Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
November 21, 2017, Jonathan Cook Blog Investigative journalist Gareth Porter has published two exclusives whose import is far greater than may be immediately apparent. They concern Israel’s bombing in 2007 of a supposed nuclear plant secretly built, according to a self-serving US and Israeli narrative, by Syrian leader Bashar Assad. Although the …
Read More »How Pseudo-leftists Explain the Failure of the ‘Syrian Revolution’
Some western “Liberals” and “Leftists” pay homage to Yassin al-Haj Saleh, an intellectual leftist of the ‘Syrian Revolution’. In fact Saleh represented only a tiny part of Syria’s left. He was ‘persecuted’ because he aligned himself with the 1980 and 2011 bloody uprisings by the sectarian Muslim Brotherhood, and their international …
Read More »Book Review: ‘Dear World’ by Bana Alabed – PR for Regime Change in Syria
November 10, 2017, True Publica BACKGROUND Bana Alabed is an 8-year-old Syrian girl who rose to fame in 2016 when a Twitter account was set up in her name and she started tweeting in fluent English from east Aleppo as it was under bombardment by Syrian and Russian forces trying …
Read More »Priti Patel Resigns – Israel Lobby Mourns The Loss Of A Valuable British Asset
November 10, 2017, Information Clearing House – Moon of Alabama A British Minister of Hindu heritage was fired after it emerged that she secretly met Israeli officials in Israel and elsewhere without informing the Foreign Office. Back in Britain she then tried to arrange additional finances for Israel’s arming of al-Qaeda in …
Read More »US Mideast Axis Reels As Russian-Backed Forces Power Ahead
November 6, 2017, Strategic Culture – Finian Cunningham It’s been a more-than-usual eventful week in the Middle East. Russian-backed forces made yet more significant military gains in defeating US-sponsored proxies in Syria, with a fearsome display of long-range Russian air and naval firepower against militant hold-outs near Deir ez-Zor. That …
Read More »WMD in Syria just like Iraq in 2003? Contradictions in the UN/OPCW Report on Khan Shaykhun
November 3, 2017, Investig’action In early 2003 it was claimed that Iraq was a threat to other countries. Despite ten years of crushing economic sanctions plus intrusive inspections, supposedly Iraq had acquired enough “weapons of mass destruction” to threaten the West. It was ridiculous on its face but few …
Read More »The Intercept Withheld NSA Doc That May Have Altered Course Of Syrian War
The following article, by Whitney Webb, is republished from Mint Press News: On Tuesday, the Intercept published a hitherto unknown document from the trove of National Security Administration (NSA) documents leaked by Edward Snowden over three years ago. The document was notable as it shed light on the early days of …
Read More »On Returning From Syria: More Convinced Than Ever Western Media Narrative Is Bullshit
October 26, 2017, Activist Post – Brandon Turbeville In early October, 2017, I had the pleasure of visiting Syria on a mission to get a sense of the toll of the war, the mindset of the people, and the general situation on the ground. The goal was to see the …
Read More »The real purpose of the policy in Syria
October 26, 2017, The Jordan Times Western powers and Turkey involved in proxy and direct warfare in Syria are staking out territorial redoubts as the war against Daesh winds down and Syrian government forces consolidate their grip on the country’s major cities, natural resources and vast swathes of countryside. The …
Read More »West eyes recolonization of Africa by endless war; removing Gaddafi was just first step
October 25, 2017, OP Question More – Dan Glazebrook Exactly six years ago, on October 20th, 2011, Muammar Gaddafi was murdered, joining a long list of African revolutionaries martyred by the West for daring to dream of continental independence. Earlier that day, Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte had been occupied by …
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