Analysis

Nov 13, 2014, Sputnik News The bizarre idea coming out of Washington seems to be that regime change against the democratically elected leadership of President Bashar Assad will somehow weaken the extremists and restore peace to Syria. If this fantasy becomes policy, then the US will be repeating the same …

Nov 10, 2014, New Eastern Outlook US policy paper reveals desire for construction of full-scale extraterritorial army to invade Syria. Such an army is being built in Iraq and Turkey and it’s called “ISIS.”   The corporate-financier funded and directed policy think tank, the Brookings Institution, has served as one …

Nov 14, 2014, Reports From Underground US Airstrikes Against ISIL not Meant to Destroy ISIL -Steven Chovenac Instead of deterring the radical Islamist group, American airstrikes against them have accomplished two things: they have increased ISIL recruitment while at the same time have destroyed and degraded Syria’s infrastructure, murdering innocent …

Nov 14, 2014, Global Research -Shamus Cooke Why are there no serious peace talks to end the war in Syria? After robbing over 130,000 people of their lives, and evicting over 9 million refugees from their homes, the Syrian war has infected nearly every region of the Middle East. Yet among the …

Yara Abbas [Sharmine Narwani’s moving article on the young Syrian journalist.]   Oct 26, 2014, Eva Bartlett, Zero Anthropology [republished at Global Research, Information Clearing House, Rabble.ca] Who outside of Syria knows the names Yara Abbas, Maya Naser, Mohamed al-Saeed…? The corporate media has inundated us with news of the …

Nov 6, 2014, Activist Post On a number of occasions, I have documented in relative detail how ISIS, ISIL, Al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, and the FSA are not only small divisions of the same fighting force but also how they are entirely controlled by NATO and Western intelligence agencies. Indeed, the documentation …

Oct 14, 2014, New Eastern Outlook Because it didn’t stop ISIS terrorists in Iraq or Libya. Try Washington instead. US corporate-financier funded policy think tanks have been taking turns in recent weeks floating the narrative that the next logical step to stopping so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS) terrorists in Syria is removing …

Oct 10, 2014, New Eastern Outlook -Eric Draitser Today’s headlines are filled with reports of the imminent fall of the Syrian city of Kobani to forces of the Islamic State (ISIS). There are terrifying descriptions of an imminent massacre and the looming threat to Turkey as Islamic State forces move …

Oct 10, 2014, Counter Punch “The fallout from Kobani reverberated across Turkey this week. There were riots across the country, from Istanbul to Ankara and the southeast including Diyarbakir, Batman, Varto, Mardin, Van and Siirt. Twenty-two protesters died between Monday and Thursday; there are curfews in six provinces; water cannon …

Oct 3, 2014, Consortium News -Robert Parry In late summer 2013, Official Washington was rushing to the judgment that the “evil” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had launched a barrage of missiles tipped with Sarin gas to slaughter hundreds of civilians in rebel-held neighborhoods near Damascus. It was inconceivable to virtually …