Russian officials brought fifteen people to The Hague from the city of Douma, Syria, said to have been present during the alleged April 7 chemical attack - including 11-year-old Hassan Diab, who was seen in a widely-distributed video taken by the controversian NGO...
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‘Cruise Missile Left’ Complicit in American Escalation Toward World War III
by Danny Haiphong | Apr 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
The US-led alliance of imperial nations has waged war on Syria for eight years with the hopes of overthrowing the independent Arab nationalist state led by President Bashar Al-Assad. Syria was believed to be another domino destined to fall in imperialism’s great power...
Did You Really Drop Bombs on a Chemical Weapons Facility Mrs May?
by Rob Slane | Apr 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
On April 14th, shortly after the United Kingdom, United States and France bombed the sovereign country of Syria, on the basis of unproven allegations of the use of chemical weapons in Douma on 7th April, the British Prime Minister, Theresa May made the following...
How False Flag Operations Are Carried Out Today
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
False Flag is a concept that goes back centuries. It was considered to be a legitimate ploy by the Greeks and Romans, where a military force would pretend to be friendly to get close to an enemy before dropping the pretense and raising its banners to reveal its own...
Review: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership is Mostly About Making Jim Comey Rich
by Peter van Buren | Apr 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
Despite the lofty title, in A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership James Comey comes across in turns petty, smug, sanctimonious, bitter, and most of all, pandering.Comey feeds the rubes exactly what they paid the carnival sideshow barker in front at Barnes and...
OPCW Investigators Reportedly Found ‘No Evidence’ Of Chemical Weapons At Syrian Facilities Bombed By US
by Tyler Durden | Apr 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
While it will likely take the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons weeks or even months to issue their final report on the alleged gas attack in Douma (an attack for which journalists and other independent parties have failed to find any evidence), the...
How Neocons Destroyed a Chance for Peace with Iran After 9/11
by Tho Bishop | Apr 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
While most of the headlines the Trump administration has made on foreign policy have tended to focus on Syria and North Korea, the President’s approach to Iran may end up being the most important. The appointment of infamous hawk John Bolton, whose career goal has...
Scarier Than John Bolton? Think of Nikki Haley for President!
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
The musical chairs playing out among the senior officials that make up the President Donald Trump White House team would be amusing to watch but for the genuine damage that it is doing to the United States. The lack of any coherence in policy means that the State...
The Mainstream Media Fueled Military Action in Syria and Reprisals against Russia over the Skripals
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
The complicity of America’s Fourth Estate in the evolution of the national security warfare state is often mentioned in passing but rarely analyzed in any detail. But a recent article on Lobe Log by Adam Johnson is refreshing in that it does just that, looking at the...
Lies and Deception in the Failed US Strike on Syria
by Federico Pieraccini | Apr 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
At 4am on April 14, the United States, France and the United Kingdom executed a strike on Syria. The Syrian Free Press reported: US Navy warships in the Red Sea and Air Force B-1B bombers and F-15 and F-16 aircraft rained dozens of ship- and air-launched cruise...

What Will Weapons Inspectors Find in Syria…And Does it Matter?
by Ron Paul | Apr 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
Inspectors from the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have finally arrived in Douma, Syria, to assess whether a gas attack took place earlier this month. It has taken a week for the inspectors to begin their work, as charges were thrown back...
Russia Exposes British Lies on Skripal, but Trail Leads to US
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
The sensational case of the poisoning of the ex-MI6 agent and former Russian military intelligence colonel Sergei Skripal on March 4 in Salisbury, in the UK, is becoming more and more curious. Under a blinding spotlight from Moscow, the British allegation regarding a...
Doctor Death from Damascus?
by Eric Margolis | Apr 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
Butcher of Damascus. Gasser of children. Baby Killer of Syria. Tool of Moscow. Cruel despot. Monster.These are all names the western media and politicians routinely heap on Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad. He has now become the top Mideast villain, the man we love...
Democracy Now’s ‘Alt Media’ Platform for Humanitarian Imperialism in Syria
by Elliott Gabriel | Apr 20, 2018 | Featured Articles
The dust had barely settled after last weekend’s US-led bombing of Syria before a split in the political class developed. While some Beltway figures, media personalities and former officials hailed the bombings, others decried the “limited” nature of the airstrikes....
Did the West Just Lose World War III by Forfeit?
by James George Jatras | Apr 20, 2018 | Featured Articles
In the fall of the year 1480, at a point not far from Moscow, two armies faced each other on the opposite banks of the Ugra River.On the one side were the forces of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, whose ruler, Grand Prince Ivan III (known as “the Great” and the “gatherer...
What Are ‘Assad Apologists’? Are They Like Those ‘Saddam Apologists’ Of 2002?
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 20, 2018 | Featured Articles
Isn’t it fascinating how western journalists are suddenly rallying to attack the dangerous awful and horrifying epidemic of “Assad apologists” just as the western empire ramps up its longstanding regime change agenda against the Syrian government? Kinda sorta exactly...
Trump Puts his Logo on the Military-Industrial Complex, Sets Up US Arms Sales with Syria Demo
by Whitney Webb | Apr 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
The week after the US, along with the UK and France, launched unilateral strikes against the Syrian government, the Trump administration is rolling out a “Buy American” weapons-selling initiative aimed at allowing other nations to buy even more weapons from US-based...
Why Each US President Ends Up As Ruthless Interventionist These Days
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
In the wake of last week’s cruise missile attack on Syria, there was a joke going around the internet saying that it doesn’t matter who Americans vote for, they always wind up getting John McCain as President of the United States. The humor derives from the fact that...
UN Security Team Delays Inspectors Entrance to Douma for ‘Safety’
by Jason Ditz | Apr 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
The UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) continues to prevent chemical inspectors from entering Douma for their investigation, citing safety concerns. They have offered no timetable for when the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)...
America First — RIP
by David Stockman | Apr 18, 2018 | Featured Articles
When the Cold War officially ended in 1991, Washington could have pivoted back to the pre-1914 status quo ante. That is, to a national security policy of America First because there was literally no significant military threat left on the planet.Post-Soviet Russia was...
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