by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, May 28, 2022 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on May 23 a new military operation in northern Syria to establish a 30-kilometer-wide zone of Turkish occupation. Erdogan terms the proposed action as a counterterrorism operation, with details to be announced in the next …
Read More »US Would Be Illegally Importing Syrian Wheat
by Lucas Leiroz, published on InfoBRICS, May 31, 2022 Once again, US irresponsible attitudes are threatening global food security. Recent reports point out that Washington is intensifying the smuggling of Syrian wheat, importing the product from regions illegally occupied by foreign troops and paramilitary militias. This situation is a strong …
Read More »How ‘Virtual Crime Scenes’ Became a Propaganda Tool in Nicaragua, Ukraine, and Syria
The following article, by Rick Sterling and John Perry, is republished from the Antiwar.com blog: by John Perry and Rick Sterling Posted on May 26, 2022 This article shows how media uses computer modeling and “virtual crime scenes” to assign blame for some extremely important international events. In these examples from …
Read More »Washington Moves to Annex Northeast Syria by Proxy
by Vanessa Beeley, published on Organizing Notes, May 17, 2022 Under cover of media focus on the NATO proxy war in Ukraine and the Zionist assassination of Al Jazeera senior correspondent Shireen AbuAkleh, Washington is making moves to annex Syrian territory. On May 11th during the meeting of the “global …
Read More »Decades of US Attempts to Topple the Syrian Government
by Shane Quinn, published on Global Research, May 5, 2022 Syria has for the vast majority of the post-World War II period been considered by United States governments as a staunch enemy. In more recent decades, Washington has attempted without ultimate success to isolate and overthrow the Assad dynasty in …
Read More »Syrian Refugees: Stuck in Limbo or Political Pawns?
by Mouhamad Choucair, published on The Cradle, February 23, 2022 Up in the mountainous region of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, the climate is extreme between snowy winters and suffocating summer heat. Yet this is the site of one of the country’s refugee camps for displaced Syrians. Helplessly exposed to the harsh living conditions …
Read More »‘Al Qaeda Is on Our Side’: How Obama/Biden Team Empowered Terrorist Networks in Syria
By Aaron Maté, RealClearInvestigationsApril 20, 2022Hours after the Feb. 3 U.S. military raid in northern Syria that left the leader of ISIS and multiple family members dead, President Biden delivered a triumphant White House address. The late-night Special Forces operation in Syria’s Idlib province, Biden proclaimed, was a “testament to America’s reach …
Read More »Ukraine crisis: Why doesn’t the West show the same outrage for wars in the Middle East?
Watch and share this six-minute video! Richard Medhurst is an astute commentator.Huge double standard in the West in ignoring the US wars vs. Syria, Yemen, and Libya and focussing instead on Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVr9Af-Cs50
Read More »Video: Ken Stone and Tim Anderson on Western double standards for war
Ken Stone and Tim Anderson discuss the enormous double standard that applies in the West when it comes to war. They contrast the Western obsession with the Russian special military operation in Ukraine with the silence in Western mainstream media about US war crimes in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan. (10:22)
Read More »Racism thrives in western liberal Europe and Ukraine
The people of colour who inhabit Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, and Haiti did not receive even a small fraction of the attention paid by the western mainstream media to white Ukrainians.By: Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator, based in Latakia, Syria. This article is republished from Mideast Discourse.Black …
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