April 18, 2018, Gray Zone – Max Blumenthal During a Barcelona concert on April 13, Roger Waters denouncedthe Syrian White Helmets as “a fake organization that exists only to create propaganda for jihadists and terrorists.” Warning that the groups’ unverified claims about chemical weapons attacks across insurgent-held territory were aimed at triggering Western military …

April 15, 2018, Muhammad Sahimi – Antiwar.com Last Friday night, the United States launched a series of missile strikes on Syria in retaliation for the alleged chemical attacks by the Syrian army in Douma, a town in northeast suburb of Damascus. Douma, which is part of the Ghouta district where …

The complete liberation of Eastern Ghouta is imminent.   Just as during the liberation of Aleppo, western governments and mainstream media inflated the numbers of trapped civilians and accused Syrian government forces of deliberately targetting them, failing to provide them with humanitarian aid, preventing their evacuation, and indiscriminately bombing them …

March 16, 2018, RT Question More – Sharmine Narwani The battle of narratives over the use of chemical weapons in Syria has been raging ferociously for years. But a chemical lab discovered in Eastern Ghouta this week is set to change the parameters of the discourse. Last December, at a …

March 15, 2018, The Jimmy Dore Show

March 15, 2018, American Herald Tribute – Jeremy Salt Corporate media propaganda against Syria is an avalanche that never seems to end. Government policy and media policy are now melded into a single policy of support for ‘the opposition’ and unceasing hostility towards ‘the regime’ and all those who have …

March 12, 2018, The Real News.com    

A common refrain is that the West must “do something” to help Syria, but this is like arguing that the gasoline that was used to start a fire can also be used to extinguish it, explains Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone “We’ve got to do something about Syria!” goes the common Western …

February 27, 2017, Jonathan Cook Blog I am loath to draw more attention to the kind of idiocy that passes for informed comment nowadays from academics and mainstream journalists. Recently I lambasted Prof Richard Carver for his arguments against BDS that should have gained him an F for logic in any high …

February 21, 2018, The Saker – Eric Zuesse for the Saker Blog As will be documented here, America’s troops in Syria are not there in order to fight, but to assist Kurdish separatists in the northeast, and to assist the Al Qaeda led-and-trained jihadist forces elsewhere in Syria (such as …