Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The UN Security Council has agreed to extend a system for cross-border aid to Idlib, Syria until January 2023. The US and its allies had demanded a year-long extension, but Russia used its veto on Friday. UN and other NGO aid delivery trucks will cross from Turkey into Syria […]
Oct 20, 2016, The Duran
(republished at Global Research)
–EVA BARTLETT
October 19 marks two years since the very sudden and suspicious death of American journalist Serena Shim near Suruç, Turkey, close to the Syrian border.
Serena Shim and Michael Hastings are two examples, among numerous others, of journalists being harshly silenced for getting too close to exposing highly inconvenient truths. Serena Shim (October 10th 1985 – October 19th 2014) was an American-Lebanese journalist. Her tragic death came just two days after a video interview in which she claimed Turkish intelligence […]
The dead journalist that exposed Turkey was a US citizen. Wondering why the media refuses to cover her story? So are we.
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The Burning Blogger of Bedlam | October 20, 2015 Exactly a year ago – on October 19th, 2014 – the journalist Serena Shim was killed after reporting from Kobani in Syria as a war correspondent. Her death was almost certainly the work of the Turkish intelligence community. It’s a rather remarkable, and depressing, ‘coincidence’ that […]
By Eva Bartlett | Dissident Voice | October 10, 2015 Over the past five years, the increasingly ridiculous propaganda against President al-Assad and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has ranged from the scripted (OTPOR fomented -“revolution“) “peaceful protesters under fire” rhetoric, to other deceitful lexicon like “civil war,” and “moderate rebels.” As the intervention campaigns […]
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