President Barak Obama

Image: 69th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 24, 2014 (Reuters / Mike Segar
 

“Before the 2003 invasion, Iraq’s domestic oil industry was fully nationalized and closed to Western oil companies. A decade of war later, it is largely privatized and utterly dominated by foreign firms,” the CNN report concluded, indicating that, “From ExxonMobil and Chevron to BP and Shell, the West’s largest oil companies have set up shop in Iraq.

 
by NICOLA NASSER
Long gone the days when the U.S.-led so-called “Friends of Syria” could plausibly claim that two thirds of Syria was controlled by rebel forces, that Syrian capital Damascus was under siege and its fall was just a matter of time and that the days of President Bashar al-Assad were numbered and accordingly he “should step down.”

 
by William Cook

 
Christof Lehmann

Khan al-Assal Massacre to Cover-up Chemical Weapons Use by Jabhat al-Nusrah
A new massacre in the Khan al-Assal district of Aleppo has claimed the lives of 123 while many are still reported missing.
by Christof Lehmann