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The Syria Carve-Up Creates a de-Facto Israel-Turkey Border Ensuring a Broader ME War Mike Whitney One Plan To Guide Them All:  “….. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq. .. into ethnically or religiously unique areas…  is Israel’s primary target … while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short-term target. Syria will fall apart in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure… Oded Yinon,  A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties,  voltairenet Israeli military forces have moved to within 15 miles of the Syrian Capital of Damascus.  The IDF has seized large tracts of land in southern Syria it intends to occupy and where it will eventually build checkpoints, military outposts and settlements. The “lightening” invasion has been accompanied by a massive bombing campaign that has obliterated numerous military bases, weapons depots and research labs eliminating any hope that Syria will regain the ability to defend itsel...

  The Hydra of Government: How the Global Engagement Center Lives On Through Rebranding     The Global Engagement Center was defunded, only to reemerge under a new name—proof that bureaucracy rarely dies, it just rebrands. By   Roger Kimball January 5, 2025 If you visit the State Department’s   website for the Global Engagement Center , you will read that “The Global Engagement Center closed on December 23, 2024.” Not really. As has been often observed, the nearest thing to immortality this side of the pearly gates is a government initiative.   I have noted   in this space and elsewhere that the innocuous-sounding “Global Engagement Center” was actually (in   Vivek Ramaswamy’s accurate summary ) a “key node of the censorship industrial complex.” According to its mission statement, the GEC was supposed to be focused on “ foreign   state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, securi...