provocation
The use of deception and misdirection for gain is a fundamental aspect of the human condition, clearly linked in the history of primate evolution to the enlargement of the neocortex. Observers from Sun Tzu (‘war is deception’) and Machiavelli (‘princes… have little respect for keeping their word’) to the Mossad (‘by war of deception thou shalt wage war’) have noted the historical importance of deception to war and statecraft. Why, then, does it come as such a surprise to domestic populations that the state, like a schoolyard bully, is liable to point to its enemies and declare ‘he pushed me first’? The art of the provocation, the sacrifice of the pawn to pin the blame on one’s enemy in order to discredit them, is one of the oldest tricks in the book. History is rife with examples. From the the sinking of ships and the destruction of landmarks to the infiltration of protest by police to justify armed crackdown, state sponsored terror, the product of some 50 million years of deceit, should come as a surprise to no one. Yet we also desperately desire the security of trust, wish to believe that the leaders of our pack, our social group, our state are the infallible exception.
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2010
Four alleged G20 violence ringleaders appear in court | Black Bloc tactics sparked Saturday G20 vandalism, confrontation | G20 protesters clash with Vancouver police | ‘Anarchists’ leave trail of destruction, peaceful 3hr march forgotten | BP: Gulf Resident Gives Behind the Scenes Account, Slams Cleanup and Safety | Marcus Gee: Why the G20 protesters won’t condemn violence | Iran to send ship through Gaza blockade | States Need To Launch Criminal Investigation Into BP, Federal Government’s Role In Oil Spill | Real IRA plot accused entrapped by MI5 rules judge | Ban G20 summit agents provocateurs: activist groups to PM | Pro-copyright bill group busted as recording industry astroturf campaign | LSE Report: Pakistan ISI backs Taliban | Two men arrested at JFK, were attempting to find terror group to join | Autopsy: Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range | Israel to reject UN call for flotilla raid probe, MV Rachel Corrie under steam | U.S. to Join South Korean Military Exercise Off North Korea Coast | IDF: ‘Activists threw stun grenades’ | Ex-Mossad agent: Gaza flotilla raid ’so stupid it’s stupefying’ | Knesset member and eyewitness: Israel fired before boarding ship | Protests in Middle East, Europe, follow deadly Israeli attack on flotilla as UN convenes emergency session | Israeli troops attack ship carrying aid to Gaza killing 16 | Options studied for a possible Pakistan strike by US | Top Construction Firm: WTC Destroyed By Controlled Demolition | Jordanian teen to plead guilty in Dallas bomb case | North Korea to sever ties with South | Obama starts massive US Air-Sea-Marine build-up opposite Iran | RBC firebombed as protest, group claims | US claims Security Council backing for Iran sanctions | Anarchists plan ‘militant’ protests at Toronto G20 | US Hutaree Militia ‘Terror’ Case Update — Members Out on Bail, Case in Shambles | Sarkozy threatened to quit euro in showdown with Germany: Report | Iraq’s new al-Qaeda leader warns Shias | Taliban behind Times Square plot, says US AG Holder | Times Square Bomber Linked With CIA-Controlled Terror Group | Mumbai gunman convicted of murder in “state-sponsored” terror case | Further details on command and control system used to coordinate 9/11 incident | Toronto 18 star witness grilled (again), accused of egging on gullible youngsters | Israel to go with East Jerusalem construction | EnCana bomber letter received by B.C. paper | U.S. officials say Pakistani spy agency released Afghan Taliban insurgents | ‘Anarchists’ Plan to Disrupt April 15 US Tea Party Protests | Eight U.S. militia members enter not guilty pleas, lawyers expect ‘mega trial’ | Alt-Media Predictions Borne Out: FBI Agent Discovered at Center of Alleged Hutaree Conspiracy | Undercover agent helped in probe of Hutaree | Mumbai Terrorist Headley Was US Agent | Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu climbs down on expansion over US demands for peace | Former smuggler, DEA informant who helped plot Mumbai attacks faces life in prison | Georgia suffering backlash over media-staged Russian attack | US-Israel relations: White House ‘will not shy away’ from pushing for talks | Undercover policeman reveals how he infiltrated UK’s anti-racism activists | While Government Treats Citizens As Terrorists, Mexican Military Invades U.S. | Canada ‘regrets’ Israeli settlements | French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment | Pentagon shooter had a history of mental illness | Black bloc taints anti-Olympic movement | Arrested Terrorist Leader Exposes Extensive CIA Connections | Nine Months Before Operation Northwoods, Government Leaders Suggested False Flag Terror in the Dominican Republic | Vancouver Olympics protesters fall silent as Black Bloc ruins it for everyone | The truth about the Mossad | Anthrax mailing probe closed by FBI | Dubai police call on Interpol to help arrest Mossad head | Terror of innocent Britons named as assassins: Why choose us, ask men whose identities were stolen during alleged Israeli hit on Hamas official | Toronto 18 conspirator Shareef Abdelhaleem ‘not entrapped’, despite evident entrapment: judge | 5 Muslims jailed for Australian terror plot | Obama threatens actions against Iran over nuclear program | UN sanctions urged over Iran’s uranium plans | U.S. deploys land and sea-based missile shield in the Gulf to deter attack from Iran | Crotch Bomber Mutallab’s Visa Approved by State Department | Authorities Quietly Reverse Underwear Bomber Official Story | Bomb plotter blames police in Toronto 18 case | ‘Toronto 18′ accused involved in bomb plot through RCMP agent, defence says | Toronto 18 member pleads no contest in preparation for entrapment defence | Walkom: Mole crucial to terror trial | Obama Information Czar Outlined Plan For Government To Infiltrate ‘Conspiracy Groups’ | Spy links with CIA suicide bomber are problem for Jordan
2009
Detroit bombing: US had received intelligence suggesting Nigerian was planning an attack | Mumbai suspect is US double agent, India claims | Iraq security forces involved in bombings: PM | Mumbai police ignored security alerts, says report | Blair lied and lied again: Mandarins reveal that 10 days before Iraq invasion PM knew Saddam couldn’t use WMDs | US pours millions into anti-Taliban militias in Afghanistan | Sears Tower ‘bomb plot’ ringleader sentenced to 13 years | Taliban: Blackwater to blame for Pakistan attacks | How the US Funds the Taliban | Elite Council Recording Suggests Creating False Scarcity To Drive Up Demand For H1N1 Vaccine | China launches ’strike hard’ crackdown in Xinjiang | Police arrested over Iraq bombing | Taliban Chief Blames Blackwater, ISI for Peshawar Blast | Ex-CIA agent confirms US ties with Jundullah | The JFK Assassination: New York Times Acknowledges CIA Deceptions | Iranian commanders assassinated, Iran fingers Western intelligence | Despite provocation taint, absence of plan, five men convicted of ‘terror plot’ in Australia’s longest trial | ‘Toronto 18′ leader pleads guilty | IAEA members question Iran nuclear intel authenticity | US: Hospitals fear ‘Flumist’ H1N1 nasal vaccine could spread swine flu | Another War in the Works | US military could strike Iran, but at what cost? | Provocateur Cops Caught Disguised As ‘Anarchists’ At Pittsburgh G20 | Honduras suspends civil liberties as ousted President calls for resistance | G20 Police & Military Savagely Attack Peaceful Protesters In Pittsburgh Park | Iran plays into Obama’s hands with disclosure of nuclear facility | Pakistan to indict suspects in Mumbai attacks | Israel ‘will attack Iran this year’ if West does not cripple Tehran with sanctions | UN condemns ‘war crimes’ in Gaza | Charlie Sheen Requests Meeting With Obama Over 9/11 Cover-Up | Army defuses huge bomb on Northern Ireland border | 3 U.K. men convicted in airline bomb plot | Australian Army Base Terrorism Case ‘Exaggerated’ | Evasive Australian police quizzed whether covert operative was planted among terror suspects | Madsen: CIA collusion with “Al Qaeda” financiers and attack planners | 2-year term sought in Toronto ‘terror plot’ | US Officer responsible for Vietnam massacre finally apologizes | Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Implicated in Murder | A Sibel Edmonds Bombshell — Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Until 9/11 | U.S. native activist Peltier up for parole hearing | Mumbai attack suspect shocks court and own defence lawyer by pleading guilty | Paulson Threatened Great Depression, Food Riots To Get Bailout Bill Passed | UK: Did MI5 kill Dr David Kelly? | Cyber Attacks Traced to the U.S., Britain | Dick Cheney ‘hid plans to kill al-Qaida operatives abroad’ | Professor fingers Thermite charges as responsible for 9/11 demolition | Pakistani president Asif Zardari admits creating terrorist groups | Lazy Hacker and Little Worm Set Off Korean Cyberwar Media Frenzy | UK: As rumours swell that the government staged 7/7, victims’ relatives call for a proper inquiry | Western Governments Funding Taliban & Al-Qaeda To Kill U.S. Troops, Destabilize Countries | Cynthia McKinney Demands Immediate Release After Her Gaza-Bound Boat is Seized by Israeli Navy | Obama Administration Shuts Down 9/11 Families Lawsuit | Brookings Publication mentions possibility of ‘Horrific Provocation’ to Trigger Iran Invasion | Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine | North Korea threatens to ‘wipe out’ U.S. | Harkat raid ruled illegal | Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader To US Intelligence Is Assassinated | Ottawa defies court, refuses emergency travel documents to citizen trapped in Sudan | WHO declares swine flu pandemic, no change in Canada’s approach | Man with Toronto 18 ties convicted in the U.S. | Title law would undermine native rights, lawyers say | Mohawk protesters block Ontario bridge over arming of border guards | Peru protest violence kills natives and police | Tiananmen Square: briefly, anything seemed possible | Harkat lawyers accuse officials of conducting illegal raid | Akwesasne natives protest armed border guards, border crossing closed in retaliation | The Main Result of the “War on Terror”: The Destabilization of Pakistan | Blast at Iranian mosque raises tensions in run-up to presidential election | Abu Ghraib abuse photos ’show rape’ | How MI5 blackmails British Muslims | New York “Terror Plot” Another Government Provocateured Set-Up | G20 police ‘used undercover men to incite crowds’ | US air strikes kill dozens of Afghan civilians | Mutiny, Georgian war games feed tensions between Russia, NATO | Memo: 9/11 Commission Witnesses Were Intimidated By Government “Minders” | UK: Police caught on tape trying to recruit climate activist as informant | Revenue Canada destroys man’s life, refuses to pay for million-dollar mistake | Israeli troops kill apartheid wall protester | Secret Homeland Security Threat Assessment Labels Gun Owners Potential Terrorists | Moldova’s ‘Twitter Revolution’: Made in America? | Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies | Amateur video blasts G20 death coverup | Study claims ‘highly engineered explosive’ found in WTC rubble | G20 ‘kettle’ police containment traps protesters, photograph a requirement for exit | G20 protests: Riot police, or rioting police? | Netanyahu: We may be forced to attack Iran | Judge finds no entrapment of suspects in Toronto ‘terror’ case | Wall Street’s Big Takeover | Annual anti-police protest leads to chaos in streets of Montreal | Pakistani police attack opposition march for independent judiciary | Security guards stood by as gunmen killed Northern Ireland soldiers | Not very cricket: Witnesses report Pakistani security abandoned convoy prior to attack | Bus decapitation accused was guided by voices, trial hears | New book details Mossad false flag assassination attempt on Canadian passports | Metrolinx’s draft report called for supporters to infiltrate public meetings | Pakistani officers helped plan Mumbai attacks, says India | UK: Police warn of ’summer of rage’ due to recession | Police and farmers clash in Greece, militant group attacks police station | RCMP mole in Toronto 18 case says he felt ‘bad’ in terror sting | Toronto 18 Terror case: RCMP agent Shaikh was instigator who broke law: defence | Anarchists battle police in central Athens | Swiss nuclear-smuggling suspect says CIA made him do it | Video shows proof of phosphorous bombs in Gaza | Rioters Were Paid To Provoke the Police in Bulgaria | Khadr trial date up in air after ’secret’ refiling of charges: defence lawyer | Indian Mumbai dossier details gunmen’s calls with handlers | Proposed Missile Shield seen as Provocation by Russia | They hate us for our bombs
2008
Greek Cops Caught on Video Posing as Anarchists | Counterterrorism squad secretly taped arrest of British whistleblower, elected MP | Banks won’t say where U.S. bailout money going | Bush Insider Who Planned To Tell All Killed In Plane Crash, Non-Profit Demands Full Federal Investigation | Lawyers slam CSIS on phone recordings | CSIS monitoring calls between suspects and their lawyers | IMF Chief Warns Of Riots In Response To Economic Crisis | Greek protesters seek European support | Anti-government riots subside, general strike shuts down Greece | India to create national spy agency in wake of Mumbai attacks | Amnesty: Disproportionate Police Force Used Against Peaceful Greek Demonstrators | Greek Police Battle Mourners, Memories of Dictatorship after Student Shooting | Former ISI Chief: Mumbai And 9/11 Both “Inside Jobs” | Blackwater Guards facing Charges in Case of 17 Dead Iraqi Citizens | Mumbai Attacks Politicize Long-Isolated Elite | Neo-cons still preparing for Iran attack | Decision to prorogue parliament sets ‘very dangerous’ precedent: constitutional expert | Harper halts parliament amid row | EU Police to Stream into Kosovo Despite Protests | Liberals and NDP sign unprecedented pact; to pursue stimulus, carbon taxes | UK launches high-visibility community punishment | Mumbai terror attacks: Rice calls for ‘total transparency’ from Pakistan | Cuts to party subsidies will stay: Flaherty | Tories back down on plan to withdraw funding for opposition parties | Counterterrorism squad rounds up UK opposition member over whistleblower incident | “Fair-skinned, blonde” assailants began attack in Mumbai | Quebec First Nations declare sovereignty, opposition to provincial development plans | Stephen Harper, evil genius, to pull financial plug on opposition: National Post | Mumbai Attacks Blamed On Al-Qaeda As Pretext For U.S. Military Response | Take note Naomi Klein: Democrats consider crises as opportunities, too | German Intelligence Agents Caught Staging False Flag Terror in Kosovo | Paulson uttered threat of Martial Law to get bailout passed | Bad news bearers warned to zip it by Kremlin | UK Pilots threaten strike over ID card plan | Paulson, Bernanke defend change of plan: $700-billion now to be given directly to banks | Don’t-ask-don’t-tell Policy: Pakistan and U.S. Have Tacit Deal On Airstrikes | Beijing peasants bullied, beaten off of family farms by state-developer blocs | Congress Accuses Federal Reserve Bagman Of Bailout “Bait and Switch” During Angry Hearing | ACLU wants probe into police-staged DNC protest | Ex-Italian President: Provocateur Riots Then “Beat The Shit Out Of Protesters” | US helicopter raid inside of Syria kills eight | Wall Street banks in $70bn staff payout | Representatives Were Threatened With Martial Law In America Over Bailout Bill | Harper threatens confidence motion over twice failed crime bill if re-elected | American Intelligence Contractors Leak Canadian Toronto 18 ‘Terror Training’ Video to Web | NATO Considers Deploying Rapid-Reaction Force in States Bordering Russia | Russia: US delivering weapons to Georgia under cover of humanitarian aid | Protesters: Police pepper-sprayed peaceful gathering | Pentagon Front Groups Release Laughable Olympics “Terror” Video | Georgia, Russia Go to War | Bombs explode, Washington-based Intelcenter releases yet another terror video, China cracks down on transport security | Cheney Considered False Flag Operation to Justify War with Iran | OPP officer posed as journalist during 2007 Mohawk protest | US scales up covert destabilization efforts in Iran, continues funding ‘al-Qaeda’ | Afghanistan suggests Pakistan responsible for embassy bombing | Chinese riot in Shenzen over rape, murder, subsequent police coverup | Police inspector posed as militant protester | Report: U.S. Gave Green Light For Taliban Prison Attack | Many Question if Toronto “Terrorists” Were Led by Informants as Case Weakens | Australian ‘Terror Plot’ Case Bears Remarkable Similarities to ‘Toronto 18′
2007
Ex-Italian President: Intel Agencies Know 9/11 An Inside Job | Declassified: Israel, USA Attempted Deliberate Sinking of USS Liberty During Mideast War | Quebec police admit agents posed as protesters | New Bin Laden Video: 100% Forgery | Undercover cops tried to incite violence in Montebello: union leader | Officers never posed as protesters: Quebec police | Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh: US Indirectly Funding Al-Qaeda Linked Sunni Groups in Move to Counter Iran
2006
Alleged Toronto terror plot included two police agents | U.S. Government Caught Red-Handed Releasing Staged Al-Qaeda Videos | Canadians who trust our secret police should think again
2005
British Special Forces Caught Carrying Out Staged Terror In Iraq?
2004
George W Bush Authorized 911 Attacks Says Government Insider
2002
Swiss scientists 95% sure that Bin Laden recording was fake | US military advisers arrive in Georgia
2001
Operation Northwoods Declassified: U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
2000
RCMP bombed oil site in ‘dirty tricks’ campaign
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