A round-up of recent foreign affairs stories mostly from alternative media. All links will automatically open in a new tab. No need to ‘Right-Click’.
01/05/2018
Syria: The Cycle of Lies by Thierry Meyssan (on VoltaireNet)
01/05/2018
Sometimes it is really hard for those of us who support the State of Israel:
Christians in Jerusalem’s Old City ‘under threat’ from settlers
And PM Netanyahu digs out some really old news for Donald Trump: Israel says Iran hid nuclear arms programme
30/04/2018
Peter Hitchens: Waiting for the OPCW: How to Read the Next Report on Alleged Chemical Weapons Atrocities
28/04/2018
Douma: 17 eyewitnesses testify before the OPCW (on VoltaireNet)
30/04/2018
Ex-ambassador Craig Murray says journalists told not to mention a certain MI6 minder of Sergei Skripal: Where They Tell You Not to Look
28/04/2018
Craig Murray again. It becomes stranger and stranger: Probable Western Responsibility for Skripal Poisoning
28/04/2018
Cement giant Lafarge ‘working for French Secret Services in Syria’ by Thierry Meyssan (Voltaire.net)
27/04/2018
BBC Hardtalk: Stephen Sackur talks to Fares Shehabi, Aleppo businessman and MP in Syria (YouTube)
(Off-Guardian’s report on Sackur vs Shehabi is here)
26/04/2018
IAAF doctor calls for intersex category in athletics within five to 10 years (Guardian)
24/04/2018
‘That Trip’: Statement from Caroline Cox on her recent visit to Syria
24/04/2018
The fiasco of the bombing raid on Syria by Thierry Meyssan (cyber warfare and priorities)
24/04/2018
Antiwar.com: What Will Weapons Inspectors Find in Syria… and Does it Matter?
23/04/2018
The Skripal Affair: A Lie Too Far? by Michael Jabara Carley (on VotaireNet)
In Syria on ‘That Trip:’ l-r: Reverend Andrew Ashdown, Syriac Patriarch, Grand Mufti of Syria, Rt Rev Michael Langrish, Canon Giles Fraser, ano.
23/04/2018
David Pilkington at The Way: Was the Syrian Chemical attack a Hoax?
23/04/2018
Gareth Browne was on ‘That Trip’: The ‘crazy club’: Inside the British propaganda trips that seek to legitimise Assad’s barbarism
20/04/2018
Giles Fraser was on ‘That Trip’: Why I’m unrepentant about my trip to Syria
20/04/2018
Yes! Soros-funded foundation questions future in Hungary
19/04/2018
Richard Bacon MP: An open letter to the US Congress: don’t let Trump rip up the Iran deal
18/04/2018
Will Armenia be the next victim of western-backed regime change? (theduran.com)
09/04/2018
Peter Hitchens on Khan Sheikhoun: Rushing to Judgement Over Syria – some previous experiences
29/03/2018
This debate on Syria in the House of Lords took my eye. Scroll down to the speech by Lord Dykes
28/03/2018
BBC on Islamic State in maps; includes IS fighters by nationality (Read this. You will be surprised)
21/12/2016
Yes, it’s way back, but this letter to The Times from three former UK ambassadors to Syria is worth reading and commending. The man whose blog features it hates them for suggesting the UK leaves Syria alone.
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“Read this you will be surprised” (on Islamic State).
I do not, of course, claim to have known every detail of this before (nor shall I remember every detail in future).
But none of it particularly “surprised” me. It is nonetheless well worth a look.
Stephen is probably thinking of the country which provides most IS fighters, but I had heard some mothers of deceased volunteers from that country being interviewed on the radio. No spoilers here, but when you think about it, that country does have a lot of Muslim citizens. The mothers take a strangely unethical view, although I suppose that is understandable. They don’t see that their sons did anything wrong, say that they were “tricked”, and even demand their human rights (those that are still alive).! They ignore BBC appeals to consider how ISIS trampled on the human rights of everyone else. I think “amoral’ is the word for these mothers (many of whom have become grandmothers), They want their daughters-in-law back, and also of course their grandchildren, whom they have never seen. All perfectly human and understandable, and not the grandmothers’ fault, but they might be a bit more apologetic.
As for the other countries, most of them have lots of Muslim citizens too. When your rule them out, it does come down to the European countries we think of as providing lots of volunteers , and these are again the ones with most Muslims : Germany, France, and Britain.
yes, ISIS fighters from the West: or as dear old Justin Trudeau has it, “foreign travellers”.
I’m not sure this is very relevant. The country which provides most IS fighters is not a Muslim country by a very long way, but it is NOT a country in the West.
Only when you rule out THAT country (no spoilers), and mainly Muslim countries, it does come down to European countries, but I can’t see that the comment “Yes, ISIS fighters from the West” adds anything to that fact.