Originally posted on Mideast Shuffle:
US-designated Syrian terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra with an American-made TOW Missile in its possession. Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford said in an interview yesterday to PBS Newshour: “We need – and we have long needed – to help moderates in the Syrian opposition with both weapons and other…
In the last four months of devastating war in my country, and in my years as a journalist before this conflict began, I have seen and written about many terrible things. But nothing prepared me for this. On July 24, my uncle, my aunt and their five children – the oldest of them 16 and…
Amir Askari Yahyavi ~ ” The Yemeni people have through the machinations of a coalition of barbarians in suits been exposed to perdition. I condemn the tabloids to hell for their complicity in imposing this mean, cruel existence of the Yemeni people, through the lies, false castigations and the whitewashing of the culprits for this…
Originally posted on In Gaza:
Another Syrian journalist killed while reporting on the terrorism of armed anti-government groups in Syria. Scarcely a peep out of MSM three days after his murder. Were this a Western journalist, you can bet that the headlines would be blaring outrage against this heinous murder. There is a FB memorial…
Originally posted on Peace Action – Groundswell Blog:
For 14 years the US has waged a global war on terror with a stated goal of denying al Qaeda a safe haven anywhere in the world. Now several of our regional partners in the Middle East, hell-bent on removing Assad from power, are backing a coalition of Syrian…
This is an authentic report from an Aleppo resident whose identity is protected for their own security. They are living through the daily hardships of life in an externally created war zone. Water and electricity shortages, NATO & US backed terrorists embedded in multiple areas of the city creating random buffer zones where the risk…
Samia Al-Ansi (36). She works in the humanitarian sector as a country logistics manager in Sana’a. And one day she might be a writer of short stories. Her text below gives you a taste of her talent. “I have lived in my own bubble. My eyes used to be closed during the Arab spring, I didn’t want to face the…
Yemenis want to be heard. They need to be heard. Thus I have asked Yemeni friends of mine, men and women, to tell their stories, to give a personal account of their experiences of the war in Yemen and to send me pictures that illustrate their texts. I will post them here on this website, one by one.…
Originally posted on Fabrication in BBC Panorama 'Saving Syria’s Children':
Background to the complaint BBC Newsnight 29 August 2014 – substituted footage BBC switches Syria footage on grounds of “taste and decency” BBC: “no reason why” audience should be told footage was changed; BBC News “under no obligation” to reveal source of substituted images…
Originally posted on Fabrication in BBC Panorama 'Saving Syria’s Children':
22 July 2015 Ref: CT/1500344 Dear Mr Steel Thank you for your provisional finding of 20 July (reproduced below) informing me that you propose to uphold my complaint regarding the substitution of Syria footage in respect of accuracy. The finding does not address the points I…
The Wall Will Fall 