By Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. Congresswoman from Hawaii, on January 24, 2017
As much of Washington prepared for the inauguration of President Donald Trump, I spent last week on a fact-finding mission in Syria and Lebanon to see and hear directly from the Syrian people. (more…)
January 18, 2017
A UN envoy held talks with Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Hadi on Monday as the United Nations said the death toll from the war had reached 10,000. (more…)
By Daniel Lazare on January 23, 2017
Last week as Donald Trump was preparing to take office, The New York Times — reeling from Trump’s interview in which he said he didn’t “really care” if the European Union holds together and described NATO as “obsolete” — declared that “the big winner” of the change in U.S. presidents was Vladimir Putin. (more…)
By Jonathan Cook on January 16, 2017
Forget the empty posturing of world leaders in Paris yesterday. This photo tells us what the Israel-Palestine “conflict” is really about. (more…)
By Zena Tahhan on January 5, 2017
Israeli forces have killed more Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 2016 than any other year in the last decade, rights group Defence for Children International (DCI) has said. (more…)
By Tim Anderson on January 6, 2017
Wars are always concluded with political settlements. In the endgame over Syria, Russia has worked directly with Turkey, to agree on orderly evacuations of the NATO-backed terrorist groups from Aleppo and, with Iran, is now engaged in talks on a wider resolution to the failing war on Syria. (more…)
By Niraj Srivastava on December 19, 2016
The first illegal use of NATO to bomb a country was the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Aleppo was liberated on December 15, 2016 when the Syrian Army took control of eastern Aleppo, and the terrorists – mostly belonging to Jihadi groups such as the Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front – were evacuated, mainly to Idlib. (more…)
By Rick Sterling on December 30, 2016
The U.S. establishment is not happy. They are not content with largely dominating media narratives on Syria and other critical foreign policy issues; they want total dominance. (more…)