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Analysis: Dutch referendum a storm warning for Ukraine

Campaigners for the “No” vote in the Dutch referendum on Ukraine’s Association Agreement with the EU in a street of...

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Syrian Christian refugees in Europe begin to return home

The damaged St Sarkis Church in Sadad, Syria. Photo CNS. The Catholic Herald reports: Hundreds of Christian families are...

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Lebanon Being Forced to Collapse

by Andre Vltchek Lebanon cannot stand on its feet anymore.  It is overwhelmed, frightened and broke. It stands on...

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Syria: UNESCO unanimously approves Russian resolution on Palmyra restoration

Russian sappers work on demining Palmyria after its capture from ISIS. Photo Russian Ministry of Defense. RT reports: A...

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VIDEO: Ukraine’s nationalists clash with police in Odessa

Still from the video below, showing a far-right protester pepper-spraying the police. Dozens of far-right activists clashed with police...

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Syria: Nearly 2,000 civilians return to Palmyra after Russian demining

A Russian sapper working on the demining of Palmyra, with the town’s medieval Citadel in the background. Al Masdar...

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Video: Syrians cheer up the liberation of Palmyra

A picture showing the Temple of Bel before it was destroyed by Isis in September 2015 in the ancient...

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Videos: Syrian army and allies recapturing Palmyra from ISIS

Palmyra Citadel under control of the SAA + allies today (25/03/2016) (MGreen)  

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Reporting (or Not) the Ties Between US-Armed Syrian Rebels and Al Qaeda's Affiliate

by Gareth Porter, FAIR A crucial problem in news media coverage of the Syrian civil war has been how...

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Syria: The Guardian View on…Things they Just Made Up

The Western MSM are all a flutter: Russia are pulling out of Syria (sort of). They can't quite decide...

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The Saker: Putin withdrawing from Syria because he won

An Antonov transport plane at the Russian Khmeimim base in Syria’s Latakia province. The Saker analyses the Russian military...

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US-backed Syrian rebels attacked & looted by Al-Qaeda affiliate

On March 11 anti-Assad demonstration were held in rebel-held Idlib in Syria, initially mixing flags both of the so...

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Analysis: Russians pack their troubles into their grocery baskets – Putin gains, Medvedev loses, US war aim fails

Russian fighter jets fly over Moscow. Photo Alexander Vilf/Sputnik John Helmer, “the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia”,...

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Good Old American Dollars Funding Nazi Forces of the Ukrainian Government

by Zak Novak, Novorossia Readers may remember when, with a defense authorization bill in debate last June, two congressmen...

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Syria Dispatch: Most Syrians Support Assad, Reject Phony Foreign 'Revolution'

A boy greets a Syrian Army soldier in Aleppo. Eva Bartlett writes in Sott.net: In April 2014 I first...

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Reports: Anti-ISIS revolt in Raqqa, terrorists deserting their Syrian capital

Alleged photo of a Syrian flag being flown in ISIS-help Raqqa on Sunday. Bas News reports: RAQQA — Residents...

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VIDEO(s): Ceasefire in Syria

A Russian soldier stands guard at at humanitarian aid distribution point in Syria. Footage released on Thursday shows officers...

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Facebook Bans DONi Donbass News Agency site

by Vaska Facebook censored a popular, accredited and officially supported DONi Donbass International News Agency main Facebook site on...

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Continuing CIF censorship in the service of propaganda

by Vaska Peter Schmidt, an old-time Guardian reader and CIF commentator, has sent us this glimpse of the continuing...

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UN Hypocrisy as WFP Drops Food for Daesh

by Vanessa Beeley, for 21st Century Wire “The UN World Food Program (WFP) aids for the restricted Syrian civilians...

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