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Free Syrian Army command asks Russia for help against ISIL — Sputnik

Sputnik International reports: The representative of the Euphrates Volcano command of the FSA and the Kurdish YPG told Sputnik that the command supports Russia’s operation against ISIL and requests...

16,000 Ukrainian troops defect Donbas, many with weapons

TASS reports: KIEV, October 5. /TASS/. Some 16,000 Ukrainian soldiers have defected from the zone of military operations in conflict-riven eastern Donbas – many carrying weapons, the country’s chief...

Tory Conference protests overseen by police snipers

by Kit The Conservative Party Conference (CPC) drew 80,000 out on to the streets of Manchester to protest government’s austerity policies. The expected parties were all in attendance. The...

Video: Syrians welcome Russian air strikes

A Channel 4 News report. “If Satan comes here to save us from those terrors, I’ll welcome him.”

Analysis: Russian strikes in Syria “much more” than “a change in the war”

A girl stands on debris next to a damaged building at a besieged area of Homs, August 2, 2012. Photo REUTERS/Yazen Homsy Joaquin Flores comments on the situation in...

Russia Insider: “This is nothing short of a Middle Eastern coup”

West-funded “moderate” “Syrian” “human rights activists” waiting for Russian planes. Andrey Davydov tweet. […] Make no mistake, this is shaping up to be the most spectacular US foreign policy...

Video: Mass surrender of militants in Syria

A militant speaking with Syrian army soldiers. Iranian news channel Al Alam reports: Militants in the Syrian towns of Babila, Beit Sahim and Yalda in Rif Dimashq province have...

Media frantically re-shaping AlQaeda as the good guys

by Robert Parry via Consortium News The key sentence in The New York Times’ lead article about Russian airstrikes against Syrian rebel targets fell to the bottom of the...

Putin Calls Out Washington

by Paul Craig Roberts We can no longer tolerate the state of affairs in the world. President Vladimir Putin Last Wednesday (28 Sept 2015) the world saw the difference...

They do it in moderation

by Bryan Hemming After a few years of not being able to distinguish ‘moderate rebels’ from extreme terrorists in Syria to the point of funding, arming and training members...

The revolutionary act of telling the truth

by John Pilger George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” These are dark times, in which the propaganda of deceit...

Obama’s Case for Syrian War – Proven Lies

by Eric Zuesse President Obama’s central case against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad (and his central argument against Assad’s supporter Russia on that matter) is that Assad was behind the sarin...

Video: At the frontline in Latakia, Syria

Still from the video below […] “Terrorists have many American weapons, rockets and even night vision devices. Americans teach them. USA bombed our gas plants in the East. We...

Analyst: Ukraine’s economy is dead

A beggar woman against the background of Saint Sophia’s Cathedral fresco paintings. Kiev, Ukraine, Eastern Europe. Photo Mstyslav Chernov. Political analyst Aleksei Blyuminov is interviewed by Lug-Info: […] Lug-Info –...

VIDEO: Putin’s UN speech

Russian: English: Transcript: Mr. Secretary General, distinguished heads of state and government, Ladies and gentlemen, The 70th anniversary of the United Nations is a good occasion to both take...

A troll story in 4 screenshots

by Vaska Four days ago, on September 24, we published an item about the use of multiple identities on The Guardian‘s CIF pages by people presenting avidly pro-Western, and...

Stop Bombing Syria: a Letter from Mark Rylance, Brian Eno, John Pilger et al.

via Counter Punch News Service We are gravely concerned at the possibility of a parliamentary decision to bomb Syria. David Cameron is planning such a vote in the House...

The Guardian goes into censorship overdrive over Putin’s speech to the UN

Several people have contacted us to say they had their accounts at the Guardian put on moderation within minutes of it starting its “live” coverage of Putin’s speech. From...

No Brains in Washington

by Paul Craig Roberts Washington’s IQ follows the Fed’s interest rate — it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government...

Russia to Add Its 203rd Air Force Base — Its First Outside Russia

by Eric Zuesse According to GlobalSecurity.org, Russia has 202 Air Force bases, all in Russia’s various “Military Districts”; but now there is to be a 203rd one, and it will...