Don't Panic! Lighten Up! Smiley Skripal case forces scientists to revise everything they thought they knew about Novichok
Rob Slane Warning: This article is likely to contain traces of satire. In the aftermath of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury on 4th March, scientists...
Syrian military in full control of Damascus for first time in years
Israeli-made weapons among arms handed over by militants in Damascus Al Masdar news reports: BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:10 A.M.) – For the first time since the start of the Syrian...
Video: BBC Interview with MP for Aleppo, Syria
The recent US-led missile strikes on several military installations in Syria changed precious little in the country’s horrific civil war. On the ground, the bloodshed, displacement and suffering continue....
All E. Ghouta towns liberated, key Damascus highway open after 7yrs of blockade – Syrian military
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reaches out to shake the hand of a Syrian army soldier in eastern Ghouta, Syria, March 18, 2018. Photo AP RT reports: Syrian forces have...
US ‘Empire of Debt’ will go to war to stop emergence of petro-yuan
RT Reports: The imminent introduction of oil trading in yuan is a very bold move by the Chinese, because the US will not give up the basis of its...
Video: Syrian Arab Army liberates key town in East Ghouta
Screencap from the video below Hands Off Syria posted a video on YouTube: Raw and beautiful. The liberation of East Ghouta up close. Syrian Army moves into Ayn...
Syria: Six year long war in 4 East Ghouta suburbs ends
A bombing raid by the Syrian Army in a terrorist-held Ghouta suburb near Damascus. Photo Ammar Suleiman/AFP Al Masdar News reports: BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:55 P.M.) – For years, the...
Four days to declare a Cold War
by Thierry Meyssan, Voltairenet The week that has just ended was exceptionally rich in events. But no media were able to report it, because they had all deliberately masked...
The Saker: When dealing with a bear, hubris is suicidal
Assuming mankind finds a way not to destroy itself in the near future and assuming that there will still be historians in the 22nd or 23rd centuries, I bet...
Video: 15,000 people escape Syria's rebel-held East Ghouta
Photo Omar Saldiki/Reuters
Syria: Makeshift chemical weapons lab discovered in East Ghouta by Syrian Army
Text and pictures by Sharmine Narwani Was in #EastGhouta today, 25 meters from a battlefront btwn Shifouniyeh & Misraba, areas recently liberated from militants. Western journalists flock to humanitarian...
First group of militants surrender & leave East Ghouta
RT reports: The first group of militants have surrendered their arms and left East Ghouta as an increasing number of rebel fighters in Syria seek to disassociate themselves from...
Video: Syrian Army progresses in rebel-held East Ghouta
Still from the video below showing the Syrian Army entering Beit Sawa today. Al Masdar News reports: BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:39 P.M.) – After short but high-pitched battle, elite forces...
OpEd: For God’s sake, 'The Times' shrieks, do something! The Russians are coming!
By James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation blog: Today’s lead story, Russian Threat on Two Fronts Meets Strategic Void in the U.S., aims to keep ramping up twin hysterias...
Photo: Aleppo today
Ahmad Al-Issa in Twitter: To those who worry that East Ghouta might become 2nd Aleppo*, this is the liberated Aleppo. The central park (yesterday [Thursday March 1]) is alive...
Putin Warns of World War III
By Eduard Popov in Fort Russ: On March 1st, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his Address to the Federal Assembly (the upper and lower chambers of the Russian...
Trump’s ‘America First’ meets China’s ‘community of common destiny’
Just as President Donald Trump has reached back into U.S. history to draw inspiration for his “America First” policy from President Andrew Jackson’s mid-19th century populism, so too is...
Why doesn't Russia defend Syria against Israeli fighter jets?
The image taken from social media shows the site of a reported Israeli strike in Masyaf, Hama Province, Syria, September 7, 2017. ArabiSouri on steemit: This was a...
Those Magical, Fantastical Russians vs. U.S. Empire
Glen Ford in Black Agenda Report: “This induced ‘state of emergency’ is designed to prepare the American public, politically and psychologically, to maintain the momentum of the U.S. imperial...
Syria declares victory over Islamic State
A Syrian army soldier removes an Islamic State flag from the historic ruins of Palmyra. Reuters reports: BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s army declared victory over Islamic State on...
