Analysis

by Susan Dirgham and Rick Sterling It’s a David vs Goliath story. A former local newspaper reporter, Robert Stuart, is taking on the British Broadcasting Corporation. Stuart believes that a sensational video story about an alleged atrocity in Syria “was largely, if not entirely, staged.”  The BBC would like it …

The following article by Finian Cunningham was originally published at Sputnik: The campaign is on for Syrian national forces to retake the last-remaining redoubt of militants in northwest Idlib. That might explain why the New York Times was prompted to publish a 5,000-word article based on flimsy anti-Syrian propaganda. It …

The following document is an assessment produced by the engineering sub-team of the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) Fact-Finding Mission charged with investigating the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. Previously, this engineering report was excluded from the published OPCW final report of the …

Below is the second part of the wide-ranging interview with journalist Sharmine Narwani, conducted by Patrick Lawrence for Salon. The first part of the interview is available here, and the full text of this part is available at the Salon website: https://www.salon.com/2019/04/28/sharmine-narwani-on-the-end-of-the-syrian-war-and-the-post-imperial-middle-east/Journalist Sharmine Narwani with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.In …

Sharmine Narwani comments on RT.This wide-ranging interview with Sharmine Narwani was published on April 21 at Salon, conducted by foreign affairs reporter Patrick Lawrence. The full interview is available here: https://www.salon.com/2019/04/21/reporter-sharmine-narwani-on-the-secret-history-of-americas-defeat-in-syria/ As Lawrence notes, Narwani earned her master’s in journalism at Columbia University before serving as a senior associate at …

The following article, by Peter Ford (former UK ambassador to Syria), is republished from 21st Century Wire: Syrian communities in Golan organise protests against Israeli occupation. (Photo: Sputnik)With the military situation largely frozen, the last two months have been marked mainly by developments involving the US – the ending of …

Donald Trump at the Israel Museum with Benjamin Netanyahu. Occupied Jerusalem May 23, 2017. Photo: US EmbassyThe following article by Helena Cobban appeared originally at Mondoweiss:Washington DC, March 26 — On March 25, President Donald J. Trump signed an order proclaiming U.S. support for Israel’s annexation of the Golan. This act …

The following article, by Bill Van Auken, was originally published at the American Herald Tribune on January 13, 2019.Overloaded with lies, hypocrisy and absurdities, the speech delivered by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the American University in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday signaled to the collection of monarchs and …

The following article, by Brandon Turbeville, was originally published at The Activist Post on January 11, 2019.Despite the repeated demonstrations of the fact that the United States and other Western nations have armed, supported, and funded terrorists in Syria from the beginning of the crisis in 2011 as well as long …

The following article by Gareth Porter was originally published at the American Conservative on January 14, 2019. Photo: Israel MFA/FlickrThe Pentagon was not the only party pressing Donald Trump to keep troops in Syria last year. It turns out the Israeli government and its supporters in Washington were working very hard …