By Finian Cunningham
With unseemly haste, US news media leapt on the killing of four American military personnel in Syria as a way to undermine President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw troops from that country.
IMAGE: Propaganda image from the cover of Amnesty International’s report entitled, ‘Squeezing the Life Out of Yarmouk: War Crimes Against Besieged Civilians’, one of many designed to fit hand-in-glove with the joint US and UK covert regime change operation deployed against Syria since 2011.
By Alexander Rubinstein
A bomb blast has struck near a US-led coalition patrol killing and injuring and killing civilian and US-led coaltion military personnel in Syria’s northern city of Manbij today, according to multiple witnesses.
According to reports, casualties are believed to include at least 16 people, including at least 2 US soldiers. The death of US soldiers was also confirmed by CBS News.
Most Americans have no idea who ‘The Kurds’ are and how they rose to prominence in the US foreign policy matrix. Understanding their politics and history is essential in understanding Turkey’s deeper motivations in Syria.
‘The Memo That Helped Kill a Half Million People in Syria’
A wise decision is greeted by denunciations, obstructionism, imperial thinking, and more Russia-bashing.
By Stephen F. Cohen
By Dr. Ron Paul
I’m starting to wonder whether President Trump has any power over US foreign policy at all. Many people believe that the US president is just a figurehead, with actual foreign policy firmly in the hands of the deep state. Trump’s latest dramatic U-turn on pulling troops from Syria certainly feeds such theories.
Peter Ford
21st Century Wire
Every day that passes seems to bring fresh evidence that Trump’s decision is being walked back. But appearances can be misleading.
Forward by Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute:
A restaurant, beneath the Citadel in Aleppo, displaying 2019 New Year signs. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley)
Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
