Caption: Sen John McCain and Libyan terrorist military leader Abdel-Fattah Younis (R) of the Transitional National Council (TC) – at the time the first public “face” of the TNC – tour its headquarters in the city of Benghazi on April 22, 2011. McCain insisted he would not have gone to Libya without the backing of the White House. He challenged critics of NATO’s intervention to tour Benghazi and see a “powerful and hopeful example of what a free Libya can be.” McCain praised the rebels as his “heroes” and called for “greater American involvement”, one day after the United States started flying armed Predator drones to bolster NATO firepower and try to break a battlefield stalemate with Libyan forces. By July, McCain’s “hero”, Younis, and two of his colonels had been assassinated, reportedly by other members of the TNC. By the end of 2011, Libya had become a principal conduit for sending arms and recruits through Turkey to Syria to carry out US regime change in that country. The overthrow of Libya’s government by NATO and Gulf Arab powers, at the cost of over 30,000 deaths, has led to a collapse in human rights and social conditions. Benghazi is now the centre of a bloody tribal-based revolt against the NATO government | UPI\Tarek Alhuony

Caption: Since 2011, John McCain – who was the Godfather of the Ahmad Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress – has served as the Godfather of the “moderate” terrorists fighting to destroy Syria. At the 2011 Halifax International Security Forum, McCain was the first U.S. official to issue a public call (on Nov. 19) for formal recognition of the Syrian National Council and its proxy army of mercenaries and jihadists, the “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) as the official U.S.-NATO instrument for destabilizing Syria and regime change. On May 26, 2013 he made an illegal trip inside Syria from Turkey to meet with then commander of the FSA, Gen. Salim Idriss. The trip was made with the assistance of the U.S. State Department and came when the Syrian Arab Army was making steady advances against the terrorist forces. However, the worldwide publication of photographs caused a furore; reports suggested that the “rebels” were the very people responsible for the kidnapping of 11 Lebanese pilgrims inside Syria. Lebanon’s Daily Star reported on the “crossing of paths” between McCain, Mohammad Nour and Ammar Al-Dadikhi (a.k.a. Abu Ibrahim), who were members of “rebel” group the Northern Storm, alleged to be holding the pilgrims. Many units of the FSA joined with or directly fight alongside Islamic State. And Salim Idriss? He was sacked in February 2014 for being “too moderate” and the “ineffectiveness of the command in the past few months.”

Caption: Later that year, Harper’s then Defence Minister Peter MacKay bestowed an honorary doctorate from the Royal Military College, Kingston upon Sen. McCain at the Canadian embassy in Washington, June 18, 2013. McCain was exalted for his so-called “dedication to our countries’ bilateral relationship and to his extensive work in promoting international security,” MacKay’s office said in a release. MacKay called McCain “a great friend to Canada, truly one of the great men of our generation.” McCain’s IRI is closely linked to the Harper Conservatives, who came to power in 2005 through an electoral coup, employing Republican campaign strategists. The IRI has been heavily involved in regime change in Venezuela, Haiti, Ukraine, Georgia, Egypt and numerous other countries. Precisely one month following the MacKay-McCain duet in Washington, Canada’s new Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Lynne Yelich announced on July 18 that it will be directly funding McCain’s agency through the approved budgets for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and the the Global Peace and Security Fund, specifically for one of two projects in the Middle East and North Africa aimed at organizing electoral coups. The combined cost of the two projects is $971,200. It is well known that “an apple never falls far from the tree.” | THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Canadian embassy

Caption: When Sen. John McCain dined with Ukraine’s opposition leaders in Kiev on December 15, 2013, he shared a table and later a stage at the Maidan Square with the leader of the neo-Nazi Svoboda party Oleh Tyahnybok. The anti-semitic Tiahnybok once made headlines, when he announced that Ukraine must be “liberated” from a “Jewish mafia from Moscow” and defends the deeds of the head of a World War II Ukrainian SS-Galicia Division. The party was registered in 1995, initially calling itself the “Social National Party of Ukraine” and using a swastika style logo. Svoboda is the electoral front for neo-nazi organizations such as UNA-UNSO. The International Republican Institute spent millions funding the Orange Revolution 1.0 in 2004. Now McCain (and his IRI) was back for 2.0. McCain tried to incite those who had occupied and trashed government buildings in attempt to overthrow the elected Ukrainian government. “I am proud of what the people of Ukraine are doing,” he said, as he tried to rouse the crowd with cries of “democracy” and promises of “freedom and independence” – U.S. style. When peaceful American antiwar protesters showed up at McCain’s own Senate office in 2007, he promptly had them arrested. | Reuters, Gleb Garanich

Caption: Neo-Nazi Svoboda party chief Oleh Tyahnybok. Following the coup d’état on February 22, the fascist party was represented in the Ukrainian government; Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Sych was a member. Other Svoboda leaders in the top echelons of the government included Ecology Minister Andriy Mokhnyk, Agriculture Minister Ihor Shvaika, acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky and the secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council, Andriy Parubiy, who oversees national security for the nation. Parubiy previously served as security commandant during the anti-government protests in Kiev and was a founder of Svoboda’s pro-Nazi predecessor, the Social National Party. Overseeing the armed forces alongside Parubiy as the Deputy Secretary of National Security was Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector. Svoboda has had a recruiting and fund-raising office in Canada (in Mississauga, Ontario) since 2010 with the approval of the Harper government.

Caption: McCain’s visit to the barricades in Kiev closely followed that of John Baird, Harper’s foreign minister, on Dec. 5 – just two weeks after the first protest on Nov. 21. Later, he issued a statement in which he characterized the move to overthrow the Ukrainian government as “historic”, provided shelter at the Canadian embassy in Kiev for neo-nazi “activists” and “protestors” whom he and Harper hailed as “courageous,” and provided $81,000 in 2 grants “including vital supplies, first aid kits and training” to the insurgent forces on the Maidan through Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation – a full nine days before the Feb. 22 coup d’ état. | Wikimedia Commons

Caption: In early November, McCain’s International Repubblican Institute hosted a visit by Semyon Semyonchenko, commander of the neo-Nazi “Donbass Battalion” in Ukraine. The private battalion was established in May by the “Right Sector” to fight the Donetsk Republic, who considered the Kiev government illegitimate and had declared sovereignty on April 7, ratified in a referendum. The Amnesty International report entitled ‘Ukraine: abuses and war crimes by the Aidar volunteer battalion in the north Lugansk region’ has confirmed that war crimes including abductions, executions and extortion were committed by another Ukrainian punitive regiment – the Aidar battalion. In Washington, Semyonchenko “signed a contract to organize training courses for the fighters and officers of the battalion Donbass by mobile groups of instructors from the United States, held by military that are not currently in service.” In the photo, Semyonchenko is in military camouflage uniform. Behind him, on the right, Tennessee Senator Robert Corker. In a post on his Facebook page on November 11, Semyonchenko had written, “Three People’s Deputy of the day flew to Washington to meet with Senator John McCain.” (Click to enlarge)

November 21, 2009: Haligonians mount a vigorous protest against the First Halifax International Security Forum, funded by DND and ACOA.