by Vaska Writing for New Eastern Outlook (September 8), Toni Cartalucci reports on a June 2015 Brookings Institute paper which lays out a US plan to invade and take...

The Daily Beast reports: More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch...

by Kit Yes. Seriously. You may have thought that the refugees pouring out of Iraq were fleeing ISIS. You may have thought that the people braving the sea voyage...

Who remembers the children of Donbass? British journalist, writer, broadcaster and blogger Neil Clark writes: […] The first thing I’m confused about is the refugee crisis currently affecting Europe....

from “Fabrication in BBC Panorama ‘Saving Syria’s Children'” Hand in Hand for Syria, the UK registered charity at the heart of the controversial 2013 BBC Panorama programme Saving Syria’s...

by Eric Draitser via Counter Punch The August 16, 2015 attack on a market in the Syrian town of Douma, just outside the capital Damascus, has caused international outrage....

by Eric Zuesse According to German Economic News (September 1st, based on reports from ynetnews and others), Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has apparently decided to establish in Syria a...

by Bryan Hemming My grandfather was born in Hammerfest in Norway. Once renowned for being the northernmost town in the world, the fact he was doesn’t cut much ice...

byEric Zuesse, as originally published by Strategic-Culture.org Increasing evidence is coming in that the groups the U.S. is trying to install into power in Syria are actually contending groups...

Below is a transcript of this interview supplied to the Saker, by Singing Sam – Question: Mr. Lavrov, welcome to Conversation With. So, what do you have to say...

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...

by Eric Zuesse Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was asked by an interviewer last week: On the question of Syria, have you seen changes in the attitude of Russian...

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...

by Eric Draitser It is late July 2015, and the media is abuzz with the news that Turkey will allow US jets to use its bases to bomb Islamic...

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...

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...

Avaaz, with a membership topping 40 million, is one of the princes of the clicktivist phenomenon. These virtual warriors for justice are everywhere and have been for a while,...

Hillary Clinton has on her liberal mask. She is all smiles and is trying hard to “out Bernie” Bernie Sanders. She is hitting all the populist...

by BlackCatte The Guardian’s latest piece on the ISIS crisis continues to eschew analysis in favour of fear mongering, propagandising and racism. Three generations of a family who are...

It’s been a month now since newly declassified US intelligence documents confirmed that the rise of ISIS was not only predicted by the West, the Gulf States and Turkey,...