Analysis

March 2015, Crescent International Harper’s cynical fear-mongering and Islamophobic rantings to push through the oppressive Bill C-51 have not gone unchallenged. On March 14, tens of thousands of Canadians rallied in 70 cities across Canada to oppose the bill. It is a serious assault on Canadian civil liberties and will …

Mar 19, 2015, Global Research As a lifetime student of classical mainline Islamic jurisprudential school of thought called “Sunni fiqh”,  I feel saddened to note how the Western mainstream media succumbed to the Islamophobic propaganda of affixing the epithet “Sunni” to the militia of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq …

  Reminder: East Ghouta fraud, August 2013: NYT Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis, Dec 29, 2013, Consortium News  

Mar 17, 2015, Global Research Under the anti terrorist legislation adopted in Western countries, a person can be arrested for visiting an “anti-American” or “Islamist” website on the internet.  In the US, habeas corpus has been scrapped, the police can arrest a citizen on mere suspicion of “terror activities” without …

Mar 14, 2015, Global Research “Iraq may soon end up with no history.” – (Archeologist Joanna Farchakh, quoted in Cultural Cleansing in Iraq, Pluto Press, 2010.) In his indispensible book “from Sumer to Saddam” (1) Geoff Simons writes: “The region of the world that the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia (land between …

Mar 17, 2015, New Eastern Outlook With the situation in the Middle East seemingly spinning out of control, many political observers are left wondering what it all means. The war in Syria has been at the forefront of the news since 2011, and rightly so, as Syria has become the …

  Mar 15, 2015, Eva Bartlett, Russia Today While the Western-led, anti-Assad bloc mind-blowingly speaks of arming non-existent “moderates” to fight in Syria, they also continue to demonize and silence the very voices that offer a true means of bringing peace and stability back to the region. Two of these …

Mar 2015, Zafar Bangash, Crescent International Despite propaganda, the ISIS-takfiris are being supported, trained and armed by the US and its regional puppets. Washington just signed an agreement with Turkey to train “moderate” rebels to fight in Syria. Isn’t this what the US has been doing in Jordan for more …

Feb 9, 2015, Boiling Frogs Post NATO member Turkey plays a decisive role in smuggling Uyghurs out of China and in recruiting Uyghur fighters for ISIS or other terrorist groups in Syria. This has strained relations between Ankara and Beijing. While individuals like Seyit Tümtürk from the NED-funded World Uyghur …

Mar 10, 2015, Sputnik News The Al-Nusra Front is allegedly considering abandoning its Al-Qaeda affiliation in exchange for Qatari support.   The media was alight with talk over the past week that Al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate, would switch sides in the War on Syria in order to support  ‘the good guys’, in this case, Qatar. Although the …