Analysis

Aug 10, 2015, Global Research -Professor Tim Anderson Syria is winning. Despite ongoing bloodshed and serious economic pressure, Syria is advancing steadily towards a military and strategic victory that will transform the Middle East. There is clear evidence that Washington’s plans – whether for ‘regime change’, for rendering the state …

Aug 10, 2015, Dissident Voice It’s fairly obvious to keen observers that Turkey’s Recep Erdogan is not the moderate reformist he once pretended to be, back when Turkey harbored fantasies of joining a surging European Union. In the end, the EU’s temporizing about Turkey’s entry turned out to be a …

Aug 8, 2015, Strategic Culture At a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the White House on Aug. 4, US President Barack Obama stated that Syria needs a «realistic political process» to settle its internal armed conflict, which would «lead to a stabilizing of the country and a transition …

Aug 7, 2015, Counter Punch Back at the beginning of August 1914, Europe was on the cusp of collective suicide yet it failed to grasp the severity of the situation in time to prevent disaster. In the years preceding WWI, European nations had engaged in intense coalition-building. France, along with …

Aug 6, 2015, The Angry Arab “This is an unabashed call for war by a director of an ostensible human rights organization.  Can you imagine this guy (who has been obsessed with the “pro-Israel donors” to his organization in all of his weak work on human rights) daring ever to …

Aug 5, 2015, Counter Punch Here’s your US foreign policy puzzler for the day:  When is regime change not regime change? When the regime stays in power but loses its ability to rule. This is the current objective of US policy in Syria, to undermine Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s …

Aug 2, 2015, New Eastern Outlook It is late July 2015, and the media is abuzz with the news that Turkey will allow US jets to use its bases to bomb Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria. There is much talk about how this development is a “game-changer,” and how …

Aug 3, 2015, 21st Century Wire Get ready for Libya 2.0. Looks like the Pentagon will be getting its illegal regime change war in Syria after all… Finally this week, President Barack Obama appears to have sprung his own trap for the next big war, now promising to intervene the …

Aug 1, 2015, Information Clearing House The rulers of the two most powerful authoritarian regimes in the Middle East are launching major wars to reconfigure the Middle East.   Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has declared war  by proxy  on Iran, announcing full-scale military mobilization within Israel (July 27 -29) and organizing the …

Information Clearing House The road to war is paved with a thousand lies. A fresh fib was tossed on the lie-cluttered warpath to Syria, when it was announced that the U.S. and Turkey would create a “safe zone” inside of Syria — supposedly to be aimed against ISIS. This “safe …