On today’s broadcast of The Intelligence Hour, Kevin Shipp interviews Les Filotas. Mr. Filotas is an aeronautical engineer, an aviation expert and was a member of the Canadian Aviation Safety Board (CASB) investigating the horrific crash of Arrow Air flight 1285. Arrow Air had been used by the CIA to illegally transport arms during the Iran Contra scandal. Mr. Filotas documents that the US government and …
Stephen Lendman – One Yemeni Child Dies Every 10 Minutes From War-Related Starvation
US imperialism is raping and destroying the country, millions of Yemenis at risk. Instead of demanding Saudis stop terror-bombing, massacring civilians, blockading the country’s coastline along with US warships, Trump sent paratroopers to Yemen’s Bayda’s Qifah district. They raided Yakla village, reportedly attacking al-Qaeda terrorists, but who knows for sure. America supports the group, its al-Nusra affiliate in Syria, ISIS …
The ‘Post-Truth’ Mainstream Media
For several months, Western officials and media outlets repeated thousands of times that there were between 250,000 and 300,000 civilians trapped under Syrian and Russian bombardment in East Aleppo. Western reports rarely mentioned the Syrian government’s estimate that there were only one-third that number of civilians in the rebel-controlled enclave – nor that its estimates were solidly based on what it had found in …
Gary Busch – Water Scarcity In The Fertile Crescent — The Other War
One of the precipitating causes of the war in Syria (no pun intended) was the increasing scarcity of water in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin as a result of climate change and the deliberate policies of weaponization of water supplies by Turkey and its neighbour states. Drought has had a firm grip on the region since 1998 and the recent dry spell …
Gareth Porter – Obama’s Dive into the Syrian Abyss
President Barack Obama has long been under fire from the U.S. national security elite and the media for failing to intervene aggressively against the Assad regime. But the real strategic blunder was not that Barack Obama didn’t launch yet another war in Syria, but that he decided to go along with the ambitions of America’s Sunni allies to create and arm …
The Gary Null Show – 12.27.16
On today’s broadcast of The Gary Null Show, Gary covers the topics of high fat diets, what you can do to have more energy, You’ll also want to hear what Gary has to say if you have plants in your office. In the second half of the program Gary goes to an audio clip talking about DEA Absolutely Wrong In Making CBD Oil Schedule 1 Drug, Why the Agency is Harming Tens of Thousands of Families and Doesn’t Even Have The Authority To Do So. and a commentary about the goverment leading into a clip about Syria. Instead of bringing food, shelter, and help into Syria, western billionaires and politicians scheme to take oil and money out of the already ravaged country.
The Syrian seed bank that keeps going despite the war
For more than four years, the headquarters of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in the Syrian town of Tal Hadya has been occupied by the anti-Assad groups Al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham. ICARDA is one of 15 major international agricultural research centres, and the site of a seed bank housing some 150,000 samples in temperature-controlled …
Vijay Prashad – What Algeria’s ‘Black War’ Can Teach Us About the Syrian Crisis
For the first time – on 14 December – Algerian state television used new language on Syria. Previously, the language was ‘neutral’. No obvious position was taken on the Syrian conflict. Neither was the language pro-Syrian government nor was it pro-opposition. But on 14 December, as Aleppo fell to the Syrian government, the state television said that the government had …
PATRICK COCKBURN – More Propaganda Than News Coming Out of Aleppo
It has just become more dangerous to be a foreign correspondent reporting on the civil war in Syria. This is because the jihadis holding power in east Aleppo were able to exclude Western journalists, who would be abducted and very likely killed if they went there, and replace them as news sources with highly partisan “local activists” who cannot escape …
Robert Fisk – There Is More Than One Truth to Tell in the Awful Story of Aleppo
estern politicians, “experts” and journalists are going to have to reboot their stories over the next few days now that Bashar al-Assad’s army has retaken control of eastern Aleppo. We’re going to find out if the 250,000 civilians “trapped” in the city were indeed that numerous. We’re going to hear far more about why they were not able to leave …