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Caitlin Johnstone: Where the Aggression Really Begins

corinna barnard — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:30:13 +0000

The empire’s favorite trick is to begin the historical record at the moment its enemies retaliate against its abuses. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com.au Listen to Tim Foley reading this article. New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with “murder as…

Putin Thinks Al-Qaeda in Syria Is Reformed Too

Consortiumnews.com — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:21:45 +0000

The Russian president has said Russia actually won in Syria because the jihadist threat is apparently ended, which was Moscow’s goal all along. But he ignored what he’d previously said was the West’s role in that conflict, writes Joe Lauria.…

UK Prison Abuse of Palestine Activists

corinna barnard — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:00:40 +0000

Young protesters face more than a year in prison before going on trial over a break-in at an Israeli arms factory near Bristol, Daniel Tester reports. By Daniel Tester Declassified UK Clare Rogers found out that her 21-year-old daughter Zoe…

When Britain Aided Al-Qaeda in Syria

corinna barnard — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0000

The U.K.’s campaign to overthrow the Assad regime provides key background to understanding Whitehall’s approach to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, writes Mark Curtis. By Mark Curtis Declassified UK Beginning in 2011, Britain embarked on a campaign to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad…

Can You Handle the Truth?

Consortiumnews.com — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:16:39 +0000

Consortium News is a publication for adults who are prepared to put away their adolescent notions of America’s exceptional goodness and are instead ready to face the ugly realities of the United States abroad. It ain’t pretty. A government by,…

How the West Rebranded Al-Qaeda’s Jolani

corinna barnard — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:54:16 +0000

As Western media and politicians embrace Jolani and HTS, Alan McLeod sees the U.S. reverting to its pre-9/11 close relationship with al-Qaeda. By Alan MacLeod MintPress News Corporate media is heralding the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the emergence of…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Blinded to Syria

Consortiumnews.com — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:12:47 +0000

Decades after deploying mass violence and rendering citizens grotesquely ignorant of the world, U.S.-led powers appear willing to risk world war, while reinventing a terrorist to lead what was a secular nation until last week. By Patrick Lawrence Special to…

Support CN’s Middle East Coverage

Consortiumnews.com — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 01:39:51 +0000

Seven-year old Consortium News in 2002 was one of the first outlets to reject the politicized intelligence for the disastrous Iraq invasion and has run circles around corporate media on Syria, from 2011 until today. But only with your help.…

The Day the Media Decided Militant Jihadism Is OK

corinna barnard — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:27 +0000

Jonathan Cook on the sudden capacity of the Western press — in the case of Syria — to distinguish between jihadists and Islamic nationalists. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net Here is a very strange thing. For years, Western media outlets and…

Chris Hedges: To Kill a People

corinna barnard — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:00:56 +0000

The vaunted democratic values, morality and respect for human rights, claimed by Israel and the U.S. have always been a lie. The real credo is this – we have everything and if you try and take it away from us…