“This is not a Civil War, it is a War of Plunder by NATO, Israel, Turkey, and the Gulf Monarchies”
From Cubainformación, translated by Joshua Tartakovsky Arnaldo Pérez Guerra, Magazine Final Point (revista punto final): Syria lives in an inferno, as the crisis will continue as long as there...
Assad: Departure from president depends on will of Syrians
Gazeta reports: Syrian President Bashar Assad said that the possibility of his resignation from the post of head of state depends solely on the opinion of the Syrian people....
Russian FM: US deliberately sparing Islamic State seeking to weaken Assad
TASS reports: KHABAROVSK, November 17. /TASS/. The United States and its coalition seem to be sparing the Islamic State organisation so that while it weakens Syrian President Bashar Assad,...
Vienna talks: Iran nixed Assad ouster clause in joint statement
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif. Photo AFP. Iran’s Press TV reports: Iran says it opposed the inclusion of a clause that...
AFP: Syria army scores key victories ahead of Vienna talks
Agence France Presse reports: Damascus (AFP) – Syria’s army scored its second important victory in two days ahead of international talks in Vienna, but the US warned a deal...
Syria: “Moderate rebels” put women in cages to protect themselves from airstrikes (updated w/ video)
Al Masdar News reports: In order to deter the Syrian and Russian Air Forces inside the East Ghouta (collection of farms) region of rural Damascus, the U.S. backed moderate...
UN’s Ban Ki-Moon Condemns Western ‘Assad Must Go’ Demand
Children in Syria Sputnik International reports: The Western demand that Syria’s Assad must step down is irresponsible and has resulted in millions of refugees, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said....
PBS documentary: Inside Assad’s Syria
A street in the suburbs of Damascus. Photo Valery Sharifulin/TASS For weeks, the world’s eyes have been fixed on the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria for...
Guardian censors facts BTL
The recent Frankie Boyle article in the Guardian contained his usual mix of dark humour and on-point political satire. However, most people who follow the Syrian situation closely know...
US: Assad does not have to leave “tomorrow or the next day”
“They stayed truthful to their promises”: A billboard in Syria showing Assad flanked by Putin and Hezbollah’s Nasrallah. RT reports: Syrian President Bashar Assad “does not have to leave...
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...
Convenient memory lapses of the Anglo-American Press
by Vaska A quick scan of today’s major press outlets in the US, Britain and Israel reveals the Empire’s continuing attempt to conceal the full depth and extent of...
Nick Cohen wants us to forget the west uses chemical weapons
Yesterday in the Guardian Nick Cohen could be found using his talents to shill for more lovely humanitarian war. Nothing odd about that. The MSM almost always shills for...
Is Russia losing patience after a Year of US Phony War on ISIS?
From Tarpley.net According to unconfirmed reports carried by Reuters, Russian military forces in Syria are now engaged in combat, presumably against one of the terrorist rebel factions arrayed against...
Is Putin planning to sell-out Assad?
by Mike Whitney at Counterpunch Moscow’s geostrategic objectives in Syria are the polar opposite of Washington’s. Grasping this simple fact is the easiest way to get a fix on...
Why Syria is Winning: Advancing Towards a Strategic Victory that will Transform the Middle East?
by Professor Tim Anderson See numbered References at end of article for source notes Syria is winning. Despite ongoing bloodshed and serious economic pressure, Syria is advancing steadily towards...
Syria: most dishonest of all dishonest imperial wars?
The evidence trail showing ISIS to be – at least in part – a cynical creation of western intelligence agencies is clear and undeniable. The official story of its...
The Brookings Institute plan to liquidate Syria
by Mike Whitney at Counterpunch Here’s your US foreign policy puzzler for the day: When is regime change not regime change? When the regime stays in power but loses...
British SAS Special Forces “Dressed Up as ISIS Rebels” Fighting Assad in Syria
by Stephen Lendman via Information Clearing House On August 2, Britain’s Sunday Express newspaper headlined “SAS dress as ISIS fighters in undercover war on jihadis,” saying: “More than 120...
Obama’s “Safe Zone” in Syria intended to turn it into new Libya
by Shamus Cooke The road to war is paved with a thousand lies. A fresh fib was tossed on the lie-cluttered warpath to Syria, when it was announced that...
