The Tanf military base is a lonely, desert oasis roughly 10 miles inside Syria near the Jordan border, and about 100 miles south of Palmyra.
His father tells his story.
The Lebanese group Hezbollah, the same group that defeated Israel in the 2006 war, threatened to attack U.S. forces if we keep attacking the Assad regime.
We returned to bombing Iranian-backed militias in Syria today.
The destruction of ISIS has given Iran the one thing they have always dreamed of - the Shia Crescent becoming a political fact. Maybe more.
An informative and profound report by Caitlin Johnstone, May 27, 2017. Included in this report is an in depth interview with Vanessa Beeley.
SYRIA: You Only Hate Assad Because Your TV Told You To
“What we’ve been undergoing to a large extent is a form of psychological abuse, actually, by very narcissistic, hegemonic governments and officials for a very long time. It’s a form of gaslighting where actually our own faith in our ability to judge a situation, and to some extent even our own identity, has been eroded and damaged to the point where we’re effectively accepting their version of reality.” ~ Vanessa Beeley
It wasn't a proud moment for America.
When I wrote this essay a few days ago, I was honestly puzzled why we had bombed the Iranian militias.
Today's news cleared up that mystery.
The only thing that Trump has done so far that the establishment has approved of, beside promises to cut taxes on the wealthy, is to bomb Syria. Yesterday he did it again.
Lies Fuel War and Genocide
I am getting frustrated with some of the blatant bullshit coming out of the pro Assad social media brigade which is, for the most part is supportive of extreme international facism, racist pigs, and in some cases as full of bullshit and genocidal evil ideology as the Al Qaedah/ISIS religious fanatics/Turkish affiliated fascists they fight.
