The Lies that Led to War

What a surprise.  They  lied!!! Colin Powell at the UN demonstrating why Iraq had WMD  The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion By Jason Leopold March 19, 2015 | 5:10 pm Thirteen years ago, the intelligence community concluded in a 93-page classified document used to justify the invasion of Iraq that…

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Gerry Downing, Anti-Semitism and the Socialism of Fools

Confusing the Jewish Question and Zionism It was August Bebel, the leader of the German Social Democratic Party who described anti-Semitism as the ‘socialism of fools’.  Gerry Downing is nothing if not a fool.  A complete muddlehead leading a tiny Trotskyist group Socialist Fight. The BBC made hay with Gerry Downing’s idiocy Downing entered into…

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Pentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS

Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists to ‘isolate’ Assad, rollback ‘Shia expansion’ Intelligence document More evidence that the rise of ISIS was a direct and conscious result of the West’s desire to overthrow the Assad regime, because it was secular, and its opposition to the Iranian regime, which derives from its support for Assad and …

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Saudi Sponsorship of Isis and the tyranny of Wahhabism

Iraq crisis: How SaudiArabia helped Isis take over the north of the country Below is an interesting article analysing the Saudi ruling family’s baleful influence on recent developments in the Middle East, in particular its relationship to Isis. The article appeared in The Independent, whose coverage of the Middle East is by far and away…

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Doubt grows over use of chemical weapons in Damascus

As Ever Truth is the first Casualty of War Incompetent rebels mishandled Saudi supplied chemical weapons Unlike in Iraq, where the inspectors were investigating a genuine question as to whether the Iraqi regime possessed weapons of mass destruction, the role of the UN investigators in Syria is largely a form of political camouflage for war.…

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