ISIS in Lebanon: An Interview with Andre Vltchek
by Souad SharabaniCounterpunch, November 25, 2015 Lebanon’s stability is hanging on by a thread. There is war raging on its border; Syria, the economy has all but collapsed, the...
The Bizarre Explanation For Why The U.S. Has Avoided Bombing ISIS Oil Wells
by Michael Snyder from The Economic Collapse Why hasn’t the U.S. bombed the oil wells that ISIS controls into oblivion by now? Would you believe that it is because...
Readers’ Letters: Goodbye, Guardian
In the first post of a new section, we publish the letter of an (ex-)Guardian reader, detailing the reasons he bid goodbye to his former paper of choice. As...
Turkey Tries to Lure NATO Into War Against Russia
by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org When Turkey shot down a Russian bomber in Syria on November 24th, Turkish officials did so with the confidence that America’s anti-Russian...
Six points to remember about the true origins of the Syria crisis as Europe obediently lines up for war with Russia.
...feel free to send these to anyone who asks you "but do you think we should just let ISIS keep beheading people?"
Imprisoned Al Qaeda Fighters Freed by U.S. Allies to Rejoin Fight Against Assad
by Eric Zuesse Some of the world’s top Al Qaeda operatives were freed from a Lebanese prison on Tuesday December 1st, to rejoin the U.S.-led war against Syria’s Bashar...
VIDEO: A real speech, from a real Benn
Parliament has just made a decision that this time bombing the Middle East will fix everything, partially on the back of a speech from Hilary Benn. This, in our...
Some questions for DemocracyNow!
by Vaska What’s going on at DemocracyNow! for Amy Goodman to be interviewing a Saudi crown prince on the subject of combatting Daesh? A Saudi crown prince born in...
Just Ideas Will Triumph or Disaster Will Triumph
by Fidel Castro Ruz, 1 September 2014 Translated by Joshua Tartakovsky The world hasn’t had a respite from war in recent years, particularly since the European Economic Community, under...
Air Attacks and Cameron
by Bryan Hemming What a strange idea removing Bashar Assad will solve all Syria’s problems is. Pray what will become of all the Syrians fighting against his removal? And...
US Congressman: ‘Either Erdogan shouldn’t be in NATO or we shouldn’t’
via Russia Insider WASHINGTON – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, on Saturday issued the following statement concerning Turkey’s...
Russian Bombing
by Bryan Hemming “At least 18 people killed in Russian airstrike on town in Syria – reports”reads a headline in this morning’s Guardian. According to the corporate media when...
Turkey’s Downing of a Russian Jet was an Act of Madness
by Dave Lindorff, from Counter Punch In considering the terrifying but also sadly predictable news of a Russian fighter jet being downed by two Turkish fighters, let’s start with...
Terror in Mali: An Attack on China and Russia?
by Eric Draitser [A selection of points made by the author. You can read the full article here.] Coming on the heels of the terrorist attack in Paris, the...
A View from the U.S.
by Heather Cottin The US has come so far on its McKindarist-Brzezinski scheme of world domination, that we are now into the EuroAsian gambit for late imperialism on the...
Cameron Overreaches With “70,000” Claim Nobody Believes
From craigmurray.co.uk Cameron is in serious trouble at Westminster after overreaching himself by the claim that there are 70,000 “moderate rebels” willing to take up the ground war with...
On the Future of the Islamic State
Bill Purkayastha A few days ago, I had a sudden realisation. The West, I understood, had changed tack after Russia’s intervention in Syria. All these days – circa 2012...
Why did Turkey dare shoot down a Russian Plane?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment, November 25, 2015 The Turkish government decision to down a Russian jet operating in the north of the Syrian province of Latakia is breathtaking in...
Larry Chin: “steering the masses towards total war”
Larry Chin writes the latest in our series challenging the narrative of the “new 9/11”, offering different perspectives on the Paris attacks, all of which are largely ignored by...
