mina posted a link to some pictures and history of the middle east. it is very cool.. thanks mina!
john helmer wrote some really interesting article on Zbigniew Brzezinski/us foreign policy related. check his site out if interested.. http://johnhelmer.net/

Posted by: james | Jun 3 2017 19:01 utc | 3

Syrian Army liberates Maskanah, ISIL expelled from Aleppo

Minutes ago, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) announced the full liberation of the key town of Maskanah in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.

IS is now completely cleaned out of the Allepo governante by the SAA.
The Iraq PMU are rapidly advancing down and securing the Iraq-Syria border.
And the SAA are massing huge amounts of troops to clear out the terrorists in Daara.
It is desperation time for the US regime:
* The giant sections of Syria and Iraq on maps greyed out with claims of being under IS control is rapidly shrinking. And with those sections so goes the US regime’s pretext for their proxy terror war against Syria.
* The US regime clowns riding around with their mercenary terrorist buds in the Eastern Syrian desert are quickly being surrounded by the SAA and PMU on both sides of the border
* The Russian desecalation zones have been holding with little to no incidents allowing massive numbers of Syrian troops to be freed up for offensive action in the North and East and the ability of the US regime to manufacture fake ‘chemical attacks’ and ‘last hostipital destroyed’ PR camapaigns has been mostly neutralized
* More and more Iraqis in the North of the Iraq are joining with the PMU which is further destroying the US regime’s hopes of carving out some sort of giant US base spanning across norther Iraq and Syria
One has to assume the neocons are desperately hoping one of their goofballs gets killed along with their FSA terrorists buddies near al-Tanf to be used as a pretext to start a massive air campagin against the SAA and PMU.
If not, the only hope the US regime has left appears to be a full scale invasion of both Syria and Iraq.

Posted by: sandra_m | Jun 3 2017 20:48 utc | 5

#3 those are great reads for sure.
#5 Yep go SAA on Aleppo and I just read somewhere that the thugs tried to return to Jordan but died. It’s a one way deal.

Posted by: jo6pac | Jun 3 2017 21:21 utc | 7

@8 cd
Theresa May, Home Secretary. In office, 12 May 2010 – 13 July 2016. 6+years. Long enough to make a few lasting connections. Funny that al-Qaeda™ ISIS™ (insert terror brand name here) released a picture of a gun, knife and truck requesting followers to kill Christians for Ramadan triggers an obliging few on London Bridge, Borough Market & Vauxhall.

Posted by: MadMax2 | Jun 3 2017 23:06 utc | 9

All I can say is these Times of Tribulation is: Long Live the Resistance:
#SAA #Hezbollah #PMU #RuAF #IRGC #Selah

Posted by: Lozion | Jun 3 2017 23:47 utc | 11

@12 gs
from my perspective corbyn needs to hang all the tory terrorism in britain around the necks of the tories, where it belongs (and purge the blairite-neotors from labour after the election). the tories (blairites) richly deserve their albatross neckwear, and ordinary britains must have had their fill of arming and supporting tory terrorists by now.

Posted by: jfl | Jun 4 2017 0:45 utc | 13

Interesting to see that control of whatever London is has been given to the Police rather than MI5 counter intelligence whose latest excuse appears to be that the change from human intelligence to data capture has left them lost searching for needles in haystacks amongst all the garbage data.
There is no doubt that May really screwed up as Home Secretary her programs such as PREVENT which is meant to divert brit born Muslims from the path has been badly implemented due to pressure on Muslim leaders to inform rather than influence and the decisions to cut funding to charities which are at the pointy end trying to deliver services to the poorest most oppressed.
That’s not to forget the mess created by recruiting funding and encouraging jihadists to carry out englander foreign policy objectives then come home and be quiet little brits living in a terrace house drinking cups of tea and moaning about the weather.
Still I do have to say I reckon people are being far too optimistic about the election. Mr Corbyn has energised the party and turned it around no doubt about that, but the vote could still result in an increased majority for May.
The reasons are many but the biggest one is the anti-Labour swing that occurred immediately after the last election when the neolib faction of the labour party did some incredibly selfish and stupid things such as backing the government on welfare cuts (it was his refusal to go along with that which really bought Mr Corbyn to the fore).
The result was a massive drop in support for the labour party. The later actions of the neolibs to destabilise Mr Corbyn after he won leadership compounded all this to the point that even Labour picking up 15-18% over the campaign could leave the tories stronger than they currently are.
I simply don’t trust media outlets such as the graun who are perfectly capable of insinuating Mr Corbyn is going to win big so that when he doesn’t even tho he has vastly improved the party’s position the graun etc can get back to stirring for the neolibs to take back control.
The Oxbridge Parachute Club has many ‘chums from uni’ working at the graun.
They scratch each others back the graun pushs for some bourgeois no hoper to be parachuted into some seat ‘up north’ which really pisses off the local branch of the party but they are loyal labour people so up until recently they went along with it.
Parachutists treat locals patronisingly, so alienates members (see Angela Eagle who has always been more interested in pushing gay & lesbian issues than raising the incomes of all in her constituency).
Jeremy Corbyn has stopped that rot but it remains to be seen how much impression he has made on the derps who lap up what they are told by the Daily Mail. As contemptuous as we all are of those types an election cannot be won without winning a deal of em over.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jun 4 2017 0:53 utc | 15

@17 did
4 or 5 days … no real need to speculate … we’ll see what’s what soon enough.

Posted by: jfl | Jun 4 2017 1:03 utc | 17

BBC: British rebels attack Theresa May strongholds in London

Posted by: b | Jun 4 2017 1:11 utc | 19

@21 b – link from 2012

UK Prime Minister David Cameron urged newly re-elected US President Barack Obama to work with him to “do more” to end the conflict.
He said the US and its allies should do more to “shape the opposition, outside Syria and inside Syria, and try to help them achieve their goal – which is our goal – of a Syria without [President Bashar al-] Assad”.

failing in syria, tory terrorists strike back at the infidels at ‘home’.

Posted by: jfl | Jun 4 2017 2:06 utc | 21

https://twitter.com/Larissacostas on the coming Maidan a la Venezuela.

Posted by: ruralito | Jun 4 2017 2:30 utc | 23

@14: Well, that’s geography for you. These Gulf States are way too close to Iranian weapons for comfort. They know that if things go badly, they’ll get hit, they can’t do much against it. Sure, it wouldn’t be as bad as a Korean War for Seoul – which is closer to N. Korea and targetted by far more missiles and artillery -, but the damages would still be huge, loss of life (including their own nationals) would be massive, and tourism would be dead.
I guess the local fools are slowly realizing that you don’t try to build your future replacement economy on tourism and big events like World Cup and World Fair, and then try to foster a regional war that would ruin all your efforts. Well, sure, the Axis was on the process of doing all of that, but they just wanted to use these world events as show of force and propaganda, not as tourist magnets.
Saudi wahhabi leaders don’t give a crap, because they live far from the coast. It’s mostly Shias who live on the Gulf shore, so they don’t give a crap if Iran bombs them or not – though a regional war with Iran might trigger a sizable Shia revolt there, something that the Saudi leadership doesn’t seem to take into account, weirdly.

Posted by: Clueless Joe | Jun 4 2017 2:42 utc | 25

We all talk about the problems and we analyse the numbers. Nobody however draws the necessary conclusions.
Hidden Debt
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Global Pension Underfunding
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Since in an electoral political system fundamental reform is impossible, the best we could hope for is a slow down in the progression of this arithmetical reality.
The necessary conclusion however, is that within the following 20 years, some 150 million Western citizens that are today between the ages of 25 and 55 must, somehow, be gotten rid of. This is a necessarily rough estimate of course.
Nonetheless, the arithmetical underpinning of this monetary system guarantees that the monetary authority has a vested interest in, at best, not solving economic crisis. Quite the contrary actually.
Increasing social tensions/dislocations are guaranteed throughout Europe and the USA as is expanded geopolitical turmoil for the next 20 years at the very least.

Posted by: guidoamm | Jun 4 2017 3:47 utc | 27

– “Trump tumbles into the Saudi-Israeli trap” (???????????)
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/06/03/trump-tumbles-into-saudi-israeli-trap/
(Agree, when it comes to foreign policy Trump is an amateur and therefore can easily misled by people like Netanjahu & the saudi government)

Posted by: Willy2 | Jun 4 2017 4:25 utc | 29

I was just wondering how Obama gets the reception he gets wherever he goes. He’s treated as a rock star.
Does nobody read MoA and understand how if he’s not the antichrist he’s the closest thing since Hitler? I mean, he actually used drones to kill people.
Instead we have a lot of hateful people trying to call down Trump who is actually the best person we have ever seen in that office. He loves Russia and has decided to forego the climate deal that was set up expressly to screw the US. He understands that the Saudis are truly their best friends. Some sense is finally coming into the diplomatic scene.
Thank fuck Obama is gone. Thank fuck we have a US president that is willing to undo any legislation he was able to enact. Obama was truly evil. We can only see that now after having a real man like Trump take the reins.
The world is in much better shape now. I used to think Trump was bad news. I was wrong. He’s great, just look at the progress he’s made. The world is much better off. I’m tired of winning and we’ve only just started.

Posted by: peter | Jun 4 2017 4:29 utc | 31

MI5 & MI6’s radio & TV broadcaster, BBC, have taken the brakes off the propaganda effort. It’s in Full Spectrum Dumbinence mode from now until the election. Listening to BBC Global’s radio coverage of the conflicting witness stories of the latest london bridge ter’rist massacre, this morning, I was wondering why the BBC is broadcasting such confusing on-the-spot stories if not to cause pre-emptive confusion – before the cops decide on an Official Version.
I had to laugh because, before I went to sleep last night I listened to BBC World Service tying themselves in knots over Syria’s Foopball team. BBC was trying to resolve a non-question about a united foopball team from a disunited country (and with a President who “kills his own people”). The broadcast was spoilt, somewhat, by the BBC’s failure to explain why the opinion of the UK, BBC, MI5 and MI6, about who should or shouldn’t rule Syria, matters to anyone outside Pefidious Albion Land?

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jun 4 2017 5:01 utc | 33

peter | Jun 4, 2017 12:29:17 AM | 35
This is humorous satire, yes?

Posted by: V. Arnold | Jun 4 2017 5:29 utc | 35

I’m not gonna speculate on the motives of who cut up englanders last night. This early in the piece a cui bene case can be made for the tories, but there are also plenty of really angry young brit muslims who cannot see a bigger picture than vengeance who could have decided to ‘martyr’ themselves because they could.
AFAIK this was a very low tech action – not that dissimilar to the actions of young Palestinians on the west bank. Some of those have been put up jobs by the IDF sure, but equally some have been what they seemed to be.
When dealing with the soldiers at the pointy end it is smart to remember that even if they have been led up the garden path, there is a strong possibility that whoever ‘handled’ them deceived them as well – so getting serious about preventing actions cannot just be about discovering who is in the shadows.
It is vital to deal with issues of poverty, alienation and the imperialist actions of englanders in the ME over the last 3 centuries so that muslim brits aren’t regarded as being unbrit and more importantly they don’t feel as though being unbrit is the only honourable ooption.
The brits screwed up the war in Ireland exactly the same way. Most Irish living in england had no intention of blowing up their neighbours but the attitude of law enforcement and the englander government towards Irish certainly encouraged many of them to empathise with those who did bomb.
The grandstanding by May & her ilk could scratch up a few more votes sure, but it will also cause more ordinary Muslim brits to reject ‘britness’.
This is the way careerist politicians destroy communities for the sake of selfish short term ‘wins’ – a firing squad is too good for them.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jun 4 2017 5:41 utc | 37

@b| 21
Smacks of gloating to me!!

Posted by: AtaBrit | Jun 4 2017 6:08 utc | 39

blues goes to WAR!!!
This is absolutely the very last thing that could happen. So yet it does.
The war will be fought against the “social choice” theorists. Against the election methods theorists.
Maybe this is not the right approach. I don’t know.
All I know is that the struggle must begin somewhere.
I do not know how wise it is to face off against all those mathematicians, computer scientists, economists, game theorists, political scientists, et al.
But I don’t care the truth about election methods and real democracy must come out.
My little blue book will be on a small website near you soon. Expect us.

Posted by: blues | Jun 4 2017 6:49 utc | 41

Posted by: Willy2 | Jun 4, 2017 12:27:37 AM | 34
It did not last time. She has been cutting 20.000 police from the beat as home secretary – “because it is all cyber nowadays”.
It also was her government that reduced the threat level taking soldiers from the streets.
All depends now who the attackers were. They seem to be less professional than the Manchester attack so might have been copycat by confused youth.
Who was responsible that this type of Bridge attack – driving into groups of people crossing the Thames – was possible a second time? Traffic in London is restricted anyway.

Posted by: somebody | Jun 4 2017 7:16 utc | 43

The amazing story of the
UK government review of the Muslim Brotherhood

“Notwithstanding his knowledge, experience, and professional integrity, Sir John Jenkins’s concurrent service as UK ambassador to Saudi Arabia made his appointment to lead the Muslim Brotherhood Review misguided. It created the impression that a foreign state, which was an interested party, had a private window into the conduct of a UK Government inquiry…This has undermined confidence in the impartiality of the FCO’s work on such an important and contentious subject.”
…
Another point the Committee makes is actually in agreement with the prior report that the Brotherhood should not be designated as a terrorist organization. The Committee states “the evidence so far in Egypt is that if the Muslim Brotherhood supported or condoned violence, then Egypt would be a far more violent place today”.

Posted by: somebody | Jun 4 2017 7:50 utc | 45

Just out today June 3, 2017 World is One News. WION examines global issues with in-depth analysis. Dr. Bashar al-Assad. The interviewer was not hostile compared with MSM. Syria has few frens besides Russia Federation, China, Iran and others… India is a fren of Syria. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xipylM55HUU

Posted by: OJS | Jun 4 2017 9:00 utc | 47

@50 mina
i posted a link to your second the last time you asked.
i don’t yet see a link to your first.
ghostscript said use facebook, if you’re a facebook user.

Posted by: jfl | Jun 4 2017 9:12 utc | 49

America’s Liberal Progressive Gleichschaltung. http://wsenmw.blogspot.com/2017/05/americas-liberal-progressive.html
Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas. http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/02/obama-a-hollow-man-filled-with-ruling-class-ideas/
Wikileaks Proves Hillary Disclosed Classified Secrets To Foreign Leaders For Cash! http://12160.info/page/wikileaks-hillary-disclosed-secrets-cash

Posted by: rawdawgbugfalo | Jun 4 2017 11:04 utc | 51

So all in all, we know that 1) these jihadists are homegrown in the UK and other Western countries like France, the Balkans, and so on, 2) backed for shady operations abroad by the Western governments, 3) mostly funded by Saudi Arabia, an ally of the West.
The only thing that is left to discover is why they attack people in the West. It looks like a case of “biting the hand that feeds”, but of course it’s something else. But what?

Posted by: Lea | Jun 4 2017 11:18 utc | 53

Another blowback, this is after all the UK that arm and support the same terrorists in the Middle East and Africa.

Posted by: Anonyous | Jun 4 2017 11:24 utc | 55

@Somebody | 44
There’s been pressure building on Qatar since the Guardian report “to review Washington’s alliance with Qatar because the latter stands on the side of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, against the Israeli occupation, and supports the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Should be a much longer list were our great elites to wield their moral indignation without prejudice!
@Laguerre | 50
Even the Telegraph had to admit May’s crash and dive performance, but still it produced a poll suggesting that the Tories would win with an 11 seat majority!
There is no underestimating the importance of this general electionfor the UK.

Posted by: AtaBrit | Jun 4 2017 11:39 utc | 57

Thanks! Why shld i use fb? To help get them cash for their snuff vids and helping hate speech spread or kids see violence and be traumatized? Or psychotics get their moment of fame by posting online murders?
Gem at the end of the article: they are especially looking for those with experience in chemicals. No doubt they know there is a bunch of specialists there.

Posted by: Mina | Jun 4 2017 12:05 utc | 59

>>>> Lea | Jun 4, 2017 7:18:24 AM | 53

The only thing that is left to discover is why they attack people in the West. It looks like a case of “biting the hand that feeds”, but of course it’s something else. But what?

You’ve heard the saying “the enemy of our enemy is our friend” well that is often complete bollocks because in the Middle East after a couple of thousand years of invasions and colonization it’s more a case of “the enemy of our enemy hates us as much as he hates his enemy”. The deep cynicism of the concept of that saying and accompanying hypocrisy and violence just turbocharges the hatred.
Look at Libya and Syria, at the behest of Qatar and Saudi Arabia we destroyed the most developmentally advanced state in Africa and replaced it with what? Nothing. And the countries which took no refugees from Libya, suffer the least damage. Guess which ones they are? And we in the west are stupid enough to believe that the Libyans, Syrians and perhaps other Muslims should love us for destroying their countries to protect the despots in the Gulf from the so-called Arab Spring.

Posted by: Ghostship | Jun 4 2017 12:12 utc | 61

A Moslem mayor in London? It does not seem to makes much difference!

Posted by: virgile | Jun 4 2017 13:23 utc | 63

Posted by: Lea | Jun 4, 2017 7:18:24 AM | 53
I think Saudi/Israel are pressuring Britain (and Qatar) to get rid of the Muslim Brotherhood. If ISIS is a Saudi Proxy and the Muslim Brotherhood a Turkish/Qatar/Western proxy Saudi would find it unfair if they were the only ones to lose their proxy.
It the attacks were state sponsored this would be the motivation. May seems to be going there with her latest announcement that Britain was “too tolerant towards extremism”
But of course the attacks might just be copycat by alienated youth.

Posted by: somebody | Jun 4 2017 13:30 utc | 65

I won’t continue this any further heros cos there is no point in trying to use logic on a ninny, but I would be interested to see where you believe I told you to shut up. I suspect your sadly busy & twisted little head imagines a lot more than it actually sees though doesn’t it?

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jun 4 2017 14:08 utc | 67

“I have the feeling that these attacks could have been a training exercise.”
I had a feeling that London attack was perpetrated by total amateurs. It is a bit horrifying to realize how deadly suicidal individuals can be with some training in explosives or martial arts (recall Breivik).

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Jun 4 2017 14:11 utc | 69

@ Debsisdead | Jun 4, 2017 10:08:41 AM | 69
Your delusional friend accused me of lying a few posts ago and when challenged to produce ‘evidence’, went completely unhinged. Maybe categorise as just another duhmerikkan imbecile using their Dog given rights to have an opinion, however delusional it may be, thinking that when they run it up a public flagpole that the world must salute it. Good luck with this one, they are already on my elide list.

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Jun 4 2017 14:36 utc | 71

Three general types of FF events: crisis actors engaged in stagecraft – events wherein no one is killed; similar events wherein deaths may occur; real events coordinated by different actors from those whom are blamed (or those whom willingly take credit).
MSM complicity is generally required. Important to remember the famous words attributed to Pedophile Ben Franklin, “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see”.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/
smart-news/why-was-benjamin-franklins-basement-filled-with-skeletons-524521/

Posted by: fast freddy | Jun 4 2017 15:32 utc | 73

Who says the Shiites in the Peninsula are not trying to revolt? They have a powerful enemy to say the least.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/270204/World/Region/Bahrain-shuts-down-prominent-newspaper-amid-crackd.aspx
(this comes after 100s of arrests among the Shiite opposition in the latest weeks)
https://sputniknews.com/world/201706011054210763-saudi-arabia-qatif-explosion/
http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/two-terrorists-killed-in-qatif-blast-saudi-official
(also after a series of protests)

Posted by: Mina | Jun 4 2017 15:39 utc | 75

@Grieved | 14
It’s London bloody Bridge!
The chances of a bbc crew being around are pretty flipping high given the proximity to the city, parliament, commuter centres etc. durimg the final week of election Campaigning and polling!!

Posted by: AtaBrit | Jun 4 2017 15:48 utc | 77

@61 ghostship.. good response to lea… thanks for that..
put heros and any look-a-likes on ignore..

Posted by: james | Jun 4 2017 16:16 utc | 79

@52 jfl and others
To the extent that terrorism has a theory, I’ve always heard that its aim ever since the IRA has been to brutalize the government of a country by attacking its civilians, encouraging ever-stricter security controls on the general populace. Eventually, runs the theory, the government has become so oppressive that the people no longer support it and it becomes ripe for toppling, or else that its opposition to the terrorist platform is, to the people, no longer worth the cost of maintaining, and some compromise becomes possible.
Now that the state sponsorship of terrorism has become so evident, one can tear away the second part of that theory and simply see it all as a way of hardening social control by government. The Gladio thing. It does affect elections, it seems to me, by hardening the security stance of all parties and candidates – and in a security state it hardly matters who’s in the parliament. It raises the level of tension across all of society, puts soldiers on the streets, and makes the populace more compliant. A very egalitarian tyranny.

Posted by: Grieved | Jun 4 2017 16:28 utc | 81

@smuks | 74
Turkey’s biggest fear is a Kurdish state that userps a large part of Southern Turkey. Of course a Kurdish state along its border is hardly something they want to encourage but the key is influence and control over profitable income sources in any ‘Kurdistan’. But the fact is that with Turkish and Syrian Kurds Turkey doesn’t stand a chance at wielding any influence. So, if he can manipulate a Barzani win in a referendum in Iraq he will have a Kurdish state under Turkish influence and Turkey will in no short measure start forcibly relocating other Kurds there. This is, in my opinion, Erdogans goal and one he beleieves will satisfy the US.
Prior to this Turkey must weaken the non Barzani Kurds hand as much as possible to scupper any influemce at the table when settlement time arrives – ways of achieving this are bombing the shit out of them (all areas), ‘managing them politically/ financially’ (Iraq); demographic manipulation thereby diluting the ethnical geographical claims; forced eviction from current geographical locations – as we are seeing in southern Turkey etc.
“Whether or not this new friendship will be permanent depends on Washington’s actions/ degree of support for the Kurds.”
Hardly. Though a lot is being made of US support for Kurds the truth is far, far more complex than simply the Kurdish question. Turkey’s economy is extremely heavily dependent on Europe and Russia. The latter has been proven time and again of late. Also Russia’s growing influence in the region and eastwards means that Russia is a key partner for any meaningful economic future with central asian and asian countries. Not to mention natural resources, regional alliances etc. Another factor to consider is which alliance will best facilitate Erdogan’s creation of his Sunni Sultanate in ‘augmented’ Turkey (- he is almoat certainly out to grab land!) It may be that he continues to swing from one side to the other to distract from his overall plan which is ethnic and sectarian cleansing of his Sultanate.

Posted by: AtaBrit | Jun 4 2017 16:35 utc | 83

Willy2 @29:
After his election I had a vision of Trump as a latter day Herod. Herod was an power seeking, lustful and greedy. The thought of beheading John the Baptist had never even occurred to him in the course of his rise to power, not even on that very night when Salome seduced him and got him suckered into a “deal” that he couldn’t back out of.
Trump will behead John the Baptist, to his eternal ignominy. Character is destiny, after all.

Posted by: nobody | Jun 4 2017 16:52 utc | 85

@61 ghostship
Your rage is justified. We can only hope that both Syria and Iraq can bond as an Arab nation in response to what has befallen it due to foreign aggression over the past 26 years.

Posted by: MadMax2 | Jun 4 2017 16:54 utc | 87

86
Erdogan also has the problem of Hatay.
The “no problems with neighbours” AKP started out with made a lot of sense.

Posted by: somebody | Jun 4 2017 16:55 utc | 89

As seems the norm these days, modern ‘democracy’ is not providing the British electorate with any honest or credible candidates. Corbin I think is honest – but economically he is not credible.
Posted by: Reload | Jun 4, 2017 7:22:25 AM | 54
I am almost sure that he would better not realize every single promise in the manifesto, but he can lead to a positive change. The total collapse of UKIP was supposed to boost Tories before the risk of uncertain Brexit consequences — otherwise why call elections now and not few years later when Brexit will convert Britain to the land of milk and honey? But Tories are not an exemplar of economic credibility anymore (or any other), so why not decide on honesty and good intentions.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Jun 4 2017 17:09 utc | 91

54/93
It seems to me the Conservatives around May are backed by the finance industry – proposing a “hard BREXIT” with setting up Britain as a tax haven with low wages.
This would work for part of British industry but not for all. At present the largest part of British exports go to the EU. There is no way the EU is going to keep their markets open for Britain in this plan.
Germany would lose a market of 7 percent of all exports but they would lose that anyway with Britain’s consumers not able to afford expensive stuff.
Britain would have to find other countries prepared to open their markets and would have to open their own market for them. Doing this as a tax haven would be difficult.
So a large part of British industry would have to go. Multinational would only thrive if Europe allowed British produced goods in without any tariffs – they won’t. What Trump’s US would do is anybody’s guess.
Corbyn’s plan is much better for British industry – take any money saved on European institions and raise taxes to invest whilst keeping the European market open.
If Labour is capable to deliver is another question. But the conservative plan is economic evil.

Posted by: somebody | Jun 4 2017 17:39 utc | 93

Fake vests: so that the police does not come close?

Posted by: Mina | Jun 4 2017 18:14 utc | 95

kuwait, qatar, and dubai see the handwriting on the wall? are they ready follow iranian pipeline routes through syria to the mediterranean and europe?
Posted by: jfl | Jun 3, 2017 8:40:32 PM | 12
I don’t know that there will be an Iranian pipeline, currently Iran is selling its oil to Russia who is processing it and reselling it to the west. I can’t see Russia being up for an Iranian pipeline when it just fought so hard to prevent an alternative. What I do see is the three states above realizing that the New Silk Road is headed to the ME; they want to be part of it rather than continuing along with the very ambiguous US/allies version of a brave new world. Just a guess…

Posted by: frances | Jun 4 2017 18:26 utc | 97

As it’s rare that the MSM or based on such actually publish info that shows that ‘terrorists’ are not just your plain crazed jihadis (no matter what their background, family history, mind-set, etc.) but that all kinds of scenarios can apply… Two recent exs.
masquerading as a ‘terrorist’:
Independent April
Collusion between agents of the State and Coulibaly and Kouachi brothers (Charlie Hebdo attacks):
WSWS 22 May
Needless to say the F MSM have kept quiet about this.
The whole ‘terrorist’ thing, I know, I know, ppl talk about ‘false flags’, and ‘fake’ and ‘hoaxes’ etc. yes.., but it does NOT mean that nobody dies.
Ppl like to see similarities in them, but imho, the differences are just as salient if not more so. Penetrating and understanding the financial, relational, ideological ties, contact circuit, how it works, etc. is a further step. Overall, a modern form of ‘banditry’ with all kinds of low-lifes from different spheres colluding. (Incl. State, para-state, MSM, but not Finance/large Corps – that is for attacks after 9/11 not 9/11 itself. Imho) so it is very varied.

Posted by: Noirette | Jun 4 2017 18:52 utc | 99