January 1, 2018, Strategic Culture – Eric Zuesse When Donald Trump ran for the U.S. Presidency, his biggest foreign-affairs promise (which he copied from Ted Cruz) was to defeat “radical Islamic terrorism”; but, on December 27th, the Russian Government publicly accused Trump’s military of backing ISIS terrorists to fight against Syria’s …
Read More »Intel Vets Tell Trump Iran Is Not Top Terror Sponsor
December 27, 2017, ConsortiumNews We are concerned by recent strident and stark public statements from key members of your Administration that paint Iran in very alarmist terms. The average American, without the benefit of history, could easily be persuaded that Iran poses an imminent threat and that there is no …
Read More »US COALITION OUT OF SYRIA NOW!
US COALITION OUT OF SYRIA NOW! Both great powers, Russia and the USA, recently claimed victory over the Islamic State (aka Daesh, ISIS, ISIL) in Syria, but only one did the right thing in response. President Putin of the Russian Federation flew to Syria to announce deep cuts to its …
Read More »What Is The Guardian Afraid of When Attacking Honest Syria Reporters?
December 21, 2017, Global Research – Adam Garrie The gist of the Guardian piece is that the findings of the aforementioned journalists are not credible because they are being “used by Russia” to justify Russia’s foreign policy in regards to Syria. First of all, the Guardian’s premise is rather absurd …
Read More »Rebuilding Syria, the other war
December 20, 2017, Granma – Elson Concepción Pérez Although a victory may appear at hand, the reality is that another war is only just beginning in Syria, a war to rebuild the country. Shots are still being fired and missiles launched. There are remote areas where terrorists remain entrenched, and …
Read More »Lafarge affair exposes French ruling elite’s funding of Islamic State terrorists
December 20, 2017, World Socialist Web Site – Francis Dubois and Alex Lantier The investigation into the financing of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia by construction firm Lafarge-Holcim exposes the fraud of the so-called “war on terror” waged by France and its NATO allies. In fact, over five years, …
Read More »Iraq, Syria, Iran…Are We To Destroy Iran Next?
December 16, 2017, If Americans Knew Blog – Jon Basil Utley Years ago there was a plan, A Clean Break: Project for the New American Century (PNAC), to wreck the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians and to re-mold the Middle East. It first involved destroying Iraq or in the …
Read More »The Forgotten Syria Crisis: How the World Profits Off of War
December 12, 2017, ALTERNET – Vijay Prashad For the past six years, ‘Syria’ had come to refer to war and the refugee crisis. News about Syria rushed onto the front pages. The devastation of the country seized the imagination of people across the world. What was this war about? How …
Read More »When Washington Cheered the Jihadists
December 12, 2017, Consortiumnews – Daniel Lazare When a Department of Defense intelligence report about the Syrian rebel movement became public in May 2015, lots of people didn’t know what to make of it. After all, what the report said was unthinkable – not only that Al Qaeda had dominated the so-called democratic …
Read More »CIA plotted for regime change in #Syria since 1983(1 yr after #Israel began Beirut invasion) Original CIA document released in 2008 RETWEET
#CIA plotted for regime change in #Syria since 1983(1 yr after #Israel began Beirut invasion)Original CIA document released in 2008RETWEET pic.twitter.com/YDJYMedJNM — Marwa Osman (@Osman_Marwa1) November 22, 2017
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