Friday the 13th Massacre...
Darko Lazar
The massacre of more than 120 civilians in Paris is shrouded in mysticisms.
Taking place on the 11th month of the year in the city's 11th district, it also falls on Friday the 13th, which commemorates the massacre of the proto-illuminati Templars.
But there is little in the way of mystery when looking at what this ritualistic slaughter of innocent people across the French capital is likely to lead to.
The mainstream media coverage of these tragic and gruesome events would, of course, highlight France's role and ‘commitment' in the battle against terrorism in the Middle East, including the greatest gift to western policy makers since Osama Bin Laden - the Daesh terror group.
By Saturday morning, headlines across France summed it all up: "un 11 septembre à la française".
While there certainly are parallels to be drawn between the terrorist attacks in the US over fourteen years ago and the Paris massacre, the rhetoric of politicians is perhaps most reminiscent of 2001.
On Saturday, French President François Hollande called the attacks an "act of war" by Daesh.
A speech by former US President George W. Bush on September 20th, 2001 had a very similar tone.
"On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country," Bush said right before unleashing his ‘War on Terror', subsequently invading Afghanistan and Iraq.
Over a decade later, Hollande's comments appear to be paving the way for another major military campaign, this time under the banner of NATO.
Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, which is at the basis of a fundamental principle of NATO (of which France is a member) stipulates that, "an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that if such an armed attack occurs, each of them... will assist the Party or Parties so attacked."
With the West's ‘regime change' policy in Syria now in tatters - thanks to a combined military effort by Russia, Iran and Syria - options for Washington and its allies are narrowing by the day. The most recent advances by the Syrian army and Lebanon's Hizbullah, backed by Russian airstrikes in the north of Syria, signal that this alliance could soon be pushing deep into Aleppo, obliterating western-backed armed groups in that area.
The correspondent for the Asia Times and political analyst Pepe Escobar told me that Hollande "is implicating the whole of NATO. This might justify a NATO invasion of northern Syria - a la the Americans sort of invading Afghanistan in 2001."
The terrorist attacks in Paris also came on the eve of another round of talks in Vienna, where world and regional powers are discussing ways to launch the Syrian peace process.
According to the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, "what happened in Paris last night cannot fail to affect the present atmosphere, and the negotiation process."
According to political analyst and journalist at the Moscow-based Sputnik news agency, Andrew Korybko, "Hollande will squeeze every bit of unipolar benefit he can from this tragedy, as he's already been positioning himself as the U.S. continental lap dog for the past few years, most vividly when he was just about the only foreign leader to stand behind the US when it wanted to attack Syria after the 2013 Ghouta false-flag chemical attack."
Along with silencing domestic political opposition to an increased western military involvement in Syria [which could come in the form of French soldiers serving as human shields against Russian airstrikes in militant controlled areas], the November 13th attacks in Paris will also end the debate on mass surveillance, while eroding any remaining privacy rights in the west.
Following the attacks, Hollande declared a state of emergency across France, closing the country's borders and giving security and intelligence agencies sweeping powers in the already towering surveillance state.
"We will see a clampdown again on our freedoms, we will be deterred from travelling, we will see a tsunami of emotional anti-Muslim propaganda," says Vanessa Beeley, a Paris-based journalist.
More importantly, the attacks in Paris will only serve to deepen Islamophobia in the west, best demonstrated by calls from France's far right on Saturday for the nation to "rearm itself" and revoke Muslim passports.
As many had predicted, this summer's refugee crisis in Europe was almost certain to be purposefully manipulated to create maximum hysteria across the continent.
Beely believes that "this attack will have far reaching repercussions both in Europe and globally, and the connections to the engineered refugee crisis are blatant."
The repercussions of both the refugee crisis and the attacks in Paris will play out in the coming years - if not decades. But with the increasingly desperate measures being adopted by western governments in the pursuit of their geopolitical goals, the world will likely see more lunatic attacks to add to the new world order of chaos.
Source: al-Ahed news
