Jan 18, 2016, Taylor Report Steve Sahiounie is an activist and reporter who has lived in Syria for 20 years. Click HERE to listen The Syrian army is beginning to score significant victories with Russian air support. They are now at the doors of the second biggest headquarters of the …
Read More »The Truth About Madaya: From Today’s UK Column News [video]
Jan 8, 2016, UK Column In today’s UK Column News we spoke to Vanessa Beeley about the events taking place in Madaya, Syria, where, it is alleged, thousands of people are being starved because they are under siege by forces loyal to President Assad. But what is the truth?
Read More »Fact Check on Madaya Reporting [video]
Jan 9, 2016, Iraq English Arab news outlets warn against mainstream media and public relying on social media sources for news and the lack of accountability and fact checking institutions
Read More »Not-Tweetworthy: UN Selectively Tweeting Syrian Villages, Ignores Foua, Kafarya, Nubl, Zahara Besieged by US Sponsored Terrorists
16 Jan, 2016, Eva Bartlett, Global Research On December 28, 2015, the United Nation’s OCHA made its first express Twitter mention of two northern Syrian villages, al-Foua and Kafarya (also transliterated as Kafraya). The belated December mention is in spite of the fact that the two villages of around 30,000 …
Read More »Canada’s Shame
Jan 18, 2016, Off Guardian by Mark Taliano Canadians should be hanging their heads in shame. Our government is guilty of the most egregious criminal acts as defined by Nuremberg Principles, and we are bona fide members of the State Sponsors of Terrorism club. When our government bombs the sovereign …
Read More »Latest ISIS Atrocity in Syria. “Moderate Terrorists” Trained by the CIA
Jan 18, 2016, Stephen Lendman, Global Research CIA operatives, US special forces and their rogue state counterparts train ISIS recruits in the fine art of committing gruesome atrocities, including beheadings, use of chemical and other toxic agents, as well as mass slaughtering civilians. US-led Western imperial ruthlessness bears full responsibility …
Read More »Syrian Reconciliation: Al-Hussinieh
Jan 21, 2016, Middle East Channel Getting back to a normal life in Al-Hussinieh Al-Hussinieh was the first quarter in Damascus and its countryside to witness a reconciliation which allowed its residents to return and live there. The reconciliation process took 3 months to be achieved, and it followed a …
Read More »100s of displaced families return home in southern Damascus
Jan 21, 2016, Press TV Hundreds of displaced Syrians have been able to return to their homes in a district in southern Damascus. This comes as part of a reconciliation deal between the Syrian government and foreign-backed militants. Press TV’s Mohamad Ali has more on the story from the Syrian …
Read More »US Role as State Sponsor of Terrorism Acknowledged in US Congressional Research Service Report on Syria Conflict
Jan 10, 2016, Stephen Gowans, What’s Left The implication of a report written for the US Congress is that the United States is a state sponsor of terrorism in Syria. At the same time, the report challenges widely held beliefs about the conflict, including the idea that the opposition has …
Read More »Syria: ‘Moderate Rebel’ Massacres and Everyday Propaganda
Dec 16, 2015, Tim Anderson, Telesur Sadly, eyes often glaze over at the latest massacre in Syria, because the story is so repetitive. But what story? A double massacre by “moderate rebels” in Homs and Damascus and the subsequent re-spinning of the story, show the wall of disinformation we face. …
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