"Apparently, if you qualify the word “Iraq” with “Iranian backed forces/militia”, then the US attack becomes an act of legitimate self defense, neither violating Iraqi sovereignty and international law, nor requiring the permission of the Iraqi govt""The Iraqi Backlash to U.S. Airstrikes Is Growing" (Larison). Tweets by Elijah J. Magnier (note the attack was proposed by a 'peace' stinktank in mid-December, just as it occurred). "Did Pompeo Go Off Reservation In Iraq Attack?" (Luongo). Maybe Trump's 4D chess is that he is trying to get US troops kicked out of Iraq! MAGA!
". . . there was a left-wing version of anti-Semitism that combined opposition to Israel with historic nonsense about the Rothschilds and Jewish bankers."Tweet (Claire Voltaire) (ha ha ha!):
"A rally against antisemitism and showing solidarity is taken over by BDS activists who want to talk about Islamophobia, Palestine, and ask zionists to leave. My blood is boiling right now."Sailer on the JYT's disappearing of inconvenient parts of Stephens' article: "Memoryholed: Bret Stephens's IQ Article".
"someone stop Putin before we all get healthcare twitter.com/gregolear/stat"
"These war crimes were carried out on a bipartisan basis, under Democratic and Republican presidents, supported and generally covered up by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. It is worth pointing out that the House Democrats have not impeached Trump for pardoning war criminals, let alone for ordering mass murder in Iraq and Syria, and in the ongoing drone warfare across North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. They have chosen, instead, to impeach Trump for not sufficiently backing war crimes in Ukraine and undermining the longstanding US operation to arm Ukraine and turn it into a military spearhead against Russia."Part of the new Democrat pattern as it becomes a pure military/intelligence party: "The spook’s choice: Coup plotters and CIA agents fill Mayor Pete’s list of national security endorsers" (Finkelstein).
"This is an odd one, purposely blurred. Anbar and Kirkuk are whole different animals. Everything gets reduced to Iran, as always... militarytimes.com/news/your-mili""Top Iraq militia chief warns of tough response to U.S. air strikes" (Rothschilds).
"The authors of this barely disguised call for Silicon Valley censorship complain that Bing does not adequately conceal critical articles about the White Helmets from users. And they don’t even bother to demonstrate how it’s “disinformation.”"Tweet (Gareth Porter):
"So now it's explicit and on the record: US military presence in South Korea has nothing to do with any threat from North Korea. It's part of the U.S. military empire in the Pacific, so it must remain as it is, regardless of change in the #Korea conflict."Tweet (Hannah Stanbra) (too drunk to give consent = 100% rape in any civilized, non-shekeled, jurisdiction; see here for what shekels do):
"There are videos of the rape, 4 different male DNA found inside of her and the police didn’t test her clothes for DNA after it happened. The police are trying to hide this to save the tourism industry at the price of a young girls life. Absolutely horrific. #ibelieveher"More weird blurring: tweet (Joe Catron):
"Anarchists and Trots claiming to support Syrian Kurds stop waving the flag mostly used by Turkish-backed mercenaries ethnically cleansing Syrian Kurds in 2020 challenge."Tweet (Dan Cohen):
"The article also details how Israeli government claims about attacking “high value targets” are totally made up, and that politicians order bombing with the specific intent to start wars. All of this is obvious to any honest observer, and especially from the ground in Gaza."The commie bros have having a hell of a time in squeezing the recent Black-on-Hasid crime into either the Khazar framework or the standard commie framework, but their ((('donor')))) problem will ensure they try: "Hasidic Jews injured in machete attack in Rockland County, New York" (Guelpa).
"Twitter‘s been steadily ramping up it’s censorship in all sorts of opaque ways. Everything about the process is murky. The only thing that’s clear is that it’s happening more and more."Tweet (Mark Ames):
"Even after hundreds of million$ poured into InfoWar groups like @SecureDemocracy, @AtlanticCouncil to "protect" us from online disinformation, not a single one of these Infowarrior experts spotted just 1 of Saudi Arabia's 29 million disinformation tweets"One of the interesting things about social media is that, even though every single major platform is seriously flawed, the 'market' has completely failed in establishing any competition for the (((major players))). Why do you think that is?
"With traditional media immediately controlled by the "sellout press," Bolivians were forced to turn to social media for real news. 1 info/humor account–Suchel–quickly gained ~10k followers But now its owner has to close it to stop the rape/death threats against her & her family. ""Desperate to stem protests, dozens of governments shut down internet access in 2019" (Damon). We're more sophisticated in the west, with the ability to shut down specific truthtellers.
"Here's @BarackObama plugging books authored by those who advanced his imperialistic and inhumane foreign policies, including Samantha Power and Susan Rice."Tweet (Jeremy Brier) (my emphasis in red, in case it is unclear what is going on):
"Hampstead covered in antisemitic graffiti this morning and Jewish people stabbed in New York. We crushed them at the ballot box - but we must keep fighting antisemitism wherever we see or hear it."I'm slightly infamous for rejecting claims that Israel did 9/11, but you have to love conspiracy woke graffiti. "Something is going to have to give."
"In which Snopes validates Julia Davis as a "Russian media expert". Davis made a documentary, promoted on Alex Jones' show, claiming DHS sent black helicopters to her home and poisoned Brittany Murphy to silence her support for Julia's "whistleblowing". snopes.com/fact-check/rus"Tweet (Max Blumenthal):
"While Newsweek blocked @Tareq_Haddad's reporting on the OPCW, it ran propaganda like this from regime change hack @janinedigi, who functioned as James Le Mesurier's stenographer. This piece seems constructed from top to bottom by a pro-war influence op called The Syria Campaign"Tweet (Rudy Havenstein, Smiling Politely) (the whole thread, from August-September is good; see):
""Epstein shares a special connection with one of the most prominent figures at Harvard—University President Lawrence H. Summers." thecrimson.com/article/2003/5 We all want someone to stare at us the way Jeff Epstein and Larry Summers stared at each other."Tweet (Daniel Bessner) (see also; recent success at bribing and blackmailing Trump has led the Khazars to start taking victory laps, rubbing the faces of the goyim in the mud for not being as smart as their masters, a Khazar supremacist habit that hasn't worked out well for them in the past):
"Summer Bret Stephens: How dare you refer to me as a bedbug, sir, this recreates the worst tropes of the Third Reich and begins a slippery slope toward genocide. Winter Bret Stephens: To really understand the Jews you must understand the science of race.""Jewish Brilliance: Synthetic Like Zirconia" (Striker). What we're seeing is e-x-t-r-e-m-e levels of tribal nepotism twisted by supremacists into superiority. Ironically, the position of an idiot like Stephens is yet another example.
"Twitter is proactively censoring news about the OPCW scandal and central involvement in it of French diplomat.""Media’s Deafening Silence On Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal" (Johnstone). "Post-Truth World: An OPCW Cover-up, Shielded by MSM and Bellingcat" (Henningsen). "WikiLeaks Publishes Documents Proving OPCW Investigation Into Alleged Syria Chemical Weapons Incident in Douma Was Rigged" (Rogers).
"Wong earns a spot on the FT top 50 people of the decade simply by virtue of being on a CIA cutout’s payroll and taking marching orders from Marco Rubio. In case it wasn’t blatantly obvious enough that these lists are tailored to advance US geopolitical imperatives.""US demands extradition of AWOL soldier hiding in Ukraine" (Levine). Trump needs him back to give him a medal.
"The political left in most countries is bad at dealing with nationalism and the pursuit of self-determination. It sees these as a diversion from identifying and attacking the real perpetrators of social and economic injustice. It views nationalists as mistakenly or malignly aiming at the wrong target – usually foreigners – and letting the domestic ones off the hook.Mass, unregulated immigration is a brilliant move, as it immediately decreases the price of labor while creating tensions that can be spun into people willingly voting against their own interests based on believing phony promises to make the influx stop. Nobody in the true left would support it, or the foul (((identity politics))) behind it.
The desire by people to see themselves as a national community – even if many of the bonds binding them together are fictional – is one of the most powerful forces in the world. It can only be ignored at great political cost, as the Labour Party has just found out to its cost for the fifth time (two referendums and three elections). What Labour should have done was early on take over the slogan “take back control” and seek to show that they were better able to deliver this than the Conservatives or the Brexit Party. There is no compelling reason why achieving such national demands should be a monopoly of the right. But in 2016, 2017 and 2019 Labour made the same mistake of trying to wriggle around Brexit as the prime issue facing the English nation without taking a firm position, an evasion that discredited it with both Remainers and Leavers.
Curiously, the political establishment made much the same mistake as Labour in underestimating and misunderstanding the nature of English nationalism. Up to the financial crisis of 2008 globalisation had been sold as a beneficial and inevitable historic process. Nationalism was old hat and national loyalties were supposedly on the wane. To the British political class, the EU obviously enhanced the political and economic strength of its national members. As beneficiaries of the status quo, they were blind to the fact that much of the country had failed to gain from these good things and felt marginalised and forgotten.
The advocates of supra-national organisations since the mediaeval papacy have been making such arguments and have usually been perplexed why they fail to stick. They fail to understand the strength of nationalism or religion in providing a sense of communal solidarity, even if it is based on dreams and illusions, that provides a vehicle for deeply felt needs and grievances. Arguments based on simple profit and loss usually lose out against such rivals."
The anti-Slumlordism is getting out of hand: "'Mass Stabbing' At Jewish Hannukah Celebration In New York, At Least 5 Injured" (Durden). "officials don’t know why"."Congress recently passed a new law that effectively criminalises all public protests, and categorises civil society movements like Occupy Wall Street as “domestic terrorism”. The Patriot Act and the National Defense Authorization Act give the military and espionage agencies unlimited powers. The law is deliberately vague, so that almost anything could be included within the criminal definition, and so broad that almost every American today could be labeled a suspected terrorist. The intent is to intimidate all citizens and stifle any public criticism of US government acts or policies. Any of the following actions may get a US citizen labeled as a suspected terrorist today:(1) Speaking out against government policies,(2) Protesting against anything,(3) Questioning the government’s many wars,(4) Asking questions about Wall Street Banks and the FED,(5) Taking pictures or video, especially of police.According to US Department of Defense training manuals, any public protest is considered “low-level terrorism” today, and all anti-war protesters are now classified as terrorists.The US government is using the Patriot Act and various other bits of new legislation not only to outlaw most of the basic civil freedoms in the country, but these laws are so vague as to permit virtually any domestic atrocity against civilians.Anyone today who speaks out against any US government policies can be arbitrarily classified as either a terrorist or an “unlawful enemy combatant” and imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial. Few people seem aware that the US media are compelled by law to report to the FBI/CIA all communication (letters to the Editor, etc.) that is critical of the US government.Another fact not widely known is that thousands of Americans are imprisoned each year for a single Tweet, a single Facebook post or a single Text message. A simple post on social media or pressing “like” on Facebook, can be deemed “terroristic threatening” in the US, and result in a sentence of three to five years in prison.Many government agencies, including the military, now actively monitor all US social media like Facebook and Twitter to identify those who criticise the US government, then seek them out and interrogate them. This has a particularly chilling effect on American so-called “free speech” when citizens know that espionage agencies are now monitoring every online post and comment. It is not widely known, but US authorities constantly monitor the social media, bulletin boards and other Internet sites for potential political dissent, and often exercise their authority to order people to disperse from “unlawful online assembly”, which definition is as arbitrary as the authorities wish to make it.Moreover, leaked documents revealed that any students who could be identified as having been involved in protests, or posted public but ‘sensitive’ information, or involved in various political activisms, would forever be prohibited from employment with any part of the US government. One university student who had taken part in the Occupy Wall Street protests later said, “The system in place sublimely manipulates our social reality in ways obvious only when we realize that there is nothing between us and the police but fear”. She added that if the protestors had held out and actually tried to make changes in the system, her participation would exist in a permanent record and she would never be able to get a job. And in any case, she held out no hope that the citizens could ever really change anything.The DHS hired defense contractor General Dynamics for a $12 million program to monitor the Internet for “reports that reflect adversely on DHS, especially those that have a negative spin on DHS activities”. These agencies are not monitoring so-called “terrorist” activity, but normal social activity and political commentary. In its defense, DHS claimed the released documents were “outdated” – though they were new – and that social media were monitored for “situational awareness of man-made threats” and not to police disparaging opinions about the federal government. According to their spokesman, the manual’s instruction that analysts should identify media reports that reflect adversely on DHS activities was not at all meant to silence criticism, but simply “to identify areas where DHS wasn’t doing a good job, and to help it improve”. I can scarcely imagine a greater lie than that one. [5] [6]"
"Bret Stephens's racist boasts about his superior Ashkenazi IQ in the most important newspaper in America, written via a 9-year-old's historical grasp and writing ability, is an argument less about Jewish genius and more about the access + advantage wealth confers upon shitheads!!""Barrister Escalates ‘Conflict of Interest’ Complaint Against Top Judge in Julian Assange Case" (Elmaazi). Note how they shamelessly 'lost' the first complaint!
"On December 24, a Turkish delegation visited Moscow to discuss the situation in Syria and Libya, as well as the existing bilateral cooperation. Taking into account that Turkey’s soft reaction to the encirclement of its observation post in Surman and the lack of Turkish Army attempts to establish more observation posts to stop the Syrian Army advance, it seems that Ankara once again sold its Idlib proxies to Russia.""Libya: Haftar’s Air Force Commander Drops Bombshell Confession: Jets from Egypt’s President Sisi, “French Specialists” Provide Support" (Safak). Another war involving those always against the Muslim Brotherhood versus the consistent MB supporters (Qatar, Turkey). I wonder if it is quite right to put Russia in the pro-Haftar, anti-MB camp, as those looking for a split between Turkey and Russia are doing.
Bizarre paraphrase of an interview: "How Impeachment Is Escalating the New US-Russian Cold War" (Cohen, sort of). Russiagate was always mainly about restarting the Cold War (Trump was never regarded as enough of a threat to make all the work on him by the American IC worthwhile).". . . the whole thing is completely absurd – this claim that the US has some kind of moral authority over the entire earth. The US government arguably has less moral authority than any entity that has ever existed in all of human history.But even if the US government was some kind of divine entity capable of determining right from wrong in a pure and angelic fashion, they still would not have any right to meddle in the internal affairs of other countries.What they would have a right to do is stop sending billions of dollars to the Jews and the Saudis to use to murder random people. But we continue to send billions of dollars to these countries. While we harass, threaten and menace countries like Myanmar and the Philippines for the way they manage their internal affairs.It is costing a lot less to stand up to the United States, the more countries do it.The attempted revolution in Venezuela failed. The one in Iran failed. The one in Hong Kong is bound to fail. People around the world are just saying “no.”The collapse of this entire rotten, evil system can’t come fast enough."
"We have also been informed that Weyand is the grandson of famous jewish physicist and creator of the Hydrogen Bomb Edward Teller (born Ede Teller in Budapest) and is therefore jewish himself. (3)"You can actually see the shekel deliveries in the shifts of Trump's day-to-day policies: "Trump Stuck Between Ending Endless Wars and his Hawkish Megadonors" (Clifton). He actually knows what the MAGA thing to do is, wants to do it, tries, and then Shlomo pops up with another big bag of shekels.
"RELEASE: OPCW-Douma Docs 4. Four leaked documents from the OPCW reveal that toxicologists ruled out deaths from chlorine exposure and a senior official ordered the deletion of the dissenting engineering report from OPCW’s internal repository of documents. wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/"Although this will be well hidden by the (((media))), it should put a stake in the heart of the usefulness to the hegemon of the OPCW as a 'disinterested' 'scientific' arbiter of 'chemical weapon' PR campaigns against the enemies of the Khazars.
"With @IntlCrimCourt investigating Israeli war crimes, the diplomatic correspondent of the (Adelson-owned) newspaper with the largest circulation in Israel suggests Netanyahu order the destruction of the ICC’s computer systems and the theft of its archives israelhayom.co.il/opinion/719039"The Khazar billionaires are so powerful now that they flip out at even the merest suggestion of an insult to the Jewish state. See also their scorched earth policy on BDS, which has been emasculated into a Zionist campaign for the two-state solution, itself rendered a sick joke after the blackmailed Trump 'gave' the West Bank to the Khazars.
On the myth that MbS, chastened by his mistakes, has turned over a new leaf. "UN condemns third attack on Yemen market in a month". Tweet (Tamara Cofman Wittes) (for what it's worth, as she's got ((())) and is Deep State and is married to the stupidest of the stupidest, Benjamin Wittes!):"The controversial report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz into the FBI’s investigation into Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign revealed many concerning details. One was that Christopher Steele’s dossier was used in the case to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to secure a wiretap on former Donald Trump campaign official Carter Page after the DOJ found no probable cause to do so. The report also revealed that late Senator John McCain provided former FBI Director James Comey with reports from Steele after the FBI terminated the former British intelligence officer as a source, Breitbart reports.McCain reportedly gave Comey five new Steele reports that were not previously in possession of the FBI, although it’s not clear if McCain knew at the time that Steele was no longer an FBI source. Regardless, the new reports were allegedly obtained by McCain from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson. Fusion GPS was notably hired for anti-Trump opposition research by the president’s opponents in the primary.“Several weeks later, on December 9, 2016, Senator John McCain provided Corney with a collection of 16 Steele election reports, 5 of which Steele had not given the FBI,” the IG report reads. “McCain had obtained these reports from a staff member at the McCain Institute. The McCain Institute staff member had met with Steele and later acquired the reports from Simpson.”According to Breitbart, the unnamed McCain staffer is David J. Kramer, who reportedly gave the Steele dossier to BuzzFeed News, which published the document in full on January 10, 2017.Devin Nunes writes letter to Adam Schiff pointing out several serious errors Schiff made in characterizing Steele dossier, Page FISA, more. 'It is clear you are in need of rehabilitation...' pic.twitter.com/qoY3p7EJOo— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 15, 2019"
"“There has been little indication that Prince Mohammed has been chastened by the global outrage...Last month, 8 writers, bloggers & journalists were detained. The case of women’s rights activists arrested 18 months ago remains unresolved.”""German politician: “Ami go home!”" (Kamyshanova). Sanctions for the Jews have taken over the US government (ZOG) to the extent where they are now piled on the best allies of Assholia. "Washington’s Unmasked Imperialism Towards Europe and Russia".
"I’ve said it time and time again in my interviews with crypto influencers, US Empire will crack down on crypto, hard. Crypto is the single biggest threat to its power. It is now absolutely essential that we can transact >privately< because the use of crypto will become unlawful.""Schumer Revealed as Key Industry Ally in Defeat of Effort to Curb Surprise Billing" (Higgins). "Democratic insiders: Bernie could win the nomination" (Otterbein/Siders) (completely out of line with the usual). "Trump's judges are great. He has Harry Reid to thank":
"In total, at all court levels together, Trump’s average number of confirmations per year exceeds every president in history except (barely) for Democrat Jimmy Carter, who enjoyed a large Senate majority and no concerted obstructive efforts by Senate Republicans."A ‘Sad as Hell’ Christmas Suicide" (RoyalFoibles). "Kevin Spacey Accuser Dies By Suicide, Day After Actor Tweets "Kill Them With Kindness"" (Phillips). "Kevin Spacey Accuser Mysteriously Commits Suicide (This is the Third Accuser to Die)" (Batty). "Today's Blind Items - Hired Help" (CDaN). Geffen appears to be systematically killing off Spacey's victims, at least those who inconveniently speak out, and Spacey is gloating. This is a warning to any future victims of Geffen's Gay Mafia who might decide to speak out.
Again, Trump and McConnell have achieved this despite the dilatory tactics of the Democrats, who have forced procedural “cloture” votes an astonishing 131 times on Trump’s judicial nominees, compared to only seven cloture votes in the first three years of all of the previous five presidencies combined.
How did Trump and McConnell manage this feat? It all goes back to Reid's greedy effort to stack the courts. In 2013, with Obama in the White House and Democrats controlling the Senate, Reid made the fateful decision to limit Senate debate on judges — something he had strongly opposed when Republicans had considered doing it during the Bush administration.
Unlike those earlier Republicans, Reid got Democrats to stick together on the so-called nuclear option, using a bare majority of the Senate to make a major rule change that the wiser voices in his party warned against. Thanks to Reid, it would no longer take 60 votes to confirm a judge.
It was a very short-sighted decision because Obama would only enjoy the advantage for a single year. After Republicans seized the Senate in the 2014 election, they hit the brakes on judicial appointments. McConnell made sure that Obama would end his presidency with only about the same number of judges confirmed (329) as Bush had before him (327).
As a result, Trump would take office not only with the opportunity to fill judicial vacancies with a simple majority, but also with the opportunity to replace dozens and dozens of Democratic appointees who chose to retire in 2013, 2014, or 2015 in the belief that Obama would replace them. This has given Trump a unique opportunity to influence the judiciary that even future presidents will not enjoy."
"One MILLION people turned out to the French general strike 2 days ago. Story Count from: CNN - 0 FOX - 0 CBS - 0 MSNBC - 0 WaPo - 0 ABC - 0 Wall St Journal - 0 NPR - 0 PBS - 0 New York Times - ............1"Tweet (Mark Ames) (champions of the passive voice):
"Watch as @guardian airbrushes NATO's catastrophic intervention in Libya out of history. Never happened. There was just a "civil war" and "turmoil" and "mercenaries", and we decent civilized westerners are helpless to stop it. theguardian.com/world/2019/dec""Canada Follows US Lead By Ignoring OPCW Scandal" (Engler).
"B’nai Brith Canada sometimes represents itself as a “human rights” organization engaged in benevolent philanthropy. It has exploited this image to gain federal recognition as a registered charity capable of granting tax deductions for donations. Perhaps the time has come for an objective federal assessment to see if B’nai Brith Canada has lived up to its side of the bargain. Has B’nai Brith Canada acted like a genuine charity devoted to the ideal of universal human rights or has it acted more as a partisan political lobby?"Tweet (رضا محمد هاشم):
Tweet (Michael Moran):"#حقوق_الإنسان Three children may be executed and beheaded at the beginning of the New Year in Saudi Arabia due to their participation in peaceful demonstrations in the eastern region • Ali Al-Nimer • Abdullah Al-Zahir • Dawood Al-Marhoon #SaudiArabia #MerryChrismas"
"Bit cheeky, bit topical."
"We're told that Trump "disregarded US foreign policy towards Ukraine" and "chose not to follow talking points" despite being "briefed on official policy." This impeachment is the ratification of the idea that security state bureaucrats are the keepers of "official policy." Insane""The TSA and Security Theater: Understanding American Airport Security Following 9/11" (ammodotcom). Putting up with this crap like sheep is one of the strongest signs that the goyim really are farm animals.
"It’s the idea that Ukraine is a forward operating base in America’s war with Russia — a strategic military barrier that’s keeping the Russian horde pinned down and preventing it from overrunning the western world. That’s why you constantly hear all this talk about Ukraine being such a “vital” and “strategic” partner and why it requires a constant infusion of weapons. If America doesn’t fight Russia and kill Russians in Ukraine, Russian tanks are going to roll through the Donbass, past Kiev, into Poland, then Germany and France…and then get on a boat and sail all the way to America. And before you know it, Putin is going to be personally at your doorstep, terrorizing you and your family and stealing your Amazon packages."The only rational explanation is that Democrat ((('donors'))) have decided their supremacism will be rewarded with Trump more than with any possible Democrat. "Nancy Pelosi’s Scripted Impeachment Failure" (Redmayne-Titley). "Democrats Cave in Secret Budget Deal with Trump" (Nader). "The Fake Impeachment: Pelosi’s Botched Ploy Helps Trump Towards Victory" (Flores).
More 'leftist' hijinks: "Chronicle of a Coup Foretold" (Mier). See also the possibility that the Bolivian coup was about a fear from the 'managers' of climate change under capitalism - the forces behind Greta - that Bolivian indigenous climate change activists threatened the big-capital-friendly (((model))) - see Morningstar here, here and here, which may also explain (((Klein)))'s infamous prevaricating over the use of the 'coup' word."Why would the U.S. risk losing its geo-strategic alliance with Turkey? To put it simply, it’s ‘special relationship’ with Israel took greater precedent. Any way you slice it, Washington’s foray into the region has been as much about Zionism as imperialism and its backing of the Kurds is no exception. Despite the blowback, the invasion of Iraq and destruction of Libya took two enormous sources of support for the Palestinian resistance off the chessboard. It may have strengthened Iran in the process, but that is all the more reason for the U.S. to sell a regime change attempt in Tehran in the future. Regrettably for Washington, when it tried to do the same in Syria, Russia intervened and emerged as the new peace broker in the Middle East. It comes as no surprise that following the Turkish invasion of northern Syria amid the U.S. withdrawal, the Kurds have finally struck a deal with Damascus and Moscow, a welcome and inevitable development that should have occurred years ago.One of the main reasons for the Kurds joining the SDF so willingly has the same explanation as to why Washington was prepared to put its relationship with Ankara in jeopardy by supporting them: Israel. The cozy relationship between the Zionist state and the various Kurdish groups centered at the intersection of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria goes back as far as the 1960s, as Jerusalem has consistently used them to undermine its enemies. It is not by chance that their respective interests overlap to a near tee, between the founding of a Kurdish protectorate and the Zionist plan for a ‘Greater Israel’ in the Middle East which includes a balkanization of Syria. Mossad has openly provided the Kurds with training and they have learned much in the ways of the ethnic cleansing of Arabs from the Jewish state in order to carve out a Syrian Kurdistan. One can certainly have sympathy for the Kurds as the largest ethnic group in the world at 40 million people without a state, but the Israel connection runs much deeper than geopolitical interests to the very ideological basis of their militancy which calls all of their stated ideals into question.The ties between the YPG and the PKK are undeniable, as both groups follow jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan’s teachings which merge Kurdish nationalism with the theories of ‘democratic confederalism’ from the influential Jewish-American anarchist philosopher, Murray Bookchin. While the PKK may have been initially founded as a ‘Marxist-Leninist’ organization in the early 70s, a widespread misconception is that it still follows that aim when its ideology long-ago shifted to that of a self-professed and contradictory ‘libertarian socialism’ theorized by Bookchin who was actually a zealous anti-communist. Not coincidentally, the Western anarchist icon was also an avowed Zionist who often defended Israel’s war crimes and genocide of Palestinians while demonizing its Arab state opponents as the aggressors, including Syria. Scratch an anarchist and a neo-conservative will bleed, every time.Many on the pseudo-left who have pledged solidarity with the Kurds have attempted to base their reasoning on a historically inaccurate analogy comparing the Syrian conflict with the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. You would think ISIS would be the obvious first choice for the fascists in the Syrian war, but journalist Robert Mackey of popular “progressive” news site The Intercept even tried to cast the Syrian government as Francisco Franco’s Nationalists in an article comparing the 1937 bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion to the 2018 chemical attack in Douma which remains in dispute regarding its perpetrator. One wonders if Mackey will retract his absurd comparison now that dozens of inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have dissented in emails published by WikiLeaks showing that the OPCW engaged in a cover-up with the Trump administration to pin blame for the attacks on the Syrian government instead of the opposition, but don’t hold your breath.In this retelling of the Spanish Civil War, the Kurds are generally seen in the role of the Trotskyite Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) and the anarchist trade union National Confederation of Labour (CNT). In the midst of the conflict between the Nazi-supported Nationalists and Soviet-backed Republicans that was a prelude to World War II, the mobilization effort of all anti-fascist forces into a unified Popular Front was obstructed by the ultra-left and intransigent POUM and CNT who were then expelled from the coalition for their sectarianism. While the government was still fighting the Francoists, the POUM and CNT then attacked the Republicans but were put down in a failed insurrection. Although this revolt did not directly cause the loyalist defeat, it nevertheless sapped the strength from the Popular Front and smoothed the path for the generalissimo’s victory.In the years since, Trotskyists have attempted to rewrite history by alleging that a primary historical text documenting the POUM’s sabotage of the Republicans — a 1938 pamphlet by journalist Georges Soria, the Spanish correspondent for the French Communist Party newspaper L’Humanite — is a forgery. On the Marxists Internet Archive website, an ‘editor’s note’ is provided as a preface to the text citing a single quote from Soria with the claim he admitted the work in its entirety was “no more than a fabrication”, but his words are selectively cropped to give that impression. While the author did admit accusations that the POUM‘s leadership were literal agents of Franco were a sensationalized exaggeration, the source of the full quote states the following:“On the one hand, the charge that the leaders of POUM, among them Andrés Nin, ‘were agents of the Gestapo and Franco’, was no more than a fabrication because it was impossible to adduce the slightest evidence. On the other hand, although the leaders of POUM were neither agents of Franco or agents of the Gestapo, it is true that their relentless struggle against the Popular Front played the game nolens volens (like it or not/willingly or unwillingly) of the Caudillo (General Franco).”In other words, Soria did not say the whole work was counterfeit like the editor’s note misleadingly suggests and reiterated that the POUM’s subversion helped Franco. (The Marxists Internet Archive does not hide its pro-Trotsky bias in its FAQ section.)Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm summarized the inherent contradictions of the Spanish Civil War and the role ultra-leftism played in the demise of the Republic in one of his later essays:“Of course, the posthumous polemics about the Spanish war are legitimate, and indeed essential — but only if we separate out debate on real issues from the parti pris of political sectarianism, cold-war propaganda and pure ignorance of a forgotten past. The major question at issue in the Spanish civil war was, and remains, how social revolution and war were related on the republican side. The Spanish civil war was, or began as, both. It was a war born of the resistance of a legitimate government, with the help of a popular mobilisation, against a partially successful military coup; and, in important parts of Spain, the spontaneous transformation of the mobilisation into a social revolution. A serious war conducted by a government requires structure, discipline and a degree of centralisation. What characterises social revolutions like that of 1936 is local initiative, spontaneity, independence of, or even resistance to, higher authority — this was especially so given the unique strength of anarchism in Spain.”Murray Bookchin also wrote at length about the Spanish Civil War but celebrated the decentralized anarchist tactics which incapacitated the Popular Front. The anarcho-syndicalist theorist championed the ‘civil war within the civil war’ as a successful example of his antithetical vision of ‘libertarian socialism’, while his emphasis on the individualist aspects of the former half of his oxymoronic and anti-statist theory often bears a striking resemblance to neoliberal talking points about self-regulating free markets. This would explain why he actually regarded right-wing libertarians to be his natural allies over the the socialist left, whom he considered ‘totalitarian’ as he told the libertarian publication Reason magazine in an interview in 1979. His reactionary demonization of the Soviet Union and dismissal of the accomplishments of all other socialist revolutions was recalled by Michael Parenti in Blackshirts and Reds:
“Left anticommunists remained studiously unimpressed by the dramatic gains won by masses of previously impoverished people under communism. Some were even scornful of such accomplishments. I recall how in Burlington Vermont, in 1971, the noted anticommunist anarchist, Murray Bookchin, derisively referred to my concern for “the poor little children who got fed under communism” (his words).”Like the International Brigades consisting of foreign volunteers to assist the Spanish Republic in the 1930s, there is an ‘International Freedom Battalion’ currently fighting with the Kurds in Syria. Unfortunately, its live-action role playing ‘leftist’ mercenaries missed the part about the original International Brigades having been backed by the Comintern, not the U.S. military. Meanwhile, Western media usually hostile to any semblance of radical politics have heavily promoted the Rojava federation as a feminist ‘direct democracy’ utopia, particularly giving excessive attention to the all-female Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) militia while ignoring the female regiments fighting for the secular Syrian government. As a result of the media’s exoticized portrayal of the Kurds and their endorsement by prominent misleaders on the left, from Slavoj Žižek to Noam Chomsky, many have been fooled into supporting them."
"Is there any forensic evidence provided in this document to serve as a legal basis for the invocation of Article 5?
Nothing. There is absolutely no forensic evidence in support of the claim that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated from Afghanistan.
Only a small part of the introductory text deals with 9/11, in the form of summary claims like the citation in Lord Robertson’s press release. The main body of the text deals with the alleged actions of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in the nineties.
On 4 October, NATO officially went to war based on a document that provided only ‘talking points’ and no evidence to support the key claim."Tweet (John-Paul Pagano) (another 'conspiracy theory' that is 100% true, and grounded in exactly the same kind of supremacist racism from both the Khazars and the Assholes):
"Right after a mass-murder of Jews by African-Americans believing the conspiracy theory that Jews use US police to murder people of color, @jvplive spreads the conspiracy theory that Israel trains US police to murder people of color."Ha ha ha ha! Tweet (David Sheen):
"Tel Aviv University to shut down Center For Peace Research"Tweet (Chris Megerian):
"It’s strange that the president’s personal lawyer lists a job he never had on his Facebook page"Tweet (Festive Jean Paul Marat):
"six beers deep, can't stop thinking about epstein's portrait of bush jr with two paper airplanes and two collapsed jenga towers, by the same artist that painted bill clinton in a dress"Tweet (Alex Rubinstein):
"What the hell do they put in the water at Buckingham Palace?"Merry Christmas!
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