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Privately, Donald Trump thinks that Crimea is part of Russia
16 June 2018
During the G7 dinner at Charlevoix, Donald Trump explained to his partners that he considered that the peninsular of Crimea really belonged to Russia. What is significant is the US President’s reasoning: all the inhabitants of Crimea speak Russian and not Ukrainian.
Up till now, the West was united in accusing Russia of using force to annex Crimea.
The G7’s final communiqué does not seem to include the annexation of Crimea in the dispute with Russia but only the conflict in Eastern (...)
Trump bombed Syria ... to impress China
16 June 2018
In an interview granted on 12 June in Singapore to the US presenter Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump talked about the first bombing that he ordered against Syria way back in April 2017.
Trump recalled that when the Chinese President Xi Jinping was on a state visit to the US, he entertained him at Mar-a-Lago (Florida), Trump’s well known private residence. Trump specified that at the end of the dinner, while pudding was being served, he announced to the Chinese leader that he planned (...)
Syria strengthens its security in the South
16 June 2018
In the South of Syria, the Syrian Arab Army is proceeding to set up batteries of anti-air missiles, specifically along the boundary marking off Syria from the Israeli occupied Golan.
At the same time, Hezbollah forces in this area have started withdrawing to Lebanon.
For several years now, Israel has been making requests for Iranian troops or troops linked to Iran (such as the Lebanese Hezbollah) to withdraw from Southern Syria. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone to Moscow several (...)
Redistributing the cards in Iraq
16 June 2018
The Iraqi Parliament has declared that the legislative elections aimed at reviving its functioning, were irregular. Parliament has revoked the Electoral Commission and has called for the votes to be recounted.
Violence has broken out in Baghdad, resulting in 18 deaths.
Although Moqtada el-Sadr (left in the photo above), winner of the elections that had been annulled, has denounced the manoeuvre of the outgoing parliament, he has appealed to the Iraqi people to lay down their weapons.
A (...)
Austria against political manipulation of Islam
11 June 2018
Enforcing the law on Islam adopted in Feb 2015, the Austrian Minister for Internal Affairs (to the right in the photo) has proceeded to close down 7 mosques and to expel 40 Imams (some of the 260 Imams that are present in the country).
Specifically, the Austrian authorities have reproached these Imams for organizing a ceremony with children in military uniforms. This goes beyond the cultural limits on their activity imposed by the aforementioned law.
These Imams are members of “Grey (...)
The Outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister challenges the Electoral Commission
11 June 2018
The outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, has denounced the serious irregularities during the Iraqi legislative elections. In particular, he has accused members of the Independent Electoral High Commission (IEHC) of rigging the electronic votes that operated from abroad.
Al Abadi announced his intention for a pre-emptive ban on members of the IEHC leaving the country while waiting for a judicial decision.
For its part, the IEHC has already annulled the results of more than a (...)
Relations between President Trump and Macron deteriorate
11 June 2018
While the Elysee restricts itself to communicating that a telephone conversation had taken place between the French President and the US President on 1 June 2018, the White House has started leaking bits of it.
It seems that the conversation did not go very well: Emmanuel Macron started by making a “frank” criticism of US policy, and Donald Trump made withering comments to him in return. The interview probably ended with insults in both directions.
We need to go a long way for the French (...)
US PaCom is now the US IndoPaCom
11 June 2018
During a ceremony at Pearl Harbour, on 30 May 2018, the US Defense Secretary, James Mattis, announced that the US PaCom (literally the US Command in the Pacific) was to become the US IndoPaCom.
The General did not seek to clarify the reasons for this change. All he said was that the area that the Command would cover would include both the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
Admiral Harry Harris, the outgoing commander of this CoCom (Unified Command for Combat), has specified that “the time (...)
Will 7 million Iraqis be deprived of water this summer?
11 June 2018
According to the Iraqi Minister of Hydraulic Resources, this summer around 7 million people could be without water and therefore would have to be moved to other regions of the country.
Over the last year, several sources of water have seen their level drop drastically. The two images above are two photos of one of the principal basins of the country. The first (on the left) was taken on 25 May 2017 and the second (on the right) was taken a year later. The drop in the level of water is (...)
US could pull out of Syria
11 June 2018
The Syrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Walid Mouallem, has invited the United States to withdraw its troops from the country prior to the foreign forces that have participated in defending the Syrian Arab Republic, withdrawing.
The Pentagon has a presence both in Syria’s South (Al-Tanf) and the North (the area occupied by the Kurdish YPG).
If the US were to withdraw its troops from Al-Tanf, then the Lebanese Hezbollah would retreat from the South. For quite some time now, the Hezbollah (...)
Mortar Shells Fired from Gaza
1 June 2018
On 29 May 2018, 25 mortar shells fired from the Gaza strip fell on Israel. The firing of these mortar shells been coordinated for precisely 6.59 a.m., from different points along the frontier. The operation had been carefully prepared and had caught the Israeli Intelligence Services offguard.
The shots had been from a very short range. This made it very difficult for the Dome of Iron to intercept. However, there were no victims.
This is the most important Palestine military operation in (...)
Muslim Brotherhood Ideologue, Sayyid Qutb, was a Free Mason
29 May 2018
The Egyptian historian, Helmi Nimnim has just published a new biography of Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966). Qutb theorized jihad as interpreted by the Muslim Brotherhood.
In this book, the historian reproduces an article that Qutb had written, entitled “Why I became a freemason” published in the journal al-Taj al-Masri (the “Crown of Egypt”) on 23 April 1943, i.e., before Qutb journeyed to the United States and became part of the Muslim Brotherhood.
A number of authors have already signalled the (...)
Secret Negotiations between Israel and Iran
29 May 2018
The centre right Israeli daily newspaper, Maariv declares that last week, Israel and Iran took part in secret negotiations in Jordan.
According to Maariv, the negotiations took place in a plush hotel in Amman, the capital of Jordan. It appears that the Israeli delegation included several higher officials and the Vice-Director of Mossad. As for the Iranian delegation, it was headed by Iran’s ambassador to Jordan.
The two delegations never actually managed to meet face-to-face: a Jordanian (...)
The Knesset could officially support the creation of a Kurdistan
24 May 2018
The Knesset: The Likud and Israel Beytenou have introduced a draft law to give statutory force to Israel’s undertaking to promote the creation of a Kurdish State, in any of the following territories: Turkey, Syria or Iraq.
During the Cold War, Israel struck up an alliance with the Iraqi Kurds and promoted Mustafa Barzani to the rank of an official of the Israeli National Intelligence Agency, Mossad. In contrast, Israel fought with the Turkish Kurds, including those that took refuge in (...)
Germany, United States and United Kingdom had the Novichok
24 May 2018
According to the German press, in the eighties the Bundesnachrichtendienst (the German Federal Intelligence Services — BND) got hold of a sample of Novichok through an ex-Soviet defector.
It is highly likely that Germany would shared this product with the United States and the United Kingdom in order to develop methods of protections and anti-poisons.
This revelation contradicts the theory immediately put forward by Theresa May’s government that only Russia was able to produce the nerve (...)
The US Deep State and the Trump Campaign
24 May 2018
According to NBC, the FBI informant on Russian interference in the US Presidential electoral election is no other than Stefan Halper. Today, this former CIA agent is a professor at Cambridge (United Kingdom) and heads a private intelligence company.
Halper is the son-in-law of Ray S. Cline, an eminent personality in the CIA during the sixties and seventies. During the election campaign in the 1980s, Halper worked for George H. Bush (father), a former Director of the CIA who went on to (...)
Canada bans Venezuelans living on its territory from electing their president
20 May 2018
Canada has just notified Venezuela’s ambassador of the prohibition on organizing polling stations for the Venezuelan Presidential elections.
This decision contravenes the Vienna Treaty on Consular Relations. France and Germany mirrored this action in 2014: both these states violated the aforementioned treaty when they prohibited Syrian ambassadors from organizing polling stations when the Syrian Presidential election took place in June 2014 .
Canada, France and Germany are claiming to (...)
Russia will not hand over S-300 to Syria
14 May 2018
Russia will not hand over anti air-system S-300 to Syria. So declared Vladimir Kozhin, the foreign aid adviser to the Kremlin.
The declaration came following two events: the visit of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, to Moscow on 9 May and the missile fire exchange on 10 May between forces present on both sides of the line of demarcation of Golan occupied by Israel.
Moscow had mentioned that it might hand over the anti air system S-300 following the Western bombing (United (...)
Guatemala’s President against the ICAIG, Sweden and Venezuela
14 May 2018
Guatemala has requested that the ambassadors of Sweden (Anders Kompass) and Venezuela (Elena Alicia Salcedo Poleo) be replaced.
These two diplomats very actively supported the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (ICAIG). This Commission, established by the United Nations and approved by the Guatemalan Assembly, is tasked with helping the Attorney General and the country’s police.
President Jimmy Morales has already tried to expel the Commission’s President after the (...)
US applies sanctions against Iran
14 May 2018
US President, Donald Trump, has issued the following edict to all countries and private businesses: you have between 90 to 180 days, depending on the sector you’re in, to wrap up all your business with Iran.
Sanctions on metal, currency, debt and every type of automotive vehicle, will apply from 7 August.
Sanctions relating to the banking and oil sector will apply from 5 November.
In the European Union, some are groaning and requesting exemptions, at least to allow contracts that have (...)
Novichok: Czech Prime Minister contradicts his President
8 May 2018
Contradicting the comments of Miloš Zeman (President of Czech Republic), the Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babiš, tweeted: “The Czech Republic has never produced, developed nor even stocked any substance belonging to the Novichok group”.
In a communiqué, he made the following specific points:
• What was factually accurate was that his country had carried out a micro-synthesis of a substance belonging to the Novitchok group in the context of a military programme aimed at ensuring the (...)
The Tunisians reject their political system
8 May 2018
On 6 May, Tunisians were called to elect their local councils. Only 33 % of them voted, which clearly deprives those who were elected of democratic legitimacy.
In the past, municipal councils were appointed and not elected. However, the powers they were conferred with were minimal. However, a new Code regulating Local Authorities adopted last month, would appear to increase their responsibilities.
Two parties dominated the ballot: the Islamists of Ennahda (the Muslim Brotherhood) and the (...)
Lebanon elections: less than one out of two voters
7 May 2018
After nine years in which no national consultation on universal suffrage took place, on 6 May 2018, Lebanon held legislative elections.
Each voter is assigned to a registered religious community. Which community you are allocated to is hereditary and has nothing to do with your faith or lack of faith.
A new electoral law guaranteed the status quo: the number of MPs by religious community was fixed in advance. Similarly, the offices of the President of the Assembly and Prime Minister were (...)
France proposes to change the by laws of the OIAC
6 May 2018
For several months, members of a “small group” (Saudi Arabia, the United States, France, Jordan and the United Kingdom) have been trying to eliminate Russia from the UN Security Council.
In the same vein, France has just proposed amending the by-laws of the OIAC, the organization tasked with checking the application of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons – amendments which will lead to changing the meaning of the Treaty—.
The idea is that, since Russia is challenging the (...)
Leader of the Syrian armed Opposition robs organization of 47 million dollars
6 May 2018
Several leaders of the Army of Islam (the jihadist group that was once set up in Eastern Ghouta), believe that the head of their organization, Mohammed Alloush, has fled after stealing 47 million dollars from the organization.
Mohammed Alloush (face on in the photo with Staffan de Mistura) is Zahran Alloush’s cousin. Zahran founded the jihadist group and died in December 2015. The head of the Alloush family was their grandfather, a Wahhabite preacher who had sought refuge in Saudi Arabia (...)
Czech Republic produced Novichok
6 May 2018
During an televised interview broadcast on TV Barrandov, the President of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman (see photo), has indicated that he commissioned his secret services to produce a report on the Russian allegation that it was probably his country that had produced Novichok, the same substance used in Salisbury to poison the Russian agent Serguei Skripal and his daughter, Julia.
“We must conclude that our country has produced and tested an [agent of the class] Novichok, although [it (...)
Lafarge was working for the French Secret Services in Syria
28 April 2018
The French judicial investigation into the relationship between the French group Lafarge and jihadist groups committed to destabilizing the Syrian government, has just shed light on the close ties between this transnational and the French Secret Services.
Lafarge is a transnational group whose core business is manufacturing cement. Judge Charlotte Bilger, tasked with investigating into a complaint filed by several of Lafarge’s former employers, has ended up extending her investigations into (...)
US stumped by a Russian e-war
28 April 2018
Intervening on 24 April 2018 at the GEOINT 2018 Symposium, General Raymond A. Thomas III (Commander-in-Chief of Special Operations (USSOCOM)), has revealed the extent of the e-war between the United States and “the enemy” (Russia understood).
He considers “the enemy” is succeeding in disrupting or systematically disabling the US systems in Syria making it impossible for the Pentagon to survey the combat zone. During the tripartite attack of 14 April, the Russian army succeeded in hacking the (...)
The Second Brussels Conference: Lebanon expressed its opposition
28 April 2018
On 25 April 2018 the Second Conference of Brussels in support of Syria and the other countries in the region, organized by the European Union and the United Nations, was brought to a close.
The donor states put on show their desire to help Lebanon to continue to provide shelter to the Syrian refugees for as long as it takes to come up with a political solution for Syria . Accordingly, they entreated host countries to give legal status to refugees even if they return on a temporary basis (...)
17 eyewitnesses testify before the OPCW
28 April 2018
Upon the request of Russia, on 27 April, 17 eye witnesses of the alleged chemical attack that took place at Douma, came to testify before the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemcial Weapons. Every one of these 17 witnesses confirmed that this chemical attack never took place.
These individuals are Syrian citizens that appear in a video that the White Helmets has broadcast across the world as proof of a “chemical attack” in Douma where the directors of this hospital are based. (...)
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