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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.…

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…

LISTEN: The Two Puppets

Consortiumnews.com — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 06:39:15 +0000

There are parallels between their roles in Syria and Ukraine. But can Abu Mohammad Jolani be as easily controlled by the U.S., Israel and Turkey (who may have conflicting interests) as Volodymyr Zelensky? https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wbai.org.archive.audio/live-on-the-fly_2024-12-13_15-00_02-00.mp3 Former C.I.A. analyst Larry Johnson and…

Trump Says No to ‘Foolish’ US Missile Attacks on Russia

Consortiumnews.com — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:21:12 +0000

UPDATED: The incoming president told Time he “vehemently disagrees” with firing U.S. missiles into Russia, words that could soothe nuclear tensions between Washington and Moscow, reports Joe Lauria. UPDATE: Adds new last paragraph. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News…

WATCH: How to Stop a Nuclear War

Consortiumnews.com — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:59:11 +0000

Dennis Kucinich, Scott Ritter and Medea Benjamin met with citizens in Washington to discuss how they can get Congress to put a roadblock in the path towards nuclear annihilation. The former Congressman, former chief U.N. weapons inspector and Code Pink…

Craig Murray: The End of Pluralism in the Middle East

Consortiumnews.com — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:35:51 +0000

What this potentially amounts to is the end of pluralism in the Levant and its replacement by supremacism: An ethno-supremacist Greater Israel and a religio-supremacist Salafist Greater Syria. By Craig Murray in Beirut CraigMurray.org.uk A truly seismic change in the…

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…

Syria Is Absorbed Into the Empire

Consortiumnews.com — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 05:49:20 +0000

Maybe you would prefer to believe a plucky band of heroic freedom fighters bravely overthrew an evil supervillain dictator all on their own like some Hollywood movie, says Caitlin Johnstone. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim…

Craig Murray: Fall of Syria Is About Greater Israel

Consortiumnews.com — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:01:55 +0000

Speaking from Beirut in this video on Sunday, the former British diplomat explains the fall of Damascus within the context of the project for Greater Israel. Tonight in Beirut I reflect on 24 hours that radically changed the Middle…