Palestine Update Resources

All The Shit That’s Fit to Print against Syria and Russia

March 15, 2018, American Herald Tribute – Jeremy Salt Corporate media propaganda against Syria is an avalanche that never seems to end. Government policy and media policy are now melded into a single policy of support for ‘the opposition’ and unceasing hostility towards ‘the regime’ and all those who have …

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Resisting Calls to ‘Do Something’ About Syria

A common refrain is that the West must “do something” to help Syria, but this is like arguing that the gasoline that was used to start a fire can also be used to extinguish it, explains Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone “We’ve got to do something about Syria!” goes the common Western …

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The authoritarians who silence Syria questions

February 27, 2017, Jonathan Cook Blog I am loath to draw more attention to the kind of idiocy that passes for informed comment nowadays from academics and mainstream journalists. Recently I lambasted Prof Richard Carver for his arguments against BDS that should have gained him an F for logic in any high …

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America’s ‘Boots-On-The-Ground’ Fighters in Syria are Kurds and Al Qaeda

February 21, 2018, The Saker – Eric Zuesse for the Saker Blog As will be documented here, America’s troops in Syria are not there in order to fight, but to assist Kurdish separatists in the northeast, and to assist the Al Qaeda led-and-trained jihadist forces elsewhere in Syria (such as …

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Buttering Up the Pentagon

February 21, 2018, TruthDig – Danny Sjursen Think of it as the chicken-or-the-egg question for the ages: Do very real threats to the United States inadvertently benefit the military-industrial complex or does the national security state, by its very nature, conjure up inflated threats to feed that defense machine? Back …

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WHERE’S THE EVIDENCE ASSAD USED SARIN GAS ON HIS PEOPLE?

February 20, 2017, Newsweek – Ian Wilkie The best way to analyze chemical weapons events in Syria is to try to discern who is providing evidence, why they are presenting evidence and what that evidence comprises. Since the United States’ false Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) presentation in the U.N. …

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Final statement of the Congress of the Syrian national dialogue, Sochi, January 30, 2018

February 4, 2018, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation We, the delegates of the Congress of the Syrian national dialogue, representing all segments of Syrian society, its political and civil powers, ethnic, confessional and social groups, have assembled at the invitation of the friendly Russian Federation, in …

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Jacobin Is Fueling the Lies About Syria

February 03, 2018, TruthDig – Daniel Lazare Syria has generated more lies than any United States action since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. That’s why Jacobin Magazine, the self-proclaimed “leading voice of the American left,” is so important. Readers need it to help cut through the dense fog of mendacity …

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