HANDS OFF SYRIA!
Hands Off Syria
The articles here will provide you with information, on the so called "Syrian revolution 2011," and the elements and motives behind the terrorism, aggression and war propaganda against Syria.
Articles
April 2018
Trump Threatening World War III in Syria
Since September 11, 2001, it is the Unlimited Imperialists along the lines of Alexander, Rome, Napoleon, and Hitler who have been in charge of conducting American foreign policy decision-making.
November 2017
By Robert Parry
A new United Nations-sponsored report on the April 4 sarin incident in an Al Qaeda-controlled town in Syria blames Bashar al-Assad’s government for the atrocity, but the report contains evidence deep inside its “Annex II” that would prove Assad’s innocence.
A new United Nations-sponsored report on the April 4 sarin incident in an Al Qaeda-controlled town in Syria blames Bashar al-Assad’s government for the atrocity, but the report contains evidence deep inside its “Annex II” that would prove Assad’s innocence.
October 2017
Although the western nations have embargoes against importing of Syrian oil from the legitimate government in Damascus, after the head-chopping, women enslaving ISIS took over, the European Union allowed the below market oil from ISIS areas to be imported to Europe through Turkey. Israel was a big buyer also.
March 2017
The Wall Will Fall WorPress, March 2017 - Vanessa Beeley speech at the UPR [Union Populaire Republicaine] Conference/Election Campaign launch/10 years anniversary, on Saturday the 25th March in Paris, in front of 6,500 people.
21st Century Wire, 28 Mar 2017 -The purpose of the Libyan war, i.e. the overthrowing of Gaddafi, was achieved within a few months thanks to NATO’s bombing campaign; the lack of such action on the part of NATO and its allies has enabled the Syrian to withstand the terrorist onslaught, with the Russian participation a game-changer.
2016 articles
The Ugly Truth, 28 March 2016 - The liberation of Palmyra on March 27th 2016 occurred because of the great courage and sacrifices of the Syrian Arab Army, the master wing in this war against terror, and the support of the allies.
By David McIlwain, Russian Insider, 16 March 2016 - Western media is using the reported number of 250,000 war dead as if they were all civilian victims of the government - which is far from truth.
By Rev. Andrew Ashdown, 21st Century News, 26 Feb 2016 - I was sitting in an old Damascene house – the home of a Syrian Christian woman, situated within the walls of the Old City of Damascus. A teacher, who has for years taught in a Muslim school, with Sunni, Shia, Christian, Druze children all learning together, talks passionately and emotionally, as she laments the situation in Syria.
By Finian Cunningham, ICH, 24 Feb 2016 -The assertion that Washington is expending diplomacy to end violence in Syria is the jarring term. Washington embarking on a diplomatic effort to end the five-year-old conflict? That’s just out-right fabricated nonsense.
2015 articles
Green Left Weekly attacks Syria, Again
By Dr Tim Anderson 10 May 2015 - One of the success stories of the big powers in their dirty war against Syria has been the co-option of many western liberal and left groups, which might otherwise have been anti-war. The idea that proxy wars have been ‘revolutions’ and their local agents ‘activists’, has found fertile ground in imperial culture.
Pravda by Tim Anderson 10 March 2015 - Reports that US and British aircraft carrying arms to ISIS have been shot down by Iraqi forces have been met with shock and denial in western countries. Few in the Middle East doubt that Washington is playing a 'double game' with its proxy armies in Syria, but some key myths remain important amongst the significantly more ignorant western audiences.
By Eva Bartlett 5 March 2015 - From February 24-26, 2015, I joined a US delegation of 6 anti-war activists—including, notably, former Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, as well as former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and long-time anti-war advocate Sara Flounders, of the International Action Center—in a solidarity visit to Damascus.
February 2015
Why Turkey should disengage from the regime-change game in Syria?
Ali Shukri February 2015 - In this essay, I will be examining Turkey’s involvement in the current regime-change war in Syria, analysing it in light of the knowledge acquired from the Challenges in Global Affairs MOOC specialization course; in particular, the modules related to IR theories, conflict resolution and global (geo)political economy.
2014 articles
Land Destroyer by Tony Cartalucci 19 November 2014 - The United States has attempted to claim that the only way to stop the so-called "Islamic State" in Syria and Iraq is to first remove the government in Syria.
Global Research by Michel Chussodovsky 19 Nov 2014 - Going after “Islamic terrorists”, carrying out a worldwide pre-emptive war to “Protect the American Homeland” are used to justify a military agenda. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a creation of US intelligence. Washington’s “Counter-terrorism Agenda” in Iraq and Syria consists in Supporting the Terrorists.
Turkey Struggling with Shifting Plans in Syria
By Judy Bello 21 October 2014 - President Erdogan of Turkey has, under extreme US pressure, allowed Iraqi Kurds into Syria to fight with the PYD (Syrian Kurds) for the city of Kobane.
Global Research by Brandon turbeville 10 October 2014 - A buffer zone, of course, has been part of the NATO agenda against Syria since the beginning of the Western-controlled crisis in the country. Remember, it was under the guise of a humanitarian corridor or buffer zone in Libya that NATO bombing took place which ultimately led to the destruction of the Libyan government.
CounterPunch by Ajamu Baraka 10 October 2014 - The U.S. is conducting a curious humanitarian war against ISIS in Syria. While Kobani, the largely Kurdish district that straddles the border with Turkey is being attacked by ISIS forces and facing the very real possibility of mass civilian killings if it falls...
RT by Sharmine Narwani 7 October 2014 - Who is to blame for the proliferation of extremist groups in Syria? The West often points a finger at Assad and his allies, but two secret US documents tell a different story.
Pravda by Tim Anderson 30 September 2014 - The sudden reversion of Washington to a 'war on terror' pretext for intervention in Syria has confused western audiences. For three years they watched 'humanitarian intervention' stories, which poured contempt on the Syrian President's assertion that he was fighting foreign backed terrorists. Now the US claims to be leading the fight against those same terrorists.
TND Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya 30 September 2014 - The United Nations Security Council held a high-level meeting on terrorism on September 24, 2014. UN Security Council Resolution 2178, which underscored the need to prevent the travel and funding of foreign terrorists, was unanimously approved and passed by its five permanent and veto-holding members
nsnbc by Tony Cartalucci 29 September 2014 - Russia - threatened explicitly by ISIS terrorists - and China are both demonstrably facing sectarian extremists within their own borders – many of whom are directly linked to Al Qaeda. Both could easily make a case for assisting the Syrian government in eliminating the “ISIS threat.”
Strategic Culture Foundation by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya 26 September 2014 - The ISIL or IS threat is a smokescreen. The strength of the ISIL has deliberately been inflated to get public support for the Pentagon and to justify the illegal bombing of Syria. It has also been used to justify the mobilization of what is looking more and more like a large-scale US-led military buildup in the Middle East.
How is ISIL Financed?
Al Ahed News by Mohammad Kesserwani 24 Sep 2014 - "The funding of ISIL is circulating among banks," a senior Arab diplomatic source told al-Ahed. "All the funds the organization has received, whether from Arab or western countries, came via various European and Turkish banks."
Press TV by Finian Cunningham Thu 25 September 2014 - The covert war on Syria has now finally exploded into the open, with US warplanes launching a blitzkrieg on the Arab country over night.
Seemorerocks by Brandon Turbeville 23 September 2014 - According to USA Today, Rear Admiral John Kirby stated that “I can confirm that U.S. military and partner nation forces are undertaking military action against ISIL terrorists in Syria using a mix of fighter, bomber and Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles. Given that these operations are ongoing, we are not in a position to provide additional details at this time."
Counterpunch by Garikai Chenku 19 September 2014 - Much like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and to counter Iran’s growing influence in the region.
The fact that the United States has a long and torrid history of backing terrorist groups will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore history.
The fact that the United States has a long and torrid history of backing terrorist groups will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore history.
Al Arabiya Friday 12 September 2014 - Startling details have surfaced of British female jihadists forcing captured Iraqi women into sexual slavery at brothels run by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), British media reported Thursday.
CounterPunch by Rick Sterling 3 September 2014 - As NATO begins to deliberate whether and how to escalate aggression against Syria, let’s review some recent and long standing myths and lies about the Syrian conflict.
Al-Akhbar by Sharmine Narwani Sat 30 August 2014 - It has now become clear that the new Mideast "direction" is guided primarily by the “security threat" posed by the proliferation of extremist, sectarian, Islamist fighters in numbers unseen even in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Prayers for Syria Father David Smith 29 August 2014 - Mr Foley’s murder was horrible and tragic but the death of two thousand people in Gaza was two thousand times more tragic, the deaths of two hundred thousand in Syria is two hundred thousand times more tragic, and the death of a million Iraqis has been a million times more tragic.
RT John Wight Thu 28 August 2014 - In a world in which something called morality plays a part, the US and its allies would be approaching the Syrian government and people on bended knee to beg forgiveness for the suffering they have supported, funded, and prolonged over the past three years.
Syrian Girl Thursday 28 August 2014 - The moment the James Foley beheading video was released, Twitter had begun to ban accounts for posting it. This would be the first time Twitter Ban the dissemination of a beheading video, after years of allowing videos of Syrians and Iraqis being beheaded.
By Stephen Gowan 24 August 2014 - To justify the possibility of an air-war in Syria, US officials employ nebulous language about safeguarding US “security interests,” but neglect to spell out what those interests are or how they’re threatened.
Dissident Voice by Eva Barttlet 22 August 2014 - An interview with Dr Ali Haidar, Syria’s Minister of National Reconciliation.
Land Destroyer By Tony Cartalucci 21 August 2014 - US may attempt to arm and provide air cover for terrorists in Syria after claiming success in fighting ISIS in Iraq using Kurds.
In Gaza by Eva Bartlett 3 July 2014 - “We were sleeping and at 4 am they started striking us, from Turkey. At 6 am, men from our area came and took us to a village called Nab’ain, beyond the reach of the armed groups,” Suzy Mentazi, taking refuge in Latakia’s Armenian Orthodox Church, said in April, 2014.
Middle East Briefing 27 June 2014 - The Obama Administration has been pursuing a policy of covert support for the Muslim Brotherhood and other insurgent movements in the Middle East since 2010. MEB has obtained a just-released U.S. State Department document through a Freedom of Information Act
Asia Times Online by Pepe Escobar 27 June 2014 - That little fiction known as Jordan - run by King Playstation, aka Abdullah - will be ripe for the taking as soon as hardcore Salafis from Zarqa (Zarqawi's hometown) totally align with ISIS. Add that piece of real estate to the embryo Levantine Caliphate and we'll be talking major business - oil refineries possibly included.
Lapidomedia by Irfan al-Alawi 24 June 2014 - IT SEEMS the Western media remains confused about who ISIS are. They are still being labeled a ‘Sunni’ outfit, but it is certain they are Salafi/Deobandi jihadists fighting against both Shias and Sunnis.
nsnbc by Christof Lehmann 22 June 2014 -The green light for the use of ISIS brigades to carve up Iraq, widen the Syria conflict into a greater Middle East war and to throw Iran off-balance was given behind closed doors at the Atlantic Council meeting in Turkey...
Asia Times Online by Pepe Escobar 20 June 2014 - For the Empire of Chaos, ISIS is the agent provocateur that fell from (Allah's?) Heaven; the perfect ski mask-clad tool to keep the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Enduring Freedom Forever mode.
counterPunch by Judy Bello 18 June 2014 - When I heard that Lilly had a house in the town of Kassab that had been destroyed during the recent period of occupation by ‘rebel’ forces (actually, al Nusra Front I think) , I wanted to know more.
The numerical strength of al Qaeda in Syria
By Vladimir Suchan 15 June 2014 - The "few" thousand people under ISIS is a lie propagated by the West that tried to minimize and conceal the strength of al Qaeda in Syria and Iraq. One does not control millions of people and so much territory with 6-7 thousand armed men. Not even al Qaeda.
New Eastern Outlook (NEO) by Tony Cartalucci 13 June 2014 - In actuality, ISIS is the product of a joint NATO-GCC conspiracy stretching back as far as 2007 where US-Saudi policymakers sought to ignite a region-wide sectarian war to purge the Middle East of Iran’s arch of influence stretching from its borders, across Syria and Iraq, and as far west as Lebanon and the coast of the Mediterranean.
Al Akhbar by Suhaib Anjarini 11 June 2014 - The organization known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is no doubt among those who have benefited the most from the Syrian conflict.
RT by Andrew Korybko 7 June 2014 - The results of Syria’s first presidential election in nearly half a century have finally come in and the Syrian people have overwhelmingly given Assad a clear mandate to continue going forward with his anti-terrorist and civil reconciliation policies.
Syrian Presidential Elections and the ABC's Farce
By Wayne Sonter 5 June 2014 - Given the Syrian presidential elections had just been held and Syria has been in the spotlight quite a bit over the last few years, I thought I’d turn on my radio (fairly) early this morning and see if I could catch the results. I thought I would tune into the Australian Broadcasting Commission – “Australia's most trusted, independent source of news”
Land Destroyer By Tony Cartalucci 5 June 2014 - It is hard for even the West to deny that the recent election was a huge success for the government in Damascus, stamping out the illusion of a divided Syria.
Oriental Review By Ajamu Baraka 4 June 2014 - Defying threats of violence, tens of thousands of ordinary Syrians went to the polls to cast a vote that was more about Syrian dignity and self-determination than any of the candidates on the ballot.
RT By Sharmine Narwani 4 June 2014 - Of course these Syrian presidential elections must be the ‘parody’ and ‘farce’ that Western officials and media are relentlessly claiming.
Press TV 3 June 2014 - The rebels have already been voting, early and often…with hot steel ballots. Shelling has continued on the outside of the city all day, mostly the morning wakeup call kind to remind people that they are still there, and then again at twilight...
Al Monitor 2 June 2014 - The official paused momentarily, as if giving exceptional importance to what he was going to say, continuing: "Do you know that this is what actually happened on the sidelines of the Geneva II meetings?
Crescent International By Eva Bartlett 1 June 2014 - Leading figures in Syria such as the Mufti of Syria who lost his own son to a terrorist attack, want to extinguish the fires of hatred. The overwhelming majority of Syrians agree, isolating the foreign-backed mercenaries inside and outside Syria.
Women in Syria – The inside story
The Guardian The Workers' Weekly By Wayne Sonter 16 April 2014 - “If these extremists take over the country,” Ms Saadat said, “what will become of women of Syria? What will become of their rights? What will be the status of a woman in Syria?”
The Weaponization of Western “Aid” for Syria
NEO By Tony Cartalucci 11 April 2014 - Aid as Trojan Horse: It was confirmed in leaked e-mails exposed by the Syrian Electronic Army that first established the use of Western “aid” ships to ferry militants to and from battlefields in both Libya and Syria.
Kenneth Roth and 'Human Rights Watch': campaigners for war and terror in Syria
By Susan Dirgham 24 March 2014 - The war in Syria has entered its fourth year, yet “Human Rights Watch” and its executive director, Kenneth Roth effectively campaign for its prolongation.
Syria’s rich history and antiquities the latest casualty of war
By Chris Ray 21 February 2014 - The buried Bronze Age city of Mari on the Euphrates River in eastern Syria has been giving up its secrets to French and Syrian archaeologists since its discovery in 1933.
December 2013 & previous articles
"Security Arc" forms amidst Mideast terror
Al-Akhbar 21 Dec. 2013. ME analysis by Sharmine Narwani. The Middle East is undergoing yet another seismic shift - that the Russian-brokered destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, a US-Iranian rapprochement, the diminished strategic value of Saudi Arabia and Israel
An Awkward Silence - Burying the Hersh Revelations
Media Lens By David Cromwell 17 December 2013 - An article in the current edition of London Review of Books by Seymour Hersh makes a strong case that US President Obama misled the world over the infamous chemical weapons attack near Damascus on August 21 this year.
Syria, the media and war propaganda, by Jeremy Salt
Syria: Media Disinformation, War Propaganda and the Corporate Media’s “Independent Bloggers”
Global Research - Article by Phil Greaves, 13 Dec. 2013. Most notably in the form of YouTube blogger, and self-proclaimed weapons expert Eliot Higgins, aka “Brown Moses”.
Some things you should know about the 'Syrian Revolution'
Syria 'false flag' massacres
Syria's Salafi-Islamist 'Revolution'
Massacres in Syria: the awful truth
How the violence began, in Daraa
How Amnesty Int'l betrayed the cause of human rights
Syria’s ‘false flag’ terrorism, Houla and the United Nations
Tim Anderson, August 2012 - The deep bias of the United Nations, pandering to 'false flag terrorism', is worsening the violence in Syria.
Syria Information Package
Prepared by Hands off Syria, 2012