Former MI6 man Alastair Crooke: propaganda about Iranian massacres is at full blast and is 'almost impossible to correct'

Former MI6 spy and now political analyst Alastair Crooke, talking to Iranian-Brazilian academic Nima Alkhorshid yesterday:

"...what [Trump] ideally wanted was to do a quick operation into Iran, a quick operation that could be projected as punishing Iran for its massacre of the protesters, massacre in inverted commas because we all know how much that's just propaganda and the propaganda also is at full blast in Europe. I mean it is really you know at sort of volume 11. So you read things in the western newspapers about how Iran machine gunned the protesters down and how thousands were killed and it was a slaughter. And many people in America and in Europe now believe this. You know, narratives have become something that it's almost impossible to correct or displace. In fact, you're more or less wasting your energy trying to correct that sort of narrative because he it's now become ingrained. 

"... But this is also a bigger war. It's not just about Iran and its ballistic missiles. It's about Russia. It's about China. It's about BRICS. And it's about America's determination to dominate the energy field, to dominate, if you like, corridors, pathways, naval passages for vessels and to, if you like, impose a siege not only on Iran but on Russia and on China, as they militarised many of the islands adjacent to China. And every day you see ships being seized. I mean not even tankers. I think the Danes have just seized an Iranian container ship because of 'problems in its registration'. It had come from St. Petersburg or something. And this is a bigger war and it's a war of the power of Israel to set and dominate the future of West Asia."

Nima Alkhorshid points out that "Iran didn't know October 7th was going to happen. That's why I don't see that Iran could do something to Hamas to convince them to disarm". Mr. Crooke adds that the Houthis do not take instructions from Iran.

War is a racket

Dr Francis Young

@DrFrancisYoung

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Today has felt like a very medieval day: ‘And behold, on the day after Ash Wednesday the King did send officers to take his brother in charge, and upon Holy Island a wondrous prodigy, a rock with the teeth of a man, etc.’

Lt. General Smedley Butler was the most decorated U.S. Marine at the time when he penned this, taken from his book “War is a Racket”:

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

The true story about the American hostages in Iran 1979-81

This short, riveting talk by Roy Casagranda, a professor of political science in Austin, Texas, tells the truth about the Islamic revolution in Iran and the capture of the American hostages. It was not the way the Western media at the time said it was.

The story you were told about the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square is a US psychop or in other words a pack of lies, by the way.

Has everyone forgotten the invasion of Iraq?

Israel is not the West or any of the West's business. Lawyers are obviously right that a US war against or attack on Iran is against international law - attacking countries unprovoked is very bad. Think Poland 1939, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Panama 1989, Iraq 2003...

But most conservatives on social media somehow think otherwise. Why?

Here's a sensible one, one Scott Horton, an American libertarian with a radio show. He is a rare voice of reason in a world of supposedly conservative idiots.

And this is a truism.

Scott Horton

@scotthortonshow

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Jan 31

You can have America First or you can have Israel Instead. You cannot have it both ways.

A friend sent me this

 

Vortigern invited the English to defend what was then Britain but became England

 

Thank goodness Starmer is not completely pusillanimous but he should condemn an attack on Iran as illegal, immoral and pointless.

The UK is blocking President Trump from using their bases for potential strikes on Iran, per The Times.

UK-US tensions are rising: 1. Block is owing to concerns that it would be a breach of international law 2. Trump has withdrawn support for Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal 3. White House is still reportedly preparing "detailed plans" for a strike against Iran 4. Strikes expected to use both both Diego Garcia and RAF Fairford in the UK 5. These bases are home to America’s fleet of heavy bombers in Europe

Quotations

“Just flatten it [Gaza]. We flattened Berlin. We flattened Tokyo.” US Senator Lindsey Graham in an interview with Sky News Arabia

Glenn Diesen

@Glenn_Diesen

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Ukraine must join NATO, as Russia would never attack NATO. Also, when Russia is done with Ukraine, it will attack NATO.

"If you are going to have a party to the right of the Conservative party, there is not much point in echoing the Conservative party’s past rhetoric on this. After all, it was Boris Johnson who said before becoming prime minister that the British public should accept that mass immigration was something that had just happened and that all efforts should be put into integrating the people already here – only for him to become prime minister, increase the wave of migration several-fold and then make that integration exponentially more difficult." Douglas Murray in the Spectator today

"My research shows that the Oslo Accords was a deal created solely on Israel's premises, where Norway was willingly running a duty for Israel" - Hilde Waage, Professor of History, University of Oslo

"I see you have made three spelling mistakes". Last words of the Marquis de Favras after reading his death sentence before being hanged in 1790