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Here’s Who Really Weaponizes Children in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Russia, Ukraine

Here’s Who Really Weaponizes Children in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Posted by: John Phoenix As accusations of abductions resurface, it’s clear the West doesn’t care about facts on the ground if they contradict the narrative By Eva Bartlett Global Research, For the last three years, Ukraine and concerted legacy media campaigns have been screaming that Russia has abducted, or forcibly displaced, thousands of Ukrainian children – even up to 1.5 million! The accusations resurged in December, with a UN General Assembly vote on a draft resolution on the return of Ukrainian children. To read this article in the following languages, click the Translate Website button below the author’s name. Русский, Deutsch, Italiano, Español, 中文, Portugues, Français, عربي, Hebrew, Farsi, 日本語, 한...
Türkiye’s Kardak Intervention on Its 30th Anniversary. Will Trumpism Infect the Aegean?
Turkey, USA

Türkiye’s Kardak Intervention on Its 30th Anniversary. Will Trumpism Infect the Aegean?

Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research, In-depth Report: THE BALKANS Giannis Valinakis, who served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece between 2004 and 2009 and currently serves as the President of the Jean Monnet European Center of Excellence at the University of Athens, stated the following during an interview on a Greek television channel: “I think that NATO will no longer provide any guarantees to Greece. Greece’s security environment is deteriorating. NATO is under serious pressure, and this pressure comes primarily from the Americans. In fact, it is being discussed whether NATO will survive in the long term. Article 5, that is, support for an ally that has been attacked, is becoming weaker with Trump’s statements. Europe is also weakening internal...
Iraq under Threat from Trump, ISIS Prisoners from Syria, and Possible US-Iran War
C.I.A, Iran, Iraq, Syria, USA

Iraq under Threat from Trump, ISIS Prisoners from Syria, and Possible US-Iran War

Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research, Iraq has reached a decisive moment, caught between escalating U.S. pressure, unresolved internal political deadlock, and mounting regional tensions linked to Iran. Following a high-level phone call between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ Al-Sudani, Washington has signaled a recalibration of its Iraq policy—combining military drawdown with unprecedented financial leverage—while accelerating the transfer of thousands of ISIS detainees from Syria into Iraqi custody. To read this article in the following languages, click the Translate Website button below the author’s name. عربي, Русский, Español, 中文, Portugues, Français, Hebrew, Deutsch,&n...
Zionist Expansion: A First-Hand Account of Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Southwestern Syria
Syria, ZIO-NAZI

Zionist Expansion: A First-Hand Account of Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Southwestern Syria

Posted by: John Phoenix Sam Kimball  The following report was funded by the CounterPunch Investigative Fund. To support our work and more in-depth reports like this, consider donating. “They came in the night after Assad fled,” said Mohammed, a resident of Kodena, a small village perched upon rolling hills of rocky soil, about a mile and a half east of the unofficial border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli forces “rode in jeeps, hummers, armored personnel carriers, Merkava tanks,” into the rural hamlet in southern Quneitra province, said Mohammed, who declined to give his last name out of fear of reprisal for speaking to the media. The border is the “Purple Line,” a ceasefire line imposed after the 1967 war in which Israel conquered a slic...
Iran: Three Things The New York Times Gets Wrong
Iran

Iran: Three Things The New York Times Gets Wrong

Posted by: John Phoenix New York Times building (Wikimedia Commons) On November 9, The New York Times published an update on the situation with Iran’s nuclear program. The article contains some valuable material. But it also gets three important things wrong. by Ted Snider, reposted from Antiwar, November 17, 2025 The article badly misses the shift in relations in the region. By implying that other countries in the region are more willing to work with the U.S. and insisting that “Iran is more isolated from the West than it has been in decades,” the article presents an Iran who is increasingly alone in the region. Nothing could be further from the truth. The biggest rift in the region was the rift between Iran and Saudi Arabia. In 2023, Iran and Saudi ...
Nazi used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest
Lebanon, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest

Posted by: John Phoenix Remnants found of a cluster munition show a white nylon ribbon, used to stabilize and spin submunitions. (The Guardian) Exclusive: Images are the first indication that Israel has used cluster munitions in nearly 20 years By William Christou, Reposted from The Guardian, November 19, 2025 Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in its recent 13-month war in Lebanon, photos of munition remnants in south Lebanon seen by the Guardian suggest. The images, which have been examined by six different arms experts, appear to show the remnants of two different types of Israeli cluster munitions found in three different locations: south of the Litani River in the forested valleys of Wadi Zibqin, Wadi Barghouz and Wadi Deir Siryan. Th...
The 28-Point Theater of the Absurd
Russia, Ukraine, USA

The 28-Point Theater of the Absurd

By: Pepe Escobar  The chihuahuas of war will keep barking while the SMO will keep rollin’ along. The Circus Ringmaster’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine may be seen as a pet seal splashing around in a pond to amuse the galleries. And up next, we move to another attraction. Yet if taken seriously – and that requires not a pinch but a barrel of salt – it’s like a twin to the Circus Ringmaster’s “plan” for Gaza, this time with the objective of snatching a pitiful “victory” from the jaws of the Empire of Chaos’s own, de facto strategic defeat. Let’s check the reactions. Here you will find Larry Johnson’s analysis – which I share – , but most of all the video of the stunning two-hour interview we had mid-week in Moscow with stellar Maria Zakharova, the mos...
Craig Murray: The beat of the war drums
China, USA, Venezuela, ZIO-NAZI

Craig Murray: The beat of the war drums

Posted by: John Phoenix The rise of domestic racism and authoritarianism is accompanied by increased militarism and a media campaign portraying Russia and China as enemy states. Subscribe to our  channel Why is it that no British mainstream journalist appears to know about, or be capable of finding out, about the Law of the Sea? This article is reproduced from Craig Murray’s website, with thanks. ***** In fascist lockstep, the entire British media, broadcast and print, corporate and state, is leading with a Ministry of Defence press release about a “Russian spy ship” inside “British waters”. No British media appears to have been able to speak to anybody who knows the first thing about the Law of the Sea. Here are the facts: The exclusive economic zone ...
Understanding the heroism of Yemen, pt2
Yemen

Understanding the heroism of Yemen, pt2

Posted by: John Phoenix From youth clubs to national government: the rise of Ansar Allah as the leader of Yemen’s anti-imperialist forces. Subscribe to our  channel The anti-imperialist and national-liberation essence of the so-called ‘Houthi movement’ is deliberately hidden from western audiences. But as the national government of Yemen in Sanaa has shown itself to be one of the most indomitable pillars of the middle-eastern Axis of Resistance during the Gaza genocide, workers all over the world are increasingly interested in finding out more about who and what the Ansar Allah movement really represents. Read part 1 of this series. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting loss of foreign support, the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen in th...
Iran’s IRGS Foils ‘Subversive’ Spy Ring Tied to US and Nazi Following June War
Iran

Iran’s IRGS Foils ‘Subversive’ Spy Ring Tied to US and Nazi Following June War

Posted by: John Phoenix The IRGC’s newly unveiled underground facility. (Photo: video grab) By Palestine Chronicle Staff   Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it uncovered a spy network operating under US and Israeli direction, months after the June war. Iran announced on Tuesday that it had dismantled what it described as a “subversive network” operating under the direction of US and Israeli intelligence services, months after the 12-day war between the Islamic Republic and Israel. In a statement carried by state television, the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that “through precise monitoring and intelligence efforts,” its units had identified and neutralized a network “directed by American and Israeli spy age...