Analysis

July 6, 2017, Dissident Voice – Paul Larudee On April 5, 2017, National Geographic released a preview of its film, Hell on Earth: The Fall Of Syria And The Rise of ISIS, by filmmaker Sebastian Junger and producing partner Nick Quested: The film itself debuted on April 26, 2017, at the Tribeca Film Festival …

July 3, 2017, Black Agenda Report – Glen Ford Donald Trump is the very embodiment of why the undeserving rich must no longer be allowed to reproduce themselves, as a class. They are the fuse that, if not removed, will ignite a fiery doom for the species. Decisively kettled in …

July 3, 2017, The American Conservative – Philip Giraldi Something peculiar happens to American presidents after they take office on January 20. Campaign promises to right the easily perceived misdirections in foreign policy are abandoned, and the new program for dealing with the rest of the world winds up looking …

July 3, 2017, Information Clearing House – Moon of Alabama June 30, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – The U.S. is giving up its hopeless position at the Syrian-Iraq border crossing near al-Tanf in south east Syria. The U.S. military had earlier bombed Syrian forces when they came near that position but …

July 3, 2017, Counter Punch – Jeffrey St. Clair Like Martin Luther, Donald Trump gets his maddest epiphanies in the early morning hours while he is on the throne, straining at stool. Trump is driven, as was Luther, by two consuming obsessions, both entwined in the sunken strata of his psyche: money and …

July 2, 2017, Middle East Eye – Richard Silverstein Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal published an interview with a Syrian rebel commander and half a dozen fighters, who confirmed the worst kept secret of the Syrian conflict: Israel is directly aiding Syrian rebel factions with both humanitarian and financial aid. …

July 1, 2017, The Century Foundation – Aron Lund On Monday evening, the White House released a statement saying U.S. intelligence had “identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack” in Syria. If President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons, the statement warned, his military would pay a “heavy price.” The warning was …

July 1, 2017 – Stephen Lendman The Hague-based intergovernmental Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is mandated “to implement the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention…to achieve…a world…free of” CWs. Its mission includes “credible and transparent” on-site inspections to verify use of or destruction of these weapons. In …

June 30, 2017 – Government Slaves MOON OF ALABAMA—The White House claims that the Syrian government is preparing “chemical weapon attacks”. This is clearly not the case. Syria is winning the war against the country. Any such attack would clearly be to its disadvantage. The White House announcement must thereby …

June 30, 2017 – Jonathan Cook If you wish to understand the degree to which a supposedly free western media are constructing a world of half-truths and deceptions to manipulate their audiences, keeping us uninformed and docile, then there could hardly be a better case study than their treatment of …