Tag: Syria
Blundering American Ambassadors Unmask the War on ...
Posted by David Boyajian | Nov 16, 2018 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US | 1 |
End the Wars to Halt the Refugee Crisis
Posted by Ramzy Baroud | Jun 19, 2018 | Africa, Europe, Middle East, Politics, Viewpoints | 2 |
Attacking Syria: Implications for the Rule of Law
Posted by Richard Falk | Apr 19, 2018 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics | 0 |
The Crisis Is Only In Its Beginning Stages
Posted by Paul Craig Roberts | Apr 18, 2018 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints | 2 |
Are We Over the US/UK Fomented Crisis In Syria?
Posted by Paul Craig Roberts | Apr 14, 2018 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US | 1 |
Independent Panel Challenges OPCW Findings on 2018 Attack in Douma, Syria
by Richard Falk | Nov 1, 2019 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
An independent panel has issued a statement challenging the credibility of the OPCW’s findings regarding an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria.
By Calling Out Democrats, Tulsi Gabbard Has Altered the Political Landscape
by Mark H. Gaffney | Oct 21, 2019 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Tulsi Gabbard’s rightful criticism of US interventionism in Syria indicates that she’s Americans’ best chance to defeat the War Party.
The War Ahead: Netanyahu’s Elections Gamble Will be Costly for Israel
by Ramzy Baroud | Sep 6, 2019 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics
The consequences of Netanyahu’s gamble might come at a worse price for him than simply losing the elections.
New York Times Persists in Russia Election Hacking Conspiracy Theory
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Aug 9, 2019 | Essays, Featured, Politics, US
The New York Times persists in propagating the unevidenced conspiracy theory that the Russian government hacked into US election infrastructure in 2016.
The Obama Wars
by David Swanson | Jul 11, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
Obama’s legacy of warmaking has largely been maintained, advanced, and imitated by bipartisan consensus and by Donald Trump.
Closing Military Bases, Opening a New World
by David Swanson | May 3, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
The US has built an empire of military bases around the globe, but the good news is that popular activism can get bases shut down.
Trump Is America’s First Zionist President
by Paul Craig Roberts | Mar 26, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
On any issue that pertains to Israel’s interest, Trump has placed US foreign policy into Israel’s hands, pandering to Zionism to an unprecedented extreme.
Reflections on Putin as a Leader and on the World Situation in Which He Works
by John Chuckman | Mar 8, 2019 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US
Russia’s democracy may be imperfect, but America’s has transformed into plutocracy in which the state’s resources are committed the advancement of empire.
Congress Finds its War Powers and Weaknesses
by David Swanson | Feb 1, 2019 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
While Congress may be moving to the US war in Yemen, it’s also working to ensure the continuance of war and hostilities elsewhere.
A Lawless Government
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 31, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
Today judges permit unethical behavior by prosecutors that deprives defendants of a fair trial because they don’t want the bother any more than prosecutors.
Isolationism or Imperialism: You Really Can’t Imagine a Third Possibility?
by David Swanson | Dec 28, 2018 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Does anything strike you as odd about exclamations that withdrawing U.S. troops from a war is a form of “isolationism”?
Can Trump Survive Syria, Mattis, Stock Market Fall, & Friedman’s ‘Watershed Moment’?
by Richard Falk | Dec 28, 2018 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
The bipartisan consensus that sustained the Cold War for more than four decades has never reconciled itself to the prospect of geopolitical peace.
From Central America to Syria: The Conspiracy against Refugees
by Ramzy Baroud | Dec 6, 2018 | Americas, Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Refugees escaping to the US or Europe are perceived as the invaders, rather than the US and its allies who’ve helped cause the reasons for their flight.
Blundering American Ambassadors Unmask the War on Terror
by David Boyajian | Nov 16, 2018 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
American officials downplay how “allies” such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia support terrorists lest the US government’s support of terrorism also be exposed.
The Triumph of Evil
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 25, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Evil has achieved dominance over good so that avarice and lawlessness will escalate their destruction of truth, peoples, and life on earth.
Is Russia Being Betrayed By Its Own Intelligentsia?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Sep 26, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
How could the Russian government possibly think that any agreement with Washington, Israel, or any of Washington’s EU puppets would mean anything?
Putin’s Hesitation Has Lost Syria’s Idlib Province
by Paul Craig Roberts | Sep 21, 2018 | Middle East, Politics, Viewpoints
Does the Russian government not understand that Washington is conducting war not against terrorists, but against Russia?
Can Russia Survive Her “Partnerships”? Has Putin Made A Strategic Miscalculation?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Sep 19, 2018 | Middle East, Politics, Viewpoints
Russia’s inability to stand firm in the face of Western and Israeli aggression will be the principal cause of World War III.
The United States Is a Dead Man Walking
by Paul Craig Roberts | Sep 19, 2018 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
The US media is incapable of reporting the most compelling events of our time which could result in the destruction of life on earth.
Leave Syria the Hell Alone
by David Swanson | Sep 12, 2018 | Middle East, Politics, Viewpoints
Syria would be dramatically better off if just about any outside force had never gotten in or now got out.