Saturday, June 28, 2025

Israel's nuclear weapons

Version 1: Sat, Jul 28, 2025

Mordechai Vanunu, 2005 (cropped).JPG
By Ali kazak 9 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Mordechai Vanunu, Israel whistleblower and activist - Wikimedia.

Avid listener and all that, but I do not remember ever the Greek radio mentioning the Israeli nuclear weapons program until a few days ago. It went something like this on the National Radio and TV (ΕΡΤ)

Journo: What else can Israel do?

Expert: Of course they have nuclear weapons…

And that was that, and he continued with cyberwar etc

For those puzzled about the Israeli nuclear weapons capabilities, here are a few links:

Hidden history: How ‘Israel’ acquired nukes: Kit Klarenberg exposes the Zionist entity’s nuclear weapons program and its dark, concealed history, one that continues to fuel global instability while escaping scrutiny https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/hidden-history--how--israel--acquired-nukes by Kit Klarenberg - 13 Jun 2025 - (@MayadeenEnglish)

The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy - by Seymour M. Hersh - October 27, 1991 https://ia800205.us.archive.org/32/items/Sampson_Option/Sampson_Option_text.pdf PDF 366 pages

The Unspoken Kennedy Truth - by Laurent Guyénot (2021)

Israel And The Assassinations Of The Kennedy Brothers https://archive.org/details/israel-and-the-assassinations-of-the-kennedy-brothers_202404 Documentary by Laurent Guyénot - 86 minutes.


Started: Sat, Jul 28, 2025

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Saturday, June 7, 2025

Hollywood and the Houthis

Version 2: Sat, Jun 7, 2025

Reacher

Reacher was developed by Nick Santora. Santora is undoubtedly a very creative guy with credits going back to The Sopranos. But he has done shows such as FBI and Law and Order, and FUBAR, so Reacher is no surprise.

The series in a jiffy: retired Military Police Officer Jack Reacher travels around the US confronting criminals. He has no property except his clothes. He gets help from some of the members of his old team.

There are three main villains in the third season:

  • Russian mafia - providing weapons, explosives, etc
  • Yemeni terrorists planning attacks in the US
  • Quinn, a devious Asian guy, intermediary between Russians and Yemenis

Russian mafia types and Asian criminals are not new in American TV, what is new are the Yemeni terrorists. What it is meant here is the Ansar Allah movement usually referred to as the Houthis by the western press. By using the name of one of the tribes involved and not the movement lessens the significance of their effort. Using ‘Yemenis’ in the show hides the issue under one more layer of mystification for what for the western press is an Iran proxy, as opposed to a liberation movement.

Their leader is planning to do some terrorizing but even before the deal is sealed, he wants to have a good time with his special preference a redhead who incidentally happens to be drugged. Needless to say the good guys (and gal) save the day. Reacher rides his bike towards the sunset. Two points of interest:

  • The series manages to have three geopolitical threats weaved in one narrative even obliquely: Russia, Iran and China
  • Reacher acts alone, with a bit of help from old friends. An old theme in Hollywood to have a hero with no formal organization.

Reacher acts as a defender of the country against the three threats from overseas, against a mini invasion. Defending a country from invasion is an old theme (Dodds 2014)

The invasion novel was a historical genre which gained considerable popularity between the 1870s and 1914. … By 1914, over 400 books had been published about hypothetical invasions by overseas powers. Their popularity owes a great deal to the contemporary zeitgeist associated with Anglo-German rivalries, rearmament, and imperial competition in Africa and the Mediterranean. Public fears about ‘foreigners’ and German spy networks grew accordingly.

Reacher comes from this tradition, but there are more ways to do propaganda and (McMaken 2025) covers British influence on US and beyond, including going beyond fiction to actually constructing news and events. We are into the realm of fake news and false flags.

We have come a long way from Reacher so one last comment: consider comparing McMaken and the propaganda about the Belgian atrocities of 1914 and the propaganda about October 7: (Winstanley 2024) and (Yusuf 2024); and the British propaganda with Intrepid against the ‘Isolationists’ before WW2 and the more recent ‘Steele Dossier’ affair (Mate 2021) and (Sperry 2022). History seems to repeat itself.


References and Additional Information

(Dodds 2014) Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction by Klaus Dodds, Oxford University Press, 2e, 2014

Klaus Dodds (@klausdodds) “Professor Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics and Executive Dean for the School of Life Sciences and Environment at Royal Holloway, and University lead for environmental sustainability.”

(McMaken 2025) How War Propaganda Has Fueled American Foreign Policy for a Century https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-war-propaganda-has-fueled-american-foreign-policy-century by Ryan McMaken - Mises Wire - May 15, 2025 - Archive https://archive.ph/B8JkI

Ryan McMaken (@ryanmcmaken) is executive editor at the Mises Institute.

(Winstanley 2024) How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-killed-hundreds-its-own-people-7-october/49216 by Asa Winstanley - The Electronic Intifada (@intifada) - 7 October 2024 - Archive https://archive.ph/jw5l6

(Yusuf 2024) ‘Beheaded Babies’ – How UK Media Reported Israel’s Fake News As Fact: Britain’s national press have been indispensable allies of Israel throughout its brutal war on Gaza https://www.declassifieduk.org/beheaded-babies-how-uk-media-reported-israels-fake-news-as-fact/ by Hamza Yusuf - 4 January 2024 - Archive https://archive.ph/9qWKE

(Mate 2021) The Rise and Fall of the ‘Steele Dossier’: A case study in mass hysteria and media credulity by Aaron Maté - The Nation - January 11, 2021 - Archive https://archive.ph/5Hk2b

(Sperry 2022) How the FBI Copied Parts of the Debunked Steele Dossier Directly Into Its Spy Requests By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations - December 20, 2022 - Archive https://archive.ph/Z5tbh


Started: Fri, Jun 6, 2025

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