Analysis

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

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)

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 …

The following article is republished from Mideast Discourse: Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The January 20 attack on the Ghweran prison in Hasaka, Syria carried out by ISIS terrorists is being blamed on the international community, and western democracies specifically, by Kurdish officials who are responsible for the security at …

A step forward for international solidarity, a defeat for Western economic war. The following article is republished from The Cradle: by Giorgio Cafiero Marking a major boost to Sino-Syrian relations, on 12 January, Syria joined the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s ambitious infrastructure development strategy stretching from East Asia to Europe. …

The following article is republished from The Cradle: By Matthew Ehret Benjamin Franklin once famously wrote to his fellow colonials: “Either we hang together or we hang separately.” Those words are just as true today as they were 270 years ago, for empires have always controlled by dividing their victims into regional …

by Steven Nezar Sahiounie​, Syrian journalist. Wide-ranging interview with Max Parry on Russia, China, and the Middle East, republished from Mideast Discourse. The US is faced with a long list of hot-spots and tensions.  Beginning with the situation in Iraq, where the Parliament has asked the US troops to leave.  …

The following report is republished from Counter Currents: A secret U.S. Air Force (USAF) drone strike unit was allowed to operate in Syria for five years even as it broke rules of engagement and civilian casualties mounted, it has been revealed in a report by New York Times that cited …

The following article, by Aaron Mate, was originally published at The Grayzone: In its probe of an alleged chemical attack in Syria, the OPCW shunned the critical investigative area of forensic pathology and censored a recommendation to pursue it. The Douma killings remain unsolved. (This is part two of a …

The following article, by Steven Sahiounie, is republished from Mideast Discourse:  Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), visited the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Tuesday.  This is the most senior UAE dignitary to visit Syria since …