Israel’s U.S.-supported massacres of Palestinians, Trump’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil and the C.I.A. spying on Julian Assange all tie together.
President Donald Trump receives a menorah from Miriam and Sheldon Adelson at the Israeli American Council National Summit, Dec. 7, 2019, in Hollywood, Florida. (White House, Joyce N. Boghosian)
By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
As 320 Palestinians were massacred on Monday night, most of them women and children, we live in a world where it is accepted as legal that U.S. President Donald Trump is genocidally Zionist because he received a $100 million donation from Miriam Adelson to be so.
In addition to which Adelson is the second largest donor to AIPAC, which openly pays hundreds of other elected and potential U.S. politicians to be genocidally Zionist too.
This is Western democracy.
The argument – now used against Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student who led pro-Palestine campus demonstrations and who is detained by the Trump administration and threatened with deportation – that the First Amendment only applies to U.S. citizens, was also employed by the Biden administration in extradition proceedings against Julian Assange.
It surprises me how very often the Assange case proves revealing of the internal workings of power in the U.S.
When the C.I.A. wished to bug Julian Assange on Ecuadorian diplomatic premises in London, and to look into the possibility of kidnapping or murdering him there, they decided to operate through a cutout for such a diplomatically fraught move.
That C.I.A. cutout was Sheldon Adelson, multi-billionaire late husband of Miriam Adelson. Adelson’s fortune had come from a Las Vegas casino and property empire.
You are probably aware this is not, in general, the most respectable and free-from-organised-crime area of economic activity.
There is a lazy stereotype that the control over crime in Las Vegas lies with the Italian mafia.
In fact from the days of Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky, Las Vegas organised crime has had close ties to Israel from its very establishment as a state, and in recent times Israeli mobster gangs have controlled narcotic distribution in Las Vegas.
Allow me to point out that the first of those two links is to the official Catholic publication The Tablet, and the second is to Forward, the American Jewish magazine and not the British far-right publication of the same name.
Adelson hired a private security company named UC Global, headed by a former Spanish marine named David Morales, to conduct the illegal surveillance for the C.I.A. As one of subjects of the illegal surveillance, I gave evidence last year to the court case in Madrid in which Morales, head of U.C. Global, is criminally charged.
This case seems to ramble on forever, but last week there was a development as Morales was charged with forging documents in the case, for which a new trial is opening. He allegedly fabricated emails from the Ecuadorian ambassador commissioning the spying.
The C.I.A. commissioned the activity from Adelson during the first Trump presidency, but notably the Biden administration condoned this and defended it during the Assange extradition proceedings.
It is yet a further example of the meaningless nature of democracy in uniparty America, of the power and reach of the ultra-wealthy and of the fascist links between big business and secret state agencies.
Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010.
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Mark Twain said of the USA, “We have the best government that money can buy.”
Can anyone stop the criminally insane (guilty-as-Hell) perpetrators?
Is premeditated mass murder still an extremely serious crime here on planet Earth?
Prosecute and imprison the mass murderers, – take the mass murderers off the streets now, before it’s too late.
The deeper you go the more sordid it gets.
This depressing state of affairs appears to have become entrenched with the JFK assassination and the ones that followed. It was indeed a coup d’etat that took place on that day. It’s no wonder we have been denied accurate information from officialdom on that and every other major event that followed. Fascism has been the dominant political system in the years hence. Socially benefitting policies have been shrinking while the oligarchs’ grip on power has become a juggernaut. We are in for a rough time.
My gawd, this carnival ride into the house of horrors just keeps getting more and more sordid! Will it ever end??
Yes. It will end when the civilized world drops the dollar. Dedollarization will take away America’s power to murder and steal.
yep, the end may be just around the corner..who can guarantee that the sun don’t implode many years to soon, see you on the dark side of the moon, life as we know it nothing gets out of it alive..am I being too pessimistic?! well I hope so because hope dies last any which way! It is a worry that mad cappers everywhere have their fingers on the eject button…
A short but also revealing article about who really is in charge of the deep state in the USA, the organised crime syndicate of the Italian, the Zionist Jewish, and the Irish mafia..all politicians are obviously paid and promoted by the godfathers of these three sometimes competing for turf, other times cooperating thoroughly corrupt criminal organisations that nobody is supposed to talk about let alone mention…similar to EU states by the way..all closely intertwined and corrupted to the bone by the mafias..have been for a long time.
Thank you Craig Murray. perfect conclusion. Yet another example of oligarchy and institutional corruption. I no longer believe in “la religion civile” or empty PR slogans like: “the rule of law” and “democratic process”.
And folks think that the DT is against “the deep state”. It is sad that so many will believe political BS when the facts stare them straight in the face.
The US is an oligarchy and the Adelsons (dual citizen: Israel and US) are but one example of the institutionalized corruption. The Supremes said that political bribery is legal, so what do we expect? Yet millions still live in denial