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Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq

US and western policy in the conflagration that is now the Middle East is in the classic mould of imperial divide-and-rule. American forces bomb one set of rebels while backing another in Syria, and mount what are effectively joint military operations with Iran against Isis in Iraq while supporting Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen

 
by Seumas Milne

Some Israeli leaders do sometimes tell the truth

 
by Alan Hart
Still today, 48 years on, there are relatively few people who know the whole truth about how Israel set the stage for war in June 1967 to grab more Arab land. The single most decisive event that made war inevitable happened on Thursday 1 June, four days before Israel launched its attacks. What was it?

One last appeal before a Bedouin village in the Negev is demolished and a Jewish town is built in its place

Umm el-Hieran. (Photo: Adalah)

 The Bedouin village of Umm el-Hieran in Israel’s southern Negev desert is running out of time and appeals before it will be razed to the ground and an exclusively Jewish town will be built in its place.

 
 
by Allison Deger                                      Mondoweiss

Imagine If Muslims Surrounded A Christian Church In The US With Assault Rifles During Prayer Time

Imagine for a moment if the following aggressive behavior happened outside of a Christian Church. Substitute the words “Christian” with “Muslim.” A totally not scary looking Anti-Muslim protestor Outside of a Phoenix mosque on Friday to interrupt prayer time, protesters gathered wearing “Fuck Islam” t-shirts gathered. The group’s organizer urged protesters to carry guns, and many…

Russian Foreign Intelligence chief: Russia is a target because it’s a cradle of a new world paradigm

Photo: Leonid Petrovich Reshetnikov, Director, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies. (Image credit The Millennium Report )

There is a community of some virtually unknown to the society people who not only install American presidents, but determine the rules of the “Big game” for everyone. These are, in particular, transnational financial corporations. But not only them.

 
by  Alexander CHUIKOV