Editor's Comment: Hillary Clinton's "confession" that the U.S. created Al Queda was anything but spontaneous and honest. In this videotaped announcement, she attempted to justify the decision to fund, train and employ Al Queda to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan. In the same argument she tried to justify US aggression... » read this article

12 May 2012 “Our policy is to try to accelerate the arrival of that tipping point” at which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman explained last March to the US Senate’s foreign relations committee. Thursday saw the latest incarnation of this policy.... » read this article

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SYRIAN responds to “Friends of Syria”: Not Friends of the Syrian People, a featured article on Axis of Logic by Ghali Hassan, Columnist.. SYRIAN: I would to thank you mr. obama and mr. sarkuzy and also mm. clinton for the huge gift for the syrians, morning of 9 mai tens of... » read this article

On 01 April 2012, the so-called “Friends of Syria” met in Istanbul to plan their agenda of fomenting civil war in Syria to destroy the country and oust the Syrian Government, using “human rights” as a pretext. They have agreed to provide finance and arms to outlawed groups attacking the... » read this article

23 April 2012 In a cynical and duplicitous editorial Saturday, the New York Times stepped up its campaign for US political subversion and military action against Syria, while demanding Washington adopt a more aggressive posture against Russia and China. The editorial, headlined “Assad’s Lies,” is itself a compendium of lies,... » read this article

The Anti-Empire Report The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO, and the European Union — or an approved segment thereof, can usually get what they want. They wanted Saddam Hussein out, and soon he was swinging from a rope. They wanted the Taliban ousted from power, and, using overwhelming... » read this article

Introduction There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad of Syria is a violent, power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousands of Syrian soldiers, police and civilians, partisans of the government and its peaceful opposition. The outrage expressed by politicians... » read this article

The Western governments' and mainstream media’s narrative of a one-sided humanitarian crisis in Syria is rapidly unwinding to reveal a self-serving deception to justify a re-run of Libya-style NATO conquest. In reality, it is the Western powers and their Israeli and Arab henchmen who are fuelling a humanitarian crisis and... » read this article

The UK has been instrumental in consolidating relations between the disparate and isolationist opposition groups in Syria—not because the British elite want genuine democracy, of course, but because Syria’s President Assad would not acquiesce to the neo-liberal economic policies of the Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative (BMENAI).1 Unlike... » read this article

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah secretary general of Hezbollah in a speech in Baalbek – Lebanon on Saturday January 14th declared that he would like to thank Mr. Ban Ki Moon Secretary General of the United Nations for worrying about Hezbollah’s growing military strength. Sayyed Nasrallah on Arbaeen: "Our Certainty of this... » read this article

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."  Frederic Bastiat, French thinker (1801-1850).   The U.S. and its allies are preparing... » read this article

Divide and conquer stratagems are back with a vengeance throughout the Arab world, fanning the flames of discontent and undermining national sovereignty. The stage is being set for a contrived "clash of civilizations," closely following the 1982 plan of Israeli strategist Oded Yinon, for which any form of peaceful coexistence... » read this article

Surrounded by the Turkish veteran member of NATO in the north, the Israeli NATO partner and the navy fleets of the member states patrolling the Mediterranean in the west, the alliance’s Jordanian partner in the south, and in the east hosting a NATO mission in Iraq, which is expected to... » read this article

"First, a media was used to forge an external state against Syria, especially in the Security Council.  At that time, we were focusing on the internal aspect because it was not easy to show that there was an external plot, even to some Syrians. It was not easy to show... » read this article

The United States is watching the violence in Syria "with horror”, said White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney recently. The “horror”, of course, is the result of ongoing U.S. interference in Syria’s internal affairs aimed at destabilising Syria. The U.S.-sponsored armed insurrection in Syria is a carbon copy of the... » read this article

(Reuters) - The head of the most influential school of Sunni Islam added his voice Monday to international and Arab criticism of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's assault on protesters, describing the bloodshed as a human tragedy that must stop. A five-month crackdown on protests in Syria has emerged as one... » read this article

The operations conducted against Libya and Syria involve the same actors and strategies. However, their respective outcomes will differ since the situations in these countries are not comparable. Thierry Meyssan analyzes the semi-failure experienced by the colonial and counter-revolutionary forces, and predicts a pendulum reversal in the Arab world. ********************************************************... » read this article

Editor's Comment: We view this to be one example of the many ways the government/corporate western media has been using to deceive the public about Syria and President Bashar al-Assad, setting them up for destabilization, 'regime change' and ultimately to "Libyanize" the country with another US/NATO invasion. On her blog,... » read this article

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ declared on March 25, 2011 – that there are 3 repressive regimes in the Middle East that must be condemned – Syria, Libya and Iran. Why is the U.S. targeting these particular countries?   The progressive political movement must avoid being just an echo... » read this article