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Veteran Intelligence Professionals to Trump: ‘Moscow Has Upped the Ante in Syria, Big Difference This Time’

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) collectively penned an open letter to U.S. President Donald Trump admonishing him to speak now and with authority for Russia and the world to hear – telling the jihadists embedded in Syria that “theirs is a lost cause.”

Treka: ‘Who are the people fighting the Syrian Army in Idlib?’

The Syrian comedian Treka, known for his humorous take on world events, gets serious about the battle that looms in Idlib – and helps answer the question of just who are these people preparing to fight the Syrian Army in Idlib.

In this biting commentary, complete with video clips, Treka covers a range of topics, including:

ClandesTime 151 – Rules of Engagement

The military legal drama Rules of Engagement is perhaps the greatest modern example of racist, warmongering propaganda. Unsurprisingly, it benefited from full Pentagon support, in exchange for numerous script changes. The film was eerily prescient, foreshadowing two terrorist attacks in Yemen, and in some ways the entire post-9/11 war on terror. In this episode I […](Read more...)

The Road to Idlib and Beyond, Where Next for Syria? – Peter Ford

Written by Peter Ford, former UK Ambassador to Syria 2003 – 2006 With military operations in the South virtually over, attention inevitably turns to the North and specifically to Idlib province, the last major redoubt of the armed opposition to the Syrian government. A number of other challenges, however, lie ahead besides Idlib before the…