Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The US has removed Syria’s Al Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organizations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups. The western empire will surely find ways to be even more hypocritical and ridiculous about its ‘terrorism’ designations in the future, but at this point it’s hard to imagine how it will manage to do so. … This move comes as Sharaa holds friendly meetings with US and UK officials and holds normalization talks with Israel, showing that all one has to do to cease being a ‘terrorist’ in the eyes of the empire is to start aligning with the empire’s interests.” (07/08/25)