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New Syrian Government Shifts To ‘Religious Sheikhs’

July 4, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Syria is currently being ruled by a system of religious clerics and figures – or sheikhs – rather than by the official bureaucracy of the state, sources speaking with The Cradle on 3 July revealed. Syria has been divided into regions and sub-regions ruled by extremist Sunni Muslim religious leaders who exert control over virtually every aspect of decision-making, including negotiations with Israel regarding the fate of the occupied Golan Heights, the sources explained. In the Syrian areas now fully controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), no transaction or service of the state is performed without the help of sheikhs, including the distribution of gas, flour, electricity, security at checkpoints, local disputes over real estate and land, and even legal disputes.

Defense Secretary Hegseth Wants To Overthrow China’s Government

March 8, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , , , , , , ,
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a self-declared “crusader” who believes the United States is in a “holy war” against the left, China, and Islam. In his 2020 book American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free, Hegseth vowed that, if Trump could return to the White House and Republicans could take power, “Communist China will fall—and lick its wounds for another two hundred years”. Hegseth declared that the Chinese “are literally the villains of our generation”, and warned, “If we don’t stand up to communist China now, we will be standing for the Chinese anthem someday”. In Hegseth’s conspiratorial worldview, Chinese communists and the international left are conspiring with Islamists against the United States and Israel, which are sacred countries blessed by God.

Lawyers Speak Out On Supreme Court: ‘This Is A Revelation Of The Future’

July 4, 2022 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , ,
The recent US Supreme Court rulings set legal precedents that will further erode human and civil rights and empower corporations as well as open the door for more cases that will advance Christian and capitalist ideologies. Clearing the FOG speaks with two legal experts, Shahid Buttar and Marjorie Cohn, about the specifics of the recent decisions on abortion, gun rights, school prayer, and the EPA and how they fit into the bigger picture. They also provide guidance on what we need to do to stop growing fascism in the United States.
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