Analysis

The following article, by Rick Sterling (SSM Steering Committee Member), is republished from Dissident Voice:  In the past few months, Grayzone journalist Aaron Mate has interviewed two former ambassadors to Syria: former UK Ambassador Peter Ford and former US Ambassador Robert S. Ford. The two ambassadors have a common surname but dramatically …

Taylor Report · White Helmets Remain a Propaganda Construct In this 16-minute interview, Phil Taylor speaks with Chris Black, international lawyer, about a Globe and Mail article entitled, “The Sting: How a Canadian is fighting back in Syria’s high-stakes disinformation war.” The article is about CIJA (the Centre for International Justice and Accountability), which was set up and funded, like the White Helmets, according to Black, “by the very powers that want to overthrow the Syrian government as a prelude to an attack on Iran.” Black points out that CIJA doesn’t investigate the crimes of Western countries of launching a regime-change operation, using terrorist mercenaries as their foot-soldiers, against the Syrian …

The Global Research News Hour interviews Pepe Escobar and Ken Stone, Steering Committee member of the Syria Solidarity Movement: Global Research News Hour · The Raging Twenties Review: Pipelinistan, Sino-Russia and more. Click to download the audio (MP3 format) With the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of …

The following article, by Caitlin Johnstone, is republished from the author’s Substack:   I saw a line in a recent New Yorker article about America’s endless wars, and it’s been been rattling around in my head ever since: “In Syria, McKenzie visited the Green Village, a community of decrepit apartment blocks near a bombed-out oil …

The following article, by Diana Johnstone, was originally published at Consortium News: No promising event has more fully failed to keep its promise than the optimistically named Arab Spring.  Ten years ago, massive protest demonstrations that began in Tunisia and moved quickly to Egypt were hailed as the harbinger of …

The following article, by WIlliam Van Wagenen, was originally published at The Libertarian Institute: In a recent essay for Newlines Magazine, former U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford discussed the ways in which the so-called Syrian revolution went wrong. He does so by recounting his interactions with two prominent Syrian …

Like Iraq before her, Syria is the target of mainstream media hysteria on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the war. Former diplomat Michel Raimbaud wonders: will it take 30 years to recognize the crimes committed against that country? “We did not know… that there is an international law” …

The following article, by Scott Ritter, is republished from RT:  The US has only one objective in Syria—regime change. The fact that it has been unable to achieve this after ten years of trying does not appear to deter the Biden administration from embracing failure. Back in 2001, former General Wesley …

The Syria Solidarity Movement is republishing the following article, by Janice Kortkamp, from American Herald Tribune:  By JANICE KORTKAMP I’ve been watching this conflict for over eight years, virtually every day, all day and made seven extended research trips traveling around the country mostly on my own with Syrian friends …

While Joe Biden has faced some mild Congressional pushback for bombing the Iraq-Syria border, Tulsi Gabbard says her former colleagues are ignoring the larger issue: the ongoing US dirty war on Syria. After a decade of proxy warfare that empowered Al Qaeda and ISIS, the US is now occupying one-third …