Middle East
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Syria, another Blank Canvass for the West to Paint a Caricature of an Arab State
On Friday, 13th December 2024, The US and Turkiye announced that they had reached broad agreement on Syria, meaning that Syrians are now colonized by Washington and Ankara. Those that believed Washington’s lies that Bashar Al Assad’s ouster will bring freedom and prosperity will watch as Syria is transformed into a caricature. The West will… Continue reading
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Leak reveals UK lawyers, Israeli government planned ‘special unit’ to counter human rights reporting. Here’s what we know
On 10 August 2017, pro-Israel advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) approached the Embassy of Israel in London with a “pitch for business”: a proposal to setup “a rapid response unit to correct false narratives” regarding Israel. According to the proposal, human rights organizations “such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty, routinely publish material… Continue reading
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Einstein opposed Zionist colonization in Palestine and predicted the current catastrophe
A few weeks before the creation of the State of Israel, Shepard Rifkin, a New York-based representative of the Stern Group, a Zionist paramilitary organization founded in Mandatory Palestine, requested that representatives of the group meet with Albert Einstein in the United States, “the greatest Jewish figure of the time” according to journalist I.F. Stone.… Continue reading
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Israeli Strikes Demonstrates Limits of Western Military Might
While Israel’s air force conducted a sophisticated, large-scale operation requiring well-trained, well-coordinated personnel as well as capable air-launched long-range precision guided missiles, a combination of Iranian defensive capabilities and constraints on Western (including Israeli) military industrial production limited results. Continue reading
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The Lies of Burns and Moore
On September 7, the British and American chiefs of their secret intelligence services, Richard Moore and William Burns, released an op-ed piece in the Financial Times, and on that day took part in a live talk hosted by the same journal. They had one common objective, to lie to their peoples and the world about… Continue reading
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The West believes antisemitism is a more egregious problem than genocide
Now. Thousands of people from all over England march through Central London calling for an immediate ceasefie. So far over 33,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict following the attack on November 7th. They are asking that the UK Government stops supplying arms to Israel. (Photo: Karl Black/Alamy Live News/Pearls and Irritations) Continue reading
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Rebellion over Gaza: the British left strikes back
THE climbdown by the Metropolitan Police from cutting the route of today’s London march to stop the genocide in Gaza is a further indication of a rising political force beyond Westminster. Continue reading
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The Western Press Are Just Printing Straight Up Nazi Propaganda About Middle Easterners Now
It sure is an interesting coincidence how all this mass media demonizing and dehumanizing of Muslim populations is happening at the exact same time the western empire is raining military explosives upon nations full of Muslims. Continue reading
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NATO Splits Reveal Alliance is Redundant
If the NATO summit this week marking the 70th anniversary of its foundation in 1949 was meant to be a resounding celebration, it backfired spectacularly, more as a resounding farce. Amid all the pomp and ceremony afforded by an official reception at Buckingham Palace, hosted by the British Queen, the two-day gathering descended into squabbling,… Continue reading
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Britain and the Iranian Revolution: Arms & Secret Deals By Mark Curtis
While Iran now poses the biggest challenge to Western power in the Middle East, British relations with Islamic Iran were not always so antagonistic. Britain dropped its support for the Shah before the 1979 revolution, seeking to ingratiate itself with Iranian opposition forces led by Khomeini. Once his regime was in power, Whitehall went so… Continue reading
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A Progressive ‘Artifice’ of Democratic Impotence: The ‘World’ Finally ‘Gets It’ By Alastair Crooke
The paradoxes of ‘interregnum’ are played out daily: when a democratically elected House of Commons arrays itself in opposition to a popular referendum, opposes its own approved legislation that stemmed from it, and even toys with the overthrow of the principle of government ‘governing’, (in favour of the notion that a shifting, ephemeral assembly of… Continue reading
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Video: Flynn Plea Shows Collusion With… Israel?
Michael Flynn’s guilty plea to lying to the FBI falls short on Russia “collusion” but points to the Trump administration acting on Israel’s behalf, says author and journalist Max Blumenthal Continue reading
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Faces of Death: Syria Terrorist Opposition Tweet Smiling Photos of Dead ‘Martyrs’ for Fundraising, Recruitment
Twitter has been censoring accounts in the US that criticised President’s Obamacare debacle, yet, this same corporation, and the likes of Facebook, to not only promote, but more importantly facilitating fundraising and recruitment for violent, armed terrorist enterprises in the Middle East. Continue reading
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Media Fabrications and the War on Syria: How the Western Press Parrots Israeli Propaganda By Phil Greaves
In a report titled “Hezbollah shows strain of Syria war”, The Guardian’s Middle East Editor Ian Black, explains to the reader that Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah “sounds more troubled than defiant when he talks about the Syrian war these days”. Black doesn’t offer the reader a link to Nasrallah’s latest speech to check, nor… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 September 2013: Israel’s Lobbyists Pushing Hard for another War in the Middle East
8 September 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli forces issue 4 demolition orders in Jerusalem9/8/2013 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli municipality staff and police issued four demolition orders for commercial properties in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Sunday, a local group said. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that Israeli forces raided Continue reading
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Senate Surrenders War Powers Over False Flag Incident
The Obama administration asked the Senate for an Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) in Syria over an alleged chemical weapons attack. That AUMF was already worded incredibly wide and would have allowed the president to wage unlimited war over all the Middle East and beyond. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 31 August – 7 September 2013: Syria-US / Golan / Iran-Syria / IMF / Iraq
7 September 2013 — — Strategic Culture Foundation Global Irresponsibility 07.09.2013 | 10:50 | Georgy VOSKRESENSKY Next week the US Congress is to express its opinion on the reckless and staggering rush of Barack Obama as the President is pressuring the lawmakers to push through his decision to strike Syria. No details are known and they are changing Continue reading