It should be clear to anyone who has followed this story over recent weeks, that the US has no legal standing whatsoever in Syria, not that it ever had. However, recent watershed events on the ground have forced Washington to show its hand, and now the world can see that it is operating under a fraudulent ‘Anti-ISIS’ mandate.
Max Blumenthal explains how the US-backed proxy war in Syria helped create the al-Qaeda safe haven where US forces killed…
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IMAGE: ISIS militant in Syria (2016)
Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire
The reemergence of the terrorist organization “ISIS” is reported to be happening in parts of Syria, including in the former ‘rebel’ stronghold area of Daraa province, located in southwestern Syria.
In recent weeks, the province has witnessed several security incidents by unknown assailants, until finally, ISIS claimed responsibility for them.
Crossing the Euphrates, Darah Qawzak bridge. Every inch of Syria returning to Syria. This area that we drove through had, at one time, been under control of ISIS.
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-11-01%20Financial%20Survival.mp3"][/audio]In this excerpt from the Financial Survival program, James Corbett tells host Melody Cedarstrom about how history is written by the winners, and why we must strive to bear witness to truth before it gets buried in the history books.
Just three weeks ago, the western pro-war neoliberal and neocon politicians and their respective mainstream media outlets were all up in arms, shrieking in unison with cries of betrayal after US President Donald Trump announced he would be pulling US troops out of Syria.
At the time, most people believed he was serious, even the skeptics and critics. The Neoliberal wing of his opposition castigated Trump for “abandoning the Kurds,” and the Neoconservatives railed against him for “giving ISIS a lifeline” and “caving to Putin and Assad.”
Just as Bush the Younger had done, and Nobel Laureate Obama before him, and Clinton before that – President Donald J. Trump and the US government are lying to Americans and the world.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense this week said it had not seen any credible evidence that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS) terror group, had been killed in northern Syria last weekend, allegedly in a daring US military operation.
