The US has created ISIS to destabilise the Middle East

The official narrative is that the Islamic State, funding itself from banditry and kidnappings, has sprung from the regional power vacuum to wreak havoc across the Middle East. On the surface this appears to be a brilliant explanation for America’s complete powerlessness over this emerging barbaric state, and the strength of ISIS over northern Iraq and Syria. All of this makes sense until, like most things in the region; it is discovered to be far more complicated. ISIS should, in theory, unite the Arab states, Iran, the European Union, and Israel in common cause. ISIS should be the cause, on paper, of world peace. That is the theory. The practice reveals more uncomfortable truths about the nature of ISIS, and its connections to the United States and Israel. From the very earliest days of the Islamic State there have been whistle-blowers shouting about the link between US money and interests, and the beheadings of these jihadists.

Hezbollah in the Lebanon, closely aligned with Iran and the Iranian Republican Guard, has spent the past year on the Lebanon-Syrian border keeping ISIS from spreading west to Beirut. ISIS has no friends among the traditional ‘extremists’ of the region. Correction: ISIS has Israel as a friend. During a week of fighting between Hezbollah and ISIS rebels on the Lebanese border the Israeli army launched a flanking attack on Hezbollah in a shoot-out that resulted in the death of one Spanish UN peacekeeper. In fact Israel – the US backed Western colony in Palestine – has consistently worked to weaken Hezbollah against the spread of the Islamic State. To top all of this off the ISIS fighters are using US made weapons that have already been shown to have been shipped into Syria and Iraq from Saudi Arabia – America’s human rights abusing ally. ISIS may well think of itself as a state of radical Islamic freedom fighters, but the strings are being pulled from Washington.

British Clandestine Operations to Subvert Scotland

Willie McRae was a mover within the Scottish National Party who was found dead in suspicious circumstances in Wester Ross in April 1985. It has recently come to light that he had been gathering information on a paedophile ring at the heart of the British Establishment in the weeks before he was found dead. His actions at this time certainly fit the timeline of the most recent investigations into such a criminal conspiracy in London. What is also of interest is that he had come to the attention of the US CIA in Britain over his campaign against nuclear weapons in Scotland and the plans of the UK government to dump highly toxic radioactive waste in the highly populated south west of the country. Numbers that he took from motor cars and reported to close friends have been confirmed to be registrations used by Special Branch in the UK.

McRae was found some considerable distance from the weapon British authorities’ claim he used to kill himself. All very suspect indeed. Intelligence agencies in Britain have kept a close eye on the National Party since its earliest days, and so it must be assumed that the same forces were at play during the past number of years leading to the September referendum. At the present time much of this is still under investigation, but what is clear is that the Scottish people were not on a level playing field. The question is whether Britain will continue to employ such underhanded tricks in its dealings with Scotland.

A Westminster Promise Is No Promise At All

Only in Ireland can we get away with saying that we might have told our Scottish neighbours so. Almost exactly one hundred years ago the whole island of Ireland secured the British promise of Home Rule. This was stalled so that young Irishmen could be sent out to trenches in their droves to fight and die for a country they had already decided to leave. That was 1914. Home Rule did come for Ireland, but not before England had torn the country to pieces. In 2014 only part of Ireland has secured its independence, and still Irish men and women from the ‘British part’ in the north are being used for target practice in British foreign wars. Now Scotland is discovering, or being reminded, of the true meaning of a Westminster promise. For good reason the ancient Irish coined the proverb: Beware of the hoof of the horse, the horn of the bull, and the smile of the Saxon. London promised the Scots, and they delivered… nothing, but they did deliver.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on the eve of its independence referendum, set before Scotland a sweeping array of promises that would guarantee Scotland more powers over its own affairs; so many powers that the terms of Federalism and Home Rule became currency. At the eleventh hour the British government gave Scotland the ‘Devo Max’ option first refused to the voters, and this was just enough to sway just enough of the electorate to remain in the union. What maximum devolution meant to Scotland and what it meant to Westminster were two completely different things, only no one in Westminster felt the need to spell this out to the Scots. In Scotland this was Home Rule, but they have been shocked to discover that what Westminster meant was increased powers over royal fishing rights and independence on matters of road signage.

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