U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to end the CIA’s covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of President Bashar Al-Assad, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. officials. Arab intelligence services and the CIA have been training rebels since 2013 under the code name Timber Sycamore. The training […]
Tom O’Connor, a repeat offender when it comes to blatantly distorting facts about Israel, is at it again, in the pages of Newsweek. This time, O’Connor makes two claims that Israel is militarily behind the Al-Qaeda linked terror organization Al-Nusra Front. Battling for Terrorists O’Connor says: Israeli helicopters attacked the Syrian military Saturday as it attempted to […]
by JONATHAN COOK Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the man who exposed the Mai Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the US military’s abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004, is probably the most influential journalist of the modern era, with the possible exception of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the pair […]
by Jonathan Spyer The Jerusalem Report May 9, 2017 Originally published under the title “Assad’s Hollow Crown.” All photos by author. The mortar shells came early in the morning. At about 5. At regular intervals. Solemn and sinister. They were a reminder of how close it all was. We were in the old city of […]
Sean Spicer used Hitler to make a point against Syria’s Assad – and that’s what happens when your mouth runs faster than your brain. Around here we don’t use the H-word unless we really have to; we say “may his name be erased” and the point is made. Likewise we never compare H with anybody […]
A US airstrike in western Raqqa has killed at least 15 and injured dozens, according to multiple reports. “The airstrike devastated an internet coffee shop in Hanedah town in western Raqqa countryside. The airstrike killed more than 20 civilians and injured dozens more,” according to Al Masdar News. Time to convene another emergency Security Council […]
Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice confirmed as recently as January 2017 that the Obama administration had successfully removed all chemical weapons from Syria. In an interview she gave to National Public Radio, Rice can be heard bragging over the Obama administration’s ‘success’ in the removal of Syrian weapons of mass destruction. “We were able […]
MIKE WHITNEY President Donald Trump’s missile attack on the Shayrat Airfield in Western Syria was a poorly planned display of imperial muscle-flexing that had the exact opposite effect of what was intended. While the attack undoubtedly lifted the morale of the jihadists who have been rampaging across the country for the last six years, it […]
A video showing Tomahawk land attack missiles being launched from the Mediterranean against the Syrian military Shayrat airfield early Friday has been released by the US Naval Institute’s YouTube channel.
By Michael Savage All day we’re talking about the Nuclear Option. Nuclear Option? What happens when the world goes nuclear? Today, the Congress decided to go nuclear … that is use the so called Nuclear Option to blow up the filibuster for a straight up or down vote on Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch. Even though […]
