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Turkey to expel Daesh jihadists starting on 11 November

Turkey to expel Daesh jihadists starting on 11 November

Lebanese banks urged to re-capitalize

Lebanese banks urged to re-capitalize

US poised to continue as No. 1 oil producer

US poised to continue as No. 1 oil producer

Illusionary reopening of Lebanese banks

Illusionary reopening of Lebanese banks

The Insoluble Contradictions of Daesh and the PKK/YPG

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria)
We only know what is happening in the Levant through the war propaganda of the country in which we live. We ignore other points of view and, more importantly, how our armies have behaved. To disentangle the true from the false, historians will have to examine the available documents. However, what the Western military literature tells us contradicts the statements of politicians and the narrative in the newspapers. It is only by becoming aware of the existence of the Pentagon’s strategy since 2001 that we will be able to understand what really happened and why such contradictions are occurring today.

The Insoluble Contradictions of Daesh and the PKK/YPG

Dossiers
Iraq / Syrian Arab Republic / Global war on "terrorism"

Propaganda and Post-Truth

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria)

Propaganda and Post-Truth

For 18 years, we have been debating the strange evolution of the media, which seems to place less and less value on facts. We attribute this phenomenon to their democratization through social networks. It would be because from now on any person can become a journalist, that the quality of information would have collapsed. The right to speak should therefore be reserved for the elites.
What if it’s exactly the opposite? If the censorship we are considering was not the answer to the phenomenon, but its continuity?

The Future of the Levant

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria)

The Future of the Levant

We can’t resist publishing Thierry Meyssan’s editorial in al-Watan, Syria’s leading daily newspaper. He describes the United States/Russia agreement for the Levant.

“The Art of War”

“The Caliph”, a CIA blockbuster between fiction and reality

by Manlio Dinucci

“The Caliph”, a CIA blockbuster between fiction and reality

Rome (Italy)
It is a well-defined product. At the end of a vast special operation in which an unavowable weapon was used, it is necessary to stage the death of the person who wielded it. This is the best way to erase the traces in public opinion. After Bin Laden’s death, this is al-Baghdadi’s death

NATO behind the Turkish attack in Syria

by Manlio Dinucci

NATO behind the Turkish attack in Syria

Rome (Italy)
Several members of NATO are currently weeping crocodile tears about the terrible luck of the Kurds, thus masking the fact that they had in fact green-lit « Operation Peace Spring » in advance. To crush any doubt, the General Secretary of the Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, journeyed in person to Ankara, three days after the beginning of combat, to declare NATO’s support for Turkey.

Diplomatic Wire

Mike Pompeo on the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement

Mike Pompeo on the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement

Joint Statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Russia and Turkey on Syria

Joint Statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Russia and Turkey on Syria

Donald Trump on the Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Donald Trump on the Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Partners

«Current Concerns», n°14, June 25, 2019

How EU and NATO generate crises

Zurich (Switzerland)

331. How EU and NATO generate crises

Why are the teachers in turmoil?, by Claude Meunier-Berthelot / Test tasks in German 2017 for the examination of the basic competences (ÜGK), by the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (EDK) / How EU and NATO generate crises and pave the way for wars, Interview with Ullrich Mies / By proceeding against Julian Assange, America will dig its own grave, by Karen Kwiatkowski / What exactly is the “Mittelstand”? Its importance for society and economy, by Eberhard Hamer / Should Switzerland automatically have to adopt EU law in future? / A more direct democracy in Germany (Part 3). Federalism, by Christian Fischer / A valuable cultural bridge. To the newly published art book (...)

«Current Concerns», n°13, June 12, 2019

Towards extradition of Julian Assange

Zurich (Switzerland)

330. Towards extradition of Julian Assange

VIPS: Extradition of Julian Assange threatens us all, Memorandum for the governments and people of the United Kingdom and the United States from Veteran Intelligence Professional for Sanity (VIPS) / What future for Brexit?, by Nicola Ferronato / The “good guys”, the “bad guys” and the war. A brief review of the EU parliamentary elections, by Karl Müller / How political culture suffers in Germany / Squaring the circle. Parliamentary commissions call for additional negotiations on Framework Agreement with EU, by Marianne Wüthrich / Border cantons demand reinforcement of Border Guard Corps / Switzerland has not become safer by Schengen, Interview with Barbara Keller-Inhelder / The Swiss militia (...)

«Current Concerns», n°12, May 31, 2019

The Assange Affair

Zurich (Switzerland)

329. The Assange Affair

“Whistleblowers like Julian Assange are the heroes of our time” / “Unfortunately, it is my belief that Julian Assange will not see a fair trial”, Excerpts from an appeal by Mairead Maguire / UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy seriously concerned by Ecuador’s behaviour in Assange and Moreno cases / UN Special Rapporteur on Torture says “collective persecution” of Julian Assange must end now / UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention expresses concern about Assange proceedings / Not only agriculture ends with the destruction of the peasantry, by Heinrich Wohlmeyer / Sovereignty at the service of peoples. Samir Amin – Perspectives for Africa’s independent development / Tremendous effects of the EU (...)

«Current Concerns», n°11, May 14, 2019

Zurich (Switzerland)

328. How avoid war

“We would like to avoid war – that is the most important thing!”. About the difficulties of overcoming prejudices, Interview with Pyotr Olegovich Tolstoy / “There is no sovereignty and no resistance without identity”. Supplement to the conference in Belgrade from the end of March 2019, by Fulvio Grimaldi / Military expenditure at its highest level / Protection of free will formation in direct democracy. Federal Supreme Court repeals a federal vote for the first time, by Marianne Wüthrich / An extraordinary Federal Supreme Court decision A discussion with Rainer J. Schweizer / The crux of the black and grey lists… recently also in the EU, by Werner Wüthrich / Cultural depravity – the core (...)

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Archives

G7, the summit of Western hypocrisy

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 30 May 2016

G7, the summit of Western hypocrisy

The G7 meetings, which were originally little more than simple informal conversations between the Western leaders, flirted for a while with the idea of becoming a world governement before falling back to organising a sort of public relations training course. The Ise-Shima summit reviewed the world’s main problems, and defined, for each of them, the elements of language which should be employed.

History

Ho Chi Minh: The Vietnamese struggle against Japanese, French and US Imperialisms

by Marta Rojas

Havana (Cuba) | 13 September 2005

Ho Chi Minh: The Vietnamese struggle against Japanese, French and US Imperialisms

On the occasion of commemorations for the 30th Anniversary of the liberation of Saigon, we publish a work on the life and work of the founder of Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh. By rejecting all compromises that led astray part of his own generation, Ho Chi Minh restlessly fought imperialism, either coming from Japan, France or the United States. He became one of the major symbols of independence struggle in the 20th century.

A Man that Hates the United Nations

John Bolton and Disarmament through War

30 November 2004

John Bolton and Disarmament through War

John Bolton, an extreme right-wing militant acting under the protection of Dick Cheney, was an insignificant undersecretary of State of Bush Senior’s Administration and expected a promotion under Bush junior’s administration. An advocate of the dissolution of the UN, he also favored the dissolution of the international disarmament treaties and encouraged the U.S. to launch “preventive” wars to control the Islamic or communist countries, beginning with Iraq, Syria and North Korea.

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