| Wayne MADSEN | 27.01.2013 | |
The Pentagon planners and their paid anthropologist shills are gearing
up for the Pentagon’s next battle: the one for the Pacific that will
ensure that the island nations that dot the vast maritime expanse will
remain a part of the Anglo-American sphere of influence and not become
part of a «Chinese lake».
The Pacific Ocean has been a favorite stomping ground for U.S.
government-financed anthropologists ever since Margaret Mead ‘s 1928
treatise on the Samoan people, Coming of Age in Samoa, laid the
groundwork for the intelligence-related anthropological study of the
peoples of the Pacific Ocean by the U.S. military and intelligence
services. Mead later became a researcher for the CIA-connected RAND
Corporation and became a supporter of CIA funding of anthropologic
surveys and studies via laundered academic research grants from the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID).
USAID / CIA/Special Operations projects with names like Phoenix,
Prosyms, Sympatico, and Camelot used anthropologists and social
scientists to reconnoiter targeted tribal areas in South Vietnam,
Indonesia, Pakistan, Colombia, and Chile to determine how U.S. Special
Forces and intelligence agents could use indigenous peoples to further
American military goals. The operations in the cases of Phoenix in South
Vietnam and Prosyms in Indonesia resulted in genocide on a massive
scale…
Today, the military’s tribal and native peoples targeting programs fall
under the nomenclature of «human terrain systems» or HTS. Brought back
to life in Afghanistan and Iraq, these genocidal programs now have their
eyes on the Pacific in order to gear up for what the Pentagon and
Langley planners believe is an inevitable war with China.
It is fitting, therefore, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are now
looking for up to 15,000 acres of land to lease on American Samoa. The
U.S. military wants to establish a major training base on American Samoa
for at least five years and probably longer. The base is to provide
24-hour road access that will permit 60 full days of training per year.
The Army also wants the base to permit the use of pyrotechnic and blank
ammunition during daytime and nighttime training. It is certain that the
U.S. is looking at building a simulated rural and village tropical
environment for the use of U.S. and future «coalition of the willing»
armies to practice battling an enemy in the Pacific region. That «enemy»
is China.
The United States obviously foresees the Pacific as a future
battleground between American and its allied forces and China for
control of the important trade routes that crisscross the vast maritime
region. Not since the U.S. military campaign against Japan during World
War II has the Pacific seen such an American military projection of
power.
The decision by the Obama administration to «pivot» its military forces
into Asia and the Pacific has brought about a strong response from
China, which sees itself as the ultimate target for the increased U.S.
military presence. China’s ambassador to Australia Chen Yuming called
the stationing of 2500 U.S. Marines in Darwin an «affront» and a Cold
War containment policy toward China.
The establishment of a U.S. military training base on American Samoa
follows Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s first ever attendance by a
U.S. Secretary of State of a Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) summit in
Rarotonga, Cook Islands on August 31, 2012. It was the first such visit
to the Cook Islands and underscored America’s decision to maintain its
stranglehold over the small Pacific island nations while at the same
time beefing up its military forces in the region.
The United States and its two Pacific overseers – Australia and New
Zealand –- are attempting to cement their neo-colonialist hegemony over
the Pacific states, which are independent in name only. Enter the Human
Terrain practitioners from the Pentagon and CIA to keep the Pacific
islanders divided. Clinton’s participation in the PIF summit is aimed at
not only maintaining the status quo but in promoting the rivalries
between Polynesians, Micronesians, and Melanesians among the island
states.
The United States, having virtual ownership of the
quasi-independent Micronesian nations of Micronesia, Palau, and the
Marshall Islands, as well as total control over the U.S. territories of
Guam and the Northern Marianas, can use its influence over Micronesians
to play them off against the other two major ethnic groups,. They are
the Melanesian Spearhead Group of Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon
Islands, Vanuatu, and the New Caledonia (Kanaky) liberation front and
the Polynesian Leaders Group of Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands,
Niue, Tokelau, French Polynesia, as well as the intelligence eyes and
ears of Washington, American Samoa. The United States, Australia, and
New Zealand can use their Human terrain System knowledge of ethnic
rivalries in the Pacific to ensure that China is kept out of the area.
Part of the strategy relies on Taiwan’s «checkbook» diplomacy to
maintain Taiwanese rather than Chinese embassies and aid missions in the
small island states. There are currently Taiwanese embassies in Tuvalu,
Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Palau, Nauru, and Kiribati. Among
these, Nauru, Solomon Islands, and Kiribati switched their recognition
back to Taiwan after opening up diplomatic relations with China.
Kiribati came under pressure after it decided to allow China to build a
missile tracking station on south Tarawa.
Wayne Madsen " The United States and its two Pacific overseers – Australia and New Zealand –- are attempting to cement their neo-colonialist hegemony over the Pacific states, which are independent in name only [...] The CIA, Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), and New Zealand Secret Intelligence Service (NZSIS) have programs to undermine South Pacific governments that establish close relations with Beijing [...] Aware of the animosity that poor Pacific Islanders have toward local successful Chinese businessmen, the bought—and-paid for anthropologists have stirred up riots, especially in Solomon Islands and Tonga, to marginalize China’s influence in the region. There are contingency plans to foment riots against ethnic Chinese in Fiji, Vanuatu, and Papua New Guinea [...] If Fiji’s military-led government , which has been the subject of diplomatic sanctions by Australia and New Zealand, continues to get close to China and North Korea, these Fijian mercenaries could see coup d’état duty on behalf of the CIA, ASIO, and NZSIS in their homeland of Fiji."
The U.S. believed the China
Space Telemetry Tracking Station was going to spy on the «Star Wars II»
activity at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in the
Kwajalein Atoll of the Marshall Islands. The Marshallese on the atoll
are under constant surveillance by well-armed U.S. security personnel.
In 2004, Vanuatu switched its recognition back to China from Taiwan
after Prime Minister Serge Vohor paid a secret visit to Taiwan and was
ejected from office in a vote of no confidence. Vohor actually punched
the Chinese ambassador after Vohor returned from Taiwan. Such incidents
in the Pacific Islands have been known to set off riots between opposing
political parties and ethnic groups. The Pentagon will use such
politico-ethnic tinderboxes as a secret weapon against China.
The CIA, Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), and New
Zealand Secret Intelligence Service (NZSIS) have programs to undermine
South Pacific governments that establish close relations with Beijing.
However, the Human Terrain operatives have gone further. Aware of the
animosity that poor Pacific Islanders have toward local successful
Chinese businessmen, the bought—and-paid for anthropologists have
stirred up riots, especially in Solomon Islands and Tonga, to
marginalize China’s influence in the region.
There are contingency plans
to foment riots against ethnic Chinese in Fiji, Vanuatu, and Papua New
Guinea. The CIA’s Operation Prosyms in Indonesia relied on longstanding
animosity between Muslim Indonesians and ethnic Chinese to stoke riots
against the Chinese in the aftermath of the 1965 CIA coup against
President Sukarno. The mayhem resulted in the deaths of over 100,000
ethnic Chinese and a severance of relations between the CIA-installed
Suharto government and China. President Obama’s anthropologist mother,
Stanley Ann Dunham, played a crucial role in Prosyms. Mrs. Dunham’s son
appears prepared to reenact anti-Chinese pogroms in the islands of the
Pacific.
It is clear that the U.S. military training in American Samoa will be
used to train Pacific Islander mercenaries, many of whom, such as
Marshall Islanders, American Samoans, and Guamanians already serve in
the U.S. military, to train young men from impoverished Kiribati,
Micronesia, Samoa, and Fiji. Fijian and Tongan mercenaries,
battle-hardened from Western campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other
regions, are also available to supplement the U.S. Pacific Command’s
training complex on American Samoa. If Fiji’s military-led government ,
which has been the subject of diplomatic sanctions by Australia and New
Zealand, continues to get close to China and North Korea, these Fijian
mercenaries could see coup d’état duty on behalf of the CIA, ASIO, and
NZSIS in their homeland of Fiji. And the diplomats of the small Chinese
embassy in Nuku’alofa, Tonga have witnessed how fast the fury of local
Tongans can be turned on the Chinese business community. These
blood-soaked scenarios all figure heavily into Pentagon HTS plans for
the Pacific.
The United States will continue to keep the Pacific Islands within its
vast gulag to prevent the extension of Chinese influence. Today, Pacific
Islanders are faced with a virtual «Berlin Wall» that keeps Pacific
Islanders confined to their own islands while outsiders, like Chinese
and Russians, are kept out. The method by which Washington, Canberra,
and Wellington have created airline and sea transit monopolies and
transit visa requirements means that Samoans from the Independent State
of Samoa cannot visit nearby American Samoa without a special permit.
And the U.S. Department of Homeland Security decides who will receive
special permits and transit visas, including for those traveling on
diplomatic passports. Any scheduled airline that connects any of the
islands via American Samoa, Guam, or Hawaii requires a U.S. transit visa
and that entails invasive interviews by U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement personnel.
There is a reason why so many negotiations and agreement to establish
the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership have been secret. As
the title indicates, the TPP, as it is known, is a «strategic» trade
bloc, which means it also has a military dimension. In essence, it is no
different than the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere established
by Imperial Japan during World War II. The United States, not wanting to
be viewed as starting the bloc but wanting it to be a replacement for
the Cold War military alliance, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO), sat in the background while New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, and
Chile signed up as charter members in 2005.
As more nations joined, the
TPP’s military profile became clearer. The countries that signed up to
the TPP were all being groomed for the anti-China military bloc for the
Pacific: Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, Vietnam, Peru, and the
United States signed on. Japan, Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Laos, and Taiwan later expressed an interest in
joining the TPP. The eastward blockade of China became clear. The United
States already had existing military alliances with six of the other
ten TPP member nations. From Darwin, Australia and Subic Bay,
Philippines to Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam and the U.S. built Mataveri Airport
on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), the U.S. was delineating the borders of
its own Asia-Pacific Sphere and a line over which China would be warned
not to cross.
Mrs. Clinton may have arrived in Rarotonga last year amid waves and
smiles but her sinister plans for the Pacific region have more to do
with using the Pacific Islanders for cannon fodder in what Washington
expects to be a coming regional war with China.
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Source: Strategic Culture
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