Tag: Syria

You see headlines talking about the humanitarian disaster in the city, but it is hard to know what those headlines are talking about.

Juan Cole discusses the history of Assad Family and their obsession with wealth and power.

Although NATO countries have worse, more despotic allies in the region, like the tyrannical monarchies of the Gulf, Turkey’s erratic, arrogant leader is arguably the most dangerous.

It will take until 2020 for the U.S. to meet it's 2016 goal at this rate.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed Russia for the airstrikes in Azaz.

“What we need is a Higher World Order where building nations is more profitable than destroying them; conducting fair trade with other nations is more mutually beneficial than occupying them and stealing their resources; and living in a multi-polar world is more peaceful and profitable than one nation hopelessly clinging on to a dangerous fantasy of a unipolar world.”

This strategy has been working for Putin. He appears to have rearmed and retrained the Syrian Arab Army, which has new esprit de corps and is making significant headway for the first time in years.

What exactly has been happening in Syria in the last few years? How did we end up with millions of refugees?

Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, and Lord Jacob Rothschild and their company Genie Energy are about to make a killing on oil - from the killing in Syria.

“Iraqis, now Syrians, and by extension even the Europeans who are now awash in refugees from the wars we help foment, and the US taxpayer, and, documented by a Brown University study, the US job seeker—these are the losers.”