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"Before our very eyes"

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 15 November 2012
The United States proclaims that it is a model for the rest of the world and wants to export by force its concept of democracy. Still, as with all empires, it is not itself a democracy. At the risk of sounding insolent, Thierry Meyssan compares its political system with that of Syria, the one it is attacking and attempting to overthrow.

"Before our very eyes"

The Sore Losers of the Syrian Crisis

by Thierry Meyssan

Beirut (Lebanon) | 1 November 2012
In 2010, France made the choice to breath new life into its colonial policy. This led her to instigate a regime change in the Ivory Coast and Libya, and to aim for the same result in Syria. But faced with the fiasco of the latter operation, Paris got carried away by the wave of events that she herself unleashed. After having armed and trained terrorist groups in Syria, the DGSE has now struck at the heart of the Lebanese capital.

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Currently showing : the U.S. Election Spectacle

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 22 October 2012
Over the last 30 years, no U.S. presidential election has signalled a change in Washington’s foreign policy of Washington. Important decisions have been made outside this timeframe. It is quite obvious that the president is the superintendent of a policy of which he is not the architect. Will Yankee imperialism perform better under Obama’s or Romney’s smile?

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NATO packs it in; Turkey on the verge of a nervous breakdown

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 16 October 2012
On October 8, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CTSO) began maneuvers dubbed "Inviolable Fraternity" ("НЕРУШИМОЕ БРАТСТВО"). The scenario focuses on the deployment of a peace force in an imaginary country where international jihadists and terrorist organizations operate against a backdrop of ethnic and confessional divisions. The accredited diplomatic corps, which was invited to attend the exercises, listened attentively to the opening address of the deputy secretary general of the organization. (...)

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Towards a Western retreat from Syria

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 9 October 2012
The Syria war drags on. Continuing it has become too expensive and too dangerous for its neighbors. Russia, which aims to re-establish itself in the Middle East, is trying to show the United States that it is in their best interest to allow Moscow to resolve the conflict.

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U.N. Monologues

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 1 October 2012
Every year, for one week the world’s heads of state gather in New York to participate in the opening session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. The reunion has, however, lost its functionally constructive dimension and has become instead a televised spectacle whose significant moments are watched by an audience surpassed in size only by the Olympics or the World Cup.
The most-awaited speech is that of the U.S. president, invited to take the floor after the Brazilian president (...)

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The Powerplays behind "The Innocence of Muslims"

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 25 September 2012
Israel’s big ploy moves ahead in the shadow of the demonstrations and reactions to the film "The Innocence of Muslims." However, the appearance of Hezbollah on the scene has reversed the situation, which could prompt Tel Aviv to call off the operation.

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Blasphemy as a tactic

by Thierry Meyssan

Tehran (Iran) | 17 September 2012
The dissemination of a video clip from the film "The Innocence of Muslims," depicting an offensive image of Islam, has sparked a wave of anger in the Arab world. For Thierry Meyssan, things are more complex than they might seem because the clip was first released in Arabic on YouTube and broadcast by the Salafist Egyptian Al Nasr TV channel. The film targets neither the U.S. nor the Muslim public, but only the Arab world. Its distribution was organized by the same people who also called for its prohibition. What lies behind this provocation?

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Washington’s double-take at the Non-Aligned Movement revival

by Thierry Meyssan

Tehran (Iran) | 12 September 2012
The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM ) took place in Teheran, from August 26 to August 31. Most of the Western media ignored the event. In their view, the Movement is of no importance. Yet, 120 states participated, representing the majority of the world’s population as well as the world’s economy. Are we really supposed to believe that all these delegations made the trip for no reason?
Historically, the Non-Aligned Movement created by Nasser, Nehru, Tito, Sukarno and Nkrumah in (...)

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The Brahimi Plan

by Thierry Meyssan

29 August 2012
The Western press is saluting the audacity of Lakhdar Brahimi for having picked up the gauntlet by accepting to replace Kofi Annan as Special Representative of the Secretary Generals of both the United Nations and the Arab League in Syria. However, according to Thierry Meyssan, the truth of the matter is starkly different. Given the current failure of outright regime change in Damascus, this NATO confidence man has been entrusted with the task of unleashing all-out civil war in Syria.

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France Falls Victim to Its Allegiance to the U.S.

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 21 August 2012
Most French people are primarily concerned about the economy and don’t see international issues as something that affects them directly. They deplore the submissiveness of their leaders to the United States, but have learned to live with it. However, as argued by Thierry Meyssan, it is precisely the choices made at the foreign policy level that determine the currently poor health of the French economy.

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Syria is only a pretext

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 14 August 2012
The permanent representative of Russia, Vitaly I. Churkin, raises his hand to ban war against Syria (Security Council, July 19, 2012).
Over the past few weeks, the international diplomatic scene has been again taken over by the Syrian crisis. A double veto occurred in the U.N. Security Council, the General Assembly voted on a resolution and the special envoy of the Secretary General resigned. All this activity, counterproductive in diplomatic terms, harmonizes with other objectives than (...)

France According to François Hollande

by Thierry Meyssan

4 August 2012
François Hollande’s slogan has been "Change is Now!" Two months after his election, while he has broken with the style of his predecessor, the new French President is bent on pursuing identical policies. For Thierry Meyssan, this repudiation is the product of an ideology clearly revealed in the speeches of the new president, one of collaboration with the current-day Empire

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The West and the glorification of terrorism

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 3 August 2012
This new column by Thierry Meyssan is devoted to the analysis and commentary of an official statement or of a topical issue. Paying attention to silence as much as to words, he has focused this week on the reversal of the Western doctrine toward terrorism.

Syrian Conflict Threatens to Degenerate into World War

Russian Warning Shots

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 11 June 2012
The nature of the Syrian crisis has changed. The process of destabilization that was to open the path for legal military intervention by the Atlantic Alliance has failed. Removing its mask, the United States has publicly announced the possibility of attacking Syria without the approval of the Security Council, as it also did in Kosovo. Washington must be pretending not to have noticed that the Russia of Vladimir Putin is not that of Boris Yeltsin. After being assured of Chinese support, Moscow literally fired two warning shots in the direction of Washington. The continuing violations of international law by NATO and the GCC threaten to unleash a global conflict.

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