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" Before our eyes "

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 2 March 2014
While NATO leaders are jubilant over the Kiev coup, which they present to public opinion as a revolution, the situation is reversed in the field. Instead of a government of thugs raising the stakes between Washington and Moscow, it is now up to U.S. agents to exercise power and manage the problems they have organized. Moreover the country is ruined and nobody whomsoever will succeed in bringing about a quick recovery. Russia can now defend its interests without incurring the liabilities from twenty years of earlier corruption.

"Before our eyes"

Can Washington overthrow three governments at the same time?

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 23 February 2014
The power of a state is measured by its ability to defend itself and to attack on one or more fronts. In this context, Washington is trying for the first time to show it can overthrow three governments simultaneously: Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela. If it succeeds, no government would be henceforth able to resist it.

The STL, A “Special” Court

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 27 January 2014
In accordance with its name , the Special Tribunal for Lebanon is so special that it is not a judicial body, but a political instrument. Created to condemn presidents Emile Lahoud and Bashar al -Assad, it was later used to convict General Qassem Suleiman and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to be directed today against Hezbollah. The history of this special court illustrates the convulsions of imperialism in the Middle East and Russia.

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Al-Qaeda, NATO’s Timeless Tool

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 6 January 2014
The discovery of links connecting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Al- Qaeda is upsetting Turkish politics. Ankara not only actively supported terrorism in Syria, but did so as part of a NATO strategy. For Thierry Meyssan, the case also shows the artificiality of armed groups fighting against the government and the Syrian people.

Why Not Stop Attacking Russia?

by Karl Müller

Zurich (Switzerland) | 2 January 2014
A cursory perusal of what big media says leads one to "understand" that, even if it is no longer Soviet and no longer proclaims the dictatorship of the proletariat, the Russian bear is still almost as wicked and dangerous as at the time of the USSR. Is this a reflection of reality or an image that the media complex is trying to anchor in our minds? In the article we reproduce today, Karl Müller explores the why of this campaign.

Whither the Syrian "revolutionaries" ?

by Thierry Meyssan

16 December 2013
On the eve of the Geneva 2 Conference, the American organisers no longer have any puppets to play the role of Syrian revolutionaries. The sudden disappearance of the Free Syrian Army shows those who believed in it that it was a fiction. There has never been a popular revolution in Syria; just foreign aggression staged by mercenaries and billions of dollars.

Mandela and Israel

by Thierry Meyssan

9 December 2013
Westerners are mourning the death of Nelson Mandela with more sadness than that manifested by Africans. This mourning is a way to settle colonial ideology and crimes that were committed in its name. But it is incomprehensible that this torrent of tributes overlook the persistence of a racist state historically founded, as South Africa, according to the worldview of Cecil Rhodes, the theorist of "German imperialism." Mandela’s example has yet to be followed.

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The Abdication of Iran

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 2 December 2013
While the media applaud the agreement reached between the P5+1 and Iran, Thierry Meyssan, a personal friend of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sees in it an abdication by the new Iranian government. As far as he is concerned, it is absurd to pretend that the two parties have solved a misunderstanding supposedly maintained for eight years by the aggressiveness of President Ahmadinejad. The truth is that Iran gave up its nuclear research and began to dismantle it without receiving anything in return except the gradual lifting of illegitimate sanctions. In other words, the country, brought to its knees, has surrendered.

François Hollande, Zionist Always

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 26 November 2013
François Hollande was elected president by cultivating ambiguity. Yet it was easy enough to read his previous statements to see full support for the State of Israel. The change he had announced to his constituents has not occurred. On the contrary there has been continuity with his predecessor. We cannot but note that France has gradually abandoned its policy of independence to stand alongside the United States and the last colonial state.

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Truth as an Issue

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 21 November 2013
What has been happening in Syria for the past three years? According to NATO and GCC media reports, the "regime" has shed blood to suppress a democratic revolution. However this version is contradicted by the current support for the government estimated at, according to sources, between 60 and 90 % of the population. The truth is quite different: NATO and the GCC have successively lost a war of succession and a fourth generation Nicaraguan-type war. It is they, and they alone, who organized and financed the death of 120,000 Syrians.

"The art of war"

Europe (de)nuclearized

by Manlio Dinucci

13 November 2013
There are many ways to violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States has chosen a very discrete one: they modernize their bombs and, through NATO, entrust them to their allies.

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100,000 Martyrs for Geneva 2

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 11 November 2013
Although the Geneva Conference, in June of 2012, had set the foundations for peace in Syria, the war resumed for a year and a half. 100,000 deaths later, the foreign powers who planned and fueled the conflict have finally admitted defeat. Moscow and Washington are therefore planning to convene a new conference in Geneva to enact the victory of the Syrian Arab Republic.

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Syria has Changed

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 4 November 2013
The media coverage of the war in Syria examines only military, diplomatic and humanitarian action. It ignores profound transformation. However, one does not survive a sea of violence without changing profoundly. From Damascus, where he has lived for two years, Thierry Meyssan describes this evolution.

Jihad : Washington warns Ankara

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 30 October 2013
While Russia and the United States reached the beginning of an agreement on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular, the war continues in Syria. This paradox can be explained foremost by the indiscipline and hatred shown by the Turkish and Saudi governments. According to Thierry Meyssan, by revealing the role of Hakan Fidan, the Wall Street Journal is sending a warning to Ankara.

Saudi suicide

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 28 October 2013
While Saudi Arabia has adopted the Qatari plan to overthrow the Syrian secular regime, Riyadh seems unable to adapt to the sudden withdrawal of the U.S. Not only did the Saudis reject the Russian-American accord but they pursue the war and announce retaliation to "punish" the United States. For Thierry Meyssan, this stubborness is equivalent to collective suicide by the family of Saud.

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The consequences of Resolution 2118

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 7 October 2013
Although the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, loudly praised himself for the vote on Resolution 2118 concerning chemical weapons in Syria, this text marks both the victory of Russia and that of President Bashar al -Assad. The vote carries within itself two consequences that permanently ruin the Franco-British claims on the country.

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The United States Feared No More

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 30 September 2013
While the General Assembly was discussing the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is another matter altogether that concerned the diplomats: are the United States still the superpower they have claimed to be since the demise of the Soviet Union or has the time come to break free of their tutelage?

"The art of War"

Israel’s secret NBC weapons

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 25 September 2013
For years, Syria and Egypt refused to abandon their chemical weapons facing a threatening neighbor, Israel, which develops very sophisticated ones, in addition to biological and nuclear weapons. However, while Syria has joined the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons , we are taking a look at Israeli activities.

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The End of French Colonialism

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 22 September 2013
President Putin recently wrote in the New York Times that the war in Syria pits the state against international jihadism. At the same time, President Hollande told TF1 that it was a war for democracy. The latter is wrong, as shown in the continuation of his argument with a battlefield in three camps. Behind the rhetorical contradictions it’s the end of colonialism that is being played out.

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The Secret of Israeli Chemical Weapons

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 19 September 2013
Israeli research on chemical and biological weapons historically pushed Syria to reject the treaty banning chemical weapons. That is why the signing of this document by Damascus runs the risk of highlighting the existence and possibly the continuation of research on weapons designed to kill only Arabs.

The embarrassed silence of the Italian rulers

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 11 September 2013
Pope Francis’ multiple pronouncements against any proposed international intervention in Syria have plunged the Italian political class into a deep discomfort. Torn between their allegiance to the head of the Catholic Church and their dependence on the United States, Italian officials have chosen to minimize the role of their country.

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Western rationality

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 7 September 2013
You liked the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Vietnam War, the Kuwaiti incubators and the first Gulf War, the Racak massacre and the war in Kosovo, Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and the second Gulf War and the threats to Benghazi and the Libyan war? You will just love the gassing of civilians in Ghouta and the bombing of Syria.

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Enlightenment against colonialism

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 2 September 2013
The events that we have experienced since August 21 (announcement of the Allied bombing of Syria rejected by the House of Commons ) are not a competition between major colonial powers, but mark the Western peoples’ revolt against their leaders. For Thierry Meyssan, Westerners now face their contradictions: exploiting the rest of the world under their rule or live in peace under the rule of reason.

Are Westerners Ready to Bomb Syria?

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 30 August 2013
Pretending to believe in a chemical attack by the Syrian government against its own people, Washington, London and Paris are beating the drums of war. Should we take these threats seriously coming from states having announced as imminent the fall of Syria for more than two years? Although one should not exclude this option, Thierry Meyssan thinks it is less likely that an intervention organized by Saudi Arabia. Western agitation would rather aim to test the responses of Russia and Iran.

Sarin Gas : a new propaganda campaign against Syria

23 August 2013
According to the Free Syrian Army, the Syrian authorities have bombarded the ghoutta, a suburb of Damascus, with sarin gas, Wednesday, August 21, 2013, resulting in a total of 1700 deaths. This announcement was immediately commented on by German, British and French authorities who have called an emergency meeting of the Security Council so that UN observers can be allowed to investigate. All of this information is taken over by the Atlanticist media as a certainty, the conditional being (...)

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Turkey : The AKP’s Judiciary Coup

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 19 August 2013
The Ergenekon trial verdict did not raise an outcry internationally. At best, the press highlighted the divide that has arisen in the country between those favoring a secular society and the Muslim Brotherhood. For Thierry Meyssan, this trial constitutes exceptional justice and concludes with the imprisonment of all the anti-US leaders: this is a coup.

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Obama Pouting Putin

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 12 August 2013
While the Western media describes the cancellation of the Obama-Putin summit as the most serious diplomatic crisis since the end of the Cold War and it applauds the firmness of the White House, the Chinese press sees it as a sign of weakness on the part of the United States vis à vis Russia. For Thierry Meyssan, the affair is of little fundamental importance. It is media posturing and will have no impact on peace in the Middle East.

"The art of War"

Operation Terror, who is sounding the alarm

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 10 August 2013
The United States and its British and French allies, have launched a warning: by the end of August, the Al-Qaeda international terrorist network could attack many of their embassies around the world. It is a certainty acquired by the NSA intercepting a phone call by Ayman al-Zawahiri. Immediately, exceptional security measures were taken and some embassies were closed ... for the weekend. Why the hubbub?, asks Manlio Dinucci.

Saudi Arabia ready to negotiate

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus | 6 August 2013
The United States solved their internal problems before the Geneva 2 conference, then they eliminated the opposition of Qatar. They now turn to that of Saudi Arabia. However, Thierry Meyssan observes, Riyadh seems more docile than Doha and is offering an arrangement that guarantees both its survival and its ability to save face.

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The contradictions of the European Union regarding Hezbollah

by Thierry Meyssan

Beirut (Lebanon) | 2 August 2013
By designating the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, the EU expressed its misunderstanding of the Lebanese resistance, which is not and will not become a political party, although it participates in Lebanese politics. Brussels expressed its allegiance to the Anglo-Saxon bloc (including Israel) at the expense of its own principles.

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