<\/a>Mainstream media tells us that\u00a0ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham) is a sort of “al Qaeda Gone Wild”\u2014an army of well-equipped, radical Sunnis who crossed the border from\u00a0Syria and invaded\u00a0raq. We are told that\u00a0in the city of Mosul, the Iraqi army, 30,000 strong, upon seeing the 1000 member ISIS army in their brand new black commando uniforms and\u00a0spotless white tennis shoes, brandishing new\u00a0weapons, and riding in a\u00a0long caravan of brand new yellow trucks, tore off their uniforms and fled.<\/p>\n The official White House\/State Department story is that everyone in the Iraqi army in Mosul simply abandoned their post and defected. Instead of questioning this absurd story, the MSM focuses on\u00a0whether or not Obama will send in US troops.<\/p>\n <\/a>There is, however, an explanation that makes a lot more sense than the\u00a0fairy tale of 30,000 Iraqi soldiers going awol, and it starts with asking the\u00a0question: Who is behind ISIS? You won’t find\u00a0the answer\u00a0in the censored, propaganda filled US media, but you will find\u00a0it\u00a0in independent, alternative news sources. One example is Michel Chossudovsky’s<\/a> excellent article at Global Research, titled “The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq: Towards the Creation of a US Sponsored Islamist Caliphate.”<\/a><\/p>\n I hope that got your attention. In case you have never heard of it, Global Research<\/a> is the website of The Centre for Research on Globalization, an independent research and media organization based in Montreal, Canada. Global Research,<\/a> which has more than 1.9 million unique visitors per month, is one of the leading independent media websites both in North America and around the world. It’s articles are available in\u00a0English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Arabic and Serbian.\u00a0Global Research<\/a>\u00a0articles are used as source material by college and university students, and numerous universities, libraries and research institutions have established a link to Global Research<\/a> on their respective web sites.<\/p>\n Chossudovsky published the article mentioned above on June 14, 2014, but updated it on July 1 with the following statement:<\/p>\n The creation of the US sponsored Islamist Caliphate has been announced. The Islamic State of Iraq and Al Sham (ISIS) has been replaced by the Islamic State (IS). The Islamic State is not an independent political entity. It is a construct of US intelligence.<\/p>\n The Western media in chorus have described the unfolding conflict in Iraq as a \u201ccivil war\u201d opposing the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham against the Armed forces of the Al-Maliki government.<\/p>\n The conflict is casually described as \u201csectarian warfare\u201d between Radical Sunni and Shia without addressing \u201cwho is behind the various factions\u201d. What is at stake is a carefully staged US military-intelligence agenda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Chossudovsky article is long and highly informative. To encourage you to read it in its entirely, I’ve copied some of his main points. To make the main points more coherent, I’ve copied the paragraphs in a slightly different order than they appeared in the article.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mainstream media tells us that\u00a0ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham) is a sort of “al Qaeda Gone Wild”\u2014an army of well-equipped,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1383,1,265],"tags":[698],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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