It is perhaps unusual to have a government that has as much disregard for what most would consider to be the truth as does the current group of rascals running the United States of America. To be sure, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is as shameless a liar as has ever been seen on any…
“Le Monde” : SYRIA : DANGEROUS ESCALATION AROUND IDLIB “At least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed on Thursday, February 27th in Idlib, northwestern Syria, by Bashar al-Assad’s forces, backed by Russian aircraft. Ankara in retaliation has bombed Syrian positions and is threatening the Europeans to allow an influx of refugees to the west. Nearly 900,000…
What is the Syria war about? Contrary to the depiction in Western media, the Syria war is not a civil war. This is because the initiators, financiers and a large part of the anti-government fighters come from abroad. Nor is the Syria war a religious war, for Syria was and still is one of the most…
Western media hype: Fear and panic, disruption of the global economy. That makes the headlines. But not a word is mentioned that the COVID-19 pandemic in China is under control: people are being treated in hospitals and they are recovering. On February 28, China reported 36,157 out of a total of 78,961 reported cases as having…
Although Western media has a shoddy track record of lying on Syria (and Libya, Iraq…), the US State Department will pump $35 million more into future war propaganda on Syria, under the guise of promoting honest reporting. With their grant, the US plans to “advance human rights and promote tolerance and dialogue between ethnic and…
In an earlier article (FAIR.org, 12/18/19) regarding the Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers (12/9/19), I discussed how the Post’s exposé also exposed the Post as one of the primary vehicles US officials use to spread their lies, and why it’s impossible for corporate media outlets like the Post to raise more substantive questions about the deceptive nature of US foreign policy. But those…
