by Steven Sahiounie, published on Global Research, October 9, 2022 The US-employed terrorists, Maghawir al-Thawra (MaT), have turned against their partners, the US Army, stationed at al-Tanf base in the eastern Syrian desert. On October 4, the terrorists, who are employed as mercenaries by the US military, attempted to break …
Read More »A Brief History of the Destruction of Yarmouk
by William Van Wagenen, published on the Libertarian Institute, April 3, 2019 How the CIA helped jihadist rebels invade and occupy the capital of the Palestinian diaspora Introduction The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria was thrust into international conscientiousness in March 2014 when the United Nations published the now …
Read More »Tracking the Flow of Stolen Syrian Oil into Iraq
by the Iraq Correspondent of The Cradle, September 28, 2022 Although the porous Iraqi-Syrian border stretches for over 600 kilometers, about half of it – in practice – is not subject to the authority of either state. Over the years, this lack of comprehensive border control has given rise to …
Read More »Saad Hariri and the Collapse of Lebanon
by William Wagenen, published on The Cradle, September 12, 2022 This is an interesting investigative piece. I know it answers some questions I had. [Ed] In 2005, US neoconservatives centered around then-Vice President Dick Cheney’s office began collaborating with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, defected former Syrian Vice President Abd …
Read More »Chain of Corruption: How the White Helmets Compromised OPCW Investigations in Syria
by Aaron Maté, published on Aaron’s Substack, September 9, 2022 Syria is largely forgotten by US people whose attention is at present largely engaged in Ukraine, and maybe Taiwan. And so the trail of lies seems to vaporize behind the forward edge of U.S. aggression around the globe. But fortunately, …
Read More »Hamas Return Ticket to Damascus Won’t Come Cheap
Palestine Correspondent, The Cradle, July 6, 2022 The Axis of Resistance is solidly grounded in Damascus while decisions must be made on how to deal with Hamas’ betrayal of their benefactors in Syria when their identity with Muslim Brotherhood was deemed more important than Syrian leadership in support of Palestine. …
Read More »Did the Syrian Revolution Have Popular Support?
by William Van Wangenen, published on the Libertarian Institute Website, August 3, 2022 In the mainstream view, the armed groups fighting the Syrian government since 2011, collectively known as the Free Syrian Army (FSA), were part of a Syrian revolution that represented the Syrian people. At the same time, the …
Read More »‘Sarin Doesn’t Slice Throats’: The 2013 Ghouta Massacre Revisited
by William Van Wagenen, published on The Libertarian Institute, June 14, 2022 “Germ and chemical weapons may often be weak in their battlefield applications but they are always strong in their emotiveness. Accusations of association with them have for centuries, even millennia, been used by well-intentioned as well as unscrupulous …
Read More »Creative Chaos: How U.S. Planners Sparked the Anti-Government Protests of the So-Called Arab Spring in Syria
by William Van Wagenen, published by The Libertarian Institute, January 31, 2022 “I have been a refugee for 37 years due to my political engagement against the ruling Baath party. I cannot go back to Syria without being punished. But I see what the western countries, Turkey, and the Gulf …
Read More »White Helmets corruption scandal deepens: Dutch gov’t investigated parent org for fraud, but covered it up
The following article, by Ben Norton, is republished from The Grayzone: The Netherlands investigated fraud by the Mayday Rescue Foundation, which funded the Syrian White Helmets with over $120 million in Western government contracts. But top Dutch officials covered up the corruption. The decade-long dirty war on Syria proved to …
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