Analysis

The following article is republished from Glenn Greenwald’s Substack: by Glenn Greenwald For the second time in the five months since he was inaugurated, President Joe Biden on Sunday ordered a U.S. bombing raid on Syria, and for the first time, he also bombed Iraq. The rationale offered was the same as Biden’s first air attack …

The following article, by Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, is republished from Arms Watch: The Pentagon is buying $2.8 billion worth of weapons for conflict zones around the world. Most of the weapons are destined for Syria. A number of propaganda videos published by Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (formerly known as Al Nusra …

The following article is republished from Aaron Maté’s Substack: On a recent episode of The Young Turks, the self-described “Home of Progressives”, hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian disparaged me in a McCarthyite rant. The apparent trigger was a mocking comment that I had tweeted at Uygur, in which I …

The following article is republished from Info BRICS:  By Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst Turkey has reduced the flow of the Euphrates River from 500 m3 per second to less than 200 m3 per second. This will have a major consequence on Syria – a threat of drought with summer …

The following article, by Steven Sahiounie, is republished from Mideast Discourse:  Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator On April 16, the journalist Andre Mate, spoke to the UN Security Council concerning the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) report about Syria which has been exposed as a cover-up scandal. His …

The following article is republished from the Strategic Culture Foundation: By Finian Cunningham “The Western powers are like dogs with an old bone on the subject of alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria. There is no meat on it but they continue to gnaw away,” says former British ambassador to …

Blaming the victim: According to the major western powers who prosecuted the regime-change war in Syria, it’s all President Assad’s fault. The following article is republished from Indian Punchline:  By M.K. Bhadrakumar In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, the ruling pigs led by Napoleon constantly rewrote history in order to justify …

While Trump tried unsuccessfully to end the US presence in Syria, Biden seems intent on ratcheting it up. The following article is republished from Moon of Alabama:  Ten years after it began, and after a short lull in fighting, the war on Syria seems now to resume on several fronts. …

The following article, by Richard Medhurst, is republished from the author’s Substack:  SYRIA is the key to the Middle East. Bordering Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, and with access to the Mediterranean Sea, for millennia Syria has held unique geopolitical and strategic importance in the region. The war taking place …

The following article, by Alan McLeod, is republished from MintPress News: AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news collective,” “transforming investigative …