30 November 2020

Netanyahu's Gambit: The Baiting of Iran and the Manipulation of Trump

All the evidence suggests Israel has just assassinated one of Iran's top nuclear scientists. This is nothing new. Israel has been assassinating Iranian scientists and sabotaging their nuclear operations for years.

But this time is a bit different and this explains why the story is generating some limited media attention in the West. There's a sense of building pressure of something in the works. Many commentators believe an attack is in the offing.

25 November 2020

The al Qaeda-Iran Narrative 2.0

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/11/front-page-ny-times-story-on-iran-al-qaeda-links-is-dishonest-and-could-help-justify-a-u-s-israeli-attack/

These were also my thoughts upon reading the Times article. I was thinking of the Bush years and how they had tried to push that angle – Iran and al Qaeda – and how it repeatedly came to nothing.

22 November 2020

Russia: Protector of Oriental Christendom in the Face of Armenian Defeat

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-armenia-azerbaijan-karabakh-russia/putin-tells-azerbaijan-to-take-care-of-christian-shrines-in-nagorno-karabakh-idUKKBN27U0OJ

From Putin's standpoint this call to protect Armenia's Christian legacy is an attempt to recover face. Moscow dropped the ball in terms of its larger Orthodox narrative. It did not come to the aid of Armenia and turn back the tide of the Turk. Azerbaijan clearly won this round as Armenia, defeated and broken was forced to abandon the field and cede large portions of Artsakh, the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave it had captured in the 1990's.

20 November 2020

Rush Limbaugh's Phony Profession and Testimony

According to Christian media we are supposed to be excited that at long last after thirty years on the public stage (and as his voice is soon to be silenced due to terminal illness), Rush Limbaugh is at last a Christian. He has a 'personal relationship' with Christ.

16 November 2020

Theological Trumpism: Christ Defended by Thugs

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/president-of-brazil-pushes-for-worldwide-fight-against-christophobia-at-un

It is no great shock to find a platform such as LifeSite celebrating this sort of thing – Christ being promoted and defended by thugs such as Jair Bolsonaro.

LifeSite represents the Dominionist nexus – the new ecumenism born of Evangelical Dominion theology and sections of traditionalist and integralist Catholicism. These groups celebrate anything that smacks of Christians (of almost any stripe) wielding and exercising cultural influence and political power.

15 November 2020

The Contest for Moldova

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Moldova-is-preparing-for-a-revolution,-Belarus-style-51461.html

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Moldovan-elections-head-for-run-off-51513.html

Sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, Moldova remains poised for the same sort of unrest that has plagued both Ukraine and Belarus. Indeed, the nation which is more or less Romanian in its ethnicity is divided between it majority population and a considerable minority of Russians and other Eastern Slavs.

14 November 2020

The Sudan Junta Blackmailed

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/10/26/the-angry-arab-the-us-just-blackmailed-sudan/

https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2020/07/trouble-on-nile.html

Sudan, an opponent of Washington for the past thirty years has been flipped over into the American column. Washington sponsored and shepherded the creation of South Sudan in 2011, a move that (for a time) cut off the Beijing-aligned Khartoum regime from its oil resources. As of last year China has returned to a position of dominance in terms of South Sudanese oil. And yet now Washington has scored another victory in the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir and the bringing of Sudan into alliance with the West. Divide and conquer in this case worked. And China for its part risks trouble in getting its oil to the coast.

13 November 2020

Judgment on the African Church

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54297372

What a sad testimony. While I don't doubt that the Obama administration was pushing feminism and sodomy alongside their humanitarian efforts, one would hope the Africa church would see the danger of any and all connections to the American Empire and what it represents.

10 November 2020

The Labour Purges: Corbyn and the Fraudulent Anti-Semitism Campaign

Though he was forced out over six months ago, the UK's Blair-ite controlled Labour Party has persisted in their conspiracy to destroy Jeremy Corbyn and any hint of his legacy. He's still an MP and apparently there's fear that his wing of the party may come back at some point. And so while he's down, Keir Starmer and those that back him are maneuvering to take Corbyn out of the equation.

09 November 2020

Greenwald Quits The Intercept

Greenwald's departure wasn't all that surprising apart from the fact that he was the key name associated with The Intercept's founding in 2014. The online magazine arose in the wake of the Snowden revelations and yet within a few years it began to decline.

08 November 2020

Inbox: No to The Biden Alternative

If Trump is so wrong for the Christian Church to embrace, was Biden a viable alternative?

Of course not. As I've repeatedly argued, to politicise and to vote is to participate in and endorse the system which is in fact evil. In terms of Providence it serves a purpose and thus we don't oppose the system on political terms. Calling men to repentance, we warn of the coming Judgment and we offer hope of life for those who unite with Christ. But our task is not to challenge the powers that be for they are ordained by God. I couldn't care less if the president of the United States is a Republican or a Democrat – he's still the president of the United States and thus represents the American system.

07 November 2020

Biden's Victory, Election Controversies, and What is to Come

I am completely open to the notion that elements within the US government would seek to subvert the electoral process. They've done it outside US borders on dozens of occasions and so the thought that it could happen here does not even begin to stretch my imagination.

That said, I am unconvinced that this has taken place with regard to the Biden-Trump contest. If Deep State actors had intended this, they would want to make sure the victory was clear-cut – something that didn't happen. In fact this tight and long drawn-out race was in many respects the worse scenario.

03 November 2020

Trump +1383: The Second Term and the Coming Praetorian Purge

https://www.axios.com/trump-firing-wray-haspel-esper-088cbd70-3524-4625-91f1-dbc985767c71.html

There are indications that if Trump stays in office he plans a purge – a move that will alarm some within the Establishment as it indicates he's prepared to adopt a completely reckless attitude in his second term. And given the way he's conducted himself over the past four years, that's really saying something.

02 November 2020

The Right's Abandonment of Liberal Values

There is a great hypocrisy at work within Right-wing circles. They profess to believe in the American system of democratic representation and yet clearly they don't actually hold to it. Their actions suggest a strong anti-democratic bias as represented by their attempts to suppress democracy and disenfranchise large segments of the population.

01 November 2020

Richard Land, The Christian Post, and Celebrity Theology

https://www.christianpost.com/news/pub-fri-morn-pls-jo-kathie-lee-gifford-says-church-has-failed-nonbelievers-feels-called-to-share-faith-through-film.html

Led by Richard Land a lobbyist, political activist and Dominionist the Christian Post wants to reach the broadest possible spectrum to make Christianity something that's not merely detected (having a place at the table) but a force that's influencing all aspects of culture.

The Christian Post attempts to provide a broad spectrum of Christian media and news coverage but instead it has degenerated into parody.