Canadian officials have repeatedly described Russia's invasion of Ukraine as “unprovoked”. Author of the new book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, Scott Horton, joined Talking Foreign Policy to discuss how NATO expansion, the 2014 coup and subsequent war incited Russia’s devastating February 2022 invasion. Horton also discusses some of Canada's contribution to a war that some Western leaders see as a fight until the last Ukrainian.
The 2025 New Year's edition of False Flag Weekly News, featuring Dr. E. Michael Jones.
A senior BBC editor at the center of an ongoing scandal into the network’s systematic pro-Israel bias is, in fact, a former member of a CIA propaganda outfit, MintPress News can reveal. Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a unit that, by his own admission, was a CIA front group.
Berg is currently the subject of considerable scrutiny after thirteen BBC employees spoke out, claiming, among other things, that his “entire job is to water down everything that’s too critical of Israel” and that he holds “wild” amounts of power at the British state broadcaster, that there exists a culture of “extreme fear” at the BBC about publishing anything critical of Israel, and that Berg himself plays a key role in turning its coverage into “systematic Israeli propaganda.” The BBC has disputed these claims.
Berg came to public attention in December after Drop Site News published an investigation based on interviews with 13 BBC staffers who present him as a domineering figure, systematically blocking coverage critical of Israel and manipulating stories to suit pro-Israel narratives.
The 9000-word report, written by popular journalist Owen Jones, is extensive and well-researched. However, one aspect of the story it almost completely avoids is Berg’s connections to the U.S. national security state, which MintPress News can now reveal.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Berg was an employee of the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) three years before joining the BBC. The FBIS is understood the world over to be a CIA front group known for gathering intelligence for the agency. (more...)
Raffi Berg: BBC Middle East Editor Exposed as CIA, Mossad Collaborator
Background:
It’s time to end Israel’s destruction of Christianity in Palestine
...The death of Carter triggered another possible initiative to be considered as reflected in an email I had received from a friend in the peace movement the day before. My friend was complaining about the lack of any condemnation from world leaders for what is occurring in Palestine and she asked herself what would happen if someone like Pope Francis were to travel to Gaza in a peacekeeping role. Surely even monsters like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have to pay attention to the possible impact of such a proposal and would have to let the Pope visit with the remaining Catholic community in Gaza to help ease their suffering. The Vatican has, in fact, already put out feelers in that direction. On December 22nd it convinced Israeli authorities to allow Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, to enter Gaza and celebrate a pre-Christmas Mass with surviving members of the territory’s small Christian community. A more aggressive move involving the Pope himself might even lead to a ceasefire and something like a peace arrangement that would enable the two communities to work out some formula to live side by side even though it is difficult to imagine such an outcome given the hardline of the Israeli government and its clear intention to proceed with the elimination of the Palestinians.
Organized Christianity, apparently terrified of being labeled antisemitic by the usual strident voices in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), has been largely silent and ineffective when confronted by the systematic Israeli destruction of the Christian faith in the land where it was born. Indeed, America’s largely Bible belt Christian Zionists generally applaud Israeli suppression of what it agrees to call “terrorists.” Pope Francis has in fact bravely spoken out about Gaza and has been as a consequence attacked by the Israeli government and the usual suspects in Europe and the US. Nevertheless, there is no official Catholic church pronouncement on Israel/Palestine as far as I have been able to determine except for calls for peace and a ceasefire, though there are a few activists who have been demanding that a more definitive position be developed. Some American Catholics have even been demonstrating and holding signs in front of churches and diocesan offices urging Pope Francis to go to Gaza. Can individual Catholics persuade their parish priests to take a stronger line and pressure bishops and the church hierarchy to “do something?” I am convinced that this is a movement that is just waiting to happen and that once it starts it will capture the public imagination because it attacks a genocidal horror and is manifestly the right thing to do. Certainly, those who believe that life and also freedom of worship are gifts from God have seen enough posters of dead babies and desecrated churches and hospitals to begin to demand that the Church must harness its moral authority to the cause of peace and make it happen. (more...)
Pope Francis Should Go to Gaza!
Duncan Kinney is an Edmonton-based journalist and editor of a digital publication focused on Alberta politics called The Progress Report.
From scrutinizing police budgets, shining a light on how police handle the city’s unhoused population or drug poisoning crisis and exposing partisan connections between senior officers and Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party, it’s undeniable Kinney plays a role as a critical watchdog of Edmonton Police.
But Kinney has also been a thorn in the side of Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee. In recent years, McFee has publicly butted heads with Kinney and Kinney accuses Edmonton Police of “arbitrarily” revoking his media accreditation.
Then in 2022, following a massive police surveillance operation involving over a dozen officers watching him and his family for seven months, Kinney was criminally charged with vandalizing a “monument to honour persons who were killed or died in consequence of a war” after the words “actual Nazi” were found spray painted on a statue honouring World War Two Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevych.
Kinney, who pleads not guilty to the charges, could face up to 10 years in prison if an Alberta court convicts him of vandalizing a statue honouring a leader of a military unit that massacred Jews in Ukraine.
On this episode of Sources, Stephen Magusiak speaks with Progress Report Editor Duncan Kinney (not to be confused with PressProgress, which is a separate news organization) to explain his ongoing saga with Edmonton Police.
Kinney is currently raising funds for his legal defence.
An assessment of the Trudeau government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The last two years of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s tenure have been marked by a massive escalation of several interconnected geopolitical crises. Canada remains a feeble and largely irrelevant ‘middle power,’ but is nonetheless actively complicit in worsening these already catastrophic crises. This article will focus on one important example: Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The Trudeau government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide highlights both its legacy as a pro-war vassal regime that is fundamentally subservient to American foreign policy, and its consistent appeasement of the Israel lobby. It is a government rank with hypocrisy on human rights and international law, and one whose record ought to finally put to rest the myth that Canada is a “peacekeeping” nation.
Despite its weak statements calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, the Trudeau government continues to allow Canadian-made military goods to flow to Israel under existing export permits. After months of activist-led pressure and protests, it paused approvals of new permits on Jan. 8, 2024, and claimed it had suspended “around 30” existing permits over the summer.
However, it has allowed potentially hundreds of other existing permits that were authorized before Jan. 8, 2024 to continue to be utilized. Meanwhile, a new record was set in 2023 for Canadian military exports to Israel, with $30.6 million worth of goods shipped.
Before announcing the pause on new export permits last year, the Trudeau government deliberately misled the public and attempted to spin data disclosures concerning exports of Canadian military goods to Israel.
As well, there is no clear or official mechanism by which the government is blocking the flow of Canadian military goods that are shipped to Israel via the United States, including components found in the F-35 fighter jet, which Israel is using to bomb Gaza.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly assured the public that she was working to block a potential shipment of Canadian-made mortar cartridges to Israel via the U.S. following a public outcry in August. That pledge came after she initially denied the existence of the potential contract, which had been made public in a U.S. government announcement.
It is unclear whether blocking goods that flow to Israel via the U.S. is a policy that is being applied to all such exports, and not just those that attract public attention. (more...)
Fuelling Genocide: Trudeau’s Bloody Record On Gaza
Just over a year ago, “anti-terrorism” police turned up at the home of writer and Palestine campaigner Tony Greenstein in the English seaside town of Brighton and questioned him over a tweet he had posted saying he supports “Hamas against the Israeli army.” He was arrested and released on restrictive bail conditions.
A few weeks ago, the Crown Prosecution Service charged Greenstein under the notoriously repressive and anti-democratic Terrorism Act 2000, accusing him of expressing “an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organization.”
This serious charge could result in a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
We speak to Tony about the growing repression he and other activists and journalists are facing for their work in support of Palestinian liberation and how they are fighting back.
Nazis at a Crossroads: 'Nation Europa' or European Union
This past summer’s “Nation Europa” conference in the heart of western Ukraine tried to obscure the role of the country’s most powerful neo-Nazi movement (more or less from eastern Ukraine) in launching a new European fascist network. Azov wasn’t invited, they said. This blog’s report on that meeting was largely based on the findings of “Dreznica Goat,” a fellow researcher of the far-right in Ukraine, who called it from the beginning: Azovites didn’t need to invite themselves to their own event.
Earlier in 2024, Azov’s openly neo-Nazi brigade in the Ground Forces of Ukraine announced that a handful of its fighters were launching a summer tour of Europe. Apparently they were expecting to be treated like rock stars. This unit, the 3rd Assault Brigade, is not to be confused with Azov’s other (more famous) brigade in the National Guard, which has made an effort to refine its image for Western liberals.
Much of the tour was cancelled, a month before the “Nation Europa” event, and not long after yours truly revealed that a decorated 3rd Assault fighter visited Auschwitz to mock the Holocaust. He went there wearing a shirt from the Russian-Ukrainian neo-Nazi band “M8L8TH” with a quote attributed to Hitler on the back. Thanks to Dreznica Goat, readers of this blog already learned that the bass guitar player in M8L8TH is a medic in the 3rd Assault Brigade who represented the Nation Europa network at a roundtable of neo-Nazis on Ukraine’s Independence Day.
My article about the conference failed to identify several of the participants, most importantly Andriy Malkov, an organizer of the event, who made multiple speeches and moderated the roundtable discussion. He also appears to have served in the 3rd Assault Brigade, which is commanded by Azov leader Andriy Biletsky. (more...)
An Israeli citizen was beaten up and expelled from Ukraine for drunkenly expressing support for Russia.
— Dreznica goat (@Dreznicagoat) November 8, 2024
I wonder what would happen if a group of football fans would be cheering on Russia bombing Ukraine?🤔 https://t.co/qCje4B1sOB pic.twitter.com/rWGksodcZy
Follow the money and that's exactly what Miles Howe did. Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars are funneled from Canadian charities and Canadian taxpayers to Israel. Many of those charities however go to funding Israel's illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories and its apartheid system. Miles Howe takes us through the tangled web.
Best-selling, Award-winning Palestinian novelist and activist Susan Abulhawa talks about participating in the Oxford Union debate on Israel's genocide. Parts of her speech were censored by the organization. Susan explains she was inspired to partake in the debate by others who had like Malcolm X and James Baldwin. When Susan mentions that the Oxford Union embargoed the speech of another speaker, Miko Peled, for being criminal Katie and Susan point out that by that reasoning, anyone praising Nelson Mandela while he was on the terrorist list would have been breaking the law.
Joining host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report are three courageous individuals who chose to put their careers on the line to fight against Big Tech suppression of voices fighting for Palestinian lives.
Saima Akhter, a former data analyst at Meta; Hossam Nasr, a former software engineer at Microsoft; and Tariq Ra’ouf, a former tech expert at Apple, speak about the internal struggles they dealt with in light of the genocide, which ultimately led to each of their dismissals.
As the world braces for world war and Our Lady of Fatima’s annihilation of nations, Michael Matt’s got some question as this New Year gets underway:
Our Lady of Palestine – who is she and why are Catholic Palestinians imploring her intercession as the Holy Land becomes the epicenter of World War?
Does the fall of Syria mark the beginning of an apocalyptic new world order?
With the U.S. increasingly isolated in its unconditional support of Netanyahu’s war, are we looking the end of the American empire, too?
If its antisemitic to ask these questions, why are Israelis leading Conservatives, Liberals, Christians, and Traditional Catholics in demanding an end to war in Gaza?
IMPORTANT: This episode of the Underground offers a comprehensive argument against the false charge of antisemitism leveled against those who do not support ethnic cleansing in the Holy Land – a worldwide protest movement, by the way, that is being led by Jews!
🚨End of Year Special🚨
George welcomes any views and questions, so come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!
The LaRouche Organization is greeting the New Year with three initiatives, which deserve the support of all people of good will: 1.) Make 2025 a Jubilee Year; 2.) Support the campaign of the Doctors Against Genocide to end U.S. complicity in ethnic cleansing in Palestine; 3) Unmask and break up the Deep State, by mobilizing to insure the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel.
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Tony Greenstein is the co-founder of Britain's Palestine solidarity campaign and the author of "Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation."
