Crooked Bough News Round-up

— The Good Guys

 

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The Good Guys are building concentration camps in Rafah and massacring civilians trying to obtain food. The Good Guys are circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and telling us we’re not allowed to oppose genocide. Yesterday I saw a little girl playing and I thought how nice it is that she has all her limbs and that she is not lying still covered in gray dust while her father screams and cries and calls out to God while trying to kiss her back to life. The world is changed now. The moon is covered with powdered buildings. The pigeons are weeping and the wind sounds like drones. Sometimes I cough and gray dust comes out. Sometimes it’s a child’s shoe. There’s a dead donkey lying in my backyard that nobody wants to talk about. The Australians chat about real estate investments and how you can knock down one house and replace it with two houses and then make believe that neither house smells like corpses. The news man tells us the corporations are just dumping the products directly into the Pacific now while clinging tightly to the edge of the screen so the black hole doesn’t pull him in. Everything’s fine, the news man yells, and the system is working perfectly. We are the Good Guys after all. We are, after all, the Good Guys. Listen to a reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-good-guys The post The Good Guys appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: Poem, WORLD, Israel, Palestine, USA]

— Russia’s Secret Weapon: Watch NATO BANKRUPT Itself! – Israel Suffers MASSIVE Defeat | Scott Ritter

 

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Russia’s Secret Weapon: Watch NATO BANKRUPT Itself! Israel Suffers MASSIVE Defeat | Scott Ritter The post Russia’s Secret Weapon: Watch NATO BANKRUPT Itself! Israel Suffers MASSIVE Defeat | Scott Ritter appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: interview, Multimedia, WORLD, NATO, Russia, Ukraine]

— The US-Pakistani Rapprochement Could Have Far-Reaching Geostrategic Consequences

 

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India’s, Russia’s, and possibly even China’s interests could be adversely affected. It was assessed in January that “The Pakistani Regime Destroyed Their Country & Betrayed Its National Interests For Nothing”, but that appraisal has since drastically changed due to the Trump Administration’s unexpectedly hard line towards India and how deftly Pakistan then played its cards with him. Regarding the first, despite the high-level Indophiles on his team, Trump is trying to subordinate India just like Biden before him through the means and for the reasons that were explained here. In brief, he wants to stall India’s rise as a Great Power so as to decelerate the decline of the US’ unipolar hegemony, to which end he threatened to modify or rescind its sanctions waiver for Chabahar, is playing hardball with it on trade talks, and humiliated India by claiming to have mediated peace with Pakistan. These surprising sequential developments strongly suggest that he envisages reshaping South Asian geopolitics as explained here, which would benefit Pakistan at India’s expense. This last point leads to Pakistan’s role in Trump’s plans. He’ll have to cut a deal with it if he’s serious about returning US forces to Afghanistan’s Bagram Airbase like he earlier declared that he wants to do. His unprecedented meeting with Field Marshal Asim Munir last month, the first time that a US President exclusively hosted the Pakistani military chief, suggests that the US will continue ignoring human rights and democracy issues in Pakistan while working towards an understanding on its alleged ICBM program. These concessions could be in exchange for military and/or economic access to Afghanistan. Other rewards might include preferential critical mineral and crypto deals of the sort that the Financial Times wrote about in their report about how Pakistan is wooing Trump. Moreover, Pakistan is trying to strike an oil deal with the US, which might lead to it abandoning such talks and even other deals with Russia if successful. These carrots are being dangled as the broader region is undergoing significant changes. The North-South Transport Corridor (NSTC) isn’t as viable as before due to joint Israeli-US bombings greatly weakening Iran and newfound Russian-Azerbaijani tensions jeopardizing this route’s planned Western Caspian rail branch. Not only could this harm Russia and India’s bilateral trade plans, which could make it easier to divide and thus subordinate them, but it could also make the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan (PAKAFUZ) railway project Russia’s only overland corridor to the Indian Ocean. The restoration of US influence over Pakistan could thus lead to the latter controlling Russia’s access to there via PAKAFUZ on the former’s behalf if the NSTC becomes totally unviable. Additionally, if Afghan-Pakistani ties improve, then joint US-Pakistani influence could surge into Central Asia via that country to complement the expansion of Turkish influence there via Azerbaijan to maximally contain Russia on its southern front. Pakistan would prospectively supplant India as the US’ top regional partner in that event. This could lead to the US once again leveraging “Major Non-NATO Ally” Pakistan as a means for coercing India into concessions or containing it if Delhi doesn’t concede. If Trump’s self-declared “total reset” with China works out, then those three could coordinate the aforesaid pressure campaign, while Pakistan might be coerced by the US into distancing itself from China if it fails. In any case, the US-Pakistani rapprochement could have far-reaching geostrategic consequences, hence the need to monitor it. https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-us-pakistani-rapprochement-could The post The US-Pakistani Rapprochement Could Have Far-Reaching Geostrategic Consequences appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: WORLD, Pakistan, USA]

— Don’t Take Instruction On How To Live Your Life From A Stark Raving Mad Society

 

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Don’t take instruction on how to live your life from a stark raving mad society. This civilization is sick. It is genocidal. It is ecocidal. It is omnicidal. We are ruled by psychopaths, while the best among us are relegated to the fringes of the fringe. We are hurtling into totalitarianism and armageddon at breakneck pace while our attention is aggressively pulled toward the vapid and the inane. You should share none of the values and priorities of this freak show. You should not let any aspect of this dystopia inform your decisions regarding who you should be and what kind of life you should live. In this warped and twisted madhouse, we are trained to believe that “success” looks like making a lot of money, earning large amounts of esteem and adoration, having a certain body type, living in the right kind of neighborhood in the right kind of house full of the right kind of products to impress the right kind of people. We are trained to believe we need to rack up all kinds of accomplishments, academic achievements, promotions, impressive stories, social ascendence. We are trained to believe we must attract a certain type of partner who will be approved of by everyone whose approval we crave. If we cannot achieve these goals, we are trained to believe we should feel bad about ourselves. That we don’t deserve happiness. That we should either spend our time stressing and striving for worthiness as defined by our crazy civilization, or go and join the ocean of miserable failures who couldn’t win the capitalism game and sedate ourselves with alcohol and entertainment waiting for death to carry us into the nothingness where we belong. This is clearly insane. It’s a stupid game with stupid prizes. The only reason anyone takes it seriously is because we were raised and taught how to live by other people who take it seriously. Our parents have been indoctrinated into the power-serving worldview that has been forcibly imposed upon the denizens of the empire, and we want to make them proud. Our friends, families and acquaintances have been likewise brainwashed, and we want to impress them. But to do so is to take lessons on how to live from a collective disease that is pointed at misery and dysfunction. It is impossible to lead a truly fulfilling life while also trying to live the way the people around us think we should live, because the society which shaped their ideas about how we should live is insane. If you want to really live an awake and inspired life, you’ve got to blaze your own trail. You’ve got to unlearn everything you’ve been told about what a life properly lived would look like, and write your own rules. Because the rules everyone else has been playing by were written by madmen. Find your own truth. Set your own values and priorities. Define your own idea of success. Define your own idea of sanity. Consider the possibility that just being present for the beauty of each moment on this wonderful planet is worth more than anything the imperial insane asylum has to offer you. Consider the possibility that your very next breath, deeply relished, would be enough. We are destroying our planet and driving every living organism toward annihilation. The status quo has failed as spectacularly as anything could possibly fail. The old ways of doing things plainly do not work. So try some new ways. Be different. Be strange. Be a freak. Do everything the wrong way. Disappoint your parents. Fail to live up to your potential. Transgress your family doctrine. Anger whatever gods you were taught to believe in. Nothing anyone has done has worked. It is therefore necessary to travel off the beaten path. The world won’t get better until humanity changes its ways. Humanity won’t change its ways if it keeps insisting on trying the same failed approaches over and over again. Our survival as a species depends on diverging from our patterns. Maybe we’ll succeed in surviving, and maybe we won’t. But at the very least we can rescue ourselves from spending one more day on this amazing blue world trying to live by the rules of lunatics. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/dont-take-instruction-on-how-to-live The post Dont Take Instruction On How To Live Your Life From A Stark Raving Mad Society appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: SOCIAL/CULTURAL]

— Trump terrified by BRICS strategic threat

 

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You want war? Bring it on. This is it. The ruling classes of the Empire of Chaos, plus the current, clownish Circus Ringmaster have finally realized that BRICS is a serious strategic threat – and existential challenge – to their unilateral domination of the current system of international relations. They didn’t come to this conclusion by carefully scrutinizing the BRICS annual summit in Rio – or last year’s ground-breaking summit in Kazan for that matter: they are lousy at doing basic homework. It’s more like they were awakened from their torpor by feeling in their skins which way the – global – wind is blowing, in terms of all sorts of models being tested to bypass the U.S. dollar and the iron-clad control of the Bretton Woods institutions. The conclusion was inescapable: BRICS have crossed the ultimate red line. No more Mr. Nice Guy talk shop. The 130-plus point Rio declaration, released at the first day of the summit, spells it out, politely but decisively: this is what we are, a systemic alternative; and we’re going to write the rules of the new system our way. Building the Geopolitics of Sovereignty BRICS 2025 in Rio was a stunning surprise. Expectations initially were low – when comparing the meek Brazilian presidency with the extraordinary amount of work put out by Russia in 2024 leading to Kazan. Yet in the end Rio coalesced what Kazan had annonced: the new, rising system will be all about sovereignty, equality, and fairness – with emphasis on continental-wide economic integration; trade in national currencies; an expanded role for new global financial institutions such as the NDB (the BRICS bank); and myriad platforms for sustainable development. A Geopolitics of Sovereignty has to be structurally constructed: the iron and cement for the new system will come from a new interconnection of trade in national currencies, independent payment/settlement systems, and new investment platforms. Geo-economically, BRICS is already on a roll. A quick glance of a map of Eurasia, and Afro-Eurasia, will suffice to convey the existing and emerging interconnection of connectivity, logistics and supply chain corridors. Across BRICS lands, those tie up energy sources, rare earth deposits, and a wealth of agricultural commodities. To quote the Godfather of Soul James Bown, Papa’s got a brand new (BRICS) bag. Hence it’s no wonder that a tawdry incarnation of the White Man’s Burden, the Circus Ringmaster, has unleashed Full War on BRICS and its partners – from threats to tariffs, complete with a previous death certificate (at the time he was even more clueless on what BRICS is all about). The serial Trump Tariff Temper Tantrum (TTT) is of course another manifestation of Divide and Rule, trying to blow up BRICS from the inside. And now we’re up several notches, with a trademark childish letter threatening 50% tariffs on all Made in Brazil products exported to the U.S. – plus extra “sectoral” tariffs. And yet this has nothing to do with trade. Over the past 15 years, the U.S. trade surplus with Brazil is over a hefty $400 billion. Some Trump 2.0 underling should have whispered that number into his boss’s ear. But even if they did, that’s irrelevant. Because the latest gimmick actually constitutes a crass foreign interference in another nation’s domestic politics and upcomig presidential race, illegal and predictably once again making a mockery of international law. The Circus Ringmaster started by hollering in his posts that the Lula government – and the independent Brazilian judicial system – had been involved in a witch hunt against his buddy, former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is being legally prosecuted under charges of staging a coup to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election and prevent Lula from taking power. It was up to not so smooth operator Steve Bannon to give the whole tawdry game away: if you ditch the prosecution of Bolsonaro, we ditch the 50% tariffs. President Lula’s response has been measured, but firm: “Brazil’s trade with the U.S. makes up just 1.7% of our GDP. You can’t call these figures vital (…) We will look for other partners“. Of course it will be very tough. A 50% tariff is like a deadly hurricane. Example: Brazil is the largest global exporter of orange juice. 95% of indigenous production is exported, nearly half to the U.S. It will take some time and lot of hard work to find “other partners”. The solution may lie across BRICS lands. In time, there should be plenty of candidates for top Brazilian exports such as oil, steel, iron, planes and parts, coffee, timber, meat and soy. Unionizing every exporter in the world against U.S. importers In parallel, the top two BRICS actors, China and Russia – both already under zillions of sanctions (Russia) and trade tariffs (China) – see the Trump TTT as a spectacular opportuniy ahead for undermining even faster the unilateral U.S. grip on trade and currency systems. The war on BRICS has gone up to the next level, now that Russia, China, Iran and Brazil are all confirmed – illegitimate – targets. It’s up to this Sri Lanka viewpoint to delightfully summarize the stakes: “Trump has effectively unionized every exporter in the world against American importers.” It comes down to a quite simple equation: “If you tariff one person, more power to you. But it you tariff everyone, more power to us.” “More power to us” translates into BRICS and the wider Global South perfectly aware there’s no way out except full steam ahead for the BRICS project, culminating in full de-dollarization. From Kazan to Rio and beyond, it’s now also clear that out of control TTT will target any nation or partner that aligns with “anti-American” BRICS. You want war? Bring it on. Trump terrified by BRICS strategic threat The post Trump terrified by BRICS strategic threat appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: WORLD, BRICS, Trump, USA, World Order]

— Iran’s Missiles SMASHED Israel: Brian Berletic Reveals Devastating Aftermath

 

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The truth is coming out about the impact of Irans Operation True Promise 3 and its devastating for Israel. Brian Berletic of The New Atlas reveals the dark truth about the extent of the damage and what it means for the future of war between Iran and the US-backed Israeli regime. The post Iran’s Missiles SMASHED Israel: Brian Berletic Reveals Devastating Aftermath appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: interview, Multimedia, WORLD, airstrike, Iran, Israel, USA]

— Genocide Summer Camp, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

 

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It really is nuts how a young person can fly to Israel and go play genocide games in Gaza for a while and then just fly back to their own country and expect to be treated like a normal member of society like it’s some kind of genocide summer camp. ❖ The narrative about an “antisemitism crisis” in our society has two main components: 1. Redefining “antisemitism” to mean “criticism of Israel”, and 2. Pretending not to see a connection between rising incidents of “antisemitism” as it’s been redefined and Israel perpetrating an active genocide. ❖ https://x.com/caitoz/status/1942380328930402704 ❖ “Antisemitism” means criticism of Israel. That’s just what it means now. It used to mean something else, but years of bad faith actors using that word in the most dishonest ways imaginable to defend the most horrific things you’ve ever seen has changed the definition. It is no longer possible to separate that word from this sustained campaign of mass deception. You can only have governments, institutions and individuals use a word differently for so long with such a high degree of uniformity before the definition changes. Word definitions change over time depending on how people use them. Nice used to mean stupid. Explode used to mean applaud. The word meat used to refer to any kind of food, not just animal flesh. The meanings changed because enough people started using them to refer to something else, in exactly the same way we’ve seen occur with the word antisemitism. That’s locked in. It has already happened. Everyone knows that antisemitism refers to criticism of Israel and its actions and antisemite refers to someone who does so. Everyone understands this regardless of whether they support Israel or oppose it. That is the definition now. If you want a word for someone who thinks Hitler was correct or uses triple brackets and posts big nose memes online, you’re going to have to make up a new word, because antisemite is taken. You can’t even really use “Jew hater” either, because that meaning is being polluted in the exact same way antisemite has been. You have to make up an entirely new word, and use it consistently. Israel’s spinmeisters will deny this publicly, even though they know it’s true. They’ll say it’s possible to criticize Israel without being an antisemite, but if you ask them to name someone who regularly and forcefully criticizes Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza whom they don’t consider antisemitic, they won’t be able to. Every single person who criticizes Israel with appropriate consistency and force is branded an antisemite (or perhaps “self-hating” if they happen to be Jewish), without a single, solitary exception. These aren’t my rules, they’re the rules of the Israel apologists. I’m just pointing out the obvious fact that those rules have been set. ❖ https://x.com/caitoz/status/1942534487109460333 ❖ A new report from WIRED has found that the supposedly “raw” video footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell which Trump’s Department of Justice released to prove Epstein committed suicide was in fact digitally manipulated. “Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro,” the report reads. “The file appears to have been assembled from at least two source clips, saved multiple times, exported, and then uploaded to the DOJ’s website, where it was presented as ‘raw’ footage.” This just keeps getting better and better. Epstein is officially a leftist conspiracy theory now. Rightists dropped it when they supported the president who’s covering it up, so now it’s ours. From now on if you want to talk about Epstein you are joining the side of the commies. Welcome to the revolution, comrade. ❖ The Australian government is imposing age verification laws for internet use which may require digital IDs from people of all ages who want to use major online platforms, at the same time this same government is pushing to stomp out and censor all criticism of Israel. Doesn’t take a genius to see where this is going. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/genocide-summer-camp-and-other-notes The post Genocide Summer Camp, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: WORLD, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, war crimes]

— الفلسطيني ليس سوريا لدى النظام الجديد والأجنبي ضمن فصائـ،له

 

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الفلسطيني ليس سوريا لدى النظام الجديد والأجنبي ضمن فصائـ،له The post الفلسطيني ليس سوريا لدى النظام الجديد والأجنبي ضمن فصائـ،له appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: Multimedia, WORLD, +Arabic, Palestine, Syria]

— El Salvador And Its Fight Against The Fifth Column

 

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The collective West is concerned about the expansion of the practice of the “Foreign Agents” law in Latin America. In June of this year, the Central American country of El Salvador joined the list of states that have adopted a ‘Foreign Agents’ law. The law, passed by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador and published on June 6, sets strict rules for organizations receiving funding from abroad, requiring them to register as “foreign agents” with the Ministry of Interior and comply with strict reporting requirements. Although President Nayib Bukele is actively cooperating with the United States, including on the issue of housing migrants from Latin American countries in Salvadoran prisons, the collective West clearly did not like this step. The European Union was the first to express serious concern, calling the new law a threat to civil society and democratic freedoms in the Central American nation. In a statement released on June 7, 2025, the European External Action Service (EEAS) urged El Salvador to uphold its international human rights obligations and protect the space for independent civic engagement. “The EU regrets the Foreign Agents Law adopted by the Salvadorian Legislative Assembly and published yesterday,” the EEAS spokesperson said. “This legislation… risks restricting civil society actors’ access to funding, which is essential for their functioning and vital to any healthy democracy,”the official statement said. It should be noted that in addition to the international legal part of this law, it also has an economic component – now foreign agents in Salvador are subjected to 30% tax. Given the volatility of the economy of El Salvador (and earlier extraordinary measures were taken, such as using cryptocurrencies on a par with conventional means of payment and even linking it to the exchange rate), such a tariff for foreign agency activities could partially replenish the treasury. However, if we consider the new law in the context of the political processes in Central and South America, the EU‘s concern is primarily related to the fact that, albeit slowly, but progressively, the countries of the region are regaining their sovereignty and applying proven foreign practices. For example, in Nicaragua, a similar law on foreign agents was adopted back in October 2020. Obviously, many NGOs there worked for external interests, or more precisely, the United States’. Since 2017, until the law came into force, USAID alone transferred over US$100 million to local structures. And these funds actually worked to organize a coup d‘etat in the country. Now it is relatively stable there, and economically, Nicaragua is demonstrating amazing resilience. However, in addition to the EU‘s interests in Latin America, the change in US foreign policy under the second Donald Trump’s administration actually proclaims the Monroe Doctrine No. 2, which means direct intervention by Washington. And this signal was received with alarm by the governments of many countries where both leftists and rightists are in power. That said, the United States has quite a lot of effective tools in reserve – from the newly proclaimed doctrine of combating illegal migrants and assistance to Latin American governments in destroying drug cartels to all kinds of framework agreements on financial transparency and compliance with “international standards.“ In particular, so–called anti-corruption mechanisms have long been used to put pressure on the countries of the region and discredit undesirable governments. Thus, according to the Latin Business Chronicle, there has been an increase in violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in Latin America. In the US, a number of consulting companies are engaged in tracking contracts and business processes in Latin American countries. For example, FTI, a U.S.-based risk consultancy firm, noted that under the Obama administration, 50 percent of the company’s cases in Latin America were FCPA related. .The company also made forecasts for the continuation of the corruption trend, that is, at the same time justified its activities under the wing of the US government and justified the need to interfere in the politics of Latin American countries. In fact, this means that any competitor for the US business circle can be presented as a corrupt structure and be lavished with sanctions and lawsuits. As a rule, Washington agents are interested in contracts with Latin American governments, especially in construction, oil, gas and other natural resources, medical equipment or pharmaceuticals sectors. These strategic sectors are preferred by American companies and lobby groups, therefore, the US agents offer large financial rewards to informants on the ground and employees of international corporations for any information related to violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). In other words, the most powerful US corruption mechanism called the lobby actively intervenes in the affairs of Latin American countries and tries to rebuild the political and economic systems of these states for itself. Therefore, the new laws on foreign agents may become a bur in the throat of the establishment of the collective West. And if Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela are on Washington‘s honorary list of “leftist dictatorships,“ which is the main reason for discrimination in the form of sanctions and boycotts, then the example of El Salvador shows that a more flexible option for protecting its own sovereignty is possible. In addition, the first law on foreign agents (US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was adopted in the United States back in the 1930s, which gives Latin American governments reason to talk about some kind of copying of “democratic progressive practices.“ No doubt, this does not remove the risk of another type of interference that Washington will undertake as part of its new foreign policy. For example, the attempted conspiracy against Colombian President Gustavo Petro, which was recently revealed and caused an internal political scandal and consultations with the Colombian ambassador to the United States. However, the laws on foreign agents will at least limit and, at best, prevent the fifth column from operating inside the country. https://www.geopolitika.ru/en/article/el-salvador-and-its-fight-against-fifth-column The post El Salvador And Its Fight Against The Fifth Column appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: WORLD, El Salvador, spy]

— Acting with impunity

 

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The West has much to answer for: using Ukraine as a proxy to defeat Russia, aiding and abetting Israel’s many acts of aggression and genocidal war against the Palestinians, and finally taking part in an unprovoked war on Iran. What do all these transgressions have in common? A sense of legal impunity. The West is literally destroying the international system. CrossTalking with Ramzy Baroud, Scott Ritter, and Ehsan Safarnejad. https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2025.07/6870b55220302734ae373bda.mp3 https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2025.07/6870b57520302733337e7746.mp4   https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/621282-west-impunity-destroying-international-system/ The post Acting with impunity appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: interview, Multimedia, WORLD, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Russia, USA, war] [Link to media]

— Australia Unveils Plan To Fight “Antisemitism” By Crushing Free Speech

 

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As Australia’s dear friend Israel announces its plan to move Gaza’s entire population into concentration camps to prepare them for deportation and murder them if they refuse, the Australian government is laser-focused on tackling the problem of — you guessed it — antisemitism. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made a big spectacle of announcing a new strategy to combat Australia’s completely fictional epidemic of “antisemitism” on Thursday, waving around a 20-page plan which is being denounced nationwide as a Trumpian agenda to stomp out free speech in advancement of the interests of the state of Israel. The author of the plan is Jillian Segal, a career Israel lobbyist born in apartheid South Africa who was named Australia’s first Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism by the Albanese government last year. Segal has had an established record of defending and supporting Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza. Her husband John Roth directs one of the major funders of Advance, a climate denying right wing lobbying group which helped kill Australia’s Indigenous Voice to Parliament in 2023. https://x.com/BarnsGreg/status/1943473495679340817 Segal’s plan is being slammed as “Trumpian” by free speech advocates because it advocates implementing the US president’s policy of cutting off federal funding for universities and other public institutions deemed to be promoting the spread of antisemitism, which of course in effect means protesting against the actions of the Israeli government. Segal writes that she personally “will work with government to enable government funding to be withheld, where possible, from universities, programs or individuals within universities that facilitate, enable or fail to act against antisemitism.” Segal calls for all public institutions to be forced into espousing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which has been opposed around the world for its conflation of criticism of Israel with hateful actions toward Jews. Under the IHRA definition it is considered antisemitic to claim that Israel is a racist endeavor, or to compare Israel’s abuses to those of Nazi Germany — both of which are entirely legitimate criticisms which should be put forward far more often than they are. Here is a summary of the full scope of Segal’s plan written up by the ABC’s Tom Crowley: Education — a greater role for the Envoy to resource and educate the community, schools, businesses and public institutions about antisemitism and to embed an understanding of antisemitism in law enforcement, government agencies and the school curriculum. Universities — call to withhold public funding to universities or those within them deemed to “facilitate, enable or fail to act” on antisemitism, and an inquiry into “clusters” of antisemitism if encampments continue into 2026. Media — a new role for the Envoy to encourage media organisations to “avoid accepting false or distorted narratives” and encourage public broadcasters to “accurately and positively” represent Jewish history and culture and make programs that support “social cohesion”. Arts — a recommendation that there be protocols for arts festivals and organisations to respond to antisemitic incidents, with public funding able to be withheld similar to universities. Policing — a permanent standing arrangement for law enforcement agencies to co-operate on investigating antisemitism, similar to the Avalite taskforce set up after the Adass synagogue attack. Online hate — stronger regulation of online hate speech and algorithms, and the ability to support “trusted voices” to refute antisemitism on social media, plus a review of hate speech laws. Migration — screen visa applicants for antisemitism and ensure the Migration Act effectively facilitates visa cancellations for antisemitism. As you can see, Segal is demanding the authority to exert control over pretty much every major aspect of Australian society. She is claiming she wants to do this to combat antisemitism, but everyone knows she actually wants to do this to promote the interests of Israel, because that’s what these things always mean in practice. https://x.com/Anthony_Klan/status/1943179720021147907 Segal’s plan claims that “manipulated narratives in the legacy media” are driving antisemitism and accuses the Australian press of “misinformation”, asserting that “publicly funded media organisations should be required to uphold clear editorial standards that promote fair, responsible reporting to avoid perpetuating incorrect or distorted narratives or representations of Jews.” Segal says that under her plan she will “monitor media organisations to encourage accurate, fair and responsible reporting and assist them to meet their editorial standards and commitment to impartiality and balance and to avoid accepting false or distorted narratives.” Asked on the ABC on Thursday to list some of the changes that she would make to the reporting of public news broadcasters, Segal adamantly refused to give a single example, despite being repeatedly pressed to do so by the ABC’s Sarah Ferguson. The following morning Segal was interviewed on the ABC’s Radio National Breakfast and pressed on the same issue, where she finally relented and gave one single example of absolutely breathtaking ridiculousness. “Six months ago or so,” Segal said, “the ABC ran a story repeatedly about a hospital in Gaza that had been bombed. And there was incomplete information, as there is only perhaps information emanating from Hamas, but it was alleged to be, the ABC reported as fact, that it had been bombed by Israel. And then horrified people were upset and the Jewish community was looked at with disgust and worse. And then it turned out indeed that it was not bombed by Israel, that it had been from Gaza itself, and it had been a bomb that had fallen short.” Segal appears to be referring to one of the early bombings of the al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital, which occurred not six months ago but in October of 2023. Israel and various western institutions claimed the hospital was accidentally bombed by Palestinian forces while analysts like Forensic Architecture say the attack came from Israeli forces, accusing Israel of peddling misinformation about the strike. Since that time Israel has deliberately demolished Gaza’s health infrastructure with hundreds of attacks on healthcare facilities, and the al-Ahli Hospital has been bombed no fewer than eight separate times. Segal’s one and only example is a perfect illustration of the kind of extreme bias she wants to impose upon Australian consciousness, which obviously has no place in a free society. The fraudulent antisemitism panic in Australia has been reinvigorated by two events last week that were seized upon with shrieking hysteria by the mainstream press, none of which showed any signs of an antisemitism crisis in our nation. As Paul Gregoire explains for the Sydney Criminal Lawyers blog, Australia is being whipped up into a frenzy by the conflation of one incident in which a Sydney man set fire to the doors of a Melbourne synagogue with a different and completely legitimate act of anti-genocide activism. The synagogue attacker is yet another story of a shady individual with no known record of antisemitic ideology or pro-Palestinian sentiment perpetrating an apparent antisemitic attack, following a long stretch of supposed antisemitic incidents which turned out to have been staged by organized crime operatives with no ideological motive. https://x.com/sydcrimlawyers/status/1943233933673419067 This one dubious story of a man committing an actual crime against an actual Jewish place of worship has been obnoxiously mentioned in the same breath as another unconnected incident by the entire Australian political/media class all week. Protesters gathered at the Miznon restaurant in Melbourne to demonstrate against the establishment’s Israeli co-owner, who is also the spokesperson for the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation where Israeli soldiers admit they’ve been massacring starving civilians seeking food. A fight broke out with a group from the restaurant across from Miznon who the protesters say instigated the attack and who are clearly seen assaulting the pro-Palestinian activists in the available video footage. The entire so-called “antisemitism crisis” in Australia is like this. The overwhelming majority of it is just people criticizing Israel and trying to do what they can to stop the live-streamed genocide they’ve been watching on their screens every day for two years, which is then deliberately conflated with the actions of a few fringe actors with frequently suspicious motives. “Antisemitism” means criticism of Israel. That’s just what it means now. It used to mean something else, but years of bad faith actors using that word in the most dishonest ways imaginable to defend the most horrific things you’ve ever seen has changed the definition. It is no longer possible to separate that word from this sustained campaign of mass deception. https://x.com/jackmirkinson/status/1939707498014912653 It’s the genocide. People are mad at the genocide. They don’t hate Jews, they hate genocide. This was explained quite nicely the other day by Jack Mirkinson, who wrote the following about the controversy surrounding musical duo Bob Vylan’s chants of “Death to the IDF” at Glastonbury Festival last month: “Left unmentioned in any of this freakout is the context in which it is taking place. Why was Bob Vylan talking about Palestine right now? Why was a giant crowd of people so receptive to these comments? Why has this become such a totemic issue? “The answer will not shock you. It’s because Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza for nearly two years. “That’s it! That’s why. People don’t like genocide, and when they see a country committing genocide, they stop liking that country so much. If the genocide ended, a lot of people would be less mad at Israel than they are right now. “This isn’t rocket science. But — and this is the crucial thing — because our world’s leading politicians and media outlets fundamentally don’t see opposition to the genocide as a legitimate viewpoint to hold, they can’t quite comprehend what is happening all around them.” That’s it. It’s the genocide, stupid. That’s all this has ever been about. I wish I could force every pundit, politician and journalist in Australia to listen to these words. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley, painting by Caitlin Johnstone): https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/australia-unveils-plan-to-fight-antisemitism The post Australia Unveils Plan To Fight Antisemitism By Crushing Free Speech appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: SOCIAL/CULTURAL, Australia, free speech, Israel, Palestine]

— Inside Israel’s Massive YouTube European Propaganda Blitz

 

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Internal ad records show Israel spent millions on YouTube propaganda targeting Europe, ads that breach Google’s own rules and frame the war on Gaza as a defense of Western civilization. While it continues its conflict with its neighbors, Israel is fighting another war just as intensely, spending gigantic amounts of money bombarding Europe with messaging justifying their actions, and scaremongering Europeans that Iranian nuclear missiles will soon be turning their cities into rubble. A MintPress study has found that, since it struck Iran on June 13, the Israeli Government Advertising Agency has paid for tens of millions of advertisements on YouTube alone. In clear breach of Google’s policies, these ads justify and lionize the attack as a necessary defense of Western civilization, and claim that Israel is carrying out “one of the largest humanitarian missions in the world” in Gaza. The countries most targeted by this campaign include the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, and Greece. Information War “A fanatical regime firing missiles at civilians, while racing towards nuclear weapons. While Iran deliberately targets cities, Israel acts with precision to dismantle this threat.” Thus starts one Israeli government ad that hundreds of thousands of YouTube viewers in Europe have been compelled to watch. “Terror architects behind the elimination of Israel plan: eliminated. Israel targets only military and terror sites, not civilians. But the threat remains,” the voiceover continues, over ominous music and high-tech graphics. “We will finish the mission for our people, for humanity. Israel does what must be done,” it concludes. “Iran’s ballistic missile program isn’t just a threat to Israel, it is a threat to Europe and the Western world,” another, seen by 1.5 million viewers in just three weeks, claims. “Iran is developing missiles with ranges of approximately 4000 km. That places Europe within the regime’s striking distance,” it adds, as graphics show virtually the entire continent turning blood red, signifying a nuclear attack. “This isn’t tomorrow’s threat. It is today’s reality. The threat posed by the Iranian regime must be stopped. Israel does what must be done.” Ominous messages like these, translated into multiple languages, have reached tens of millions of people across Europe. Other Israeli government ads take a different tack, attempting to present Israel as a virtuous victim and an unwilling participant in war. As one commercial notes: Imagine this: you are holding your newborn in a hospital room. Then the air raid sirens go off. Iran fires ballistic missiles at hospitals, at innocent Israelis. Patients, doctors, newborn babies: deliberately targeted. While Iran aims at families and children, Israel responds with precision, striking military sites. This is not a war of choice. Those who target civilians and hospitals become the target.” The claims made in such videos are often highly questionable. For example, around 935 Iranians were killed in Israeli strikes, compared to just 28 Israelis, suggesting Israel is far less careful to avoid civilian deaths than its opponent. Indeed, since October 2023, Israel has repeatedly and deliberately targeted hospitals. The World Health Organization has documented at least 697 Israeli strikes on medical facilities. Ninety-four percent of Gaza’s hospitals have been destroyed or damaged, and more than 1,400 medical personnel have been killed. This includes Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, head of orthopedics at al-Shifa Hospital, who was reportedly raped to death by Israeli prison guards. According to UNICEF, Israel has killed or injured over 50,000 Palestinian children. An American nurse who worked in Gaza told MintPress News that IDF soldiers regularly shoot boys in the genitals to prevent them from reproducing. Despite this, Israeli advertising presents the country as the savior of the Palestinian people. One Ministry of Foreign Affairs video, set to epic, inspiring music, describes Israel as undertaking “One of the largest humanitarian operations in the world right now.” “This is what real aid looks like. Smiles don’t lie. Hamas does,” it concludes. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, called the commercial “scandalous” and directly challenged YouTube: “How can this be allowed?” The video has been translated into Italian, French, German, and Greek, and has been viewed by nearly seven million people on YouTube alone. Transparently Inorganic All referenced videos appear in the Google Ads Transparency Center as paid content from the Israeli Government Advertising Agency, and there is strong evidence that few, if any, of their millions of views are organic. The five versions of the “Gaza Humanitarian Aid” video, for example, collectively have only a few thousand “likes”—barely 1% of what would be generally expected of videos with this amount of views—and only two comments in total. The difference between organic and paid content is clearer in videos that Israel has not promoted. Other videos on Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs YouTube channel receive only tens of views per day, not millions, which strongly suggests that close to 100% of their traffic is paid advertising. The scale of this public relations operation is difficult to overstate. Even as the Israeli government hikes taxes and slashes domestic spending, its foreign PR budget has grown by more than 2,000%, the Foreign Ministry receiving $150 million more for public diplomacy. Much of that money is evidently being spent on ads. In the past month, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has uploaded videos that have topped 45 million views on YouTube alone. The countries most targeted include the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, and Greece. Greece is a particularly noteworthy case. Over the past 12 months, the Israeli government advertising agency has funded 65 separate YouTube ad campaigns targeting the country. The Greek version of a recent ad—titled “An efficient system is in place, delivering aid where it’s needed”—presents Israel as a benevolent bringer of life to Gaza and has garnered over 1 million views in just four days, equivalent to nearly 10% of Greece’s entire population. The video currently has no comments and fewer than 3,000 likes. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs uploads its videos in English, French, German, Italian, and Greek. Countries that do not speak these languages—such as Slovakia, Denmark, and the Netherlands—are still targeted, though users there generally receive the English version. Israel has avoided targeting nations whose governments have formally condemned its actions, such as Ireland or Spain, spending nothing to reach those populations. The Netanyahu administration, evidently, has decided to attempt to shore up support in allied countries, even as their populations increasingly turn against Israel. While many of these figures might shock readers, this investigation only examined the advertising campaign of a single organization, the Israeli Government Advertising Agency, and on a single platform, YouTube. It does not include other Israeli government and non-governmental groups, nor the myriad organizations collectively comprising the pro-Israel lobby in the West. Israel has also attempted to influence the debate on other platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. What is presented here is merely the thinnest slice of a much broader operation. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs uploads its videos in English, French, German, Italian, and Greek. Countries that do not speak these languages—such as Slovakia, Denmark, and the Netherlands—are still targeted, though users there generally receive the English version. Israel has avoided targeting nations whose governments have formally condemned its actions, such as Ireland or Spain, spending nothing to reach those populations. The Netanyahu administration, evidently, has decided to attempt to shore up support in allied countries, even as their populations increasingly turn against Israel. While many of these figures might shock readers, this investigation only examined the advertising campaign of a single organization, the Israeli Government Advertising Agency, and on a single platform, YouTube. It does not include other Israeli government and non-governmental groups, nor the myriad organizations collectively comprising the pro-Israel lobby in the West. Israel has also attempted to influence the debate on other platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. What is presented here is merely the thinnest slice of a much broader operation. Google’s $32 Billion Wiz Deal Ties Your Data to Israeli Military Tech Google has a long history of working closely with Israeli intelligence. A 2022 MintPress News investigation identified at least 99 former Unit 8200 agents employed by Google. Among them is Gavriel Goidel, head of strategy and operations for Google Research. Goidel joined Google in 2022 after a six-year career in military intelligence, during which he rose to become Head of Learning at Unit 8200. There, he led a large team of operatives who sifted through intelligence data to “understand patterns of hostile activists,” according to his own account. The Turning Tide Google is far from the only tech giant recruiting Israeli spies to run their most politically sensitive departments. The same study found that hundreds of former Unit 8200 intelligence agents are employed at companies such as Meta (formerly Facebook), Microsoft, and Amazon. And a significant amount of what America reads about the Middle East is also written by ex-Israeli spies. A MintPress investigation from earlier this year uncovered a network of Unit 8200 alums working in top newsrooms across America. Wikipedia is another key theater of war for the Israeli state. A project overseen by future Prime Minister Naftali Bennett deployed thousands of young Israelis to monitor and edit the online encyclopedia, removing troublesome facts and framing articles more favorably in Israel’s favor. Those who made the most edits would receive rewards, including free hot air balloon rides. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also launched a campaign to harass and intimidate American students, establishing a “task force” to carry out psychological operations aimed at, in its own words, “inflicting economic and employment consequences” against pro-Palestine protestors. While Foreign Minister Eli Cohen heads the task force, it stresses that its actions “should not have the signature of the State of Israel on it.” Amid mounting criticism, the Israeli government has sought to turn the tide by inviting influencers for direct talks with Netanyahu. In April, the Israeli prime minister met face-to-face with conservative internet personalities, including Tim Pool; Dave Rubin; Sean Spicer; Bethany Mandel; David Harris Jr.; Jessica Krause; Seth Mandel; and Mollie Hemingway, where they discussed how best to sell war with Iran to Western publics, and how to counter anti-Zionist sentiment online. Other social media personalities report having been offered large sums of money in exchange for a few words of support for Israel. In terms of turning the tide of European public opinion, Israel has its work cut out for it. A recent YouGov survey found the country was widely reviled across the continent. More than 20 times as many Italians, for instance, hold “very unfavorable” (43%) views of Israel than “very favorable” ones (2%). Even in Germany, where popular support for Israel is highest, only 21% said they hold favorable opinions of the state (including only 4% highly favorable), with 65% displaying open opposition (including 32% who strongly dislike it). A massive plurality of Britons, meanwhile, agreed with the statement: “Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews.” Forty-eight percent answered in the affirmative, as opposed to just 13% who disagreed. This is despite European governments offering full-throated support to Israel, and even criminalizing pro-Palestine protests and persecuting journalists who oppose Western support for Tel Aviv. The government of Israel is spending millions of dollars daily on gigantic advertising campaigns aimed at turning the tide of public opinion. To that end, it is developing a PR network as sophisticated as the advanced weapons systems it uses on its neighbors. On YouTube alone, its paid advertising, translated into five languages, has reached at least 45 million people in the past month. Whether this strategy will ultimately prove effective remains unclear. After all, it is difficult to convince the public to support a genocide. Exclusive: Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million Europeans Feature photo | Illustration by MintPress News The post Inside Israel’s Massive YouTube European Propaganda Blitz appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: SOCIAL/CULTURAL, Europe, Google, InfoWars, Israel, propaganda, Youtube]

— Cuba Won’t Bow to US Power After 60 Years. So Trump Tightened the Noose

 

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Manolo De Los Santos, the Executive Director of The People’s Forum, joins The Freedom Side to discuss Trump’s latest executive order on Cuba, reinstating all sanctions Biden had lifted before leaving office. De Los Santos will discuss the economic warfare behind the June 30 executive order, which targets Cuban companies with alleged ties to the socialist country’s military. The post Cuba Won’t Bow to US Power After 60 Years. So Trump Tightened the Noose appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: interview, Multimedia, WORLD, Cuba, Trump, USA]

— Trump in SHOCK: Putin, China & Iran DEVASTATE His War Plan

 

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Donald Trump has unloaded in an unprecedented escalation against the rising multipolar world, but he wasnt expecting Russia, China & Iran to respond like this. In this critical livestream, geopolitical experts Brian Berletic, Carl Zha and KJ Noh join to break down the march to WW3 under the so-called peace president. The post Trump in SHOCK: Putin, China Iran DEVASTATE His War Plan appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: interview, Multimedia, WORLD, China, Iran, multipolar world, Russia, Trump, USA]

— The Empire Is A Nonstop Insult To Our Intelligence

 

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The US has imposed sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for using her position to oppose the most thoroughly documented genocide in history. At the same time, the US has removed Syria’s Al Qaeda franchise HTS from its list of designated terrorist organizations, because its leader successfully carried out the regime change in Damascus that the western empire had been chasing for years. At the same time, the UK has added nonviolent anti-genocide activism group Palestine Action to its list of banned terrorist organizations for opposing the Gaza holocaust. https://x.com/tparsi/status/1943011718353039614 At the same time, the Israeli prime minister who is carrying out that holocaust has nominated the American president who is helping him perpetrate genocidal atrocities for a Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, Israel has continued its ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza, while also arresting the Israeli journalist who helped expose the IDF officials who cooked up fake atrocity propaganda about burnt babies on October 7. At the same time, the Trump administration has enraged its MAGA base by concluding that Jeffrey Epstein had no client list for any kind of sexual blackmail operation and definitely committed suicide. The western empire is one nonstop insult to our intelligence. The peace advocates are terrorists, the genocide architects deserve peace prizes, the journalists are dangerous, and Epstein was just a wealthy socialite who made a few mistakes. https://x.com/caitoz/status/1943066539948937601 They do everything they can to make us stupid via propaganda, Silicon Valley information control, and indoctrination schooling systems, and then they treat us like we’re morons for the rest of our lives. The empire depends on ignorance. The more stupid, racist, gullible, and easily distracted we become, the nastier agendas the empire can roll out. Now here we are watching a live-streamed genocide unfold right in front of our eyes for nearly two years while being tube fed a daily diet of the most ridiculous lies imaginable. As Aaron Bushnell said, this is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-empire-is-a-nonstop-insult-to The post The Empire Is A Nonstop Insult To Our Intelligence appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: WORLD, Empire, terrorism, USA]

— US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production

 

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Amid global military overstretch and weapons shortages, the U.S. is employing strategies like “division of labor” and “strategic sequencing” to prolong its global dominance—at the cost of client states’ stability and global peace. The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapons stockpiles have fallen too low,” Politico reported. This is only the most recent development amid a growing military industrial crisis unfolding across the collective West as Washington and its network of client states wage increasingly intense and protracted wars and proxy wars including in Ukraine against Russia, across the Middle East against Iran and its allies, and as the US prepares for similar conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region against China. Politico would note air defense systems, other precision guided weapons, and even artillery shells were among the shipments being paused due to concerns regarding depleted US stockpiles. Since the beginning of Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) in February 2022, initial surges of US-European weapons and munitions have steadily decreased despite promises to expand military industrial production across the collective West. In some cases, US weapons already faced critical shortages even before the conflict in Ukraine expanded in 2022. In January 2022, Saudi Arabia announced critical shortages of Patriot air defense interceptors, exhausting them amid its US-backed war with neighboring Yemen. The US, even at that point, was unable to replace Saudi Arabia’s depleted stockpiles, forcing Riyadh to borrow missiles from other Persian Gulf states operating the systems. Lockheed Martin, which produces Patriot missiles, does so at a rate of about 500–600 interceptors a year, with plans to expand production to only 650 by the year 2027. Ukraine’s requirements alone far exceed this quantity with Russia producing between 720-840 Iskander ballistic missiles, according to Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, that only the Patriot missile system is capable of intercepting. Each incoming ballistic missile requires at a minimum 2 Patriot missiles to increase the probability of a successful intercept. This means that even by 2027 Lockheed will only be producing about half the missiles Ukraine would require just to intercept Russian Iskander missiles each year, and that’s if every single missile Lockheed made was sent to Ukraine – which they won’t be. Similar shortages and failures to sufficiently expand production are faced by US Stinger man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), Javelin anti-tank missiles, counter-battery radar systems, and even 155mm artillery shells. Regarding artillery shells, despite benefitting from a rare exception where US government-owned facilities were used to expand shell production regardless of insufficient “demand signals” and poor “business cases,” and a head start of several years before the 2022 SMO began, production has only been expanded to about 75,000 shells a month with the target of 100,000 shells expected to be reached by the end of 2025. Together with European shell production, Western media still reports Russia enjoys a 3:1 advantage in artillery shell production. The production of other, more sophisticated military systems is lagging even further behind Russian military industrial output. And as is the case with Patriot missiles, even if the US and Europe could produce comparable quantities of these weapons and munitions, it is impractical to send all of it to Ukraine. Finite Arms for Infinite Wars As per stated US foreign policy objectives, the US requires large amounts of military equipment including Patriot missiles for its continued wars and proxy wars far beyond just Ukraine, including in the Middle East against Iran (where huge quantities of air defense missiles were likewise exhausted in just 12 days of recent fighting) and amid its military build-up across the Asia-Pacific region vis-a-vis China. The US is relying on several strategies to match the reality of limited means of military industrial production with Washington’s desire for unlimited war worldwide including what US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has referred to as a “division of labor,”  through which the US is forcing its client states to divert public money from actual public interests toward weapons procurements and production in service of Washington’s wars and proxy wars worldwide. NATO’s recent announcement of bloc-wide spending increases of up to 5% of each member state’s GDP was in direct response to Secretary Hegseth’s directive delivered in February of this year. Another strategy is often referred to as “strategic sequencing” in which the US concentrates available resources on one designated adversary at a time rather than attempting to fight multiple nations at once. A 2024 Marathon Initiative paper titled, “Strategic Sequencing, Revisited,” by Wess Mitchell would note: The idea of sequencing is simply to concentrate resources against one opponent in order to weaken its disruptive energies before turning to another, either to deter or defeat it. Sequencing is necessary because power is not infinite. For even the strongest of states, it is bounded by all kinds of things: distance, money, attention span. By dealing decisively with one opponent before other threats have fully manifested, a great power seeks to avoid a situation where either its military resources are stretched too thin, and it suffers catastrophic defeat, or it has to shoulder the financial burdens of ramping up for a sustained war against all enemies in all directions concurrently, with concomitant strains on its economic base and society. The goal is to gain an advantage in competition by manipulating the factor of time. Thus, victory in Ukraine by defeating Russian forces is not necessarily Washington’s objective, but rather overextending Russia militarily, economically, and politically by entangling it in a costly and protracted conflict increasingly fueled by European military support, freeing up US resources to be concentrated on Iran and ultimately China. Because Russia is committed to its military operations in Ukraine, it is unable to commit significant resources to counter US wars and proxy wars elsewhere, including in Syria where the US was able to successfully overthrow the government late last year, or Iran which the US and its Middle East proxies – particularly Israel – seek to “weaken its disruptive energies before turning to another” – “another” being China in the Asia-Pacific region. The US is using a “division of labor” both in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region as well, forcing proxies including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Japan, South Korea, the island province of Taiwan, and the Philippines to divert large amounts of public resources to likewise procure and produce weapons to augment US military power and industrial production. This system of client states together with America’s global-spanning military infrastructure, global-spanning navy, and its extensive network of political interference both enhancing existing client states and creating new ones, allows the US to geopolitically outmanoeuvre the emerging multipolar world order despite the advantages nations like Russia and China possess in terms of economic strength and military industrial production. An Unsustainable But Still Dangerous Balancing Act  The strategies of “division of labor” and “strategic sequencing” employed by the US, while seemingly pragmatic, are ultimately attempts to manage an unsustainable equation. By outsourcing military burdens to client states and prioritizing adversaries one-by-one, Washington seeks to extend its reach without overextending its immediate resources. However, these tactics come at a significant cost, compelling US client states to divert critical public funds towards military expenditures, often at the expense of domestic needs and social welfare. This coercive and ultimately unsustainable approach, exemplified by NATO’s increased spending directives, drains the collective wealth of nations – a process already undermining social cohesion and economic stability across the collective West. Moreover, the inherent unpredictability of international relations means that a carefully planned “sequence” can be easily disrupted by unforeseen events, potentially leaving the US and its client states vulnerable on multiple fronts. The margins of error continue to narrow, leaving less and less room for contingencies created both by chance and by counter-strategies employed by nations like Russia, China, and Iran individually or working in cooperation. While nations leading the creation of a multipolar world cannot and should not create an equal but opposing network of client states to disrupt Washington’s “division of labor” and “strategic sequencing,” they could encourage better cooperation across the multipolar world to defend against US political interference, economic coercion, and military aggression. Not only could greater cooperation negate the advantages the US uses to offset the limits of its own military industrial production, it could also disrupt the careful balancing act the US is performing to cling to its unipolar world order. While multipolarism to many seems inevitable, it would be reckless to indulge in complacency. The collapse of Syria in late 2024, the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran in June 2025, and the obedience US client states across Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific still demonstrate in pursuit of US geopolitical objectives is a sobering reminder that despite what appears to be its irreversible decline, the US remains a significant threat to global peace, stability, and prosperity. It is a threat that will remain until the nations of the world create the conditions within which the US is left no choice but to cooperate with all other nations rather than continue to impose itself upon them. https://journal-neo.su/2025/07/09/us-still-dangerous-despite-limits-of-military-production/ The post US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: WORLD, arms deal, USA]

— Russia’s Formal Recognition Of The Taliban Comes At A Crucial Time For The Broader Region

 

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Trump wants to return US forces to Afghanistan’s Bagram Airbase; there are newfound concerns about the North-South Transport Corridor’s viability after the recent Iranian-Israeli War; and Turkiye is making a powerplay to expand its influence into Central Asia. Russia became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan earlier this month. This development comes at a crucial time for the region: Trump wants to return US forces to Afghanistan’s Bagram Airbase; there are newfound concerns about the North-South Transport Corridor’s (NSTC) viability after the recent Iranian-Israeli War; and Turkiye is making a powerplay to expand its influence into Central Asia. Here are three background briefings: * 16 May: “Trump’s Desired Return To Bagram Airbase Could Reshape South Asian Geopolitics” * 18 June: “Protracted Instability In Iran Could Adversely Affect India’s Strategic Interests” * 2 July: “Why’d Erdogan Decide To Expand Turkiye’s Sphere Of Influence Eastwards?” Correspondingly, the direct consequences of this latest development aim to: bolster the Taliban’s resilience to American pressure to once again host US forces; assist in the construction of Kabul’s portion of the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan (PAKAFUZ) railway and/or make a bid for control over it; and rely more upon PAKAFUZ as a complement or even alternative to the NSTC with the tangential benefit of naturally expanding economic influence in Central Asia so as to gently counterbalance Turkiye’s. Its here where the economic drivers of this diplomatic decision come into play as detailed below: * 19 May 2024: “Analyzing The Strategic Importance Of Russia’s Reportedly Planned Afghan Oil Hub” * 28 May 2024: “Russia Is Preparing To Strategically Partner With The Taliban” * 27 November 2024: “Russia’s Grand Geo-Economic Plan A Step Closer In Afghanistan” The gist is that the expansion of Russian economic influence in Afghanistan, the prerequisite of which is formal recognition of the Taliban as that country’s legitimate government, will enable Moscow to pioneer energy and real-sector connectivity with Pakistan’s promising emerging market via Central Asia. For that to happen, however, Afghan-Pakistani tensions must first abate and Afghan-emanating terrorist threats to the region must be neutralized or at least contained. Here are some briefings about that: * 16 June 2023: “Russia’s Afghan Point Man Hinted At The Possibility Of Military-Technical Ties With The Taliban” * 1 September 2024: “The CIA Isn’t Responsible For The Upsurge Of Terrorism In Pakistan’s Balochistan Region” * 12 February 2025: “Russia Has A Better Chance Of Mediating Afghan-Pakistani Tensions Than China Does” All in all, the economic, security, diplomatic, and ultimately strategic opportunities unlocked by Russia’s formal recognition of the Taliban will turbocharge its influence in the broader region, which couldn’t have come at a better time given concerns about the NSTC’s viability and impending Turkish-US inroads. The timing of this development is coincidental, but it nevertheless comes at a crucial time for the broader region, thus strengthening Russia’s stakeholder role and increasing its ability to shape events. https://korybko.substack.com/p/russias-formal-recognition-of-the The post Russia’s Formal Recognition Of The Taliban Comes At A Crucial Time For The Broader Region appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: WORLD, Afghanistan, NSTC, Russia, Taliban]

— The De-weaponization of the CIA

 

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“All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals — all to get Trump.” — CIA Director John Ratcliffe Former CIA Director Brennan Faces Perjury Problems After CIA Director Ratcliffe’s Review Uncovers Russia Hoax Testimony Lies.  But will Trump’s Department of Justice do anything about it? The Democrats intended to imprison Trump and tried to assassinate him.  Republicans, however, are afraid that prosecuting a high ranking official discredits the US government in the eyes of citizens and the world.  Brennan will get a pass so Republicans can save Washington’s reputation. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/06/exclusive-john-brennan-may-face-perjury-issues-after-cia-director-ratcliffes-review-uncovers-russia-hoax-testimony-problems/  Remember how the whore media and the whore Democrats lied through their teeth about a Putin/Trump conspiracy to steal the 2016 election?  Remember the group of whores who created a mysterious website, PropOrNot, that branded those of us who wrote objectively about the Russiagate charges “Putin agents/dupes”?  Labeling me a “Russian agent” scared away half of my subscribers.  It shows how frightened Americans are to be associated in any way with an unapproved narrative. Were you one of the millions of dumbshit Americans who fell for the completely transparent “Russiagate” hoax?   Americans are so naive.  They fall for every lie told to them.  Remember the “war on terror”?  It was a war for Greater Israel.  For two decades American lives and money were squandered in destroying 5 Arab countries for Israel.  Israel never needed to make peace, because Israel had dumbshit Americans to fight wars for them.  Israel is still relying on Americans. Netanyahu, who is indicted in Israel for financial crimes and in the international court for crimes against humanity, says Washington’s  destruction of five countries “transformed the Middle East beyond recognition.”  Netanyahu arrived yesterday in Washington for the third time in six months to give Trump his marching orders for Iran and to solidify Israel’s falsely claimed recent battlefield victory over Iran.  Netanyahu says he is ready to “expand the circle of peace.” He has come to tell Trump how to do this for him. Perhaps Ratcliffe can deliver a truthful report on the “war on terror” and how the Zionist neoconservatives launched it with their “New Pearl Harbor”–9/11–but that would be a bridge too far. The De-weaponization of the CIA The post The De-weaponization of the CIA appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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— Understanding Yemen 2/2: Ansar Allah values

 

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The strength of the Sanaa government and its commitment to the Palestinians can best be appreciated through an understanding of the unique mix of Ansar Allah values and their mass support in Yemen. First part of the article: Understanding Yemen 1/2: The Revolution To understand how Ansar Allah-led Yemen defeated an apparently superior military force, led by Washington, and then directly confronted the Israelis and their sponsors in the Red Sea, we should return to the values and ideology of the movement. Ansar Allah ideology comes from the Quranic Project of Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houhti, who was killed in 2004 during the six northern wars, carried out by the late President Saleh, following a green light from US President George W. Bush (Root 2013), as part of his war on terror; even though Saleh himself had been linked to Al-Qaeda (Jordan 2015). This Quranic Project shares values with many independence movements, some with the Iranian Revolution, along with some of its own distinct features. Ansar Allah is a movement, not a party like Hezbollah. Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee (SRC), said, “The revolution is every member within the … Yemeni fabric who rejects corruption and … upholds values and freedom, rejects tyranny, guardianship, invasion and occupation and resists aggression, siege and blind subservience” (Almahfali and Root 2020; Sputnik Arabic 2018). The Yemeni people “are a people who reject injustice, humiliation, subjugation, arrogance and conceit. They are a people who, by nature, carry within their culture and awareness a revolutionary sense … [they] have always rallied and moved with those who reject colonialism … those who stand with the invader are rejected and denounced and remain agents and mercenaries in the eyes of the popular majority” (Sputnik Arabic 2018). This movement grew with a charismatic leader, Sayyed Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, but it is not a personality cult. Sayyed al-Houthi “had a leadership personality, everyone that knew him loved him,” said Abdulkareem Jadban, an MP from Saada. “He urged people to face the [North] American hegemony after 9/11” (Root 2013). His ideas remain important, as should be obvious from the strong growth of Ansar Allah in the 20 years since Hussein’s death. We could speak of the values of Ansar Allah under six themes: the defense of an independent nation and culture; Islamism through Quranic values; a culture of resistance in the face of hegemonic attack; clear identification of the enemy; social inclusion and avoidance of war; and the persistence of Yemeni customary law and tribal governance. Understandings of these values are particularly important in view of several Western war myths that Ansar Allah are “Houthi rebels” who are “Iran’s proxies” and part of a “Shia crescent” destabilizing the Arabian Peninsula and the region. These myths disguise the revolution of 2011-2014, underline the refusal to recognize the new government in Sanaa, and help bolster UNSC resolutions, which legitimized the dirty war and siege of the country. Some of the better Western analyses of Ansar Allah appreciate its local origins and that it has been influenced, but not determined or controlled, by the Iranian revolution (Gordon and Parkinson 2018); and that it builds on nationalist and republican roots which recognize religious traditions and authority (Almahfali and Root 2020). But most tend to turn against the Yemeni revolution for its Islamism and incompatibility with bourgeois liberalism (i.e. Anglo-American corporate rule with a semblance of individual liberties). Despite that deep prejudice, there is huge popular interest in how Ansar Allah-led Yemen defeated the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression and then came fearlessly to the direct defense of the Palestinian people under attack by the Israelis in Gaza. I suggest the answers to these questions lie in popular support for Ansar Allah values. So what are those values and how are they seen in practice? First, as an independence movement, Ansar Allah aims to protect and defend indigenous, inclusive Yemeni culture and values in the face of foreign intervention. This is a common theme of all anti-imperial and anti-colonial movements, including the Islamic Revolution of Iran. The defense of independent cultures, values, and nations is a key global theme. We could go further, arguing that the central polemic today is not capitalism versus socialism or liberal democracy versus the rest, but rather a globalist dictatorship versus independent nations. In a supposedly post-colonial era, we still see this struggle for independence across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab and Muslim world. Anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and anti-Zionism – counter-hegemonic struggles – are all consequences of this drive for political, economic, and social independence. In Yemen, despite the important national unification of the 1990s, there remained a corrupt regime that collaborated with the imperial power and its agents, making use of sectarian groups to divide and rule the nation. Second, Ansar Allah shares with the Iranian Revolution an Islamic foundation of independent values based on the Quran – humility, honor, self-sacrifice, social justice, and social inclusivity – values which inform and sit alongside nationalism, anti-imperialism, and anti-Zionism (Panah 2008: ch.3; Almahfali and Root 2020). Ansar Allah, from its Zaydi roots, while recognizing the Prophet’s Holy Family (Ahlul Bayt) and the Sayyed lineage, does not share the Shia doctrine of Twelve Imams (including the Mahdi) nor does it accept the infallibility of Imams (Almahfali and Root 2020). Mandated struggle against the unjust rule is one feature that the Zaydi tradition has in common with the Shia. In the tradition of Zayd ibn Ali, true imams must fight corrupt rulers; but imams are neither divinely ordained nor infallible and this leads to greater jurisprudence in Islamic law, preventing the idea of an imamate or strict religious rule (Almahfali and Root 2020). Sayyed Hussein was deeply impressed by Iran’s Khomeini and Lebanon’s Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah because of their firm principles. He said of Khomeini and Nasrallah that, in their application of Islamic values, “we do not notice the doctrinal side,” and so there is room for jurisprudence (Almahfali and Root 2020). So, while the historic sacrifice of Imam Hussein (a central Shia theme) has entered Ansar Allah’s broad Islamic tradition, other more secular or non-doctrinal themes have developed, such as Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s stress on nationalism and social justice. Recognizing the legacy of the leader of the Iranian Revolution, Sayyed Hussein said, “Imam Khomeini was a blessing to the Arabs if they had wanted liberation from Israel. Sayyed Khomeini was “a great leader with a correct vision and a strong people. It has been said that Iran’s Islamic Revolution both “does and does not” influence Ansar Allah (Almahfali and Root 2020). Ansar Allah extends the Zaydi principle of “commanding what is just and forbidding what is wrong” (Almahfali and Root 2020). Importantly, Ansar Allah also parallels Sayyed Khomeini in placing a similar emphasis on a pure Islam of “the downtrodden and humble … the barefooted” [Al-Mustadhafin] as opposed to what he called “American Islam … the Islam of comfort and luxury … of compromise and ignominy, the Islam of the indolent” (ITF 2014) – following the Quranic declaration (al Qassas 28:5) of “our favour on the oppressed. That responsibility to the oppressed and downtrodden [Al-Mustadhafin] was fundamental to both Sayyed Khomeini’s initiatives in support of Palestine and to Ansar Allah’s Red Sea operations, after the Resistances Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Nevertheless, Ansar Allah leaders have made it clear that Yemen’s governance is for Yemenis to decide. “There is no Iranian intervention in Yemen. and the Saudis can inspect the missiles [we fire] … they are purely Yemeni made … We reject any sort of foreign intervention either by the Saudis, the Americans, the Egyptians or the Iranians” (Mohamed Ali al-Houthi in Ya Libnan 2015). Third, dedicated resistance is a step beyond simple claims of political independence. Resistance is a commitment in the face of a hegemonic attack. Ansar Allah stresses active defense of the nation and culture in the face of those who “occupy our countries and wage war against our religion” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001b). That includes the duty toward other oppressed Arab and Muslim peoples, especially the Palestinians. One Ansar Allah leader explained to me: we oppose war, but fighting in self-defense and in defense of the oppressed is both permitted and mandated. This moral obligation to support the oppressed comes before political considerations and helps explain Ansar Allah’s unhesitating confrontation with the Israelis and the Anglo-Americans. An Ansar Allah cultural leader explained to me that, historically, the Muslim communities in Yemen’s highlands, farther away from colonial invasions (mainly Zaydi), had maintained a stronger resistance to invading cultures than those (mainly Shafi) on the coast. Secular parallels are made to stress the necessity of resistance and social transformation, in defense of indigenous culture. Mohamed Ali al-Houthi said, “The scale of the conspiracy [against Yemen] has pushed the people to engage in a long-term battle until … victory, just as revolutions around the world, including the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, triumphed” (Sputnik Arabic 2018). The steadfastness of Ansar Allah has become a thing of legend. They have repeatedly vowed to maintain their support for Gaza even after multiple bombing attacks by the Israelis and the Anglo-Americans (Abdul Malik al-Houthi 2025). Those Red Sea operations have established the Yemeni resistance as an icon for the world (Tuboltsev 2025). Even conservative British bodies recognize that the Yemenis are “diversifying their alliances and deepening their military capabilities, leveraging regional conflicts and pragmatic partnerships to expand their influence beyond the Iranian-led ‘axis of resistance’” (Ardemagni 2024). Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have rallied in support of these commitments by Ansar Allah leaders (MNA 2025). Fourth, clear identification of the enemy is a distinct emphasis in Ansar Allahs ideology. Sayyed Hussein put this in the context of a world where North Americans elevated former collaborators like Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to the status of ‘enemies’ of the imperial powers, but these were false stories designed to fool people. “Thus they direct people towards imaginary figures and illusory danger. We are in a “civilizational struggle,” and “the Jews know who really poses a threat to them,” and this is why in Iran they chant “Death to America, death to Israel” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001a). In this deceptive world, Yemen must clearly identify its enemies, including cultural enemies, so as to empower and focus the masses in their popular struggle. Hussein added we must “train ourselves and our children to carry enmity towards the enemies of God – the Jews and the Christians.” Borrowing from Iran but building its distinct Yemeni character, Hussein railed against the US attempts “to force their culture upon us, to occupy our countries and to wage a war against our religion” (Almahfali and Root 2020). While Ansar Allah shares with Iran the slogans “Death to America, Death to Israel”, in their political sense of opposing those regimes, Sayyed Hussein also demanded recognition of the cultural assault from “Jews and Christians”. Has “the Ummah [Islamic community] reached a point where it cannot stand up to the Jews?” he asked. Quoting the Quran (Al Baqarah 2:120), he said, “Never will the Jews or the Christians be satisfied with you until you follow their religion” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001a). By this, he means they force us to adopt their ideas and terminology. Hussein spoke of the need to “train ourselves and our children to carry enmity towards the enemies of God – the Jews and the Christians. Enmity in Islam is positive and important. If you carry genuine enmity towards America and Israel, if the leaders carry genuine enmity, and if Muslims carry genuine enmity, then they will prepare themselves to be able to face the confrontation. But if there is no real enmity then they will not prepare” (Hussein Badr Din al Houthi 2001b). The same confusion applies to opposing a particular Israeli regime rather than the usurping entity itself. Hussein said, in his time, they spoke of “Sharon’s government [referring to former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon] but not Israel Israel is not considered a problem, not even its existence is seen as a problem. So they say Sharon’s government” (Hussein Badr Din al Houthi 2001b). The cultural influence of these Western colonial cultures, beyond just the invading occupation projects and the Zionist entity, was therefore part of the enemy that sought to “wage war on our religion. Hussein decried the colonization of Arabic and Islamic language so that, for example, “jihad” (in its original sense of a holy or spiritual struggle) has been virtually disqualified as an aim (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001b). Fifth, Ansar Allah leaders have stressed their commitment to social inclusion within Yemen and their desire to avoid war. There is much evidence of this. Mohamed Ali al-Houthi said, “Yemen has not fired the first shot in the war rather it is resisting and will triumph over the richest and strongest countries” (Sputnik Arabic 2018). Recall that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was the one who declared war against Ansar Allah and killed its leader Hussein in 2004. Nevertheless, after the Revolution and until the 2017 betrayal by Saleh, Ansar Allah included him in its Supreme Political Council. Many from the GPC, the main opposition party, are still included in Yemen’s revolutionary government. Others have defected to Ansar Allah from the Muslim Brotherhood. This is another reason why it is absurd to call the Sanaa government “Houthi rebels”. Ansar Allah did not simply seize power in 2014; it filled a political vacuum left by the collapse of both Saleh’s regime and his transitional regime, plus the widespread rejection of the repartition proposals from the GCC (Popp 2015). After the US-Saudi coalition declared war on the Sanaa Government, Ansar Allah leaders were ready for peace talks in 2015, without conditions. It was the puppet Hadi regime, which made demands that Ansar Allah surrender territory before any talks, which killed that early peace process (Ya Libnan 2015). Sixth, the preservation of customary law and tribal governance continues to play an important role in Yemen and has long had a relation to state law, but its composition has changed since the rise of Ansar Allah (Worth 2016). Tribal authority and mediation are used for everything from land disputes to justice over violent conflict (Mojalli 2015), and relations between local clan authorities have been a factor in the national war of liberation against the Coalition of Aggression and its sectarian agents. It has been said, by some hostile sides to Ansar Allah, that their system of regional supervisors or mushrifin (Carboni 2021; Mugahed 2022) has weakened tribal authority. Yet, principles of customary law seem to have remained well incorporated into Yemeni leadership and justice. In this way, traditional authority and many social norms remain embedded in Yemeni Islamic principles. For example, the use of the Yemeni dagger (jambiya) is regulated by both traditional and state law. It is often displayed, but there are penalties for withdrawing it or making threats with it. In sum, Ansar Allah is a genuine, Indigenous Yemeni movement that led the only real and successful revolution of the so-called Arab Spring. It has been subject to dirty war and siege by Washington and its allies precisely because it is an independent movement. The Yemeni Revolution shares many values with the Iranian Revolution but remains a distinct revolutionary force and a key addition to the regional resistance, especially since the collapse of Damascus. The strength of the revolutionary government in Sanaa and its commitment to the Palestinians can best be appreciated through an understanding of the unique mix of Ansar Allah values and their mass support in Yemen. https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/understanding-yemen-2-2ansar-allah-values References: Abdul Malik al-Houthi, (2025) ‘Ansar Allah leader says US war failed to stop Yemen, reaffirms support for Palestine’, The Cradle, 8 May, online: https://thecradle.co/articles/Ansar Allah-leader-says-us-war-failed-to-stop-yemen-reaffirms-support-for-palestine Ahmed, Omar (2021) ‘Why Yemens was the only real revolution, post-Arab Spring’, Middle East Monitor, 12 November, online: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20211112-why-yemens-was-the-only-real-revolution-post-arab-spring/ al-Fasly, Mahmoud Sagheer (2015) ‘Witnessing the Yemeni Revolution’ in Voices of the Arab Spring, Columbia University Press, online: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7312/alsa16318-037/html Al Hadaa, Karima (2017) ‘The Dynamics of the Houthi-GPC alliance’, The Yemen peace project, 2 June, online: https://www.yemenpeaceproject.org/blog-x/houthi-gpc-alliance Almahfali, Mohammed and James Root (2020) ‘How Iran’s Islamic Revolution does, and does not, influence Houthi rule in Northern Yemen’, Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies, 13 February, online: https://sanaacenter.org/publications/analysis/9050 al-Qarawi, Hisham (2011) The Yemeni Revolution: replacing Ali Abdullah Saleh, or replacing obsolete institutions?, Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies, Doha Institute, online: https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/lists/ACRPS-PDFDocumentLibrary/Yemeni_Revolution.pdf Al-Mouallimi, Abdallah Y.  (2017) ‘It’s Up to the Rebels to Stop Yemen’s War’, New York Times, 3 October, online: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/opinion/yemen-war-houthis.html Amos, Deborah (2015) ‘For Yemens Ousted President, A Five-Star Exile With No End In Sight’, NPR, 14 June, online: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/06/14/413913530/for-yemens-ex-president-a-five-star-exile-with-no-end-in-sight Anderson, Tim (2023) ‘The Betrayal of Yemen’, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies, online: https://counter-hegemonic-studies.site/yemen-w/ Ardemagni, Eleonora (2024) ‘Beyond the Axis: Yemen’s Houthis are Building their ‘Network of Resistance’, RUSI, 18 November, online: https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/beyond-axis-yemens-houthis-are-building-their-network-resistance Bell, Steve (2022) ‘Time to end, not escalate, the war on Yemen’, Stop the War Coalition UK, 24 January, online: https://www.stopwar.org.uk/article/time-to-end-not-escalate-the-war-on-yemen/ Bransten, Jeremy (2006) ‘Middle East: Rice Calls For A New Middle East, RFERL, 25 July, online: https://www.rferl.org/a/1070088.html Carboni, Andrea (2021) ‘The Myth of Stability: Infighting and Repression in Houthi-Controlled Territories’, Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED), 9 February, online: https://acleddata.com/2021/02/09/the-myth-of-stability-infighting-and-repression-in-houthi-controlled-territories/ CCHS (2022) ‘The UN Security Council has betrayed the Yemeni people’, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies, 21 January, online: https://counter-hegemonic-studies.site/unsc-yemen-1/ CEP (2022) ‘Houthis’, Counter Extremism Project, [US Govt led] online: https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/houthis CIA (1990) ‘North and South Yemen: in search of unity’, US Directorate of Intelligence, 19 January, online: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000244584.pdf The post Understanding Yemen 2/2: Ansar Allah values appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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