November 21, 2017, ConsortiumNews – Gareth Porter In September 2007, Israeli warplanes bombed a building in eastern Syria that the Israelis claimed held a covert nuclear reactor that had been built with North Korean assistance. Seven months later, the CIA released an extraordinary 11-minute video and mounted press and Congressional …
Read More »Did Al Qaeda Dupe Trump on Syrian Attack?
November 21, 2017, Consortiumnews – Robert Parry A new United Nations-sponsored report on the April 4 sarin incident in an Al Qaeda-controlled town in Syria blames Bashar al-Assad’s government for the atrocity, but the report contains evidence deep inside its “Annex II” that would prove Assad’s innocence. If you read that far, …
Read More »Monbiot still burying his head in sands of Syria
November 21, 2017, Jonathan Cook Blog Investigative journalist Gareth Porter has published two exclusives whose import is far greater than may be immediately apparent. They concern Israel’s bombing in 2007 of a supposed nuclear plant secretly built, according to a self-serving US and Israeli narrative, by Syrian leader Bashar Assad. Although the …
Read More »How Pseudo-leftists Explain the Failure of the ‘Syrian Revolution’
Some western “Liberals” and “Leftists” pay homage to Yassin al-Haj Saleh, an intellectual leftist of the ‘Syrian Revolution’. In fact Saleh represented only a tiny part of Syria’s left. He was ‘persecuted’ because he aligned himself with the 1980 and 2011 bloody uprisings by the sectarian Muslim Brotherhood, and their international …
Read More »Book Review: ‘Dear World’ by Bana Alabed – PR for Regime Change in Syria
November 10, 2017, True Publica BACKGROUND Bana Alabed is an 8-year-old Syrian girl who rose to fame in 2016 when a Twitter account was set up in her name and she started tweeting in fluent English from east Aleppo as it was under bombardment by Syrian and Russian forces trying …
Read More »Priti Patel Resigns – Israel Lobby Mourns The Loss Of A Valuable British Asset
November 10, 2017, Information Clearing House – Moon of Alabama A British Minister of Hindu heritage was fired after it emerged that she secretly met Israeli officials in Israel and elsewhere without informing the Foreign Office. Back in Britain she then tried to arrange additional finances for Israel’s arming of al-Qaeda in …
Read More »US Mideast Axis Reels As Russian-Backed Forces Power Ahead
November 6, 2017, Strategic Culture – Finian Cunningham It’s been a more-than-usual eventful week in the Middle East. Russian-backed forces made yet more significant military gains in defeating US-sponsored proxies in Syria, with a fearsome display of long-range Russian air and naval firepower against militant hold-outs near Deir ez-Zor. That …
Read More »Syrian government forces will march to Raqqa soon, Iranian official says
November 5, 2017, Reuters – Reuters Staff BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces will advance soon to take Raqqa city, which U.S.-backed fighters seized from Islamic State last month, a senior Iranian official said on Friday. Ali Akbar Velayati, the top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, also accused the United …
Read More »WMD in Syria just like Iraq in 2003? Contradictions in the UN/OPCW Report on Khan Shaykhun
November 3, 2017, Investig’action In early 2003 it was claimed that Iraq was a threat to other countries. Despite ten years of crushing economic sanctions plus intrusive inspections, supposedly Iraq had acquired enough “weapons of mass destruction” to threaten the West. It was ridiculous on its face but few …
Read More »Syrian film-maker accused of faking his own attempted murder
November 3, 2017, The Guardian Doubts have emerged about the story of a Syrian filmmaker who claimed to have survived a murder attempt in Istanbul last month, after videos were published in which he appears to be planning the attempt on his own life to generate publicity for his anti-Assad …
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