Empire’s Use of Occupation & Propaganda as a Weapon

25/08/2025 Mark A. Ashwill Commentary afghanistan, colonialism, empire, ethnic cleansing, first intigada, freedom, genocide, Greater Israel, hamas, iraq, iraq war, israel, lebensraum, PLO, ryan ward, security, syria, USA, Zionism

Below is a LinkedIn post by Ryan Ward, who is based in Cambridge, England. It's a simple explanation for people who "condemn Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) without ever asking why they exist in the first place." I know some of these people, otherwise kind, caring, and compassionate individuals who have swallowed this particular hasbara talking … Continue reading Empire’s Use of Occupation & Propaganda as a Weapon

Israel in Five Years: A Prediction

17/01/202505/02/2025 Mark A. Ashwill Commentary gaza, greater israel project, israel, jordan, Lebanon, palestine, palestinians, shir hever, syria, Zionism

I asked (Sifu) Dai Leon, a New Zealand-based US expat and one of the smartest, most knowledgeable, most well-informed, and best-connected people I know, about Israel's fate in five years. He had this to say: The country, formed by CIA-MI6 allying with Anglo & Jewish Mafias with ties to Talmudic Zionist Cult, has been instrumental … Continue reading Israel in Five Years: A Prediction

Smotrich: Israel’s future is ‘to expand to Damascus’

10/11/202412/11/2024 Mark A. Ashwill Articles, Commentary, video Bezalel Smotrich, Damascus, Egypt, gaza, Greater Israel, iran, iraq, israel, Itamar ben-Gvir, jordan, Lebanon, palestine, saudi arabia, syria, Zionism

Israeli Minister of Finance and leader of National Zionism, Bezalel Smotrich, speaks to the press during a party meeting in Jerusalem on 5 February 2024. I give Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich credit for one thing: his brutal honesty. No code or dog whistle, just speaking candidly about the "Greater Israel" project. I first saw … Continue reading Smotrich: Israel’s future is ‘to expand to Damascus’

“Three-year-old girl dies after being stabbed at Idaho birthday party”

09/07/201809/07/2018 Mark A. Ashwill Articles ethiopia, iraq, refugees, syria, us immigration, violence

Girl’s death comes two days after man invaded her party and attacked nine people with knife How sad is that? I'm not sure how much coverage this story received in the US but it was all over the international media. I fully expected the assailant to be another angry, xenophobic, hate-filled white guy but this … Continue reading “Three-year-old girl dies after being stabbed at Idaho birthday party”

Fond Memories of a Syria at Peace

23/04/201817/12/2024 Mark A. Ashwill Commentary peace, syria, war

Listening to music broadcast by a radio station in Damascus evoked a flood of memories from a long ago trip to Syria that included the capital, the country's second largest port city, Tartus, and the eventful bus ride that took me there. I was in Syria to set up a 2000 summer study abroad program … Continue reading Fond Memories of a Syria at Peace

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