Blaming the victim: According to the major western powers who prosecuted the regime-change war in Syria, it’s all President Assad’s fault. The following article is republished from Indian Punchline:  By M.K. Bhadrakumar In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, the ruling pigs led by Napoleon constantly rewrote history in order to justify …

While Trump tried unsuccessfully to end the US presence in Syria, Biden seems intent on ratcheting it up. The following article is republished from Moon of Alabama:  Ten years after it began, and after a short lull in fighting, the war on Syria seems now to resume on several fronts. …

The following news article is republished from The Globe and Mail:  Canada has ended all funding to Syria’s famed White Helmets rescue group, with the final cut being the severance of $70 a month in stipends to 43 people who were left behind in a Jordanian refugee camp following a …

Independent Irish Member of European Parliament Clare Daly highlighted attempts to shut down questions to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) regarding the scandal involving its changed findings in Douma, Syria. Quite used to being vilified for asking inconvenient questions. Big establishment backlash when we first raised …

The following article is republished from Al Masdar News:  BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 P.M.) – Private sources revealed to Sputnik Arabic about the establishment of an operations room (Russian, Iranian, Syrian) with the aim of securing a safe and stable flow of oil supplies, wheat and some other materials to Syria …

The following report is republished from Press TV. Laith Marouf discusses here with Marwa Osman: The Kurds are fond of saying that they have no friends but the mountains. Yet one entity has pushed for their separation from both Iraq and Syria, over many decades. Israel. The relationship between the …

The Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War and the Mouvement Québécois pour la Paix today have issued a joint statement in response to the Trudeau government’s official reply to our parliamentary petition e-2630. That reply (copied to the next page) was delivered by Rob Oliphant, Parliamentary-Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. …

Pushback with Aaron Maté interviews Lindsay Snell:  Lindsey Snell, a journalist who escaped Al Qaeda captivity in Syria, responds to a top US diplomat calling the militant group “an asset” amid a media-enabled PR campaign to whitewash its image. Amid a public relations campaign to rehabilitate the Al Qaeda franchise …

The following article, by Richard Medhurst, is republished from the author’s Substack:  SYRIA is the key to the Middle East. Bordering Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, and with access to the Mediterranean Sea, for millennia Syria has held unique geopolitical and strategic importance in the region. The war taking place …

The following article, by Alan McLeod, is republished from MintPress News: AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news collective,” “transforming investigative …