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International neocon ploy to discredit anti-U.S. politicians
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer


May 5, 2006, 00:55

(WMR) -- The recent so-called "scandal" in France said to involve French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin (a notable anti-Iraq war diplomat when he served as foreign minister) is nothing more than a continuation of the neocon "Big Lie" practice.

In this case, French and other international media neocons have claimed DeVillepin orchestrated a scandal involving French Interior Minister and presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy is a strong supporter of Israel's theocratic kleptocracy and a darling of global neocon interests.

The Sarkozy scandal was said to have involved bribes paid to him in numbered bank accounts in Luxembourg. The "Clearstream affair" -- said to involve bribery payments to Sarkozy in return for a deal to sell French frigates to Taiwan -- is claimed by Sarkozy to be a deliberate smear. DeVillepin ordered French intelligence to investigate Sarkozy.

Interestingly, DeVillepin argued that as foreign minister, it was his job to investigate Sarkozy's possible involvement with "mafia money." Sarkozy's major political supporters are tied to the Russian-Israeli-Ukrainian mafia that has been capitalizing on the Iraq war, nuclear proliferation involving the A Q Khan network, diamond smuggling financing of "Al Qaeda," and drug smuggling.

Meanwhile, neocon media are spinning the story that Mexico's leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has slipped to second place in polls that have shown him as much as 10 percentage points ahead of his two rivals.

In Obrador's case, his two conservative rivals have the support of Carlos Slim, the world's third richest man and a Silvio Berlusconi-style media mogul who dominates Mexican business and politics. With the neocon media arrayed against him, it is no wonder Obrador is reported as "slipping" in polls to his closest conservative rival, Felipe Calderon, the energy minister under Vicente Fox and someone with close ties to the oil industry.

With so much neocon domination of the global media, DeVillepin and Obrador cannot get fair coverage. WMR will strive to break through the neocon fog and report the facts.