Peter Ford dismantles the France, German, UK pro-Al Qaeda statement on Syria

The statement is remarkable as much for its omissions as for what it does say. Not a word about secularism or protection for minorities. That the jihadi groups are totally airbrushed out of the picture, except obliquely in a prohibition on using terrorism as a justification for use of armed force, is really quite striking. There is not a word here with which Hayat Tahrir Ash Sham, the dominant jihadi group, would not concur.

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Duma / OPCW / Syria

Update on the OPCW’s investigation of the Douma incident

The evidence of fraud in the published report of the Douma investigation means that all other published reports from FFM Team Alpha, including the FFM reports on the alleged chlorine attacks in 2015 and the alleged sarin attack in Khan Sheikhoun in 2017, must also be disregarded as unreliable and possibly fraudulent.

UAE / United States / Yemen

YEMEN: U.S Involvement in UAE Controlled Torture and Detention Centres

Detainees were physically tortured and disfigured by several methods including whippings with power cords, batons, steel bars taken from school desks; slapping the face and kicking the body especially the injured areas; burning the skin with lit cigarettes; placing the body in a sewage compartment up to the neck and pouring sewage and waste water on wounds.

Coronavirus

US: Nationwide lock-down, this is how it begins

This coronavirus epidemic, which has brought China’s Orwellian surveillance out of the shadows and caused Italy to declare a nationwide lockdown, threatens to bring the American Police State out into the open on a scale we’ve not seen before.

Israel / United Nations / Yemen

The role of Israel and UN in Saudi war of aggression against Yemen

The US, UK-backed neo-colonialist war against Yemen enters its fifth year. The Saudi alliance of aggression has pulverised entire swathes of Yemeni territory, decimated infrastructure, bombed hospitals into oblivion – all with armaments and weapons systems supplied by the UK/US military industrial complex.

Le Coronavirus, sursis pour l’Amerique ou parasite de la mondialisation?

Par une ironie dont l’histoire est parfois friande, le virus qui règne actuellement sur les imaginations, s’est lové dans les trois espaces de haute civilisation qui fascinent l’esprit français depuis près de quatre cent ans. En un instant, les chinoiseries, lettres persanes et paysages italiens nous sont devenus grimaces. Au-delà de ce retournement d’image dont le public n’est naturellement pas conscient, six remarques peuvent être faites sur ce phénomène.

Coronavirus: A parasite for globalisation, unexpected boon for medical data collection.

.., the virus has awoken our previously dormant terror of dying of an incurable disease. As long as it does not become a pandemic, the coronavirus might temporarily boost America’s global position. In any case, its development is already helping to accelerate the mass gathering of medical data.

White Helmet signs in areas of west Aleppo infested by Al Qaeda and Nour Al Din Zinki armed groups.

2nd March 2020 – driving from the city of Aleppo to Urem Al Kubra, the furthest point in west Aleppo before reaching the terrorist frontlines. These areas were occupied by HTS or Al Qaeda in Syria and Nour Al Din Zinki, child beheading extremist group backed by the US as part of the “train and equip” programme.

Nusra Front/White Helmet center in Saraqeb, Idlib – chemical lab containing missiles.

Saraqeb, Idlib 24th February 2019. Former Nusra Front military training center, suspected used by White Helmets also.

On the ground in Idlib -Vanessa Beeley interviewed by Robin Philpot (French)

Cette guerre livrée à la Syrie depuis 2011, rappelle Vanessa Beeley, est une invasion et une occupation menées par des groupes terroristes financés et soutenus notamment par Washington, Londres, Paris mais aussi par la Turquie et Israël. Libérer le territoire syrien n’est ni plus ni moins la seule façon de faire respecter le droit international et de rétablir la paix.

Oscar-nominated “For Sama” will put Al Qaeda back on Hollywood’s red carpet

Dedicated to Waad’s daughter, the documentary can only be described as a grotesque misrepresentation of life in East Aleppo under the tyranny of sectarian armed groups. Anyone watching this movie will assume that East Aleppo was the “free country” as described by Waad, besieged and preyed upon by the Syrian government. The film literally airbrushes Nusra Front from the scenario. Groups like Nour al-Din al-Zenki are not referred to, their crimes go unmentioned.

Israel bombs Damascus as Syrian Arab Army advances in Idlib

During the early hours of Thursday morning (6th February 2020) Israel began a bombing campaign in Damascus and to the south in Daraa which lasted 45 minutes. The first huge explosion woke me up in West Damascus which was the first area to be targeted.

The Wall Will Fall

Where mainstream media fears to tread