Tag Archives: Middle East
| Leaked Clinton Email Admits Saudi, Qatari Government Funding of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria
By Bill Van Auken
An email exchange between Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta, posted Monday by WikiLeaks, frankly acknowledges that the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is funded and supported by Washington’s chief allies in the Arab world.
| Demonize and Distract: Sanitizing Syria for the Masses
Summoning the Humanitarian Pretext
The arch pragmatist Machiavelli once wrote that, “If you watch the ways of men, you will see that those who obtain great wealth and power do so either by force or fraud, and having got them they conceal under some honest name the foulness of their deeds.” You couldn’t pen a better description of the relationship between the imperial corporate state and its supplicant media. Once the coffers of vulnerable nations are ransacked by American wars of aggression, it is the media that sweeps the crimes of state beneath a carpet of piety. The truth may come out in due time, although it is always ex post facto. Thanks to the the coordination between the corporate sector, the state, and the media, the American doctrinal system is largely a self-contained narrative. It comes complete with a smooth internal logic. Corporations set priorities, the state produces a storyline that rationalizes the pursuit of those priorities, and the media distributes and reifies the storyline until it is gospel. This is no surprise, since the corporations own the politicians and the presses. Yet one way to examine the functioning of this kind of systemic propaganda is by looking at some of the keywords on which the stories hinge.
The Russia-Iran Strategic Game-Changer
by Pepe ESCOBAR
Russian Tu-22M3 Backfire bombers – as well as Sukhoi-34 fighter bombers – leave from the Iranian Hamadan airfield to bomb jihadis and assorted «moderate rebels» in Syria, and immediately we’ve got ourselves a major, unforeseen geopolitical game-changer.
Clinton Email: We Must Destroy Syria For Israel
A leaked Hillary Clinton email confirms that the Obama administration, with Hillary at the helm, orchestrated a civil war in Syria to benefit Israel.
The new Wikileaks release shows the then Secretary of State ordering a war in Syria in order to overthrow the government and oust President Assad, claiming it was the “best way to help Israel”.
Iraqi Army sweeps through ISIS towns on the Syrian-Iraqi border
Two days ago, the Iraqi Army’s 7th Division – assisted by the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) – officially captured Akashat town and Akashat Airbase after expelling ISIS forces from the far western part of Anbar province.
This in turn has the Iraqi Armed Forces reclaiming some of the Syrian-Iraqi border which was otherwise entirely lost to ISIS in late 2014.
