June 4, 2018, Common Dreams A bipartisan amendment introduced by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) and cosponsored by Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Walter Jones (R-NC) passed the U.S. House as part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019 WASHINGTON – On …
Read More »The flames that killed Fathi Harb should make us all burn with guilt and shame
June 4, 2018 Jonathan Cook Fathi Harb should have had something to live for, not least the imminent arrival of a new baby. But last week the 21-year-old extinguished his life in an inferno of flames in central Gaza. It is believed to be the first example of a public …
Read More »Charity for Syria? Holding ‘Hope Hospital’ Accountable
June 4, 2018, 12st Century Wire – Steven Sahiounie Too often we see reports in the western mainstream media about Syria which are distorted and hardly resemble the reality on the ground. What’s worse however, is when misleading stories are used to extract money from unwitting western audiences. The Guardian published a …
Read More »‘Russia-US direct conflict in Syria was close, but avoided’
May 31, 2018 This excellent interview provides the most authoritative Syrian response to many important questions. Judge for yourself.
Read More »Republican Jewish Coalition emerges as Trump’s hub for raising money, and making foreign policy
May 30, 2018, Mondoweiss – Philip Weiss One of the famous moments of the presidential campaign was back in December 2015 when Donald Trump told the Republican Jewish Coalition that he didn’t want their money, or their control. “You’re not gonna support me because I don’t want your money. You want to control …
Read More »US Warns Of “Firm” Response If Syria Attacks ISIS … No, Really
May 30, 2018, Activist Post – Brandon Turbeville In an apparent attempt to remove all pretense that the United States is nothing more than al-Qaeda’s Air Force in Syria, the American government is warning its Syrian counterpart that, if the SAA moves ahead with its upcoming southern offensive to remove …
Read More »Israel Owns U.S. Foreign Policy
May 27, 2018, American Free Press – Philip Giraldi There should be no remaining doubt over whether Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu working through their billionaire proxies in the U.S. own President Donald Trump. Last Tuesday’s [May 8, 2018] presidential full-bore denunciation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of …
Read More »STATEMENT BY SYRIA SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT® ON THE LIBERATION OF YARMOUK
The Syria Solidarity Movement® (SSM) congratulates the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), allied Palestinian militias, and the government of Syria on the liberation of Yarmouk, home to the largest number of Palestinian refugees in Syria. Most of these refugees were created by the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of historic Palestine, …
Read More »Maybe Israel is interfering in our politics over the Iran Deal? Naaah!
May 9, 2018, Mondoweiss – Phil Weiss & Donald Johnson Let’s see how hard it is to connect the dots. For the last three years, Benjamin Netanyahu has been doing everything he can to sink the Iran deal, from speaking in Congress against the deal in 2015 with the support …
Read More »Syria is not Palestine; anti-Salafism/Wahhabism is not Islamophobia – with Rania Khalek (Ep. 18)
May 8, 2018 – Moderate Rebels Moderate Rebels episode 18 – Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton continue the discussion with Rania Khalek. We explain how our erroneous views on the war in Syria evolved. Max apologizes for his Al Akhbar resignation, and Rania discusses the destructive sectarianism in prominent Arab-American …
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