Islamic state

The Battle of Palmyra

 A late report from Washington has it that U.S. President Barack Obama is considering an NSA recommendation that Special Forces “boots on the ground” at least be discussed and that the US may direct its war against Da’ish to save Palmyra.

 
 
Can One of the World’s Greatest Archaeological Sites Be Saved?
 
by Franklin Lamb
Office of the Director-General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM), Damascus.

‘US funding of Sunni militia groups would further partition Iraq’

RT | April 29, 2015 The US is boosting its military support for security forces fighting against Islamic State in Iraq. The Republicans have proposed a bill to directly fund militia groups operating in the country, such as the Kurdish Peshmerga and Sunni irregular forces. If the bill is passed, tribal groups could receive up […]

Fear mongering, the ISIS gambit and Zionist recruitment

 

Evidently, in Harper’s pro-Zionist fantasy world ‘terrorist’ is a smear word applied exclusively to the opponents of Israeli imperialism, whereas a state birthed through ethnic cleansing and maintained by way of bribery, blackmail, and state-sponsored mass murder is praised to the heavens merely for allowing its privileged Jewish citizens and disenfranchised Arab subjects to vote for whichever hawkish Zionist politician will continue the policies of terror in the holy land.

 

The Islamic State in Ramadi

Though it could be interpreted as having a pro-US intervention spin on it, this brave reporting by David Enders is still very valuable. And the calls for intervention by the Iraqis should be taken only as a measure of their desperation in their fight against the Islamic State, rather than a true call for intervention by the reporter passing on their wishes.
I’m trying to see if I can get David back on the show sometime this week.

New Book By Brandon Martinez – The ISIS Conspiracy – Available Now

Brandon Martinez traces the roots of the conspiracy back to Israel’s Oded Yinon plan which aims to fracture and balkanize the Middle East.

by Brandon Martinez

In my new anthology, The ISIS Conspiracy: How Israel and the West Manipulate Our Minds Through Fear, I tackle the pertinent questions regarding the infamous militant group ISIS which rocketed to the forefront of geopolitical discussions in the past year.

Exposing Faux Capitalism with Jason Erb: February 14, 2015

On the February 14, 2015 episode of Exposing Faux Capitalism with Jason Erb, I discussed: Important monetary reform victory in Canada, the call for Congressional authorization for ground troops in Syria and Iraq, the bogus Islamic State, Niqab ban during Canada’s citizenship oath, kosher conservatism and the twin sisters of multiculturalism and sustained, mass immigration […]

Another dubious Islamic State video, more foreign policy folly

Images: The video, which could not immediately be verified, shows a man standing in a cage and engulfed in flames. Courtesy Veterans News Now
 

The world has been sleepwalked into a handful of senseless wars in the Middle East that have served no other purpose than to fatten the pockets of Western war profiteers and strengthen the Israeli regime’s position in the region.

 

Al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia and Israel

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | February 4, 2015 The disclosure that convicted al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui has identified leading members of the Saudi government as financers of the terrorist network potentially reshapes how Americans will perceive events in the Middle East and creates a risk for Israel’s Likud government which has forged an unlikely […]