Posts Tagged ‘Syria’
The Lies and Panic of the USA and NATO over Syria and the Russian Bombing
If it wasn’t so serious, the lies and dissimulation of the US and European Governments over Syria would be amusing. ISIS rocket paraded in Rakah Having admitted only a couple of weeks ago that there were no ‘moderates’ in the opposition to Assad, those they’d been training had either been wiped out by Al-Nusra or capitulated,…
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 MoreWikiLeaks Cables Shed Light On US Foreign Policy
US Planned to Destabilise Syria Through Sectarian Warfare Since 2006 Documents show Washington backing of regime change is a major problem. The cables also show how Honduras, under the government of President Manuel Zelaya, became an enemy state for becoming too friendly with other left governments. The original protests back in 2011 in Banias By…
Read MoreSyria – The Choice is Between the Bad and Far Worse – Assad or Isis
As the Britain’s Guardian abandons what passes for any independent analysis for a cache of NATO press releases, The Independent’s Robert Fisk demonstrates why, when it comes to an understanding of the Middle East, he is head and shoulders above any other correspondent. Patrick Cockburn, who is also an Independent columnist, makes important observations on…
Read MoreUnreported in Western Media – Syria Downs Israeli Warjet
US F-16 fighter jet It’s strange that this hasn’t been reported anywhere in the British media. An Israeli F-16 was shot down over Syria. It had been engaged in bombing the Syrian army i.e. in support of the Islamist and Al Qaeda al-Nusra groups that they pretend not to support. Israel is openly attacking the…
Read MoreTurkey – Supporting ISIS and Bombing the Kurds
The United States Gives Turkey Green Light to Attack the Kurdish PKK and PYD In its heyday, Britain was known as Perfidious Albion for its ability to betray allies and friends at a moment notice. It would seem that the United States has learnt all the dark arts and a few more. Despite the stupidity…
Read MoreNew Film about Israeli War Crimes in 1967
In peoples’ understandable determination to uncover the truth of the Nakba and what happened in 1947-8, the massacres of the 1967 War have barely been covered. Still from the film Censored Voices shows a former Israeli solider listening back to an interview, censored by the military after the 1967 war. Palestinian refugees from the 1948 War A…
Read MoreSlaughter in Palmyra as Israel Cements Alliance with ISIS
Robert Fisk is the best Middle East correspondent by far. He lives in Lebanon and writes for The Independent. He was one of the few journalists not to be ‘embedded’ with US security forces in Iraq. butchered by Isis Here he is reporting from a town near to Palymyra where the Saudi sponsored IS (or…
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 …
Read MoreISIS Attack Syrian Refugee Camp
“Catastrophe” in Yarmouk as ISIS seizes camp Maureen Clare Murphy Sun, 04/05/2015 An UNRWA photo shows Yarmouk camp in 2014. Fears over the safety of the 18,000 civilians trapped in Yarmouk, south of the Syrian capital of Damascus, have grown following reports that ISIS has taken control of large areas of the Palestinian refugee camp.…
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