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The following article, by Gregory Shupak, is republished from FAIR: President Donald Trump’s modification of the US’s Syria policy has generated a torrent of confusion, so it’s worth reviewing the record. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham announced on October 6: Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into …

The Syria Solidarity Movement has prepared a flyer for distribution with important information about the so-called “White Helmets,” the purported civil defense organization supported by the US and UK – and whose members have been directly involved in violent attacks and the extrajudicial execution of captives. Read below or download …

The following article, by Vanessa Beeley, was originally published at MintPress News on June 7, 2019: n the 12th of May, 2019, Jaish Al Izza — an armed affiliate of Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) — an Al Qaeda rebrand that controls the majority of Idlib province and Northern Hama — targeted …

The following article, by Vanessa Beeley, was originally published at MintPress News on June 8, 2019: Recent storylines from the Western press on the “Idlib” narrative, particularly the extraordinary spate of “on-the-ground” reports from Sky News reporter Alex Crawford, have failed to paint an accurate picture of the reality faced by Syrian …

by Susan Dirgham and Rick Sterling It’s a David vs Goliath story. A former local newspaper reporter, Robert Stuart, is taking on the British Broadcasting Corporation. Stuart believes that a sensational video story about an alleged atrocity in Syria “was largely, if not entirely, staged.”  The BBC would like it …

The following document is an assessment produced by the engineering sub-team of the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) Fact-Finding Mission charged with investigating the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. Previously, this engineering report was excluded from the published OPCW final report of the …

Journalist and author Max Blumenthal joins Rick Sanchez on RT to discuss “The Management of Savagery,” his new book about regime change and proxy wars instigated by the US and how they destabilize societies around the world and fuel right-wing populism at home. He also discusses the postponement of his …

A satirical look at the mass media of empire and the selling of war, featuring journalist Rania Khalek:      

The following article, by Steve Church, was originally published at Off Guardian:  Patrick Cockburn’s recent article is one example of why I read CounterPunch less often than I used to. Or, at the least, why I have become more critical of their editorial stance. With this article, I have the impression I’m …

The following article, by Philip Giraldi, was republished from the Strategic Culture Online Journal. The neoconservative vision of the world is a place where the United States can do what it wants because it is both better morally speaking and also more capable of enforcing desirable standards of behavior. Such …