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...
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...
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...
Guardian Demonstrates Modern Obsession with Narrative over Reality
Sometime in the last two years a strange patern of behaviour has repeated and repeated and repeated in the mainstream media. It's possible it has been going on longer...
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...
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...
In the age of media manipulation how much can we afford to take on trust?
It may be hard for some to believe the BBC was guilty of the degree of blatant fakery suggested by RT, but at the same time we have to...
“The Russians are Coming!”
by Eric Margolis via Information Clearing House The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! So echoed the cry this week from the Pentagon, the US media and Republican...
Polls Show Syrians Overwhelmingly Blame U.S. for ISIS
by Eric Zuesse The British polling organization ORB International, an affiliate of WIN/Gallup International, repeatedly finds in Syria that, throughout the country, Syrians oppose ISIS by about 80%, and...
Four in Five Syrians Say Islamic State Is a US Creature, Poll Says
Would be an alternative and rather more relevant headline versus “One in five Syrians say Islamic State is a good thing, poll says,” [a Washington Post report], which is...
Assad in his own words: the Syrian president talks to RT
An opportunity to hear President Bashar al-Assad’s perspective on the ongoing crisis in Syria, in full and in his own words. A transcript of this interview is available on...
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...
“Does the US want Al Qaeda to take over Syria?”
by Robert Parry OffG says: Some may say Parry is here too forgiving of Obama, and it could certainly be said he over-credits him for “Syria’s 2013 agreement to...
Jeremy Corbyn’s Victory Highlights the Power BTL
Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership election. You probably heard. He wasn't supposed to win - he wasn't even supposed to run - but he did it. Not only...
‘UK bombed Syria to protect Iraq’: Cameron changes his story in UN letter
Russia Today reports that Britain’s ambassador to the UN is claiming Britain’s killing of Islamic State militants in Syria was legal because the drone strikes that caused the fatalities...
US Media Control: the backstory
by Eric Zuesse The show aired on September 5th, and interviewed their contracted expert KT McFarland. Watch the clip here. TRANSCRIPT, starting at 4:45: Interviewer: The other place that...
