The standard mainstream narrative of the war in Syria is that President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents only took up arms after his regime cracked down brutally on peaceful protesters in March 2011. The New York Times, for example, in a piece this week on ISIS reminds...
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Crimean Referendum Ilegal? Nonsense!
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Mar 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
On the question of why the U.S. government considers the Crimean referendum on secession from Ukraine to be illegal, Michael S. Rozeff points to an interview with John B. Bellinger III, Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law at the Council...
Understanding Media Propaganda About Recent Talks Over Iran’s Nuclear Program
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Nov 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
There are a couple points worth noting about recent reporting on the recent talks between the U.S. and its Western allies and Iran over its nuclear program. 1) The first is that the media effectively accepts the U.S. government’s framework that Iran’s rights derive...
Syrian Chemical Weapons Facilities Under Rebel Control?
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Oct 23, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
One of the U.S. government’s main arguments for why we are supposed to have concluded that Syrian government forces were responsible for the August chemical weapons attack in Damascus is that the rebels being armed by the U.S., whose ranks include al-Qaeda affiliated...
US Policy is to Prolong the Violence in Syria
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Sep 24, 2013 | Featured Articles
Although the threat of U.S. strikes against Syria has for the time being abated due to intervention from Russian President Vladimir Putin and an agreement from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to declare its stockpiles of chemical weapons to the Organization for the...
Syria and Lessons Unlearned from The Bombing of Kosovo
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Sep 6, 2013 | Featured Articles
One theme we repeatedly hear about the Obama administration’s plan to bomb Syria is that the U.S./NATO bombing of Kosovo serves as a model. An examination of the reason for this is instructive.It is well understood that the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) will not...
US Egypt Policy: Democracy Promotion?
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Aug 8, 2013 | Featured Articles
When the Obama administration announced on July 25 that it was free to violate U.S. law by continuing to finance the Egyptian military to the tune of $1.5 billion annually, even though it was responsible for overthrowing the democratically elected president of Egypt,...
Washington ‘Geniuses’ and Their Support for Syrian Rebels
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Aug 2, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
An Associated Press article last month titled “US surveillance, arming of Syrian rebels under debate as House takes up defense bill” enlightened us that: The House also will consider an amendment that would bar funds for any military action in Syria if it violated the...
The Great Peacemaker U.S. and Its Benevolent Effort to Bring Peace to Syria
by Jeremy R. Hammond | May 21, 2013 | The Liberty Report
TIME magazine reports on a gruesome video of a member of the armed rebel forces fighting to overthrow the Syrian government: In the video a man who is believed to be a rebel commander named Khalid al-Hamad, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, bends over the...
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