Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
February 27, 2017, Jonathan Cook Blog I am loath to draw more attention to the kind of idiocy that passes for informed comment nowadays from academics and mainstream journalists. Recently I lambasted Prof Richard Carver for his arguments against BDS that should have gained him an F for logic in any high …
Read More »America’s ‘Boots-On-The-Ground’ Fighters in Syria are Kurds and Al Qaeda
February 21, 2018, The Saker – Eric Zuesse for the Saker Blog As will be documented here, America’s troops in Syria are not there in order to fight, but to assist Kurdish separatists in the northeast, and to assist the Al Qaeda led-and-trained jihadist forces elsewhere in Syria (such as …
Read More »Buttering Up the Pentagon
February 21, 2018, TruthDig – Danny Sjursen Think of it as the chicken-or-the-egg question for the ages: Do very real threats to the United States inadvertently benefit the military-industrial complex or does the national security state, by its very nature, conjure up inflated threats to feed that defense machine? Back …
Read More »WHERE’S THE EVIDENCE ASSAD USED SARIN GAS ON HIS PEOPLE?
February 20, 2017, Newsweek – Ian Wilkie The best way to analyze chemical weapons events in Syria is to try to discern who is providing evidence, why they are presenting evidence and what that evidence comprises. Since the United States’ false Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) presentation in the U.N. …
Read More »Jacobin Is Fueling the Lies About Syria
February 03, 2018, TruthDig – Daniel Lazare Syria has generated more lies than any United States action since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. That’s why Jacobin Magazine, the self-proclaimed “leading voice of the American left,” is so important. Readers need it to help cut through the dense fog of mendacity …
Read More »TILLERSON’S PROMISE OF MORE WAR IN SYRIA GETS WARM RECEPTION FROM CORPORATE MEDIA
January 30, 2018, FAIR – Gregory Shupak In a speech at Stanford this month, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared that America intends to keep military troops in Syria indefinitely, in pursuit of the US’s “key end states for Syria,” including “post-Assad leadership,” the marginalization of Iran and the elimination of …
Read More »Destroying Syria
January 23, 2018, The Unz Review: Alternative Media Selection – Philip Giraldi The Donald Trump administration is planning to install a 30,000 strong armed “security force” in northern Syria along the borders with Turkey and Iraq. This presumably will tie together and support the remaining rag-tags of allegedly pro-democracy rebels and will …
Read More »Syria – U.S. Traps Itself , Commits To Occupation, Helps To Sustain The Astana Agreement
January 17, 2018, Moon of Alabama The Trump administration policy in Syria is finally coming into daylight. It has decided to permanently separate north-east of Syria from the rest of Syria with the rather comical idea that this will keep Iranian influence out of Syria and give the U.S. a …
Read More »The News in a Surrealist Mode
January 16, 2018, Surrealpolitik – John Schoneboom One doesn’t need to be a journalist or a scientist to appreciate that the basic methods of journalism are not unlike the scientific method. Both disciplines are supposed to rely on rigorous scrutiny, scepticism, and falsifiability. Neither can persistently ignore, invent, or distort …
Read More »BBC Betrays the Most Basic Journalistic Principles When It Comes to Syria
January 16, 2018, American Herald Tribune – Jeremy Salt Lies, deceit and forgeries have always been part of war, truth being ‘the first casualty.’ But in the past two decades the falsifications of war have reached unparalleled heights, thanks to technology. The lies told by the American, British, Australian and …
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