In several of my German articles I have been arguing that an “Islamic State” doesn’t make any sense without the control over the sacred sites of Islam, Mecca and Medina. That is why, so my reasoning, ISIS should not have attacked Al-Assad or the Al-Abadi regime, not to speak of Israel, but the Wahhabite Salafist Saudi Arabian dictatorship. This regime …
Phil Butler – The Hidden Purpose of ISIL: A New King of Libya
A few weeks back NEO ran an article that revealed the doublespeak of western conflict resolution. A telling look at an NGO known as the International Crisis Group showed clearly the tangled web of control mechanisms in place to skew policy and to mislead the public. Today the “crisis” has migrated once again, from Syria back to a the chaos exerted onto …
Gaius Publius – Do Foreign Lives Matter? Hillary Clinton, a Death in Honduras & Feminism
I’ve been looking for a way to tell this story, the story of Hillary Clinton and the murder of Berta Cáceres, for a while. The core of the story involves yet another victim of Honduran right-wing violence. For example, there’s this, from The Nation: The Clinton-Backed Honduran Regime Is Picking Off Indigenous Leaders The names of Berta Cáceres’s murderers are yet unknown. …