January 17, 2018, Moon of Alabama The Trump administration policy in Syria is finally coming into daylight. It has decided to permanently separate north-east of Syria from the rest of Syria with the rather comical idea that this will keep Iranian influence out of Syria and give the U.S. a …

January 16, 2018, Information Clearing House – Forces January 16, 2018 “Information Clearing House” –  Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged NATO to take a stand against the United States over its plans to form a Kurdish-led border security force in Syria. Addressing his ruling party’s deputies, the Turkish president protested …

January 16, 2018, Information Clearing House – Sputnik   The Pentagon was forced to go into full public relations mode late last month amid fresh allegations by the Russian General Staff that US instructors were providing training assistance for some 350 ex-Daesh (ISIS) militants at the US Army’s al-Tanf garrison in the southern Syrian province of Homs. Chief of Staff General …

January 16, 2018, Surrealpolitik – John Schoneboom One doesn’t need to be a journalist or a scientist to appreciate that the basic methods of journalism are not unlike the scientific method. Both disciplines are supposed to rely on rigorous scrutiny, scepticism, and falsifiability. Neither can persistently ignore, invent, or distort …

January 16, 2018, American Herald Tribune – Jeremy Salt Lies, deceit and forgeries have always been part of war, truth being ‘the first casualty.’ But in the past two decades the falsifications of war have reached unparalleled heights, thanks to technology. The lies told by the American, British, Australian and …

January 15, 2018, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies – Tim Anderson TA-hum-war-18-1

January 14, 2018, Libertarian Institute – William Van Wagenen Among Syria commentators in the West, both left and mainstream, it is commonly claimed that the Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad has attempted to crush the supposedly moderate, secular rebels of the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), while at the …

January 7, 2017, Global Research – Eva Bartlett As the purported theme of The Guardian‘s story was the issue of rescuers in Syria, I’ll begin by talking about actual rescuers I know and worked with, in hellish circumstances in Gaza. In 2008/9, I volunteered with Palestinian medics under 22 days of relentless, indiscriminate, …

January  1, 2018, Strategic Culture – Eric Zuesse When Donald Trump ran for the U.S. Presidency, his biggest foreign-affairs promise (which he copied from Ted Cruz) was to defeat “radical Islamic terrorism”; but, on December 27th, the Russian Government publicly accused Trump’s military of backing ISIS terrorists to fight against Syria’s …

December 27, 2017, ConsortiumNews We are concerned by recent strident and stark public statements from key members of your Administration that paint Iran in very alarmist terms. The average American, without the benefit of history, could easily be persuaded that Iran poses an imminent threat and that there is no …