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The Balkinization of The Middle East.

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This post is more relevant than when, I first wrote it in 2014, as an article for a local publication here in Sint Maarten. John Negroponte is called one of the modern architects of the Balkinization process, in the Middle East. Negroponte is a 1980's US Ambassador to Honduras.  Above John Negroponte stands in the middle of his bodyguards, all of them US military operatives. Many journalists and writers have referred to  Negroponte as a 'Death Squad Specialist'. A revealing article by Patrick Henningsen, Global Research,  November 2, 2014,  described Negroponte as Washingtons' man in Latin America, who controlled the CIA-backed Contra rebels. What follows is a direct quote from Henningsen: ' Through cocaine and narcotics trafficking these paramilitary gangs were also able, to fund their conquest to destabilize and terrorize Nicaraguans. 'So it was no surprise when Negroponte showed up as US Ambassador in Baghdad Iraq, in 2004, and Islamic death squads began app...

The Armenian Massacre 2.

  The outbreak of fighting in Nagorno Karabakh between the Armenians and Azerbaijani’s, are embers of an age-old conflict between the Armenians who are traditionally ‘Christian’, and the Azerbaijani’s who are traditionally adhering to the Islamic creed i.e. Muslims. The massacre and deportation of Turkey’s Armenian population took place against a background of fighting between Turkish and Russian forces, on the Caucasus front. It was described by some scholars, as the first genocide of the 20 th century.   This post will focus on the events and socio-political, socio-cultural religious and ethnic differences that shaped, the Armenian and Azerbaijani conflict, making both ethnic groups the arch enemies that they are today. Russia and Ottoman Turkey were multinational empires. Where their borders met in the Caucasus Armenians lived on both sides.   Armenian Nationalism : The Christian Armenians and their Turkish Muslim rulers in Turkey had a history of conflict s...

The Armenian Massacre.

  The outbreak of fighting in Nagorno Karabakh between the Armenians and Azerbaijani’s, are embers of an age-old conflict between the Armenians who are traditionally ‘Christian’, and the Azerbaijani’s who are traditionally adhering to the Islamic creed i.e. Muslims. The massacre and deportation of Turkey’s Armenian population took place against a background of fighting between Turkish and Russian forces, on the Caucasus front. It was described by some scholars, as the first genocide of the 20 th   century. This post will focus on the events and socio-political, socio-cultural religious and ethnic differences that shaped, the Armenian and Azerbaijani conflict, making both ethnic groups the arch enemies that they are today. Russia and Ottoman Turkey were multinational empires. Where their borders met in the Caucasus Armenians lived on both sides. Armenian Nationalism : The Christian Armenians and their Turkish Muslim rulers in Turkey, had a history of conflict stretching back ce...