Jan 18, 2016, American Herald Tribune ISIS committed a massacre in Eastern Syrian city of Deir el-Zour on Sunday leaving as many as 280 people dead. News agencies reported different death tolls with state news agencies reporting a number as high as 300 people and opposition groups and news agencies …
Read More »Why the US anti-terror coalition is failing
Jan 21, 2016, American Herald Tribune There was an underwhelming sense when Pentagon boss Ashton Carter met this week in Paris with other members of the US-led military coalition supposedly fighting the ISIL terror group. The US-led coalition was set up at the end of 2014 and in theory comprises …
Read More »The Pretexts for War [VIDEO]
Jan 23, 2016, Tim Anderson A brief selection of the fabricated pretexts for war, employed by the big power in recent decades. This is far from a comprehensive list, just some examples to inform and remind. Use of ‘Flames of War’ by Audiomachine is licensed.
Read More »Detached ‘Leftist’ academics, notably Gilbert Achcar, paint mercenary killers as freedom-loving liberals [RADIO INTERVIEW]
Jan 11, 2016, Taylor Report Stephen Gowans, political analyst and speaker, socialist historian, logician. Click HERE to listen What they sell you on Syria is different from what internal U.S. documents say. It isn’t Sunni vs. Shia in Syria: most Sunnis fight on the side of the government, against jihadist …
Read More »The Middle East – From Madaya to Saudi Arabia [RADIO INTERVIEW]
Jan 18, 2016, Taylor Report Zafar Bangash, editor of Crescent-online.net, author, political analyst, humanitarian, author and/or co-author of several books, including The Doomed Kingdom of the House of Saud. Click HERE to listen Zafar Bangash, editor of Crescent Online, paints with broad strokes the general situation in the Middle East …
Read More »Regime Change Express Stalled in Syria and Burundi: Why? [RADIO INTERVIEW]
Jan 18, 2016, Taylor Report Gearóid Ó Colmáin, journalist and political analyst based in Paris. His work focuses on globalization, geopolitics and class struggle. He is a regular contributor to Global Research, Russia Today International, Press TV, Sputnik Radio France Click HERE to listen Ó Colmáin carefully constructs the US …
Read More »Syrian army liberating strategic territory [RADIO INTERVIEW]
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 …
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