Analysis

The following article, by Tim Anderson, is republished from the American Herald Tribune: We are sitting at a joint military command center in Arima (northern Syria, just west of Manbij) with three Syrian Arab Army (SAA) colonels and two uniformed Kurd SDF ‘koval’ (comrades). There are Russians here too, but …

The following article, by John Ryan, is republished from Canadian Dimension: Vanessa Beeley is a British journalist who was invited to Canada in the fall of 2019 to present talks in seven cities on the conflict in Syria. The sponsors of her speaking tour were several anti-war groups, including the …

The following article, by Scott Ritter, is republished from the American Conservative: The assassination by the United States of Qassem Suleimani, a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general and commander of the Quds Force, an Iranian paramilitary force specializing in covert operations on foreign soil, has sent shock waves through …

The following article by Scott Ritter is republished from Global Research: It is perhaps the least reported media scandal about the least reported international controversy in recent times—the resignation of Tareq Haddad, a well-regarded journalist from Newsweek, a mainstay of the mainstream media.  At issue was what he said regarding the magazine’s …

The following article, by Stephen Lendman, is reprinted from Global Research: The so-called OPCW chemical watchdog lost all credibility, breaching its mandate time and again, operating as a pro-Western imperial agent, not a Chemical Weapons Convention implementing body. The Nobel committee should order the organization to return its 2013 peace …

On December 3, 2019, writer and journalist Vanessa Beeley spoke in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, launching  a lecture tour on “Canada’s dirty role in the war on Syria: the White Helmets and the regime change billionaires.” The events, sponsored by the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, faced repeated attempts to …

The following article, by Elisabeth Tsurkov, was originally published in the New York Review of Books on Nov. 27, 2019: A small Turkish flag was standing on the desk of the offices of the Turkish-backed faction in a residential area of Şanlıurfa, in southern Turkey. The men in the room, …

The following article, by Alistair Crooke, is republished from The Iranian: Oh, oh, here we are again! In 1967, it was then the ‘threat’ of the standing Arab Armies (and the ensuing six-day war on Egypt and Syria); in 1980, it was Iran (and the ensuing Iraqi war on Iran); …

The following article, by Richard Falk, is republished from his blog, Global Justice in the 21st Century: Courage Foundation Panel Challenges International Finding of Syrian Reponsibility For the 2018 Attack on Douma   An independent British civil society organization, Courage Foundation, convened a panel of persons with diverse professional backgrounds relevant …

The following article, by Ben Norton, is republished from the Grayzone: Hundreds of American soldiers are remaining in Syria to occupy its oil reserves and block the Syrian government from revenue needed for reconstruction. Trump said openly, “We want to keep the oil.” By Ben Norton US President Donald Trump …