Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
January 21, 2018 Turkey today announced a military incursion whose stated aim is to push back armed Kurdish forces along its southern border with Syria and to create a 30 mile buffer zone inside of Syria. The Syria Solidarity Movement® objects strongly to this aggressive and unlawful Turkish move and calls for the immediate …
Read More »‘Very brave Syrian reporter’ in WaPo tweet unmasked as jihadi propagandist
January 17, 2017, RT Question More The Washington Post bureau chief in Beirut commended the courage of a battlefield reporter in Syria, despite being informed the man is in fact a radical Islamist. She has refused to take back her words. On January 11, Liz Sly retweeted a video featuring …
Read More »Syria – U.S. Traps Itself , Commits To Occupation, Helps To Sustain The Astana Agreement
January 17, 2018, Moon of Alabama The Trump administration policy in Syria is finally coming into daylight. It has decided to permanently separate north-east of Syria from the rest of Syria with the rather comical idea that this will keep Iranian influence out of Syria and give the U.S. a …
Read More »Turkish President Calls On NATO To Take Stand Against U.S.
January 16, 2018, Information Clearing House – Forces January 16, 2018 “Information Clearing House” – Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged NATO to take a stand against the United States over its plans to form a Kurdish-led border security force in Syria. Addressing his ruling party’s deputies, the Turkish president protested …
Read More »Russian Journalists Blow Lid Off Alleged US Terrorist Training Network in Syria
January 16, 2018, Information Clearing House – Sputnik The Pentagon was forced to go into full public relations mode late last month amid fresh allegations by the Russian General Staff that US instructors were providing training assistance for some 350 ex-Daesh (ISIS) militants at the US Army’s al-Tanf garrison in the southern Syrian province of Homs. Chief of Staff General …
Read More »The News in a Surrealist Mode
January 16, 2018, Surrealpolitik – John Schoneboom One doesn’t need to be a journalist or a scientist to appreciate that the basic methods of journalism are not unlike the scientific method. Both disciplines are supposed to rely on rigorous scrutiny, scepticism, and falsifiability. Neither can persistently ignore, invent, or distort …
Read More »BBC Betrays the Most Basic Journalistic Principles When It Comes to Syria
January 16, 2018, American Herald Tribune – Jeremy Salt Lies, deceit and forgeries have always been part of war, truth being ‘the first casualty.’ But in the past two decades the falsifications of war have reached unparalleled heights, thanks to technology. The lies told by the American, British, Australian and …
Read More »Syria: the human rights industry in ‘humanitarian war’
January 15, 2018, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies – Tim Anderson TA-hum-war-18-1
Read More »There is No FSA, There is Only Al-Qaeda
January 14, 2018, Libertarian Institute – William Van Wagenen Among Syria commentators in the West, both left and mainstream, it is commonly claimed that the Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad has attempted to crush the supposedly moderate, secular rebels of the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), while at the …
Read More »How the Mainstream Media Whitewashed Al-Qaeda and the White Helmets in Syria
January 7, 2017, Global Research – Eva Bartlett As the purported theme of The Guardian‘s story was the issue of rescuers in Syria, I’ll begin by talking about actual rescuers I know and worked with, in hellish circumstances in Gaza. In 2008/9, I volunteered with Palestinian medics under 22 days of relentless, indiscriminate, …
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