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The US and its vassals’ goal is to maintain Syria as smoldering ruins, to create a façade that Arabs cannot rule themselves, and hence justify American neocolonialism in The Middle East.
US-Turkiye’s Government of Syria
Over the years, the US and NATO have developed a template for regime change under the guise of defending liberal democratic values. Initially, there are efforts to sow divisions within the targeted state and then provide political, economic and military support to opposition groups. If the opposition groups can topple the government, then the US and NATO celebrate it as a “democratic revolution” over an authoritarian government. If the government defeats the opposition groups, the US or NATO can intervene militarily under the justification of preventing the government from “killing its own people”. This model was also applied to Syria.
The sad thing is that, by coddling, spoiling, and pandering to its talent, and by failing to purge a culture of complacency, the British Broadcasting Corporation has brought all these troubles upon itself.
British broadcasting and in particular the BBC have in recent years been hit by an apparently endless series of scandals involving the conduct of members of their front-of-camera staff.
Jordan Neely (1992-2023) was a Michael Jackson impersonator who performed at Times Square, Columbus Circle, amongst other locations. “Well, the bigger picture is that it’s much bigger than Syria.
The United States says, “We are ending up with total war with Russia and with China.”
Russia is saying, “We hope that there’s peace in the Near East.”
China is saying, “We want peace. We don’t want war.”
I don’t understand why they’re saying this. Why don’t they say, “We realize that this is a war to the death.”
A TV interview described as a ‘racist rant’, a book filled with more of the same and a job as a Spad to a top minister.
Welcome to our latest LobbyWatch Review, with some stunning examples of the corporate capture of lawmakers (see FREEDOM TO HARM), regulators and experts. And we have all the latest on POISON PR – how the industry’s PR people are tracking and vilifying those with concerns about GMOs and pesticides (see POISON PR).
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The overthrow of Assad in Syria by Western-backed jihadists has set in place developments that will most likely result in a major war in the Middle East. While the media celebrates that “freedom” and “peace” have arrived in Syria, the reality is that the regional balance of power has unravelled. Former allies will eventually turn on each other, new partnerships will be formed, and wars will be fought to restore a new balance of power.
No sooner had a ceasefire been declared in Lebanon ending one invasion, then another invasion broke out in Syria. It is now clear what the Zionist intention was behind their invasion of Lebanon. Not so much to conquer Southern Lebanon, which was beyond the capacity of the Israeli forces, and recognised to be so, as much as it was to draw Hezbollah fighters back into Lebanon from Syria.
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Issue 24/22, 13 December 2024
Welcome to the final edition of Statewatch News for 2024. Before we share our work from the last two weeks with you, we want to provide an overview of what we’ve done this year – and ask for your support as we head into 2025.
During Israeli army chief of staff Herzi Halevi’s trip to the UK, it has now been revealed that he was issued a certificate that granted him diplomatic immunity so that he couldn’t be arrested. This is now being viewed as an indictment of the British government, who felt the need to issue such diplomatic immunity.
The troubled biotechnology company AquaBounty has announced it will stop production of all genetically modified salmon and is closing its last working facility, at Bay Fortune in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, reports Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN). AquaBounty released the world’s first GM food animal – a GM salmon – onto the market in 2017 but is now culling the last of its fish. Yesterday, the company announced that it does not have sufficient liquidity to maintain its “only remaining operating farm” at Bay Fortune and its chief executive officer, David Melbourne, has resigned. “This struggling company has survived largely due to investor hype along with decades of government funding and the support of the federal policy to deny consumers mandatory labelling of GM food. The company couldn’t make producing GM salmon viable even with all the government subsidies and supportive policies,” said Lucy Sharratt, coordinator of CBAN. AquaBounty’s announcement comes just weeks after the Canadian federal and PEI governments announced $231,095 in funding for the company. GMWatch
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Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
The eighth continent is the Continent of Sleaze. You and I have never been there, only heard rumours about it. On that continent, there are rivers of money in which corporate executives bathe and from which they extract whatever they want in order to increase their power, privilege, and property. The corporate executives venture out to lay their hands on the wealth of the world and carry it back to their Continent of Sleaze. What remains is dust and shadows, barely enough for people to survive so that they can continue to labour and produce more social wealth for the Continent of Sleaze. Everyone sees this wealth being syphoned off to this other continent, but few want to acknowledge it. Most blame themselves for their poverty rather than the structure of corruption and pillaging that are inherent to the neocolonial capitalist system. Disconnected from social struggle, it is far easier to live innocently without that dangerous knowledge, that outrageous Promethean fire.
The standard modus operandi of the Hegemon is always Divide and Rule. Cornered by the inexorable rise of the multi-nodal (italics mine) reality, they saw an opening for an imperial reboot, betting everything on establishing the “Greater Middle East” outlined still during the Cheney era.
War Propaganda and the Fall of Syria
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
A succession of U.S. presidents have been committed to regime change in
Syria. That long-held goal has been achieved in part through a sustained
campaign of war propaganda.
“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mull’d, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.” – Shakespeare, Coriolanus
Long ago, but what seems like only yesterday, I didn’t go to the U.S. war against Vietnam but the war came to me. It was when my exile began.
The New Dark Age 