The days of U.S. dictating to the Arab world, and U.S.-engineered wars for regime change in the Middle East are over, Steven Sahiounie writes.
U.S. Sanctions Are Drowning Syrians
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Eight Years Ago, March 2011. The Day before Daraa: How the War Broke Out in Syria
Western liberal thinkers have failed to recognise the strength of Turkish democracy, because it does not deliver their desired results
Turkey elections: Why the West got it so wrong
By Tony Cox, a US journalist who has written and edited for Bloomberg and several major daily newspapers.
From pogrom-mongers to Hitlerites to radical Islamists, the US has collaborated with repugnant partners for more than a century
America’s Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are latest in long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia (Alternative source)
by William Van Wagenen | Aug 3, 2022
In the mainstream view, the armed groups fighting the Syrian government since 2011, collectively known as the Free Syrian Army (FSA), were part of a Syrian revolution that represented the Syrian people. At the same time, the Syrian government, or Assad regime, allegedly represented only a small number of loyalists, in particular from President Assad’s minority Alawite community. Such a view undergirded demands by Western and Gulf-funded think tank scholars, who claimed that the Syrian people wished for FSA groups to be armed, and even for Western military intervention on behalf of the FSA, whose fighters they sympathetically described as rebels.
Did the Syrian Revolution Have Popular Support?
Russia, Turkey and Iran say the US needs to leave the territory they occupy with the PKK terror pals and condemn Israel for it’s continuous attacks on Syria.
Astana Talks on Syria
[Editor’s Note: To mark the 20th anniversary of the rise of the American security state after the September 11th attacks, The Dissenter presents aretrospective on this transformation in law enforcement and government. Each entry in the series, “Twenty Years In A Security State,” will connect with whistleblower stories where possible.]
Since 9/11, FBI Has Destroyed People Based On Their Race, Religion, Or Country Of Origin
*Blog version slightly longer -by Eva K Bartlett
This week, Syrians around the world will vote in the 2021 Presidential elections (those in Syria will vote on May 26). That is, if Western nations re-open the embassies they so democratically shut years ago.
Western nations want ‘democracy’ in Syria so badly they close embassies and prevent Syrians from voting in presidential elections
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 