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Image: Pakistanis protest against against a bombing at a Shia mosque in Quetta on January 31, 2015. (Courtesy PRESS TV) 

Al-Akhbar | January 5, 2015 Turkey and the United States aim to finalize an agreement on equipping and training the so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels this month, a senior Turkish foreign ministry official said Monday. Meanwhile, Syria’s Turkey-based opposition, the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), ruled out taking part in a Russian-led bid for new talks to […]

Image: The Israeli government has been providing medical assistance to Syria’s wounded for more than a year. In February, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a visit to a military field hospital in the Golan Heights
 

By Finian CUNNINGHAM | Strategic Culture Foundation | 16.12.2014 If a recent report in the British Guardian is to be believed, then the West is angling for a new pretext to step up its covert war of regime in Syria. The new pretext, it would seem, is that the Damascus government of Bashar al Assad […]

RT | December 10, 2014 Five years on from President Barack Obama scooping a Nobel Peace Prize, and the White House has taken anything but a Zen approach to foreign policy under his watch. Here are the top 5 not-so-peaceful moves the laureate has made in the past half-decade. 1. Afghan Surge Obama didn’t start […]

Al-Akhbar | December 9, 2014 A senior Iranian official on Tuesday denied remarks attributed to him in a British newspaper saying Tehran had carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in Iraq. The Guardian last week quoted deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Rahimpour as saying that Iran had conducted strikes […]

RT | December 5, 2014 Western countries made a ‘mistake’ three years ago, when they intervened in Libya to overthrow the Gaddafi regime, according to Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. The statement came amid reports of the US discussing airstrikes on Libya’s territory. “Three years ago we might have made a mistake, when international forces […]

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad giving an interview to the French magazine “Paris Match” in Damascus on December 3, 2014. Coalition strikes against the ISIS group are having no impact, Assad said in an interview, as members of the US-led offensive claimed to be winning

Syria’s conflict will be long and difficult and its army cannot be everywhere at once, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published by a French magazine on Thursday, in which he also vowed to remain in power.

RT | November 27, 2014 Is the US planning the occupation of Syria by training an unconventional insurgent invasion force? Think regime change in Syria is off the drawing board? Think again. The bombing of the ISIL or ISIS in Syria is part of a brinkmanship campaign leading up to a potential non-conventional invasion, parallel […]

On this special thirtieth episode of Porkins Policy Radio we welcome back Sibel Edmonds and Tom Secker for a roundtable discussion of The Lone Gladio and Operation Gladio B.  Tom starts us off by exploring some of the themes brought out in The Lone Gladio with respect to  main character Greg McPhearson; will we ever see a “rogue agent” within the CIA take on the agency?