Analysis

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 …

The following article, by Diana Johnstone, was originally published at Consortium News: No promising event has more fully failed to keep its promise than the optimistically named Arab Spring.  Ten years ago, massive protest demonstrations that began in Tunisia and moved quickly to Egypt were hailed as the harbinger of …

The following article, by WIlliam Van Wagenen, was originally published at The Libertarian Institute: In a recent essay for Newlines Magazine, former U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford discussed the ways in which the so-called Syrian revolution went wrong. He does so by recounting his interactions with two prominent Syrian …

Like Iraq before her, Syria is the target of mainstream media hysteria on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the war. Former diplomat Michel Raimbaud wonders: will it take 30 years to recognize the crimes committed against that country? “We did not know… that there is an international law” …

The following article, by Scott Ritter, is republished from RT:  The US has only one objective in Syria—regime change. The fact that it has been unable to achieve this after ten years of trying does not appear to deter the Biden administration from embracing failure. Back in 2001, former General Wesley …

The Syria Solidarity Movement is republishing the following article, by Janice Kortkamp, from American Herald Tribune:  By JANICE KORTKAMP I’ve been watching this conflict for over eight years, virtually every day, all day and made seven extended research trips traveling around the country mostly on my own with Syrian friends …

While Joe Biden has faced some mild Congressional pushback for bombing the Iraq-Syria border, Tulsi Gabbard says her former colleagues are ignoring the larger issue: the ongoing US dirty war on Syria. After a decade of proxy warfare that empowered Al Qaeda and ISIS, the US is now occupying one-third …

Source: https://video.moqawama.org/details.php?cid=1&linkid=2116 Translation: resistancenews.org Transcript: Hassan Nasrallah: […] When (in February 2014) Israel hit us in Janta, on the Syrian-Lebanese border, they were hoping to change the rules of engagement, thinking that if they hit us in a border area, we wouldn’t feel obliged to retaliate. We retaliated (hitting an Israeli patrol …

The following article, by Peter Ford, is republished from Just World Educational: We’re happy to present this commentary by Peter Ford, the former U.K. ambassador to Syria. Ford was one of 15 panelists, representing a broad range of views, who took part in our “Commonsense on Syria” project in 2020, …

The following article, by Max Blumenthal, is republished from The Grayzone where it originally ran on October 12, 2020:  Why did Amnesty UK, Bellingcat and White Helmets sabotage Roger Waters webinar on corporate pollution? by Max Blumenthal     The Grayzone obtained audio of a call in which Roger Waters …