Syria – The USA Potato

[This is the fourth part of a series on Syria and the effects of CIA intervention there, tied for the one year anniversary of the Syrian “revolution.” See Part I, Part II, and Part III.—Editors] How do you sell the idea of a moderate rebell…

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Syria Was an Important Staging Ground For Some of the CIA’s Earliest Experiments in Covert Action

Jeremy Kuzmarov / 09/12/2025

[This is one of three articles we are running this week on the 1-year anniversary of the so-called Syrian “revolution.”—Editors] U.S. media accounts of the fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria failed to disclose that the U.S. had engaged in a thirteen-ye…

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Operation Timber Sycamore Arming Jihadist Rebels in Syria Was One of the Epic CIA Criminal Covert Operations

Jeremy Kuzmarov / 08/12/2025

Will Congress ever hold the CIA to account for this and other crimes by ordering a Church Committee-type investigation? [This article, coinciding with the one year anniversary of the Syrian “revolution,” is part of a series of articles on Syria that di…

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Since Assad’s Fall, Many Families of the Forcibly Disappeared Still Lack Answers

Anagha Subhash Nair / 29/11/2025

“I can’t say ‘may they rest in peace,’” says the mother and wife of two missing Syrians.

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New Investigation Looks Into Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence

Amy Goodman / 12/11/2025

Epstein was a “dealmaker and a fixer at a very, very elite level,” says Murtaza Hussain of Drop Site News.

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Covert U.S. and UK Propaganda Was Crucial to Deadly Regime Change Operation in Syria

Ben Arthur Thomason / 25/09/2025

Public relations machine transformed hard-line jihadists—whom Hillary Clinton famously called “hard men with guns”—into valiant freedom fighters in the eyes of the U.S.-UK public [This is the third part of a series. Part I can be found here and Part II…

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11 Years After Invasion, Thousands of Yazidi Women and Kids Are Still Missing

Jaclynn Ashly / 09/08/2025

As global attention shifts and international aid disappears, many survivors of the ISIS assault feel forgotten.

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“Our First Country Is Palestine,” Say Refugees in Syria’s Yarmouk Camp

Anagha Subhash Nair / 18/07/2025

“It’s not possible to stay for hundreds of years as refugees; we need a just solution,” says a Palestinian from Yarmouk.

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Western Soft-Power Agencies Established a Support Front for Armed Insurrection in Syria by Al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels

Ben Arthur Thomason / 10/07/2025

[This is the second of a two-part series. Part I can be found here—Editors] From 2011 to 2016, demonstrations in Syria against the Ba’athist government headed by Bashar al-Assad escalated into an armed insurgency and large-scale pitched battles, sieges…

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U.S.-Installed Regime in Syria is Terrorizing the Country’s Christians

Daniel Kovalik / 07/07/2025

In late June, Syrians experienced the worst attack on a Christian church since 1860 On June 29, 2025, I attended a church service at St. Moses the Black Orthodox Church in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. St. Moses is an Antiochian church, also known as the…

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