7th November 2016 Craig Murray Virtually every mainstream media article or broadcast on the United States aerial massacre of Syrian government troops, manages to work in a reference to barrel bombs as though this in some way justifies or mitigates the US action. It is a fascinating example of a propaganda meme. Barrel bombs are…
5th August 2016 Vanessa Beeley 21st Century Wire As the battle for Aleppo gathers momentum and the encircled terrorist factions respond violently to the strangulation of their supply lines and diminishment of their territory in eastern Aleppo, CNN goes to extraordinary lengths to obfuscate US connections to these terror gangs, romanticise the role of terror…
28th June 2016 Dr Bouthaina Shaaban is Syrian President, Bashar al Assad’s media advisor. For over five years now Dr Shaaban has fielded western media hostility with forceful integrity and intelligence. In her opening words of this speech to the Schiller Institute’s conference in Berlin June 2016, Dr Shaaban hammers home the western exceptionalism and…
1st June 2016 But why publish this clumsy attempt at smearing the SSM? It’s not so strange when we examine who is doing the smearing. “The New Arab” (Al Araby Al Jadeed) is a English/Arabic television and news outlet based in the UK. It was founded in 2014 with financing from Qatar. This explains…
5th May 2016 Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research US-NATO is not prepared to let go in Syria. While the US sponsored Al Qaeda and ISIS rebels have largely been defeated, with the support of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, the Obama administration is now intent upon replenishing so to speak its “moderate opposition” brigades inside Syria…
2nd May 2015 At 54:00 ~ Vanessa Beeley talks to Patrick Henningsen of 21st Century Wire about Syria White Helmet leader, Raed Saleh’s recent deportation from the US as a suspected “extremist”. They also discuss the Syria White Helmet nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize 2016 and the counter petition from the Syria Solidarity Movement…
2nd May 2016 Patrick Henningsen 21st Century Wire Human rights in the West: does the reality live up to the rhetoric? On the surface, the cultural narrative seems innocent enough: billionaire philanthropists, political luminaries and transnational corporations, along with legions of staff and volunteers – all working together in the name of social justice,…
1st May 2016 Silvia Cattori Arret sur Info When the US and NATO war of aggression was launched against Syria, Dr Nabil Antaki could have abandoned Aleppo to ensure his own safety. Instead he decided to remain and to serve the besieged people of his City, working with various local charities. Above all, he wanted to…
29th April 2016 John Rosenthal Interviewed by BricsPost “The World has played with fire in Syria.” John Rosenthal is a European-based journalist and political analyst who writes on European politics and transatlantic issues. He has also written extensively about the Syrian Civil War. His articles have appeared in such publications as Al-Monitor, World Affairs, The Wall Street…
March 2015 and TIME magazine printed one of the most iconic photos of the Syrian “conflict”. The upended buses forming a barrier of rusting metal carcasses against the threat of “regime snipers”. The article went on to describe how “The Ahrar al-Sham brigade [a group that adheres to the conservative Salafi interpretation of Sunni Islam] placed…
The Wall Will Fall 