US public diplomacy warmongering 'pause' is NOT a change in intensification of 'reality on the ground' in its decades old agenda
same author, basically same article with headline change, PLUS 'u.s. reported step back from show of force' & MINUS "threats on US bases'

U.S. Dials Back On Korean Show Of Force
Administration 'Playbook' Outlined Publicized Exercises...
4/4/13 Wall Street Journal, By Adam Entous And Julian E. Barnes, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732410090457840083399742028...
WASHINGTON -- After a high-visibility display of military power aimed at deterring North Korean provocations, the White House is dialing back the aggressive posture amid fears that it could inadvertently trigger an even deeper crisis, according to U.S. officials. The U.S. is putting a pause to what officials described as a step-by-step plan the Obama administration approved earlier this year, dubbed "the playbook," that laid out the sequence and publicity plans for U.S. shows of force during annual war games with South Korea. The playbook included well-publicized flights in recent weeks near North Korea by nuclear-capable B-52 and stealth B-2 bombers, as well as advanced F-22 warplanes...the U.S. didn't believe North Korea had any imminent plans to take military action in response to the exercises...U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed the risks associated with the playbook and concluded there was a low probability of a North Korean military response because...."They are interested first and foremost in regime survival."...

Digest: US world domination pivots wherever it smells blood -- increasingly its own hemorrhaging power --so the digest will postpone more on the US/ israeli proxy /PLO/PA collaboration against Palestine and move to the deadly US and its proxy south korea provocations against the DPRK, China and Iran are the strategic targets since they, plus Syria and Russia, are the major obstacles to US hegemony -- in different ways. The US needs to divide capitalist rivals China and Russia, but also to harness their cooperation against Iran, Syria and NK which it is hellbent on destroying as nations. Wherever and how the US global terror war 'pivots' tactically, the information/surveillance war is always the linchpin.

Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era
Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970
"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen...millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason... These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieve/review by the authorities...Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of security forces need be appraised....techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm..

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Armistice dead? US and South Korea dismiss North Korea's edict
3/12/13 www.csmonitor.com/ World/ terrorism-security/ 2013/ 0312/

Digest: US world domination pivots wherever it smells blood -- increasingly its own hemorrhaging power --so the digest will postpone more on the US/ israeli proxy /PLO/PA collaboration against Palestine and move to the deadly US and its proxy south korea provocations against the DPRK, China and Iran are the strategic targets since they, plus Syria and Russia, are the major obstacles to US hegemony -- in different ways. The US needs to divide capitalist rivals China and Russia, but also to harness their cooperation against Iran, Syria and NK which it is hellbent on destroying as nations. Wherever and how the US global terror war 'pivots' tactically, the information/surveillance war is always the linchpin.

Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era
Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970
"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen...millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason... These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieve/review by the authorities...Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of security forces need be appraised....techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm..

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Armistice dead? US and South Korea dismiss North Korea's edict
3/12/13 www.csmonitor.com/ World/ terrorism-security/ 2013/ 0312/

Will Obama's visit shape a new Middle East?
3/25/13 http://www.npr.org/sections/middle-east/

O-K corral regional assets
Digest commentary: Every US word and move is directed toward salvaging its failing global domination. Why was Palestine #1 stop on this regional corral -the -assets operation?

In Ensuring Israel's Qualitative Military Edge (QME see below) - the proxy whose very existence depends on the US, as President Shimon Peres publicly acknowledged - the US state explains US 'national security interests' underlie its extraordinary support. On this 'middle east pivot' it was the lynchpin to 'unite' and leverage Arab-Israeli operational 'counterterrorism' assets - Jordan and Turkey, faithful fascist feudal Arab client states, Qatar, Jordan, plus the Arab League and GCC - against sovereign nations Iran and Syria - that dare to defend their national sovereignty and directly oppose the hegemon, and are welcomed around the world building anti-USrael domination support. Not revolutionary anti-imperialists for sure, but nevertheless 'terrorist" resistance which the US global state terror war was designed to coopt or crush - but cannot, and never will, defeat.

Palestinian national liberation aspirations live on, but increasingly under USAID/WB/IMF/Soros NGO soft power 'peaceful intifada' treachery, led by its PA/PLO agents. (below). Over 60 years of genocide against the Palestinians, their heroic struggle, a universal inspiration, is the major obstacle to imperialist-zionist regional, thus global, supremacy.

Fascism is capitalism in decay,
V.I. Lenin

digest commentary:
TO EXPAND ITS WORLD DOMINATION WAR SPREADING TERROR, DESTRUCTION AND DEATH ACROSS THE GLOBE, THE GEOSTRATEGICALLY VULNERABLE CAPITALIST STATE MUST INSTITUTIONALIZE FASCISM, IN THE NAME OF 'COUNTERTERRORISM' AND 'NATIONAL SECURITY, AGAINST THE RESISTANCE IT KNOWS IS INEVITABLE AND UNBEATABLE.
ENGINEERING 'ARAB SPRING REVOLUTIONS' TO OVERTHROW ITS NO LONGER USEFUL DICTATORS AND STRENGTHEN US CONTROL, PLYING ITS DEMOCRATIC 'DISPOSITION MATRIX' IN ITS 'HUMANITARIAN' TEETH, IT MEETS DEFEAT - AND ULTIMATELY PRODUCES ITS OWN GRAVEDIGGERS, TO PARAPHRASE MARX.
CAPITALIST COUNTRIES SYRIA, IRAN, NORTH KOREA AND VENEZUELA, REFUSE TO BE DEMONIZED, THREATENED OR ATTACKED INTO SUBMISSION BY THE MURDERING BULLY.
BUT MOST URGENTLY NEEDED, AND MOST FEARED BY RULING CAPITAL, STILL MISSING IN EVERY COUNTRY, IS WORKING AND OPPRESSED CLASS REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP.

IRAN IS THE TARGET: US NEEDS PROXY REGIME IN SYRIA TO WEAKEN IRAN AND STRENGTHEN ITS PROXY ISRAEL

John Kerry leads Senate Foreign Relations evaluation of Syria option: Next Steps in Syria
August 1, 2012 video: http://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/next-steps-in-syria
The panel heard testimony from three experts, Martin Indyk, director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution and former US ambassador to Israel; James Dobbins, director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corp.; and Andrew Tabler, senior fellow in the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Before they testified, Kerry delivered an opening statement (excerpt)

nb: Sequester 'to hide' worldwide purpose and implications
Voice of America explains success of finance capitalist 'sequester' for 'main street households'

http://www.voanews.com/content/key-us-stock-index-tops-all-time-high/161...
President Barack Obama, the Democrat starting his second term, and his Republican opponents in Congress are locked in a long-running standoff over government spending and tax issues. Just last Friday, $85 billion in mandated government spending cuts took effect, with Obama and Republican lawmakers now sparring over the effects of the cuts on the economy and the U.S. labor market. But James Glassman, senior economist at the big JPMorgan Chase bank, said investors see favorable trends in the U.S. economy, the world's largest....
Patrick Socci, dean of N.Y. Hofstra University business school, told VOA the fact the U.S. housing market has improved and the country's central bank, the Federal Reserve, continues to pump $40 billion a month into the economy, helped buoy the stock market..and investors are overlooking negative aspects of the U.S. economy...now we’re close to 8 percent and it’s been there for quite a while I think people just get numb to it,” Socci said. The Dow index includes some of the best known U.S. companies, such household names as the world's largest energy company, Exxon Mobil, the retailing giant Wal-Mart, and Walt Disney. While other broad-based U.S. indexes, such as the Standard & Poor's 500, include the stocks of many more companies, the Dow has over decades come to symbolize the long-term success of American capitalism.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 9:47:28
measures performance of 30 blue-chip companies
Dow Jones industrial average crosses all-time high

Digest note: Excerpts from digest issue a week ago, 2/11/13 Obama Claims Preemptive Cyberwar Power; US "target of massive China Cyber-espionage" http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/426, are followed by 2/19 US/CIA 'discovery China's Military behind attacks '

Obama claims broad preemptive cyber war powers
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/280807-news-bites-ob...
2/4/13 www.fastcompany.com/3005446/obama-granted-cyberwar-powers -
A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons concluded President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the United States detects evidence of a major digital attack looming from abroad...as the administration moves, in the next few weeks, to approve the nation's first rules for how the military can defend, or retaliate, against cyberattack...will also govern how intelligence agencies can carry out searches of faraway computer networks for signs of potential attacks on the US and, if the president approves, attack adversaries by injecting them with destructive code - even with no declared war. The rules will be highly classified, just as those governing drone strikes have been. John O. Brennan, Mr. Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser and nominee to run the CIA, played a central role in developing the administration's policies regarding drones and cyberwarfare....US Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) and computer network warfare is one of the few parts of the military budget expected to grow...Officials said the new cyberpolicies were guided by a decade of evolution in counterterrorism policy, particularly on the division of authority between the military and the intelligence agencies in deploying cyberweapons

10 days later....
China, the major 'threat' to US global dominance, which holds trillions of US debt, it would be laughable if not so desperately deadly
U.S. said to be target of massive cyber-espionage campaign

Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era
Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970
"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen...millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason... These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieve/review by the authorities...Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of security forces need be appraised....techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm...

Obama claims broad premeptive cyber war powers
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/280807-news-bites-ob...
2/4/13 www.fastcompany.com/3005446/obama-granted-cyberwar-powers -

US strategy: Damascus is the road to Tehran

"Israelis notified the Americans about the attack": translation, US approved its proxy's moves
U.S. Says Arms Shipment Was Target as Israel Bombed Syria
1/31/13 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/world/middleeast/syria-says-it-was-hit...
JERUSALEM — Israeli warplanes carried out a strike deep inside Syrian territory on Wednesday, American officials reported, saying they believed the target was a convoy carrying sophisticated antiaircraft weaponry on the outskirts of Damascus that was intended for the Hezbollah Shiite militia in Lebanon.The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Israelis had notified the Americans about the attack...Jerusalem has long maintained a policy of silence on pre-emptive military strikes....The Syrian statement, carried by state television, said an unidentified number of Israeli jets flying below radar had hit the scientific research facility in the Damascus suburbs, killing two people and causing “huge material damage.”...
Israel’s air force chief, Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, speaking at an international space conference in Israel, said Tuesday that Syria was a prime example of “the weakening governance in neighboring countries that heralds greater exposure to hostile activity. We work every day in order to lessen the immediate threats, to create better conditions so that we will be victorious in future wars. This is a struggle in which the Air Force is a central player, from here to thousands of kilometers away.”[...]

Israeli Warplanes Make Strike on Weapons Convoy in Syria
NPR NewsHour ANALYSIS   Jan. 30, 2013 EmbedVideo('5603', '514', '320')
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june13/israel_01-30.html
Summary

Note: brief background & strategic context:

US will deploy troops to 35 African countries in 2013
12/24/12 http://blackagendareport.com/content/master-“guest”-us-military-swarms-over-africa
Soldiers based out of Fort Riley, Kansas’ 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division will begin training in March 2013 in order to prepare for a project that will send troops to as many as 35 African nations, the AP reports. Citing a growing threat from extremist groups, including those with 'ties to al-Qaeda', the Pentagon is installing U.S. forces to prepare local troops there for any future crises as tensions escalate....DoD sources with insider knowledge told the Washington Post US troops will soon be en route to the nation of Mali in order to thwart the emerging threat of Islamic extremists, including al-Qaeda aligned insurgents. With the latest news from the Pentagon, though, Mali will be just one of many African nations hosting US troops in the coming year...

The End of the Mubarak Era
1/29/11 Bruce Reidel, www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2011/01/29-egypt-riedel
Bruce Reidel, former CIA Officer, a senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.