futures!

Our choices are really at this point only two, moving forward in advancement of people and the natural world of resources and conversation or continuing death and destruction that only benefits few at the cost of many. The biggest obstacle we have is the lack of a free and open press allowing a free and open society to make the correct decisions in moving our country and the world forward as free and open societies.

The battle of sinners and saints (metaphor) is described again as dividing the world into a realm of light, where bad things aren't supposed to happen, and a dark realm, where they routinely occur. Darkness from one place will creep into others. Perhaps the world needs to regain its clarity, but the biggest priority is to make an honest effort to tackle the real heart of darkness

"While it's clear that neither Russia nor NATO wants to go to war against each other, each side is trying to deal with the situation and identify the reasons that provoked the recent crisis and, what's even more important, to establish who's at fault."

"In this context one cannot help but remember a short report that was published by the Daily Star, citing unnamed sources in the UK government. According to this report "all NATO pilots were given clearance to attack "unfriendly" Russian planes if perceived to "threaten the lives" of NATO's military personnel. For this reason all RAF aircraft were equipped with short-range "air-to-air" missiles, which are to be fired at Russian fighters."

However, to resolve the difficult crisis that followed the destruction of the Russian Su-24 quickly, the West is now searching for those "guilty" of this blatant attack, which is, without a doubt, the Turkish leader -- Tayyip Erdogan. It seems that NATO states are not afraid to criticize Turkey for its actions against Russia. Vice-Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Sigmar Gabriel expressed harsh criticism of Turkey after the downing of Russia's Su-24 bombers by labeling it an "unpredictable player", reports the German Die Welt.

The members of NATO fear that the "impulsive actions" of Turkey's President will force them into a new major conflict, and NATO is not prepared to fight it yet. These "impulsive actions" may trigger the response that is required by Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. No wonder Hollande, while declaring war against ISIL, made no reference of Article 5, by quoting the EU Lisbon Treaty instead.

France is convinced that once the "Muslim Brotherhood" came to power in Turkey, headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has become a major headache for Western politicians, says Le Figaro. According to its journalists, Turkey used to be an ally of the West, however, it is nothing of the kind anymore. Relations with Turkey took a U-turn once Erdogan started systematically "undermining" Turkey's strategic relations with Israel which were stable since 1949. Anti-Turkish sentiments in the West were aggravated even further by the games Erdogan had been playing during the "Arab Spring", when he first became a close friend of Bashar al-Assad, and then stabbed him in the back by allowing jihadists from around the world to swarm into Syria by crossing through Turkey's territory. When the sworn enemies of Erdogan -- local Kurds were dying in a heroic defense of the city of Kobani, Turkey did nothing to relieve their suffering, waiting for Western countries to save the population of the city instead.

In this context it's curious what the former NATO commander of Europe, Ret. General Wesley Clark, has been saying about Turkey : "Let's be very clear: ISIL is not just a terrorist organization, it is a Sunni terrorist organization. It means it blocks and targets Shia, and that means it's serving the interests of Turkey and Saudi Arabia even as it poses a threat to them All along there's always been the idea that Turkey was supporting ISIS in some way" Someone's buying that oil that ISIL is selling, it's going through somewhere. It looks to me like it's probably going through Turkey, but the Turks have never acknowledged it." Here's the reason why Russia was stabbed in the back by a NATO member country.

Once Russia began military operations against ISIL in Syria, Ankara's relations with Washington started deteriorating rapidly. The situation we have on our hands now is further complicated by the fact that it was "defenseless" Turkomans who were shooting Russian pilots as they descended with parachutes, along with bringing down a Russian helicopter that was sent to rescue the pilots. All the recent NATO meetings have been stained by concerns that the Turkish agenda in Syria has little to do with the position of the West. Now that Erdogan's arrogance has become apparent to everyone, even though he allowed the US Air Force to use a base in Turkey's territory, he has also been launching attacks against Syrian Kurds that remain the most faithful allies of Washington in the fight against ISIL.

It is, therefore, hardly surprising that a retired US Major General Paul Vallelyaccused the Turkish government of an attempt to create a new Ottoman Empire. According to him, due to all well-known facts of Ankara's assistance to the Islamic State, Turkey should be expelled from NATO.

The Washington Times is also questioning Turkey as a member state of NATO, while underlying that the attack on the Russian Su-24 makes this debate particularly relevant and timely. The newspaper notes that Ankara has been providing ISIL units with close air support when the latter was fighting Kurds in Syria and Iraq. Its journalists are convinced that Turkey has been turned into a theocratic Islamist dictatorship, where the freedom of the press is gradually been destroyed.

The conservative American Thinker goes even further by claiming it's about time to replace Turkey with Russia in NATO, since the West has more in common with Russia than with the Islamist Turkey. To support this position, the magazine notes that when Turkey joined NATO back in February 1952, the advocates of this step argued that they need an Islamic state to prevent Soviet expansion in the region from happening. But it's clear that this was a deal with the devil. After all, it was the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 that broke the alliance apart, forcing Greece to withdraw its troop from under NATO command. In 2012, Syria shot down a Turkish fighter since it was deliberately violating its airspace. Later that same year, Turkey bombarded government facilities in Syria.

For decades, Turkey has used NATO membership, in order to achieve its own objectives, which, as a rule, do not coincide with the interests of the alliance. In the early 2000s, Turkey chose to demonstrate its support of Islamism, which has always been a more serious threat to the West than the Soviet Union. Therefore, it seems that the American Thinker has expressed the opinion of a larger part of the western public, by urging NATO to get in an alliance with Russia against Islamism, including the "Islamic state of Turkey."

The downing of Russia's Su-24 bomber by the Turkish Air Force is "one of the nightmare scenarios that military planners had envisaged as a result of Moscow's decision to enter the conflict," reports The Financial Times.

In turn, The Washington Postbelieves that "NATO faced being thrust into a new Middle Eastern crisis" The incident marked a serious escalation in the Syrian conflict that is likely to further strain relations between Russia and the NATO alliance."

The Guardian argues that we've witnessed "a nerve-jangling event, that raised the specter of a direct confrontation between two large powers: one a Nato member, the other nuclear-armed".

Paris, Russia, and the New Borders of Darkness Alexander Baunov

The Paris attacks signify the broadening of an "area of darkness," of places targeted by the Islamic State, into Europe. The jihadists are not making a distinction between Russia and France. This compels Russians and Europeans to reflect on what they have in common despite their many differences.

Russians can be evacuated from Egypt and they do not have to return there, but you cannot take Parisians out of Paris or keep Frenchmen out of France.

The massacres in Paris last Friday represent what could be called the opening of a "second front" for the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The jihadists' main area of operations remains the Middle East and their main victims are still the people of Iraq and Syria. In the last few weeks, the jihadists have committed horrific atrocities in Ankara and Beirut.

But by attacking Russian and French civilians, the Islamic State is extending the "borders of darkness" within which it operates. It is throwing down a challenge to Russia and the Western powers, who are still adversaries over Ukraine but now, find themselves sharing the pain of suffering attacks by the same perpetrator.

For the jihadists, there is no difference between Paris and St. Petersburg, the home city of the passengers who died on the Metrojet Airbus A321 that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula on October 31. They believe that they are waging war against the Western world, Western culture, and global modernity. Paris is getting punished for being one of the places that gave birth to modernity, just as New York was in 2001.

The Western culture that was assaulted in Paris is grounded in rationality, and the right response at this critical moment should be a rational one. It would be odd for the West to be swayed by the approach of the most emotional critics of the Russian regime, who insist on not doing, writing, or saying anything that Putin might like.

Of course, the Ukraine issue cannot simply go away. There is still a lot of difficult negotiating to do and Ukraine cannot just be traded away. On the other hand, Ukraine should not be a reason for carrying on as before when other threats emerge.

The Islamic State problem is bigger than the Iranian nuclear program, the maintenance of the International Space Station, or the transit of NATO cargo to Afghanistan. It deserves separate consideration, irrespective of grievances against Russia on other issues. The Obama-Putin meeting at the G-20 summit in Turkey reflected that and showed that the two presidents have an interest in more than merely frustrating one other.

The synchronized attacks on the Russian airplane over Egypt and in Paris connect the Russian and Western campaigns in Syria. True, Russia was not invited by the West to join the campaign in Syria. Russia did so for its own reasons. Russian citizens have the right to question their government's actions--though unfortunately few channels for doing so. But Western politicians should respect the fact that residents of both Paris and St. Petersburg have now been targeted by the same perpetrator. It is not really appropriate to discuss whether one country or another is more to blame--we should only say that the Islamic State is above all a consequence of the 2003 Iraq War, and that everything else is secondary.

There is a deeper reality here, which is that the jihadists' attacks render meaningless all talk of Russia as a "unique civilization." Russian ideologists and politicians have gotten used to describing Russia as "a good Europe" or, better still, as not Europe at all. To them, Russia is not the West, but rather a world of traditional conservative values that Russia shares with "the East."

The Islamic State has reminded Russia that this argument cuts no ice with the hardest-core Middle Eastern conservatives, who see Russia as just another part of the Western world that deserves to be attacked.

So Russia needs to cure its split personality disorder. All of Russia's weird anti-Western rhetoric, and the references to "Orthodox Iran" or "our own Islamic State", stand in the way of the foreign policy goal that Vladimir Putin set out in his speech to the UN General Assembly in September: creating a global alliance against terrorism.

The geography of terrorism is losing its borders. For years, there has been a tendency to make a distinction between terrorist threats in Russia and Europe. For the average Westerner--and the average Russian for that matter--if something bad happens in Russia, the root cause lies within Russia itself, but if misfortunes befall the West, we should seek causes outside the West's borders'.

The average person--and this includes politicians and journalists--does not divide the world into categories of democracies and authoritarian regimes, old and new markets, or developed and developing countries. He is more likely to perceive two zones, one of light and one of darkness. In what the Indian writer V.S. Naipaul called an "area of darkness," tragedy and disaster are regarded as everyday occurrences, while in other parts of the world--areas of light--tragic events are viewed as an aberration.

When we look at last Friday in Paris and the recent litany of terrorist attacks in France, we see this distinction blurring. This year, France more resembles a country from the dark zone, where the terrible has become almost commonplace. Its troubles evoke Mikhail Bulgakov's poetic description of Jerusalem in The Master and Margarita: "The darkness that came from the Mediterranean Sea blotted out the great city. The suspension bridges, the crenelated palace, the bazaars, the caravanserai, the alleyways, the pools... Jerusalem, the great city, vanished as though it had never been. The darkness devoured everything, frightening every living creature in Jerusalem and its surroundings."

The lesson of the Paris attacks is: as the area of darkness shifts, even a strong state's borders do not protect against it anymore. Europeans can no longer neatly divide the world into a realm of light, where bad things aren't supposed to happen, and a dark realm, where they routinely occur. Darkness from one place will creep into others. Perhaps the world needs to regain its clarity, but the biggest priority is to make an honest effort to tackle the real heart of darkness.

Authors Bio:

George King has been involved in civil rights and started protesting government as a US Marine protesting the Vietnam War in 1967.

He has owned and operated as a small business owner of Coffee Houses and later Sporting Goods. He was employed as a millwright and project expediter building manufacturing and chemical plants in the US. After NAFTA killed manufacturing in the US attended St. Petersburg College for a degree in Computer Science. After the India Caucus (US Representatives junkets to India) struggled to keep work as a computer science programmer due to the outsourcing of jobs to India and Indian Green card visas allowing for foreign workers to compete at undercutting (cheap) wages against US citizens at home.

I stay active in trying to be vigilante on world events and at home in defending against the loss of self government to transnational banking and corporations undermining Democracy. I believe in the FDR New Deal direction that regained control from Bankers and Corporations establishing good relations for workers and abolishing child and slave like working conditions.

I am in agreement with Pope Francis on inequality and the environment.