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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 (…)

"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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 [1]. With the help of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, US comprador Christine Lagarde, the American leadership challenged (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 [2]. Incidentally, “off the record”, she shared a few secrets with journalists who slipped them into a separate article [3].
Concerned with keeping her options open for the (…)

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

by Dominique de Villepin

Paris (France) | 10 February 2013

On February 14, 2003, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin speaks before the UN Security Council to express France’s opposition to the invasion of Iraq proposed by the United States.
Mali, a friendly country, collapses. Jihadists advance towards the south, the situation is (…)

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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 (…)

"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 (…)

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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 (…)

Interview with the Serbian magazine Geopolitika

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

by Slobodan Eric

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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