By Oleg Burunov – Sputnik – 26.11.2020 In October 2019, President Donald Trump announced that the US would be withdrawing its forces from Syria, but eventually backtracked, saying that a “small” American contingent would stay behind to allegedly “keep” the Syrian oil from being seized by Daesh. Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations (UN) […]
RT | November 23, 2020 Joe Biden has named Anthony Blinken – an advocate for isolating Russia, cozying up to China and intervening in Syria – as secretary of state, cementing a foreign policy built on military forays and multi-national motivations. Biden, the nominal president-elect, announced his selection of Blinken along with other members of […]
MEMO | November 21, 2020 The UK government has responded to pressure from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Conservative Friends of Israel by listing Israel and occupied Jerusalem together as one country in its weekly update to COVID-19 related travel corridors. Yesterday the Board condemned the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office […]
Palestine Chronicle – November 17, 2020 A Palestinian court yesterday held the first session to review a lawsuit filed against the British government over its crimes in Palestine during the British Mandate between 1917- 1948 and the Balfour Declaration which promised Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people. The Court of First Instance […]
By Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge – 11/12/2020 With Esper out the door, Trump’s newly in office acting Secretary of Defense is already making waves given who he’s just brought on board. The new acting Pentagon chief, Christopher Miller, has just brought on as his senior adviser Ret. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor. Crucially Macgregor is on […]
RT | November 13, 2020 When President Donald Trump ordered all but a few hundred US troops withdrawn from Syria, his own diplomats hid the true number of American forces from the president, envoy Jim Jeffrey has revealed in a new interview. “We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership […]
By Henry Batyaev – Sputnik – 11.11.2020 US instructors are training around 30 Daesh detainees from the Al-Hawl camp in Syria with the purpose of recruiting them to illegal armed formations, the head of the Russian-Syrian co-ordination centre for refugees return said on Wednesday. The prisoners underwent a two-month course of special training under the […]
By Nebojsa Malic | RT | November 11, 2020 Democrats and their allies are alarmed that President Donald Trump’s firing of top Pentagon officials could be preparation for a military coup. What looks more likely is that US troops might finally pull out from Afghanistan. In addition to Defense Secretary Mark Esper, whom Trump “terminated” on […]
MEMO | October 26, 2020 Labour Party MP Stephen Kinnock has reportedly been given a “dressing down” after saying that profiting from illegal settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is “tantamount to profiting from the proceeds of crime.” Party leader Keir Starmer was said to be furious at Kinnock’s impassioned speech calling for international law […]
MEMO | October 24, 2020 Anti-normalisation protests erupted in the streets of the Bahraini capital of Manama after Friday prayer yesterday. Protesters held up banners denouncing normalisation, with the unified slogan “Anti-normalisation Friday”, along with a photo of a masked Palestinian militant. Bahrain’s normalisation agreement with Israel was met with widespread anger, despite tight security […]
