Thailand Gets the Libya-Syria TreatmentBy Tony Cartalucci Between August 11-12 and within a 24-hour period, several bombs detonated in four separate regions of Thailand including Trang, the resort city of Hua Hin, Phuket, and Surat Thani. Several deaths were reported and dozens were maimed as shrapnel tore through their bodies. The Western media was quick to blame the violence on southern separatists; however, that low-intensity conflict over the course of several decades has never ventured into any of the areas recently struck. There also is a matter of no motive existing for such a drastic escalation. What the Western media intentionally is omitting, however, or ambiguously referring to dozens of paragraphs down within their respective reports, is that the primary suspects are instead the US-backed opposition headed by ousted ex-Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra, his Pheu Thai political party (PTP), and his ultra-violent street front, the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as red shirts. They possess the means and the motive, and the targets and timing also all point to them. The areas hit are all strongholds of anti-Shinawatra sentiment, including areas with leadership who helped oust his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, from power in 2014. Hua Hin also serves as a second residence to the nations highly-revered king who also serves as head of state. The timing coincided with Thailands Mothers Day, which is also a day Thais celebrate their royal institution. Shinawatra and his followers have spent years attempting to undermine and overthrow this institution, seeking to replace it with a political dynasty headed by Shinawatras family. The attacks also take place just days after a democratic referendum overwhelmingly approved a new national charter that all but ended any prospects of Shinawatra returning to power. Finally, there is also the matter of Shinawatras enthusiastic use of violence and terrorism as political tools, on a scale much wider than ever seen in the nations troubled southern region. Since coming to power, and a fact the Western media will not inform readers of, Shinawatra and his supporters have embraced violence and terrorism as political tools. With this in mind, there is no doubt that Shinawatra and his supporters, along with his foreign sponsors, at the very least have proven to possess the capacity and willingness to commit such violence. With the motives aligned as well, that the Western media is omitting even mention of Shinawatra and his supporters as possible suspects indicates a concerted cover-up. A fully informed reader can see quite clearly now who is behind the violence, and that more violence is likely and precisely why. They can also see the only logical and justified steps the current government must now take to neutralize and eliminate this threat to the people of Thailand and from the Thai political landscape permanently. That is precisely why, then, the Western media is not fully informing readers. Just as the Western media did in Libya and Syria where terrorists were portrayed as freedom fighters, terrorism portrayed as resistance, and militants committing acts of violence when governments responded as being victims, the media is now attempting to do in Thailand. The feigned ambiguity of who is likely behind the bombings in Thailand is being propagated by Western editors who had witnessed and attempted to cover-up Shinawatras violence in 2013-2014, in 2010, in 2009, and even as far back as 2006. As others have noted, even though the US Embassy admitted that Shinawatra was likely behind a string of bombings in 2006-2007, they still worked ceaselessly to get him and his political allies back into power. The method of operation of the West in Libya and Syria the arming and backing of terrorists, the use of protests as cover under which to escalate a crisis into spiraling violence, and the portrayal of mercenaries and terrorists dismembering a sovereign nation with foreign-backing as a civil war now appears to be in the opening phases in Thailand. With even the alternative media getting their information from the BBC, Reuters, AP, AFP, CNN, and Al Jazeera this conspiracy is being given an unwarranted head start. However, with Libya and Syrias tragedies clearly focused in hindsight, it may be possible to negate this head start, and turn it instead into a defeat for this global campaign of geopolitical destabilization before it consumes Thailand next, and others thereafter. Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine New Eastern Outlook. you forgot Honduras Thaksin Shinawatra evaded prison by hiding in Saudi Arabia where he has many friends and Muslim Brotherhood were paid handsomely to murder opposition to the Shinawatra brother and sister team. 