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Imperial Capital but America-First Nation
Imperial Capital but America-First Nation Is America still the world’s last superpower with global policing obligations? Or should we shuck off this imperial role and make America, again, in Jeane Kirkpatrick’s phrase, “a normal country in a normal time”? “Let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand,” said President Donald Trump in an impassioned […]
Betrayal and Deception: Syria Is a Prime Example of US Foreign Policy
Betrayal and Deception: Syria Is a Prime Example of US Foreign Policy Trump announced the withdrawal of US troops who had been protecting the SDF (Syrian democratic forces) in the northeast of Syria, prompting Kurdish leadership and the Damascus governed to strike a deal allowing Syrian Arab Army to retake control of the border with Turkey […]
Iraq Closes Airspace Even To US Coalition Flights After Suspected Israeli Raid
Iraq Closes Airspace Even To US Coalition Flights After Suspected Israeli Raid In what is a severely under reported but perhaps the most alarming development out of the Middle East this week, Iraq’s government has said it’s ready to down any aircraft violating its airspace amid a blanket ban on ‘unauthorized’ flights not specifically approved by the prime minister’s office. Military Times reported […]
Trump’s Biggest Lie?
ERIC ZUESSE | 16.01.2019 | SECURITY / WAR AND CONFLICT| WORLD / MIDDLE EAST Trump’s Biggest Lie? INTRODUCTION (NOTE: Remarks from US President Donald Trump that will be considered as representing possibly his biggest lie will here be boldfaced, so that they will stand out from the context in which he stated them.) Trump escalated Bush’s […]
Commanders In Syria Recommend Leaving US Weapons With Kurds
Commanders In Syria Recommend Leaving US Weapons With Kurds It has been little over a week since President Trump upended US foreign policy in the Middle East by abruptly recalling the few thousand US troops fighting alongside Kurdish fighters in Syria, and the administration is still figuring out exactly how to manage the withdrawal in […]
US Troops Out, Syrian Army In: Kurdish City Handed Back To Damascus As Turkey Poised To Invade
US Troops Out, Syrian Army In: Kurdish City Handed Back To Damascus As Turkey Poised To Invade After days of Turkey mustering huge military forces poised to enter the northwestern Syrian Kurdish town of Manbij, and just as American advisers have pulled out of the area based on Trump’s broader Syria draw down, what many […]
The Administration isn’t Ending the Wars in the Middle East — It’s Shifting Strategy
The Administration isn’t Ending the Wars in the Middle East — It’s Shifting Strategy The loss-averse President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a platform to “defeat ISIS, sought to uphold his election-season slogan by declaring “historic victories against ISIS” as a reason for his Wednesday decision to end US military presence in Syria. ✔ We […]
Continued American Occupation of the Middle East Does Not Suppress Terrorism, It Causes It
Continued American Occupation of the Middle East Does Not Suppress Terrorism, It Causes It Even the neo-con warmongers’ house journal The Guardian, furious at Trump’s attempts to pull US troops out of Syria, in producing a map to illustrate its point, could only produce one single, uncertain, very short pen stroke to describe the minute […]
In Drastic Reversal, US Set For “Full Withdrawal” From Syria As Trump Claims Victory Over ISIS
In Drastic Reversal, US Set For “Full Withdrawal” From Syria As Trump Claims Victory Over ISIS update 2: A troop withdrawal appears already underway after a Pentagon official said it would happen “quickly”. White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders has issued a formal statement on troop withdrawal from Syria: “We have started returning United States troops home as […]
New Rules of Engagement Between Syria and Israel, as Russia Changes its Position
NEW RULES OF ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL, AS RUSSIA CHANGES ITS POSITION Syria will adopt a new rule of engagement with Israel now that Russia has taken a tougher and clearer stance on the conflict between Israel and the “Axis of the Resistance”. Henceforth, Damascus will be responding to any Israeli strike. If it […]
“Stronghold Of Evil” – Russia Slams America’s Illegal Syrian Occupation
“Stronghold Of Evil” – Russia Slams America’s Illegal Syrian Occupation On Tuesday a top Russian military official slammed the United States for “illegally occupying” a massive zone in southwest Syriasurrounding the American garrison of al-Tanf, effectively protecting some 6,000 armed militants that Russia has designated terrorists. The Head of Russia’s National Defense Control Center, Colonel-General […]
The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn Photo Source Edwardx | CC BY 2.0 The BBC spreads fake news. We all know that. From the uncritical parroting of the British government’s Iraqi weapons of mass destruction claims to the unchallenged lies spouted by […]
Why Are We Siding With al-Qaeda?
Why Are We Siding With al-Qaeda? Last week, I urged the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to stop protecting al-Qaeda in Syria by demanding that the Syrian government leave Idlib under al-Qaeda control. While it may seem hard to believe that the US government is helping al-Qaeda in Syria, it’s not as strange […]
How the U.S. Does Propaganda
How the U.S. Does Propaganda A typical example was on NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday,” on September 8th, when the program-host Scott Simon interviewed the Obama Administration’s diplomat Robert Malley, in a segment titled “What’s Next In The Syrian War: Idlib”. Simon’s introduction said: “After this weekend, the last contested region of Syria may come under […]
An Iranian Viewpoint on the Battle for Syria
An Iranian Viewpoint on the Battle for Syria A new feature from Iran gives a totally different perspective of the war raging in Syria than Western audiences are used to, explains Rick Sterling. West against East on the Syrian battle-field, in the newspapers and now on film: A new, full-length action movie, titled “Damascus Time,” […]
