Droning On: Interesting Timing in the Middle East

COMMENT: The appar­ent cap­ture and down­ing by Iran of a U.S. drone air­craft raises a num­ber of inter­est­ing ques­tions.
If the account pre­sented in “Debka” can be believed, the pos­si­bil­ity of some sort of “inside job” is one to be care­fully con­sid­ered. (“Debka” is an intel­li­gence newslet­ter spe­cial­iz­ing in Mid­dle East­ern and Israeli national security [...]

Egyptian Army and Muslim Brotherhood Join Forces

COMMENT: While the euro­zone debt cri­sis pro­pels Europe toward German-dominated fas­cism, the “Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Spring” seems poised to bring war and/or fas­cism (“cor­po­ratism”) to the Mid­dle East.
The Egypt­ian army and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood have appar­ently joined forces, amid reports that the Broth­er­hood con­tin­ues to agi­tate for war with Israel.
(The Broth­er­hood is an Islamic fas­cist organization, [...]

Depressing, Terrifying Article about Pakistan’s Nukes

COMMENT: The Atlantic has pub­lished an arti­cle that should scare the Hell out of any­one with half a brain. It is no secret that Pak­istan, while nom­i­nally a U.S. ally  and the recip­i­ent of vast amounts of U.S. aid, actively sup­ports the Tal­iban and Haqqani fight­ers, who are killing U.S. troops, as well as [...]

Update on “A Night in Tunisia”

COMMENT: In the long For The Record series deal­ing with Wik­iLeaks and the Piggy-Back Coups in the Mid­dle East, that tor­tu­ous jour­ney began with the coup in Tunisia, believed by some observers to have been trig­gered by the dis­clo­sure of State Depart­ment cables crit­i­cal of the Ben Ali regime.
As noted by the vig­i­lant “Terrafractyl”, [...]

Turkish Foreign Minister Pursues Ottoman Irredentist, Islamist and Revisionist Policy Course

COMMENT: In past pro­grams, we’ve asked whether the newly invig­o­rated pan-Turkist move­ment and Islamism might con­verge. Just such a devel­op­ment appears to be gain­ing momen­tum, with Turk­ish for­eign min­is­ter Ahmet Davu­to­glu hav­ing observed  the Mus­lim hol­i­day of Eid el-Fitr in Bosnia/Herzogovina.
In addi­tion to the fact that this for­mer Yugosla­vian province was part of [...]

S and P Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating: “Hail Victory” for the SS Kampfgruppe Norquist

COMMENT: Well, folks, they’ve done it. The GOP’s Tea Party fas­cists (with a gen­er­ous assist from an appar­ently clue­less and def­i­nitely gut­less Barack Obama) have suc­ceeded in caus­ing S & P to down­grade the U.S.‘s credit rat­ing from AAA–the first time in his­tory that this has been done.
In FTR #412, we out­lined the strat­egy of [...]

“Mine is Bigger than Yours Is!”–Prince Alwaleed Hires Saudi Bin Laden Group to Build World’s Tallest Tower

COMMENT: With the destruc­tion of the World Trade Cen­ter on 9/11, one of the world’s tallest build­ings dis­ap­peared. Now comes the news that Prince Alwaleed–supporter of Hamas (Pales­tin­ian branch of the Islam­o­fas­cist Mus­lim Broth­er­hood), apol­o­gist for the 9/11 attacks that destroyed the tow­ers, sec­ond largest stock­holder in Rup­pert Murdoch’s tar­nished media empire) has hired Saudi [...]

Achmed Huber on 9/11

Analy­sis: Prob­lem not solved

COMMENT: With the death of Osama bin Laden, much has (of course) been writ­ten about the event. Ana­lyz­ing what it did or didn’t mean or what will or won’t hap­pen as a result, com­men­ta­tors have ignored some unpleas­ant truths.
A direc­tor of the Bank al-Taqwa, the late Achmed Huber func­tioned as a [...]

FTR #738 Turkish Taffy, Part II

Assur­ances to the con­trary notwith­stand­ing, Mus­lim Broth­er­hood poised to ascend in Egypt; Shed­ding the West’s old auto­crats in the Mid­dle East may ben­e­fit al-Qaeda; Obama poised for polit­i­cal destruc­tion over these events.

Golden Lily Loot, Nazis, White Supremacists and Islamists

Com­ment: For years, we’ve accessed the mag­nif­i­cent work of Ster­ling and Peggy Sea­grave, whose land­mark text Gold War­riors is the defin­i­tive work on the dis­tri­b­u­tion of recov­ered World War II gold, Japan­ese Golden Lily trea­sure in par­tic­u­lar.
The focal point of decades of high-level polit­i­cal intrigue on the part of intel­li­gence ser­vices, finan­cial insti­tu­tions and [...]