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Narrative Management = Reality Management
Narrative Management = Reality Management The Grayzone‘s Max Blumenthal has published the first part of an investigative series on how so-called non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are being used to manipulate the narrative about what’s going on in Syria by posing as impartial investigative bodies and circulating pro-imperialist disinformation to the western political/media class as objective fact. […]
The Most Crucial Pipeline Of The Middle East?
The Most Crucial Pipeline Of The Middle East? Contemporary Middle Eastern history is strongly influenced by energy politics. Besides providing revenue for the state’s coffers, oil is also a potent geopolitical tool in the hands of resource-rich countries. Recently, officials from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have engaged in talks to restart the dysfunctional pipeline that once […]
The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions
The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions Image Source: TUBS – CC BY-SA 3.0 By any reckoning, the claim made this week by al-Qaeda-linked fighters that they were targeted with chemical weapons by the Syrian government in Idlib province — their final holdout in Syria — should have been treated by the western media with a high degree of scepticism. That […]
US Condemns Russian-Syrian Airstrikes As “Rebels” Urge External Intervention
US Condemns Russian-Syrian Airstrikes As “Rebels” Urge External Intervention Here we go again in what now seems a yearly exercise: the United States has put Russia and the Syrian government on notice as both ramp up airstrikes on Idlib province in Syria’s northwest. The last time Russian jets and the Syrian Army prepared for a major assault […]
MIT Rocket Scientist Weighs In On Leaked Syria Chemical Investigation Memo
MIT Rocket Scientist Weighs In On Leaked Syria Chemical Investigation Memo “The evidence is overwhelming that the gas attacks were staged,” Award-winning scientist and MIT professor emeritus Theodore Postol told The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté in a newly published interview. Theodore “Ted” Postol speaking at the The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The interview with the noted MIT rocket scientist comes after Fox’s […]
US Accuses Syria Of More Chemical Attacks Just As Chemical Weapons Narrative Crumbles
US Accuses Syria Of More Chemical Attacks Just As Chemical Weapons Narrative Crumbles The Institute for Public Accuracy published a report today about the leaked engineering assessment from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria which directly contradicts the findings of the official OPCW report on the […]
The OPCW, Douma & The Skripals
The OPCW, Douma & The Skripals In view of the latest revelations from the leaked report, which seem to prove that at least some elements of the Douma “chemical attack” were entirely staged, we want to take look back at the chaotic events of Spring 2018. What was the agenda behind the Douma false flag?Why […]
Top British Commander In Rare Public Dispute With US Over Iran Intelligence
Top British Commander In Rare Public Dispute With US Over Iran Intelligence An awkward public exchange unfolded between the US military and its closest allied military coalition force during a Pentagon press conference on Tuesday wherein a top British commander in charge of anti-ISIS coalition forces rebuked White House claims on the heightened Iran threat. […]
Leaked Document Pokes More Holes In Establishment Syria Narrative
Leaked Document Pokes More Holes In Establishment Syria Narrative “It is hard to overstate the significance of this revelation,” tweets former British MP George Galloway of a new report by the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media (WGSPM). “The war-machine has now been caught red-handed in a staged chemical weapons attack for the purposes of deceiving our democracies […]
US Troops In Syria For “Long Haul” Atop “A Lot Of Oil Resources”: Pentagon Official
US Troops In Syria For “Long Haul” Atop “A Lot Of Oil Resources”: Pentagon Official A high level Pentagon official has admitted that US forces will be in Syria for “the long haul” and coupled his statement by declaring the territory contains “a lot of the oil resources and arable land.” The unusually frank remarks were made this week by Michael […]
Q&A: MSM Lies, Consciousness, Evolution, Australia, Assange, And Me
Q&A: MSM Lies, Consciousness, Evolution, Australia, Assange, And Me It’s time for another Q&A article! I think I’m going to make these a regular feature that I put out every so often, so if you have any questions for me email me at admin@caitlinjohnstone.com and I’ll get to them the next time I write another […]
American Wars Are off the Charts Under Donald Trump
American Wars Are off the Charts Under Donald Trump He’s failed to deliver his promised withdrawals from Afghanistan and Syria, vetoed an order to get out of Yemen, and expanded the U.S. bombing of Somalia, all while eyeing Iran. Here’s a statement it might be hard to disagree with: American war is off the charts. […]
The Incorrigible Hypocrisy of Conservatives
The Incorrigible Hypocrisy of Conservatives Last week a Wall Street Journal editorial revealed the incorrigible hypocrisy with which conservatives have long suffered. Conservatives, of course, have long suffered this malady with respect to domestic policy given their ardent devotion to Social Security, Medicare, foreign aid, and other welfare-state programs even while decrying the left’s devotion to socialism. […]
US Completely Invalidates All Of Its Own Arguments About Crimea
US Completely Invalidates All Of Its Own Arguments About Crimea Well the worst Putin Puppet of all time is at it again, this time tweeting that the US must recognize the Golan Heights as part of Israel despite the fact that the Israeli occupation of that Syrian land is illegal under international law. “After 52 years it is […]
Damascus To Become A “Ruinous Heap”?: Syria Threatens To Attack The Golan Heights And Israel Prepares For War
Damascus To Become A “Ruinous Heap”?: Syria Threatens To Attack The Golan Heights And Israel Prepares For War The winds of war are blowing once again, and it isn’t going to take much to spark a major conflict in the Middle East. This week is the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the civil war […]
