Press TV – September 27, 2014 The US Department of Defense says it is considering the possibility of imposing a no-fly zone over northeastern Syria to deny the Syrian military the ability to launch airstrikes there, reports say. Turkey has requested the US to establish a buffer zone along the Turkish-Syrian border to protect foreign-sponsored […]
By Kevin Barrett | Press TV | September 26, 2014 Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s first Chief of Staff – who also served as Obama’s Israeli Mossad handler – famously said: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could […]
Empire Strikes Black | September 24, 2014 Notice that ISIS are sworn enemies of Syria, Hizbu’llah, and Iran. This in itself gives a most obvious clue as to the identity of the group’s benefactors. A prevalent liberal cliché is the “blowback” theory – the theory that ISIS terror attacks, and indeed the group’s very existence, […]
Nasrallah speaks on July 25, 2014, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. (Photo: Al-Akhbar – Haitham Moussawi) Al-Akhbar | September 23, 2014 Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday said his group could never be a part of an anti-ISIS coalition led by “the source” of all terrorism in the world, the United States. The international […]
Image above: United States ambassador to the UN Samantha Power next to President Obama
Press TV – September 23, 2014 Syria has once again slammed the Israeli regime’s support for the Takfiri ISIL militants operating inside the Arab country. A Syrian military official, whose name was not mentioned in the reports, made the comments on Tuesday after Tel Aviv said earlier in the day that it had shot down […]
By Reuters
(Haaretz) – The United States and partner nations are carrying out the first air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, the Pentagon said late Monday, in ongoing operations that mark the opening of a new, far more complicated front in battle against the militants.
US policy has an Alice in Wonderland absurdity about it, everything being the opposite of what it appears to be. The so-called “coalition of the willing” is, in practice, very unwilling to fight ISIS, while those hitherto excluded, such as Iran, the Syrian government, Hezbollah and the PKK, are the ones actually fighting.
Neither the rebels nor President Assad’s army are strong enough to fight on two fronts at once
By Ron Paul | September 21, 2014 Last week, the House and Senate voted to rubber stamp President Obama’s war plans for the Middle East. Both bodies, on a bipartisan basis, authorized the US to begin openly training and arming the rebels who have been fighting for three years to overthrow the Assad government in […]
Press TV – September 21, 2014 What follows is an approximate transcription of an interview with Ken O’Keefe, a peace activist from London. Press TV: Do you see this as a project that the United States really wants to stop this terrorist group or not? O’Keefe: Absolutely not, and I find it laughable that anybody […]
