by Phil Taylor and Jeremy Kuzmarov, The Taylor Report, December 8, 2025 00:00:00 – Phil Taylor Good morning. Welcome to CIUT 89.5 FM in Toronto. This is the Taylor Report. I’m Phil Taylor, your host. We’re going to be talking today with one of the authors of a book, “Syria, …
Read More »An Islamic Monarchy for Syria: When Washington’s “Reformer” Starts Talking Like a Caliph
by Kevork Almassian, published on Kevork’s Newsletter, December 14, 2025 As Washington blesses monarchies and Jolani echoes Baghdadi’s words from the Umayyad Mosque, Syria is being steered from broken republic to Islamic throne. SSM Editor: External forces are building a new Syria on the Saudi Model, only without the fortune …
Read More »Administering Gaza: American Control, International Abdication, Palestinian Refusal
by Rima Najjar, published on Global Research, December 8, 2025 For the first time in the history of the U.S.-Israel relationship, Washington has moved beyond arming, funding, and diplomatically shielding Israeli violence and has instead inserted its own military personnel, intelligence systems, and command structures into Israel’s war machine. It …
Read More »What the UN Gaza Vote Revealed About the Imperialist World Order
by Gary Wilson, published on La Lucha/The Struggle, November 20, 2025 A colonial plan in diplomatic clothing A U.S.-drafted UN resolution endorsing President Donald Trump’s Gaza “peace plan” passed in the Security Council on Nov. 17. Palestinians responded immediately: This was not peace — it was a blueprint for foreign …
Read More »UN Security Council approves Trump’s Gaza ‘peace plan,’ green-lighting U.S.-Israeli control of Gaza’s future
by Qassem Muaddi and Michael Arria, published on Mondoweiss, November 17, 2025 On Monday, the United Nations Security Council approved the Trump administration’s “peace plan” for Gaza. The resolution calls for the establishment of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) to demilitarize and govern Gaza while Israel withdraws from the area. …
Read More »Waiting on Images of Abject Submission That Don’t Appear
by Alistair Crooke, published on Conflicts Forum Substack, October 9, 2025 Trump: “This problem with Vietnam … We stopped fighting to win. We would have won easy. We would have won Afghanistan easy. Would have won every war easy. But we got politically correct: ‘Ah, let’s take it easy!’. It’s …
Read More »Syria after Assad: How Israel and the US are Accelerating Plans to Partition the Country
by Sami al-Arian, published on Middle East Eye, August 2, 2025 Syria’s future as a unified state hangs in the balance as both countries pursue long-standing plans to cement hegemonic control through violence and divide-and-conquer tactics Last month, Israel launched a new round of air strikes on Syria, hitting targets …
Read More »US Envoy Mediates ‘De-Escalation’ Talks Between Senior Israeli, Syrian Officials
from the News Desk at the Cradle, published July 25 Hardly worth posting except as a reminder of who’s calling the shots (SSM Editor) Negotiations between Damascus and Tel Aviv are resuming after a series of violent Israeli strikes on Syria last week. The US envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, …
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