Do you know what the hell's going on?

I don't, that's for sure. I doubt if you do either. We certainly won't find out watching the news on TV or reading the newspapers. They have their own agendas, which come well ahead of delivering the truth to the people. For instance: In the Ukraine: who downed flight MH17? We, the West, are saying it must have been the Ruskies. We punish them with sanctions, carefully designed so as not to destroy all trade with that lucrative bloc. They deny responsibility, deliver counter-sanctions and say why couldn't it have been the right wing loonies who are in control of Ukraine? They could be right: we don't know the truth. The only truth is that there is burned out shell of a jetliner in a field in eastern Ukraine, and that there were nearly 300 souls on board.


In the middle east, the West is now talking about making friends with Assad, despite having been hitherto committed to his downfall. He, we are told, may be our only way to destroy the monsters of ISIL. It smacks of the support we used to give Saddam Hussein when the Iran/Iraq war was going on and before Bush decided he was a suitable scapegoat for 9/11 and we could go in and steal his oil.


As for ISIL, remember the US helped fund their efforts when they were fighting Assad. Now they're the devil incarnate. Doesn't it remind you of how the CIA supported the Afghani Mujahadeen when they were fighting the Russians, only for them to morph into the Taliban and become the West's biggest foes- until ISIL came along.


Arch leaker Snowden (or traitor, some would have us believe) has said the US connived to support ISIL because Israel needed a suitable adversary for them to combat and preserve international support. This sounds too far-fetched to be true, but we have already seen many times how labyrinthine US foreign relations can be. Snowden's diplomatic leaks have shown that nothing has changed, and that black ops and other almost inconceivable skulduggery is still going on today. We should be grateful to him. We still don't know what's going on, but we do understand a little bit more than we did. And it's scarier than we thought...