Halifax International Security Forum/2012

 Halifax International Security Forum/2012(Halifax International Security Forum/Meeting)

United States Senators Mark Udall, John McCain, John Barrasso, and Barbara Mikulski speak to members of the media at the Halifax International Security Forum 2012.
Date	21 November 2012 - 23 November 2012
Location	Halifax,  Nova Scotia,  Canada
Description	Spooky conference in Canada discussing the "New Normal" and Western nations' "special burden".
Participants	Geneive Abdo, Michael Abramowitz, Stéphane Abrial, Sagal Abshir, Mohammed Abu Lahoum, Prashant Agrawal, Mobashar Jawed Akbar, Rinat Akhmetshin, Mohammad Al Abdallah, Mohammad Al Ajlouni, Rafat Al-Akhali, Chris Alexander, Ali Alfoneh, Antony Anderson, Dewi Anwar, Michael Ashar, Madeleine Ashe, Derrick Ashong, Carlos Augusto de Sousa, Michael Auslin, Shlomo Avineri, Kenneth Baer, James H. Baker, Yaprak Baltacıoğlu, Shukria Barakzai, Wim Bargerbos, John Barrasso, Jennifer Barrett, Stuart Beare, Dawisson Belem Lopes, Jean Betermier, Adam Blackwell, Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., Peter Boehm, David Bosco, James Boutilier, Richard Bradlow, Darrell Bricker, Laura Bridge, Yves Brodeur, Ian Brodie, Pete Brodnitz, Shlomo Brom, Christian Brose, Nancy Bui-Thompson, Sharon Burke, Mark Cameron, Cansu Çamlibel, Leslie Campbell, Cengiz Çandar, João Castro Neves, Blaise Cathcart, Nick Childs, Fotini Christia, Campbell Clark, Tom Clark, Steve Clemons, Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Eliot Cohen, David Collenette, Nusret Cömert, Heather Conley, Irwin Cotler, Ronald Covais, Michael Day, Antonio Jorge da Rocha, Arnaud Danjean, Rup Narayan Das, Premvir Das, Glenn Davidson, Francis Delon, Neelam Deo, Raghida Dergham, Peter John Devlin, David Dewitt, Robbie Diamond, Yoram Dinstein, Safeen Dizayee, Paula Dobriansky, Gary Doer, Marcela Donadio, Richard Downie, Michael Dubie, Dan Dugas, David Ellis, Mieke Eoyang, Jacques Fauteux, Dean Fealk, Marian Fernet, Eamonn Fingleton, Helga Flores Trejo, Jamie Fly, Stephen Flynn, Robert Fonberg, Johanna Mendelson Forman, John Forster, Joshua Foust, Liam Fox, Lisa Friedman, Dave Gardam, Ulf Gartzke, John Gastright, John Gaventa, Jennifer Gearey, François Géré, Rob Gillies, John Glenn, Misha Glenny, Jean-François Godbout, Diba Nigar Göksel, Blake Goldring, Joanisval Gonçalves, Maggie Goodlander, Marc Goodman, David Gough, Heather Grabbe, Sebastian Gräfe, Bill Graham, Camille Grand, Jerrold Green, Mike Greenley, Maryscott Greenwood, François Guimont, Joseph Hall, Philip Hammond, Louise Hand, Andrew House, Husain Haqqani, Allison Hart, Doug Hattaway, Jan Havranek, Kerry Healey, Joshua Hersh, Peter Hogan, Matthew Mark Horn, Nadim Houry, Peter Hughes, Rex Hughes, Heather Hurlburt, Ravic Huso, Karl Inderfurth, Wolfgang Ischinger, Farahnaz Ispahani, Jeremy Issacharoff, Bruce Jackson, David Jacobson, Jackson Janes, Tom Jarmyn, Barbara Jensen, Said Jawad, Peter Jennings (ASPI), Josef Joffe, Matthew Kaminski, Athena Katsoulos, Jonathan Kay, John Kelly III, Kai Michael Kenkel, Madonna Kent, David Keyes, Persis Khambatta, James Kitfield, Suat Kınıklıoğlu, Martin Klingst, Kathleen Koch, Richard Koo, Zenon Kosiniak-Kamysz, David Kramer, Irina Krasovskaya, Chad Kreikemeier, Hilary Krieger, Ján Kubiš, David Kurtz, Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, Adam Kushner, Ron L’Esperance, Elise Labott, Francois Lafond, Miroslav Lajčák, F. Stephen Larrabee, Amer Latif, Michel Lavigne, Peter Lavoy, Thomas Lawson, Paul LeBlanc, Ariel Levite, Leonard Lidov, Klaus Linsenmeier, Graham Lintott, Shalom Lipner, Gal Luft, Brian Macdonald, John MacDonell, César Mac-Namera, Geoffrey Machum, Macha MacKay, Peter MacKay, George MacLean, Paul Maddison, Ashok Malik, Ilgar Mammadov, John Manley, Sergio Mantilla, Bruno Marescaux, Elisa Massimino, Djerdj Matkovic, Bill McCaffrey, John McCain, Jon McKenzie, Alan Mendoza, Jeanne Meserve, Ayman Mhanna, Leo Michel, Fred Midgette, Barbara Mikulski, James Miller, Wess Mitchell, Saad Mohseni, Duane Monea, Yusuf Muftuoglü, Jeff Mullen, Vago Muradian, Felipe Nasser, Walter Natynczyk, Pauline Neville-Jones, Kevin Newman, Natalie Nougayrède, Jamie O'Gilvie, Jacqueline O'Neill, Charles Dixon Osburn, Russell Page, Timothy Page, Ana Palacio, Jean-Paul Paloméros, Roland Paris, Jay Paxton, Tom Perriello, Smadar Perry, Ted Piccone, Livia Plaks, Dana Priest, Margaret Purdy, Jibril Rajoub, Albert Ramdin, Ahmed Rashid, Alison Redford, Stephen Rigby, Richard Riley, Sheila Riordon, Carla Robbins, Colin Robertson, Corin Robertson, Joshua Rogin, Rafal Rohozinski, Gideon Rose, Morris Rosenberg, Henri Rothschild, Craig Rowsell, Luis Rubio, Daniel Runde, Tom Ruth, Oussama Safa, Sven Sakkov, Amrullah Saleh, David Sanger, Samir Saran, Jo-Anne Scharf, Randy Scheunemann, Christian Schmidt, Christian Schmidt, Andrew Schwartz, Peter Semneby, Richard Sendall, Vance Serchuck, Robin Shepherd, Mohammed Shtayyeh, Vasil Sikharulidze, Péter Siklósi, Jill Sinclair, Lokman Slim, Julianne Smith, Eugeniusz Smolar, Carsten Søndergaard, Frits Stam, Barbara Stegemann, Janice Stein, Mercedes Stephenson, Yasushi Sukegawa, Michael Svetlik, Jane Taber, Andrew Tabler, Nobushige Takamizawa, Nobuo Tanaka, Andris Teikmanis, Jonathan Tepperman, Ishaan Tharoor, Guy Thibault, Eirik Thorshaug, Eneken Tikk-Ringas, Vic Toews, Russel Trood, Mark Udall, Tomas Valasek, Bernard Valcourt, Jonathan Vance, Peter Van Praagh, Joseph Varner, Robert Vass, Julian Ventura, Rogerio Verissimo, John Vinocur, Kurt Volker, Aleksandar Vučić, Alexandre Vulic, Abdul Hai Waheed, Bruce Wallace, Pamela Wallin, Abdul Rahim Wardak, W. Bruce Weinrod, Jonathan Weisstub, Margaret Wente, Christian Wernicke, Michael Werz, Kathryn White, Joseph Whited, Marc Whittingham, Alexis Wichowski, Andi Widjajanto, Taylor Wilson, Bogusław Winid, Joseph Wood, Mona Yacoubian, Kazuyuki Yamazaki, Chris Yonke, Dov Zakheim, Markus Ziener, Juan Carlos Pinzón

The 2012 Halifax International Security Forum was held November 21-23, 2012, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

War lobbyism and agendas

The Halifax International Security Forum in November 2012 took place against the backdrop of the 2012 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. This conflict and the civil war in Syria were major topics of Forum debates. Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay stated that Israel had the right to defend itself against Hamas,

Regarding Syria, MacKay called on Russia to - very conveniently - help end the "civil war"which in reality was a NATO regime change operation.

US Senators John McCain and Mark Udall called for a no-fly zone in Syria, - which would have led to a direct confrontation with Russia. McCain dismissed any talk of a potential US ground intervention given the lack of popular support for such a step by the American people. "Americans are war-weary", the Senator declared.

During a panel discussion on the future of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Afghan politicians and business leaders described the situation in their country as "very, very vulnerable". According to Abdul Rahim Wardak, advisor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and former defense minister, Afghanistan needed "a lot of resources and patience on the part of the international community".

At a panel on technology and modern warfare, Vic Toews, Canadian Minister of Public Safety, declared that Canada was "as prepared as anyone else" to defend itself against cyberattacks. During the same panel, Minister MacKay announced plans to procure drones for the surveillance of Canada's Arctic territories.

Sessions

Plenary Sessions:

• Plenary 1: What is the New Normal and When Will It Get Here? "Before addressing the question of what the new normal will look like, it might be helpful to take a step back: Who will own the new normal? Are our perceptions of Western decline reasonable? Will China, for example, continue to rise in the manner we have come to expect over the last decade or two, or could it all come to a stuttering halt as it did in Japan, the last Asian power predicted to mount a major challenge to Western hegemony?"
• Plenary 2: Syria’s Terror, The Middle East’s Tragedy
• Plenary 3: Mischief or Miscalculation? China and the Rise of Confusion-ism
• Plenary 4: The Good Guys? The Special Burden of Democratic Nations
• Plenary 5: American Global Leadership After the Election
• Plenary 6: North America Off Foreign Oil and It’s Impacts Everywhere Else
• Plenary 7: Is Afghanistan Pakistan’s Problem? (Or Vice Versa?)
• Plenary 8: Automated or Automatic? Cyber, Drones and the Consequences of Modern Warfare

 

Known Participants

94 of the 335 participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Michael Abramowitz	VOA director
Stéphane Abrial	French military leader with lots of US ties, MSC.
Shlomo Avineri	Israeli political scientist
James H. Baker	Pentagon's top wargamer. 2018, 2019 Bilderberger
John Barrasso	US physician and politician, multiple visits to the MSC
Ian Brodie	Attended the 2008 Bilderberg as Chief of Staff to the Canadian Prime Minister
Steve Clemons	US writer with a heavy HISF habit
Eliot Cohen	Spooky academic labelled "the most influential neocon in academe"
Heather Conley	Spooky German Marshall Fund President 2022-
Irwin Cotler	Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada 2003-2006. "Totally unabashed defender and supporter of Israel". Member of numerous spooky think-tanks.
Arnaud Danjean	French politician MSC YL with an MSC and HISF habits
Raghida Dergham	Arab American journalist with possible deep state connections
Paula Dobriansky	Spookily connected US politician
Gary Doer	Canadian diplomat and politician
Stephen Flynn
Liam Fox	UK politician
Ulf Gartzke	HISF and MSC habits
Rob Gillies	Heavy Halifax International Security Forum habit
John Glenn	Very heavy HISF habit
Misha Glenny	Heavy BF habit, other deep state connections
Heather Grabbe	Academic BF regular, WEF GLT 2003 amongst other Deep State ties
Camille Grand	Alphen Group member with MSC and HISF habits
Jerrold Green
Maryscott Greenwood	Functionary with a heavy HISF habit
Philip Hammond	British Conservative politician
Husain Haqqani	Pakistani diplomat which kicked an HISF habit in 2020
Wolfgang Ischinger	Spooky German diplomat. Chaired the Munich Security Conference
Bruce Jackson	US spook. His later career focused on accelerating the integration of the Western Balkan countries, Turkey, Ukraine and Georgia into the European Union and NATO. Member of the Henry Jackson Society.
Jackson Janes
Peter Jennings	US TV news anchor
Josef Joffe	Publisher-editor of Die Zeit
Matthew Kaminski
Kathleen Koch	"CNN Washington correspondent covering the White House, Pentagon..."
David Kramer	US academic with multiple deep state connections. Conduit for giving the Steele Dossier to Buzzfeed.
Irina Krasovskaya	Attended all the Brussels Fora from 2008 up to 2015
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan	US journalist
Suat Kınıklıoğlu	ECFR, lots of Halifax International Security Forum visits
Ron L'Esperance	Attended HISF meetings
François Lafond	Academic with a heavy Halifax International Security Forum habit
Miroslav Lajčák	Slovak diplomat with a WEF AGM habit and an exceedingyl havy GLOBSEC/Forum habit
Stephen Larrabee	RAND political scientist, MSC
Peter Lavoy	US MIC "terror expert".
Ariel Levite	Israeli nuclear expert and war hawk who attended Bilderberg/2012, where one of the subjects was "What Can the West Do about Iran?". Works for Carnegie Endowment.
Shalom Lipner	Wexner Israel Fellow who worked for seven consecutive Israeli premiers, then became a senior fellow at Atlantic Council.
Gal Luft	"Terror expert" and co-founder of the Set America Free Coalition, in 2023 arrested for arms dealing
Peter MacKay	Canadian politician with a heavy HISF habit
John Manley	Canadian politician
John McCain	Vietnam War veteran, sang about bombing Iran to voters, called the JFK assassination "the intervention". appears on a picture with Simon Elliot.
Alan Mendoza	Executive Director of The Henry Jackson Society
Jeanne Meserve
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