UK Labour’s Defence Review Doomed to Fail
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/25/uk-labours-defence-review-doomed-to-fail/
Keir Starmer’s defence plan avoids two fundamental issues, writes Paul Rogers: Britain’s actual recent experience of wars and the real game-changer, global climate breakdown. By Paul Rogers OpenDemocracy Labour’s new Strategic Defence Review was finally announced early this month after…
#Politics #Afghanistan #ClimateChange #Commentary #Gaza #Iraq #Israel #AlQaeda #BlattenGlacier #CampaignForNuclearDisarmament #CostsOfWarProject #DavidEdgerton #Isis #PaulRogers #RethinkingSecurity #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer

24 years later, your President shook hands with the man who pledged allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri, founded al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch,

https://x.com/KevorkAlmassian/status/1937787272822485231

#september11 #alqaeda #jolani
#trump
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten
#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon
#palestina #StopAIPAC #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #StopGenocide #DismantleZionism

Chris Hedges: War Deja Vu
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/24/chris-hedges-war-deja-vu/
We heard these canards leading up to the 2003 war in Iraq. Twenty-two years later they have been resurrected. Anyone who advocates for negotiations, for diplomacy and peace, is a stooge for terrorists. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are few…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Commentary #History #Intelligence #Iran #Iraq #Israel #MiddleEast #NuclearWeapons #Wmd #AlQaeda #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute #AtlanticCouncil #AyatollahRuhollahKhomeini #BrookingsInstitution #CentralIntelligenceAgency(c.i.a.)) #ChrisHedges #DavidFrum #DonaldTrump #Gen.JackKeane #GeorgeW.Bush #Isis #JohnBolton #JointComprehensivePlanOfAction(jcpoa) #Mr.Fish #NewtGingrich #NuclearNonProliferationTreaty(npt) #ProjectForANewAmericanCentury #SaddamHussein #Savak #SeanHannity #ShahMohammadRezaPahlavi #StephenKinzer #ThomasFriedman

Me quede muy impactado de 2 noticias sobre #Siria

1) que la nueva #dictadura esta "eliminando" de manera agresiva a la disidencia, que incluye a todas las #familias que no comulgan con su ala criminal de la #religión #musulman\a, léase de las mas radicales e intolerantes, tipo #AlQaeda. Entre las victimas se encuentran cristianos, musulmanes moderados, etc.

2) que el nuevo #regimen dejo hacer, alentó y permitió a #Israel a hacer sus bombardeos en el sur de Siría... para que los asesinatos en masa fueran mas rápidos y pasaran desapercibido para la Opinión Internacional ( = la #OTAN+ )

Así el nuevo régimen esta llevando a cabo una serie de rondas de negociaciones con el régimen israelita y convertirse así en otro satélite subordinado a las ordenes de Tel4vid

ICE arrests Russian national accused of being member of Al Qaeda: https://newscats.org/ice-arrests-russian-national-accused-of-being-member-of-al-qaeda

#ICE, #AlQaeda, #RussianNational, #Philadelphia

#Turkey's defense minister says Ankara is training and advising #Syria's armed forces and helping to improve its defenses, and has no immediate plans to withdraw or relocate its troops stationed there.

Everyone loves #AlQaeda these days.

They are not even hiding it any more.

A new case of using water systems as a weapon of war: Reports say #flooding that drove #AfricanUnion's #AUSSOM forces from base in #Somalia this week was deliberately engineered by #AlQaeda-affiliated #AlShabaab rebels for that purpose

https://garoweonline.com/en/news/somalia/al-shabaab-dislodge-burundian-troops-from-strategic-town-in-somalia

#waterconflict #hydrology #geography #geopolitics #EastAfrica #security #warfare #AU @geography @geopolitics #war

US gives green light to HTS-led Syrian Transitional Government to bring foreign jihadist ex-rebels into the new Syrian army, Reuters reports

- The US has given its blessing to a plan by Syria's new leadership to incorporate 1000s of foreign jihadist former rebel fighters into the national army, provided that it does so transparently, Donald #Trump's envoy said.

- 3 Syrian defence officials said that under the plan, some 3,500 foreign fighters, mainly #Uyghurs from #China & neighbouring countries, would join a newly-formed unit, the 84th Syrian army division.

- Thomas Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to #Turkey who was named Trump's special envoy to #Syria last month, said: "I would say there is an understanding, with transparency."

He said it was better to keep the fighters, many of whom are "very loyal" to Syria's new administration, within a state project than to exclude them.

🇸🇾 The fate of foreigners who joined Syria's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels during the 13-year war between rebel groups & Assad has been 1 of the most fraught issues hindering a rapprochement with the West since #HTS, an offshoot of #AlQaeda, toppled Assad and took power last year.

🇨🇳 The Uyghur fighters are members of the Turkistan Islamic Party, a group designated as terrorists by China.

https://archive.is/rjMTg

#Politics #USpol #WestAsia

AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Dangers of Renewed Civil War in Syria
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/02/asad-abukhalil-dangers-of-renewed-civil-war-in-syria/
With 150 armed groups in Syria, the ruling HTS (Al-Qa`idah) doesn’t control the country, while Israeli bombing intends to expose the weaknesses of the so-called central government in Damascus. By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News The Syrian civil war…
#Politics #Afghanistan #Analysis #Bahrain #Egypt #GulfStates #History #Israel #Lebanon #Libya #MiddleEast #Palestine #SovietUnion #Syria #Tunisia #U.s. #AbdelFattahElSisi #AlQaeda #AsAdAbukhalil #Ay’atTahrirSham(hts) #BaAthParty #BarackObama #BasharAlAsad #BenRhodes #Christians #Druzes #GeorgeW.Bush #HafizAlAsad #HillaryClinton #Ismailis #Jews #OmarSuleiman #OsamaBinLaden #RafikHariri #Shiites #WalidJumblat

@jasper @RealJournalism “The US supported violent Islamic fundamentalists against the USSR.”

Whom we abandoned the moment the #russians pulled out. Would #alQaeda and the #taliban have ever existed had we followed-up the end of the war with a Marshall Plan to rebuild? It couldn’t have been worse.

#trump’s plan, should hostilities cease in #ukraine, is to own it :(

The US does not negotiate with terrorists unless #trump loves #mbs and
#Qatar so he makes a deal with this guy https://www.newsweek.com/who-syrias-ahmed-al-sharaa-possible-new-trump-ally-2071906

Resume includes AlQaeda whose work includes 9/11 and is a designated terrorist.

No comment from #israel

#syria #alqaeda #mbs #trump #israel

BREAKING: #Sanctions on Syria—lifted.
The catch? Their new leader, a former #AlQaeda militant tied to U.S. troop deaths, just offered #Trump a golden carrot: Trump Tower Damascus.

A known #terrorist dangles real estate and suddenly decades of U.S. foreign policy vanish.

Corruption this blatant shouldn’t even be possible.

The Chris Hedges Report: The West as Israel’s Police
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/10/the-chris-hedges-report-the-west-as-israels-police/
Richard Medhurst — his journalism tools now confiscated and under “terrorism” investigation for his reporting on Palestine and Lebanon — discusses his experiences in the U.K. and Austria. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Richard Barnard,…
#Politics #Austria #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Israel #Lebanon #Legal #Palestine #PressFreedom #Syria #AlQaeda #CounterTerrorism #CraigMurray #DavidMiranda #Hamas #InternationalFederationOfJournalists(ifj) #Isis #KitKlarenberg #NationalUnionOfJournalists(nuj) #RichardBarnard #RichardMedhurst #SarahWilkinson #TheChrisHedgesReport #U.k.TerrorismAct #Zionism

#Syria #Alqaeda
#ISIS #US
@palestine

"The Syrian government has appointed Ahmad al-Hayes to the position of division commander of the army in northern Syria, despite his well-known past human rights violations and links to ISIS, a move that US officials criticized on 8 May"
The US even sanctioned Hayes for various human rights violations. But the US also funded ISIS et al, in order to overturn al Assad. You can't have it both ways..
This is the new "liberated" Syria

https://thecradle.co/articles/damascus-appoints-extremist-with-isis-links-as-north-syria-army-leader

…#Israel has lobbied the #US to keep #Syria decentralised & isolated, framing its approach around suspicion of #Sharaa - who once headed a branch of #alQaeda before renouncing ties to the group in 2016.

The #UAE also has concerns about the #Islamist bent of Syria's new leaders, but Sharaa's meeting w/President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan #MbZ last month went very well…helping to assuage some of Abu Dhabi's concerns.

…The backchannel w/Israel was established days later….

#geopolitics