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Roger Lagassé

28 articles

Israeli attack on Syria is a provocation against Russia

by Guennadi Ziouganov

Moscow (Russia) | 15 May 2013
In a statement from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov reviews the Israeli attack against Damascus in light of the 1980 Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between the USSR and Syria. He calls for the delivery of defensive weapons and not just the fulfillment of current defensive arms contracts.

"Before our very eyes"

The Boston Marathon Mysteries

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 28 April 2013
Two weeks after the attacks in Boston, the U.S. authorities continue to release piecemeal the clues they claim to have found. Everything revolves around the Chechen origin of the "guilty" parties and the conclusions to be drawn. Meanwhile, Internet users and the Russian press are depicting a different story, one in which the main "culprit" is a CIA agent.

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The Treaty on Arms Trade: supreme law of capitalism

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 7 April 2013
When the British courts became aware of the kickbacks linked to the Al-Yamamah mega arms contracts, Tony Blair tried to hush up the affair by any means. Ultimately, leaks prevented from hiding any longer that hundreds of millions of pounds had been diverted to finance international terrorism. To save the reputation of the defense industry Tony Blair volunteered to write his own version of a draft treaty on the arms trade, which the UN has recently adopted after seven years of negotiations. Thierry Meyssan deciphers the final version of this deplorable document.

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Syria seen from Russia

by Thierry Meyssan

Moscow (Russia) | 31 March 2013
In Moscow, the pro-western intelligentsia see the war in Syria as a distant conflict in which the Kremlin has aligned the country with the wrong side to maintain a useless naval base in Tartus.
Conversely, Putin sees the war as an episode of a conflict which, by virtue of the "Brzezinski doctrine", has pitted since 1978 the Western-Islamist grand coalition against the USSR and then Russia. For the Kremlin, there is no doubt that the jihadists, who learned the ropes in the Middle East, will (...)

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The Cypriot Pawn

by Thierry Meyssan

Moscow (Russia) | 25 March 2013
Washington was quick to use the financial crisis in Cyprus to implement a strategy for capturing capital described three weeks ago in these columns . With the help of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, US comprador Christine Lagarde, the American leadership challenged the inviolability of private property in the European Union and attempted to confiscate a tenth of bank deposits, supposedly to bail out the Cypriot national bank affected by the Greek crisis.
It (...)

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John Kerry’s murky game

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 10 March 2013
While the Syrian Arab army has lost Rakka, leaving de facto a northern part of the country under Turkish control, the United States has been sending contradictory signals. Have they have chosen to continue the war by proxy or are they gearing up to impose on their allies the peace agreement they have negotiated with the Russians?

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The NATO Economy, the solution to the U.S. crisis

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 3 March 2013
New Secretary of State John Kerry’s first contacts were not devoted to the Asia pivot (transfer of U.S. forces to the Far East) or the partition plan for the Middle East, but to the creation of a NATO economy, without arousing the slightest concern in Europe. However, should it be implemented quickly, this project would solve the economic crisis in the United States at the expense of Europeans.

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A popular anti-guerrilla force

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 24 February 2013
In guerrilla warfare, the victory belongs to those who have the support of the population. This is why Syria has recently formed popular militias to hold back the Contras supported by the West and the Gulf monarchies. In three months, the result is spectacular: the areas where local militias are already operating have been stabilized.

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Ahmadinejad, the Unsinkable

by Thierry Meyssan

Tehran (Iran) | 21 February 2013
Iranian democracy is thriving. Divisions in 2009 are now obsolete to the point that President Obama has admitted publicly that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been elected at the time by a majority of his citizens. The green movement that had united the urban bourgeoisie and part of youth did not last long. As of now, Washington no longer hopes for the overthrow of the regime, but for its division. The U.S. would like to profit from the current crisis between the religious current of the Larijani clan and the nationalist current of the Ahmadinejad family.

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In Washington, no one is responsible for the Syrian fiasco

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 11 February 2013
As she bowed out, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended her record in an interview granted to the New York Times . Incidentally, “off the record”, she shared a few secrets with journalists who slipped them into a separate article .
Concerned with keeping her options open for the presidential election of 2016, she sought to shift the blame for failure in Syria to President Barack Obama. After two years of secret war, the armed groups charged with justifying a NATO intervention (...)

"No, war is not what France is all about"

by Dominique de Villepin

Paris (France) | 10 February 2013
Mali, a friendly country, collapses. Jihadists advance towards the south, the situation is urgent.
But let’s not give in to the reflex of war for the sake of war. The unanimity of those wanting to go to war, the apparent haste, déjà vu arguments of the "war against terrorism" concern me. This is not France. Let us learn from the decade of lost wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya.
These wars have never built a strong and democratic state. Instead, they promote separatism, failed states, the iron (...)

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Hollande is afraid of his armies

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 28 January 2013
Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande use the French armies to pander to private or foreign interests. They sent men to their death to plunder Ivory Coast cocoa, Libya’s gold reserves, Syria’s gas, and Mali’s uranium. The trust has been broken between the military chiefs and the soldiers who joined the army to defend the homeland.

"The Art of War"

The strategy of tension

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 24 January 2013
It is too obvious that Western economic interests in Mali are not enough to explain France’s intervention there. Similarly, it is clear that islamism is not enough to explain vast terrorist action conducted simultaneously at an Algerian gas site. For Manlio Dinucci, this cocktail contains the classic ingredients of the strategy of tension. The target is Algeria, Mali is the rear base for the attack, and the islamists are a pretext for intervention.

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Bashar al-Assad Appeals to the Syrian People

by Thierry Meyssan

14 January 2013
France and the Gulf monarchies are bent on presenting Bashar al-Assad as a bloody tyrant and on blaming him for the 60 000 victims counted by the High Commissioner on Human Rights. Flipping this rhetoric, President al-Assad delivered a speech to the nation on January 6, 2012. He emerged as the leader of a country under attack from the outside and he pronounced the eulogy of the 60 000 martyrs. Symbolizing this claim, a Syrian flag composed of faces of the victims was deployed in the (...)

Interview with the Serbian magazine Geopolitika

Thierry Meyssan: "Syrian terrorists were trained by the KLA in Kosovo"

by Thierry Meyssan

10 December 2012
Thierry Meyssan replies to the questions of the Serbien news magazine Geopolitika. He reviews his interpretation of September 11, the events in Syria, and the current situation in Serbia.

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France’s foreign policy breakdown

by Thierry Meyssan

4 September 2012
A change in the foreign policy of France is not on the menu for today and will not be for the next five years. President François Hollande is a continuation of his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, in total alignment with the United States. As a reward for his obedience, Paris has been authorized to start soon a war in Mali. The announcement of this new colonial expedition was made without ruffling any feathers in Parliament.

"The world under a microscope"

Mohamed Morsi repositions Egypt

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 1 September 2012
Westerners have underestimated Egypt’s return to the international scene. They have not perceived the failure of "containing" Iran and Tehran’s skilful diplomacy in removing the Muslim Brotherhood from Saudi influence. Alfredo Jalife describes this rapid evolution which changes, in part, the Middle Eastern equation.

THE ART OF WAR

Missionary Hillary in Africa

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 20 August 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and an areopagus of multinational bosses have made a long journey through Africa, from July 31st to August 10th, 2012, during which she endlessly boasted of the altruism and philanthropy of the United States. It was a grotesque masquerade as outlined by Manlio Dinucci, in terms of Washington’s disastrous colonial record and that of its corporations on the black continent.

The plan for a New World Order stumbles on geopolitical realities

by Imad Fawzi Shueibi

Damascus (Syria) | 17 August 2012
For four centuries, political leaders have tried to create an international order that governs relationships between nations and prevents wars. While the principle of state sovereignty has yielded results, intergovernmental organizations have mainly reflected the prevailing balance of power. As for the ambitious U.S. New World Order, it is being shattered by new geopolitical realities.

Free Syrian Army: revolutionaries or ’contras’?

Who is fighting in Syria?

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 25 July 2012
Though the Western press portrays the Free Syrian Army as an armed revolutionary group, for more than a year Thierry Meyssan has affirmed that it is on the contrary a counter-revolutionary body. According to him, it would have progressively passed from the hands of reactionary monarchies in the Gulf to those of Turkey, acting for NATO. Such a non-mainstream affirmation needs demonstrative proof...

NATO PsyOp Against Syria Imminent

21 July 2012
On Friday, July 20, 2012, around 19:00, signals began to be sent to imbed new channels onto Arabsat and Nilesat. The signals mimic those of Syrian television, duplicating both the graphics and logos. For now, the programs present patriotic clips.
According to experts, the signals are being sent from Australia, probably from a U.S. National Security Agency base.
The genuine Syrian television signals were interrupted yesterday by Arabsat and Nilesat. Their websites were hacked and are (...)

The battle of Damascus has begun

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 20 July 2012
Western and Gulf powers have launched the largest secret war operation since the Contra war in Nicaragua. The Battle of Damascus is not intended to topple President Bashar al-Assad, but to fracture the Syrian Army to better ensure the domination of Israel and the U.S. over the Middle East. While the city is bracing for a new assault by foreign mercenaries, Thierry Meyssan takes stock of the situation.

THE ART OF WAR

The Afghan bottomless pit

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 17 July 2012
In the Orwellian world drawn up by NATO, wars are processes that allow the wealth of the people to flow to the cash registers of multinationals engaged in the manufacture of weapons. That same money will buy the media of the "free world", ensuring the promotion of wars invented for “humanitarian” reasons and hidden economic objectives. Strange these democracies in which people are informed about conflicts precisely by firms having the greatest interest in propagating war.

THE ART OF WAR

Practice What You Preach

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 14 July 2012
Contrary to the predictions of the Western media choir, the final communiqué put out by the Action Group for Syria in Geneva in no way suggests the departure of Bashar Al-Assad. The primary mission for the Russians and the Chinese was to compel all parties to take a stand against the militarization of the conflict and to respect the integrity of the Syrian territory, because the problem facing Syria is not the suppression of an uprising but the intervention of armed foreigners. The agreement arrived at in Geneva by the five permanent members of Security Council consigns the "friends" of Syria to the shelf of amusing memorabilia from a unipolar system of which the death certificate was signed on February 4, 2012 in New York.

Thierry Meyssan on aggression against Syria and François Hollande’s diplomacy

6 July 2012
In an interview with Voice of Russia Radio, which we reproduce in our columns, Thierry Meyssan discusses the recent developments in the ongoing operation to destabilize Syria and the new French president’s narrow-minded and near-sighted stance.

Facebook, imperialist tool 2.0

6 July 2012
Promoted as the instrument of the "revolution" by Western regimes, the reality of the social media site Facebook is quite different for those on the wrong side of "democracy".
Indeed, the platform has relayed, for several weeks, pages calling for the lynching and murder of citizens and Syrian officials accused of being favorable to their government, which is described as "bloodthirsty".
Accordingly, the anti shabiha page invites to send the coordinates and complete descriptions of such (...)

"The world under a microscope"

A G-20 en route to balkanization

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 2 July 2012
The meetings have been coming at high speed for world leaders. After the NATO summit and the G8 in Chicago and just before the Earth Summit in Rio, then the EU summit in Brussels in late June, Alfredo Jalife analyses the G20 meeting that took place in Mexico on 18-19 June. According to him, 2012 is a transition year and the contradictions within this world economic government are too great for it to make any momentous decisions. He invites us instead to turn our attention to the bilateral meetings that were being held in the shadow of the Mexican pyramids.