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Below is the second part of the wide-ranging interview with journalist Sharmine Narwani, conducted by Patrick Lawrence for Salon. The first part of the interview is available here, and the full text of this part is available at the Salon website: https://www.salon.com/2019/04/28/sharmine-narwani-on-the-end-of-the-syrian-war-and-the-post-imperial-middle-east/ Journalist Sharmine Narwani with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad …

Sharmine Narwani comments on RT. This wide-ranging interview with Sharmine Narwani was published on April 21 at Salon, conducted by foreign affairs reporter Patrick Lawrence. The full interview is available here: https://www.salon.com/2019/04/21/reporter-sharmine-narwani-on-the-secret-history-of-americas-defeat-in-syria/ As Lawrence notes, Narwani earned her master’s in journalism at Columbia University before serving as a senior associate …

The following article, by Peter Ford (former UK ambassador to Syria), is republished from 21st Century Wire: Syrian communities in Golan organise protests against Israeli occupation. (Photo: Sputnik) With the military situation largely frozen, the last two months have been marked mainly by developments involving the US – the ending …

Donald Trump at the Israel Museum with Benjamin Netanyahu. Occupied Jerusalem May 23, 2017. Photo: US Embassy The following article by Helena Cobban appeared originally at Mondoweiss: Washington DC, March 26 — On March 25, President Donald J. Trump signed an order proclaiming U.S. support for Israel’s annexation of the Golan. …

The following article, by Bill Van Auken, was originally published at the American Herald Tribune on January 13, 2019. Overloaded with lies, hypocrisy and absurdities, the speech delivered by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the American University in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday signaled to the collection of monarchs …

The following article, by Brandon Turbeville, was originally published at The Activist Post on January 11, 2019. Despite the repeated demonstrations of the fact that the United States and other Western nations have armed, supported, and funded terrorists in Syria from the beginning of the crisis in 2011 as well as …

The following article by Gareth Porter was originally published at the American Conservative on January 14, 2019. Photo: Israel MFA/Flickr The Pentagon was not the only party pressing Donald Trump to keep troops in Syria last year. It turns out the Israeli government and its supporters in Washington were working very …

The following article by Ollie Richardson was originally published at The Saker Blog on January 13, 2019. Why does Russia behave the way it does in relation to Israeli airstrikes in Syria? I will proceed from what seems to be an established fact (SANA confirmed) that on the night of January 11th Israel hit …

The following discussion by Stephen F. Cohen is reprinted from Information Clearing House: https://audioboom.com/posts/7137218-tales-of-the-new-cold-war-1-of-2-condemning-trump-for-putin-s-syria-stephen-f-cohen-nyyu-p https://audioboom.com/posts/7137217-tales-of-the-new-cold-war-2-of-2-condemning-trump-for-putin-s-syria-stephen-f-cohen-nyyu-p The John Batchelor Show, January 9 January 11, 2019 “Information Clearing House” –     President Trump was wrong in asserting that the United States destroyed the Islamic State’s territorial statehood in a large part of Syria—Russia and its allies accomplished that—but he is …

The following article, by Ron Paul, was republished from Information Clearing House: U.S. Special Forces in Syria. Photo: Dalil Suleiman/Wikimedia Commons January 08, 2019 “Information Clearing House” –     I’m starting to wonder whether President Trump has any power over US foreign policy at all. Many people believe that the US president is …