The Media are Misleading the Public on Syria By Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe bostonglobe.com February 18, 2015 Posted on Quemado Institute February 20, 2015 Coverage of the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press. Reporting about carnage in the ancient city of Aleppo … Continue reading
Introduction by Karl Pomeroy Quemado Institute February 20, 2016 Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin expresses his view on the recent declarations of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a Kommersant inverview quoted in the Russia Beyond the Headlines article posted below. But first, who really is Assad? The Syrian President sounds, in last week’s … Continue reading
Introduction by Kennedy Applebaum Quemado Institute February 19, 2016 An article by Colonel Cassad, posted at Slavyangrad.org on February 14, 2016, has partially allayed any doubts I may have had about the intentions of Donetsk People’s Republic President Alexander Zakharchenko. Pro-Novorossiya sources on Twitter and other sites have accused the DPR leader of being both … Continue reading
Introduction by Karl Pomeroy Quemado Institute February 18, 2016 Updated February 20, 2016 [See end of post.] Robert Parry of Consortium News is one of the world’s top experts on the complex web of alliances in the Middle East. Here, Parry suggests that Vladimir Putin has threatened to use “tactical” nuclear weapons in the event … Continue reading
The Complex Dilemma by Kennedy Applebaum Quemado Institute February 18, 2016 As a regular reader of Donbass news on Twitter for almost two years, I am deeply struck by the sorrow many feel at the loss and abandonment of the Novorossiya vision—abandonment not by the world at large, but by the leaders of Donbass itself. … Continue reading
Consortium News February 15, 2016 Posted on Quemado Institute February 16, 2016 Exclusive: President Obama must decide if he will let the Syrian civil war come to an end with Russian-backed President Assad still in power or if he will escalate by supporting a Turkish-Saudi invasion, which could push the world to the brink of … Continue reading
Syria and Munich 2016 By Michael Jabara Carley Strategic Culture Foundation Posted on Quemado Institute February 16, 2016 On Thursday, 12 February, US Secretary of State John Kerry met his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Munich. Kerry announced that a ceasefire agreement could be implemented «within days». Lavrov replied that «the main result of meeting … Continue reading
Turkish forces cross into Syria: Damascus PressTV February 14, 2016 The Damascus government says Turkish forces have entered war-torn northern Syria to help foreign-backed militants fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Foreign Ministry in a protest letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) said on Sunday that “around 100 gunmen … Continue reading
http://government.ru/en/news/21784/ February 13, 2016 Munich, Germany Posted on Quemado Institute February 14, 2016 It is common knowledge that terrorism is not a problem within individual countries. … Take ISIS, whose ideology is not based on Islamic values but on a blood-thirsty desire to kill and destroy. Terrorism is civilisation’s problem. It’s either us or them, … Continue reading
Saudi Arabia Deploys Forces to Turkey: Another Big Step in Bringing the World Closer to War Commentary by Andrei Akulov Strategic Culture Foundation February 14, 2016 The complex, multi-sided war in Syria, raging since 2011, has drawn in most regional and global powers, caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and attracted recruits to Islamist militancy … Continue reading