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By Aram Mirzaei On December 8, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorist group launched a major offensive in a bid to recapture the ancient city of Palmyra, which was otherwise lost to the Syrian Army earlier in March this year. ISIL managed to not only muster between 4000-5000 fighters, but managed to travel across the eastern Homs desert unnoticed until they reached the gates of the ancient
This text is slightly modified from an interview that Andrew Korybko gave to a Moscow-based PhD student specializing in the “Arab Spring” regime change events. The Role Of Social Media Social media platforms were instrumental in organizing and deploying the regime change destabilizations that took place during the “Arab Spring” theater-wide Color Revolutions. They allowed the initiators of these events to more easily connect with tens of thousands of sympathizers
https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-december-20-2016-what-is-syrian-army-going-to-do-now/
Okay, so tonight we have the name of the assassin, it is Mevlut Mert Aydintas, a 22 year old policeman who had been recently fired following the anti-Gulenist crackdown of Erdogan against the forces which had attempted to overthrow him recently. We also have a very useful video of the murder. That video of the attack also shows something very important: the only shots fired are those fired by the
RT is reporting live on the murder of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey. Right now, we absolutely have to wait to get the real facts on the ground and not jump to conclusions. God willing, I will share an analysis with you this evening. The Saker
https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-december-17-2016-syrian-army-calls-tens-of-thousands-of-reserve-soldiers/
Dear friends, We are going to go on a break. Most of us are exhausted, this has been an amazing, but exhausting year. I personally am going on fumes. Furthermore, we are about to enter the period of western Christmas, the civil New Year and the Orthodox Nativity. Finally, the next year is likely to be extremely interesting, in the sense of the Chinese (?) curse “may you live in
by Ghassan Kadi In his recent article titled “Obama Out Not With a Bang, But a Whimper”, and in his regular eloquent and expressive style, Pepe Escobar nailed it. More need not be said about the Obama legacy, but this man, Obama, has had a personal effect on me, one that I cannot let go of without putting down on paper my own views of his infamous legacy. I am
This column was written for the Unz Review: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/neocon-panic-and-agony/ There are clear signs that the Neocons running the AngloZionist Empire and it’s “deep state” are in a state of near panic and their actions are indicating that they are truly terrified. The home front On the home front, the Neocons have resorted to every possible dirty trick on the book to try to prevent Donald Trump from ever getting into
Yeah, and I imagine that Putin must have been totally terrified…
by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich A month has passed since Donald Trump was declared president-elect soon to be the 45th president of the United States. Since his win, pundits, analysts, and experts continue to debate the victory – a surprise to most. While the reason/s for this victory depend on one’s perspective, most agree on one thing: Trump is unpredictable. But is he really? There is clear indication that US foreign policy
https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-december-16-2016-government-forces-disrupt-isis-offensive-on-tyas-airbase/
https://southfront.org/russia-expands-ground-forces/
https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-december-14-2016-heavy-clashes-at-tyas-airbase/
https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-december-13-2016-clashes-near-palmyra-liberation-of-aleppo/
For more details, see here: https://www.rt.com/news/370084-aleppo-liberation-reports-celebrations/
by Pepe Escobar for Sputnik International This is the way the Obama administration ends; not with a bang, but a pathetic whimper. Queen of War Hillary “We Came, We Saw, He Died” Clinton’s campaign – fully supported by President Obama – spent a whopping $1.2 billion and floundered ignominiously at the US presidential election. So Obama decided that the consolation “prize” is to order the “intelligence community” – a contradiction
