Since the US and EU mounted a joint coup d’etat in the Ukraine in 2014 which forcibly overthrew the democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych, anti-Russian xenophobia has dominated western political speech and mainstream media coverage.
This week, the White House released a bizarre screed, apparently authored by US President Donald Trump entitled, “Statement from President Donald J. Trump on Standing with Saudi Arabia” (read his full statement below). As Trump statements go, this was one of the most incoherent proclamations made to date.
IN THE DOCK: Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief, Edward Gallagher.
A decorated 19-year combat veteran and Navy SEAL is facing life imprisonment for a series violent war crimes carried out in Iraq.
The last week has seen a new trend developing in northern Syria, whereby terrorist commando units are infiltrating deep into government-held Syrian territory in order to mount deadly raids taking out military positions and killing Syrian and allied personnel.
This development coincides with the recent announcement by al Nusra rebrand, Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) that it has now unified all militant groups in Idlib under one unified command and control structure.
It has long been suspected, that far from “fighting ISIS” as the US boldly claim at every turn, that Washington has been ‘managing’ the issue of ISIS in order to first help facilitate regime change in Syria (which has so far failed), and now as the justification for the illegal US occupation of northeastern Syria.
It would be an understatement to say that during U.S. President Donald Trump’s term in office, the issue of truth and falsehoods has been a central topic of political discourse. It was a reoccurring issue throughout the 2016 election and has only continued following his unlikely triumph.
MINNEAPOLIS — A new report has exposed the past collaboration of Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat and influential neo-conservatives with the “most influential Twitter account” of the terror group Daesh, also known as the Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS). That collaboration helped promote the account, which posted under the Twitter handle @shamiwitness, as an “expert” on foreign jihadists while also helping to promote the account’s pro-Daesh messaging.
How some of the best known Syria regime-change hustlers and “experts” helped transform the @ShamiWitness account from a cretinous troll into a…
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Authored by Rick Sterling via Oriental Review:
The October 16 issue of NY Review of Books has an article by Janine di Giovani titled “Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets”. The article exemplifies how western media promotes the White Helmets uncritically and attacks those who challenge the myth.
