500 Years of Nakbas
The great nakba, or “catastrophe,”began in 1492, when Christopher Columbus proclaimed the lands of the “Indies” for Spain […]
Middle East
The Kurds, Terrorism and Kurdistan
There are many the so-called “stateless nations” or better to say “stateless cultures” or “stateless ethnolinguistic groups” in the world […]
Iraq Invasion – Anniversary of the Biggest Terrorist Attack in Modern History
March 20th marked the thirteenth anniversary of an action resulting in the equivalent of a Paris, Brussels, London 7th July 2005, often multiple times daily in Iraq ever since […]
Myths and Facts about the 1967 Six-Day War
This article is based on a talk by Richard Becker at a PSL forum in San Francisco on June 3, 2017 […]
The Saudi Butchery in Yemen and the World’s Apathy
The Trump administration, which views Iran as the greatest threat to the region’s stability and has concerns over its nuclear ambitions, is probably the only power broker that can end this conflic […]
The Middle East on the Waves of Chaos
And in this case for Washington, like it or not, the “Islamic State” is the most suitable to advance its plans, although it seems to be carrying out only its own plans […]
Kosovo is not Serbia’s Kurdistan, but Balkan’s IS/Daesh
While Prof. Sotirović is right in his assessment that Turkey is hypocritical to say at least, he failed to expose the fundamental differences between Kurdistan and Kosovo […]
Israel’s Story: Lies from Top to Bottom
The researchers from 416 Labs were able to evaluate headlines and articles derived from five major U.S. newspapers […]
The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq
It was only once the ISIS had captured Mosul and was firmly entrenched inside Iraq, that the US and its allies initiated two months later its “counter-terrorism” operation, allegedly against the ISIS […]
The Roots of the Current Crisis in the Middle East
The interest of the imperialist powers is not only to secure the flow of oil to their economies […]
Criticizing Israel Unrelated to Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism reflects hostility or discrimination against Judaism as a religion. Israel is a nation-state […]
Confronting the West With its Responsibilities is Essential!
In 2003, based on pure lies, Iraq besieged, and about half a million people died […]
Europe Must Stop Trump from Starting Another War in the Middle East
Trump provided a long list of contentious issues about Iran’s alleged malign influences in the region […]
New World Order: Muslims to be Majority in Europe within Two Generations
Within 40 years, given current demographic trends, the white population in France and the rest of old Europe will recede, creating a Muslim majority, a French researcher says […]
Palestinians: 70 Years of Suffering
The intensive punishment of Gaza, a crime under international law, began after its people voted in a free election for the Hamas movement […]
False Flags and the Trump Administration
Expect an Erratic Flip-Flop Foreign Policy, a Return to Gunboat Diplomacy, and More Illegal Wars of Aggression […]
Don’t Romanticise the Kemalist Legacy!
The narrative of an “enlightened” and generally democratic Turkey, a country that is currently in the process of being destroyed by Erdogan, should not go unchallenged, says Tayfun Guttstadt […]
Crimes Against Humanity and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
In 1975, I worked on a kibbutz called Rosh Hanikra, in Northern Israel […]
US Complicity in Gaza Massacre
The horrendous bloodshed this week in Gaza is directly related to US President Trump’s controversial decision to relocate the American embassy to the contested city of Jerusalem […]
Caught in a Lie, US & Allies Bomb Syria the Night Before International Inspectors Arrive
The US, Britain, and France trampled international law to launch missiles against Syria, claiming to have “evidence” of the government’s use of chemical weapons. That evidence is based on terrorist lies […]
Iraq’s Political Woes won’t end Without Comprehensive Judicial Reform
Since the political change in Iraq took place in 2003 with the US-led invasion to change Saddam’s regime, the Iraqi political and judicial system are unstable and very weak, even though the new regime has provided freedom and democracy to the state […]
A Special Relationship Born in Hell: The US Should Cut all Ties with War Criminal Israel
If you want to understand what the “special relationship” between Israel and the United States really means consider the fact that Israeli Army snipers shot dead seventeen unarmed and largely peaceful Gazan demonstrators on Good Friday without a squeak coming out of the White House or State Department […]
The History of Religious Intolerance
In the world before Christianity and Islam took hold far more religions and philosophies existed than do now […]
The Truth behind Israeli Propaganda on the ‘Expulsion’ of Arab Jews
Israel’s outrageous fabrications about the immigration of Arab Jews to Israel in the 1940s and ’50s are an attempt to mask the injustices meted out to Palestinians […]
Syrian Strikes are ‘Legal’ – But Only According to the ‘Law of the Jungle’
The full extent of the damage to international peace and security caused by the US-led Syrian strikes will take some time to become clear. But its impact on the very concept of legality in international affairs is already evident […]
Slave Markets in ‘Liberated’ Libya and the Silence of the Humanitarian Hawks
The reports that black Africans are being sold at slave markets in liberated Libya for as little as $400 is a terrible indictment of the so-called humanitarian intervention carried out by NATO to topple the government of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 […]
The U.S. Documentary Movie: “The Origin Of Islamic State”
Ben Swann explores the origin of ISIS that has already been long forgotten by American media […]
President Erdogan, a Menace to the World
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become a serious danger not only to his own nation, but to many others as well. His actions and statements in recent years should seriously worry his neighbors and the entire world […]
From Cyprus to Syria: Turkey’s Continued Invasions
On January 20, the Turkish military began an invasion of the Kurdish-controlled Afrin region in northern Syria. Turkey’s government has declared that its operation aims “to preserve Syria’s territorial integrity,” remove “terrorist elements,” and protect civilians […]
Reviving the Greater Israel Scheme
Although there are elements of strength and a suitable environment for the revival of “Greater Israel” it has some weaknesses […]
Israel: America’s “Mad Dog” in Syria
If Israel were to increase tensions against Syria simultaneously with an Iraqi initiative, the pressures on Assad would escalate rapidly […]
Renaming the 1948 War against Palestine: Partition, Dispossession, and Fragmentation
Israel has been brilliant over the years in shaping and misdirecting the public discourse on the future of Palestine […]
The Six Day War – Myth and Reality
The truth however is quite different. Israel was simply never in danger of annihilation and the allegation that Israel had reacted to an imminent threat of an invading force of Arab armies defies a closer examination of the evidence […]
The Demonization of Islam
The demonization of Islam cannot be accomplished no matter what as it is a religious ideology just as much as are the Buddhist, Hindu, Christian or Judaic ideologies but it is Muslims being demonized through terror tactics […]
Hagia Sophia: Religion As Politics
Erdogan clearly has the intention of rejecting the legacy of Ataturk, of continuing to express claims to lands that were once under the Ottoman rule […]
Timeline: Israel’s anti-Palestinian Laws since 1948
Israel advances a plan to build a walkway though the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem to connect two settler residential compounds in the Palestinian At-Tur neighbourhood […]
Saudi Arabia Reacts to Preparation for Astana Talks
We could only hope that Saudi Arabia, which is currently suffering from defeats in the war with the Houthi rebels in Yemen, is not going to undermine the Astana talks to sabotage the peaceful settlement process […]
Zionist Israel Hides its Crimes Behind its Smears of Truth-Tellers
Currently, the Israel Lobby is at work destroying anyone associated with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, which is an effort to sanction Israel for its genocide against Palestine […]
The Harvesting of Palestine. The Zionist Project Prevails?
What is the background to the demonization and brutalization of Palestinians? […]
Benny Morris’s Untenable Denial of the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Israeli historian Benny Morris denies the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, but his own research shows that this was indeed how Israel came into being […]
Israel: An Innocent Victim of Arab Imperialism?
Consequently, billions of dollars continue to flow from the American pocket to the Israeli one […]
“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater Israel” constitutes the cornerstone of powerful Zionist factions within the current Netanyahu government (which has recently been re-elected), the Likud party, as well as within the Israeli military and intelligence establishment […]
Video: Destruction of Palmyra (2016)
Video about the destruction of Syrian Palmyra […]
A Royal Shame: Abdullah Leaves a Legacy of Regional Militancy
Last but not least, Abdullah, following the template of his American advisors, also sought to outsource some of his country’s regional activity to a degree, ergo the creation of ISIL […]
New Israeli School Textbook Highlights Jewish Supremacy: Paints Palestinians as “Inferior”
The new text’s main aim is to perpetuate the Jewish superiority and the Palestinian Arab inferiority in Israel […]
Zionism and Israel
The very idea of returning of the Jews to Palestine, wherefrom they became dispersed throughout Europe and Asia since 70 A.D., had been alive in some form for many centuries of their almost 2.000 years of the diaspora (from 70 to 1948) […]
Understanding Genocide and our Remembrance as Greeks
In Asia Minor, also known as Anatolia— there were the Pontian Greeks who lived along the coast of the Black Sea, and the Thracians and the westernized Ionian Greeks, who lived along the seashore facing the Aegean […]
Draft Constitution of the Syrian Republic
Text of draft Constitution of the Syrian Republic in the English language in the PDF format […]
Netanyahu Victory Lays Bare Israel as Racist, Colonial State
Everyone in the political system understands that this stage is coming. And that’s one of the reasons why nobody really wanted to challenge Netanyahu so much and there was no real attempt to replace the government with a vision of a different kind of strategy, different kind of political horizon for Israel […]
The Future of Syria is in Your Hands
Recently, the West and the Middle East pundits and analysts have been trying to analyze the provisions of the new draft constitution proposed by the Russian side as a solution to the Syrian conflict […]
Trump is Racist? What is About Obama!
See what is difference in their policies on Syria, Libya, Iraq, Somalia, and Yemen […]
U.S. Conceals Thousands of Airstrikes in Middle East
On February 5, Military Times published a report stating that Washington has failed to publicly disclose potentially thousands of lethal airstrikes conducted over several years in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan […]
Netanyahu, Palestine and Ethnic Cleansing
One would think that there must be some limit to the bizarre statements that issue from his mouth, but no, we learn again and again that he is willing to push the bizarreness envelope to places where, like the crew of Star Trek’s Enterprise, no one has ever before ventured […]
Why the U.S. Must Be Prosecuted for Its War Crimes Against Iraq
The reason why the U.S. Government must be prosecuted for its war-crimes against Iraq is that they are so horrific and there are so many of them, and international law crumbles until they become prosecuted and severely punished for what they did […]
Why Israel is Blocking Access to its Archives
The campaign to open up Israel’s archives is being led by the Akevot Institute, a group of Israeli human rights activists, lawyers and researchers trying to document the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a new report, Point of Access, they note that only 1 percent of 400 million pages of documents have been made public […]
While Remembering and Commemorating the Armenian Genocide, Let’s Not Forget the Greeks and Assyrians
By the end of 1922, about three million Christians had been killed in the decade-long religious cleansing that operated essentially under two Turkish governments […]
Zionism is Racism
The U. S. media does not report on this Clinton threat as they do not report on Clinton’s lying to Congress or her dubious email traffic that was a severe violation of U. S. national security for which she should have been indicted […]
Crimes against Humanity: Britain’s Complicity in Saudi Arabia’s Terror Campaign against Yemen
The ‘mainstream’ Western media is, almost by definition, the last place to consult for honest reporting of Western crimes. Consider the appalling case of Yemen which is consumed by war and an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe […]
Journey to Aleppo: Exposing the Truth Buried under NATO Propaganda
The 16th Division has been responsible for many of the missile attacks on residential areas inside the Syrian government-held western Aleppo and the Kurdish-held Sheikh Maqsoud […]
America’s Role in the Creation of the State of Israel
The significance of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the British “gentleman’s agreement” between the British government and Lord Rothschild that pledged British support for a Jewish homeland, has not been understood by many for the quid pro quo that it represented […]
Appeasing the Butchers of Humanity
In his speech, Mr. Erdogan failed to mention to his audience that the nation he was talking about was built by slaughter, rape, enslavement, forcible Islamization, and the taking of what belonged to those who lived in the territory of the “22 million kilometers” for thousands of years before any Turk set foot upon there […]
Hillary Clinton Wants to Do this Again — Now to Syria
If all bombing were to stop, the danger is that jihadists would again gain the upper hand. But in a situation where there are no good options, I think that is still better than the continued bombing of civilian areas held by jihadists […]
The 2016 Aleppo Massacre: Are Putin and Assad the Only “War Criminals”?
One person with direct responsibility for transforming Dresden into the open-air crematorium, as the city was bombed by forbidden flammable bombs for massive destructions (Saddam Hussein was attacked in 2003 by the NATO’s alliance under the alleged and finally false accusation to possess exactly such weapons – WMD) is the “Bomber Harris” – a commander of the British Royal Air-Forces during the Dresden Raid […]
Air Strikes against Syria: Who are the War Criminals?
While Russian airstrikes are carefully targeted against the terrorists, Moscow is accused of committing extensive war crimes as well as supporting the terrorist organizations sponsored by the Western military alliance […]
America’s Recent Achievements in the Middle East
Inside America, the term that’s used for referring to anyone who opposes this spreading of ‘democracy’, is ‘isolationist’, and this term is imported from the meaning that it had just prior to America’s joining World War II against Hitler and other fascists. Back in that time, an “isolationist” meant someone who didn’t want to defeat the fascists […]
“Islamic State Déjà Vu”
US-sponsored Islamic Fighters in the Balkans: Washington was behind the 2001 terrorist attacks in Macedonia […]
Clinton: Destroy Syria for Israel
In the email, released by Wikileaks, then Secretary of State Clinton says that the “best way to help Israel” is to “use force” in Syria to overthrow the government […]
America’s Jews are Driving America’s Wars
Those American Jews who are strongly attached to Israel and somehow find themselves in senior policy-making positions involving the Middle East and who actually possess any integrity on the issue should recuse themselves, just as any judge would do if he were presiding over a case in which he had a personal interest […]
Recognize the Genocide that Happened—And the One Now Beginning
A lot has been written about Nagorno (Mountainous) Karabagh, or Artsakh; people have different opinions of it. But the simplest and most irrefutable narrative is this: For as long as we know, since the ancient Armenian kingdoms, Mountainous Karabagh has been an Armenian cultural cradle. Even when Josef Stalin and his Bolshevik entourage, in order to placate nationalist Turkey, unilaterally transferred these lands from Soviet Armenia and subjected them as an autonomous region to Soviet Azerbaijani rule in 1923, Mountainous Karabagh—unlike Nakhichevan to its west—managed to keep its majority Armenian population […]
Vietnam War and Yemen False Flags
The missile attack on a US ship off the coast of Yemen was a major news event, but the subsequent follow up story, that it may never have happened, was either ignored by mainstream media or intentionally covered up. The whole thing has the same odor as the Gulf of Tonkin incident that never occurred […]
The Occupied Golan Heights: How Israel Thrives from Syria’s Natural Resources
We all know how the story goes. The Golan Heights is Syrian territory that has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. It was then controversially annexed in 1981, despite the UN calling the efforts “null”, “void” and “without international legal effect”. Today it is still internationally and legally recognised as Syrian land, but Israel persists with its possession […]
Bosnia: The Cradle of Modern Jihadism?
Hadzic had joined the Mujahideen unit in 1994. For years after the war he worked as a driver and mechanic before deciding he needed to join the fight against “the Assad Shia regime” in Syria […]
The Dirty Role of the West in Syria
Between 2006 to 2010, the US spent 12 million dollars in order to support and instigate demonstrations and propaganda against the Syrian government. WikiLeaks released over 7000 secret diplomatic cables that document that funding. The cables revealed that up to 6,3 million dollars was funneled to the Movement for Justice and Development, a Syrian dissident organization based in London. The Movement operated the Barada satellite channel that broadcasted anti-government propaganda in Syria and that played an important part in the 2010-11 anti-Assad protests […]
The Historical Background of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The second wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine (1904−1914) had many intellectuals and middle-class Jews but the majority of those immigrants have been driven less by a vision of a new state than by the hope of having a new life, free of pogroms and persecutions […]
Difference between Iran and the USA
Countries attached by bombing, sabotage or attempted government overthrow since 1945 […]
A Boomerang Policy: From Paris to Paris
See the cartoon […]
A Refugee Problem in Europe
Who is guilty for the refugee crisis in Europe? […]
The Nazi Glorification of Ataturk
The historian Stefan Ihrig’s new book reveals the fascination that Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, held for Hitler and the National Socialists. Ihrig’s book has caused a stir in the Turkish press […]
Anti-Semitism
How to recognize anti-semitism […]
Article in Saudi Daily: U.S. Planned, Carried Out 9/11 Attacks – But Blames Others for Them
The U.S. created, in public opinion, an obscure enemy – terrorism – which became what American presidents blamed for all their mistakes […]
A Road of ISIL Jihadists
A road map of the Jihadists from Albania via Istanbul to Syria […]
Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine
The world governments are still not pressuring Israel to change its policy and therefore it is difficult to expect any change from within. There is no peace camp in Israel […]
