Alistair Crooke’s Conflicts Forum on substack, January 12, 2026 China’s ‘Kill Switch’ Just Erased the Iranian Regime-Change ‘Protestors’ / ‘Iran playing it strategically & managing the chaos efficiently’ / Veteran Israeli commentator Ehud Yaari: ‘We do not see clear cracks in the Iranian regime, in the government, nor the Army …

by Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron, Distributed by Globetrotter., January 6, 2026 Editor’s Note: Yes, I know that Venezuela is not in West Asia.  However, it is fighting for it’s life as a sovereign nation against the same demon that is stomping on West Asia.    On the early morning …

from the News Desk at The Cradle, January 9, 2026 Editor’s Note:  Sad to say, neither of these organizations represents the Syrian people.   Yes, the Kurds aren’t as deeply violent as Jolani’s crew, but they are just as avaricious and power hungry.   In any case, they are fighting it out …

Statement by Bronx Antiwar Coalition, December 31, 2025 One Year After Syria’s Destruction, the Regime-Change Playbook Is Being Reused In December 2024, the United States, Israel, NATO, and their European allies completed what they had pursued for more than a decade: the destruction of Syria as a sovereign, anti-imperialist state. …

Excerpts from Iran Unfiltered, published by NIAC, January 2, 2026 Editor’s note: In general these weekly “Iran Unfiltered” posts are very interesting, directly relate to immediate events in iran, but suffer on occasion to a measure o western bias.  In this case I think the notes provide a particularly interesting …

by F.M. Shakil, published on The Cradle, December 23, 2025 As 2026 approaches, Washington is laying the groundwork for yet another intervention – once again wrapped in the familiar language of peacekeeping. Behind closed doors, US officials are pushing for the deployment of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza. …

From The Cradle, published December 1, 2025 Beneath Syria’s ministries and decrees lies a shadow economy controlled by the Sharaa brothers and a foreign-born operative, whose journey from Idlib militancy to the heart of Damascus exposes how power and profit intertwine in the post-Assad state. Since the fall of former Syrian …

by Ben Arthur Thomasson, published on CovertAction Magazine, July 10, 2025 [This is the second of a two-part series. Part I can be found here—Editors] Part 2 of a series exposing the farce of so-called U.S. “democracy promotion” From 2011 to 2016, demonstrations in Syria against the Ba’athist government headed …

by Ben Arthur Thomasson, published on CovertAction Magazine, May 2025 This is the first of a 4 part series showing the depth of U.S. Intervention in Syria.  Research reveals a decades long battle to get rid of the sovereign nationalist government of Syria and replace it with a puppet.  [jb] …

by Marwa Osman, comments from Facebook, December 24, 2025 Gang wars in Aleppo.  Again.  How sad.  [jb] What is unfolding today in Syria, particularly the clashes between the Syrian government and the SDF in Aleppo, is not an isolated security incident. It is a pressure point in a much wider …