The Atlantic | April 2016 Friday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America’s reign as the world’s sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obama peered into the Middle Eastern abyss and stepped back from the consuming void—began with a thundering speech given on Obama’s…
Gareth Porter | 14 March 2016 Secretary of State Kerry urged President Obama to launch secret missile attacks inside Syria without admitting the U.S. role, a plan that Obama rejected Jeffrey Goldberg’s newly published book-length article on Barack Obama and the Middle East includes a major revelation that brings US Secretary of State John Kerry’s…
RT | 10 March 2016 In an interview with RT, a spokesman for the Kurdish YPG militia accused Turkey of providing a clear transit route for the chemical weapons that were deployed against them near the city of Aleppo on Tuesday. READ MORE: ISIS shelled Kurdish-controlled Iraq village with ‘poisonous substances’ – governor Syrian anti-government…
VT | 4 March 2016 Turks and Saudi’s Moving Against Regional Leaders – Sources in Lebanon, Russia There are multiple confirmations today, from sources in Hezbollah intelligence in Lebanon, from Iraq and now directly from Russia. Sources also reveal that Russia has become increasingly frustrated and impatient with Turkey for that nations intransigence in the…
The Stringer | 29 Feb 2016 There are some amazing human beings who have appeared on the global stage in the last decade who have done more for an informed public than the tens of thousands of journalists around the world combined over the last century. The courageous sacrifices of for instance Julian Assange, Chelsea…
Robert Parry | 18 Feb 2016 The risk that the multi-sided Syrian war could spark World War III continues as Turkey, Saudi Arabia and U.S. neocons seek an invasion that could kill Russian troops — and possibly escalate the Syrian crisis into a nuclear showdown, amazingly to protect Al Qaeda terrorists, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry When President Barack Obama…
Economic Collapse | February 16, 2016 As you read this article, Turkish forces are massing along the border with Syria, and the largest “military exercises” in the history of the Middle East are being held in northern Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are publicly warning that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “will be removed by force” if…
RT | 16 Feb 2016 Both government and opposition-held towns in Syria over the border from Turkey have fallen under Ankara’s shelling that began last week, according the Russian Ministry of Defense. Turkey’s artillery has fired more than 100 shells at bordering areas in the northwest province of Aleppo, targeting both Syrian government forces and…
Unz Review | 14 Feb 2016 The situation in Syria has reached a watershed moment and a dramatic escalation of the war appears imminent. Let’s look again at how we reached this point. During the first phase of the operation, the Syrian armed forces were unable to achieve an immediate strategic success. This is rather…
FNA | 13 Feb 2016 Senior Iraqi security sources lashed out at the US and its regional allies for supporting Takfiri terrorists in Iraq, and said that Washington is the main cause of ISIL’s survival in his country. “We have compelling evidence that a US helicopter landed in Albu Arim palms of Fallujah city to…