The U.S. Veteran Fighting ISIS in Syria is Obviously a Propaganda Shill

Last month I reported on a member of a Dutch biker gang who went to the Middle East to fight against ISIS. Truth be told, there are numerous foreign volunteers who are heading towards Iraq and Syria from all over the world, and the U.S. is no exception. Recently, Radio Free Europe interviewed a United States Army veteran Jordan Matson, who left his life in Wisconsin to help the Kurds in their fight against ISIS.

"For over a year, people were being slaughtered by ISIS," the 28-year-old Sturtevant, Wisconsin, native told RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI), using another acronym for IS.
"Anyone who didn't conform to their way of life could either convert, be killed, or get driven off their land. So when Mosul fell and IS drove all the Christians and minorities from the town or killed them, I thought that enough was enough and I decided to come here to fight," Matson said via Skype.

For two months, Matson has fought in northeastern Syria alongside the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG). He said he decided to join the Kurdish militia after searching the Internet for a way to fight IS.

"I found that the YPG was the only force in the area that would let Christians and Muslims live in peace together so I decided to join them," he said.

Personally, I think it's admirable that someone would volunteer their time and skills to put down those vile thugs. Many of us have seen the footage of their atrocities and read the grisly news reports of their exploits. No sane person would doubt that ISIS is a scourge against Christians and Muslims alike, and that they must be stopped if we want even any kind of peace for the Middle East.

However, something doesn't seem right about this particular story. If you've read anything about the history of Radio Free Europe, then you would be suspicious too. It's no secret that this news outlet was founded by the CIA, and has been backed by the United States government for decades. They're nothing more than a propaganda wing of NATO.
So why would Radio Free Europe take any interest in this American fighting against the ISIS onslaught?

The YPG and Peshmerga are fighting closely together, he said. "It's a welcome relief during the fighting, we are fighting for the same cause."

While the reinforcements from the Iraqi Peshmerga have helped combat IS in Kobani, Matson believes more is needed from the United States and its international allies.

"To put an end to IS, we are going to need boots on the ground," he said. "If we increase the bombing campaign and put boots on the ground to help give support to the YPG fighters, it would help push IS back to the Syrian borders. Troops could save many lives here," Matson told RFI.

Suddenly it makes more sense. They're trying to make him into a sympathetic poster child of America's fight against ISIS. They're trying to paint a picture of desperation and courage, and are hoping to persuade the American public to support sending troops into the region. It's propaganda, pure and simple.
My only question is, does Jordan Matson have pure motives here? Is he an unwitting pawn of American propaganda, or is he knowingly participating in this fight at the behest of NATO and the United States? I would argue, that it is in fact the latter.

Although U.S. law enforcement officials say that it is illegal for Americans to join a Syrian militia like the YPG, CNN reports that Matson has been attempting to recruit more foreign fighters to the Kurdish militia via social media.

Kandal Amed from the YPG told RFI correspondent Simira Balay that other foreign fighters have already joined the Kurdish militia to fight against IS.

"Foreign fighters are in all fronts with the People's Protection Units. Germans and Russians, others, wanted to be part of the new spirit that was created for the peoples of the Middle East. Among our ranks, you will find Americans, Germans, and others, all men, but we expect the arrival of foreign women, too," Amed told RFI by phone from the Al-Ya'rubiya (Tal Kojar) checkpoint on the border between Iraq and Syria.

Not only is he breaking the law, but he's encouraging others to do so and there's been no official condemnation for his actions. This is why I think he may be some kind of clandestine operative. See, governments don't like it when you do their job for them. If you left your house right now and tried to hunt down a few gang bangers, you'd be called a vigilante and thrown in jail. It makes them look bad when you try solving problems that the government has failed to control, so they drop the hammer on you in any way they can.

In this case however, Jordan Matson is fighting what the U.S. government claims to be its enemy, and is getting rave reviews from a western propaganda outlet. He's trying to convince more people to join him, and is asking the U.S. government for “boots on the ground.” Since this is all highly illegal, and the government hasn't condemned it in any way, I have to think that Matson is cutting a paycheck behind the scenes. I could be wrong. He may just be a pawn of western propaganda. But, it's all a little too convenient if you ask me.

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The U.S. Veteran Fighting ISIS in Syria is Obviously a Propaganda Shill

Last month I reported on a member of a Dutch biker gang who went to the Middle East to fight against ISIS. Truth be told, there are numerous foreign volunteers who are heading towards Iraq and Syria from all over the world, and the U.S. is no exception. Recently, Radio Free Europe interviewed a United States Army veteran Jordan Matson, who left his life in Wisconsin to help the Kurds in their fight against ISIS.

"For over a year, people were being slaughtered by ISIS," the 28-year-old Sturtevant, Wisconsin, native told RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI), using another acronym for IS.
"Anyone who didn't conform to their way of life could either convert, be killed, or get driven off their land. So when Mosul fell and IS drove all the Christians and minorities from the town or killed them, I thought that enough was enough and I decided to come here to fight," Matson said via Skype.

For two months, Matson has fought in northeastern Syria alongside the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG). He said he decided to join the Kurdish militia after searching the Internet for a way to fight IS.

"I found that the YPG was the only force in the area that would let Christians and Muslims live in peace together so I decided to join them," he said.

Personally, I think it's admirable that someone would volunteer their time and skills to put down those vile thugs. Many of us have seen the footage of their atrocities and read the grisly news reports of their exploits. No sane person would doubt that ISIS is a scourge against Christians and Muslims alike, and that they must be stopped if we want even any kind of peace for the Middle East.

However, something doesn't seem right about this particular story. If you've read anything about the history of Radio Free Europe, then you would be suspicious too. It's no secret that this news outlet was founded by the CIA, and has been backed by the United States government for decades. They're nothing more than a propaganda wing of NATO.

So why would Radio Free Europe take any interest in this American fighting against the ISIS onslaught?

The YPG and Peshmerga are fighting closely together, he said. "It's a welcome relief during the fighting, we are fighting for the same cause."

While the reinforcements from the Iraqi Peshmerga have helped combat IS in Kobani, Matson believes more is needed from the United States and its international allies.

"To put an end to IS, we are going to need boots on the ground," he said. "If we increase the bombing campaign and put boots on the ground to help give support to the YPG fighters, it would help push IS back to the Syrian borders. Troops could save many lives here," Matson told RFI.

Suddenly it makes more sense. They're trying to make him into a sympathetic poster child of America's fight against ISIS. They're trying to paint a picture of desperation and courage, and are hoping to persuade the American public to support sending troops into the region. It's propaganda, pure and simple.

My only question is, does Jordan Matson have pure motives here? Is he an unwitting pawn of American propaganda, or is he knowingly participating in this fight at the behest of NATO and the United States? I would argue, that it is in fact the latter.

Although U.S. law enforcement officials say that it is illegal for Americans to join a Syrian militia like the YPG, CNN reports that Matson has been attempting to recruit more foreign fighters to the Kurdish militia via social media.

Kandal Amed from the YPG told RFI correspondent Simira Balay that other foreign fighters have already joined the Kurdish militia to fight against IS.

"Foreign fighters are in all fronts with the People's Protection Units. Germans and Russians, others, wanted to be part of the new spirit that was created for the peoples of the Middle East. Among our ranks, you will find Americans, Germans, and others, all men, but we expect the arrival of foreign women, too," Amed told RFI by phone from the Al-Ya'rubiya (Tal Kojar) checkpoint on the border between Iraq and Syria.

Not only is he breaking the law, but he's encouraging others to do so and there's been no official condemnation for his actions. This is why I think he may be some kind of clandestine operative. See, governments don't like it when you do their job for them. If you left your house right now and tried to hunt down a few gang bangers, you'd be called a vigilante and thrown in jail. It makes them look bad when you try solving problems that the government has failed to control, so they drop the hammer on you in any way they can.

In this case however, Jordan Matson is fighting what the U.S. government claims to be its enemy, and is getting rave reviews from a western propaganda outlet. He's trying to convince more people to join him, and is asking the U.S. government for “boots on the ground.” Since this is all highly illegal, and the government hasn't condemned it in any way, I have to think that Matson is cutting a paycheck behind the scenes. I could be wrong. He may just be a pawn of western propaganda. But, it's all a little too convenient if you ask me.

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Turns Out There Were WMDs in Iraq, and the Government Covered it Up

Several days have passed since the New York Times reported on the abundance of chemical weapons that were found in Iraq between 2004 and 2011. So far, it appears to have been a non-event. Sure, the televised news networks had taken to the story, but by now they've already lost interest. Ten years ago, if you would have told me that we would find WMD's in Iraq, but the public would shrug their shoulders at the news, I would have laughed in your face.

The alternative media seems to be particularly uninterested. Most of the websites I read on a daily basis haven't made a single mention of this development, though they probably have a good reason not to. The New York Times article revealed what many of us had known for years. The WMDs had “MADE IN AMERICA” written all over them, so to speak.

Then, during the long occupation, American troops began encountering old chemical munitions in hidden caches and roadside bombs. Typically 155-millimeter artillery shells or 122-millimeter rockets, they were remnants of an arms program Iraq had rushed into production in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war.

All had been manufactured before 1991, participants said. Filthy, rusty or corroded, a large fraction of them could not be readily identified as chemical weapons at all. Some were empty, though many of them still contained potent mustard agent or residual sarin. Most could not have been used as designed, and when they ruptured dispersed the chemical agents over a limited area, according to those who collected the majority of them...

...Participants in the chemical weapons discoveries said the United States suppressed knowledge of finds for multiple reasons, including that the government bristled at further acknowledgment it had been wrong. “They needed something to say that after Sept. 11 Saddam used chemical rounds,” Mr. Lampier said. “And all of this was from the pre-1991 era.”

Others pointed to another embarrassment. In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies.

So not only was the knowledge of these weapons ignored, but suppressed as well. In fact, many soldiers were injured by these weapons when they went to dispose of them. They usually had no knowledge of the chemical contents within the shells, and were exposed to mustard and sarin gas.

And that story seems to be more important than the weapons themselves. Who cares if they found WMDs in Iraq? We were the ones who built the damn things. The real story is how we let our soldiers get gassed while they were disposing of these munitions. As usual, the government's flag waiving “support your troops” rhetoric falls on its face. They could care less about the grunts in our armed forces.

In addition, many of these munitions were used by the insurgents to build their roadside bombs. Which begs the question, where are these chemical weapons now? Surely, if they weren't going to make their existence public, they wouldn't have any problem destroying them.

Nonetheless, several participants said the United States lost track of chemical weapons that its troops found, left large caches unsecured, and did not warn people — Iraqis and foreign troops alike — as it hastily exploded chemical ordnance in the open air.

Ok. So where are they are now? According to The Guardian:

The Islamic State extremist group (Isis) has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility north-west of Baghdad, where 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled decades ago with deadly nerve agent sarin or their remnants were stored along with other chemical warfare agents, Iraq has said in a letter circulated at the United Nations.

That's the real story here. Our government dragged us into a war, only to find weapons they made, put our soldiers in harms way to get rid some of them, ignored the ones they didn't destroy, and then covered it all up. Now those remaining weapons are in the hands of those lunatics with ISIS. Does the wickedness and stupidity of our government, know any bounds?

Moreover, the documents cited for the New York Times article were "heavily redacted". They managed to deliver this bombshell to the American public, despite the government's best efforts to cover it up. This leaves us with one final question.

What is the government still hiding from us?

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While Isis Rampages Through Iraq, Afghanistan Continues to Crumble

 

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While this past week has seen the newsfeeds swamped with stories of America's Ebola outbreak, it's easy to lose sight of the global picture. The virus just happens to be the most visible and alarming story to be reported. All across the planet though, there are nations that are being hollowed out by economic collapse and war, and the fabric that holds this world together is being frayed at every corner.

One story that has been impossible for the news to completely ignore, is the devastation ISIS is inflicting against Iraq and Syria. As we speak, a dog eat dog fight for the city of Kobani is being fought between ISIS and the Syrian Kurds (I think we've armed both of them at some point), while an Iraqi base has been abandoned near the town of Hit. 180,000 people have fled the fighting, many of them heading towards the city Ramadi, which ISIS can now attack from two sides. That city is expected to fall in the weeks ahead.

There should be no doubt that the Iraq War was a total failure, and any claim that we were there to build a democracy, is a complete farce. Not only did we fail to rebuild their infrastructure and economy, but we failed to leave them with a competent military that could have fought off the likes of ISIS. We systematically wrecked their nation at every level, and left them to the dogs. It should be clear to all, that a free nation, or even a barely functional nation, cannot be built on the shoulders of a foreign invasion.

So since it's established that our nation's attempt at Americanizing Iraq has been a complete waste of time, money, and lives, how is our other nation building experiment coming along?

KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide car bomber rammed a foreign convoy along a major road out of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul early on Monday, killing at least one person, authorities said.

Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack on the Jalalabad Road, a main thoroughfare with a U.S. military base and a housing compound for U.N. and other international contractors and aid workers.

That's not all. Within the same day, another Taliban attack annihilated a convoy of nearly two dozen Afghani soldiers and police.

At least 22 members of the Afghan National Security Forces have been killed in a Taliban ambush and seven others kidnapped by the armed group in a mountainous region in northern Afghanistan, an official has said.

Taliban fighters attacked a convoy carrying Afghan security forces on Monday,killing 22 soldiers and police, kidnapping seven, and injuring eight others.

The attack happened in the mountainous Laghman Valley in Sar-e-Pul province, some 340km northwest of Kabul, as security officers travelled to reinforce colleagues in another district.

"They were ambushed as they were going from Laghman area to Alaf Safid. Twenty-two police were martyred, eight wounded and seven were taken captive,"Governor Abdul Jabar Haqbeen told the AFP news agency.

If 22 American soldiers were killed and 7 captured by the Taliban, you probably wouldn't hear very much about Ebola that day. It would be completely unprecedented. The Taliban has never been able to inflict those kinds of casualties against American forces, especially not with ambushes and small arms fire. The news cycle wouldn't let you hear the end of it for months.

So why hasn't this story been thoroughly dissected and plastered across every news channel and website? Because it's uneventful. Because, Afghani troops being slaughtered by the Taliban isn't unusual. Because they either lack the training, equipment, or air support (or all of the above) to properly suppress the Taliban, their deaths are no longer surprising.

Much like Iraq, we've failed to leave them with a functional government, infrastructure, or military. If the American military couldn't destroy the Taliban with all of its missiles, drones, and helicopters, then how could the people they trained, do it without the high tech weapons? They're not going to have any of those advantages after we pull out. And if the Taliban can still bomb Kabul on a whim, then it'll be looking a lot like Baghdad in no time.

The best we as Americans can do, is learn from this. We failed to learn the folly of nation building after Vietnam. In 10 or 20 years (if not sooner) when some dimwitted politician tries to push for another nation building crusade, let's not forget what happened here. Let's not forget the soldiers we lost, the civilians who were butchered, and the new threats our wars have spawned.

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