What’s certain is that, geo-economically, Syria goes way beyond a civil war; it’s a vicious Pipelineistan power play in a dizzying complex chessboard where the Big Prize will represent a major win in the 21st century energy wars
by Pepe Escobar
(RT) – Islamic State’s campaign of terror in Iraq and Syria is being aided by the weapons indirectly supplied by the very countries trying to fight them, with the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 giving the terrorist group access to “a large and lethal arsenal.”
Image: International and domestic terrorism
To really make the U.S. safe from Middle East terrorism, Washington will have to dump Israel, play hardball with Saudi Arabia, and swear off the regime-change policy that has so disastrously driven its actions in Iraq, Libya and Syria.
by Dr. Lawrence Davidson
Members of Iraq’s air force walk past a line of helicopters. (AFP/File)
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (AFP photo)
Vacy Vlazna
Uri Avnery is widely regarded as an Israeli peacemaker with a balanced view of what he calls the ‘Israeli-Palestinian conflict’. But under the surface of dissent (often well-founded criticism of Israel), Avnery is a hard core zionist: a fantasy friend of Palestine;
“I have read a lot of Uri Avnery over the years and have always found him insightful and informative. But as time passed I began to regard him as complex, ambivalent and insidiously useful to Israel in the underlying message he conveys.” Allen Jasson
IllustrationNetalie credit Ron-Raz
Turkmen Militants from Al-Tawheed Army “Jaish Al-Tawheed”
send words of thanks to the Turkish President
“Recep Tayyip Erdoğan” as appreciation for his
full support in money, food, arms .
Video Reported in Hawleh-Homs
Twitter: @Syria_Protector
