News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[On August 25th, 2018, Senator and former U.S. Republican Presidential candidate John McCain died at the age of 81; he was diagnosed with brain cancer last year on July 2017. Given the current climate of identity politics in the Trump Era, “anti-war” liberals have gone as far as to rehabilitate once-widely reviled war criminals such... Continue Reading →
What can the ‘Yinon Plan’ tell us about the events in the Middle East By Dylano What is the Yinon Plan? “The area of the Jewish State stretches: From the Book of Egypt to the Euphrates” -Theodore Herzl (1) On the 9th July 1947, member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Rabbi Fischmann put forward... Continue Reading →
[Turkey, like the Gulf States and Israel, are allied with the USA against the Syria people. Fascism is on the move.. -- MP] Turkey’s nationalist 'Gray Wolves' enter Syrian fray by Fehim Taştekin is a columnist at the Turkish newspaper Radikal, based in Istanbul. He is the host of a weekly program called "SINIRSIZ" on... Continue Reading →
The myth of the 1,400 year Sunni-Shia war by Murtaza Hussain Murtaza Hussain is a Toronto-based writer and analyst focused on issues related to Middle Eastern politics. @@MazMHussain (http://www.aljazeera.com/) During the period of European rule over Rwanda, the Belgian colonial administrators of the territory accomplished an extraordinary feat in their subjugation of the local population... Continue Reading →
[The Islamic State's momentum is waning. ISIS is a movement that was, in part, created by Empire. If IS is defeated in Syria and Iraq, IS will retreat mostly to Libya, where the West helped create a safe haven for Frakenstein extremism by toppling Gaddafi. By removing Gaddafi, the West laid the basis for the... Continue Reading →
[This is an interesting development concerning both the fight against ISIS and the Kurdish struggle. Up until this point Turkey has largely left ISIS alone, most likely because the group was serving a strategic purpose against Ankara's regional enemies, primarily the Assad regime in Syria and the Kurdish people. The bombing of both ISIS and... Continue Reading →
[Ramadi was the site of two major engagements during the most recent US invasion and occupation of Iraq, and now this. Another example of the deadly legacy of US imperialism. -Uziel] Baghdad (AFP) - Thousands of civilians have fled escalating fighting between pro-government forces and jihadists in the Iraqi city of Ramadi over the past... Continue Reading →
[Once again ISIS shows its ignorance and blatant disregard for history and culture. If these crimes weren't so damaging to our shared human history, they would almost be comical in their stupidity, akin to book burnings. -Uziel] Baghdad (AFP) - Condemnation poured in Friday of the Islamic State group's bulldozing of the ancient city of... Continue Reading →
[The imperialists are playing a strange game. They are playing all sides to create chaos, to weaken the Third World. -- NP] There have already been been numerous reports that US led coalition planes have been air dropping supplies and weapons to Islamic State terrorists…. From Fars News Agency: Iraq’s army has shot down two... Continue Reading →
Beirut (AFP) - Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah is fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq, its chief Hassan Nasrallah revealed for the first time Monday in a speech beamed to supporters. "We may not have spoken about Iraq before, but we have a limited presence because of the sensitive phase that Iraq is going through,"... Continue Reading →
(PressTV) Volunteer forces fighting against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists say US military aircrafts have dropped weapons in areas held by the terrorist group in Iraq. American helicopters dropped boxes of weapons in Yathrib and Balad districts in Iraq’s Salahuddin Province, according to the fighters. The report comes as the Iraqi army and volunteer fighters appear... Continue Reading →
