Russia presents unharmed Syrians to inspectors as West condemns ‘stunt’
"Russia’s ambassador to the Netherlands said the video was 'staged' by the White Hemets, a Syrian aid group that receives funding from the U.S. and other Western governments."
Iraq +15: Accumulated Evil of the Whole
"Where the U.S. stands on this 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: in a war without end, without boundaries, without limits on time or geography."
Boy clinging to his dead father at wedding: the face of US-backed Yemen war
"A harrowing image taken after the Saudi-led bombing of a wedding party in Yemen last Sunday showed a young boy clinging to his dead father’s body. One just has to wonder who that boy will grow up to be."
World War III: The False Narrative that Fuels Conflict in Syria and Beyond
"At a time when the war is almost won for Assad, he decided to re-ignite international calls for his ouster by senselessly murdering about the same number of civilians the Las Vegas Shooter killed. Seems logical, right?"
New Domestic Terrorism Bill Targets Patriot Groups and Citizen Militias
They left out the biggest domestic terrorist organization of all. Conveniently, no government organization tracks the number of people killed by the police. But the Washington Post has tracked American police killings since 2015. In 2015-2017 American police killed a total of 2,945 people. It took only three years for police to kill more than seven times the number of people killed in all domestic terrorist attacks in the last ten years.
US, Turkish Troops Headed For Military Showdown In Syria
"Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesperson for the US-led coalition, told Kurdish media on Sunday that American forces would continue to support their Kurdish allies – despite Erdogan’s threats."
Let’s Rethink U.S. Policy Toward the Af-Pak Region
"What has been the outcome of this 16-year quagmire in Afghanistan? The nation-building war that Bush, Obama and now Trump continue to wage has destabilized neighboring Pakistan further."
South Korea ‘has very strong concerns’ the US might strike North Korea
"Recent reports suggest the US is considering a 'bloody nose' strike — highly visible but materially limited — on North Korea to make a statement, and that President Donald Trump's secretaries of state and defense are the key figures holding him back. Experts have panned the idea of a strike on North Korea with near unanimity, but the Trump administration has consistently touted the use of force as a potential tool."
Trump Warms Up To Nuclear First-Strike
"President Trump's new Nuclear Posture Review is expected to call for new 'low-yield' nuclear weapons and an expansion of the scenarios in which the US may use a nuclear 'first strike.' Is this a good idea? We discuss in today's Liberty Report..."
Middle Eastern Christians in dire straits – but the West doesn’t want to know
" In Iraq, a population that numbered more than a million in the 1990s dwindled to less than a third of that in the wake of the US-led invasion and removal of the secular government of Saddam Hussein. In Syria, under threat since 2011 by Salafist groups armed and funded by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and other countries – the US shamefully included – Christians seemed to be facing a similar fate."