by Jared Szuba, published on Al-Monitor, August 24, 2022 Notice the language: They refer to “Iran Linked” militias. So, Are these Iranians? Probably not. [Editor] The US military said it carried out precision airstrikes against a bunker complex used by Iran-backed militias in eastern Syria early on Wednesday. US President …
Read More »A Cold Winter Ahead for Europe and Syria
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, August 24 2022 While the world has sympathy for the plight of Europeans facing a cold winter because of their energy crisis, Syrians have been suffering a lack of energy since 2011. The European energy crisis is based partly on politics, but the …
Read More »Washington Steals over 80 Percent of Syria’s Oil Output Per Day
From the News Desk at The Cradle, August 2022 The Syrian Oil Ministry released a statement on 9 August accusing US forces occupying Syria of being responsible for the theft of most of the country’s oil. “The amount of oil production during the first half of 2022 amounted to some …
Read More »George Eliason Interviews Vanessa Beeley on Her Time in Syria
‘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 »Washington Moves to Annex Northeast Syria by Proxy
by Vanessa Beeley, published on Organizing Notes, May 17, 2022 Under cover of media focus on the NATO proxy war in Ukraine and the Zionist assassination of Al Jazeera senior correspondent Shireen AbuAkleh, Washington is making moves to annex Syrian territory. On May 11th during the meeting of the “global …
Read More »Syrian Permanent Representative to the UN Calls Out Western Critics Russia’s Special Operation in Ukraine
Remarks of the Syrian permanent representative to the UN, following the 2-hour Russian presentation at the UN Security Council on May 6, 2022, concerning Ukrainian war crimes during the current crisis. The Russians presented numerous commentaries from civilians in Eastern Ukraine and Journalists working there. Most of the representatives …
Read More »Decades of US Attempts to Topple the Syrian Government
by Shane Quinn, published on Global Research, May 5, 2022 Syria has for the vast majority of the post-World War II period been considered by United States governments as a staunch enemy. In more recent decades, Washington has attempted without ultimate success to isolate and overthrow the Assad dynasty in …
Read More »François Hollande’s Missteps
Oct 14, 2013, Counter Punch In modern times, France has done far better diplomatically when it has advocated against impetuous military involvement in the internal affairs of other countries. French standing in international politics has been highest when its government was cautious about its military involvement, when it adopted the …
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