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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...

Video: Life inside Aleppo

Inside Aleppo. Photo Don McCullin. Russia Insider reports: […] Haytham, 9 and sister Lena, 6  climb the high embankment between two half ruined high-rise buildings, their small hands maneuvering...

How a Candidate’s Mega-Donors Get Served After the Election

by Eric Zuesse An example will be described here of a way in which corrupt Presidential candidates load up their campaigns’ advertising budgets by pushing for policies to increase...

Ruffled Petals at the Guardian

by Bryan Hemming In another principled stand against information it doesn’t like very much the Guardian has made it quite clear that anyone linking to the renegade Off-Guardian site...

Saudi, Turkey backpedaling on Syria invasion?

A Turkish army tank at the border with Syria. Press TV reports: Saudi Arabia and Turkey appear to be backpedaling on rhetoric to launch ground operations inside Syria, with officials sayingthey would...

BTL Censorship at the Guardian…again

by Kit It seems this blog is now officially totally banned from the comment section of The Guardian. That’s what user Dell3330 found when he posted this link: The...

Observer wants us all to forget 9/11 and embrace al Qaida as the friendly face of mass murder

The Graun’s recent (anonymously authored) “Observer view on…” reads like sullen teenage grafitti. Rddled with ignorance and misinformation, it would more fittingly be scribbled in the back of an...

Syria: The race for Raqqa

In Raqqa, people watch ISIS militants cut off the hand of a man accused of stealing, February 11. Sputnik International reports: The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the US-led...

Video: Press TV report, analysis on Syria

Syrian militants in Aleppo show freshly-received GRAD missiles on this February 7 photo. Syrian militants say they have received “excellent quantities” of missiles from their foreign backers to help...

Putin's Prophesies – His Munich Speech Warnings from 2007 All Coming True

via Russia Insider Nine years after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the world against irresponsible US policies spreading instability and threats of new wars around the world, those dangers...