Posts Tagged ‘Assad’
The Bloody Betrayal of the Kurds by Trump and the United States is Nothing New
The Bloody Betrayal of the Kurds by Trump and the United States is Nothing New Background to the Kurdish Struggle and the American Betrayal in 1963 The betrayal of the Kurds of Syria by Donald Trump and the United States is only the latest such betrayal. After having provided the foot soldiers in the fight…
Read MoreSyria – in war the first casualty is the truth
The lies of Theresa May – Yemen, Iraq and Palestine The bodies of dead Iranian solidiers – killed in an Iraqi gas attack – the chemical weapons in this case were supplied by the West Robert Fisk As always truth is the first casualty of war. Theresa May’s statement that it is in Britain’s national…
Read MoreThe Silencing of Seymour Hersh – Even the LRB refuses to print an article criticising the Trump version of Assad’s ‘Sarin Gas Attack’
Below there are two pieces, one by the former Guardian journalist Jonathan Cook and the other by bellingcat ‘the home of online investigations’. According to the mainstream media, Syria launched a gas attack, using Sarin, on Khan Sheikhoun on April 4th 2017. US Navy fires 59 Cruise Missiles at Syrian Airfield Trump used this as…
Read MoreDanger to Rojava as United States Threatens to Stab Kurdish Allies in the Back
Washington stands by Turkey while expecting the Kurds to help fight tough battles against Islamist militants in Syria The democratic organisation of society in Syrian Kurdistan stands in marked contrast to the Erdogan and Assad dictatorships, ISIS and the Israeli state. It is a beacon of hope in a region without much hope. The equality…
Read MoreGerry Downing, Anti-Semitism and the Socialism of Fools
Confusing the Jewish Question and Zionism It was August Bebel, the leader of the German Social Democratic Party who described anti-Semitism as the ‘socialism of fools’. Gerry Downing is nothing if not a fool. A complete muddlehead leading a tiny Trotskyist group Socialist Fight. The BBC made hay with Gerry Downing’s idiocy Downing entered into…
Read MoreIsrael & Saudi Arabia Seek the Partition of Syria
Good friends – Israel’s Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon and Prince Turki al-Faisal, former ambassador to the US and the former head of Saudi’s intelligence agency An interesting article in YNet – the on-line version of Israel’s most popular newspaper, Yediot Aharanot, is copied below. Israel is pushing, with its Turkish and Saudi partners, for the partition…
Read MoreAssad Regime Tortures and ‘Disappears’ Palestinian Free Speech Advocate
Lest anyone forget, as Putin comes to the rescue of Assad’s regime, the appalling human rights record of the Ba’athists in Syria. Below is an article on the Electronic Intifada of Bassel Khartabil who has been disappeared and severely tortured by Assad’s security goons. Tony Greenstein free speech champion forcibly disappeared in Syria More than…
Read MoreIsraeli Lies About Support for Al Qaeda Fighters Exposed
Syrian Killed in Attack by Golani Druze Was Islamist Fighter, Not Civilian as IDF Claimed by Richard Silverstein on June 26, 2015 in Mideast Peace Munther Khalil – Al Qaeda terrorist Israel was conveying in ambulance, who was killed This post expands on my original one reporting this incident. Some of the material in it may look…
Read MoreDruze attack Military Ambulance Carrying al-Qaeda Terrorists
Military Ambulance that was attacked Israeli papers are calling it a ‘lynching’. Another word might be justice. Those who slaughter civilians aren’t entitled to the benefits of Geneva Convention protection – be they al-Nusra or ISIS. UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) troops move through Israel’s Golan Heights before crossing into Syria, August 31.. (photo credit:REUTERS/BAZ…
Read MorePentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS
Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists to ‘isolate’ Assad, rollback ‘Shia expansion’ Intelligence document More evidence that the rise of ISIS was a direct and conscious result of the West’s desire to overthrow the Assad regime, because it was secular, and its opposition to the Iranian regime, which derives from its support for Assad and …
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