Analysis

Jan 13, 2015, Workers World -By Sara Flounders The banner of ‘Youth against racism’ in a protest in Paris, November 2013. How do we put in perspective the international media focus on the massacre of 12 journalists in Paris on Jan. 7 at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, notorious for …

Jan 14, 2015, Counter Punch A core tenet of journalism is answering the question “why.” It’s the media’s duty to explain “why” an event happened so that readers will actually understand what they’re reading.  Leave out the “why” and then assumptions and stereotypes fill in the blank, always readily supplied by …

Jan 4, 2015, Information Clearing House -Finian Cunningham This week saw yet another ship-load of refugees marooned on the Mediterranean high seas trying to make their way to “fortress Europe”. Some 360 people, including pregnant women and children, nearly lost their lives as the cargo ship they were onboard made …

Dec 25, 2014, Consortium News Since the anti-war protests on Vietnam, the U.S. government has made “perception management” of the American people a high priority, feeding them a steady diet of propaganda about foreign crises, even getting “peace groups” to buy into “pro-democracy” wars, write Margaret Sarfehjooy and Coleen Rowley. …

Dec 16, 2014, Strategic Culture If a recent report in the British Guardian is to be believed, then the West is angling for a new pretext to step up its covert war of regime in Syria. The new pretext, it would seem, is that the Damascus government of Bashar al …

Nov 20, 2014, New Eastern Outlook A torrent of “foiled” terror plots have recently undulated headlines across the Western World. In Rochester New York, the FBI netted a man they claimed was plotting a shooting spree targeting US service members. In Australia, over 800 security agents swooped in on 15 ISIS …

Nov 13, 2014, Sputnik News The bizarre idea coming out of Washington seems to be that regime change against the democratically elected leadership of President Bashar Assad will somehow weaken the extremists and restore peace to Syria. If this fantasy becomes policy, then the US will be repeating the same …

Nov 10, 2014, New Eastern Outlook US policy paper reveals desire for construction of full-scale extraterritorial army to invade Syria. Such an army is being built in Iraq and Turkey and it’s called “ISIS.”   The corporate-financier funded and directed policy think tank, the Brookings Institution, has served as one …

Nov 14, 2014, Reports From Underground US Airstrikes Against ISIL not Meant to Destroy ISIL -Steven Chovenac Instead of deterring the radical Islamist group, American airstrikes against them have accomplished two things: they have increased ISIL recruitment while at the same time have destroyed and degraded Syria’s infrastructure, murdering innocent …

Nov 14, 2014, Global Research -Shamus Cooke Why are there no serious peace talks to end the war in Syria? After robbing over 130,000 people of their lives, and evicting over 9 million refugees from their homes, the Syrian war has infected nearly every region of the Middle East. Yet among the …