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US Supplying ISIS with Aircraft Downing Weapons

by Stephen Lendman On November 4, the Wall Street Journal headlined “US, Allies to Boost Aid to Syria Rebels” - aka ISIS and other takfiri terrorists, US proxy foot soldiers, imperial death squads, no so-called…


Syrian internally displaced people walk in the Atme camp, along the Turkish border in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, on March 19, 2013. The conflict in Syria between rebel forces and pro-government troops has killed at least 70,000 people, and forced more than one million Syrians to seek refuge abroad. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC        (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)

Syrians Among the Many Victims of US State Terrorism

by Stephen Lendman US barbarity is longstanding. Imperial ruthlessness shows no mercy. Millions of corpses bear witness, Syrians among the latest victims of Washington’s quest for unchallenged global dominance, endless wars its strategy of choice…


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Lavrov in Vienna

by Stephen Lendman 10-23-2015 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (AFP photo) On Friday, Lavrov met with his US, Turkish and Saudi Arabian counterparts - mainly discussing ways to resolve Syria’s long-running conflict, waged by Washington…



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Putin Calls US, Allies “Oatmeal Heads” On Syria

by Tyler Durden 10-13-2015 To be sure, there are a lot of absurd things about what Washington has done and is currently doing in Syria.  There’s the support for Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for instance,…


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The U.S. Government Supplied ISIS’ Iconic Pickup Trucks

by George Washington 10-13-2015 U.S. counter-terror officials have launched an investigation into how ISIS got so many of those identical Toyota pickup trucks which they use in their convoys. They don’t have to look very…


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Lendman: Putin Checkmates Obama

by Stephen Lendman 10-11-2015 John Pilger once called Washington’s Afghanistan war “the grand illusion of the American cause,” a failed aggression no matter how long fighting continues. The same applies to Syria, notably after Russia’s…


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Lendman: Russia v. America on Syria

by Stephen Lendman 10-8-2015 © SPUTNIK/ SERGEY GUNEEV/POOL What a difference a few days made! The Middle East dynamic changed dramatically. Russia’s intervention against ISIS in Syria has Obama officials scrambling for what to do…