Tag: Middle East

The 18 national campaigns of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, International Campaign to Break the Siege, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, and United States) met in Dublin, Ireland, December 5-7, 2025, to plan for many...
Israel's recent strikes on Qatar and Yemen have once again demonstrated both the lawlessness of the Jewish state’s leadership and the deep divisions within the Arab world. The latter, in many ways, is responsible for the former. With regard to Israel, everything is crystal clear. Israelis have long since ceased...
How do you sell the idea of a moderate rebellion without alienating the extremists who will do the actual fighting? When foreign powers started supporting armed groups to overthrow the Ba’athist government in Syria after 2011, they were unsure about who could, or should, take...
U.S. media accounts of the fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria failed to disclose that the U.S. had engaged in a thirteen-year-long operation that started with the Arab Spring and continued with the launching of Operation Timber Sycamore by the Obama administration, the largest covert operation...
Will Congress ever hold the CIA to account for this and other crimes by ordering a Church Committee-type investigation? In August 2017, The New York Times reported on the Trump administration’s shutting down what it termed “one of the costliest covert action programs in the history of the CIA”—the $1...
On the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bomb attacks, the world stands in grave danger of nuclear warfare again breaking out—particularly in light of the pattern of Israeli aggression in the Middle East and the perpetuation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In the U.S, all mechanisms of diplomacy...
King Abdullah II made a pact with the devil in exchange for more than a billion dollars in annual U.S. support that helps secure his family’s tyrannical rule In early August, Jordan’s King Abdullah II—who has ruled Jordan since 1999—announced his latest Cabinet reshuffle. Growing popular disaffection with his rule...
Some aspects of life are so well known that they are accepted as a given. One of those commonly accepted facts of life is corporate leadership.   Corporate leaders instruct their teams of managers to create a specific atmosphere at the workplace, and this can influence the attitudes of all employees within the company; from...
Part 3: Israel’s Greatest Existential Threat “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”—Sir Walter Scott, “Marmion” (1808) “Mountains of documents were created to confuse, mislead, and divert attention away from the true conspiracy that was linked to a covert paramilitary network operating in Dallas and...
Part 2: When and Why Did Mossad Recruit Nazi Colonel Otto Skorzeny? “Somebody put it together very masterfully….Whoever was the architect of this thing....they flooded this area with so many characters with nefarious reputations because they thought, ‘Well, if all these people get scooped up it’ll muddy the waters...