Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Sep 11, 2014, Counter Punch -By Rick Sterling President Obama plans to increase funding and training of “moderate rebels” in Syria while escalating air strike operations against ISIS in Iraq and into Syria. From Central America in the 80s to Syria today, the US has supported proxy armies in violation …
Read More »The last thing Iraq needs is more misguided military action by the west
Sep 11, 2014, Sami Ramadani, The Guardian In announcing his new strategy to tackle the terrorist insurgency in Iraq, President Obama has put the US on a dangerous collision course with Syria, the Lebanese resistance led by Hezbollah, and the biggest obstacle to US and Israeli regional hegemony: Iran. The …
Read More »The Terrorism We Support in Syria: A First-hand Account of the Use of Mortars against Civilians
Sep 11, 2014, Eva Bartlett, Zero Anthropology In stark contrast to the sparse coverage of the brutality of ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria over the past few years, there has recently been substantial coverage of the emergence of ISIS in Iraq and the terrorist acts that this US-backed …
Read More »Western Leaders Fear-Monger to Mobilize Support for Air-Strikes on Syria
Aug 24, 2014, Stephen Gowans One of the roles of leading politicians and top officials of the state is to enlist public support for policies which serve the goals of the upper stratum of the population from whose ranks they sometimes come and whose interests they almost invariably promote. When …
Read More »Media Myths and Distortions: More NATO Aggression Against Syria?
Sep 3, 2014, Counter Punch -Rick Sterling Syria will be an important subject of discussion at this week’s NATO Summit meeting in Wales. The US and NATO powers will evaluate whether to expand air strikes against ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq & Syria) into Syria, whether to do it in …
Read More »John McCain, Conductor of the “Arab Spring” and the Caliph
Aug 18, 2014, Voltaire Net John McCain is known as the leader of the Republicans and unhappy 2008 US presidential candidate. This is, we will see, only the real part of his biography, which serves as a cover to conduct covert actions on behalf of his government. When I was …
Read More »Attack on Ghouta, 1 year on: ‘War is always main course for US’
Aug 21, 2014, RT.com Eric Draitser This week marks the first anniversary of the infamous chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. What makes that incident significant, both politically and historically, is the fact that, despite the evidence of Syrian government involvement being non-existent, the Obama administration nearly …
Read More »‘Another wave of Western intervention threatens to pull Iraq apart’
Aug 22, 2014, RT.com The Obama administration’s recent decision to intervene in Iraq has seen the first US air strikes since the end of the American occupation in 2011, in response to the sweeping territorial gains made by militants belonging to the Islamic State group. Two and a half years …
Read More »‘ISIS a pretext for US-sponsored regime change in Iraq’
Aug 15, 2014, Eric Draitser, RT The ousting of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is part of a broader US plan for Iraq and the Middle East as a whole. Against the backdrop of the war against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), Washington has managed to kill two birds …
Read More »How ISIS Finally Became Obama’s Enemy
Aug 11, 2014, Counter Punch Suddenly the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has become a threat worthy of American missiles. For almost two years President Obama completely ignored the biggest and most brutal terror group in the Middle East, allowing it to balloon into a regional power. No …
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