Sovereignty Support Movement Sovereignty for West Asia
May 1, 2015, Counter Punch by DAN GLAZEBROOK Last week’s drownings in the Mediterranean were the foreseeable, and indeed deliberate, result of the anti-human policies of strategic violence by a dying neo-colonial empire. They were the consequence, firstly, of a series of wars of aggression that have made life intolerable …
Read More »Why is the US Trying to Replace the Assad Government With al-Qaeda in Syria?
May 1, 2015, Counter Punch -By Paul Larudee A month ago, the city of Idlib fell to opposition fighters, mainly al-Qaeda and its affiliates and allies. It was a major blow to the Syrian army. Last Saturday, the nearby town of Jisr al-Shughour also fell, mostly to the same groups. Fighting against …
Read More »The Horrors of Wall Street’s ‘New Libya’
Apr 29, 2015, New Eastern Outlook The world, including the US press, is looking on in horror at recent events in Libya. Libya is now a center of human trafficking, with human beings packed into ships bound for Europe. Libyans are so desperate to escape their country, now wrecked with …
Read More »Who Are the Starving and Besieged Residents of Yarmouk and Why Are They There?
Apr 21, 2015, Dissident Voice -Paul Larudee There are many illusions about what is happening to the Yarmouk district of Damascus and its Palestinian refugee population. The district was originally set aside in 1957 for Palestinian refugees already living there, whom Israel had expelled from their homes in 1948, with …
Read More »Neocon Think Tank Proposes US Proxy Army to Control Syria
Apr 21, 2015, Global Research -Stephen Lendman The Atlantic Council is a hawkish right-wing think tank. It was founded in 1961 to support NATO’s killing machine. It’s one of many similar groups in America threatening world peace and stability. Its solution for ending Obama’s war on Syria is escalated war. …
Read More »Entire Western Media is a Troll Army
Apr 20, 2015, Sputnik News -Finian Cunningham The frantic spell of Western media behaviour could be a case-study in how it is centrally manipulated with a political agenda and thought-control. Editors at major Western media corporations are evidently following a political line cast by Washington and its European allies. The …
Read More »US Training Nazis, Western Media Providing Cover
May 21, 2015, New Eastern Outlook -Eric Draitser It has become a popular position both in the mainstream and pseudo-alternative media, and among those on the Russophobic left, to downplay the significant fascist influence on the political and military institutions, as well as the cultural character of the “New Ukraine.” …
Read More »At War against Its Own People: Saudi Arabia’s Other War
Apr 13, 2015, Counter Punch -Eric Draitser The Saudi war on Yemen has understandably come to dominate the headlines since it began in late March 2015. The international scope of the conflict – nominally including the participation of nearly a dozen Gulf countries – coupled with the obvious political and …
Read More »Humanitarians for War in Syria (Part Two): About Those Chlorine Gas Attacks in Syria
Apr 3-5, 2015, Counter Punch by RICK STERLING With allegations of chlorine gas attacks in Syria on March 16, some humanitarian groups have called for a “No Fly Zone” over part of Syria. I believe this is reckless and dangerous and will explain why. Part 1 of this article was …
Read More »In Yemen, and Middle East, U.S. Needs to Learn When to Quit
Apr 1, 2015, NY Times Six years before the Arab Spring, a group of rural highlanders in Yemen called the Houthis rose up against an autocratic government and its foreign patrons to demand their rights. Fast forward to 2015, and the Houthis are still fighting to redress their domestic grievances, …
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