EDITOR—Israel and Iran are going to war and it has the potential to involve multiple Middle East countries, other countries like Russia and China and most definitely the United States. We ask Colonel Douglas Macgregor to share his thoughts on this conflict and what it means for the future of our world.
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EDITORS—The USSR did not have emission controls in the Stalin period, but neither did the West, anywhere. Not to mention that the private car did not exist under Lenin and Stalin to constitute a threat to nature. And prior to the 1960s (Stalin died in 1953), environmental law did not exist anywhere in the world. Typically, anti-communists have conveniently ignored all these facts in their unrelenting campaign to demonise Stalin, and communism in general.
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EDITOR—The United Kingdom has played a massive role in the Ukrainian military’s suicide mission in Kursk – and they want you to know about it. Reporters Klarenberg and Rubinstein analyse the bizarre behaviour of the UK’s ruling elites as they press on with their plans to bring down Russia at any cost, and probably increase the chances of a horrendous global conflict.
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EDITORS—The first episode of Praying for Armageddon goes inside the evangelical Christian movement to explore its influence on US democracy and foreign policy. Preparing for the “end times”, a grassroots pastor gathers an army of veterans in the heartland of the United States, and megachurch ministers provide spiritual advice to politicians in the nation’s capital. They call for the “final battle” which they believe will trigger the second coming of Christ. Central to their apocalyptic prophecy is Israel. It is with their blessing that the Trump administration controversially recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moves the US embassy there in 2018. “It feels like everyone has a say about the destiny and the future of Jerusalem except for the Palestinians living in it,” says Palestinian activist Fayrouz Sharqawi.
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DON HANK—Political and demographic trends suggest that the far right in Israel will remain electorally influential, even dominant, for the foreseeable future. [And these Judaic fundamentalists are supported wholeheartedly by American “Christian” Zionists, who in turn support Zionist lawmakers, creating a vicious circle that cannot be broken. Only the multipolar world order led by Russia and China can effectively oppose this]
But many Israelis who are not especially religious are also beginning to subscribe to this increasingly extreme ethnonationalist ideology. Since the October 7 attacks, the Israeli right wing has grown even more radical.
