America’s “Progressives” Pay Lip Service to Imperialism. Anti-War Movement is Dead

Prof Michel Chossudovsky | April 09, 2017 Trump’s Punitive Airstrikes against Syria. Noam Chomsky Favors “Regime Change” “Neoliberals, Neocons, Corporate media and “Progressives” (collectively, the Deep State) praising Trump for the illegal airstrike against Syria, uniformly calling for more war, and vociferously attacking all those opposing war. Many figures who opposed Bush’s war making have become…

Where Was CIA’s Pompeo on Syria?

Robert Parry | 8 April 2017 As President Trump was launching his missile strike against Syria, CIA Director Pompeo and other intelligence officials weren’t at the table, suggesting their doubts about Bashar al-Assad’s guilt, reports Robert Parry. There is a dark mystery behind the White House-released photo showing President Trump and more than a dozen…

New Declassified CIA Memo Presents Blueprint for Syrian Regime Collapse

The Libertarian Institute | 14 Feb 2017 A newly declassified CIA document explored multiple scenarios of Syrian regime collapse at a time when Hafez al-Assad’s government was embroiled in a covert “dirty war” with Israel and the West, and in the midst of a diplomatic crisis which marked an unprecedented level of isolation for Syria. The 24-page formerly classified memo entitled Syria: Scenarios…

US coalition spared ISIS oil production facilities in Syria – Russian MoD

RT January 4, 2017 The US-led international coalition did not bomb oil production facilities captured by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants in Syria, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov has stated. “Miraculously, only oil fields, captured by ISIS allowing the militants to earn tens of millions of dollars every month on illegal…

Report: US Bombed Syrian Army in Support of ISIS

Information Liberation  | September 18, 2016 According to the Syrian Army, the United States just bombed one of their positions so ISIS could overrun it. Via Reuters: BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s army general command said warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition bombed a Syrian army position at Jebel Tharda near Deir al-Zor airport on Saturday, paving the…

Assad’s Death Warrant

Counter Punch | 12 Sept 2016 “Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving…