Let me be clear that this blogpost is not about sour grapes. But the media cacophony on Syria has just become too shrill – reporters, too reluctant to raise obvious questions – to just sit…
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The west wasted trillions in needless conflict with the USSR. Now we are being brainwashed into confrontation with Iran ‘With the end of the cold war … the west’s craving for a necessary enemy has…
“The crisis is at its end” is no longer a relieving statement made by some political analysts, as the crisis is really close to its end. Baba Amro is now under the control of the Syrian army… and so are the armed groups of which a big number escaped to the Lebanese borders dubbing their retreat “tactical”. Around 700 Arab and Western gunmen surrendered in Baba Amro, well-informed sources told Al-Manar website, adding that “huge and critical surprises will be uncovered in the coming few days… such as the kinds of arms seized, as well as the military tactics the armed groups followed, and the sides that supervised the operations.” The sources further assured to the news website that the security operation in Homs will be over in a maximum of five to eight days.
US Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (L) and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey prepare to testify at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 7, 2012 on…
British and Qatari troops preparing military incursion through Turkey According to Aviation Week, Syria’s “newly improved, long-range surveillance and intelligence-gathering facilities” represent an obstacle to an Israeli attack on Iran. Focussing on the cooperation between Syria…
Putin’s election-eve attack against Washington and its western allies for exporting “rocket-bomb democracy” indirectly targets India too ==== [quote from the body of The Hindu article] The veto Russia slapped jointly with China on two…
The Obama administration is moving to provide direct assistance to the internal opposition in Syria for the first time, marking a shift in U.S. policy toward a more aggressive plan to help oust President Bashar…
A shocking email leaked as part of the Wikileaks Stratfor data dump reveals that the Pentagon is planning to direct terror attacks and assassinations inside Syria in a bid to topple President President Bashar al-Assad….
In a pattern of propaganda now well-established in the mainstream media, fear-mongering against Iran is reaching an all-time peak. A case in point includes ongoing accusations that Iran is in violation of the nuclear non-proliferation…
Is the crackdown on Baba Amr the biggest political masquerade since 9/11? This is what Thierry Meyssan sets out to prove in a exclusive serialized account published by Voltaire Network. In this first installment, he…