21st July, 2017
According to the Washington Post, President Trump has terminated all CIA programmes providing support to jihadists in Syria.
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Washington has terminated all support for jihadists
Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2017
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US and France abandon regime change in Syria
Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2017
Alexander Mercouris
16th July, 2017
Summit of US and French Presidents provides final confirmation that the West’s regime change war in Syria has failed and is being abandoned.
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The New Silk Road will go through Syria
Posted by seumasach on July 15, 2017
Pepe Escobar
13th July, 2017
Amid the proverbial doom and gloom pervading all things Syria, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune sometimes yield, well, good fortune.
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France’s Macron says Assad removal no longer necessary
Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2017
A refreshing does of realism from Europe since, of course, the removal of Assad is no longer within the West’s powers anyway.
21st June, 2017
French President Emmanuel Macron said his country no longer deems the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a precondition for resolving the conflict in the Arab country.
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Shut down the ‘Russia-gate’ farce
Posted by seumasach on May 14, 2017
Justin Raimundo
12th May, 2017
The level of lunacy we’ve reached can be measured by the brouhaha over the presence of Russian photographers in the Oval Office during Sergey Lavrov’s visit: no US photographers were allowed, but the Russians somehow got in and the Paranoid Brigade went into overdrive. They may have planted “bugs” there! No, this wasn’t nutjob Louise Mensch, the queen of the Russia-haters, but “former intelligence officials,” including the former deputy director of the CIA, David Cohen.
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Britain could join US in Syria air strikes against Assad without parliamentary approval, Boris Johnson says
Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2017
Still revelling in the glory of having been informed in advance of Trump’s airstrikes on Syria, the British leadership, characteristically, is placing it’s most fervent hopes on further military action against the man who stands between stability and the descent of Syria into the kind of chaos we engendered in Libya. I don’t know- they are simply incorrigible! We must hope that Trump turns out to be a disappointment to them for all his bluff and bluster.
Independent
18th April, 2017
Boris Johnson has said Britain could join US air strikes against the “monster” Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, despite a previous vote against intervention.
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Corbyn speaks out on Trump’s overnight blitz
Posted by seumasach on April 7, 2017
7th April, 2017
This is the full statement published by Jeremy Corbyn in response to US air strikes on a Syrian air base in the early hours of this morning.
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The missing logic of Russia-gate
Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2017
20th March, 2017
Russia-bashing and innuendos about disloyal Americans were all the rage at Monday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing on alleged Russian “hacking” of the presidential election, but logic is often missing, says Robert Parry.
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President Xi meets U.S. Secretary of State
Posted by seumasach on March 19, 2017
“The U.S. side is ready to develop relations with China based on the principle of no conflict, no confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation, said Tillerson.”
As Trump seeks to actively undermine the Atlantic Alliance with both the UK and the EU, he appears set for a closer engagement with China. This approach closely corresponds to US national interests since only through partnership with China can the US rebuild it’s infrastructure and industrial base.
19th March, 2017
BEIJING, March 19 (Xinhua) — President Xi Jinping met here Sunday with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, saying that cooperation is the only correct choice for both countries.
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Iran throws the ball into Trump’s court
Posted by seumasach on February 5, 2017
M.K.Bhadrakumar
5th February, 2017
In what can only be seen as a development invested with symbolism — at least in its sheer timing – Russian president’s special envoy on Syria Alexander Lavrentiev is traveling to Tehran today. Prima facie, Lavrentiev will hold consultations with Iran’s powerful Secretary to the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, on the eve of the first meeting in Astana tomorrow of the ‘trilateral mechanism’ of Russia, Iran and Turkey regarding the monitoring of ceasefire and separation of opposition groups from the extremist groups.
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Women, children refugees in Europe ‘starting to go missing’
Posted by seumasach on February 2, 2017
1st February, 2017
At least 1,500 human trafficking cases have been registered in Syria in the past year, according to the country’s Interior Ministry. Refugees who arrive in Europe are far from safe and they too fall victims to trafficking. Sputnik spoke about this with reporter Poppy Damon from The International Women’s Initiative in an interview.
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