Oct 3, Ken Stone, Hamilton Spectator On 9/11’s anniversary, United States President Barack Obama announced escalating military attacks against ISIS in Iraq and Syria and increased funding and training of “moderate rebels” in Syria, to the tune of $500 million. He also called for a new “coalition of the willing” …
Read More »Interview with Zafar Bangash [AUDIO]
Sep 29, 2014, Taylor Report Zafar Bangash discusses the hypocrisy of US policy in Iraq and Syria. He also probes the nature of the Saudi-funded opposition in Syria, who in their extensive brutality and war crimes, violate Islamic law. Turkey’s attempt to create a no-fly-zone over Syria is also mentioned. …
Read More »U.S. Alliance with FSA & ISIL in Six Photographs
Oct 1, 2014, Dissident Voice By Rick Sterling The following six photographs confirm that a favorite “moderate rebel” leader, Abdel Jabbar al-Okaidi, is allied with ISIL. The first photograph is from Spring 2013 and shows Okaidi with the American who has been the principal coordinator of US policy on Syria. …
Read More »UNSC Resolution 2178 Unanimously Passed but Obama was Diplomatically Rebuked
Sep 30, 2014, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Strategic Culture Foundation The United Nations Security Council held a high-level meeting on terrorism on September 24, 2014. UN Security Council Resolution 2178, which underscored the need to prevent the travel and funding of foreign terrorists, was unanimously approved and passed by its five …
Read More »Coalition of the Clueless
Sep 25, 2014, Sharmine Narwani, RT.com This US-engineered Coalition is in for some surprises. With few common goals, it has thrust itself into battle against the most determined players in the region and beyond. The airwaves are still heaving with spin two days after US airstrikes against Syria. Undoubtedly the …
Read More »Why Syrians support Bashar al Assad
Sep 30, 2014, Tim Anderson, Pravda The sudden reversion of Washington to a ‘war on terror’ pretext for intervention in Syria has confused western audiences. For three years they watched ‘humanitarian intervention’ stories, which poured contempt on the Syrian President’s assertion that he was fighting foreign backed terrorists. Now the …
Read More »Syria’s Position Regarding America’s Campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS)
Speech by Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister Walid al-Moallem, UN General Assembly Sep 30, 2014, Global Research Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem, delivered a speech on Monday at the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in which he affirmed that Syria supports any international effort …
Read More »Turn the Tables: Stopping Western Aggression in Syria
Sep 29, 2014, Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook As the US begins token airstrikes on both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi border, the fighting capacity of the “Islamic State” or “ISIS,” has seen no visible setbacks. This is because ISIS is in fact the very proxy mercenaries intentionally created to fight the …
Read More »The March to War: Fighting ISIL is a Smokescreen for US Mobilization against Syria, Iran
Sep 26, 2014, Mahdi Nazemroaya The ISIL or IS threat is a smokescreen. The strength of the ISIL has deliberately been inflated to get public support for the Pentagon and to justify the illegal bombing of Syria. It has also been used to justify the mobilization of what is looking …
Read More »Who Is REALLY Behind ISIS? [VIDEO]
Sep 27, 2014, Corbett Report As bombs start dropping in Syria and Iraq, the world is once again being asked to cower in fear of a shadowy terror group that most people hadn’t heard of just a few months ago. But even the most cursory examination of ISIS’s past, its …
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