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MARY KOSTAKIDIS's avatar

Thank you for this excellent article. You might add Wilkerson’s remarks regarding Mossad running the Pentagon when he was COS to Colin Powell, in the lead up to the Iraq war.

https://youtube.com/shorts/nE7a5VMELDs?si=WF89p-ikAo9CTeAT

Emmanuel Goldstein's avatar

The biggest irony everyone forgot from 2011 onwards is that the Israeli maximalist faction cooperated with the CIA and MI6 to facilitate the ascendancy of Iran's expansionist project off the carcass of Saddam's Iraq, and that Tel Aviv and Tehran were in a tacit backchannel collusive agreement all the way up until 2011 because of the prioritized unholy war against Saddam's Ba'athist remnants who persisted in attempting to hold together the Iraqi people against Zionist/al-Qaeda forced sectarian division.

Israeli intelligence during the Iraq War was shared to the United States, which in turn strengthened the CPA-overseen "Iraqi government" run by SCIRI and Badr Khomeinist extremists who tortured Iraqi Sunni civilians on behalf of Soleimani. The Americans, Israelis, and Iranians jointly did everything they could to destroy Saddam's Ba'athist programme and facilitate the rise of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (which later morphed into "ISI" that later re-emerged as "ISIS") as a controlled opposition front they could use to justify perpetual occupation for the end goal of completely destroying the Iraqi people.

Gary Schroeder's avatar

Just saw in the Israeli Press that they are now saying that Iran has developed and is making Biological and Chemical Weapon Warheads for their missiles now. That is the new push since the Iranian Nuke messaging has fallen flat, although I hope they have some by now. So, the only thing we are missing are the old charts from the UN presentations of the Bush Admin claiming/depicting Mobile Chemical Labs, and they can bring out the old Vial of Yellow Powder Colin Powell held up for Pete Hegseth to hold up and show the world....So, our US List of "wars" from the US "Peace President" is Venezuela, Columbia, Greenland/NATO Member Denmark, Iran and possibly Mexico. Gaza is almost erased, the West Bank has been accelerated in its erasure, Southern Lebanon and Syria are now gone and in the hands of Israel, so they need to keep moving on the Greater Israel Project since Biden and now Trump are willing partners to violate every International Law ever written. And Netanyahu has declared that Israel recognizes Somaliland, like he has any authority as some sort of Emperor to do that.

Frank Sterle Jr.'s avatar

The 1979 Iranian Revolution's expulsion of major Western nations was in large part due to British and American companies exploiting Iran's plentiful fossil fuel. The expulsion may have been a big-profit-losing lesson learned by the ‘energy’-corporation heads, one that they, via intense lobbyist influence over the relevant governments in Washington D.C. and London, would resist reoccurring anywhere globally.

If Iran were to militarily surrender to Western forces thus big corporate interests, soon-enough afterwards it will also be compelled to surrender access to much of its vast fossil fuel reserves to American and British ‘energy’ companies. Those corporations, and likely Israel’s government/interests as well, know there's still much to be effectively appropriated.

The 2003-11 U.S./British invasion and prolonged occupation of Iraq may also have been partly motivated by such Western insatiable corporate greed. According to AI Overview (for what it's worth), “some [U.S.] companies did secure lucrative contracts for oil services and exploration in Iraq following the war.” Also, “British oil companies, particularly BP, significantly benefited from the Iraq War by gaining access to and exploiting Iraq's vast oil reserves.”

I read/heard nothing in the mainstream news-media about these post-war foreign fossil-fuel-corporation incursions into Iraq; and I doubt that media would report on similar big-business incursions into a post-war Iran.

Frank Sterle Jr.'s avatar

History must give some blame for the blatantly immoral and unethical Iraq War to Israel’s current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, which is not even his real surname (it's Mileikowsky). In 2002 he implored the United States Congress to invade Iraq because, he alleged, Baghdad was developing weapons of mass destruction.

This, of course, turned out to be un-true; however, the brutal damage had largely already been done, mostly to innocent Iraqi men, women and children. More recently, he’s pulled the same stunt with Iran's nuclear energy production.

And then there are blameworthy legacy news media. The neoliberal New York Times, as a notable example, helped create the Iraq War — a ‘war’ that was essentially one-sided in firepower — through then-VP Dick Cheney’s anonymous and knowingly-false claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

After the severe damage was done, the Times claimed honest-ignorance innocence on the grounds that it was its blogger’s overzealousness that was really at fault. The same Times that otherwise insists upon securing the non-publishable yet accurate identity of its writers’ anonymous information sources.

Also, quite memorable was popular Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman’s appearance on Charlie Rose’s show (May 29, 2003), where he ranted about the war’s justification and supposed success:

“… And what we needed to do was to go over to that part of the world and burst that bubble. We needed to go over there basically, uhm, and, uh, uhm, take out a very big stick, right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble. And there was only one way to do it because part of that bubble said ‘we’ve got you’ this bubble is actually going to level the balance of power between us and you because we don’t care about life, we’re ready to sacrifice and all you care about is your stock options and your hummers.

"… And what they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house from Basra to Baghdad, uhm, and basically saying which part of this sentence don’t you understand. You don’t think we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy we’re going to just let it go, well suck on this. Ok. That, Charlie, was what this war was about. We could have hit Saudi Arabia. It was part of that bubble. We could have hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq, because we could. And that’s the real truth.”

Potential translation: 'Just to be on the safe side, let’s error in favor of militarily assaulting, invading and devastating Iraq, then likely looting their untapped fossil fuel reserves.' ... What astonishes me is how such pro-War news-media professionals can afterwards sleep at night or look their little children/grandchildren in the face everyday.

But, from another perspective, the Times may have jumped on the atrocity-prone Iraq-invasion bandwagon due to their close proximity to the massive 9/11 blow the city took only a few years prior. And there was plenty of that particularly bitter bandwagon going around in Western circles back then.

Bobr's avatar

This is a curious account.

It is anonymous.

It publishes, at regular intervals, pieces that are invariably aimed against the Western politics - but NEVER against Putin or anyone associated with him, like Xi or the ayatollah or Taliban or Maduro.

They are written in authoritative form suspiciously reminding of AI generated concepts, although they are clearly edited.

No references, except other opinions.

They don’t follow any pattern of current events ( Iraq war ? 2025?)

And the author NEVER replies to questions and comments.

What do other readers think of that?

Bobr's avatar

The videos you have provided don’t reveal your face, your name or even your nationality ( which government are you dissidenting against , so to speak?).

So even if they can be accepted as proofs that you are biologically human, the questions about your motives, affiliation and credibility remain.

Let’s start with answering some of them. Would you agree with the statement that Mr Putin is a murderer dictator?

Please answer yes/no and I will explain why I asked.

Scuba Cat's avatar

We see you, hasbara troll.

Bobr's avatar

In other words, you are unable to refute or explain my points about this account. Oh well.

As of name calling,was it supposed to be an insult? I’ve been called worse. Just don’t confuse me with the Olgino crowd. Please.

MARY KOSTAKIDIS's avatar

A good reason people do not reveal their identity is because they are then targeted. For example with expensive crippling lawfare. Or worse. Secondly, I think most people interested in genuine enquiry are interested in the content of the message and research backing it. Shooting the messenger due to suspicion, or because they may not cover other subjects or geopolitical issues is not a reason to discount a contribution, but a favourite for those trying to undermine work without making an effort to counter it with evidence. I would not fall for that.

Bobr's avatar

Mary, It is a fair game to be anonymous online ( I am), however if one claims to provide original news and information (!) that’s alternative to mainstream reputable media, this doesnt fly. I want to know what is the expertise, sources, methods and motive of such author before I decide if (s)he is worthy to be taken seriously. Not all messengers are to be trusted - even (especially) when they say something one likes to hear.

But I will reserve my judgment until the author replies to my Putin question.

Paulo Kirk's avatar

ANd we must make clear, that THAT lobby is rife with metro sexuals, LGBTQ folk, Holly-Dirters, Fink and Schwartzman's, the lot of the 130 Jewish Billionaires and their several million Jewish billionaires and the legions of Goyim in the White Malice army.

AIPAC is just one of thousands of Jewish-Inspired outfits, and their may look like thugs with briefcases, it's Judaism as a whole which promotes their supremacist and elitist ideology, from so called secular Jews like Summers and Chomsky and Pinker in the EPstein Lolita Express, to the more hardline richest of them all, IDF supporting Larry Ellison.

Here, my scream:

https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/they-might-be-giants-nah-more-jewish

They Might Be Giants -- Nah, More Jewish Myths of their Inbreeding

...stop it enough already, please, Zionism is growing (think Africa, Taiwan, etc.) and Israel is spreading like a fucking ebola!