Iain Davis In the final installment of this three part series we’ll look at the evident political bias and staggering conflicts of financial interest polluting much of “the Climate...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

Kit Knightly The first tweet I saw when I checked my timeline this morning was from foreign policy analyst Clint Ehlirch, pointing out that the Russian ruble has already...

by Mike Whitney, via Information Clearing House Did the United States warn Russia to stay out of Syria? Yes, they did. Did they tell the Russians that if they...

By Ray McGovern via Information Clearing House The U.S. mainstream media remains obsessed over Russia’s alleged “meddling” in last fall’s election, but the real test of bilateral cooperation may...

by Kit Two days ago Reuters published this report, headlined “How Trump can show he’s tough on anti-Semitism”. I’m not sure why Trump – who has never been called...

Leaked recording of John Kerry private meeting with anti-Assad Syrian representatives at UN in Sept, removed by CNN https://t.co/J1iKEWhkvZ — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 4, 2017 South Front reports: On...

The Syrian flag was hoisted over the Aleppo Citadel after the recent advances of the army in the city RT reports: Syrian government forces have suspended “active military activities”...

We have wondered why the Guardian’s increasing, and now near-total failure to convince its readers seems to have zero impact on it editorial line - well, this is...

by Paul Craig Roberts The Russian government deceived itself with its fantasy belief that Russia and Washington had a common cause in fighting ISIS. The Russian government even went...

from Moon of Alabama The Washington Post tries an “explainer” piece to reconstruct the recent attack on an aid convoy in Urum al-Kubra, west of Aleppo. The sources are...

Yesterday, the USA committed what is - essentially - an act of war against the legitimate government of Syria. The official position is that, due to...

There will a renewed push for war in Syria before the end of the year. With Iran and Russia already deeply involved, any Western military intervention could easily trigger...

by Robert Parry, via Consortium News, June 8, 2016 The Democratic Party has moved from being what you might call a reluctant war party to an aggressive war party...

by Clarity of Signal, via JackPineRadicals The US government is currently financing the training and supply of the Ukrainian military which is comprised of fascist, ring wing, pro Nazi...

from The Saker When I first heard that a coup was in progress in Turkey my first thought was that it was the USA’s way to punish Erdogan for...

by Gareth Porter, FAIR A crucial problem in news media coverage of the Syrian civil war has been how to characterize the relationship between the so-called “moderate” opposition forces...

by Steven Chovanec, Undergroundreports In the weeks leading up to the agreed upon cessation-of-hostilities (CoH) agreement between the US and Russia, it was John Kerry’s diplomacy that was instrumental...

by Eric Zuesse On January 25th, which was the date when peace talks on Syria were to start, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry insisted that the organization founded...

Gulf News`reports: The upcoming Geneva talks, slated for Thursday, is [sic] expected to be a catastrophe for Syria’s opposition. The talks, which were supposed to take place today, were...