By Jonathan Cook on June 30, 2017
If you wish to understand the degree to which a supposedly free western media are constructing a world of half-truths and deceptions to manipulate their audiences, keeping us uninformed and docile, then there could hardly be a better case study than their treatment of Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. (more…)
By Vanessa Beeley on June 21, 2017
The Citadel of the old city, Aleppo, April 2017
Photo:Vanessa Beeley
Walking the streets of East Aleppo hours after their liberation from Nusra Front-led terrorist occupation for almost 5 years, was a sombre and harrowing experience. (more…)
By Denis Rancourt on June 20, 2017
Photo: Bill Hackwell
International Quds Day, celebrated on the last Friday of Ramadan, was initiated by the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 to express support for the Palestinians and opposition to Zionism – editorial (more…)
By Jim Kavanagh on June 21, 2017
The United States is at war with Syria. Though few Americans wanted to face it, this has been the case implicitly since the Obama administration began building bases and sending Special Ops, really-not-there, American troops, and it has been the case explicitly since August 3, 2015, (more…)
By Vanessa Beeley on June 14, 2017
Photo: Hamid Khatib
The US coalition is carpet bombing Raqqa without any UN mandate, raising the question whether there is something they want to hide or destroy before it is discovered by the Syrian Army. (more…)
June 8, 2017
The campaign to choose 545 territorial and sectoral members of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC, Spanish acronym) on July 30, will begin on July 9, said the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) Tibisay Lucena. (more…)
Eva Bartlett on June 12, 2017
In September 2015, a young boy was found washed up on a beach in Turkey. Photos of Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body were quickly splashed across mass media, much the same way that Omran Daqneesh’s photo inside an ambulance would also be disseminated. (more…)
By Caitlin Johnstone on May 26, 2017
Syrian President Assad and his family
“What we’ve been undergoing to a large extent is a form of psychological abuse, actually, by very narcissistic, hegemonic governments and officials for a very long time. It’s a form of gaslighting where actually our own faith in our ability to judge a situation, and to some extent even our own identity, has been eroded and damaged to the point where we’re effectively accepting their version of reality.” –Vanessa Beeley (more…)