It may well be due to the longstanding relationship between MI6 and HTS, via Inter Mediate, that Britain was the first WEstern country to recognise theri assumption of government in Syria. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab Al-Hajj).
Kit Klarenberg reveals that a UK “conflict resolution” NGO, Inter Mediate, secretly enlisted ex-U.S. ambassador Robert Ford to help rebrand Syria’s Al-Qaeda-linked HTS into legitimate rulers, exposing the covert Western regime-change operation that led to HTS ruling Syria today with Western support.
Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.
The 2025 Eurovision Song Contest ended May 17th mired in controversy. The Zionist entity’s entrant, Yuval Raphael, finished second. Her performance, “New Day Will Rise”, received 297 points via public televote – the highest garnered by any act in the competition’s Grand Final, with 13 countries giving Raphael the maximum score of 12 points. This helped Israel almost clinch victory, despite coming last among participants in national jury votes. Immediately, state broadcasters across Europe demanded an investigation into flagrant, industrial scale rigging in Israel’s favour.
Gilbert Doctorow holds a Ph.D. in Russian history from Columbia University and is a fluent Russian speaker. Doctorow discusses Germany’s escalation in the proxy war against Russia, and why it is becoming very likely that Russia will retaliate against Germany.
In todays video we break down the WW3 plan, strategic sequencing and Trumps pivot towards war with Russia. B Berletic from @TheNewAtlas breaks it down
It’s day 601 of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Join us at 5 pm UK time for the weekly livestream from The Electronic Intifada.
Joining us first will be EI contributor Donya Abu Sitta, live from Gaza.
Veteran investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News will join us to discuss the seemingly endless ceasefire talks.
Jon Elmer will have his usual resistance report.
Nora Barrows-Friedman will start the show with all the news headlines.
Since Ali is travelling this week I will be filling in for him as Nora Barrows-Friedman’s co-host. Jon Elmer and Tamara Nassar will of course be here as usual.
Join us at the following times:
1800 Palestine time / 1900 Amman time / 1600 GMT / 1700 UK / 1800 CET / 11 am CT / 12 pm ET / 9 am PT
I have written this newsletter before. In fact, I could write this newsletter every year when a new Global Report on Food Crises is published. The report rests on four points:
In her book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, the historian Barbara Tuchman explores the perplexing question of why countries sometimes pursue policies that are fundamentally contrary to their own interests. That question has acquired renewed relevance as Europe has now enlisted in a deepening march of folly over Ukraine.
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) condemns in the strongest terms the disgraceful deception of the South African public by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation during their recent meeting with Donald Trump in Washington. What was presented as a diplomatic engagement has now been unmasked as a covert operation to surrender South Africa’s already-weak transformation policies to the global billionaire elite.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The late Charles Rangel served as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than 40 years. But the goals of Black politics and electoral politics are not necessarily the same.
On Wednesday, May 28, Palestinians travelled long distances to the aid distribution point controlled by the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation’ in the southern Gaza Strip (Photo by Abdallah F.s. Alattar/Anadolu via Getty Images).
Like hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, Mohammed Salem was desperate for food. The 42-year old father of five has been fighting to keep his family from starving throughout the nearly three-month, full spectrum blockade Israel imposed on Gaza on March 2. On Tuesday, in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, in the shelter for forcibly displaced people where he and his family have been living, word spread that food parcels had arrived in Gaza. But to collect one, he would need to walk more than four kilometers (2.4 miles) over harsh terrain—the rubble-strewn streets and sand-covered roads that dot the decimated landscape of Gaza—caused by constant Israeli bombing and targeted demolition.
Shameful Days When the Arab World Bowed to the American Boot
May 13–15, 2025, will forever be seared into Arab memory as days of indelible shame. Once again, like beaten dogs, the leaders of Arab states bowed their heads to crude American dictates.
Files reviewed by The Grayzone reveal a shocking foreign meddling scandal, as British state prosecutors are seen colluding with Israeli authorities to classify anti-genocide protesters as terrorists and imprison them on heavily politicized grounds.
Period products can contain pesticides and other harmful substances, such as heavy metals and PFAS ‘forever chemicals’. Half of the world’s population have periods, with women, girls and people who menstruate each using an average of 11,000 disposable menstrual products during their lifetime. Despite the prolific use of these products, the potential health impacts of the chemicals that they can contain remains largely unexamined.
The six-page document advocates ending nuclear negotiations and pursuing joint U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Though thinly veiled as a policy analysis, the brief reads more like a soft launch for a war strategy.
Meet Ben Soffa, the national secretary of the UK-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
You would think he was a dedicated pro-Palestine campaigner. He has, after all, worked since 2013 at the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the lead UK group organising the massive demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine over the last two years.
Zarah Sultana has received “death threats” online and abuse from Labour politicians over her advocacy for Palestinian rights in the British parliament. But now, as the UK starts to sanction Israel over its escalation in Gaza, it seems that Sultana has been proven right.
As the US seeks to transfer its proxy war to Europe and freeze it as it pivots to China as part of “strategic sequencing,” Russia continues expanding military industrial production and is intensifying its strategy of attrition in Ukraine;
Western media admits Russia possesses advantages in drone warfare, manpower, and missile production;;
Meanwhile, US efforts to expand its own military industrial production and that of its European proxies is falling far short;
Despite efforts to expand Patriot missile production, Russia is producing as many Iskander ballistic missiles as the US is producing interceptors;
A court has ruled that the raid and resulting seizure of my devices that British “counter-terror” police carried out on my home in October were unlawful.