Sovereignty Support Movement Sovereignty for West Asia
August 24, 2017, Associated Press – Philip Issa BEIRUT (AP) — As Damascus reverses military losses in much of the country’s strategically important west, and foreign states cut support for rebel forces, diplomats from Washington to Riyadh are asking representatives of Syria’s opposition to come to terms with President Bashar …
Read More »Conflict in Syria Far From Resolved. US Bombings Targeting Raqqa Residential Areas. 78 Civilians Killed in Last 24 Hours.
August 24, 2017, GlobalResearch – Stephen Lendman In the last 24 hours alone, local media sources and survivors reported US-led so-called coalition warplanes massacred 78 civilians in three Raqqa neighborhoods. Homes and infrastructure were targeted, no ISIS or other terrorists at or around areas struck. The attack was cold-blooded murder like …
Read More »What Are We To Believe? Fake news plus phony “intelligence” equal disaster
August 12, 2017, AntiWar.com – Justin Raimondo The Washington Post has published a story claiming that the North Korean regime of Kim Jong Un has succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear warhead small enough to fit onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. It’s another “leak” coming from an intelligence community that seemingly does little these days …
Read More »Neocons Leverage Trump-Hate for More Wars
August 9, 2017, Consortiumnews.com – Robert Parry A savvy Washington observer once told me that the political reality about the neoconservatives is that they alone couldn’t win you a single precinct in the United States. But both Republicans and Democrats still line up to gain neocon support or at least …
Read More »America’s Dangerous Anti-Iran Posturing
August 7, 2017, Project Syndicate – Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – In recent weeks, US President Donald Trump and his advisers have joined Saudi Arabia in accusing Iran of being the epicenter of Middle East terrorism. The US Congress, meanwhile, is readying yet another round of sanctions against Iran. …
Read More »Neocons Have Been Destroying Sovereign Nations for 20 Years
August 7, 2017, Defend Democracy Press – Neil Clark A resource-rich, socialist-led, multi-ethnic secular state, with an economic system characterized by a high level of public/social ownership and generous provision of welfare, education and social services. An independent foreign policy with friendship and good commercial ties with Russia, support for …
Read More »Appetite for War: the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia v. Iran
August 5, 2017, CounterPunch – Vijay Prashad On June 14, when United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson went before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Congressman Ted Poe of Texas asked him about the government’s policy towards Iran. “Well,” Tillerson paused, “our Iranian policy is under development.” Poe …
Read More »Syria Summary – Consolidating the West – Marching East
July 23, 2017, GlobalResearch – Moon of Alabama In the north-west Idleb governate and the city of Idleb saw new infighting between Ahrar al-Sham and al-Qaeda in Syria under its current moniker Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Ahrar, historically also an al-Qaeda offspring, was supported by Qatar and Turkey while al-Qaeda …
Read More »Controlling the Narrative on Syria
July 23, 2017, MROnline – Louis Allday Since 2011, the torrent of ill-informed, inaccurate and often entirely dishonest analysis of events in Syria has been unremitting. I have written previously about the dangers of using simplistic explanations to make sense of the conflict, a problem that has surfaced repeatedly over the past …
Read More »Billions of Dollars’ Worth of Weapons Brought into Syria, “Arms Traffic Organized by CIA and Pentagon”
July 20, 2017, Global Research – Thierry Meyssan Over the last seven years, several billion dollars’ worth of armament has been illegally introduced into Syria – a fact which in itself is enough to disprove the myth according to which this war is a democratic revolution. Numerous documents attest to …
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