Yinon Plan

Catalonia & Iraqi Kurdistan – A Tale of Two Independence Referendums…

Tense, divisive or controversial ‘referendums’ seem to be the in-thing right now. Presently, a lot of coverage has been given to two independence referendums in different parts of the globe: one in Spain and one in Iraq. Both referendums also have things in common. Regarding the Catalonian independence referendum in Spain, I have no personal […]

The Conflict In Syria Was Always Israel’s War

After years of fomenting the Syrian conflict from the shadows, the U.S. has recently seemed to back away from its push to militarily intervene in the embattled nation, instead choosing to focus its saber-rattling and destabilization efforts on other theaters. The consequence of this has seemingly been the winding down of the long-running conflict, now entering its seventh year.

Israel’s Yinon Plan, Saudi Wahhabism & US Wars: Arab Christians Pushed Into Mass Exodus

“The real danger lies in whether the Christian world loses the last early Christians… the last ancient souls of the earth.” Such is the dire prediction by one writer regarding the ongoing exodus of Arab Christians from the Middle East – an exodus triggered by Western neo-colonialism and Zionist expansion that suits the military-industrial complex. […]

Israel’s Yinon Plan, Saudi Wahhabism & US Wars: Arab Christians Pushed Into Mass Exodus

A man is body-searched in front of a Christian church in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, July 6, 2004 in the early days of America’s second invasion of Iraq. Minutes before, American soldiers had shot and killed a motorist there who had been driving too close behind them, according to witnesses at the scene. (Mohammed Uraibi/AP)

Repeating History & the Betrayal of the Kurds…

Last week, for the first time since the start of the War in Syria, Turkish forces, backed by the United States, crossed the Syrian border and openly intervened against so-called ‘Islamic State‘ forces with heavy artillery strikes on the city of Jarablus (controlled by ISIS), which is situated on the Turkey-Syria border and on the […]

The Syrian deception: on the Balkanization of the Greater Middle East

By Catherine Shakdam | American Herald Tribune | February 25, 2016 If Western capitals and their international agencies have long decried sectarianism, and all other form of overt xenophobia, may it revolve around ethnicity, social class, gender, politics or faith, those powers have nevertheless leaned on elitism and selectivity to carry both their war propaganda […]