Bolton to Head Security Council Meeting Discussing War on Syria (AntiWar) President Donald Trump vowed a “big price” would be paid by Syria for an alleged weapons attack Saturday. The attack, supposedly against the city of Douma, ...
When it comes to oil producing countries in the Middle East and Gulf state, for most people Saudi Arabia and Qatar come to mind, not Bahrain. That is until Bahrain shocked the world by announcing ...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman declared he recognizes Israel’s right to land ownership alongside the Palestinians. The 32-year-old influential prince stated that on Monday in an interview with the Atlantic. “I believe the Palestinians ...
Two years have passed since Turkey and the European Union signed a refugee deal meant to help Turkey handle the flow of thousands of Syrian refugees arriving at their borders. Is it a success or ...
Israel has finally confirmed that they were responsible for the bombing of a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007. Many suspect the Israel admission is a meant to send a warning to Iran. ...
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, stated in an interview with CBS that Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear arsenals if Iran does the same. “Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but ...
A new article from Consortium News sheds light on the connection between the Afghanistan opium trade and the Taliban’s cyclical surges of violence. A record poppy harvest is likely to mean a well-funded Taliban in ...
Syria is back in the headlines and civilians are trapped in the war-torn Ghouta district, but how accurately is corporate media covering the crisis? Trending in the news is the tragedy of Syria’s Eastern Ghouta ...
Media watchdog group, FAIR, analyzed the MSNBC Yemen coverage and found little to zero coverage of one of the worst human crises of our time. One of the world’s largest human catastrophe’s is not worth ...
After the outbreak of protests in Iran three weeks ago, several major corporate media outlets ran stories on the protests using pictures claiming to be from the Iranian protests. Too bad they used the wrong ...
Mike Pence’s Middle East Visit: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence concluded his four-day Middle East visit to Egypt, Jordan, and Israel amid tension in the region and a government shutdown that occurred during his trip. ...
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure: Turkish sanitation workers create library out of discarded books. Garbage collectors in Turkey opened a public library composed of discarded books which they collected along their routes in ...
A series of anti-government rallies rocked Iran to start 2018. Protests that threatened to shake the foundation of the Islamic republic. According to an ABC report on January 9, 2018, as many as 3,700 protesters were ...
When push comes to shove will U.N. countries buckle to the threats of the most powerful nation in the world or will they unite and stand together? On Thursday they stood up. On Thursday, the ...
The Department of Defense on Wednesday confirmed that they have carried out “multiple ground operations,” as well as 120 airstrikes in Yemen. (AntiWar, Jason Ditz) While the Pentagon has been very secretive about what they’ve ...
Critics: “Trump regime exposes contempt for democracy through its threats against those who dare resist its thuggish demands at the UN.” (Common Dreams, Julia Conley) U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley told U.N. member states that she would be ...
In Yemen 8 million people face food shortages and someone just killed the former President. Many fear that the killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh will open the floodgates for ISIS affiliated militants. The tension in the ...
Israeli Police Fire Stun Grenades at Peaceful Protesters (AntiWar, Jason Ditz) Protests continue to rage throughout the weekend in both the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with Palestinians out in force demonstrating against President Trump’s ...
Saudi Arabia nuclear power? The overture follows an intense and secretive lobbying push involving Michael Flynn, Tom Barrack, Rick Gates and even Iran-Contra figure Robert McFarlane. (ProPublica, by Isaac Arnsdorf) The Trump administration is holding talks on ...
CNN Hired Alleged Al-Qaeda Propagandist For Documentary, Is This Another CNN Cover Up? In June 2017, an American media activist living in rebel-held Syrian territory named Bilal Abdul Kareem expressed frustration with a former ...
Israel Attacks Syrian Military Positions, Syria Issues Warnings The On Sunday June 25th 2017, Israel attacked the Syrian government. The attack by Israel was a result of stray fire between the Syrian government, Al Nusra ...
There was a big debate on our Facebook page recently about attitudes towards Muslims so we addressed the points people brought up: Islam, is it a violent religion? Media and polls: what to believe? What ...
(AntiWar.com Jason Ditz) The US has confirmed that in an incident Sunday evening a US warplane, the F/A-18E Super Hornet, shot down a Syrian government Su-22 bomber south of Tabqa. The US accused the Syrian jet of ...
(AntiWar.com, Jason Ditz) An independent commission of UN war crimes investigators have denounced a “staggering loss of civilian life” that has resulted from the escalation of US airstrikes against the ISIS-held city of Raqqa since ...
After a June 7th 2017 terrorist attack in Tehran Iran, the government of Iran came out to blame the United States and Saudi Arabia for supporting terrorism. President Trump expressed grief but immediately after said ...
In April of 2016, Raed Al Saleh was denied a U.S. Visa. One reporter raised the question at a U.S. State Department press briefing at approximately the 47 minute mark in the video. This is a ...
(Northeastern.edu, Shraddha Kakade | Ruggles Media) Named last month as one of the four winners of the 2016 Right Livelihood Award,the White Helmets were also the subject of a recent Netflix documentary. The White Helmets are clearly glistening ...
On April 4th, 2017 the Syrian government was accused of conducting a gas attack in Idlib. Videos and photos from the scene show White Helmet workers providing aid to victims. One of the doctors providing ...
If you go to YoutTube and search “White Helmets fake” all sorts of videos and montages come up. The below video is one of the most professionally done compilations of evidence against the White Helmets. The video ...
We were all outraged and moved by the photo of the little Syrian boy, Omran, seemingly injured and stunned sitting in an ambulance and staring out blankly at the world while White Helmet rescuers move ...
Critics are calling a BBC video filmed in Syria fake. Judge for yourself. BBC caught a lot of criticism for altering the words of a female doctor in a video report. She is reporting from Atareb ...
If you go to this link you will see a large photo cache of men who are dressed in White Helmet outfits in some pictures and then later dressed in military outfits with armed weapons in ...
A French humanitarian named Pierre Le Corf, based in Aleppo for one year, videotaped and posted to YouTube a video of the supposed destroyed headquarters of Nusra (Al Qaeda in Syria) and the White Helmets. ...
Warning, watching the video footage discussed here is disturbing to watch but it is also some of the crucial evidence against the White Helmets. An organization called the Swedish Doctors For Human Rights investigated a ...
A popular image that circulates around in the anti-White Helmets world is a split screen of two images that appear to catch the White Helmets lying on Twitter. If you do an advanced Twitter search ...
WASHINGTON (AP, February 2017) — U.S. immigration authorities are barring entry to a 21-year-old Syrian cinematographer who worked on a harrowing film about his nation’s civil war, “The White Helmets,” that has been nominated for ...
Reposted with permission from AntiWar.com by Jason Ditz. Reports from US officials familiar with the situation say that the Trump Administration is working to push through billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia ...
1. Sunni/Shia/Wahhabi 2. Yom Kippur War 3. 1974 Nixon Deal 4. Iran/Iraq War 80’s 5. 9/11 & JASTA 6. Iran 2015 Nuclear Deal 7. S.A. – U.S. Arms Sales Sources: For our longer report and ...
“Patrick Clawson, member of the globalist-controlled think-tank and neo-con influenced Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP); recently spoke about the use of false flags as a necessary way for instigating a war with Iran. ...
Is Syria purely a humanitarian issue or is it about gas? Heard about the two competing pipelines vying to run through Syria? Ironically the two sides of the pipeline issue also happen to represent the ...
2 min news: 6 things they aren’t telling you about Syria! 1. Pipelines 2. Golan Heights 3. CNN Interview 4. Wikileaks 2005 Cable Release 5. CIA Coups 6. White Helmets Sources: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...
Middle Eastern affairs often seem like an endless and confusing mess of wars, sanctions, peace treaties and changing governments. To help clear things up we introduce our “Understanding the Middle East” series. We spotlight individual ...
Re-posted with permission from anti war by Jason Ditz, April 26, 2017 US warships have made a habit of wandering around in the Persian Gulf just off the coast of Iran, waiting for Iranian Naval ...
(Reprinted with permission from ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed, Written by Darius Shahtahmasebi) In June 2014, around the time ISIS was making headlines across the world, the Wall Street Journal reported that the terror group had 4,000 fighters in ...
The 2011 intervention in Libya was sparked by the US condemning the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan government. The official justification for the intervention was that Gaddafi was a brutal dictator who had ...
M.I.T. Professor Theodore Postol, an expert on weapons technology and an award recipient for uncovering false claims about missile defense systems, analyzed the evidence from the recent Syrian chemical weapons attack. He claims the evidence ...
Reposted from Bloomberg.com by Andrea Wong, May 20, 2016 Failure was not an option. It was July 1974. A steady predawn drizzle had given way to overcast skies when William Simon, newly appointed U.S. Treasury ...
Reposted With Permission From The Free Thought Project, by Barin Hines, October 19, 2016 While Americans continue to be distracted by the discussion over Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, geopolitical tension around the proxy war ...
Published on Nov 8, 2012 In an exclusive interview with RT, Syrian President Bashar Assad said that Syria is not going through a civil war, but rather a different kind of war – terrorism through ...
1/22/13 – Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin—who is the former commander of the U.S. Special Forces Command, the former deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and who, in the 1990s, worked with the ...