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Jean Castex’s first three errors

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 28 July 2020
Without a doubt, Jean Castex is a brilliant senior civil servant. But that does not make him the right man to become Prime Minister of France. He has not thought about how to restore the social pact in the face of financial globalisation and is satisfied with measures to buy social peace in the short term. As soon as he was appointed, he showed that he did not want to reform the political class, that he was content to fight the pandemic by doing as others did, and that he supported the Maastrichian project conceived during the Cold War.

Lebanon faced with its responsibilities

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 22 July 2020
The Lebanese economy has collapsed in seven months. People are starting to go hungry. A solution is possible if the causes of the problem are properly analysed. However, it is still necessary to acknowledge one’s mistakes and to distinguish between what is structural and what emerges from regional problems. It is futile and defamatory to accuse the traditional enemy (Israel) or the brutal ally (the United States) of having caused a problem that has lasted for centuries and has become so anachronistic. It is also dangerous to ignore the evolution of Hezbollah’s current main ally (Iran).

USA: The slippery slope of egalitarian racism

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 14 July 2020
The reactions to the murder of black George Flyod by a white policeman do not refer to the history of slavery in the United States, but - like the systemic opposition to President Trump- to a profound problem in Anglo-Saxon culture: Puritan fanaticism. The domestic violence that rocked this country during the two civil wars of Independence and Secession must be remembered in order to understand current events and prevent their resurgence. Beware: in the United States, the political class now preaches egalitarian racism. All equal, but separate.

The slow disintegration of the Republic in France

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 12 July 2020
For the past three years, a profound protest has been heard throughout France. It has taken on hitherto unknown forms. Claiming to be a republican ideal, it is questioning the way in which political personnel serve the institutions. Faced with it, the President of the Republic monkeys a dialogue that he manipulates at every stage. For Thierry Meyssan, the country’s worst enemies are not those who want to divide it into communities, but those who have been elected and have forgotten the meaning of their mandate.

How the Big Two can establish peace in the Greater Middle East

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 30 June 2020
To make peace, it’s quite simple: you just have to stop making war with each other. But in the Greater Middle East, it is much more complicated, because there are a multitude of actors for whom a solution, whatever it may be, must satisfy conflicting claims. Under these conditions, no peace can be totally just, but it can at least, and must, guarantee the security of all.

Reshaping the Greater Middle East

How Washington intends to triumph

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 23 June 2020
During the quarter of Western lockdown, the map of the Middle East was profoundly transformed. Yemen has been divided into two separate countries, Israel is paralysed by two Prime Ministers who hate each other, Iran openly supports NATO in Iraq and Libya, Turkey occupies northern Syria, Saudi Arabia is close to bankruptcy. All alliances are being called into question and new dividing lines are appearing or rather reappearing.

Racism and anti-racism as lies

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 22 June 2020
The ideologies of anti-racism and racism are based on the same sham: there are separate human races that cannot have healthy common descent; a stupid postulate that everyone can see is nonsense. When questioned on the subject, the proponents of these two ideologies can only ensure that they speak figuratively, but shortly afterwards resume their racial interpretation of humanity and its history. As Thierry Meyssan shows, this passionate couple has never served the interests of anything but the dominant Powers.

Already 10 months of confinement in Jammu and Kashmir

by Moin ul Haque

Paris (France) | 13 June 2020
In the 1920s, the British shaped Islam and Hinduism in their image. They created the Muslim Brotherhood around Hassan el-Banna in Egypt and the SSR around V. D. Savarkar in India. These two political doctrines instrumentalized religions and preached intolerance. When they decolonized the Indian subcontinent, the British made sure that they remained indispensable by dividing it in an unmanageable way. Today, Kashmir is artificially divided between Pakistan and India, both of which claim it in its entirety. Continuing Savarkar’s work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to apply the concept of Hinduism (Hindutva) and to transform the lives of Muslims into a hell. Ambassador Moin ul-Haque explained this tactic.

What the US protests reveal

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 9 June 2020
Anti-racism protests in the United States have rapidly evolved into a promotion of the ideas championed by the Democratic Party. It was no longer a question of fighting for equality in law for all or challenging the prejudices of certain police officers, but of reopening a cultural conflict at the risk of a new Civil War.

Enough with the Consensus Already!

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 2 June 2020
In theory, politicians and doctors who have studied for a long time are scientists. But in practice, few have a scientific approach. No one today wants to take responsibility for the allegedly sanitary measures that have been taken (confinement, social distancing, wearing masks and gloves). They all take refuge behind collegial decisions, the invocation of science and consensus.

The Decolonization of Israel has Begun

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 26 May 2020
For three quarters of a century, an Anglo-Saxon colony, now a US arsenal, has been trying to conquer all the lands from the Nile to the Euphrates (Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and part of Iraq). And for some years now, citizens of this same colony have been aspiring to transform it into a normal state. This conflict of another age has reached a stage with the appointment of a bicephalous government: two prime ministers representing the two political visions are going to paralyze each other. The only progress can only be made in social and health matters, further accelerating the modernisation of society and thus the end of the colonial fantasy.

Washington’s New Anti-China Strategy

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 19 May 2020
Regardless of the anti-Chinese hysteria of the group that imposed Western health policy responses to the Covid-19 epidemic, it demonstrated Western dependence on Chinese manufactured products. This led the Trump administration to move from a desire to rebalance trade to a military confrontation, without however resorting to war. The sabotage of the Silk Roads has officially begun.

Discussion with Thierry Meyssan

The Transformation of Societies on the Occasion of Covid-19 Heralds the Militarisation of Europe

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 12 May 2020
We reproduce a discussion between Thierry Meyssan and a group of students. He explains that the political responses to Covid-19 have no medical purpose. A partially identifiable transnational group seized the opportunity provided by the epidemic to try to impose a profound transformation of European societies, just as it had used the attacks of 11 September 2001 to transform the United States. There is still time to oppose the hierarchisation of the world to come.

The Global Political Project Imposed on the Occasion of Covid-19

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 5 May 2020
The inept reactions of European governments to Covid-19 were dictated by former advisers to Donald Rumsfeld and George W. Bush. Contrary to public rhetoric, they make no medical claims. Far from responding to the reality of the epidemic, they aim to transform European societies in order to integrate them into their political and financial project.

No Longer "Conspirators", but "Traitors"

The EU, NATO, NewsGuard and the Voltaire Network

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 5 May 2020
The propaganda device aimed at stifling dissenting voices has taken a step forward. It is no longer simply a matter of accusing them of committing factual errors or deliberately lying, but of presenting them as traitors in the pay of a foreign power.

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