Robert David Steele Interview -

Confronting Doubts, Exposing Zionism,

And Questioning Donald Trump

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Almost exactly a year ago, just as the “Russia hacked the election!” delirium was taking shape, I pooh-poohed the idea that “Russiagate” (as it has come to be known) would persist for very long. Once the Trump administration started plowing ahead with its agenda, I argued, the Dems would toss Hillary aside and move on with politics as usual.

Russiagate fading away as Democrats come to terms with the 2016 election? Really, James?

Now I’ve made some inaccurate predictions before (OK, a lot of inaccurate predictions), but that one takes the cake in terms of how wrong I ended up being.

If you want a demonstration of this point, just type “russia collusion” or “russia interference” into your search engine of choice and feast on the millions and millions of nothingburgers that have been produced this past year chasing this non-story. It would almost be comical how stupid these stories were if it wasn’t for the fact that they have real world consequences.

Remember when the evil Russkies hacked the Vermont electrical grid?! Of course you do. But do you remember when the MSM presstitutes immediately amended their fear porn story to admit that the grid had not, in fact, been hacked at all? Of course you don’t, because the headlines are reported breathlessly and the “corrections” are issued quietly.

And do you remember when the dastardly Russians hacked into the voting systems of 39 states before the 2016 presidential election? Yeah, that didn’t actually happen, either.

And remember when the Russians went international and took their well-known operation to control people’s minds through Facebook ads across the pond to England, where they successfully pulled off “Operation Brexit?” Well the results are in, and the latest headlines tell of the startling breadth and scope of this mass mind-control experiment: “Facebook says Russian-linked accounts spent just 97 cents on ads over Brexit.”

And remember when ABC’s Brian Ross reported that candidate Trump directed Flynn to make contact with Moscow? Well one stock market crash later the suspended Brian Ross would like you to know that he meant president-elect Trump. (Meh, close enough!)

And remember when CNN dropped its bombshell story about how Wikileaks, those known Russian collaborators (*citation needed), were caught sharing their leaks in advance with Team Trump last year (BOOM!)? Well, guess what? More fake news.

It’s almost as if this whole Russiagate story is a wild goose chase that the fake news MSM is using to keep the American public distracted. It’s a simple enough formula:

1. Use a scrap of information to create an elaborate conspiracy theory about nefarious Russian activities.
2. Quietly retract the story when the information is discredited.
3. Rinse.
4. Repeat.

It’s enough to keep the fluoride-addled, increasingly deranged Hillary holdouts renewing their subscription to the NY Times or the Washington Post even as it makes the rest of the population increasingly tired of the whole story.

But what if that’s the point?

Unbeknownst to a large section of the public, there is a very real story about actual collusion between team Trump and a foreign power. The collusion is deep, nefarious, compromises American goals and interests and is being studiously avoided by the dutiful lapdog mouthpieces in both the anti-Trump and pro-Tramp MSM fake news camps (and even among many in the pseudo-alternative media). And you haven’t heard a peep about it because thiscollusion touches the third rail of international geopolitics: Israel.

To uncover this story, let’s go back to the whole Flynn plea deal drama. Remember that discredited Brian Ross story? The one that sent the stock market tumbling because everyone thought the whole administration was about to come crumbling down? Well, after the correction was issued and the dust settled, the Russiagate hysterics just continued bumbling along their merry way.

But wait. What was that story actually about? What did Flynn actually do?

For those paying attention, Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, pleaded guilty to one charge of making false statements to the FBI. Specifically, he denied telling the Russian ambassador not to respond too harshly to the sanctions that then-outgoing President Obama had just slapped on Russia, and he denied trying to convince Russia (“and several other countries”) to take a specific position on a UN Security Council resolution that was submitted on December 21, 2016. According to Flynn’s plea, both of these denials were false.

OK. So what?

So what, indeed. If the charge is Russian collusion then the first example is, if anything, actually counter evidence. Flynn, on behalf of the then-incoming President of the United States, asked the Russian ambassador not to get into a diplomatic tit-for-tat with Obama. That is not a smoking gun of collusion with a foreign power, it’s just a simple job description for someone whose duty was to act as a diplomatic go between for an incoming administration. The only question is why Flynn denied having the conversation at all.

But what about that second denial? About the UN Security Council resolution? What was that all about?

The resolution in question, United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, was submitted by Egypt on December 21, 2016 and passed unanimously with one abstention: the United States. The Flynn plea describes the resolution cryptically as pertaining to “the issue of Israeli settlements.” More specifically, the resolution reaffirmed the UN Security Council’s understanding that “the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law,” among other equally fiery statements. As I noted at the time, the resolution’s passage was remarkable for the fact that it was one of the strongest UNSC statements against Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine to pass a vote, not because such resolutions are never tabled but because they are always vetoed by the US.

So it was in this context that we can understand Flynn’s position. He was ordered, according to his own plea, “to contact officials from foreign governments, including Russia, to learn where each government stood on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution.” The plea itself only states that the order came from “a very senior member of the Presidential Transition Team,” but reports from inner sources soon confirmed who had specifically put Flynn up to this task: Jared Kushner.

Yes, that Jared Kushner.

The Jared Kushner whose family is so connected to Israel’s zionist likudniks that he once let Benjamin Netanyahu sleep in his bed. (Yes, literally.)

The Jared Kushner who failed to disclose that he led a foundation that actually funded an illegal Israeli settlement. (Yes, really.)

The Jared Kushner who is actually leading Team Trump’s quest for the “ultimate deal:” Israel-Palestine peace. (You can’t make this stuff up.)

So just to spell this out: Trump’s zionist son-in-law got Flynn to twist the arm of every single member of the UN Security Council to vote against a resolution condemning illegal Israeli settlements…and this is a Russian collusion scandal? That is so far from reality it doesn’t even make sense. Unless, of course, you realize that there is almost no one on either side of the phony left/right divide willing to call out US-Israeli collusion because it enjoys completely bi-partisan support.

Haim Saban, the billionaire media mogul who was a key funder of Hillary’s failed presidential quest, actually hosted a gushing, fawning celebration of Kushner at a recent Brookings Institution event. Meanwhile, Trump’s main backer, Sheldon Adelson, just had his decades-long dream come true when Trump unilaterally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Democrat. Republican. When it comes to this collusion story, there’s no real difference.

This, of course, is just one window into the much, much bigger story of US-Israeli collusion. A story that would actually be worth all the attention that is currently being lavished on the Russiagate nonsense (and then some). But you will never see this story being blown wide open by a bombshell breaking news report on your favorite MSMBS channel.

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The below email was received from a citizen and is posted for information.

As received (titles added under links)…

I wasn’t sure if you were aware but regarding your comments on Zionism being targeted, some recent info linking I found interesting:

Hollywood Producer Arnon Milchan Interrogated Over Suspicion That He Bribed Netanyahu

Netanyahu possibly indicted on receiving bribes from Arnon Milchan. This name is important and one I think you might already be familiar with. In case you are not…

Arnon Milchan was responsible for smuggling the Nuclear Triggers to Israel through his company. A company Netanyahu happened to work for at one time. Arnon Milchan is admittedly Mossad, so open in fact it is published in a new biography and also Haeretz.

Arnon Milchan was involved in this assumedly during JFK presidency. I am sure you are familiar that JFK had a serious issue with Israel having Nuclear weapons going so far as to threaten cutting off aid to Israel completely. He demanded several tours of their nuclear energy & what they called a “text tile factory.” He was duped of course and they cut off the floor containing nuclear weapons.

What makes this interesting is a few months later Ben Gurion resigns over the JFK nuclear fiasco. Shortly after JFK is assassinated. What is REALLY interesting to me is finding out Arnon Milchan funded/produced the Oliver Stone JFK assassination movie. This acted as propaganda against the CIA pushing all blame onto the agency. I find this reprehensible considering Arnon being the smuggler of nuclear triggers to Israel from Pennsylvania when JFK would not allow it to continue and is assassinated for this fact. Leading up to Arnon himself being bold enough to make the anti CIA propaganda film not even mentioning their own role.

It goes FARTHER than that with Milchan. He produced an episode of a film just a few months before the Twin Towers were hit by planes. This episode featured remote control planes hitting buildings. This blows my mind. Not only did he produce such months before the Twin Towers are hit but he also produced yet ANOTHER film of planes targeting a building called “medussa.”

Now Arnon is accused of bribing Netanyahu. Other Israeli sources say Netanyahu was asking for these gifts. To keep quiet? No idea but the entire system linking tightly around Arnon Milchan is extremely interesting. he has really been into some shit.

In case you weren’t aware of his relations I wanted to send you this. There is a lot going on with this Milchan guy I am extremely surprised it is allowed and openly so public. He has been involved in a lot of hollywood propaganda and I AM SURE the WTC. With Israeli security there that day you just know it. What exactly is his current role with Netanyahu that is the question.

Phi Beta Iota: We have no direct knowledge but we believe that Arnon Milchan, not Jeffrey Epstein, is the “hub” for understanding the Zionist “system” implemented in the USA since World War II. At the same time that CIA imported Nazis that ultimately dominated both CIA and NASA — while rescuing Adolph Hilter, most top Nazis, and much of their treasure, the Zionists “occupied” Wall Street and Hollywood and eventually took over the mainstream media and social media. There is a system. It has not been properly mapped and the FBI is simply not a serious  counterintelligence agency, but all that could change in the future. Robert Steele has listed five strikes against Zionist Israel in his recent article on War in the Middle East, strike six is Netanyahu’s blowing off the progressive and reform Jews (the majority), Arnon Milchan — if and when he is exposed in detail — could be strike six — unlike Robert Maxwell, who focused on software penetrations, Milchan appears to have not only been central to nuclear smuggling, but to shaping a quarter century of public consciousness culminating in 9/11 as the ultimate Zionist PSYOP and false flag operation (managed by Dick Cheney, a wholly owned Zionist asset whose original mentor, George Bush Senior, is now known to have been an active participant in the assassination of JFK who also tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan eight times . The only thing that the US public will explode over other than pedophilia, is a clear connection between Zionism, pedophilia, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and 9/11 — the USS Liberty and Las Vegas are icing on the cake. Arnon Milchan appears to be central to the core atrocities committed across the USA by Zionists in the past 50 years. We speculate that he was central to the theatrical narrative played out on 9/11, including fake airplanes and the preparation of the AIG floor with Hollywood-style explosions. If and when a proper independent 9/11 investigation is done, we have recommended to Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth that Arnon Milchan be a principal subject of interest. We are also recommending to the Attorney General that all of Arnon Milchan’s emails and calls be pulled for the past decade from the NSA unprocessed data, and examined with great care.

See Especially:

Arnon Milchan – “Mr. Israel” and 9/11 by Christopher Bollyn, 4 October 2011

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Review: Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy–The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul

Robert Steele: How the Deep State controls social media and digitally assassinates critics – #GoogleGestapo – Censorship & Crowd-Stalking Made Easy

Robert Steele: Las Vegas False Flag a Hybrid (Innocent Drill, Rogue Mass Murder Unit)? UPDATE 21

Robert Steele: War in the Middle East [in February 2018]… A strategic survey of possibilities, winners, losers…

Yoda: Netanyahu to USA Progressive Jews – “Fuck Off”

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JFK @ Phi Beta Iota

Pedophilia @ Phi Beta Iota

USS Liberty @ Phi Beta Iota

Zion @ Phi Beta Iota

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Washington’s obsession with attempting to intervene in Syria was never really aimed at Syria, but was instead aimed at containing Iranian influence for the benefit of the Israeli government. Now, with the failure of that mission, Israel has decided it needs to step up its own game.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (Analysis) — On Saturday, December 2, 2017, Israeli missiles struck a Syrian Army arms depot (allegedly belonging to Iran), which in turn prompted Syria to activate its air defenses, resulting in the destruction of two Israeli missiles.

The facility targeted in the December strike was well-known to the Israeli authorities for some time and, as the Jerusalem Post notes, “raises questions as to the timing of the attack and what it was meant to achieve.” The strike allegedly killed 12 Iranian personnel.

Israel has admitted to attacking Syria’s sovereignty at least one hundred times since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011, with little reporting on Israeli aggression by the media. Most media headlines are cluttered with coverage of an expansionist Iran and demonization of its allies Syria, Russia, and Hezbollah.

The narrative of the war in Syria and how it began has been rewritten and flipped by the media and politicians who benefit from the war to suit an agenda that works in Israel’s interest. Before the conflict began, Israel was one of the primary actors in calling for the destabilization of Syria along sectarian lines. Since 2011, however, absent from the media’s coverage of the war in Syria has been Israel’s covert role in supporting al-Qaeda affiliates.

But, as the Trump administration’s support for Syrian rebels wanes — after Syria, Russia and Iran declared victory in defeating Western- and Gulf-backed proxies — Israel’s covert support for these terrorists is becoming more public. Even Israeli military commanders and politicians are speaking more openly about their alliance with these terror groups.

As an Israeli Defence Force (IDF) brigadier told Politico’s Bryan Bender:

If I can be frank, the radical axis headed by Iran is more risky than the global jihad one. It is much more knowledgeable, stronger, with a bigger arsenal.”

Israel’s Defense Minister, Moshe Ya’alon, stated that if he had to choose between ISIS and Iran, he would always “choose the Islamic State.”

Israel has even allegedly provided medical treatment to at least 3,000 Syrian rebels — mostly from the al-Qaeda affiliate, al-Nusra Front — in a four-year period. Israel’s desire to help wounded fighters, out of so-called humanitarian concerns, makes little sense to those following Israel’s constant bombing campaigns in Gaza that target women, children, and even the disabled.

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Israel has been covertly providing aid to Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights throughout the conflict, with the goal of maintaining a buffer zone to keep forces aligned with Iran at bay. The report notes that the aid has been substantial and direct — with the inclusion of cash, food, fuel and medical supplies — even suggesting that some of these groups have been completely reliant on Israeli aid.

Fighters openly admitted that they use Israeli cash to buy weapons and ammunition. Syrian rebels even returned to Israel an eagle that was found in ISIS territory. This signals a very cozy and disturbing relationship between the jihadists inside Syria and the Israeli military.

Putting the Strike in Context

Israel’s support for jihadist groups is rooted in a desire to quell Iranian presence in Syria, as detailed in an email published by WikiLeaks from the archives of the former head of the State Department, Hillary Clinton, which states:

The best way to help Israel deal with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad…For Israeli leaders, the real threat from a nuclear-armed Iran is not the prospect of an insane Iranian leader launching an unprovoked Iranian nuclear attack on Israel that would lead to the annihilation of both countries. What Israeli military leaders really worry about — but cannot talk about — is losing their nuclear monopoly.

An Iranian nuclear weapons capability would not only end that nuclear monopoly but could also prompt other adversaries, like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to go nuclear as well. The result would be a precarious nuclear balance in which Israel could not respond to provocations with conventional military strikes on Syria and Lebanon, as it can today.”

And how was this to be achieved? The email further states:

Washington should start by expressing its willingness to work with regional allies like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar to organize, train and arm Syrian rebel forces. The announcement of such a decision would, by itself, likely cause substantial defections from the Syrian military. Then, using territory in Turkey and possibly Jordan, U.S. diplomats and Pentagon officials can start strengthening the opposition. It will take time. But the rebellion is going to go on for a long time, with or without U.S. involvement.”

The email exposed the planning and execution of U.S. and Gulf Arab collaboration in financing and arming right-wing rebel groups, like the Free Syrian Army, in an attempt to violently overthrow the Assad government in Syria, Iran’s only major Middle Eastern ally, for the sake of Israel. The U.S. worked very closely with Arab dictatorships and monarchies like Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to train Syrian rebels in an effort to destabilize Syria along sectarian lines, creating one of the worst humanitarian disasters of our time.

A 2014 report by PBS detailed how the CIA was teaching these rebels battlefield tactics, including some that could amount to war crimes, in a training camp in Qatar:

They trained us to ambush regime or enemy vehicles and cut off the road,” said the fighter, who is identified only as “Hussein.” “They also trained us on how to attack a vehicle, raid it, retrieve information or weapons and munitions, and how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush.”

The leaked email makes it abundantly clear that Washington’s obsession with Assad’s removal was never about humanitarianism or saving the Syrian people from a tyrannical regime, but was instead aimed at containing Iranian influence for the benefit of the Israeli government.

After taking a more quiet and covert role in supporting al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria — an approach that is on the verge of failure — Israel doesn’t seem to be giving up and is willing to confront Iran on a more aggressive scale through the use of airstrikes.

Where we are headed, connecting the dots

In the days following the December strike, Israel launched a large-scale surprise military drill along the country’s northern border with Lebanon, one of the many countries that has taken a strong stand against Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The drill was aptly summarized by Newsweek:

The Israeli military reportedly mobilized its Galilee division, including hundreds of logistics corps soldiers and dozens of vehicles, without prior notice, in an effort to test its rapid-response capabilities in the event of a conflict breaking out in the tense northern region, near foes Lebanon and Syria.”

Both Arab nations have recognized Jerusalem solely as the capital of an independent Palestinian state, and have been hit by Israeli airstrikes targeting Iran-backed forces, such as Lebanon’s Shia Hezbollah movement, which has focused on battling Syrian rebels and jihadis in recent years, after having clashed with Israeli forces for decades.

In September, Israel quietly held another military drill, its largest in 20 years, which was designed to simulate a war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israeli soldiers playing the part of “the enemy”  even wore Hezbollah’s signature yellow and green flag and guerilla-style uniforms.

Israel is allegedly increasing its defense budget by more than $1 billion in the coming five years. This budget isn’t being prepared for nothing.

An Israeli military general tasked with drafting Israel’s defense policy publicly admitted that Israel was preparing for a war with Iran, but that it could not hope to take on Iran directly without America’s help.

According to Defense News, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at least six times in a 17-month period to press his Russian counterpart for an Iran-free zone of influence. Israel is concerned that Iran’s military buildup inside Syria will extend beyond the deployment of its proxy forces and will instead take the form of “air bases, seaports and other critical infrastructure in Syrian territory.”

Hence Israel’s December strike, aimed at a Syrian facility which they allege was being used to provide arms to Iran’s proxies in the country, and even in the Palestinian territories. It is important to note that this was not a one-off strike. Within the space of about a week, Israel had allegedly struck Syrian territory at least four times, signaling a shift in attitude toward deeper involvement in the Syrian conflict.

Israel cannot hope to take on Iran directly unless the United States conducts the conflict on Israel’s behalf. In light of this, it has only one real option to confront Iran by lesser means, continued attempts to weaken Assad in Syria and to directly confront Hezbollah in Lebanon. If Israel does decide on another direct confrontation with Hezbollah, it likely will not play out in the same manner as it did in 2006, when Israel was repelled after attacking Lebanon in a bid to weaken Hezbollah. As The Hill explains:

The new cadre of fighters Hezbollah is bringing in is also professionalizing what was previously an explicitly guerrilla-oriented organization. The fight for Syria against the nominally Sunni ‘Takfiri’ (apostate) ISIS, has been a gift to the Shia Hezbollah, spurring recruitment efforts. Put simply, Hezbollah is not just getting better at fighting, its army is also getting bigger.”

In essence, Israel would have to intervene militarily in both Lebanon and Syria if it hopes to take on Hezbollah, and this would lead to a direct confrontation with Iran — whether or not Israel is prepared for it. According to Israeli military analyst Alex Fishman, Iran is working on building a military airfield near Damascus where the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) will be free to operate. It is only a matter of time before Israel attacks enough IRGC members that Iran decides it can no longer remain idle and watch Israel’s unchallenged aggression on neighboring sovereign allies.

According to the Times of Israel, the December strike allegedly killed 12 Iranian military personnel.  In 2015, Israel assassinated a top Iranian general with little to no outrage from the international community.

Further, Israel has already more or less accepted responsibility for the assassination of a number of Iranian scientists, something one would expect to bring outrage to the international community. Under the guise of defending itself from a repeatedly proven non-existent Iranian nuclear threat, Israel is prepared to do almost anything – even if it means a direct contravention of international law. This includes openly colluding with Saudi Arabia to interfere in domestic Lebanese politics in order to achieve its goal of countering Iranian influence.

The reality is that Israel is already in the business of killing Iranians with little mention from the media, a fact worth noting should a war ever eventuate between the two rival powers — given that the adversarial nature of the respective nations is consistently painted as being solely attributable to Iranian aggression.

 15 Dec 2017   Posted by Tyler Durden

• Mainstream media in 2013: “Conspiracy Theorists!” 
• Mainstream media in 2017: “ISIS Got a Powerful Missile the CIA Bought!” 

Years late to the party, mainstream media outlets like USA Today, Reuters, and Buzzfeed are just out with “breaking” and “exclusive” stories detailing how a vast arsenal of weapons sent to Syria by the CIA in cooperation with US allies fueled the rapid growth of ISIS. Buzzfeed’s story entitled, Blowback: ISIS Got A Powerful Missile The CIA Secretly Bought In Bulgaria, begins by referencing “a new report on how ISIS built its arsenal highlights how the US purchased munitions, intended for Syrian rebels, that ended up in the hands of the terrorist group.”

The original study that Buzzfeed and other media are referencing comes from a UK-based independent weapons research organization called Conflict Armament Research (CAR) which has had a team of weapons and munitions experts on the ground in the Middle East for years examining arms and equipment recovered from ISIS and other terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria. Using serial numbers, crate shipping markings, and all available forensics data, the CAR experts began finding that as early as 2013 to 2014 much of the Islamic State’s advanced weapons systems as well as small arms were clearly sourced to the United States and the West.

“Supplies of materiel into the Syrian conflict from foreign parties – notably the United States and Saudi Arabia – have indirectly allowed IS to obtain substantial quantities of anti-armor ammunition,” states the CAR report. “These weapons include anti-tank guided weapons and several varieties of rocket with tandem warheads, which are designed to defeat modern reactive armor.”

The study further reveals that in one notable instance, a weapons shipment of advanced missile systems switched hands from US intelligence to “moderate” Syrian groups to ISIS in only a two month time period. Though the report is now evoking shock and confusion among pundits, the same weapons research group has actually published similar findings and conclusions going years back into the Syrian conflict.

For example, a previous 2014 Conflict Armament Research report found that Balkan origin anti-tank rockets recovered from ISIS fighters appeared identical to those shipped in 2013 to Syrian rebel forces as part of a CIA program.

And CAR’s damning publications presenting such inconvenient empirical data have been consistent for years, yet were largely ignored and suppressed by analysts and mainstream media who were too busy cheerleading US support for Syrian “rebels” cast as romantic revolutionaries in their struggle to topple Assad and his secular nationalist government. Of course, it’s an old story if you’ve been reading Zero Hedge or the profusion of independent outlets that have long reported the truth about the covert “dirty war” in Syria since nearly the beginning. 

When news of the 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency report broke, which described what it called a “Salafist principality” or “an Islamic State” as a strategic asset or buffer in Syria that could be used by the Western coalition “in order to isolate the Syrian regime,” American media outlets dismissed what was labeled a “conspiracy theory” at the time in spite of the hard evidence of a US military intelligence report being made available.

The Daily Beast for example mocked what it called “The ISIS Conspiracy Theory that Ate the Web” – describing those analyzing the Pentagon intelligence document as far-right and far-left loons. This occurred even as the document was taken very seriously and analyzed in-depth by some of the world’s foremost Middle East experts and investigative journalists in foreign outlets like the London Review of Books, The Guardian, Der Spiegal , as well as RT and Al Jazeera.

And yet now once again “conspiracy theory” has been confirmed as “conspiracy fact:” Conflict Armament Research’s new report out this week is the result of a three-year ground investigation which compiled findings from 40,000 military items recovered from ISIS between the years 2014 and 2017. Its conclusions are scientific, exhaustive, and irrefutable.

International weapon supplies to factions in the Syrian conflict have significantly augmented the quantity and quality of weapons available to IS forces. Read more here https://t.co/5QKauwzHpU pic.twitter.com/uZqb8zjP3r

— CAR (@conflictarm) December 14, 2017

The extensive report confirms what former MI6 spy and British diplomat Alastair Crooke once stated – that the CIA established the basis of a “jihadi Wal-Mart” of sorts – to which ISIS had immediate and easy access. Crooke noted that the weapons program was set up with “plausible deniability” in mind, which would allow its American intelligence sponsors to be shielded from any potential future legal prosecution or public embarrassment. Crooke noted in a 2015 BBC interview that, “The West does not actually hand the weapons to al-Qaida, let alone to ISIS…, but the system they’ve constructed leads precisely to that end.”

This is what enables Buzzfeed, USA Today, and others to report the bombshell findings yet continue to soft peddle the significance by emphasizing things like “weaknesses in oversight and regulation” while also highlighting the “accidental” nature of US-supplied missiles “ending up” in the hands of ISIS terrorists. 

Buzzfeed’s coverage of the CAR weapons report is summarized in the article introduction:

A guided anti-tank missile ended up in the hands of ISIS terrorists less than two months after the US government purchased it in late 2015 — highlighting weaknesses in the oversight and regulation of America’s covert arms programs, according to information published Thursday by an arms monitoring group called Conflict Armament Research (CAR).

Though the report says the missile was purchased by the US Army using a contractor, BuzzFeed News has learned that the real customer appears to have been the CIA. It was part of the spy agency’s top secret operation to arm rebels in Syria to fight the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The missile ended up in the hands of ISIS fighters in Iraq, according to the report.

The CIA declined to comment on the Obama-era program to back Syrian rebels, which was canceled by President Trump in July. The Pentagon did not provide information in time for publication.

The missile is one piece of a critical puzzle that is being solved only now, with ISIS on the run: How did the vast terror group arm its war machine? CAR spent three years tracking ISIS weapons as they were recovered by Iraqi, Syrian, and Kurdish forces — and found that what happened to the missile was no aberration. Indeed, the terror group managed to divert “substantial quantities of anti-armour ammunition” from weapons provided to Syrian opposition forces by the US or Saudi Arabia.

But some astute observers might notice the significance of the timeline related to the CIA purchase of one of the anti-tank missiles examined: “A guided anti-tank missile ended up in the hands of ISIS terrorists less than two months after the US government purchased it in late 2015.” As highlighted previously, the CAR team of experts had already documented the trend of CIA weapons delivered to the Syrian battlefield going to ISIS fighters as early as September of 2014. Beyond this 2014 study, a seemingly endless stream of articles going back years published in independent and international media have underscored the reality of ISIS growing and thriving because of Western and Gulf state covert weapons shipments. 

This means that CIA and government analysts knew full well where the weapons were going in real time, yet continued with the program anyway. As former Pentagon intelligence chief Michael Flynn told Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan in a stunningly frank summer 2015 interview (significantly before Flynn was part of the Trump campaign), the White House’s sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIS and al-Nusra/HTS) against the Syrian government was most certainly “a willful decision.”

Thus General Flynn in the summer of 2015, speaking as recently retired military intelligence officer, warned in no uncertain terms that US-supplied weapons in Syria were going to ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other jihadists. This was so well known at the time that it could be openly stated by a retired high ranking official an a major international program. Flynn also said something similar to both Seymour Hersh and the New York Times in 2015. 

But what did the CIA and allied intelligence agencies do? They continued arming the jihadist insurgency in Syria in their efforts to oust Assad. This was indeed “a willful decision” as Flynn affirmed and not mere “weaknesses in oversight and regulation” as Buzzfeed would have us believe.

 19 Nov 2017   Posted by Ryan Cristián

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In a time of universal deceit, telling the Truth Is truly a revolutionary act, and that has never been more apparent than in today’s hyper-partisan climate, where facts no longer hold sway, and one’s opinion is now only as strong as the crowd that surrounds it. It has been conditioned over many years into the masses that the way they feel, is now more important than the facts at hand.

Now some may say that is a good thing, that information is so manipulated today, that all we have is the way we feel, our gut instincts. But once we realize that our feelings have long been programmed and manufactured by way of news media and entertainment, the very feelings we are now being told to trust, we begin to see the long-term agenda at play — the manufactured consent of the masses. So it has never been more important to question everything, to trust in facts, to trust in what we can prove, as we in the independent media must do better, we must be better, or we will wake up down the line, and realize that we have become the very thing we once despised. And no one embodies the journalistic integrity that is all but absent in MSM today, more so than Eva Bartlett.

Eva is, in my opinion, one of the last surviving investigative journalists. She has made a name for herself as an independent writer and rights activist by traveling to places such as Gaza, Syria, and North Korea, and revealing to the world the stark contrast between want we are told is happening there, and what is actually taking place: