http://fourwinds10.com 2026-03-12T04:48:06+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1639164951 12-10-21 We are on a knife’s edge, working to block the destructive “Build Back Better” (BBB) bill. Wall Street economists believe the odds on passing this bill are 80-90%. But they underestimate you. They don’t know the passion of patriots who will not allow America to become a socialist nation. Now is the time to act. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1615137889 3-7-21 Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger has advised President Joe Biden’s administration to continue to uphold the “brilliant” policy in Middle Eastern politics achieved under the Trump administration. Kissinger, who was secretary of state under the Nixon and Ford administrations, made the remarks during a seminar from the Richard Nixon Foundation focused on national security and foreign policy on March 3. Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), and former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger also participated in the seminar. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1614619622 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1597065080 8-10-20 Among the Most Popular Global Research 2017 Articles This article by award winning author Mahdi Nazemroaya first published by GR in November 2006 (barely a few months after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon) It is of particular relevance  to an understanding of the ongoing process of destabilization and political fragmentation in the Middle East as well as US war plans directed against Lebanon, Syria,  Iran and Yemen.   It also has a bearing on the evolving political crisis in Lebanon, in the wake of the August 4, 2020 tragic Beirut explosion.  GR Editor, August 10, 2020 *      *      * “Hegemony is as old as Mankind…” -Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. National Security Advisor The term “New Middle East” was introduced to the world in June 2006 in Tel Aviv by U. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1574529185 11-22-19 “Two years, three years, five years’ maximum from now, you will not recognize the same Middle East”, says the former Egyptian FM, Arab League Secretary General and Presidential Candidate, Amr Moussa, in an interview with Al-Monitor. Mousa made some unexpected points, beyond warning of major change ahead (“the thing now is that the simple Arab man follows everything” – all the events). And in reference to the protests in Iraq, Moussa says that Iraq is ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1503329622 August 20, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - After WWII, the West had one huge ‘problem’ on its hands: all three most populous Muslim countries on Earth – Egypt, Iran and Indonesia – were clearly moving in one similar direction, joining group of patriotic, peaceful and tolerant nations. They were deeply concerned about the welfare of their citizens, and by no means were they willing to allow foreign colonialist powers to plunder their resources, or enslave their people. In the 1950’s, the world was rapidly changing, and there was suddenly hope that the countries which were oppressed and pillaged for decades and centuries by first the European and then North American geopolitical and business interests, would finally break their shackles and stand proudly on their own feet. Several Communist countries in Eastern Europe, but also newly liberated China, were actively helping with rapid de-colonizing process in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and other parts of the world. Those developments were exactly what the West in general and both the U. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1488221972 FW:  2/27/17       Abdel Aziz Ibn Saud with Sir Percy Cox The covert alliance between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Zionist entity of Israel should be no surprise to any student of British imperialism. The problem is the study of British imperialism has very few students. Indeed, one can peruse any undergraduate or post-graduate British university prospectus and rarely find a module in a Politics degree on the British Empire let alone a dedicated degree or Masters degree. Of course if the European led imperialist carnage in the four years between 1914 – 1918 tickles your cerebral cells then it’s not too difficult to find an appropriate institution to teach this subject, but if you would like to delve into how and why the British Empire waged war on mankind for almost four hundred years you’re practically on your own in this endeavour. One must admit, that from the British establishment’s perspective, this is a formidable and remarkable achievement. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1487779722 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1477068222 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1476718245 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1475944811 October 08, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Counterpunch" - Jean-Paul Pougala’s April 14, 2011 piece in Pambazuka News titled “The Lies Behind the West’s War on Libya” describes how Africa first developed its own transcontinental communications system by purchasing a telecommunications satellite on December 26, 2007: the African Development Bank ponied up $50 million toward the nearly $400 million cost of the orbiter and the West African Development Bank added $27 million more. Libya contributed $300 million, which made the purchase possible. Pougala writes that when it was up and running, the new system was “connecting the entire continent by telephone, television, radio broadcasting, and several other technological applications such as telemedicine and distance teaching.” After 14 years of foot-dragging by the IMF and the World Bank, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s generosity allowed for this one-time purchase that spared the nations of Africa a $500 million annual lease payment for access to a telecom satellite and euchred Western banks out of potential billions in loans and interest. At this time, Gaddafi was also seeking to establish a trans-African banking system based on gold to free the continent from its financial bondage to the IMF and the World Bank—which would gravely harm both predatory entities. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1471627386 August 17, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - "WSWS" -  The entirety of the August 14 print edition of the New York Times Magazine is dedicated to a series titled “Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart,” by Scott Anderson. The series is 60 pages long and includes detailed sketches of the lives of six people from various parts of the Middle East dating back to the years before the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, through the Arab Spring, the rise of ISIS in 2014-15, and the migratory outpouring from the war-torn region. The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jake Silverstein, notes in a foreword to the series: “This is an issue unlike any we have previously published…the subject of this book is the catastrophe that has fractured the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago, leading to the rise of ISIS and the global refugee crisis. The geography of this catastrophe is broad and its causes are many, but its consequences—terror and uncertainty around the world—are familiar to us all.” Silverstein concludes his editor’s note: “It is unprecedented for us to focus so much energy and attention on a single story and to ask our readers to do the same. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1465487456 A few weeks ago, Amin Abadi from the The Kayhan Institute of Teheran asked me for a written interview on “The Tragedy of Syria and the Middle East at Large” – in English. A few days ago the interview was published in Farsi in Kayhan (Cosmos), one of Iran’s most prominent newspapers. Her is the English version. June 08, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - Amin Abadi: What is the major reason for Syrian crisis in your point of view, the crisis that includes massacre of thousands of people and homelessness of too many By 2011 the ‘opposition’ was ready to launch a civil war on behalf of Washington against the Government of Bashar al-Assad, the democratically elected President of Syria, elected with a vast majority; and after five-years of foreign imposed war on the people of Syria, his approval rating is still above 70%. The ‘opposition’ – al-Nusra, al-Qaeda and whatever other names the ‘western friendly’ opposition was given to confuse the public at large by western media, was trained, fed and armed by the CIA, Mossad, Saudi Arabia – and of course, Vassal-Europe’s / NATO secret services. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1457198496 March 04, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Contra Corner" -  Wow. Super Tuesday was an earthquake, and not just because Donald Trump ran the tables. The best thing was the complete drubbing and humiliation that voters all over America handed to the little Napoleon from Florida, Marco Rubio. So doing, the voters began the process of ridding the nation of the GOP War Party and its neocon claque of rabid interventionists. They have held sway for nearly three decades in the Imperial City and the consequences have been deplorable. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1456850009 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1452537607 anuary 10, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - For the whole of the last five years of the Syrian civil war the focal point of the Western policy has been that “Assad must go!” But what difference would it make to the lives of the ordinary Syrians even if the regime is replaced now when the civil war has claimed more than 250,000 lives, displaced half of the population and reduced the whole country of 22 million people to rubble? I do concede that Libya and Syria were not democratic states under Gaddafi and Assad, respectively; however, both of those countries were at least functioning states. Gaddafi was ousted from power in September 2011; four years later, Tripoli is ruled by the Misrata militia, Benghazi is under the control of Khalifa Haftar, who is supported by the Zintan militia, and Sirte is under the effective suzerainty of the Islamic State’s affiliate in Libya. It will now take decades, not years, to restore even a semblance of stability in Libya and Syria; remember that the proxy war in Afghanistan was originally fought in the ‘80s and today, 35 years later, Afghanistan is still in the midst of perpetual anarchy, lawlessness and an unrelenting Taliban insurgency. It’s a plausible fact that the US does not directly supports the Syrian militants, it only sets the broad policy framework and lets its client states in the region like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait and Turkey do the actual financing, training and arming of the insurgents. For instance, the US strictly forbade the aforementioned clients from providing anti-aircraft weapons (MANPADS) to the militants, because Israel frequently flies surveillance aircrafts and drones and occasionally carries out airstrikes in Syria and Lebanon and had such weapons fallen into the wrong hands, it could have become a long term threat to the Israeli Air Force. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1449451413 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1443713381 Sept. 30, 2015 As the UN General Assembly meets, and the world awaits anxiously Russia’s proposals for a solution to the Syrian conflict, it is important to keep in mind how we got into this position in the first place. Before 2003 the Arab world was politically stable. The regimes that ruled the Arab world had all been in power for many years. Without exception they were repressive to varying degrees, were deeply conservative, and had a history of being allied to the US. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1441734948 ALugl. 29, 2015 This document is meant for all those interested in the lead up and current events surrounding the war in Syria and the creation of the Islamic State (ISIS). Below is a timeline ranging from 1992-2015 with related articles to the war in Syria, ISIS and geopolitical events that tie them all together. Purposely the author of this document provides No commentary.  You will notice that each citation is met with origin of the article, date published and key quotations. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1441117207 August 29, 015 This document is meant for all those interested in the lead up and current events surrounding the war in Syria and the creation of the Islamic State (ISIS). Below is a timeline ranging from 1992-2015 with related articles to the war in Syria, ISIS and geopolitical events that tie them all together. Purposely the author of this document provides No commentary.  You will notice that each citation is met with origin of the article, date published and key quotations. Also, the author attempted to find sources that many “Westerners” would consider “mainstream”, with the exception of a few. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1433603376 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1431953654 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1430758864 May 4, 2014 “Using their distorted books; the Khazarian Mafia contrived to cheat their way into American history just as the Hebrew clergy did the Egyptian history long before”     If fame and recognition is what you’re after, then the first thing you should do is spend a lot of time in the company of someone who is already famous and widely recognized. That would at least keep you near the spotlights for a while. You should also consider investing a lot of time learning new skills that might one day get you there. But if you haven’t got what it takes to make you one day enjoy bathing in the spotlights on your own, then this is when you should consider cheating your way to fame and recognition. What if I told you that you could actually cheat your way to fame and power and get away with it? As a matter of fact, if you know the name of the game and play your cards right, you’ll have no trouble deceiving a lot of people. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1428189557 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1428163004 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1415206755 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1415116448 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1412177734 FW:  Oct. 1, 2014 If you think that history is all about the past …  you’d better think again. If you think the stories the Hebrew Bible had told about ancient Egypt was the whole truth … you’d better think once again. And if you Believe that ancient Egypt was ruled by pharaohs … then you’d better read the next lines Ancient Egypt knew no Pharaohs Prologue The title might sound a bit strange and perplexing, but throughout the following series of articles I’m going to elaborate on the historical reasons why the rulers of ancient Egypt were called kings and not Pharaohs. It is a research that has taken many years of my life in which I hope to reveal that by straightening out this bizarre issue of pharaoh, the Israelite connection will eventually be exposed. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1407513462 Aug. 8, 2014 A film footage of Palestine in 1896 was recently published online thanks to Lobster Films. It shows Palestinians of all faiths – Christians, Jews and Muslims – living side by side, and praying side by side. I transcribed the narration below. 15 years later, the cinema is taking its first steps. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1407344636 Aug 5, 2014 theunhivedmind 0 Comments   Israel & Palestine: A tragedy in three acts Published time: August 04, 2014 09:45 http://rt.com/op-edge/177764-israel-palestine-tragedy-argentina/ Israel did not arise from the struggle of a settled indigenous people fighting for territorial independence from Western colonial powers as was the case in dozens of nations throughout the Americas, Africa, Levant and Asia over the past two centuries. Israel is no ordinary state. It’s in a class by itself. Israel was born of the iron will of a small, very close-knit and highly organized ethnic group bent on occupying a specific territory in obedience to ancient religious tradition and highly doubtful historical continuity. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1403704380 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1399909028 May 7, 2014 Excerpt:  ..."According to the Western Center for Journalism, as reported by Arabic News Channel TV-14 and Egypt Daily News, the judicial trial of Morsi for treason uncovered tangible evidence proving that US President Obama paid a secret bribe of $8.0 Billion USD to the Muslim Brotherhood, and secretly met with both Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood leaders outside of proper diplomatic channels. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1392483053 Feb. 14, 2014 Forty-two years late, another Israeli war crime emerges from the shadows. In this case, dozens, and more probably hundreds, of Israeli soldiers kept a decades-long vow of secrecy. One of them is Shlomo Gazit, today a respected (in Israel, at least) academic at Tel Aviv University. In January 1972, Ariel Sharon decided that 3,000 Bedouin were in the way of a massive military exercise he wanted to conduct in the southern Negev and northern Sinai. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1392137466 Feb. 10, 2014 We all know the story about the Reichstag Fire of 1933. The new Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, ordered that the German Parliament building be set on fire. The resulting blaze was then blamed on the Communists. Hitler skillfully used the fire to acquire more political power for his Party, the NSDAP, and also to crush the Reds of Germany once and for all. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1390154776 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1385837923 Nov. 29, 2013 Sixty-six years ago, on November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, which partitioned the land of Palestine into two States: the “birth certificate” for Israel, and the “death certificate” for Palestine. The Return (not the end of the Diaspora) of the Jews to their “rightful” historical homeland in 1947, and the creation of the Modern State of Israel in 1948, was the stated purpose of Zionism, a secular Jewish political movement that arose in Europe in the late 19th century. Zionism is not to be confused with Judaism or Rothschild Zionism: Zionism: an organization of Jews who believed the Jewish people needed a nation of their own to escape persecution. Judaism: A religion based on the Torah and the Talmud practiced collectively by Jews. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1380388408 Sept. 28, 2013 Shatila camp, Beirut Each year, during the third week of September, Lebanon and this region, as well as international supporters, pause to reflect upon and commemorate the victims of one of the twentieth century’s most horrific and cynical crimes perpetrated by a member state of the United Nations. The Sabra-Shatila massacre took place September 16-19th in Beirut, a well-documented 48 hours of slaughter that saw the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp surrounded and sealed off by the occupying Israeli army, whose intent was to block and force back inside the killing field anyone seeking to escape the predicted orgy of butchery (see Bayan al Hout, Sabra and Shatila September 1982, Pluto Press). CONTINUE READING http://english.almanar. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1364224984 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1362676690 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1356024657 Dec. 18, 2012   The Mayan Calendar is expiring because there are no more time-keepers. The next cycle of years and eons became impossible to calculate when the ancient guild of stargazers was abolished by the Spanish conquistadores. Cultural assault, not a looming apocalypse, is the reason for the loss of the Mayan system of tracking time. The ancient Mayans celebrated the passing of the years as an evolutionary cycle of birth, ripening and fulfillment ­ at both physical and spiritual levels ­ that was coordinated with the movement of planets and the Moon. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1354672579 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1353429445 FW:  Nov. 20, 2012 How a better Middle East would look (2006) International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the difference between freedom and oppression, tolerance and atrocity, the rule of law and terrorism, or even peace and war. The most arbitrary and distorted borders in the world are in Africa and the Middle East. Drawn by self-interested Europeans (who have had sufficient trouble defining their own frontiers), Africa’s borders continue to provoke the deaths of millions of local inhabitants. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1347983780 Sept. 17, 2012 The heart of world moral darkness is on the western shores of the Persian Gulf.  Great Economic crimes are planned in the City of London, Israel, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York, Washington, Switzerland, Frankfort, the Netherlands and Switzerland -- but the center of pure unrestrained evil lies in the corrupt absolutist oil empires - adjuncts of Rothschild Oil Power - places where the word of the wealthy is life and death, where the common man is slave, where international wealth rules with absolute and absolutely corrupted personal power  Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Manamar,  Dahrain and Saudi Arabia - which are Muslim lands in name only, where money and global organized crime are everything  -- where the poor are expendable, slaves of service and disposable slaves of sex -- and religion merely a pose to maintain power and  politics are only the means to criminal ends.  The leaders are not really Moslem -- but they are moral eunuchs serving the Jewish led International Money and Oil Power.  The bin Laden family -- who were flown out of the US by George W Bush are among this group -- and of course al Qaeda is but a fiction of convenience - an entity existing  to receive the blame for the false flag operations conducted by Mossad with the cooperation of those who rule as masters over the subject Moslem peoples  -- in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain Abu Dhabi etc. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1341802778 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1335632889 FW 4/28/12 March 17, 2012 Did you know that Egypt is mentioned in the Holy Bible approximately 700 times (Egypt: 595 times, Egyptian(s): 120 times). Obviously, Egypt must have played a vital role in the history of the Hebrews otherwise it wouldn’t have been such a recurring theme in the Jewish holy book. Egypt was, and still is, the magnificent overture to the Israelites’ story. Take Egypt out and the whole structure of the Israelites’ tale would instantly fall. The land of the Nile has been the theater for the Israelites’ epic stories of alleged enslavement, divine retaliation, wandering in the wilderness and finally a breath-taking and logic-defying exit. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1326214100 Jan. 8, 2012 The focus of this article is to explore the vicious and unlawful history of US intervention in Iran’s government. It’s from my brief: War with Iraq and Afghanistan, rhetoric for war with Iran: In 1953, the United States CIA led by one of President Theodore Roosevelt’s grandsons, initiated a coup in Iran (Operation Ajax)[8] to remove the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. The Iranian government was understandably dissatisfied with the terms of its contract with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company that allowed British interests to claim 85% of the oil profit from Iran.[9] Iran voted to nationalize the oil industry in 1951 after the British declined to renegotiate the terms. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1324401489 Dec. 19, 2011 Drawing on the British Pathé archive, Seumas Milne picks out the recurrent themes of imperial efforts to control the Middle East There's a real sense in which, more than any other part of the former colonial world, the Middle East has never been fully decolonised. Sitting on top of the bulk of the globe's oil reserves, the Arab world has been the target of continual interference and intervention ever since it became formally independent. Carved into artificial states after the first world war, it's been bombed and occupied – by the US, Israel, Britain and France – and locked down with US bases and western-backed tyrannies. As the Palestinian blogger Lina Al-Sharif tweeted on Armistice Day this year, the "reason World War One isn't over yet is because we in the Middle East are still living the consequences". text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1323187165 Dec. 4, 2011 Hamas' chief adviser says 'people now count on Islamists to fix the situation The rise of Islamic parties in the Egyptian parliamentary elections constitutes the "new mood" in the Middle East, Hamas' senior political adviser in the Gaza Strip said today in a radio interview. "This is the new mood in the Middle East – that the people now count on the Islamists to help to fix the situation in the Middle East after all these decades of corruption," stated Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to Hamas' de facto prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh. From a cell phone in Gaza, Yousef was speaking in an interview on "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" on New York's WABC Radio. Click here to listen to Klein's interview with Yousef. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1323111619 Dec. 5, 2011     A primary target of any globalist war in Iran Will be to spike oil prices in order to save the dollar from oblivion.   *** Just as we explained in a previous post (looming war with Iran ?) , all the hype about an 'imminent' Israeli or NATO attack on Iran was largely based on agenda driven disinformation campaign, and all the counter-globalist websites who took part in it were serving ,in fact, the globalist purpose of mounting the psychological pressure on Iran, especially towards the IAEA report about the Iranian nuclear program , which will be published in the second week of November 2011. Nevertheless, in the longer term, the ongoing display of smoke and mirrors might be the harbinger of a new 'oil shock' crisis of the 1973 caliber, with far reaching implications.      ***   Historical background The 1973 crisis was an artificial product of the deliberate destruction of the Bretton Woods system by Anglo-American financier oligarchy and the(ir) oil cartel. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1322672418 Nov. 26, 2011 The name "Arab Spring" is a catch phrase concocted in distant offices in Washington, London, Paris, and Brussels by individuals and groups who, other than having some superficial knowledge of the region, know very little about the Arabs. What is unfolding amongst the Arab peoples is naturally a mixed package. Insurgency is part of this package as is opportunism. Where there is revolution, there is always counter-revolution.