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As Syria Struggles Under COVID-19 Lockdown, America’s Scorched Earth Policy Ensures Food Insecurity

July 15, 2020 Opinion

In a world dominated by American exceptionalism and neo-colonialism, hunger has become a weapon of war. “The use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare is prohibited” under in…

Mohammed bin Zayed’s Mission Impossible: Alliance with Israel

July 13, 2020 Opinion

The Arab uprising that took place in 2011, and the cameo appearance of democracy in Egypt, unleashed a wave of military interventions, coups and civil wars that show no signs of exhaustion even a…

BOUNTYGATE: Scapegoating Systemic Military Failure in Afghanistan

July 7, 2020 Opinion

On the morning of Feb. 27, Beth Sanner, the deputy director of national intelligence for mission integration, arrived at the White House carrying a copy of the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), a docume…

Wait, Iran & Syria Are Now Officially On Opposite Sides In Libya? Why!?

June 28, 2020 Opinion

The Alt-Media Community simply can't make sense out of the fact that Iran and Syria now officially support opposite sides in Libya since it completely contradicts the long-running but factually false …

How Washington Intends to Triumph

June 27, 2020 Opinion

For two decades Washington has been trying to "reshape" the "Greater Middle East", an arbitrarily defined region stretching from Afghanistan to Morocco. However, over the last three years two strategi…

The Caesar Act: The Latest Western Attack on Syria Didn’t Drop From a Plane

June 24, 2020 Opinion

Talib Mu’alla served as a soldier in the Syrian Arab Army before he was wounded in Aleppo in 2014. As he described the multiple shots he took to his body, I thought it remarkable that he survived. “A …

Syria Caesar’s Law and How it Will Affect Lebanon: Israel Will be Targeted

June 23, 2020 Opinion

The enactment of “Caesar’s Law” – the new US sanctions designed to “pursue individuals, groups, companies, and countries that deal with the Damascus government” – is apparently directed against Syria …

Turkey Begins its “Hunt” in Iraq

June 21, 2020 Opinion

After becoming actively involved in conflicts in Syria and Libya, on June 14, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched operation Claw-Eagle in Iraq against PKK’s (the Kurdistan Workers’ Party…