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Syria: Turkish-backed Islamists attack US-backed militants
Syrian landscape. Al Masdar News reports: Two years ago, U.S. Senator John McCain illegally entered Syria to meet with the Islamist rebel command of the Free Syrian Army (FSA)...
Iraq wants review or annulment of security agreement with US
A Russian attack helicopter at the service of the Iraqi army. RT reports: “The Iraqi parliament’s Security and Defense Committee has called for a review and cancellation of the...
The Saud Family to Select West’s ‘Moderate’ Jihadists Who Will Take Over Syria
by Eric Zuesse The Saud family, Saudi Arabia’s royals, have called together a meeting on December 15th in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, of their fellow fundamentalist Sunnis who are fighting...
Video: Protests in Kiev as US VP Biden visits
Still from the video below. Protesters rallied in front of Ukraine’s Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada [as US VP Joe Biden was addressing it] in Kiev, Tuesday, to demand the...
But Ankara, we got a (huge) problem
by Pepe Escobar Originally published as What’s Erdogan’s Game in Syria and Turkey, December 7, 2015 The — predictable — reaction across the West over the Russian Defense Ministry’s...
US, Saudis consider partnering with Al-Qaeda ally
The ultimate Orwellism? Screenshot of the title of Foreign Policy’s report quoted below. Sputnik International reports: The world’s major powers plan to convene in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for...
NATO’s Drang Nach Suden, Part 1
by Andrew Korybko, Oriental Review (This posting is a select chapter from Andrew Korybko’s second book that will focus on the geopolitical application of Hybrid Wars.) Southern Expansionism During...
Lies and Distortions: US Corporate Media Seek to Undermine Venezuelan Democracy
by Eric Draitser at Stop Imperialism (excerpts) Venezuelans will go to the polls in all-important legislative elections on Sunday December 6, 2015. The vote will have a significant impact...
An Official of US-backed Syrian ‘Moderates’ Calls for ‘Exterminating’ Shiites
by Eric Zuesse Yemen’s independent Al Masdar News headlines on Monday December 7th, “U.S. Backed Syrian Opposition Official Calls for the Extermination of Alawites,” and Leith Fadel reports that:...
Ukraine’s SBU, neonazis accused of trading stolen Dutch paintings
A detail from Jacob Waben’s “Women’s World” (1622), one of the paintings stolen from the Westfries Museum. Holland’s Times reports: Members of the Ukrainian secret service SBU played a...
VIDEO: Chinese TV report from the Syrian frontline
A Syrian soldier in a position overlooking a valley in the Latakia province of Syria. Photo Alexander Kots/AFP. China’s 24-hour English language television channel CCTV reports from Syria....
ISIS in Lebanon: An Interview with Andre Vltchek
by Souad SharabaniCounterpunch, November 25, 2015 Lebanon’s stability is hanging on by a thread. There is war raging on its border; Syria, the economy has all but collapsed, the...
Breaking: Airstrike on Syrian army positions fighting ISIS (4 updates)
A US coalition airstrike in Syria on December 4. Photo Reuters. [Title changed to account for new reports mentioned at bottom of post] Al Masdar News reports: For the...
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...
