{"content":[{"text":"Reﬂecting on ﬁrst black American president Barack Obama’s memorable 2008 presidential \n campaign, with little-known senator from Delaware, Joe Biden, as his running-mate, Glenn \n Kessler wrote for the Washington Post [1] in October 2008:","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.051633,"width":0.794111,"height":0.051189}},{"text":"“The moment when Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. looked Serbian leader Slobodan \n Milosevic in the eye and called him a ‘damned war criminal’ has become the \n stuﬀ of campaign legend.","bbox":{"left":0.159622,"top":0.130964,"width":0.68065,"height":0.04495299999999999}},{"text":"“The Democratic vice presidential nominee brings up the 1993 confrontation \n on the campaign trial to whoops of delight from supporters. Senator Barack \n Obama mentioned it when he announced he had chosen Biden as his running \n mate.","bbox":{"left":0.159622,"top":0.190028,"width":0.6807719999999999,"height":0.05965200000000001}},{"text":"“During vice presidential debate with his counterpart on the Republican ticket, \n Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Biden twice gave himself credit for shifting US \n policy on Bosnia. The senator from Delaware declared that he ‘was the catalyst \n to change the circumstance in Bosnia led by President Clinton.’ At another \n point he noted: ‘My recommendations on Bosnia — I admit I was the ﬁrst one \n to recommend it. They saved tens of thousands of lives.’”","bbox":{"left":0.159622,"top":0.26379,"width":0.680743,"height":0.08905099999999994}},{"text":"Instead of “saving tens of thousands of lives,” the devastating Yugoslav Wars in the nineties \n in the aftermath of the break-up of the former Soviet Union and then the former Yugoslavia \n claimed over 130,000 fatalities, created a humanitarian crisis and unleashed a ﬂood of \n millions of refugees for which nobody is to blame but the Clinton administration’s militarist \n policy of subjugating and forcibly integrating East European states into the Western \n capitalist bloc.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.380981,"width":0.7941,"height":0.10464099999999998}},{"text":"Regarding Washington’s modus operandi of waging proxy wars in Eastern Europe and the \n Middle East, since the times of the Soviet-Afghan jihad during the eighties, it has been the \n fail-safe game plan of master strategists at NATO to raise money [2] from the oil-rich \n emirates of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and Kuwait; then buy billions of dollars’ worth of \n weapons from the arms markets [3] in the Eastern Europe; and then provide those weapons \n and guerilla warfare training to the disaﬀected population of the victim country by using the \n intelligence agencies of the latter’s regional adversaries. Whether it’s Afghanistan, Bosnia, \n Kosovo, Chechnya, Libya or Syria, the same playbook was executed to the letter.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.50285,"width":0.794128,"height":0.140274}},{"text":"Raising funds for proxy wars from the Gulf Arab States allows the Western executives the \n freedom to evade congressional scrutiny; the beneﬁt of buying weapons from unregulated \n arms markets of the Eastern Europe is that such weapons cannot be traced back to the \n Western capitals; and using jihadist proxies to achieve strategic objectives has the \n advantage of taking the plea of “plausible deniability” if the strategy backﬁres, which it \n often does. Remember that al-Qaeda and Taliban were the by-products of the Soviet-Afghan \n jihad, and the Islamic State and its global network of terrorists were the blowback of the \n proxy war in Syria.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.660353,"width":0.794072,"height":0.140274}},{"text":"Nevertheless, smugly oblivious to the death and destruction caused by Washington’s global \n domination agenda, national security shill Glenn Kessler further noted in the aforementioned \n Washington Post article:","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.830328,"width":0.794183,"height":0.05118900000000004}},{"text":"“Biden focused on deﬁciencies in US policy toward Bosnia, he called for NATO \n expansion before it became fashionable and most recently prodded the Bush","bbox":{"left":0.159622,"top":0.909659,"width":0.68073,"height":0.030254000000000003}},{"text":"| 2","bbox":{"left":0.905167,"top":0.951943,"width":0.02340999999999993,"height":0.01659200000000005}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}