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Germany: Era of ignoring Saudi terror sponsorship over

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) and former King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Photo Axel Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images Press TV reports: Germany says it will no more ‘look the other way’...

Analysing a crude “anti-Assad regime” propaganda video

The video below landed on my Facebook feed as part of a sharing campaign by teary-eyed souls lamenting the fate of Syria’s children being shelled in schools by 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...

France: On second thoughts, Assad does not have to go

  The president of France François Hollande visits on December 4 the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle stationed in the eastern Mediterranean. Press TV reports: French Foreign Minister...

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...

Baghdad: Any foreign forces deployment in Iraq a “hostile act”

Volunteers of Shia led Hashed Al-Sha’abi vow to defend Iraq, at the Imam Hussain shrine on Arbaeen today. RT reports: Iraq has not requested that any country send ground...

Video: Homs schoolgirls thank Syrian soldiers

Undated and unlocated photo from Syria. Technically this is a propaganda video, but the feelings expressed by the civilians are likely genuine. It relates to the Al-Masdar December 2...

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...

Media Rundown: Mainstream Narrative Fractures Under Tension

by Kit The mandated, acceptable opinions that we’re all currently being told we should hold are becoming more and confused, contradictory and insane. As a writer, one hates to...

Turkish MP to reveal evidence linking Erdogan to Daesh oil

The President of Turkey, Recep Erdogan. Sputnik International reports Eren Erdem [pictured below], a lawmaker from the Republican People’s Party, Turkey’s largest opposition party, says that he may have...

The Benn Family Tree

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...

Spokesman: Yemeni army ready to invade Saudi border cities

A Houthi militia fighter in Yemen. Al Masdar News reports: The Yemeni army spokesman General Sharaf Loqman told Al-Manar website that the preliminary operations have ended and that the...

WaPo: Iraqis think US in cahoots with ISIS

Photos have been posted to ISIS-affiliated Twitter accounts allegedly showing ISIS fighters using U.S.-made TOW anti-tank missiles. The Washington Post reports: BAIJI, Iraq — On the front lines of...

Video: 100s of Sunni tribe fighters arrive in Aleppo to aid Syrian army

Still from the video below. A huge contingent of Sunni fighters from the al-Bakara tribe have decided to join the SAA. The convoy arrived in Aleppo a few days...

Video: Russian military reveals details of ISIS-Turkey oil smuggling

An image released today by the Russian MoD allegedly showing 3,000 tankers and light trucks parked in Silopi, Turkey, near the borders with Iraq and Syria. Russia’s Deputy Defense...

Iraq militias: “We will chase and fight any US force deployed in Iraq”

Shi’ite fighters launch a rocket during clashes with Islamic State militants on the outskirts of al-Alam March 8, 2015. Photo Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters PressTV reports: Iraq has rejected the need...

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...