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Leaked telephone transcripts show Turkey is helping ISIS in Syria
Vaska Further proof of ties between the Turkish military and ISIS terrorists operating on the Syrian-Turkish border has been revealed in the Cumhuriyet newspaper, which published more transcripts of...
Please Don’t Attack Al-Qaeda
by Steven Chovanec, Undergroundreports In the weeks leading up to the agreed upon cessation-of-hostilities (CoH) agreement between the US and Russia, it was John Kerry’s diplomacy that was instrumental...
Zhang Weiwei on Al Jazeera: pushing Westerners to despise China
by Otto Kolbl, reposted from Rainbowbuilders In December 2014, Zhang Weiwei took part in the Head to Head program on Al Jazeera. He certainly did his best to explain...
Right of Reply: Amazon Watch responds to Stansfield Smith
Adam Zuckerman, Environmental and Human Rights Campaigner for Amazon Watch, has requested a right of reply to the article by Stansfield Smith we recently published that was heavily critical...
Ukraine, the price of survival: From civilian aircraft to attack drones
by Tina Schivatcheva Is the end of an industry also the end of an era? The Ukrainian aviation conglomerate Antonov was more than an industry; it was a legend....
The Grand Inquisitor and his Guardians: Mass Media and the Fog in our Brains
by Vladimir Golstein, republished from gianalytics.org Of course, we can blame as much as we want corporate media, its greedy owners, or its equally corrupt writers and journalists, who...
China and Europe: Reconnecting Across a New Silk Road
by Xiangming Chen and Julia Mardeusz China and Europe have been closely linked since the Opium Wars, but the relative economic positions and power have reversed. Nothing illustrates this...
Russian analyst: Why the Syrian ceasefire makes sense
Syrian children are seen in a destroyed car in center of Aleppo, Feb. 18, 2015. Photo: Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Sputnik International reports: […] In his analysis, published in the...
Reuters: How the West misread Putin over Syria
Reuters reports: Last July, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seemed to be losing his battle against rebel forces. Speaking to supporters in Damascus, he acknowledged his army’s heavy losses. Western...
US Presidential Elections 2016: The Revolt of the Masses
by James Petras Introduction The presidential elections of 2016 have several unique characteristics that defy common wisdom about political practices in 21st century America. Clearly the established political machinery –...
Saudi Arabia’s Dictator Demands Regime-Change in Syria — Otherwise WW III
by Eric Zuesse As has been recently reported, many experts on international relations are saying that the danger of a nuclear war between NATO and Russia is greater now than it...
Letter to Doctors Without Borders
by Ron West I had supported Doctors Without Borders because they had been apolitical, and largely neutral in conflicts. This neutrality had begun a process of erosion in Syria....
Propaganda as “News”: Ecuador Sells out Indigenous and the Environment to China
by Stansfield Smith The end of January a news article appeared, “Ecuador To Sell A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest To Chinese Oil Companies,” and has resurfaced again and...
Ukrainian radicals trash Russian banks on anniversay of Maidan (w/ VIDEO)
RT reports Ukrainian radicals wrecked the offices of Russian companies Sberbank and Alfa-Bank in Kiev as they marked the second anniversary of the bloody Euromaidan riots, which left around...
BuzzFeed: U.S. in proxy war with itself in Syria
BuzzFeed News reports: ISTANBUL — American proxies are now at war with each other in Syria. Officials with Syrian rebel battalions that receive covert backing from one arm of...
Syrian army captures Aleppo Thermal Plant, encircles ISIS (w/ VIDEO)
Screen grab from the video below Al Masdar News reports: The Syrian Arab Army’s elite ‘Tiger Forces’ – backed by the National Defense Forces (NDF) – imposed full control...
Aleppo: The Corporate Media Credibility Gap
by Bryan Hemming Less than four years ago, Aleppo was a prosperous and beautiful city. Christians and Muslims lived side by side, as did Sunni and Shia. A tolerant...
Boston Globe columnist: Syrian war coverage one of most shameful episodes in US press history
Children line a street of Kessab, in the Syrian province of Lattakia, following the expulsion of militants from the village by the current Russian-backed advance of the Syrian army...
Syria’s President Assad Amnesties Syria’s Draft-Evaders
by Eric Zuesse Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad, issued on February 17th, a decree: …granting a general amnesty for military deserters inside and outside the country and the crimes included...
Analysis: Hillary Clinton and the Syrian bloodbath
Hillary Clinton speaks to the press following the Friends of Syria conference in Tunis, February 2012. Photograph: Jason Reed/AFP/Getty Images Jeffrey Sachs writes in The Huffington Post: […] Clinton...
