November 2 marks the centenary of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which began the still-ongoing colonisation of Palestine and sowed the seeds of an endless nightmare for the Palestinian people, both those who were forced to flee at gunpoint and those who have managed to remain in the …
Read More »False Flag Pearl Harbor in Syria
On October 19, 2016, a convoy of buses left the besieged al-Nusra dominated eastern enclave in Aleppo, Syria, and made its way through the government-controlled portions of the city. Hundreds of Syrian soldiers lined both sides of the street as they passed. The windows of at least some …
Read More »United States Must Answer for War Crimes in the Middle East
The West is feverishly seeking someone to blame for the catastrophic situation in the Middle East. Following on from John Kerry, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has announced his intention to request that the International Criminal Court investigate Russian «war crimes» in Syria. Hillary Clinton, a contender for …
Read More »Exclusive: Russian TV Rossiya 24 Documentary ‘President’
Editorial Note Amidst latest mudslinging on Russia and especially its President Vladimir Putin, this documentary is something worth watching. Publicly, the West keeps promoting itself as a champion of democratic values of freedom of speech and thought, but the media depictions of its presumed foes often goes beyond decency. Think …
Read More »The Oil-Gas War Over Syria, in Maps
Turkey’s Anadolu News Agency, though government-run, is providing remarkably clear and reliable diagrammatic descriptions of the current status of the U.S – and – fundamentalist – Sunni, versus Russia – and – Shia – and – NON – fundamentalist – Sunni, sides, in the current oil-and-gas war in the Middle East, …
Read More »Finally, Letting the Philippines Go
Exclusive: Official Washington is in a tizzy over Philippine President Duterte’s outreach to China and his estrangement from the U.S., but this realignment beats the alternative, a military showdown between the U.S. and China, writes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall As the crisis in U.S.-Philippines relations escalates, conventional …
Read More »How Global Terror Finance Networks Crushed the ‘Arab Spring’
It has been five years since Mohammed Bouazizi lit a match and set fire to the Middle East, and the heat from the flames continues to engulf the region. A region shaken, revived, broken – yet still alive. The glowing pulse of the embers still burning has …
Read More »Syria’s Raqqa Next in Line for Anti-IS Campaign
The Syrian city of Raqqa, the Islamic State [IS] group’s de facto capital, stands next in line in the battle against militants after this week’s assault on Mosul in Iraq. French President Francois Hollande has warned that IS militants under attack by Iraqi and Kurdish forces in Mosul are …
Read More »China’s Fall 2016 Latin America Charm Offensive
In recent months, the People’s Republic of China has successfully faced and largely overcome a significant crisis in its relationships with Latin America, even while the United States, as it approaches the upcoming presidential election, plunges into a new phase of uncertainty in its own relationship with the …
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