Analysis

March 15, 2018, American Herald Tribute – Jeremy Salt Corporate media propaganda against Syria is an avalanche that never seems to end. Government policy and media policy are now melded into a single policy of support for ‘the opposition’ and unceasing hostility towards ‘the regime’ and all those who have …

March 12, 2018, The Real News.com    

A common refrain is that the West must “do something” to help Syria, but this is like arguing that the gasoline that was used to start a fire can also be used to extinguish it, explains Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone “We’ve got to do something about Syria!” goes the common Western …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …