Human Rights Watch

Ecuador Rejects HRW Report as “Manipulative”

teleSUR – November 12, 2015 In a statement released Wednesday, Ecuador’s governing party, Alianza PAIS, rejected the “latest political intervention against the government of Ecuador by the U.S.-based organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its report released on 10 November 2015.” The report made unsubstantiated claims that “the administration of President Rafael Correa has expanded […]

Faulty Analysis and Conclusions on Syria

By Rick Sterling | CounterPunch | October 21, 2015 Recently CounterPunch published an article Obama’s Legacy: An Abyss Gazing Backwards by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad. It exemplifies the faulty analysis and conclusions of those advocating direct U.S. intervention in Syria, from far right wing neoconservatives to liberals and even some self-styled Marxists. Because of the dangerous […]

Faulty Analysis and Conclusions on Syria

By Rick Sterling | CounterPunch | October 21, 2015 Recently CounterPunch published an article Obama’s Legacy: An Abyss Gazing Backwards by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad. It exemplifies the faulty analysis and conclusions of those advocating direct U.S. intervention in Syria, from far right wing neoconservatives to liberals and even some self-styled Marxists. Because of the dangerous […]

Deconstructing the NATO Narrative on Syria

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 […]