by Peter Ford, published on 21st Century Wire, December 27, 2024 Alawites in their towns and villages in the Tartous and Lattakia provinces of Syria are being subjected to hideous pogroms under the new Islamist dispensation in Syria. And the world turns its back. The Alawites are just too inconvenient …
Read More »Syrian Minorities Under Threat
from the News Desk at The Cradle, December 29, 2024 Reports of sectarian killings and ethnic cleansing of Alawites and Christians continue to emerge as Ahmad al-Sharaa’s new government seeks to exert control over the country The new Syrian government led by former Al-Qaeda leader Ahmad al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Julani …
Read More »Syria’s Assad Has Fallen – Just as the Pentagon Planned 23 Years Ago
by Jonathan Cook, published on Defend Democracy, December 11, 2024 When westerners see ‘enemy’ governments fall, or civil wars erupt, they are led to think they are the geopolitical equivalent of a natural event. Nothing could be further from the truth The long-harboured aspirations of the US, Turkey and Israel …
Read More »America’s Syrian Gulag
by Brad Pearce, published on the Libertarian Institute Website, August 1, 2024 This article, which has a US-centric perspective, was published the day before The Cradle published an article saying that 1,000 ISIS prisoners were released from this gulag, causing significant consternation in Iraq, and more or less co-temporal with …
Read More »Terror in Syria: a US distraction from Gaza
by Khalil Nasrallah, published on The Cradle, May 30, 2024 Western-backed terrorist strongholds in Syria have not remained untouched by the Israeli military assault on Gaza. With the broad activation of the Axis of Resistance in support of Gaza, particularly in Lebanon, it didn’t take too long before Washington began …
Read More »Antidotes Against the Allure of War: Information and Empathy
by Susan Dirgham, published on Pearls and Irritations, December 22, 2023 ‘In the document drawn up by a top secret and high-level working group that met in Washington in September 1957, Mr Macmillan and President Eisenhower were left in no doubt about the need to assassinate the top men in …
Read More »Saudi Arabia’s shadowy role in the Ghouta chemical attack
by William Van Wagenen, published on The Cradle, November 6, 2023 On 13 September, acclaimed US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed a crucial five-page memo prepared for the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) on 20 June, 2013. This document contained details about the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front’s plan to manufacture sarin nerve gas with the …
Read More »What prevents Australia from showing empathy to Syrians?
by Susan Dirgham, published on Pearls and Irritations, November 13, 2023 Australian foreign policy makers seem not to realise that the demographic makeup of Australia means increasing numbers of us are connected to victims of wars instigated by the United States. Australians’ support for future US wars cannot be relied …
Read More »The US Against Hamas in Gaza, But Supports Terrorists in Syria
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, November 8, 2023 Syrians are understandably miffed by U.S. policy towards “terrorism”, and the Muslim Brotherhood in general. Steven compares how the U.S. empowered the Muslim Brotherhood and associated militias in both Syria and Egypt, but now they are ready to commit genocide …
Read More »Turkiye Continues Air Campaign Against US Allies in Syria
From the News Desk at The Cradle, October 9, 2023 The Turkish air force launched a new barrage of attacks in northeast Syria on 9 October, hitting a Kurdish police training center where 20 security personnel, known as Asayish, died and about 50 were wounded. Turkiye reportedly “neutralized” several Kurdish …
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