Syria is suffering like few other places on earth. Only a decade ago it was self-sufficient, with healthy exports, but that now seems a distant memory. The war is a main factor, of course, but vast wildfires also destroyed grain and other crops, as well as grazing areas. In addition, …
Read More »Remembering Serena Shim on the sixth anniversary of her death
On the sixth anniversary of her death, we remember journalist Serena Shim. Serena Shim worked for Press TV out of Tehran, Iran. She uncovered that the government of Turkey was supplying ISIS and Al Qaeda in Syria using the vehicles of “humanitarian” organizations. Shortly afterwards, she died under mysterious circumstances. …
Read More »We congratulate the free, sovereign and independent Bolivian people
The Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees and its sponsored organizations International Solidarity Movement – Northern California International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity Free Palestine Movement Syria Solidarity Movement Resumen Latinoamericana Serena Shim Award NakbaTour One State Assembly extend their congratulations to the Bolivian people upon their free …
Read More »Former OPCW Chief Says His Office Was Bugged While USA Pushed Iraq War
The following article by Caitlin Johnstone is republished from the author’s blog: In an important new interview with The Grayzone‘s Aaron Maté, the first Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has revealed new insights into the way the US exerted control over the Organisation in the lead-up to …
Read More »Two Massive New Leaks Show Dirty Underbelly of Empire
The following article, by Lee Camp, is republished from Consortium News: Most Americans don’t know reality. They know their personal reality, but unfortunately their reality is thoroughly detached from real pure, uncut reality. For example, do they know that police across the country work with corporations to criminalize journalism? Do …
Read More »Massive fires cause wide-spread devastation in Syria and Lebanon
The following article is republished from Al Masdar News: BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:30 A.M.) – The fires in Lebanon and Syria have caused wide-spread devastation, amid ongoing humanitarian crises inside both Levantine nations. “The situation in Latakia is tragic,” is how the Minister of Local Administration and Environment in Syria, Hussein …
Read More »Why did Amnesty UK, Bellingcat and White Helmets sabotage Roger Waters webinar on corporate pollution?
The following article, by Max Blumenthal, is republished from The Grayzone: The Grayzone obtained audio of a call in which Roger Waters confronted Amnesty leadership over efforts by Syria regime-change operatives – including its own staff – to sabotage an Amazon Watch webinar on Chevron’s pollution of Ecuador. The campaign …
Read More »OPCW Syria whistleblower and ex-OPCW chief attacked by US, UK, France at UN
This is all about the continuing scandal caused by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is heavily funded by governments, such as the Trudeau Government of Canada, concocting a story that the Syrian government used poison gas on its citizens in Douma, which was the pretext for …
Read More »How the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict could ignite a Middle East flare-up
The following article by Shireen T. Hunter is republished from Middle East Eye: The so-called frozen conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh has melted again. In the past, powers with influence in Baku and Yerevan – especially Russia – intervened to stop the armed conflict. …
Read More »The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté testifies at UN on OPCW Syria cover-up
The following article by Aaron Maté is republished from The Grayzone: In remarks to the UN Security Council, The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté details the OPCW’s Douma cover-up scandal and urges UN members to support the chemical watchdog’s inspectors whose evidence was suppressed. At an Arria-Formula Meeting of the United Nations …
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