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War on Islamic State: A New Cold War fiction
War on Islamic State: A New Cold War fiction The Islamic State group is little more than the proxy bastard child of a New Cold War that looks set to escalate Russia is bombing “terrorists” in Syria, and the US is understandably peeved. A day after the bombing began, Obama’s Defence Secretary Ashton Carter complained […]
The collapse of Saudi Arabia is inevitable
The collapse of Saudi Arabia is inevitable Deep-rooted structural realities means that Saudi Arabia is indeed on the brink of protracted state-failure, a process likely to take-off in the next few years On Tuesday 22 September, Middle East Eye broke the story of a senior member of the Saudi royal family calling for a “change” in leadership […]
Secret files: British government courting Arab tyrants, fossil fuel interests
Secret files: British government courting Arab tyrants, fossil fuel interests Official documents show how oil and business interests trump democracy A range of official government documents released under Freedom of Information (FOI) expose how the British government is valiantly promoting democracy in the Middle East: by courting the region’s most vociferous opponents of democracy. The […]
Gulf states lead call for regime change in Syria
Gulf states lead call for regime change in Syria Though the Gulf has called for the overthrow of Assad, sources suggest Obama agreed to Putin’s increased support for him The Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the world’s second largest intergovernmental body after the United Nations, issued a dramatic call this Sunday for the overthrow of the regime […]
A thousand 9/11s
A thousand 9/11s The 9/11 attack was just the beginning of the bloodletting and the wanton abuse of law to extend unaccountable state authority Fourteen years ago, 2,996 people were murdered when four civilian planes in the United States were hijacked by al-Qaeda extremists, one flown into the Pentagon, and two into the World Trade […]
UN plan to save Earth is “fig leaf” for Big Business: insiders
UN plan to save Earth is “fig leaf” for Big Business: insiders Why the new Sustainable Development agenda is “fundamentally compromised” by corporate interests UN records reveal that the intergovernmental body has already marginalised the very groups it claims to be rescuing from poverty, hunger and climate disaster. At the end of this month, the […]
Indian anti-corruption official: state “orchestrated” Islamist terror
Indian anti-corruption official: state “orchestrated” Islamist terror Mumbai atrocities enabled by intelligence operations of India, Pakistan and the United States A senior Indian police officer and anti-corruption investigator last month accused the Indian government of orchestrating the Mumbai terror attacks which occurred nearly seven years ago, according to an Indian government official. R. V. S. […]
Officials: Islamic State arose from US support for al-Qaeda in Iraq
Officials: Islamic State arose from US support for al-Qaeda in Iraq A former Pentagon intelligence chief, Iraqi government sources, and a retired career US diplomat reveal US complicity in the rise of ISIS A new memoir by a former senior State Department analyst provides stunning details on how decades of support for Islamist militants linked […]
Leveling the Playing Field of Death
Leveling the Playing Field of Death In April 2015, the Washington DC-based Physicians for Social Responsibility released a landmark study concluding that the death toll from 10 years of the “War on Terror” since the 9/11 attacks is at least 1.3 million, and could be as high as two million. However, Nafeez Ahmed begs to differ, writing that western […]
Britain’s secret ties to governments, firms behind ISIS oil sales
Britain’s secret ties to governments, firms behind ISIS oil sales In the scramble to access Kurdistan’s oil and gas wealth, the US and UK are turning a blind eye to complicity in ‘Islamic State’ oil smuggling Key allies in the US and UK led war on Islamic State (ISIS) are covertly financing the terrorist movement […]
Beyond Extinction: Transition to post-capitalism is inevitable
Beyond Extinction: Transition to post-capitalism is inevitable In Margaret Atwood’s powerful essay on the reality of climate change — and its implications for the future of oil-dependent industrial civilization — she tells two vastly distinct stories of our future. The first is a tale of dystopia — a future so bleak, it would make Hollywood moguls looking for the next science fiction […]
Iran Deal is About Staving Off the Coming Oil Shock
Iran Deal is About Staving Off the Coming Oil Shock The US wants to use Iran to sustain its regional influence in the face of the next global economic recession The Iran nuclear deal signals a major shift in the geopolitics of the Middle East. Integral to the equation is oil, economics, terror – and […]
An Open Letter to Britain’s Leading Violent Extremist: David Cameron
An Open Letter to Britain’s Leading Violent Extremist: David Cameron Dear Prime Minister David Cameron, It is with deep disappointment that I read excerpts of your speech provided by Downing Street to the press, purporting to set out a five-year strategy to tackle fundamentalist terrorism, which — whatever its intentions — is thoroughly misguided, and destined to plunge this […]
Endless enemies – how the US is supporting the Islamic State by fighting it
Endless enemies – how the US is supporting the Islamic State by fighting it From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State to Assad, the US is fighting terrorists of its own creation by partnering with other terrorists of its own creation Geopolitics is a murky game. Precisely how murky is reflected in the well-worn phrase, “The […]
No scientific evidence of GM food safety
No scientific evidence of GM food safety It is “premature” to declare GM safe due to “incomplete” scientific knowledge, finds report commissioned by Norwegian Environment Agency A new study commissioned by the Norwegian government, and conducted by a nationally recognised scientific authority on the safety of biotechnologies, concludes that available scientific data on GM crops […]
