Analysis

Zein Abudllah, 8, injured by shrapnel to his face in the December 12 terorist car bombing. © Eva Bartlett Jan 30, 2016, Russia Today -Eva Bartlett Facebook users were not instructed to do so, but may nonetheless wish to change their profile pictures in solidarity with the families and friends …

Jan 21, 2016, American Herald Tribune There was an underwhelming sense when Pentagon boss Ashton Carter met this week in Paris with other members of the US-led military coalition supposedly fighting the ISIL terror group. The US-led coalition was set up at the end of 2014 and in theory comprises …

Jan 18, 2016, Off Guardian by Mark Taliano Canadians should be hanging their heads in shame. Our government is guilty of the most egregious criminal acts as defined by Nuremberg Principles, and we are bona fide members of the State Sponsors of Terrorism club. When our government bombs the sovereign …

Jan 10, 2016, Stephen Gowans, What’s Left The implication of a report written for the US Congress is that the United States is a state sponsor of terrorism in Syria. At the same time, the report challenges widely held beliefs about the conflict, including the idea that the opposition has …

Dec 16, 2015, Tim Anderson, Telesur Sadly, eyes often glaze over at the latest massacre in Syria, because the story is so repetitive. But what story? A double massacre by “moderate rebels” in Homs and Damascus and the subsequent re-spinning of the story, show the wall of disinformation we face. …

Jan 2, 2016, New Eastern Outlook Day and night, for years, an overwhelming force has been battering this quiet nation, one of the cradles of human civilization. Hundreds of thousands have died, and millions have been forced to flee abroad or have been internally displaced. In many cities and villages, …

Jan 2, 2016, Finian Cunningham, Strategic Culture The year ended, appropriately, with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan flying to Riyadh to hold a summit with Saudi King Salman. The meeting had the air of two leaders closing ranks after a year of setbacks. As the old adage puts it, misery needs company. …

Nov 9, 2015, RT.com The US is not interested in defeating ISIS but would want to control its movements to create a geopolitical balance on the ground and provide the US-led coalition with leverage at the Vienna talks, said Middle East geopolitics analyst Sharmine Narwani. RT: There are more than 60 …

Nov 5, 2015, Dissident Voice The first to die will be US troops. Russians will be made to appear as the killers, but the agents will probably be ISIS, Al-Qaeda (aka al-Nusra), Turks, or the Americans themselves. I’m not ruling out that the Russians might actually do the job, especially …

Nov 1, 2015, RT.com Obama’s decision to send Special Forces into Syria is being widely viewed as a US military escalation in the country. The troop dispatch also signals that the US trying to forestall Russian successes in wiping out Washington’s regime-change assets in Syria. In short, the US Special …