The Russian president has said Russia actually won in Syria because the jihadist threat is apparently ended, which was Moscow’s goal all along. But he ignored what he’d previously said was the West’s role in that conflict, writes Joe Lauria.
As Western media and politicians embrace Jolani and HTS, Alan McLeod sees the U.S. reverting to its pre-9/11 close relationship with al-Qaeda.
Netanyahu’s ambition to transform the region through war, which dates back almost three decades, is playing out in front of our eyes, writes Jeffrey Sachs.
Three years before it intervened in Syria, Russia feared an Islamist takeover in Damascus would lead to widespread chaos in the region, like a new Afghanistan in the Levant, reported Joe Lauria in 2012.
The Assad family regime, sustained by force, was destined to collapse and the infighting between the various armed militias now may produce a situation not unlike Afghanistan.
John Wight says the common denominator behind the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s and Salafi-jihadism in our time, is Western foreign policy.
The vaunted democratic values, morality and respect for human rights, claimed by Israel and the U.S. have always been a lie. The real credo is this – we have everything and if you try and take it away from us…
Imprisoned whistleblower David McBride spoke to the Walkley Awards ceremony, Australia’s Pulitzers, in a nationally-televised address that was a challenge to the authorities who jailed him. Consortium News was there.
Marjorie Cohn reports on the Parliamentary Assembly’s “political prisoner” resolution, including its alarm that the C.I.A. “was allegedly planning to poison or even assassinate” the WikiLeaks publisher.
In the long term, this indiscriminate violence waged by Netanyahu and those driving Middle East policy in the White House creates adversaries that, sometimes a generation later, outdo in savagery — we call it terrorism.