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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.…

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…

US & Israel Destroyed Syria & Called it Peace

corinna barnard — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:00:47 +0000

Netanyahu’s ambition to transform the region through war, which dates back almost three decades, is playing out in front of our eyes, writes Jeffrey Sachs. By Jeffrey D. Sachs Common Dreams In the famous lines of Tacitus, Roman historian, “To…

What Russia Feared in Syrian Conflict Has Come True

Consortiumnews.com — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:46:28 +0000

Three years before it intervened in Syria, Russia feared an Islamist takeover in Damascus would lead to widespread chaos in the region, like a new Afghanistan in the Levant, reported Joe Lauria in 2012. This article was originally written for…

AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Syria Now

Consortiumnews.com — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:27:45 +0000

The Assad family regime, sustained by force, was destined to collapse and the infighting between the various armed militias now may produce a situation not unlike Afghanistan. By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News This moment in Syrian history was…

Offensive Forces in Syria are Like Khmer Rouge

corinna barnard — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 07:37:55 +0000

John Wight says the common denominator behind the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s and Salafi-jihadism in our time, is Western foreign policy. By John Wight Medium Taking place in Syria now as thousands of Salafi-jihadists…

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…

McBride Speaks From Prison at Australia’s Top Press Award Event

Consortiumnews.com — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:45:18 +0000

Imprisoned whistleblower David McBride spoke to the Walkley Awards ceremony, Australia’s Pulitzers, in a nationally-televised address that was a challenge to the authorities who jailed him. Consortium News was there. David McBride, a former military lawyer deployed to Afghanistan, is…

Assange’s Measure of Justice From the Council of Europe

corinna barnard — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:00:27 +0000

Marjorie Cohn reports on the Parliamentary Assembly’s “political prisoner” resolution, including its alarm that the C.I.A. “was allegedly planning to poison or even assassinate” the WikiLeaks publisher. By Marjorie Cohn Truthout The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Europe’s…

Chris Hedges: Extermination Works. At First.

corinna barnard — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:01:58 +0000

In the long term, this indiscriminate violence waged by Netanyahu and those driving Middle East policy in the White House creates adversaries that, sometimes a generation later, outdo in savagery — we call it terrorism. By Chris Hedges Scheerpost Extermination…