Palestine Update Resources

Breaking the US/EU blockade on Syria

The following article is republished from Al Masdar News:  BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 P.M.) – Private sources revealed to Sputnik Arabic about the establishment of an operations room (Russian, Iranian, Syrian) with the aim of securing a safe and stable flow of oil supplies, wheat and some other materials to Syria …

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Joint Statement Against Canadian Sanctions

The Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War and the Mouvement Québécois pour la Paix today have issued a joint statement in response to the Trudeau government’s official reply to our parliamentary petition e-2630. That reply (copied to the next page) was delivered by Rob Oliphant, Parliamentary-Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. …

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Video: Former hostage responds to top diplomat calling Al Qaeda a US ‘asset’ in Syria

Pushback with Aaron Maté interviews Lindsay Snell:  Lindsey Snell, a journalist who escaped Al Qaeda captivity in Syria, responds to a top US diplomat calling the militant group “an asset” amid a media-enabled PR campaign to whitewash its image. Amid a public relations campaign to rehabilitate the Al Qaeda franchise …

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Bipartisan Murder by Richard Medhurst

The following article, by Richard Medhurst, is republished from the author’s Substack:  SYRIA is the key to the Middle East. Bordering Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, and with access to the Mediterranean Sea, for millennia Syria has held unique geopolitical and strategic importance in the region. The war taking place …

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How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press

The following article, by Alan McLeod, is republished from MintPress News: AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news collective,” “transforming investigative …

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Two Ambassadors to Syria with Wildly Different Analyses by Rick Sterling

The following article, by Rick Sterling (SSM Steering Committee Member), is republished from Dissident Voice:  In the past few months, Grayzone journalist Aaron Mate has interviewed two former ambassadors to Syria: former UK Ambassador Peter Ford and former US Ambassador Robert S. Ford. The two ambassadors have a common surname but dramatically …

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Audio: The Taylor Report – The White Helmets remain a propaganda construct with Chris Black

Taylor Report · White Helmets Remain a Propaganda Construct In this 16-minute interview, Phil Taylor speaks with Chris Black, international lawyer, about a Globe and Mail article entitled, “The Sting: How a Canadian is fighting back in Syria’s high-stakes disinformation war.” The article is about CIJA (the Centre for International Justice and Accountability), which was set up and funded, like the White Helmets, according to Black, “by the very powers that want to overthrow the Syrian government as a prelude to an attack on Iran.” Black points out that CIJA doesn’t investigate the crimes of Western countries of launching a regime-change operation, using terrorist mercenaries as their foot-soldiers, against the Syrian …

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The Raging Twenties Review: Pipelinistan, Sino-Russia and more – includes interview with SSM’s Ken Stone

The Global Research News Hour interviews Pepe Escobar and Ken Stone, Steering Committee member of the Syria Solidarity Movement: Global Research News Hour · The Raging Twenties Review: Pipelinistan, Sino-Russia and more. Click to download the audio (MP3 format) With the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of …

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Meditations On US Forces Firing A Howitzer Into The Empty Desert “Just To Say We’re Here”

The following article, by Caitlin Johnstone, is republished from the author’s Substack:   I saw a line in a recent New Yorker article about America’s endless wars, and it’s been been rattling around in my head ever since: “In Syria, McKenzie visited the Green Village, a community of decrepit apartment blocks near a bombed-out oil …

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