While the Hillary Clinton faction supported by mainstream media propaganda is accusing Moscow of intervening in the US elections on behalf of Trump, they are also intent upon shifting the Electoral College vote in favour of Clinton with a view to blocking president-elect Trump’s accession to the White House.
If this were to succeed, the U.S. would be precipitated into a deap-seated political crisis. It should be noted that this process is also coupled with extensive anti-Trump protests across America, organized by the Clinton faction.
What is a stake: “are fundamental rivalries within the US establishment marked by the clash between competing corporate factions, each of which is intent upon exerting control over the incoming US presidency.” (Ibid)
Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State
Since
the publication of my earlier article, ExxonMobil Chief Rex Tillerson
has been chosen by Trump to occupy the key position of US Secretary of
State. This appointment potentially points to a major shift in US
foreign policy (including an openly anti-China stance by Trump). It is
also points to rising divisions within the US establishment. Tillerson
not only has a good relationship with president Vladimir Putin,
ExxonMobil also has sizeable business interests in the Russian
Federation including drilling projects in the Arctic, Black Sea and
Siberia in partnership with Russia’s Rosneft. Needless to say these
projects have been affected by Obama’s economic sanctions regime
directed against Russia.In response to this controversial appointment, the Neocon faction linked both to the bi-partisan “War Party” has promised to block the confirmation of Tillerson’s candidacy in the US Senate.
It should be noted that Wall Street is also divided. Financial institutions are engaged in an internal war. Donald Trump announced on December 12 his choice to head the White House National Economic Council (NEC): the appointee is Gary Cohn, Goldman Sachs President and Chief Operating Officer. The NEC director occupies a central advisory position regarding the formulation of government economic policy. Ironically, Cohn is a Democrat and Goldman Sachs is known to have supported the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Global Military Agenda
We are not dealing with “class conflict”. What is at stake are rivalries, confrontations and deep divisions within the elite structures with regard to America’s global military agenda.
While Hillary is the candidate of the US Military Industrial Complex, her hawkish foreign policy agenda does not directly serve the interests of a large segment of corporate America including a sizeable sector of the oil industry.
According to Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, “Interventionism is a business and it has a constituency and she is tapping into it,…. She [Clinton] is for the military industrial complex, and she is for the neoconservatives.”
Clinton
reaped generous donations through the Clinton Foundation, rewarded for
the multibillion dollar contracts she approved in favour of the weapons
industry while she was Secretary of State under Obama. These included a
$29 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, for which she received a $10
million contribution deposited in the coffers of the Clinton
Foundation:
“The Saudi deal was one of
dozens of arms sales approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department that
placed weapons in the hands of governments that had also donated money
to the Clinton family philanthropic empire”
…Under
Clinton’s leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth
of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given
money to the Clinton Foundation, That figure — derived from the three
full fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary of State (from October
2010 to September 2012) — represented nearly double the value of
American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the
State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s
second term.
The
Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate
Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the
Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration.
American
defense contractors also donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary
Clinton was secretary of state and in some cases made personal payments
to Bill Clinton for speaking engagements. Such firms and their
subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of
Pentagon-negotiated deals that were authorized by the Clinton State
Department between 2009 and 2012. (See (Business Times investigation, May 26, 2005)
The stakes behind these multibillion dollar contracts for Boeing,
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, et al are exceedingly high. Hillary
Clinton’s military agenda constitutes a multibillion dollar bonanza for
the weapons industry which could potentially lead to Third World War.
According to the New York Times, Clinton (if she were to be elected,
depending on the outcome of the College Electoral Vote) would “redouble efforts to punish and isolate Moscow for war crimes in Syria’s civil war and aggression toward Ukraine and other neighbors.” (emphasis added)“Business is Not Good Without War”: Would a Trump Administration result in Heavy Losses for the Defense Contractors?
Early this week (December 12) the “Shares of Lockheed Martin fell as president-elect Donald Trump tweeted that making F-35 fighter planes is too costly and that he will cut “billions” in costs for military purchases.” (CBC.ca, December 12, 2016)
In fact, “All defence stocks hurt by tweet”:
“with Lockheed Martin Corp. shares falling by five per cent in morning trading, … Shares of other defence stocks, including General Dynamics, which is making military submarines, Northrop Grumman, which is making navigation systems … also moved downwards.” (Ibid)Needless to say, Rex Tillerson’s candidacy is not favored by the weapons producers. According tho MSM, Trump could face a a “Capitol hill showdown” regarding Tillerson’s candidacy. According to John McCain quoted by CNN, “ Tillerson’s cordial ties with Putin, whom the Arizona Senator considers a US enemy, are a red flag.” (CNN, December 12, 2016).
The Electoral College Vote
On December 12, Ten Grand College electors of whom only one is a Republican released an “open letter” to the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper requesting information about ongoing investigations on ties between Trump and “Russian government interference in the election.”
The letter (released on social media was written by Christine Pelosi, the daughter of Rep. Nancy Pelosi.The open letter “seeking the release of U.S. intelligence on possible foreign interference in the election” was also signed by the four Democratic presidential electors in New Hampshire.
Podesta describes the initiative as “bipartisan”, intimating that Trump is “sleeping with enemy”:
“Our campaign decried the interference of Russia in our campaign and its evident goal of hurting our campaign to aid Donald Trump,… Despite our protestations, this matter did not receive the attention it deserved by the media in the campaign. We now know that the CIA has determined Russia’s interference in our elections was for the purpose of electing Donald Trump. This should distress every American.” (quoted by Politico, December 12, 2016)
Sofar these efforts seem to have failed. But there is more than meets the eye.
A December 19 surprise should not be excluded.
Both factions representing powerful corporate interests are working behind the scenes. The public is not being informed.
The Clinton faction will do its utmost to reverse the vote of the Electoral College.
The (multibillion dollar) stakes are high…
The political implications are potentially devastating.
The original source of this article is Global Research
Copyright © Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 2016
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