Sykes-Picot

From “Bring Our Troops Home” to “Sykes-Picot on Acid”: Neocons Get Their Way on Trump’s Syria Policy

January 9, 2019

Since it was announced a few weeks ago, President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria has now — unsurprisingly – morphed from an “America First” policy move into yet another “Israel…

The Ignoble History and Legacy of the Balfour Declaration

November 4, 2017

Opinion

On 2 November 1917 the British government in the form of the country's then foreign secretary, Sir Arthur Balfour, addressed a letter to Lord Rothschild, a leading figure within the British Jewish com…

The Balfour Declaration: A Study in British Duplicity

August 28, 2017

History

It's been nearly 100 years since the document changed the course of history, yet Britain still fails to acknowledge Israel's denial of the Palestinian right to national self-determination - and its ow…

1918 “Sykes-Picot” & 2017 “Rojava” – Flogging the Same Dead Horse Twice

July 12, 2017

Opinion

Throughout the “civil war” (all of the terrorists are supported by external States) in Syria, which began – according to the official narrative – in 2011, the parties involved either on the side of cu…