What this potentially amounts to is the end of pluralism in the Levant and its replacement by supremacism: An ethno-supremacist Greater Israel and a religio-supremacist Salafist Greater Syria.
The Assad family regime, sustained by force, was destined to collapse and the infighting between the various armed militias now may produce a situation not unlike Afghanistan.
Speaking from Beirut in this video on Sunday, the former British diplomat explains the fall of Damascus within the context of the project for Greater Israel.
Live from the National Press Club in Washington three panels, moderated by Scott Ritter and Medea Benjamin, examined the danger of nuclear conflict and ways to resist it. Watch the replay.
With several Mideast wars threatening to ignite the whole region; Ukraine in its most dangerous phase yet, and Consortium News fighting its own battles to continue, CN urges your support at this turbulent time.
The bombs that have killed more than 3,500 Lebanese, the majority of them women and children, were made in the U.S. and supplied for that purpose, along with the aircraft that dropped them.
The media constantly deploy an anti-Semitic trope of crucial use to the Western power elite — that on Gaza, it is Israel pulling the strings in Washington, writes Jonathan Cook.
Trump literally standing before an Israeli flag and vowing to kill free speech for Israeli interests makes a lie of everything the “MAGA movement” says it stands for, exposing it for the scam it’s always been.