<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Middle East &#8211; Martinez Perspective</title>
	<atom:link href="https://martinezperspective.net/tag/middle-east/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>https://martinezperspective.net</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2021 23:20:51 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>
	hourly	</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>
	1	</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4</generator>

<image>
	<url>https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-mp-plain-blackcolor-32x32.jpg</url>
	<title>Middle East &#8211; Martinez Perspective</title>
	<link>https://martinezperspective.net</link>
	<width>32</width>
	<height>32</height>
</image> 
<site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">137417874</site>	<item>
		<title>&#8220;Anti-War&#8221; Libertarians and the Truther Cult Now Support War On Terror</title>
		<link>https://martinezperspective.net/2017/07/anti-war-libertarians-and-the-truther-cult-now-support-war-on-terror/</link>
					<comments>https://martinezperspective.net/2017/07/anti-war-libertarians-and-the-truther-cult-now-support-war-on-terror/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martinez Perspective]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 22:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11 truthers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Bollyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinezperspective.wordpress.com/?p=1832</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[By Brandon Martinez Isn&#8217;t it amazing that the Western-based anti-war and 9/11 truther cult, who spent the last 10 years railing against the US-led war on terror, have (for the&#8230; ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://martinezperspective.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/ron-paul.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-1862 " src="https://martinezperspective.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/ron-paul.jpg" alt="" width="692" height="461" srcset="https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ron-paul.jpg 750w, https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ron-paul-600x400.jpg 600w, https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ron-paul-300x200.jpg 300w, https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ron-paul-580x386.jpg 580w" sizes="(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px" /></a></p>
<p><strong>By Brandon Martinez</strong></p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t it amazing that the Western-based anti-war and 9/11 truther cult, who spent the last 10 years railing against the US-led war on terror, have (for the most part) completely reversed themselves? Ever since Russia and Putin began leading the terror war, the &#8220;anti-war&#8221; libertarians and truthers have thrown their collective weight behind it.</p>
<p>Take Chris Bollyn, the &#8220;intrepid&#8221; journalist who wrote a couple books claiming that Israel masterminded the 9/11 attacks. Bollyn has dedicated his life to &#8220;opposing the 9/11 wars,&#8221; but <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Putin-to-Netanyahu-Were-unconditional-allies-in-the-war-against-terror-456193">now that Putin is the new boss</a> of the global terror war, Bollyn&#8217;s been totally behind Russian intervention in the Middle East to crush Islamic zealots. Yet Bollyn vehemently opposed and denounced as a fraud this same rationale when Bush was using it to enter Afghanistan and continue occupying Iraq after the fall of Hussein. Bollyn obsessively condemns US support for Israel, but <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182754">is remarkably silent about Putin&#8217;s support for Israel</a> and cozy relations with Netanyahu.</p>
<p>On his website Bollyn favourably quotes Russian politicians and military officials as if they&#8217;re infallible harbingers of truth. He promotes contradictory and highly convoluted themes about ISIS. He has at times suggested that the group is a myth fabricated by Israeli intelligence, but at other times, specifically when trying to justify the Russian campaign to prop-up Assad in Syria, he&#8217;s labeled them a dangerous menace who need to be destroyed through military means. Bollyn is clearly playing a double game here. He pretends to be anti-war when in fact he&#8217;s a war propagandist for Russia. He cannot respond to these valid criticisms hence why he blocked me from commenting on his Facebook page.</p>
<p><a href="https://dailyanarchist.com/2014/04/10/putins-libertarians/">So-called libertarians</a> like Ron Paul and his sidekick Daniel McAdams have put in countless hours preaching against the war on terror, but these days <a href="https://thebuckleyclub.com/libertarians-and-rt-4a4f47a9acbe">spend most of their time</a> praising Russia for its &#8220;anti-terror&#8221; militarism in the Middle East. Paul and his minions even tried to justify Russia&#8217;s annexation of Crimea and stealth incursion into Eastern Ukraine, vigorously <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-ron-paul-institute-for-putins-priorities/">parroting Kremlin talking points</a>. Interestingly, a <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-ron-paul-institute-for-putins-priorities/">report in the Free Beacon</a> found direct links between Paul&#8217;s various libertarian &#8220;institutes&#8221; and pro-Kremlin NGOs based in Europe.</p>
<p>Another &#8220;anti-war&#8221; libertarian who loves war now that Russia is in the driver&#8217;s seat is Justin Raimondo. Raimondo spent most of his writing career penning isolationist articles for the &#8220;anti-war.com&#8221; online journal, but now just reprints Kremlin spin in support of Putin&#8217;s wars in Ukraine and Syria. Another fake &#8220;libertarian&#8221; is Ryan Dawson, an opportunist who tried to ingratiate himself with the Russians during the Ukraine crisis by regurgitating Putin&#8217;s lies on RT. He spent years whining about the war on terror only to now become a mouthpiece of support for Russia&#8217;s version of it in Syria.</p>
<p>A major factor in this is the poisonous influence of RT which gives copious amounts of air-time to anti-war libertarians, making them reliant on the Kremlin-funded Russian channel to get their message out. As such they&#8217;ve become a cat&#8217;s paw for the Kremlin on major foreign policy issues. Russia supports and sponsors American libertarians because they&#8217;re trying to weaken the US federal government and dial back military spending and foreign adventurism. Those things are music to the ears of the Kremlin and would greatly serve Russia&#8217;s expansionist aims, hence why RT champions libertarian anti-interventionist voices in the West.</p>
<p>While many of their criticisms of US foreign policy are valid, these same libertarians make virtually no criticism of the vicious tyranny in Russia installed by Vladimir Putin, which crushes with a vengeance all internal dissent and prosecutes stealth wars on false pretexts. Apparently 9/11 truthers and libertarians love tyranny, oppression and war so long as it&#8217;s someone other than the US government doing it. In other words, they&#8217;re lying snakes with a hidden agenda to weaken the West and empower communists in Russia and China.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
					<wfw:commentRss>https://martinezperspective.net/2017/07/anti-war-libertarians-and-the-truther-cult-now-support-war-on-terror/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
			<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1832</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>George Galloway &#8211; Classic Sabbath Kaffir</title>
		<link>https://martinezperspective.net/2017/06/george-galloway-classic-sabbath-kaffir/</link>
					<comments>https://martinezperspective.net/2017/06/george-galloway-classic-sabbath-kaffir/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martinez Perspective]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Galloway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinezperspective.wordpress.com/?p=1236</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[By Brandon Martinez I recently found this video pretty much proving with his own words that former British MP George Galloway is a crypto-Muslim. Galloway made a career out of&#8230; ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>By Brandon Martinez</strong></p>
<p>I recently found this video pretty much proving with his own words that former British MP George Galloway is a crypto-Muslim.</p>
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="George Galloway is a muslim now" width="779" height="584" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/36FozJsFL5o?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>Galloway made a career out of shilling for Arab and Muslim causes in the Middle East. He routinely traveled throughout the Middle East lecturing to Muslim and Arab audiences about the evils of the West. Domestically, he bent over for immigrants, especially Muslims, who make up <a href="http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/11791671.Muslim_population_of_Bradford_should_be_celebrated_say_community_leaders_in_response_to_national_report/?ref=mr">25% of the population of Bradford</a>, the British city Galloway represented in parliament. Within Britain Galloway was a left-wing communist shill for multiculturalism, open-borders and hate speech laws. He variously called for &#8220;Holocaust deniers,&#8221; anti-Semites and critics of Islam to be thrown in jail. This is what happens when a white Westerner converts to Islam: they become poisoned with its alien Semitic culture and totalitarian ideas that are antithetical to Western freedom.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
					<wfw:commentRss>https://martinezperspective.net/2017/06/george-galloway-classic-sabbath-kaffir/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
			<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1236</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Confused Truthers</title>
		<link>https://martinezperspective.net/2017/06/confused-truthers/</link>
					<comments>https://martinezperspective.net/2017/06/confused-truthers/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martinez Perspective]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radical Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truthers]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinezperspective.wordpress.com/?p=1138</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[By Brandon Martinez On the one hand various &#8220;truthers&#8221; proclaim that al-Qaeda doesn&#8217;t exist. James Corbett even released a documentary some years ago with the title, &#8220;Al-Qaeda Doesn&#8217;t Exist.&#8221; But&#8230; ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1194" src="https://martinezperspective.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/confused.jpg" alt="confused" width="734" height="409" srcset="https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/confused.jpg 849w, https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/confused-600x334.jpg 600w, https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/confused-300x167.jpg 300w, https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/confused-768x428.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px" /></p>
<p><strong>By Brandon Martinez</strong></p>
<p>On the one hand various &#8220;truthers&#8221; proclaim that al-Qaeda doesn&#8217;t exist. James Corbett even released a documentary some years ago with the title, &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek7ZHenQnu4">Al-Qaeda Doesn&#8217;t Exist.</a>&#8221; But today their story has changed. Now a lot of these same truthers say that al-Qaeda is so dangerous that we need Russia to bomb them in Syria. Most of them support this Russian military campaign to eliminate various al-Qaeda or Isis-affiliated rebels throughout Syria. Even the non-al-Qaeda rebels are considered fair game to bomb by some of the more fanatic pro-Assad truthers. So which is it? It can&#8217;t be both. Do these groups exist or not? Are they a &#8220;manufactured threat&#8221; or are they such a huge menace that they need to be wiped out by Russia?</p>
<p>The incoherence of the truther narrative is comical. They&#8217;re clinging to the outdated truther narrative about the fraudulence of the &#8220;terror threat&#8221; but at the same time contend that the threat is real over in Assad&#8217;s neck of the woods. But at various points they say even some of that stuff, like the beheading videos, are fake. Even so they contend bombing Isis is good if it&#8217;s the Russians leading the campaign. Their narrative is wildly incoherent. They want to maintain that Muslims are innocent patsies who are always set-up by the West, so they&#8217;ve resorted to saying that Isis are just &#8220;paid mercenaries&#8221; under CIA mind control or masked Mossad agents. This takes the blame away from the radical Islamic ideology that drives these groups and puts it back on suited intelligence officers in the West. The poor, innocent Muslims have no responsibility or agency. They don&#8217;t make their own decisions. They&#8217;re all just hapless dupes doing someone else&#8217;s dirty work.</p>
<p>Overlapping geopolitical interests have caused various states (including the US and Israel, but principally the Gulf States) to tacitly enable Isis&#8217;s rampages, but that doesn&#8217;t mean the group isn&#8217;t genuine in its stated goals to establish a Caliphate and implement Sharia law as all Islamic radicals say is their divine mission here on earth. Manipulation is not the same thing as &#8220;creation&#8221; or top-down pyramidal &#8220;control.&#8221; Even a leading Saudi cleric admitted that:</p>
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" title="Top Saudi Cleric: DAESH ISIS have the same beliefs as we do (Salafism)" width="779" height="438" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pC8DSdzi87I?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>The Isis Caliphate is clearly real as this documentary shows:</p>
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" title="The Islamic State (Full Length)" width="779" height="438" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AUjHb4C7b94?start=1767&#038;feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>The devilish Saudi regime has influence over these radical groups and can steer their direction through the funds it gives or withholds from them. The Saudi monarchs use these terrorists as tools of their jihad to purge &#8220;heretics&#8221; (Shiites, Sufis, etc.) within the Muslim world as well as to slaughter non-Muslim kaffir. But the Saudis know these deranged maniacs will <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-trying-topple-saudi-king-attack-mohammed-s-mosque-n614206http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-trying-topple-saudi-king-attack-mohammed-s-mosque-n614206" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">eventually turn on them</a> because the pure zealots believe Saudi Arabia itself is an illegitimate monarchy even if it has implemented some form of Sharia law. There have been numerous Isis-inspired attacks within the kingdom over the past two years. The Saudis are content to direct the most militant of the bloodthirsty beheaders that their ideology has produced into neighbouring rival states, thereby containing them within their own kingdom. But not even they can fully control it and it will eventually come back to haunt them.</p>
<p>Liberal &#8220;truthers&#8221; cannot face up to the fact that radical Islam is a real thing because it would put a huge dent in their flawed narrative that all evil stems from &#8220;the West.&#8221;</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
					<wfw:commentRss>https://martinezperspective.net/2017/06/confused-truthers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
			<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1138</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Kevin Barrett&#8217;s Skewed &#8220;False Flag&#8221; Formula</title>
		<link>https://martinezperspective.net/2017/05/kevin-barretts-skewed-false-flag-formula/</link>
					<comments>https://martinezperspective.net/2017/05/kevin-barretts-skewed-false-flag-formula/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martinez Perspective]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2017 14:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[False Flags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Barrett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manchester bombing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinezperspective.wordpress.com/?p=838</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Commentary by Brandon Martinez America&#8217;s premier Islamic truther, Kevin Barrett, is always hot on the trail of every alleged &#8220;false-flag&#8221; terror event. His life is essentially committed to &#8220;debunking&#8221; every&#8230; ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="  wp-image-985 aligncenter" src="https://martinezperspective.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/false-flag.jpg" alt="false-flag" width="630" height="494" srcset="https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/false-flag.jpg 750w, https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/false-flag-600x470.jpg 600w, https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/false-flag-300x235.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px" /></p>
<p><strong>Commentary by Brandon Martinez</strong></p>
<p>America&#8217;s premier Islamic truther, Kevin Barrett, is always hot on the trail of every alleged &#8220;false-flag&#8221; terror event. His life is essentially committed to &#8220;debunking&#8221; every single act of terror or violence when the perpetrator is a Muslim. That&#8217;s all that he does. It&#8217;s likely he will go to his grave shouting, &#8220;the Muslims are innocent!&#8221;</p>
<p>His formula is always the same for each attack: speculate about timing, &#8220;cui bono&#8221; and other small details; point to some unverifiable use of Masonic Illuminati numerology supposedly present in the date, number of victims, etc.; accuse victims and witnesses of being &#8220;crisis actors&#8221; because they didn&#8217;t weep hard enough; and then declare the whole thing &#8220;just another&#8221; staged event.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/05/23/man22/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">leaning heavily</a> on the patently silly numerology angle with the latest Manchester bombing. Then he cites the logic of some random Twitter users and commenters who think it was a false-flag to back up his bias.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="  wp-image-888 aligncenter" src="https://martinezperspective.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/barrett-manchester.png" alt="Barrett-Manchester" width="567" height="512" srcset="https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/barrett-manchester.png 798w, https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/barrett-manchester-600x541.png 600w, https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/barrett-manchester-300x271.png 300w, https://martinezperspective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/barrett-manchester-768x693.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px" /></p>
<p>On the whole, his case for a false-flag in Manchester rests entirely on pure speculation about numerology, beneficiaries, and other small details. He provides no smoking guns for this one or any of the other recent attacks. Like all the others, he&#8217;s approaching this one from a preconceived conclusion that it was a false-flag, and then weaving his story accordingly to make it fit. So one day after the bombing Barrett&#8217;s marshalled together some speculative &#8220;evidence&#8221; and declared: <strong>&#8220;Bottom line: Abadi was very likely innocent.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Who would take this unacademic wild theorizing seriously besides like-minded ideologues?</p>
<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned elsewhere on this blog, Barrett and other false-flag obsessives have a clear Islamic or leftist agenda. In Barrett&#8217;s case, he&#8217;s a Koran-thumping Islamic missionary who wants to spread the faith and Islamize the world. He feels it&#8217;s his religious duty to defend the faith (and the faithful) from hostile infidel &#8220;accusers.&#8221; It&#8217;s therefore in his religious interest to &#8220;debunk&#8221; all instances of Islamic terrorism. During the migrant crisis of 2015, Barrett shockingly came out in support of the invasion on the basis that it will increase Islamic demographics on the continent and thereby make Europe more sympathetic with the Palestinians and other Muslim/Arab issues. So Europeans should just hand over their countries to weird foreigners so that &#8220;Palestine can be free from the river to the sea&#8221;? Yet he hypocritically condemns pro-Trump Americans for prioritizing the immigration issue over Palestine and other quagmires that Muslims care about.</p>
<p>Barrett is markedly engaged in little more than a counter-propaganda jihad for Islam. He calls his own activism a &#8220;truth jihad.&#8221; But in this case &#8220;truth&#8221; is whatever benefits Islam&#8217;s public image. This is his &#8220;response&#8221; to the war on terror: orating claims that the West and Zionists are behind all Islamic atrocities. He does what the Zionists do for their cause – scrupulously twisting everything to suit their tribal agenda and bias – but in reverse. He&#8217;s not particularly concerned with facts or evidence regarding these events. He even said that his approach is to assume every attack (involving Muslims) is a false-flag and demand the government prove that it&#8217;s not.</p>
<p>If you look at the Twitter feeds of some of these false-flaggers, like this <a href="https://twitter.com/NeoconWatson" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">nut job impersonating Paul Joseph Watson</a>, it&#8217;s all the same repetitive stuff played over and over again. They are like automated bots blasting the same talking points about the Iraq war, 9/11, and Israel, 24/7. Nothing else matters to them as they endlessly pursue an impossible social justice crusade for the Middle East.</p>
<p>However, their narrative is convoluted and often self-contradictory. They&#8217;re quick to dismiss ISIS-related terror in the West as fake, but when evangelizing about the civil war in Syria, many of them actually claim ISIS and other Islamic rebel groups have conspired to stage &#8220;false-flag&#8221; chemical attacks to frame Assad. So how does this work? ISIS is being framed for &#8220;false-flags&#8221; in the West, but in Syria ISIS is doing the false-flags with the help of the West? So with Syria their false-flag formula is reversed, in that whenever Assad is blamed for an atrocity against civilians, the &#8220;truthers&#8221; come out with claims that it was really ISIS or other Islamist rebels that did it!</p>
<p>If Western governments are exclusively going after Assad, and are secretly helping ISIS as some claim, why would they constantly attack themselves and frame Assad&#8217;s enemies for it? Why wouldn&#8217;t they just frame Assad or Hezbollah? By doing so they&#8217;re actually generating sympathy for Assad, which is counter-intuitive to their supposed agenda of toppling him. And what would be the point of a continuous string of attacks in the West when the anti-ISIS coalition air war has been going on for three years now? Nothing much happens after these fresh attacks that hasn&#8217;t already been happening for years.</p>
<p>If these people are against ISIS in Syria/Iraq, why then would they want to shill for them in the West? The formula seems to be that when ISIS blows something up &#8220;over there,&#8221; it&#8217;s real, but if it&#8217;s done &#8220;over here,&#8221; it&#8217;s fake. Makes you wonder what the hell is the point of disproving one solitary act of terror blamed on ISIS when they&#8217;re simultaneously saying that the group is doing real terror elsewhere. They never question the terror &#8220;over there&#8221; because the target of that violence is their beloved Ba&#8217;athist strong-man, Assad.</p>
<p>Kevin Barrett is also contradictory on this. When he goes on Iranian PressTV he acts as a mouthpiece for Iran, Hezbollah and Assad in Syria (the Shiite bloc), blasting the &#8220;Takfiri&#8221; Muslims of ISIS and al-Qaeda as sell-outs. But elsewhere he essentially defends al-Qaeda and other Islamists as innocent patsies being framed for terrorism by Western intelligence agencies, largely denying Islamic extremism even exists. He has also philosophized in favour of establishing an Islamic caliphate, a goal shared with the more hardline Salafi Muslims rather than the Shiites who he propagandizes for on PressTV. It looks to me like he&#8217;s a chameleon, saying different (often contradictory) things depending on his audience.</p>
<p>So these people are zealously backing the Assad regime in its civil war with other Muslim factions and do not hesitate to label Assad&#8217;s opponents collectively as &#8220;terrorists.&#8221; So then what is the purpose of 9/11 truth? 9/11 was blamed on al-Qaeda, a group which forms a significant bloc battling the Assad regime and other dynastic dictatorships in the Middle East. Assad himself doesn&#8217;t dispute that narrative, saying numerous times that he&#8217;s &#8220;fighting the people that did 9/11.&#8221; This presents a problem for the &#8220;truthers,&#8221; who can&#8217;t decide what&#8217;s more important, proving 9/11 was an inside job (and thus letting al-Qaeda off the hook) or shilling for Assad (which requires al-Qaeda and Islamism in general to be discredited).</p>
<p>What it comes down to here is that these people are nihilistic anti-Western (and anti-white) leftists. So when Muslims are accused of terror against Westerners, they come to the defense of the Muslim regardless of that Muslim&#8217;s bent. But in the Middle East they shift the goal-posts a little bit, choosing sides with certain Muslim factions (usually the more secular ones, with the exception of Iran) over others. But even in the Middle East they posit that the &#8220;bad Muslims&#8221; are the ones working with the West and the &#8220;good Muslims&#8221; are those fighting the West. But what about when those &#8220;bad Muslims&#8221; are fighting the West, as ISIS and al-Qaeda have done at times, or when the &#8220;good Muslims&#8221; are working with the West (as Assad, Gaddafi and Hussein once did)? Will they suddenly start cheerleading for the &#8220;bad Muslims&#8221; and denouncing the &#8220;good Muslims&#8221;?</p>
<p>These biased dolts wail when the CIA sends a drone into Yemen or Pakistan to kill an al-Qaeda or Taliban chieftain, but then whip out their pom-poms and do a cheering routine when Russia does the same thing in Syria to take down the rebel leaders there. They moan about &#8220;civilian casualties&#8221; when it&#8217;s a Western coalition jet that caused the carnage, but dutifully sweep under the rug the thousands of civilians killed by Assad and the Russians. Selective outrage is typical of leftists who are only using &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; rhetoric in efforts to discredit their perceived enemies, while abandoning such arguments for regimes they support.</p>
<p>These hacks are clearly nothing more than war propagandists for anyone seemingly in opposition to &#8220;the West.&#8221; They&#8217;ll shill for any regime or group that says or does anything contrary to the agenda of Western powers. They&#8217;ve become prostitutes for tyrants and dictators on the sole basis that those despots are &#8220;anti-American&#8221; or &#8220;anti-Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>For all their bluster about uncovering false-flags, they seem awfully uninterested <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sx2YmSXDy8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">in the likely one that brought Vladimir Putin to power in Russia</a>. In fact, they don&#8217;t seem to scrutinize any terror events, even ones implicating Muslims, when the target is Russia. Again, that shows their highly selective &#8220;concern&#8221; and &#8220;outrage&#8221; about abuses of power by governments. If you&#8217;re a brutal regime situated outside the Western hemisphere, you can count on these despicable charlatans to whitewash your misdeeds.</p>
<p>And ultimately these self-destructive people give a bad name to decent researchers who have uncovered real false-flags (and there have been some real ones). But the whole field has become so inundated with skittish ideologues pursuing narrow political or religious agendas that it&#8217;s virtually useless at this point.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
					
					<wfw:commentRss>https://martinezperspective.net/2017/05/kevin-barretts-skewed-false-flag-formula/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
			<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">838</post-id>	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
