Category Archives: Middle East

Preparing for War with Iran – The Wesley Clark 7

“Seven Countries in five years” A little behind schedule, but after Syria, Iran is the only one left.

Diego Garcia

Tucker Carlson and Jeffrey Sachs on War with Iran

Diego Garcia Backgrounder:

Military buildup: The United States is currently pre-positioning military assets in Diego Garcia. Recent reports indicate a significant buildup, including the deployment of at least five to seven B-2 Spirit stealth bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to the island in the past week, as of March 29, 2025. This is accompanied by multiple C-17 cargo planes and KC-135 refueling tankers, with satellite imagery and open-source intelligence tracking confirming these movements. The strategic positioning of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean makes it a key staging point for potential operations, particularly in the Middle East, amid rising tensions with Iran and ongoing strikes against Houthi forces in Yemen. This buildup follows a pattern of previous deployments to the island for contingency operations, suggesting preparation for possible large-scale military action.

History: Military Activities

Location: Google Maps

As the crow flies:

- Distance from Washington DC to Yemen: 7,100 miles
- Distance from Washington DC to Iran: 6,300 miles
- Distance from Diego Garcia to Yemen: 2,200 miles
- Distance from Diego Garcia to Iran: 2,800 miles
- Distance from Yemen to Israel: 1,300 miles
- Distance from Iran to Israel: 1,000 miles

April 7,2025: Based on recent reports, satellite imagery, and credible analyses, the following assets have been identified or inferred to be present in Diego Garcia:

B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers: At least six B-2 bombers have been confirmed via satellite imagery from Planet Labs, with some estimates suggesting up to seven or more. These stealth bombers are capable of carrying massive ordnance, including the GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator, designed for hardened targets. The exact number may vary, as some could be housed in shelters, obscuring them from view.
KC-135 Stratotanker Refueling Aircraft: Reports indicate between seven and ten KC-135s are deployed, providing aerial refueling support to extend the range of bombers and other aircraft. Satellite images have shown up to nine visible at times.
C-17 Globemaster III Cargo Planes: Multiple C-17s, with estimates ranging from seven to ten, have been tracked landing at Diego Garcia. These aircraft are likely transporting personnel, equipment, and supplies to support the buildup.
B-52H Stratofortress Bombers: Some sources suggest the presence of up to eight B-52H heavy bombers, though this is less consistently confirmed compared to the B-2s. These long-range bombers enhance the base’s strike capability.
Other Fighter Jets: Posts on X and some reports mention “dozens of fighter jets,” potentially including F-35s, though specific numbers and types remain unverified in official channels.
Ohio-Class Ballistic Missile Submarine: One Ohio-class submarine is noted in the Indian Ocean, possibly operating out of or supported by Diego Garcia’s naval facilities. These submarines can carry ballistic or cruise missiles, adding a significant strategic dimension.
Maritime Pre-Positioning Ships: Diego Garcia hosts a squadron of Maritime Pre-Positioning Ships (MPSRON-2), typically around 20 deep-water logistics vessels. These ships are pre-loaded with equipment and supplies for rapid deployment, supporting ground forces like Marine brigades.
Surveillance and Support Aircraft: The base historically supports surveillance platforms, though specific types (e.g., P-8 Poseidon or RQ-4 Global Hawk) currently present are not detailed in recent updates.
Naval Assets: The deep-water port can accommodate aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, though no specific carrier strike groups or additional submarines beyond the Ohio-class are confirmed as stationed there right now.

This list reflects a significant military buildup, consistent with the base’s role as a logistics and power projection hub. However, exact numbers and additional assets (e.g., missile defense systems or smaller aircraft) are subject to change and lack full official confirmation. Diego Garcia’s infrastructure, including its airfield and harbor, supports a wide range of operations, making it a versatile staging ground for potential Middle East missions.

US Forces in Middle East on Alert! C-17 military transport planes are delivering Patriot missile batteries defense to Isa Air Base in Bahrain, 100 miles from Iran. Rapidly deployed from South Korea, the US is preparing for a major war against Iran, after Iran threatened to destroy all US bases in the Middle East!!

If the US Fights Iran, the Navy Won’t Survive—Yemen Proved It! | Scott Ritter & Larry C. Johnson

Sad day for Syria. Sad day for the world.

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Posted December 08, 2024

Former commander of Al-Qaeda Abu Mohammed al-Jolani is the new leader of Syria.

‘Syria: A Battle Lost Amid a Wider War’ with Brian Berletic (aka Tony Cartalucci) of The New Atlas (previously Land Destroyer)

Syria’s collapse is a loss for the Syrian people and their Iranian, Russian, and Chinese allies;
It is a reminder that while US military and industrial power wanes, it still possesses potent “superweapons” in terms of monopolizing information space, poisoning populations against their own best interests, and toppling nations;
The US strategy has been to create multiple crises for Russia along its periphery including in Syria, forcing Russia to make difficult decisions regarding where it commits limited resources;
The multipolar world must accept the reality that what is essentially World War 3 is ongoing and they will all eventually be targeted in turn;
Investment is required in securing and defending national and regional information space from US interference through the creation of local education programs producing journalists and analysts, local social media platforms to replace US-based platforms, and laws ending foreign funding of media inside targeted countries;

Resources:

New Yorker – The Redirection (2009):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-redirection
Judicial Watch – DIA document (2012):
https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/pgs-287-293-291-jw-v-dod-and-state-14-812-2/
NYT – U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings (2011):
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html
CNN – Syrian rebel leader says goal is to ‘overthrow’ Assad regime (Dec. 6, 2024):
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/06/middleeast/syria-rebel-forces-hayat-tahrir-al-sham-al-jolani-intl-latam/index.html
US State Dept. – Foreign Terrorist Organizations:
https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/
RAND Corporation – Extending Russia (2019):
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html

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From Caitlin Johnson (@caitoz) on X:

Another Nation Absorbed Into The Blob Of The Empire And now the imperial blob rolls on to absorb its next target, having grown one Syria-sized increment larger after spending years digesting that nation via proxy warfare, sanctions, relentless bombing campaigns from Israel, and a military occupation designed to steal its food and fuel. Reading by Tim Foley.

https://x.com/i/status/1865960744870887440

Patrick Henningsen Syria the collapse and the BS of the entire War

Syrian Girl on Twitter/X @Partisangirl

Stopping ISIS

Retrospectives:

Scott Ritter: The Fall of Assad and its consequences in Syria and Beyond

Syria power vacuum w/ Jeffrey Sachs (Live)

Selected Podcasts – October 11, 2024

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Matt Ehret| Breaking History Ep 66: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Roots of Islamic Terrorism

The HighWire with Del Bigtree | Episode 393: CLIMATE OF CORRUPTION
Update on Hurricane Milton, and Helene devastation from Strategic Response Specialists; Jefferey Jaxen Reports on FEMA Fallout, and Duke Energy and Dam Failure in NC; @naomirwolf exposes the climate of corruption in her new book, ‘The Pfizer Papers.’ Guests: Steve Slepcevic, Sam Eaton, Dr. Naomi Wolf

Dr. McCullough on the Feds for Freedom Podcast | Does mRNA Vaccination Support a Future One World Government?

On the matter of Iran:

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | June 22, 2019

I know everyone wants to hate Iran, but they didn’t get here by themselves…

On the matter of Iran:

Iranians are Persian not Arab
Iranians are Shia Muslims
Arabs are Sunni Muslims
Shia has about 200 million followers
Sunni has about 1.2 billion followers
Shia and Sunni don’t like each other
Iranians are well-educated, sophisticated, intelligent people.
Iran is currently a Theocracy or an Islamic Republic which the Iranian people do not like. How did they get this reprehensible government?

Mosaddeq coup – CIA Operation Ajax:
Mohammad Mosaddegh was the 35th prime minister of Iran, holding office from 1951 until 1953, when his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d’état orchestrated by the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency and the United Kingdom’s MI6.

The USA replaced Mohammad Mosaddegh by a brutal, murderous U.S. lap dog and psychopath known as the Shah of Iran. The CIA ran the Shah and his secret police SAVAK. My Iranian friends here in the USA were terrified of SAVAK even while studying here in the land of the free and the brave. They would only whisper and speak of certain things privately because of their abject fear of SAVAK. They knew my government put the Shah in power, yet they did not hold this against me, a U.S. Citizen.

Ruhollah Khomeini as Supreme Leader 1979 – 1989 founded the cruel Islamic Republic of Iran of today. This new and improved psycho murdered many people including little 13 year old girls because they were of the Bahá’í Faith. He would hang 6 at a time from cranes.

Khomeini’s fatwa ‘led to killing of 30,000 in Iran’

Q: Why is the rest of the Middle East in such a mess?

A: Sykes–Picot Agreement* for starters which partitioned the Ottoman Empire in 1916 across culture and religious lines assuring continued destabilization of the Middle East. From here the US meddling and bloody regime change just gets worse.

So put away the hater-AID until you’ve taken some time to think.

* Lines were drawn to impose maximum destabilization to make it easier to rule. “The line across a map of the Middle East it drew created colonial spheres of influence that cut directly and artificially across a region that had previously been divided along ethnic, linguistic and religious lines.”

The Sykes-Picot Agreement and the making of the modern Middle East

Trump has flipped

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | April 23, 2017

Quick assessment on Trump:

He has flipped to the Neocons
He has flipped to the Deep State
He has partially flipped to the Globalists

If Trump flips on all three, we will have a de facto continuation of the Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama agendas.

More in-depth, penetrating analysis from from Dr. Paul Craig Roberts…

TMR 171 : Dr. Paul Craig Roberts : Trump Is Over
Published on Saturday, 22 April 2017 20:50

“I think that the Trump presidency is already over. I’m not even sure he qualifies as a figurehead.”—PCR

Dr. Julian Charles: “We are joined once again by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former US Assistant Secretary to the Treasury for Economic Policy, for a discussion on the Trump presidency so far.”

Dr. Roberts assesses the performance of the new president and his administration with reference to pre-election promises; shares with us his view that the deep state has effectively neutralised Donald Trump as US president; gives his reaction to the so-called “Syrian gas attack” in Idlib, and the subsequent military action by the US against Syria; and considers the very real prospects for war as Washington steps up its warmongering around the globe.

James Perloff on Trump, Syria and the New World Order

Published on May 25, 2017

James Perloff returns to Our Interesting Times to his article “Trump Is Unmasked: 14 Reasons Why the Syria Airstrikes Were a Really Bad Idea.” We talk about President Trump’s decision to order a missile attack on a Syrian airfield last month and why this apparent betrayal is a signal that his administration has been co-opted by neoconservative warmongers and the Israeli lobby. Later we discuss Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, his connections to the Deep State and organized crime.

NOTES:

TMR 171 : Dr. Paul Craig Roberts : Interview Notes
Published on Saturday, 22 April 2017 16:27

Western Europe is no more

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | April 2, 2017

Western Europe is no more. The seeds of multiculturalism have been sown, and in 10 years, the EU will be unrecognizable. In 20 years, the EU will undergo a fundamental transformation into a Muslim-majority territory.

There are about 510 million people in the 28 member states of the EU, but with 1/3 of EU pregnancies ending in abortion, the economic prosperity is simply unsustainable due to demographics alone. This high abortion rate shows up in the fertility rate of the EU as a whole which is roughly 1.47. A minimum fertility rate of 2.1 is required just to keep the population at zero growth. History and mathematics have shown when fertility rates plummet below 2.1, a population teeters on a demographic cliff with a rapid decline soon to follow. This is called a demographic winter or a collapse of the population. Simply put, there are not enough young productive people entering the workforce to support the society. While the approach to the cliff is deceptively slow, the fall is rapid, unpreventable and recovery is long and uncertain.

So as the traditional Western Europeans kill their children for convenience and a false perception there will be more prosperity for them, they have unwittingly sealed their fate. The new influx of refugees from MENA (Middle East & North Africa) have no such problem. Their fertility rate well exceeds the 2.1 rate (3 – 6 or higher); so within a few generations –if these rates continue– these new European citizens will become the majority, and their culture and religion will dominate Western Europe. Hasta la vista.

Additional reading from ClearNFO:

The Rape of Western Europe

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Jan 13, 2016

Berlin, Germany

Looks like Europe is having a Rape-Fest all around and the police are trying their best to cover all this up. Let us not forget why the refugees are in Europe in the first place, eh? The US and NATO have destroyed Libya, Syria and caused much mayhem in many other countries in MENA (Middle East & North Africa). It’s a massive human tragedy that we created!!! These people have no place to go!! So our overlords created this problem, and now they are making it worse by letting these people enter their countries un-vetted, not knowing a darned thing about them (just like Obama). And what is not being reported is the massive number of little girls who are being raped by these same people in the Refugee Camps. What child should have to face this? Many so-called refugees are in fact ISIS fighters supported by US/NATO that had their asses kicked by Putin. And now these refugees and ISIS fighters are having a rape fest and scaring the crap out of the helpless, unarmed people in Europe. Next, the European Union will need to come in and save the day. How? By increasing the power of the police state. This is the oldest hoax in the books if you are a government leader. It’s called PROBLEM > REACTION > SOLUTION. It’s that simple. You will see this same technique used over and over again and we fall for it each and every time begging our overlords to save us… and they do… at a price.

Get ready for the invasion of Europe at the request of their leaders no less. With leaders like these who needs enemies? Of course the informed know that this is part of the globalist’s plan to usher in their unworkable Utopia of a one-world government. Once the interlopers have decimated what is left of Europe, the globalists will save the day and dispatch these Islamic Pirates to Allah. America, don’t feel too special even though you are protected by an ocean. Your overlords are shipping them in via airplane and through the Southern border. The idea in their own words is to remove the Nation-State and that means you America. Question: Is there enough testosterone left in Europe and America to quell these soft slow-moving coup d’états?

DRUDGE REPORT: GERMAN OFFICIAL: 10 Million More Migrants Headed for Europe…

The Arabic gang-rape ‘Taharrush’ phenomenon which sees women surrounded by groups of men in crowds and sexually assaulted… and has now spread to Europe

What I know about Muslims

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Dec 11, 2015

Iran in 1960 – 70s

I have known many Muslims as friends, fellow students at the university and as co-workers. What I know firsthand is that most all of them were extremely intelligent, well-educated, affable, approachable and friendly. I have spent many an evening with them discussing religion, philosophy, history, and politics and playing chess. All of them were indelibly and unmovably stuck in their religion. None were violent or cruel as far as I am aware. Most had a fundamentally different view of women than most westerners, but some of my best memories are the times I spent with these incredibly intelligent and well-educated Muslims.

I also know that since WWI, the West has been using and abusing Muslims like property of no individual value or consequence. We have removed their sovereign leaders when it pleased us. We have consistently –at will– imposed the cruelest dictators; and redrawn their national boarders without respect to language, culture or religion as though it was our divine right. We have murdered many millions of innocent Muslim men, women and children in cold-blood without a second thought or the slightest tinge of remorse. We have supported the most radical and violent versions of Islam imaginable and spread this radical Islam far and wide for our own geopolitical agenda.

My Muslim friends at the University were terrified of the Shah of Iran and his secret police Savak; both of whom we installed and supported, yet they did not hate me for this and never blamed me.

The solution to the terrorist and the refugee problem is for the West to stop destroying countries in the Middle East like Syria, Libya, Egypt and Iraq and stop installing, arming and supporting dictators like the House of Saud, stop killing innocent Muslims en-masse and stop spreading the most brutal form of Islam the world has ever known called Wahhabism by our continued support of Saudi Arabia.

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Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | June 1, 2015

Yemen Crisis

Same story, different country … seems like a repeat in every nation the U.S. has attacked over the past 12 years. You may not care about the plight of these poor people in Yemen or about the plight of the folks in other countries the U.S. has attacked without provocation (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria), but these war crimes are being orchestrated and facilitated by your own Pentagon under your control. What goes around, comes around and these psychopaths who are slaughtering or causing to be slaughtered these now millions of innocent people across the globe will not have a second thought of turning on you when the time comes. Now is the time to rein in those in the U.S. Government who are engaging in the pointless murder and mayhem across the globe in your name with your tax dollars under false pretenses of the so called ‘National Security’ ruse. Get a clue.

“As you are aware the crisis has reached dire proportions. According to the UN’s own estimates about nine million Yemenis, over a third of the population, are believed to be in dire need of humanitarian assistance, and hundreds of thousands have become internal refugees.”
Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen: Civil Society Organizations’ Letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

By Global Research News

Global Research, May 29, 2015

What if Putin is Telling the Truth?

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | May 18, 2015

F. William Engdahl

Enjoy some brilliant analysis and incredible detail from one of my favorite writers and researchers, F. William Engdahl. The complete article is linked below.

On the tragedy of Beslan …

“On September 1, 2004, armed terrorists from Basayev and al-Khattab’s IIB took more than 1,100 people as hostages in a siege that included 777 children, and forced them into School Number One (SNO) in Beslan in North Ossetia, the autonomous republic in the North Caucasus of the Russian Federation near to the Georgia border.

On the third day of the hostage crisis, as explosions were heard inside the school, FSB and other elite Russian troops stormed the building. In the end, at least 334 hostages were killed, including 186 children, with a significant number of people injured and reported missing. It became clear afterward that the Russian forces had handled the intervention poorly.

The Washington propaganda machine, from Radio Free Europe to The New York Times and CNN, wasted no time demonizing Putin and Russia for their bad handling of the Beslan crisis rather than focus on the links of Basayev to Al Qaeda and Saudi intelligence. That would have brought the world’s attention to the intimate relations between the family of then US President George W. Bush and the Saudi billionaire bin Laden family.

On September 1, 2001, just ten days before the day of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, Saudi Intelligence head US-educated Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, who had directed Saudi Intelligence since 1977, including through the entire Osama bin Laden Mujahideen operation in Afghanistan and into the Caucasus, abruptly and inexplicably resigned, just days after having accepted a new term as intelligence head from his King. He gave no explanation. He was quickly reposted to London, away from Washington.

The record of the bin Laden-Bush family intimate ties was buried, in fact entirely deleted on “national security” (sic!) grounds in the official US Commission Report on 911. The Saudi background of fourteen of the nineteen alleged 911 terrorists in New York and Washington was also deleted from the US Government’s final 911 Commission report, released only in July 2004 by the Bush Administration, almost three years after the events.

Basayev claimed credit for having sent the terrorists to Beslan. His demands had included the complete independence of Chechnya from Russia, something that would have given Washington and the Pentagon an enormous strategic dagger in the southern underbelly of the Russian Federation.

By late 2004, in the aftermath of the tragic Beslan drama, President Vladimir Putin reportedly ordered a secret search and destroy mission by Russian intelligence to hunt and kill key leaders of the Caucasus Mujahideen of Basayev. Al-Khattab had been killed in 2002. The Russian security forces soon discovered that most of the Chechen Afghan Arab terrorists had fled. They had gotten safe haven in Turkey, a NATO member; in Azerbaijan, by then almost a NATO Member; or in Germany, a NATO Member; or in Dubai–one of the closest US Allies in the Arab States, and Qatar-another very close US ally. In other words, the Chechen terrorists were given NATO safe haven.”

What if Putin is Telling the Truth? By F. William Engdahl