Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton present a PBS Frontline special as the latest vehicle in a PR campaign by Beltway think tanks and foreign policy veterans to reposition Mohammad Jolani as an “asset.”
Washington’s Rebranding of Syrian Al-Qaeda’s Founder
Category: Syria
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Aimless Empire
Under Biden, the world’s most powerful, most heavily armed, most determinedly righteous nation shows little sign of having any foreign policy at all.
Leak Exposes Fissures in Iranian Establishment and Power Shift to Hard-Liners
Gareth Porter analyzes comments by Iran’s foreign minister that may portend a different nuclear-dealing posture after the country’s presidential elections in mid-June.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: America the Innocent
The American press has been in the business of keeping readers ignorant since the Cold War—its most essential responsibility turned upside-down—and in our time it gets worse, not better.
DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Imperialism of Foolery
Pro-Western Syrian exiles have issued a diatribe against the most informative critics of U.S. war policy at a time when Washington’s aggressiveness is reaching new levels of intensity.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Inhumanity on Syria
The U.S. hypocrisy to come will be even greater than anything tried by the Trump administration.
WATCH: CN Live! — The ‘Arab Spring’ 10 Years On
A decade ago rebellions roiled the region with great hope that democracy would take root. What went wrong?
US Senators Target Some Presidential War Powers
US Bombs Syria & Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
The U.S. military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor, writes Caity Johnstone.
