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Jun 3, 2015, Consortium News Exclusive: The New York Times’ new conspiracy theory about Syria is that the Assad regime is in cahoots with the Islamic State, calling those two bitter foes only “nominal enemies” and using this new story to implicitly push for another U.S.-imposed “regime change,” writes Robert Parry. By …
Read More »Israel a criminal offender at large, UN listing or not
*Farah Abu Halima, 3, severely burned by Israeli-fired White Phosphorus, January 4, 2009 (Photo by Eva Bartlett) Jun 5, 2015, RT.com -by Eva Bartlett Reports have come out that the UN was considering adding Israel to the list of “grave violations against children in armed conflict.” As detailed below, Israeli …
Read More »How has Syria’s political system changed over the course of the war?
Jun 4, 2015 -by Jay Tharappel Short Answer: In 1973 the Syrian electorate voted in favour of a constitution that institutionalised the dominance of the Baath Party. This constitution remained in effect until it was replaced by a new one, which the Syrian electorate voted for on the 26th of …
Read More »Washington Confesses to Backing “Questionable Actors” in Syria
May 25, 2015, New Eastern Outlook Taking advantage of a Syrian military stretched thin to protect everywhere at the same time, high concentrations of well-coordinated Al Qaeda forces, based in NATO-member Turkey as well as in US-allies Jordan and Saudi Arabia, have attacked across several fronts. The tactical and strategic …
Read More »Ramadi and America’s Fracturing of Iraq
May 23, 2015, New Eastern Outlook -Eric Draitser The Western media has been consumed in recent days with the news that Islamic State militants have captured the strategically critical city of Ramadi in Iraq. The narrative is one of incompetence on the part of Iraqi military forces who, the corporate …
Read More »New York Times Complicit in Spreading False Syria Allegations
May 14, 2015, What’s Left By Stephen Gowans The New York Times ran an article on May 12 suggesting that the Syrian government has held back some of its chemical weapons and is using them against rebel fighters. Significantly, the allegation was backed by no evidence, yet the newspaper chose …
Read More »Hezbollah, Syria, and Historical Memory: A Tale of Two Nakbas
May 18, 2015, Counter Punch -Eric Draitser Last week, millions around the world marked the 67th anniversary of the Nakba – literally “the disaster” or “the catastrophe” in Arabic – commemorating the seizure of Palestinian land and transformation of historic Palestine into modern Israel. Naturally, there is little ambiguity among …
Read More »NATO Attempt At ‘Interim’ Government in Syria Echoes Libya Model
May 6, 2015, Activist Post The immediate clamor from the Western mainstream press regarding the fall of Idlib to Western-backed al-Qaeda/ISIS forces revealed part of the NATO plan as much as it involved the simultaneous participation of a media campaign designed to weaken the morale of the Syrian people and …
Read More »The Mideast’s S-U-N-N-I Problem
May 7, 2015, RT.com By Sharmine Narwani This needs to be spelled out: The biggest threat to Middle East stability today is a Sunni one – and it comes not from its largely downtrodden population, but from the epicenter of current Sunni political and religious leadership. “The beginning of wisdom …
Read More »US-Saudi Led Blitzkrieg against Yemen is “An Ego Boost”
May 3, 2015, Global Research -Ahmad Barqawi “Slaughter Yemenis civilians, and win a free Bentley.” That pretty much sums up Saudi Arabia’s frivolous four-week military jamboree in Yemen otherwise known as Op “Decisive Storm”, if not its entire foreign (and now military) policy in the region; it may have been …
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