There was absolutely nothing stopping them, but not one single member of Western mainstream media ever visited a bomb site in Lebanon to verify whether Israeli claims it was a Hezbollah base or missile site were true. Because they knew the answer is negative, as I found across dozens of bomb sites, and that is not the narrative they are paid to promote.
But when a narrative they are paid to promote came to the fore, they flocked to Damascus – driving right past the bombed civilian homes, ambulance centres and schools of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley to get there – to promote Syria’s new Israel-, USA- and Turkey-sponsored “democratic” government of entirely “reformed” HTS Wahhabists.
Now in the past I had unfortunate arguments with some who broadly take a similar view of politics to me – Vanessa Beeley comes to mind – because I was never a fan of the Assad regime and its human rights record. Nevertheless, I consistently preferred Assad to the NATO-, Gulf- and Israel-sponsored extremist Wahhabi “rebels” who were fighting him.
But you can acknowledge Assad’s human rights abuses without subscribing to the ludicrous atrocity propaganda that spewed out of the mainstream media – 150,000 prisoners in one jail, 100,000 people in a mass grave, the “body press” whose plywood-pressing surfaces were peculiarly unstained, the suntanned American prisoner who had been “locked in a room for seven months”, the splendidly groomed dissident prisoner “rescued” by CNN.
Atrocity propaganda is as old as warfare. Like the “60 beheaded babies” of 7 October, or the 100,000 prisoners in a mass grave, it will doubtless recur indefinitely despite being nonsense. The installation of HTS by the NATO powers and Israel was a propaganda orgy of “joy” and “liberation”.
Undoubtedly some people did feel joy and liberation. But the Western media have not stayed around since, to report the subsequent numerous incidents of beatings and summary executions of non-Sunnis, that the “democratic revolution” will start to think about an election only in four years’ time, that women judges have all been dismissed, that starting yesterday there are official Sharia patrols on the streets of Damascus “advising” women to cover their hair, and that for the first time, also starting yesterday, the hijab is official compulsory uniform in most Syrian state schools.
Still less have they reported that HTS has done nothing whatsoever to oppose the Israeli invasion of Southern Syria, which as of today controls the dams that supply 40% of Syria’s potable and agricultural water. Israel is constructing 13 permanent military bases in the newly occupied Syrian territories, putting in concrete emplacements and building or improving fenced roads between them. It is building gun emplacements around dams.
HTS has – while not opposing the Israeli invaders – however managed to make several incursions into Lebanon including direct attacks on the Lebanese Army. In some cases these attacks by HTS on Lebanon have occurred within five miles of illegal Israeli outposts of soldiers within Syria – a clear indication of which side HTS is on.
The new HTS government has of course been fêted by the global neoliberals. The agenda of the Western security services has nowhere been more obvious than in the linkage of the HTS and Ukrainian causes, and the second foreign delegation received by the new HTS government was indeed from Ukraine.
Uzbek militants formed a significant section of HTS’s Wahhabi army, and it is not a coincidence that around the same time, it was an Uzbek militant who murdered a key Russian general on behalf of the Ukrainian government.
The Ukrainian delegation to the HTS government was closely followed of course by the ubiquitous harpy Annelina Baerbock, the most outspoken and enthusiastic advocate outside the state of Israel of the massacre of Palestinians.
As some kind of counterweight to the Western support of Al Qaeda/Al Nusra/HTS in Syria, which the public was entitled to find somewhat confusing, we have the narrative of the “ISIS-inspired” terrorism attack in New Orleans, just to reassure that Muslims are still the official enemy.
There are a number of things about this narrative which are just too pat to sit easily with me. The killer, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, helpfully aided identification by being equipped with an ISIS flag, which despite being an important item in a multiple murder investigation was somehow unguarded and available to the media to photograph, plainly clearly laid out in line with the flagstone pattern and not lying as it fell. Why is the crime scene tape strewn around like this?
A further interesting question is why the flag is upside down on the makeshift staff. If somebody cared enough about the cause to kill and die for it, presumably they would know which way up the flag goes? It is worth noting that the official story is that Jabbar was “inspired by ISIS”, not that he actually had any form of contact with anyone from ISIS. Maybe nobody told him which way the flag goes. But it also transpires he had Arabic language books, including the Koran, at home, so he plainly would have known the writing was upside down.
Entirely weird is this report from the New York Post, where their reporter is able apparently to walk around the completely unsecured apartment of Jabbar and poke about evidence at will. Again it is all delightfully perfect – the Koran is open at a page about fighting and being killed, and the camera lingers on a helpfully hung Palestinian keffiyeh, while there are lots of chemicals and apparent bomb-making areas.
I am not positing a theory as to what happened. I am saying that the package of information being presented is remarkably full and neat.
It took the British police five solid days of investigation at Charlie Rowley’s and Dawn Sturgess’s house before they discovered the perfume bottle of “novichok” in plain sight on the kitchen counter. In 24 hours, by contrast, the FBI had so comprehensively taken all required evidence from Jabbar’s apartment, and presumably had carried out all forensic investigation needed for traces of possible accomplices there, that they were able to let a journalist and crew contaminate the scene as much as they wish.
Is this not all a bit strange?
I am sure that by now you are aware of all the coincidences in career and in car hire between Jabbar and Matthew Livelsberger, who made a kind of explosion at a Trump hotel in Las Vegas the same day. I am not sure this actually proves a connection between the two, beyond that fact that being in the US military is more likely than anything else to turn you into a potential psychotic killer.
But there are very weird things in the Livelsberger case. What strikes me most is that Livelsberger was not a toy soldier: he was an active service member of special forces with substantial combat experience. He would certainly have been able to make a more viable bomb, as his family suggested.
Perhaps more to the point, Livelsberger would certainly have known that what was in the truck was not a viable bomb.
It is also worth noting that this US special forces soldier is officially noted as having served in Ukraine – not an everyday admission.
There is no previous example of a suicide bomber who deliberately killed himself before his attack came to fruition. What we have here, if we believe the official narrative, is a highly proficient active combat veteran who shot himself before his non-viable IED went off.
This too strikes me as a most peculiar narrative. To which I will add that, in the great tradition of terrorist attacks, while Livelsberger’s body was burnt beyond recognition, his passport survived in the cab, next to him.
So we have the Western powers active in installing terrorists in power in Damascus, and some almost immediate examples of terrorist blowback in the USA from members of the US military, and with some very strange details.
None of which is, however, really stranger than the Western rush to sanctify the HTS government in Damascus, when HTS remains a proscribed terrorist organisation pretty well everywhere, but certainly in the UK and USA. The “terrorism” incidents in the USA – particularly the “Islamic terrorism” incident in New Orleans – make it still harder to process the normalisation of terrorist organisation HTS.
I am returning to Beirut in a few hours after being back in Scotland for Christmas and New Year. To be perfectly frank with you, I was expecting to get arrested on arrival here under the Terrorism Act, as has happened to me before and has happened recently to so many decent journalists with a pro-Palestinian stance.
Just telling the truth about the genocide of the Palestinians, and the creation of Greater Israel, has until now been treated by the UK’s counter-terrorism police as expressing an opinion that may cause others to support proscribed organisations Hamas and Hezbollah, and therefore grounds for arrest and seizure of property.
But HTS is also a proscribed organisation, and the entire British Establishment has very openly been “expressing an opinion which could cause others to support it”. The former head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, has been on television advocating that HTS should no longer be proscribed because it is such a decent organisation. Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell have been openly praising it on their blog.
There are three ultra-draconian aspects of Section 12 of the Terrorism Act:
1) You can get 14 years in jail for merely “expressing an opinion”.
2) Intent is expressly not required. If your opinion could cause somebody else to support a proscribed organisation, whether you intended that or not, you are guilty if “reckless”, i.e. you did not positively avoid expressing any such opinion
3) It is entirely up to the government to determine what is a proscribed organisation. If you disagree that an organisation should be proscribed, to argue that case is almost certainly an offence. If the government decided to proscribe the Girl Guides, the Girl Guides would – in law – be a terrorist organisation.
You may notice the parallels in law to the Rwanda case, where the courts ruled that Rwanda did not become a safe country for asylum seekers merely because a government minister said it was. There has however been no successful legal challenge to the effect that a resistance movement does not become a terrorist organisation merely because a government says it is.
But here is the rub. In the UK, it still remains at least the legal fiction that governments have to obey their own laws. The entire purpose of chopping off the head of Charles I was to show that the executive cannot arbitrarily break the law of the land, and that seemed to make the point pretty clearly.
Until the government, through an Order in Council, actually removes the proscription of HTS as a terrorist organisation, it is still illegal to support it in the UK – and it is illegal for government ministers to support it, let alone ex-functionaries like John Sawers, Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
Now in practice, there is nothing to prevent the massive hypocrisy of the Terrorism Police harassing, and the CPS prosecuting, people for very tangential “support” of Hamas and Hezbollah, while much more blatant and open support of HTS goes unpunished.
But it is not a good look and juries are likely to be unhappy.
I therefore suspect the decision not to go for me again under the Terrorism Act may be because the widespread official support for proscribed organisation HTS has brought the law into disrepute. That might also explain why recently the police have been using the Public Order Act against speakers at the regular demonstrations at the Israeli Ambassador’s residence in London, whereas previously they have used the Terrorism Act in identical circumstances.
No less than THREE Jewish antizionist descendants of Holocaust survivors have been ARRESTED by @metpoliceuk at Swiss Cottage @IJAN_Network picket to demand expulsion of Hotovely.
Why are the Met Police ARRESTING Jewish people for condemning genocide, and PROTECTING war criminals? https://t.co/ZwaIoMmqvp pic.twitter.com/DUN6fidKOu— Bintifada (@YaBintifada) January 7, 2025
The range of anti-free speech legislation available to the authorities in the UK is now extensive and bewildering. We are still seeing the legacy cases against Richard Barnard and Tony Greenstein under the Terrorism Act progressing. But Section 12 may prove to be an example of draconian legislation which dies of shame.
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“Atrocity propaganda is as old as warfare”
Breaking news on the daddy of modern atrocity propaganda – the foundation stone of the genocide in Gaza….
NO RAPE ALLEGATIONS FILED IN OCTOBER 7 ATTACKS, ISRAELI PROSECUTOR SAYS
Moran Gaz told YNet, “In the end, we don’t have any complainants. What was presented in the media compared to what will eventually come together will be entirely different.”
https://x.com/PedraPaz/status/1875677364186968109
Not only the media … the entire western political class and Hollywood used those rape allegations to manufacture consent for genocide. To this day, every Biden-Harris speech on Gaza still starts with condemnation of Hamas’s “horrific unspeakable rape on Oct 7”, as did ‘pillar of political integrity’ Keir Starmer in his recent speech at the Labour Friends of Israel lunch.
Will this admission by the Israelis themselves finally force BBC Verify and co to condemn this genocidal lie by Sir Keir, the Biden administration, Hollywood et al?
What do we think?
“What do we think?”
I personally think that not one single word uttered by the Israeli, British, or US governments should be believed unless supported by an honest, credible source. The same goes for most of their media – although, much to my surprise, the Israeli media have often told the truth when the rest of the Western MSM have lied.
But then they are probably rendered bold by the knowledge that they are Immune and Exempt. Apparently even Israel’s organs of state terror, such as Mossad, refuse knowingly to murder any Jewish person.
It’s nice to have principles.
“Apparently even Israel’s organs of state terror, such as Mossad, refuse knowingly to murder any Jewish person.”
Or to admit it anyway.
It’s all gangsterism at the end of the day, and there’s more than one way to skin a cat.
I read a biography of Meyer Lansky which painted Bugsy Siegel’s death as some kind of unfortunate eventuality rather than a result of Lansky having him whacked. (Although between the lines is another matter.)
See also how the diamond trade was forced to Tel Aviv from Rotterdam.
Just saying it sometimes happens. Might have happened with Robert Maxwell even – who knows?
I thought BBC Verify was an Israeli agency.
Which isn’t to say it doesn’t do local work, e.g. helping the “king” by rubbishing Mohammed al-Fayed, something Lindsay McCoy is so proud of.
Meanwhile, Ofcom’s chairman is Michael “Lord” Grade, and its deputy chair is Tamara Ingram, a non-executive director of Marks and Spencer – just as Stella Rimington was before her.
Perhaps 2025 will be the year the curtain is pulled aside and the Spookocracy is revealed.
A widnae haud ma breath.
We were granted a tantalising glimpse, with the revelation that Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff, Sue Gray, was running a pub in Newry in the 1980s.
The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 remains unknown beyond political anoraks. This Act passed by Boris Johnson’s “Get Brexit Done” supermajority facilitates the legal authorisation of all manner of crimes, up to and including rape, torture and murder.
All things considered, we’re not living in a functional democracy. What would need to alter before the Spookocracy was exposed? Well, the much-vaunted new age of Internet freedom and citizen journalism would have to actually appear, having till now been an ever-illusive glow just beyond the horizon. Will 2025 be a year of breakthrough? Perhaps.
If we consider the current conflict in Gaza, excluding don’t knows, 65% of Americans believe that Israel is committing war crimes. That figure would not be possible if American citizens were relying on their MSM for information. The spectrum of coverage on MSM on these matters runs from apologists (CNN, et al) to outright cheerleaders (Fox, OANN).
The same metric in the UK has a 90% uptake, and the same observation applies here.
This polling (YouGov) is six months old; I doubt events since will have moved the dial much. The 10% of respondents in the UK who refuse to see Israeli atrocities will be a fixed feature, avoidance of cognitive dissonance and tribal loyalty will not permit them to alter their views. The percentage of don’t knows may however reduce.
Turning to Keir Starmer, what kind of politician holds steadfastly to a position held by 10% of the population? A politician who was appointed by the Permanent State, with a fixed and very limited list of instructions. Starmer will serve his one term and be richly rewarded for it.
“Perhaps 2025 will be the year the curtain is pulled aside and the Spookocracy is revealed”.
If so, it will be only because they no longer have anything to fear from their nasty tricks being publicly known.
“The Key Lesson of 2024: In Labour’s Post-Riots Britain, the Truth Must no Longer be Seen or Heard”
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/01/06/the-key-lesson-of-2024-in-labours-post-riots-britain-the-truth-must-no-longer-be-seen-or-heard/
‘According to no less a far-sighted authority than Jesus Christ, “The truth will set you free.” In Keir Starmer’s Blind Britain, it’s more likely to get you a 10-month sentence’.
As Mr Murray himself has found through bitter experience.
I think it’s the fact that the level of mass cynicism precludes effectual and even application of the old consent though mindf*ck propaganda model.
The heavy-handed application of Blair’s toxic gifts, do betray a sense of regime fear & unease.
They know they can’t cover up their crimes anymore. So with no means to bribe the population, all that’s left is coercion.
“Starmer will serve his one term and be richly rewarded for it.”
Absolutely correct VOB.
There has been nothing clearer in my 70-odd years on this Earth that Starmer was a Deep/Permanant/Security -State appointment. A man of vacuous mind, who rose without trace, and whose first service to the powers was to undermine a leader who might have offered some slight opposition to the Neoliberal/Globalist status quo – including, but not exclusively, through absurd accusations of weaponised ‘anti-semitism’ against a man who spent his whole political life fighting racism.
But then – the historic role and purpose of the ‘Labour’ party has been class-betrayal.
But to get back to your line I quote above, on 3rd July last year -the day before the election – I wrote the (below) to the letters page of the long-ago-captured New Statesman concerning yet another absurd article by House-Jock Andrew Marr. Naturally, it was NOT published – but it is clear that Starmer is stop-gap for something more agreeable to the likes of Elon Musk:
Sir,
I fear Andrew Marr’s Panglossian assessment of a Starmer government’s prospects are seriously misplaced (The Hard Road Ahead, NS 4-11th July), especially in relying on the LibDems (the rump SDP) “making common cause with leftish Labour MP’s” to provide a radical spur to his centre-right government. This scenario was foreseen by a superior political mind.
In 1982 Tony Benn, who would surely have been expelled from Starmer’s Labour, said “If the Labour party could be persuaded to denounce all its marxists, the media.. would demand that it expelled all its socialists….” and “Labour reunited with the SDP to form a harmless alternative to the Conservatives, which could be allowed to take office now and then when the Conservatives fell out of favour with the public. Thus British capitalism would be made safe forever and socialism squeezed off the national agenda. But if such a strategy were to succeed it would in fact profoundly endanger British society, for it would open up the danger of a swing to the far-right…”.
It will do so because Centrism has no remedy for the depredation of neoliberalism and will, inevitably, fail. An enraged, largely ignorant electorate will seek salvation elsewhere. As in Europe, Centrist extremists, who believe in nothing beyond obtaining power, will have opened the door to the extreme Right.
For now Starmer may become PM. His successor will likely be Farage.
Yours sincerely,
Dr John O’Dowd
Do you know why Elon Musk is called “Elon”?
It’s because his far-right father Errol, who was the son of raving German Nazis who went to white-supremacist South Africa because they admired the white supremacy, read a novel by Nazi-turned-USA rocket scientist Werner von Braun about a mission to Mars and a Martian government run by “the Elon”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale
Acc. to the BBC , the England cricket team is being asked not to play Afghanistan in Lahore sometime soon, in protest at ‘ the Taliban’s assault on women’s rights. ‘ Well, Syria doesn’t play cricket, so no sports stage to show off their moral righteousness upon.
In New Orleans one of the friends of the deceased is named Kimberly Usher Falls while one of the alleged victims is a Terrence Kennedy [ 63 ] whose wife is named Jacqueline.
“The entire purpose of chopping off the head of Charles I was to show that the executive cannot arbitrarily break the law of the land, and that seemed to make the point pretty clearly”.
I humbly submit that this is retrospective theoretical justification. In practice, the decision to execute King Charles I was taken because the Army and the Parliament had committed themselves to his defeat and overthrow, and because of the extreme bitterness caused by the Civil War which they all blamed on Charles. Although it seems odd for a monarch to be condemned for using force to maintain his authority, as the monopoly of violence has been deemed the definition of government. Moreover, many who urged the king’s execution were no doubt motivated by fear of what might happen to them if he were allowed to live – even if initially in exile.
I very much doubt whether the decision to kill Charles would have been taken if opinion had been less narrowly divided.
“Although it seems odd for a monarch to be condemned for using force to maintain his authority, as the monopoly of violence has been deemed the definition of government.”
Perhaps the civil war wasn’t a debate at a university about the definition of terms. You may need to get out more.
Charles I was not a constitutional monarch and believed in the Divine Right of Kings, ie that there was no higher authority than him other than God. The only limit to his power was having to ask Parliament for money so I’m unclear as to what laws he actually broke.
Agreed, the idea that Livelsberger shot himself before the explosion is hard to credit and you have to wonder what the actual evidence is for that. Did they find a bullet with some brain on it 100 metres away, covered by shrapnel that clearly arrived a bit later?
As for this
“As some kind of counterweight to the Western support of Al Qaeda/Al Nusra/HTS in Syria, which the public was entitled to find somewhat confusing, we have the narrative of the “ISIS-inspired” terrorism attack in New Orleans, just to reassure that Muslims are still the official enemy.”
That’s a USA-focused bit of it. In Britain there’s the continuing front-page narrative about Rotherham and other towns.
People should note that
1) Most of the abused girls were in “care” homes.
2) Many children’s “care” homes are privately owned.
3) Two particular companies owned by mysterious “private equity” own a large number. of “care” homes. They’re called Nutrius UK Topco and Compass Community.
4) What was happening boils down to “responsible” officials at “care” homes letting young girls go off in taxis in the evening with strange men – i.e. it seems to me the girls were being pimped out. (What would anyone call it if the girls were living with their parents rather than in “care” homes? Incidentally it’s very interesting that none of the actual victims is being allowed much of a voice.)
5) The state and the far right are saying practically eff-all about the above, but instead they are blaming British Pakistani men in general and saying that “woke” has gone too far, and that the abuse was allowed to continue solely because everyone was afraid of being called “racist” – that’s the “Rotherham issue” as they are selling it.
6) Meanwhile the Online Safety Act goes on and on about child sexual exploitation (to use the in-vogue jargon), whereas, need I really say more, it’s actually patently obviously about something else – but few commentators have the guts to say the state is talking sh*t when the state says the issue is child protection. (This is in the country which still has a) private boarding “schools” and b) very large numbers of forced adoptions, including at birth from women declared unfit to breed, FFS!)
7) The OSA gives a major role to Ofcom. People might like to look at the top people in Ofcom and their background. (I won’t comment further.) Then you might like to wonder how their background compares with whoever has put up their “equity” in contracts with the state in respect of children’s “care” homes – many of the child inmates at which were subjected to horrible abuse, and which is currently being blamed on Muslims practically wall to wall by the media and political class. Cui bono?
I am pretty much convinced that the US is intent on not only ‘ Failed States ‘ Regime change in the ‘ failed’ countries but is now
(non violently – as in not bombing yet) in the process of less violent Regime Change in the Western World.
This Musk and Trump’s angle and there are many non Trumpites who don’t mind that either as long as the financial reward swings their way.
Trump Junior is ‘invading’ ( sorry -visiting Greenland today) and I don’t think he is going to give Father Christmas his presents list for the 25th of December 2025.
So, for all the laughter in the Liberal’s minds this is a semi – serious proposition.
You can’t blame Trump and his supporters because if you can blow up a German gas Pipeline without a moan, then you can theoretically get away with anything.
Trudeau has been a victim of a US led ‘ Color ‘ Revolution ( non violent Regime Change) and Georgai/Romania and a cast of hundreds are being lined up – including the UK.
The US is suffering from ‘ Invincibility Syndrome ‘ as are the Israelis but there is only so much stretching you can do before you end up pulling muscles and incapacitating yourself.
2025 is going to be a year over Over Doing It for the US and the BRICS will continue to progress using a different Fitness Centre and different economic and political exercises.
Only Nuclear War can stop that continuing.
“if you can blow up a German gas Pipeline without a moan, then you can theoretically get away with anything”
They had already learned that from the reaction of respectable elites to the Iraq and Libya crimes.
Bush and Cheney, Blair and Campbell, Obama, Hillary Clinton and David Cameron: all are treated not as war criminals but as the consciences of western civilisation.
That is how Antony Blinken is already being portrayed after his valedictory interview as Secretary of State. The bigger the crime the greater the adoration and reverence in western establishment circles.
Hear, hear! The End is nigh.
It’s actually been 2 weeks since we last spoke of nuclear war. Some holiday season truce probably.
Meanwhile, before we get fresh and unbiased information on Syria from Craig, the political scene in Europe is becoming Elon’s favorite playground.
He reportedly pledged 100 million dollars to a campaign led by Nigel Farage, should there be another election in the near future. He’s making friends with Marine LePen, who is invited to the inauguration, and is a presidential hopeful in France, should Macron give up and resign. Same prospects in Germany. And he already has a special relationship with Giorgia Meloni of Italy.
What Steve Bannon failed to achieve under Trump I, Elon may accomplish under Trump II.
Calendar reminder:
* 20 January – Trump reaccession, USA (violence expected within several days, maximum)
* 23 February – national election, Germany (watch out for prior “events” helping the far-right vote)
* Jan-Feb – continuing destabilisation of low-voteshare, unpopular but large-majority government in Britain under Genocide Starmer, with MSM pushing the line of “Protect white girls from brown-skinned Muslim men, and don’t let woke softies stop us from saying so”, together with “that nice Elon Musk has posted tweets calling for a general election on this very issue”. (From Enoch’s “much blood” speech to Elon’s “civil war is inevitable” tweet? The white-supremacist “Keep Britain White” message is identical, except that Enoch was saying reverse immigration to stop race war from happening, whereas Elon is saying bring race war on.)
* the coming months – just wait until the next PM falls in France and see what happens with the constitutional ban on a parliamentary election happening before the summer.
Trump states he would like to buy Greenland, now a self governing region of Denmark [population 57,000] “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Some wag said he should buy France also and move some of the population to Greenland, but keep some French people, for the ambience. MGGA
Donald Trump is refusing to rule out using American military force to retake control of the Panama Canal and seize Greenland, citing economic security as a driving factor.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/trump-panama-canal-greenland
The US have abandoned International law, the US led Rules based order would probably deem those acquisitions lawful.
Craig’s frustration at the hypocrisy and double standards of western governments and fellow travelers the MSM was perfectly illustrated by the US political class insisting [even in the face of all the evidence from the last 4 years of Biden’s presidency] that Biden was not mentally impaired]
“And yet every time we pointed out Biden’s clear cognitive impairment, we were accused of promoting conspiracy theories, engaging in elder abuse, or supporting Trump.
The emperor, so we were told, was fully clothed.
The truth about Biden hasn’t suddenly leaked out from his officials. Senior politicians on both sides of the aisle knew. White House correspondents knew. Editors knew. And they all lied to protect the system of power to which they belong, the system that keeps them gainfully employed, the system that maintains their status. No one was going to rock the boat.
But more significant than the media deceptions are the fact that much of the public fell for them, not once but over and over again: day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.
Why? Because far too many of us are in the grip of the West’s propaganda system.
Only the mass of people can change this state of affairs unfortunately as H L Mencken explained many years ago………
“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron.” H L Mencken. You could say, mission accomplished with Biden.
Worse still is that most NATO countries, indeed most of western Europe could be said to be led by Biden and if not outright vassals, then subservient to Biden’s leadership of NATO, in my opinion NATO is the cutting edge of US hegemony, which will begin to fail when Ukraine is forced to accept the terms of defeat as set out by Russia.
Biden may be the best example of all. Universally hailed by corporate media pundits last summer as a good man when he was removed as the candidate.
I don’t follow the US media that closely. Surely Fox News didn’t hail Biden when he was removed? I can imagine the NYT did.
Do you reckon the US presidential election was a case of the entire MSM saying do something and the population flocking to the polling stations to do something else – an election day equivalent of rebellion?
Brian – “the entire” MSM was not supporting the Democrats, Fox has by far the largest audience, and 100% subservience to the Repug party has been their operating principle since it started.
The rest, newspapers etc., were largely either on the fence or supporting Repugs, as usual.
Sorry I omitted to acknowledge some of the quotes I used were from an article by Jonathan Cook, here…..
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2024-12-30/democracy-sham-biden-answer/
@Harry – Agreed on the importance of NATO to US hegemony. What do you make of NATO in Jordan?
In my opinion this is on a par with the US intervention [regime change] in Ukraine [2014] the US must have their finger in every pie [state] in the world, especially states in the middle east. The middle east is a Pandora’s box, ready to explode.
“The timing of NATO’s decision to establish a liaison office in Jordan earlier this month is far from coincidental, given the extraordinary turbulence rolling through West Asia.
This move aligns with the western military organization’s recent aggressive interventions in Libya and Ukraine, alongside ongoing involvement in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Sudan, and the former Yugoslavia.
NATO’s actions illustrate a consistent pattern of interventionist policies by its member states, often flouting international law and exacerbating regional instability”. https://thecradle.co/articles/jordans-quagmire-nato-sets-up-shop-in-amman
As Pointed out by Anthony in the first comment, no rape allegations have been filed, similarly Joe Biden said he had seen photographs of beheaded babies, others claimed 40 had been decapitated, and other babies had been roasted in an oven. In my opinion Politicians and MSM lackeys should be prosecuted under ‘Hate crime legislation. Hate speech with the intention to incite violence. The following essay is a must read for all those who approve of Craig Murray’s excellent post above:
“Israeli spokespeople have described ‘Palestinian babies as little snakes who will grow up to be terrorists’. The level of hatred toward a people, considered to be subhuman, is evidenced in so many ways.
Yet…. It is the journalists, writers and those who have the boldness to address this misinformation and report the details of atrocities, who are now defined as promoting hate speech, as racist, antisemitic and even more alarming, ‘terrorist’. The upside down logic is not only irrational, it grates harshly against what is fair and what is true. If we are not all outraged by this injustice then maybe the toxic lies have taken deep root beyond a level where truth can penetrate.
As a prelude to justifying genocide, false allegations of rape, and the story of forty decapitated babies burnt in ovens, was widely publicized to arouse anger and hatred. These claims, later confirmed to be false, continue to be repeated over and over again – repeated, not only in Israel but in the US and Western countries as well. In any rational sense these deliberately constructed false claims should be regarded as ‘hate speech’ with intent to incite violence. However, there is nothing rational or just in this present political climate of lies, government overreach and fear”.
https://countercurrents.org/2024/10/controlling-the-narrative-to-hide-western-government-complicity-in-the-the-israeli-crime-of-genocide/
Harry Law.
The minute Biden found out that the ICC was issuing a warrant for the arrest of Netanyahu and Gallant – he, was under an obligation to stop aiding Israel in every way, he didn’t stop, nor has Starmer or Scholz, and a few others, of which their MUST be consequences if laws are to be obeyed.
Many European countries – have signed and ratified the Rome Statute and are obliged to comply with ICC laws, including Germany – which has also ratified it, but it continues to aid and abet the Zionists in Genocide.
“According to Article 1 of the Genocide Convention, the Contracting Parties, including the United States and Israel, must prevent and punish acts of genocide. Under Article III, those punishable acts include “Complicity in genocide,” such as by knowingly providing the deadly weapons used to carry it out. In 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in a case involving Bosnia and Serbia, established that the obligation to refrain from providing weapons or other assistance begins the moment a state becomes aware of the existence of a serious risk that genocide may be committed.
“For the Biden administration, that moment came in January, when the ICJ found that there was a “plausible” risk of genocide being committed in Gaza against the Palestinian people by Israel. Shortly after, in February, the Dutch Appeals Court halted the transfer of F-35 munition parts to Israel on account of the serious risk of International Humanitarian Law violations. Further notice came in May with the applications for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others by the chief prosecutor of the ICC, Kharim Khan. Among the charges against Netanyahu related to Gaza were crimes against humanity, including extermination, murder, starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, intentional attacks against a civilian population, and “other inhumane acts.” It was the first potential ICC arrest warrant issued for the leader of a Western-style democracy. Nevertheless, European countries including France and Germany issued statements affirming their support for the legitimacy of the ICC.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/biden-complicity-genocide/
These western Politicians and MSM lies are deliberate they are manufacturing consent from western populations so that Israel have the excuse of mass murder i.e. self defence
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. It argues that the mass communication media of the U.S. “are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion” For instance…
Andrew Marr [BBC] to Chomsky… “How can you know that I’m self-censoring? How can you know that journalists are… ?”
Chomsky: “I’m not saying your self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believe something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”
Harry Law.
I think what’s happening – is now way beyond manufacturing consent – certain governments are just doing what they want regardless of what their citizens think – including the UK, it would appear that the likes of the UK Germany and the USA will continue to aid the genocide in any way that helps the Zionists – its as if certain governments don’t actually care what their citizens think anymore – we’ve moved into uncharted territory – take Europe for example many European countries have and continue to actively damage their economies, to please the USA’s interests – people are fed up with this and are beginning to look towards the right in politics which is just as bad – I’ve come to the conclusion that along with the UK and the USA – political parties in certain countries in Europe, whether they be left, central or right, that they are all supping with the same spoon from the same cauldron – and once elected continue with the same tired old policies, that benefit the same countries – but not the countries citizens, unless of course – they are the very rich, which always benefit no matter which party/parties are in government.
I’d also that doing a Romania – might catch on – where a candidate for leader who is winning in the polls – finds the rug pulled from under their feet – as the incumbents and the judiciary, annul the elections because their chosen compliant candidate isn’t winning.
I think it is interesting just how readily the media accepted the idea that the Post Office scandal was caused by faulty software.
The possibility that it was done deliberately has not been considered at all.
If the problem was caused by faulty software, would we not expect errors to occur in the opposite direction?
I am certainly not aware of any examples of post offices having unexplained surpluses.
Yes – “scandals” may “come to light”, but they are still kept under extremely tight control.
The same applies to “Rotherham”, which nobody refers to as principally to do with care homes, or is prompted by to ask who owns care homes. My guess is that customers for the abused children included just as many white men as non-white men, and that the same thing went on in “homes” located in areas with low to vanishingly small Muslim populations. But that isn’t the narrative – and what is the narrative must be kept to. The narrative is basically “Enoch was right” and “The boot must go on the other foot now”, albeit said using middle-class managerialist terminology. Similarly, the British state talks about child protection all the time but looks the other way when boarding schools are concerned, except about 40 years later when an Archbishop of Canterbury criticises Israel and then they can talk about one particular dead barrister, making sure they don’t talk much about Winchester College, which still operates. As do care homes. As does the policy of forced adoptions and “unfit to breed”, utterly egregious by international standards.
I agree the UK has a two-tier justice system – UK diplomats have been cavorting with the proscribed Terrorist group HTS, which is committing atrocities across Syria, and what a place Syria will become, with Ukrainian and Jihadist terrorists all backed by the West, using the country as a staging post to commit war crimes across the globe – whilst in the UK those that are protesting the UK’s aiding and abetting in genocide in demo’s predominately in support for the utterly oppressed Palestinians are kettled and harassed by the police, and on some occasion physically manhandled, or arrested and given over the top sentences.
I think you are correct – on why you haven’t been frog marched from the airport by the police – though I’m still surprised that they didn’t arrest you – and detain you just to cause you some discomfort and distress, before letting you go.
On the miraculously surviving passport – the same thing happened in 9/11 – and the so called perps, just happened to leave their passports for all to see in the Charlie Hebdo event as well.
Western bodies are corrupt or captured – and why isn’t Israel banned from participating in all international events – and, why haven’t most countries placed widespread and deep sanctions on Israel – the sheer fact that this has not happened is a sign that (A) Not enough folk care about the Palestinians or they feel helpless – to do anything meaningful (B) The Israeli’s have a grip on many countries governments that appears to be unshakeable, especially with the USA, UK, Germany etc in mind (C) To many countries fear US sanctions – if they speak out against the Zionist regime that’s committing genocide.
I’ll never look at Europe again and think of high standards, or humanitarianism, after it has not only failed to stop this genocide – but in some cases actively funded and aided those committing the genocide – nor do I have the respect, I once had for the UN or its multiple bodies, that are supposed to help humanity – the same applies to the now utterly corrupt EU.
Also, every day we are gaslight by the (CCM) Corporate Controlled Media – which tries its hardest to spoonfeed us with lies – not just on Gaza and Ukraine but on other matters as well.
The humanity is heading for a dark, dark place.
I doubt any other regime in the world has murdered a tenth as many UN staff as the Zionists have in the past 15 months. And the UN itself has never problematised Zionist participation in its functions, not at any time since 1948.
The UN must surely to a certain extent be experiencing somewhat of a morale problem among surviving less well-paid staff?
Brian Red.
How did not just Israeli’s, but the Zionists – get such a firm grip on so many countries politicians? It would appear that they have been working behind the scene in many nations parliaments – bribing and blackmailing towards Israel’s/Zionists agenda – which appears to be a among other things, a Greater Israel – more disturbingly many, many politicians across Europe and the USA and the UK don’t seem ashamed of themselves for backing the Zionists and their genocide – infact some appear to revel in it.
Did the Zionists, piggybank in on the USA’s clout around the globe – we know the power they have in the USA, but how did they gain such appreciation across the world – knowing what they’ve been doing to the Palestinian people for over 70 years – we really are in uncharted territory, when politicians can come out and say that they’ll back Israel no matter what, such as what Germany’s Annalena Baerbock said.
There’s dark times ahead.
Republicofscotland
“why isn’t Israel banned from participating in all international events – and, why haven’t most countries placed widespread and deep sanctions on Israel” Good question, but here is a good start…..
Norway are boycotting the upcoming match against Israel. Considering the ongoing atrocity against countless Palestinians, the Norwegian FA has declared that it would not play the Israeli national team in the 2026 World Cup qualifying round for Europe.
Norwegian FA reveal they won’t play against Isareal in 2026 FIFA …
khelnow.com/football/world-football-norwegian-fa-reveal-they-wont-play-against-isareal-202412
https://khelnow.com/football/world-football-norwegian-fa-reveal-they-wont-play-against-isareal-202412
Now the pressure from the usual suspects will be relentless, hope they are committed.
There is some pushback against the genocidal monsters …
“Yuval Vagdani was on vacation in Brazil with his family when reports emerged over the weekend naming him as a suspect who helped level “a residential building in the Gaza Strip while using explosives outside of combat,” the Brazilian Metrópoles.
“Cases against IDF soldiers have been filed in Brazil, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Belgium, the Netherlands, Serbia, Ireland, and Cyprus ” From Firstpost.
Maybe putting your complicity in genocide on social media wasn’t such a good idea.
Harry Law.
Yes Harry, I did read something about that, but it’s way, way too little by too few nations, it’s genocide we’re talking about, if it were Russia, or Iran or China that was openly committing genocide – the West and the UN would spring into action – and plans would be made deep and widespread sanctions would be implemented – the offending nation would be ostracised from every international event – from the World Cup, to the Eurovision Song Contest, assets would be seized and the Western media and it social media platforms – would be calling for intervention, whilst demonising the offending nations citizens and government – oh wait that’s already happening to Russia – for stopping a Neo-Nazi genocide in the Donbas.
The hypocrisy of the West, is now beyond staggering – but then again, those nations politicians aiding and abetting the Zionists and Neo-Nazi’s in Ukraine, really don’t care what their citizens think of them – I’m pretty sure that Starmer doesn’t lose any sleep over the Zionists blowing up hospitals – and murdering women and children – of whom the IOF then class as terrorists.
I wonder if its possible to bring a private prosecution against John Sawers, Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart under the Terrorism Act on account of their support for HTS.
It is most unlikely under the Terrorism Act since all prosecutions must have the approval of the DPP.
However people must be careful of not falling foul of other legislation, for instance the Public Order Act section 5, which deals with speech which makes it an offence to use “threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to others. Some recent arrests of Jewish protestors have been charged by UK Police with this rather catch all offence.
There is precedent for proscribed British terrorist organisations being delisted.
One recent example is the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an anti-Gaddafi group formed in 1990 by Libyan veterans of the fight against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
The British government listed the LIFG as a proscribed terrorist organisation in 2005, describing it as seeking to establish a “hard-line Islamic state” and “part of the wider Islamist extremist movement inspired by al-Qaeda”. The LIFG denied it was linked to al-Qaeda.
But in November 2019, the LIFG was delisted from the government’s list of proscribed terror organisations – even after it emerged that Salman Abedi, the Manchester Arena bomber who killed 22 people in May 2017, was influenced in part by LIFG members.
Johnny Conspirranoid.
I’d imagine Rory Stewart a one time governor general of a region of Iraq – after the illegal invasion of the country, won’t find himself in any dock – the Mi6 man even wrote a book about his time as the governor general of the region – called The Prince of the Marshes.
Think hard before venturing into Syria. It has become a Mad Max hellscape ruled by ISIS.
iain
Agreed, Syria will now become a training ground/ meeting point for all the world’s worst killers – the citizens of Syria – will also now become turkey’s in a turkey shoot – as all manner of terrorists hone their evil skills on the country’s people, preparing themselves for when their Western/Turkish/Israeli pay masters call upon them – to cause murder and mayhem across the globe – in effect, Syria will become a failed state, drained of assets and used as a staging post for all manner of wickedness.
After reading the recent Chris Hedges report..I’m thinking this BBC scandal is only the Tip of the Iceberg –
” Berg does not dispute that he was, in fact, a C.I.A. man. In fact, according to a 2020 interview with The Jewish Telegraph, he was “absolutely thrilled” to be secretly working for the agency. Berg said, “One day, I was taken to one side and told, ‘you may or may not know that we are part of C.I.A., but don’t go telling people.’
More at Consortiumn News –
BBC Middle East Editor Collaborated With CIA, Mossad
January 7, 2025
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/07/bbc-middle-east-editor-collaborated-with-cia-mossad/?
The Scale of involvement in the Genocide By ALL big tech – Apple, Google , Meta. Amazon, Instagram, Whats App. Twitter X – it’s Staggering- and Will immigrants sent Rwanda be Moved orver to The Congo ..As Slaves for Big tech ?
” Whether it’s Microsoft for building the chips for their servers, right? They all use minerals that are mined directly from Congo. And there are artisanal scale mines where cobalt and other minerals are found and they’re mined by civilians, children, women trying to feed their families because they get a paycheck for being able to bring these minerals and sell these minerals off…
” But what’s happening is the mines are dangerous. They collapse in on themselves, and these corporations use third parties to extract these minerals, that’s then sold to them, and they don’t want any business in the actual mining, the problems on the mine. So they use third party sources to come in and check and go “are your minerals conflict free?” Which they aren’t. There are armed groups.
So basically, the way that it works is these minerals are mined in Congo. Many of the minerals are then sold to Rwanda by these armed groups. And Rwanda sells it and says, Oh, hey, look, you. We got those minerals ourselves. We don’t have any child labor or any human rights violations happening in our mines, and that’s how they’re able to get away with that.
The Chris Hedges Report
January 2, 2025
This interview Is very much worth a Watch / Rread – Transcript and The video at 49 mins –
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/02/chris-hedges-report-big-techs-complicity-in-genocide/
“Intel operates four development and production sites in Israel, including its manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat called Fab 28. The factory produces Intel 7 technology, or 10-nanometer chips.
Intel employs nearly 12,000 people in Israel.” Reuters.
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the
lightspooks gets in” apologies to Leonard CohenUnit 8200 is everywhere, MSM, all social media companies, all hi-tech companies. They control the news, they control the devices we use to access the news.
But that’s okay because of the holocaust, don’t you know. Poor victims …
Stevie Boy.
Not forgetting VPN companies – which are infested with them.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/exposed-how-israeli-spies-control-your-vpn/288259/
🙂
“My wife asked me why I was whispering in the house. I said I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg was listening. She laughed. I laughed. Alexa laughed. Siri laughed.”
*popular joke
Thank you for another thought provoking article. I always appreciate these as they give the truth behind the news I see and read..
BAP – is another group that has a firm hold on Labour.
https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/the-secretive-us-embassy-backed-group-cultivating-the-british-left/
This caused me to do a bit of digging. It reminded me of the 2010 film starring Martin Sheen (as Tony Blair) and Dennis Quaid (as Bill Clinton) The Special Relationship and the following article shows just how vital the real SR was in the 1982 Falklands war:
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2012/september/reflections-special-relationship
Now, how vital the BAP is for the SR I don’t know, but if it weren’t for the SR I suppose the Falklands might well have been retained by Argentina. Question: would that historically been good or bad, given that Argentina’s fascist dictatorship as well as Soviet Communism might both have lasted longer?
A IOF soldier on holiday in Brazil has fled Brazil for Argentina – after a warrant was issued for his arrest for suspected war crimes in Gaza; fled to Argentina – ring any bells?
I very much hope these war criminals will be hunted down wherever they go. Even in Argentina. Like it happened during the Nuremberg trials.
Just today I was following hyperlinks in Wikispooks articles beginning with Institute for Statecraft and eventually finding this 2015 piece by Jonathan Cook:
“HSBC and the sham of Guardian’s Scott Trust”
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:HSBC_and_the_sham_of_Guardian%E2%80%99s_Scott_Trust
re: Nafeez Ahmed, I found it interesting to see him attacking: “Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett for their reporting from the war in Syria” –
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Nafeez_Mosaddeq_Ahmed
I believe some commentator here had suggested to me a helpful GUARDIAN text by Ahmed on MI6 and ISIS.
(I hope I am not mixing up names here!)
I then wondered where Ahmed had his info from without somehow being part of the club.
I still do now. But that doesn’t mean his work is not helpful.
It’s all seriously deranged and odd, be it special ops or journalists.
re: Nafeez Ahmed, vs. Beeley and Bartlett
In one of the footnoted pdfs on Wikispooks…
http://statecrime.org/data/2018/07/Nafeez-Ahmed-State-Propaganda-in-Syria-ISCI-Report-July-2018.pdf
…there is also a critique of Hersh’s reporting.
If my memory doesn’t fail me: Considering that February 2024 Hersh’s claims of 2017 were officially corroborated (?) with what would that leave us concerning Ahmed?
p.s. an extensive response to Ahmed by Bartlett, 2019:
“Correcting the record: Nafeez Ahmed is clueless in his smears on independent journalists”
https://bsnews.info/correcting-the-record-nafeez-ahmed-is-clueless-in-his-smears-on-independent-journalists/
There are rumours that Sisi of Egypt is heading for overthrow.
Nuclear armed Pakistan is hotting up it’s fracas with Afghanistan.
Jordan may face the same fate as Egypt ( if the rumours are true of course?0
And Turkey is trying to Rule the Roost in Syria.
And – ‘ there’s more!’ ( as Jiminy Crickett used to say).
The already overstretched US and Israel are pulling the elastic band of hubris a
long long way here and something is going to snap.
My money is on Iran firing a few warning shots at Tel Aviv at first – just to re-prove the point
that Netanyahu and his Un – Merry men are very touchable indeed.
If that doesn’t work then the nukes will be developed ( they may already have them – but not in Iran – elsewhere?) and if they haven’t it will become a race for Israel to get the US to most of their dirty work for them to attack Iran before that happens – unless they really do already have them?
But – and there is always a but.
Because it is alleged, that Iran has and will have more in the future Top Drawer Air Defence capabilities then just flying over to Iran in lovely unhindered Bombing Aircraft may be off the table.
This Operation will not be like bombing defenceless Gaza and even Lebanon so it may
come down to the use of ‘ Beautiful Missiles ‘ CCN Presenter’s words – not mine ) being fired from a decent distance from the sea by US ships or from Israel directly.
From the sea, the US is relatively safe but, Israel most certainly is not and if there is comeback then they ( not the US) are IT.
If Trump is stupid enough to assist Israel in this attack then he is consigning Israel and certainly its cities to potential obliteration.
Because like the Nuke Deadman’s handle if Iran is getting a beating it will be left with no option but to let loose all of its armoury on Israel and possibly US bases and the Akrotiri Airbase.
If you have nothing to lose and you have nothing to gain then, losing in revenge is the only option so as that nobody wins.
Unless sense comes into play – of course?
Unfortunately the US has none.
Just like a kid poking a nest of vipers because he can then, he is going to get bitten.
Maybe more than once.
Trump has gone full Elon Musk in talking complete, unhinged shite. Along with the usual Panama, Greenland, Canada invasion threats (more realistically sanctions) he apparently said: ‘ if the Hamas hostages aren’t released by time he takes power in two weeks time “all hell will be unleashed in the ME” ‘. Hard to see how life could be any worse for the Gazans, but I guess we’ll see. Certainly, Iran and the West bank are at severe risk.
1) Pakistan–Afghanistan strifes have been ongoing for decades. The conflict flares up mostly when the Taliban are in power, as they routinely lay claims to parts of Pakistani territory (large parts of Khyber Pakhtukhwa and FATA).
2) Egypt has quite a history of overthrows, so this type of rumours must be daily bread there.
3) Turkey – yes. Greater Turkey or Greater Israel to rule the Middle East in the next 10–15 years? Assuming the UAE won’t jump the bandwagon!
4) Iran has zero aerial defence at the moment and will be very cautious not to follow Syria’s path, i.e. Israeli airforce bombing the territory at whim. Besides, their traditional allies – their leverage in international policy – got significantly weakened. I don’t expect Iran to be too proactive in military posturing for the next few years. I bet they’ll develop nukes, though (if not already having them, although untested so practically useless).
5) Nukes are useless in the grand scheme of things, nevertheless. I mean, they are only of any use if not used. They are psychological warfare. Granted, mad regimes (Israel and North Korea) can use them if feeling impunity…
Interesting times we’re living in anyway.
” Iran has zero aerial defence at the moment
How do you Know this Kacper ?
Will Section 12 Die of Shame?
No, because the current UK lawmakers and law enforcers are shameless and will find ways ands means of strengthening the effective purpose of Section 12, which is to suppress dissent against the country’s shameful support of Israel genocide. With HTS Syria, I suspect UK will sit on the fence until it and its Palestine genocide supporting allies shamelessly find an excuse to dispose of the HTS regime leaving “them” – Israel, USA and shirt tail hangers on with a monopoly of power in the Middle East.
Will Section 12 Die of Shame?
No , because the current UK lawmakers and law enforcers are shameless and will find ways ands means of strengthening the effective purpose of Section 12, which is to suppress dissent against the country’s shameful support of Israel genocide. With HTS Syria, I suspect UK will sit on the fence until it and its Palestine genocide supporting allies shamelessly find an excuse to dispose of the HTS regime leaving “them” – Israel, USA and shirt tail hangers on with a monopoly of power in the Middle East.
Some special historical background on those US Special Forces Mr. Livelsberger was also part of:
Jack Poulson´s interview
with Jack Murphy on the “lost chapters” of U.S. Army Special Forces
“Murphy’s new book, “We Defy,” documents the Green Berets’ Cold War-era tactical nuclear weapons program, their detachments in Berlin and South Korea, and their tasking for direct action.”
84 min.
https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/interview-with-jack-murphy-on-the
intro of the accompanying text by Poulson:
“(…)
Perhaps the most alarming aspect of Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger’s suicide on New Year’s day, where he reportedly shot himself in the front seat of a Tesla Cybertruck parked outside of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas shortly before detonating low-grade explosives in the back seat, was that he was an active-duty member of the U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group — essentially the European arm of the Green Berets.
As forensically documented in Col. Alfred H. Paddock’s 1982 book, “U.S. Army Special Warfare, Its Origins,” the 10th Group was formally established in 1952, two years into the Korean War, as the U.S. Army’s first post-WWII unit for conducting behind-the-lines, guerilla warfare. Its numbering would be one of many similar instances of military deception (or, MILDEC) meant to confuse the Soviet Union into assuming that at least nine other similar groups already existed. Its numbering outlived the Soviet Union and, according to reporting from April of last year, 10th Group was training “hundreds” of Ukrainian special forces members each month.
As the 10th Group established its initial focus as a seed for guerilla warfare in Europe in the event of a Soviet invasion, through German deployments in Bad Tölz and Berlin, a portion was split off in 1953 as a new 77th Special Forces Group (later renumbered to the 7th) to remain headquartered at Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty) in North Carolina for potential deployment in other theaters. Just as 10th Group became the center of gravity for U.S. guerilla warfare in Europe, the 7th ultimately became focused on operations in Latin America, with a particular focus on counter-narcotics in collaboration with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
(…)”
Talking of shame, or lack of it.
“After reviewing the horrifying information of suffering inside Sudan, I have concluded that members of the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias have committed genocide in Sudan. The United States is committed to pursuing accountability for these atrocities.”
Secretary Antony Blinken,
7 January 2025.