Mother Agnes

Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross is a Carmelite nun and mother superior of the Monastery of James the Mutilated in Qara, Syria, which has a community of three monks and twelve nuns. Born in Lebanon in a refugee camp 61 years ago, she is Palestinian on her father’s side and has worked in Syria for about 20 years. She is the spokesperson for the Catholic Information Center in Beirut, where the Musalaha Initiative also has its office. Mother Agnes became a nun at 19, after several years in the late 1960s as a self-styled “hippie,” traveling to Europe, India and Tibet. Unlike others with an equally public profile, Mother Agnes has no Wikipedia page.

This is taken from  an article  in global research website.

I do not live in Syria. She lives there and she knows more about the Syrian civil war than even the UN. media has done a lot of harm to the Syrian uprising. It started as a peaceful demonstration against the assad's government. now listen to Mother Agnes talking about it here:

Are we rresponsible for this? As a matter of fact we are. you me and the rest of this world.

Now you can have a look at this documentation by her:

I do hope you will be part of making peace in Syria for the troubled Syrian by outside agents who are warring in syria for other purposes. As Mother Agnes explains Assad government is a repressing one. The evolution to more democratic way should come from within.

Syria Chemical attacks

I blogged about this in my blog in:

here

There is more to it now. It has been established with more evidence that the attacks carried out by rebel fighters in Eastern Ghouta, and it is  alleged that Saudi Intelligence Chief, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, had supplied extremist elements in the  region with chemical weapons.

Well you and me will find why all these intelligence agencies are trying to bury this information by attacking the media and the journalists. Is there more to this incidence than what was already being reported. 

Read all about it

Iraq war revisited

I thought I have to write this after reading an article about the Iraq war and how various governments in both sides of the Atlantic tried to white wash  suppressing of the incredible intelligence; to promote the war.

In March 2009 I wrote a blog about the intelligence made at the time of preparation to go to war was false in my blog:

http://always-myown.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/intelligence-made-it-clear-saddam-was.html


On 27th june 2009 I blogged about a secret memo about the meeting between then  president of US and PM of UK written by Foreign policy advisor to Blair, David manning. read in my blog:

http://always-myown.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/iraq-memo-bush-blair-wmds.html

Remarkable coincidence in 12th january 2010 it was reparted that netherlands cooperated with the war illegally after an unbiased inquiry. It was reported by BBC in:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8453305.stm#startcontent


On 8th july 2009 I wrote in my blog about Dr. Kelly, weapons inspector in Iraq. He knew that Iraq did not have chemical weapons and he was asked to leave the country while the investigations were ongoing. He was going to write his memoirs before he was unlawfully killed. Read about this in my blogs:
http://always-myown.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/david-kelly.html

and

http://always-myown.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/dr-david-kellys-death.html


Now the similarity of Syrian civil war and Iraq war is clearly the same.But at the time of this blog we in the West has not gone and put our bloody boots in the soverign state of Syria. But check the similarities in this blog:

Here

Last week a little more was learned as to the circumventions in Whitehall and Washington delaying the publication of the findings of Sir John Chilcot’s marathon Inquiry in to the background of the Iraq invasion.

The UK’s Chilcot Inquiry, was convened under then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, to establish the decisions taken by the UK government and military, pre and post invasion. It ran from 24th November 2009 until 2nd February 2011 and cost an estimated £7.5 million. The as yet unpublished Report is believed to run to 1000,000 words.

The stumbling block – more of an Israeli-style “separation barrier” in reality – has been the correspondence between Tony Blair and George W. Bush, prior to an invasion and occupation, which former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan finally told the BBC was: “illegal” and that: “painful lessons” had been learned. (BBC 16th September 2004.) “Lessons” clearly not learned by the current British government.

The communications, in Sir John Chilcot’s words to former Cabinet Secretary Lord O’Donnell related to: “The question when and how the Prime Minister (Tony Blair) made commitments to the US about the UK’s involvement in military action in Iraq, and subsequent decisions on the UK’s continuing involvement, is central to its considerations.”(Guardian 17th July 2013.)

Further: “Chilcot said the release of notes of the conversations between Blair and Bush would serve to ‘illuminate Mr Blair’s position at critical points’ in the run up to war.”

Taken from article Global research:

Libya After 2 years

More than two years on since the “revolution” of Feb. 2011, the security crisis is exacerbating by the day threatening Libya with an implosion charged with potential realistic risks to the geopolitical unity of the Arab north African country, turning this crisis into a national existential one. Obviously the status quo is unsustainable.

Yes it is another mess. Our boys and girls with the US  girls ....lol...have made a good mess better than previous. Gaddafi kept that country going though he had some mad things which was not properly understood by the West. He killed the terrorists and the Western media said he is mad. He tortured terrorists captured by US and UK and then later handed over to him.That carried headlines in our media without the bit about who captured them and handed over to Gaddafi. Gaddafi had a very good benefit system and educational system admired by many Libian. Of course he was a clansman. We in UK has similar when you look at the ruling elite. US hmmm I am not sure about that as I do not live there. You decide.

Now here is the conclusion in the article I am reading.

Yet Libyans seem determined to miss “this opportunity.” “Revolutionary” Libya, reminiscent of the U.S. – engineered “democratic” Iraq after some ten years of the U.S. invasion, is still unable to offer basic services to its citizens. Real unemployment is estimated at over 30%. Economy has stalled and frustration is growing. Gone are the welfare days of Gaddafi’s state when young families could get a house with benefits for free, people’s medication and treatment were paid by the state and free education made available to everyone. About one million supporters of the Gaddafi regime remain internally displaced; hundreds of thousands more fled for their lives abroad.

Remnants of the destroyed institutional infrastructure of law, order and security is hardly capable of protecting the symbolic central government in Tripoli , reminiscent of its Iraqi counterpart, which is still besieged in the so-called “Green Zone” in Baghdad . Late last October Libya ’s central bank was robbed of $55m in a broad daylight robbery. More than one hundred senior military and police commanders were assassinated.

And finally how US plans went to the rubbish heap of the Middle East:

Pentagon’s Plans No Help

Short of western “boots on the ground” it is doubtful that Zeidan’s government will survive. The U.S. administration of President Barak Obama was repeatedly on record against any U.S. boots on the ground in the Middle East . With the exception of France , which might be ready for the appropriate price to repeat its recent limited and temporary military intervention in Mali , Europe seems against it too.

Zeidan, with less than three months remaining for him in office, seems relying on Pentagon’s plans to arm and train, through “AFRICOM,” a new Libyan army called “a general purpose force.”

But “the case of a separate and underreported U.S. effort to train a small Libyan counterterrorism unit inside Libya earlier this year is instructive,” Frederic Wehrey wrote recently in Foreign Affairs, adding: The absence of clear lines of authority — nearly inevitable given Libya’s fragmented security sector — meant that the force’s capabilities could just have easily ended up being used against political enemies as against terrorists. In August militias launched a pre-dawn raid on the training camp which was not well-guarded. There were no U.S. soldiers at the camp, but the militia took a great deal of U.S. military equipment from the site, some of it sensitive. The U.S. decided to abort the program and the U.S. forces supposedly went home.

The obvious alternative to Zeidan’s western supported government would be a stateless society governed by militia warlords, while the survival of his government promises more of the same.

At the official end of the NATO war for the regime change in Libya on Oct. 31, 2011 U.S. President Obama proclaimed from the White House Rose Garden that this event signaled the advent of “a new and democratic Libya,” but more than two years later Libya is recurring to the pre-Gaddafi old undemocratic tribal and ethnic rivalries with the added value of the exclusionist terrorist religious fundamentalism wearing the mantle of Islamist Jihad.

In the wake of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s death on October 20, a Saudi Arabian Arab News’ editorial said: “The point about Qaddafi’s death is that it makes the next transition stage that much easier, that much safer. As long as he remained at large, he would have been in a position to destabilize the country.”

More than two years after Gaddafi’s death, Libya is more destabilized, insecure and fractured that its future is now questionable enough not to vindicate the Saudi daily’s prediction.

Thanks to an article by Nicola Nasser  a veteran Arab journalist based in Birzeit, West Bank of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.