Kevork Almassian
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In this video, ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi describes dispatching Abu Mohammad al-Jolani from Iraq to establish Jabhat al-Nusra as an extension of ISIS in Syria. Jolani, in turn, thanks Baghdadi for his approval, support, and funding. A suit doesn't erase that history. The United States ultimately handed Syria to a man who once led al-Qaeda's branch in the country.
Kevork Almassian327,133 次观看 • 3 天前
Imagine the significance of what Donald Trump said about the Golan! The President of the United States effectively reaffirmed Israel's occupation and annexation of the Golan Heights while Abu Mohammad al-Julani sat beside him without a single objection, not even a reminder that the Golan is occupied Syrian territory. Silence at a moment like this is state policy. When the U.S. president declares the Golan to be Israeli territory and the self-proclaimed "President of Syria" says nothing, the world is bound to interpret that silence as acceptance of the status quo.
Kevork Almassian641,733 次观看 • 9 天前
🚨 WHY ISRAEL NO LONGER HIDES ITS CRIMES 🚨 I asked Elijah Magnier a question that few people seem to ask: Why did Israeli officials once deny massacres, cover up crimes, and call everything “propaganda”, but now openly brag about destroying homes, villages, and civilian infrastructure? Elijah believes Israel no longer feels the need to hide what it does because Western protection has made impunity feel permanent. Israeli soldiers film destruction. Officials speak openly about wiping out villages. Ministers admit the scale of devastation. And instead of facing consequences, Israeli leaders are received by Western governments, protected diplomatically, and shielded from international justice. Elijah argues that after October 7, Israel began acting as if borders no longer matter — in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond — using “national security” as a blank cheque for expansion and destruction. But the deeper scandal is not only Israeli behavior. It is the American umbrella that makes it possible. When Washington recognizes occupied Syrian land as Israeli, defends Israeli military expansions, and sanctions international legal bodies, what message does Israel receive? That it can do almost anything. That is why the mentality changed. .Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 .Syriana Analysis
Kevork Almassian36,543 次观看 • 2 天前
🚨 WHEN JUILANI'S SILENCE BECOMES SURRENDER 🚨 Trump sat next to Abu Mohammad al-Julani — now presented to the world as “Ahmad al-Sharaa” — and openly bragged about how much he has done for Israel. One of his examples? Recognizing the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as Israeli territory. The shocking part is not Trump. We know what American presidents do when it comes to Israel. The shocking part is that Julani, sitting there as the supposed leader of Syria, said nothing. No objection. No correction. No defense of Syrian sovereignty. And when the man claiming to represent Syria remains silent while occupied Syrian land is casually handed to Israel, that silence becomes political recognition of the humiliation. But this is not only about Syria. This is the disease of modern politics. Leaders no longer behave like servants of their nations. They behave like executive directors managing someone else’s project. Mark Rutte sits quietly while Trump insults Spain. Western leaders nod while Greenland is spoken of as if it belongs to Washington. A German chancellor once stood beside Biden as Nord Stream was threatened and later destroyed. The pattern is clear. Politicians who surrender national interests are called “democrats.” Those who defend sovereignty are called “dictators.” Maybe I am wrong, but I see a world full of leaders who have lost the most basic requirement of political life: self-respect.
Kevork Almassian61,738 次观看 • 9 天前
💥 As a descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors, I reject Benjamin Netanyahu's politicization of the Armenian Genocide 💥 Armenians should remain deeply skeptical of this sudden moral awakening. We must not allow our history, our trauma, or the memory of our ancestors to become bargaining chips for politicians who ignored our cause when Turkey was strategically useful, armed Azerbaijan when it served their interests, and now invoke the Armenian Genocide because it suits today's geopolitical agenda. Recognition matters. But recognition that appears only when history becomes strategically convenient is not solidarity. It is the instrumentalization of genocide memory, and Armenians must not become pawns in someone else's geopolitical struggle.
Kevork Almassian61,376 次观看 • 15 天前
🚨 LINDSEY GRAHAM IS GONE BUT THE WAR MACHINE REMAINS 🚨 Lindsey Graham is dead, but the political psychology he represented is still very much alive. This video is not about celebrating death. It is about asking a much deeper question: What kind of political system produces officials who push for war after war after war — conflicts that kill civilians, destroy nations, and leave hundreds of thousands of ordinary people buried under the slogans of “national security”? Some will say these politicians were defending America. But can the national security of any country truly be served by bombing children, women, families, cities, and entire societies? Or were these wars really serving the financial interests of the military-industrial complex and the geopolitical interests of foreign lobbies? The problem is not one man. The problem is a system where politicians rise by proving they are willing to advocate escalation, sanctions, bombings, interventions, and even nuclear threats against other nations. So no, I do not believe the world automatically becomes more peaceful because Lindsey Graham is gone, as long as the machinery, the incentives, the lobbies, and corporations remain. And until the American people confront the system that rewards this type of politics, there will always be another Lindsey Graham waiting to take his place. .Syriana Analysis
Kevork Almassian16,649 次观看 • 4 天前
🚨 THE EU IS ESCALATING ITS WAR ON INFORMATION 🚨 The European Court of Justice has now confirmed that the EU ban on Russia Today can apply not only to television broadcasters or major media companies, but to ordinary individuals who make RT content publicly available online. The Court’s position is clear: a person can be treated as an “operator” for publicly distributing RT material even when the activity is non-commercial, donation-funded, small in scale, or limited in duration. This is not about private viewing. It is about public sharing, publishing, and distribution, including on online platforms. And that should concern every journalist, editor, researcher, and citizen in Europe. The EU says RT is propaganda. Fine. Then confront it with facts. Expose its falsehoods. Debate its arguments. Challenge it publicly. Let citizens compare competing narratives and decide for themselves. That is how democracy is supposed to work. We watch clips from mainstream outlets every day. We analyze them, criticize them, and sometimes reject their arguments. Why should RT content be treated differently? Why should Brussels decide that people are not mature enough to see it, discuss it, or challenge it? Once governments make the public dissemination of a media outlet a legal risk, they are not merely targeting one network. They are creating a precedent. Today it is RT. Tomorrow it could be any journalist, platform, researcher, or citizen who shares material that contradicts the approved narrative. Democracy is not protected by banning information. It is protected by giving people access to information, and trusting them to think.
Kevork Almassian34,247 次观看 • 11 天前
🚨 MATS NILLSON: THERE IS NO PROFIT IN PEACE 🚨 Mats Nillson warns that the wars and crises of our time are not accidents. They are manufactured, prolonged, and fed by two forces: the obsession with containing China and the profits of the military-industrial complex. In his view, the world is moving toward a dangerous threshold. Russia, China, and Iran understand the pressure being placed on them. The question now is whether this confrontation ends through serious peace negotiations or whether the world repeats the tragedy of history and negotiates only after a great war. Mats compares our moment to the summer of 1914. The skies were beautiful. The air was warm. Life felt normal. And then suddenly, the beauty disappeared into war. Why do people unite so easily for war, but struggle to unite for peace? MATS asks. Why are ordinary people convinced to hate neighbors across a sea, across a border, across a map — people they have never met and who have done nothing to them personally? Where are the politicians pushing peace? Maybe the answer is the most disturbing one: There is no profit in peace. .Mats Nilsson .Syriana Analysis
Kevork Almassian18,507 次观看 • 7 天前
🚨 ALBANIA, ARMENIA, LEBANON: THE SAME PATTERN 🚨 In all three countries, we are seeing political elites accused by their own people of serving outside powers while their own nations are pushed toward the edge. In Albania, a strategic and ecologically preserved island is being handed to Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and the billionaire class for “exclusive investment.” In Armenia, part of the country’s sovereignty is being opened to American control through a corridor project that could serve Turkey, Azerbaijan, and NATO. And in Lebanon, while Israel occupies parts of the south, destroys towns, and speaks openly about expansion and settlement, the Joseph Aoun and Nawaf Salam government is moving against the only armed force on the ground that actually can stop the Israeli military advance. Different countries. Same script. Elite capture. Soft occupation. Namely, governments that no longer behave like guardians of their nations, but like managers of someone else’s geopolitical project. The Albanian people are already in the streets resisting the sale of their land. Armenians and Lebanese should pay close attention. Because when a political class is captured, the country is not conquered with tanks first. It is conquered through contracts, corridors, “security deals,” and leaders who sell surrender as reform.
Kevork Almassian86,244 次观看 • 1 个月前
Neil Oliver says the quiet part out loud in this segment and the direction of what he’s describing is hard to ignore. He argues the project isn’t just “left vs right” or one crisis after another, but a long campaign to break what makes people human — identity, heritage, faith, national cohesion, even basic trust in reality — until societies are so exhausted they’ll accept “solutions” they’d never accept in a healthy world. And then he names what many still treat as science fiction: the transhumanist agenda and the push toward a managed future of biometric control, digital identity, algorithmic governance, and ultimately a post-human model where the citizen becomes a data point, and the body becomes an upgradeable platform. Watch this clip and tell me: is this paranoia… or the blueprint of the era we’re already entering? .Neil Oliver
Kevork Almassian257,939 次观看 • 4 个月前
Who gave them the right to assassinate leaders, kidnap presidents, and overthrow governments—then call it “order” and “democracy”? Because if Iran did to Israel what the U.S. and its allies keep doing to others, the entire world would explode overnight. But when it’s them—when it’s Khamenei, Maduro, Assad, Gaddafi, Saddam—suddenly it’s framed as “necessary” or “strategic.” And here’s the part people don’t want to admit: negotiations often get used as a smokescreen, buy time, move assets, prepare the strike, then stab you in the back while you’re still “at the table.” Yes, countries like Iran and Russia still have to talk, because they don't want total war. But the lie is that Iran is the aggressor. The truth is that Iran has been showing flexibility because it wants to avoid war, while the escalation machine keeps moving anyway.
Kevork Almassian239,550 次观看 • 4 个月前
The arrogance of U.S. officials in Lebanon is beyond humiliating. Tom Barrack went as far as warning Lebanese journalists not to be “animalistic” and urged them to “civilize”—claiming this is the problem with the region. This is not diplomacy. It’s colonial condescension.
Kevork Almassian408,530 次观看 • 10 个月前