Tag Archives: ISIS

US operations in Syria target civilians

Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research — The US counterterrorism bombing campaign under “Operation Inherent Resolve” does not target terrorists.  Quite the opposite. Both ISIS-Daesh and Al Nusra are protected by the US led coalition.  The forbidden truth is that the ...

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The US-Saudi plan to prompt an Iranian pullback from Syria

Andrew Korybko — The US and Saudi Arabia have been conspiring with one another to engineer a series of crises that could prompt Iran to pull back its troops in Syria and redeploy them back to the homeland. The modus operandi ...

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How U.S. backed ISIS takeover and destruction of Palmyra

Tim Anderson, PhD — As explosions from detonated mines continued in the background a Syrian general confirmed in some detail an ugly truth: Washington and its close allies Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel backed the ISIS takeover and destruction ...

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Does US arrange to keep al-Quaeda, ISIS and jihadis in fighting form?

Daniel McAdams — Reading Dennis Ross and David Ignatius is a good reminder that the neocons live in a different world than the rest of us. They do not conform their analysis to reality, but rather they conform reality to ...

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Guess who is behind the ISIL Caliphate Project?

Prof Michel Chossudovsky — The following article was first published in September 2014 at the outset of the air campaign “against the ISIS”. In recent developments Russia has officially joined the campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS). What are the ...

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Eric Morse’s words of wisdom to our new PM Justin Trudeau

Eric Morse — Dear Justin: As you work into the new job, you will probably be amazed at what a huge chunk the handling of foreign relations and defence takes out of your time and energy. It came as a complete ...

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Russia to make ISIS headway where US fails

Stephen Lendman — In over a year of Washington’s phony war on ISIS, they’re stronger with more territory than when US bombing began – targeting Syrian and Iraqi infrastructure, not terrorist forces or facilities. On September 30, things changed markedly. ...

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80% of Syrians believe U.S. is to blame for ISIS

Eric Zuesse — The British polling organization ORB International, an affiliate of WIN/Gallup International, repeatedly finds in Syria that, throughout the country, Syrians oppose ISIS by about 80%, and (in the latest such poll) also finds that 82% of Syrians blame ...

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Insane policy as closest US allies are supporting ISIS

Sure, America’s closest allies support ISIS. And admittedly, the U.S. has repeatedly fumbled, so that arms got into Al Qaeda and ISIS’ hands. Here, here, here, here, here and here. And poor U.S. policies have undoubtedly created more terrorists then they’ve neutralized. At best it’s an insanely stupid policy And it’s ...

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