"Terrorist Organization" Means Whatever The United States Wants It To Mean by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-12-12 at 06:24:46 )

"Terrorist Organization" Means Whatever The United States Wants It To Mean by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The United States government is simultaneously (A) preparing to remove from its list of designated terrorist organizations the group which led the charge to oust Bashar al-Assad in Syria and (B) justifying Israels land grab in Syria by saying the nation has been taken over by terrorists.

The United States government is simultaneously (A) justifying Israels land grab in Syria by saying the nation has been taken over by terrorists, and (B) talking about removing those same forces from its list of designated terrorist organizations.

The United States podium people have pivoted seamlessly from celebrating the liberation of the Syrian people in the removal of Assad to citing the fact that the nation is now overrun with terrorist factions in defense of Israels rapid move to militarily occupy large swathes of Syrian land while hammering Syria with hundreds of airstrikes.

At a Monday press conference, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said these moves by Israel "are temporary to defend its borders" and that Assads ouster "potentially creates a vacuum that could have been filled by terrorist organizations that would threaten the state of Israel and would threaten civilians inside Israel."

"Every country has the right to take action against terrorist organizations," Miller added.

United States Government: It is great and wonderful that the dictator Assad has been deposed and the people of Syria have been freed!

Press gallery: Do you oppose Israel grabbing Syrian land?

United States government: No way man, do you not know Syrias just been taken over by a bunch of terrorists? "please see here:" - Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) December 10, 2024

During a Tuesday press conference Miller further clarified the United States position on Israels land grab, saying, "What precipitated their move into the buffer zone was the withdrawal of the Syrian armed forces, which, as I said yesterday, creates potentially a vacuum that could be filled by any one of the numerous terrorist organizations that continue to operate inside Syria that have sworn to the destruction of the state of Israel."

During the same Tuesday press conference Miller also stated that "there is no legal barrier to us speaking to a designated terrorist group" such as HTS, the group which led the run on Damascus whose leader has been an official in both ISIS and al-Qaeda.

And as it happens the United States government has now taken a sudden interest in removing HTS from its listing as a designated terrorist organization, with Politico reporting that there is now "a furious debate playing out in Washington,D.C." as to whether or not the group should be removed from the list immediately. Somehow I doubt the debate is actually all that "furious".

So according to one narrative Syria has been liberated by brave freedom fighters and that is wonderful, but according to another concurrent narrative Israel obviously needs to invade Syria because the nation has just been taken over by evil terrorists, and by yet another concurrent narrative those evil terrorists are not evil terrorists anymore because they are going to be running a United States puppet regime.

These are the kinds of contradictions you run into when your policies are guided by the blind pursuit of planetary domination instead of by truth and morality.

US Considering Removing HTS From Terror List After Syria Takeover
US officials say they are in contact with the al-Qaeda-linked group
by Dave DeCamp-DecampDave #Syria #HTS #AlQaeda #BasharAlAssad #AbuMohammedAlJulani "please see here:" - Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) December 9, 2024

In reality, "terrorist organization" is a political designation, not a behavioral one. It has a lot less to do with how an organization acts and operates and a lot more to do with whether or not they advance the strategic interests of the United States empire.

Pick any group of non-state actors who fight against the United States and its allies and you will find them on the United States governments list of terrorist organizations. Hamas. Hezbollah. They will even put official state militaries on there like Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

They used to list the East Turkistan Islamic Movement as a terrorist faction back when the United States was expanding its global military presence under the banner of the "war on terror", but they were removed from this listing at the tail end of the Trump administration because the Uyghur Islamist group has been fighting Assad in Syria and may prove useful in the empires cold war aggressions against China.

Even now the United States House of Representatives is moving to ban the United States government from using the statistics of Gazas health ministry to calculate deaths from Israels genocidal atrocities in the enclave on the basis that the health ministry is run by Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. They need to do this because the Gaza health ministrys death toll is considered so reliable that the United States State Department has been using those stats in their own reports.

The group that is committing the genocide necessitating such analysis is of course not a designated terrorist organization.

The House tomorrow plans to ban the United States govt from citing the Ministry of Health in Gazas casualty figures.

Instead of working to end the genocide, Congress will instead do this. "please see here:" - Ryan Grim (ryangrim) December 10, 2024

This is because the label "terrorist organization" is nothing more than a tool of imperial narrative control. In empire language it just means "disobedient population who need bombs dropped on them". If they are determined to no longer be disobedient then they no longer need bombs dropped on them, so they are no longer considered terrorists.

You can kill all the civilians you want using whatever methods you want without being considered a terrorist organization, so long as you are a friend of the United States empire!

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