The following article, by Richard Medhurst, is republished from the author’s Substack: SYRIA is the key to the Middle East. Bordering Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, and with access to the Mediterranean Sea, for millennia Syria has held unique geopolitical and strategic importance in the region. The war taking place …
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The following article, by Alan McLeod, is republished from MintPress News: AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news collective,” “transforming investigative …
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The following article, by Rick Sterling (SSM Steering Committee Member), is republished from Dissident Voice: In the past few months, Grayzone journalist Aaron Mate has interviewed two former ambassadors to Syria: former UK Ambassador Peter Ford and former US Ambassador Robert S. Ford. The two ambassadors have a common surname but dramatically …
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Taylor Report · White Helmets Remain a Propaganda Construct In this 16-minute interview, Phil Taylor speaks with Chris Black, international lawyer, about a Globe and Mail article entitled, “The Sting: How a Canadian is fighting back in Syria’s high-stakes disinformation war.” The article is about CIJA (the Centre for International Justice and Accountability), which was set up and funded, like the White Helmets, according to Black, “by the very powers that want to overthrow the Syrian government as a prelude to an attack on Iran.” Black points out that CIJA doesn’t investigate the crimes of Western countries of launching a regime-change operation, using terrorist mercenaries as their foot-soldiers, against the Syrian …
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The Global Research News Hour interviews Pepe Escobar and Ken Stone, Steering Committee member of the Syria Solidarity Movement: Global Research News Hour · The Raging Twenties Review: Pipelinistan, Sino-Russia and more. Click to download the audio (MP3 format) With the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of …
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The following article, by Caitlin Johnstone, is republished from the author’s Substack: I saw a line in a recent New Yorker article about America’s endless wars, and it’s been been rattling around in my head ever since: “In Syria, McKenzie visited the Green Village, a community of decrepit apartment blocks near a bombed-out oil …
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The following investigative report, by Kit Klarenberg, is republished from The Grayzone: The BBC’s Chloe Hadjimatheou produced a podcast serial designed to rehabilitate the White Helmets’ late, scandal-stained founder, while blaming critics for his demise. Was she a channel for a wider British intelligence operation? White Helmets founder James Le Mesurier falling …
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The following article, by Diana Johnstone, was originally published at Consortium News: No promising event has more fully failed to keep its promise than the optimistically named Arab Spring. Ten years ago, massive protest demonstrations that began in Tunisia and moved quickly to Egypt were hailed as the harbinger of …
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The following article, by WIlliam Van Wagenen, was originally published at The Libertarian Institute: In a recent essay for Newlines Magazine, former U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford discussed the ways in which the so-called Syrian revolution went wrong. He does so by recounting his interactions with two prominent Syrian …
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Like Iraq before her, Syria is the target of mainstream media hysteria on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the war. Former diplomat Michel Raimbaud wonders: will it take 30 years to recognize the crimes committed against that country? “We did not know… that there is an international law” …
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