The Destabilization of Syria – Who Gains?

The conflict in Syria ultimately boils down to natural gas pipelines, religious strife and extremism, the quest for regional power in the Middle East, and the emergence of a new cold war between the U.S. and Russia. Viewing the players and events in Syria with an understanding of those core facets brings us much closer to understanding the truth about what’s really happening in Syria and why. Continue reading

Syria Chemical Weapon Attacks – The Case Against the Rebels

In the absence of any evidence implicating the Assad government in the August 21st chemical weapon attack against Ghouta, and with Assad having strong motives to not use chemical weapons, we must look at other possible culprits. This post will investigate the rebels’ motives and means to carry out the Ghouta attack as a false flag operation with the goal of drawing the U.S. into the conflict on the side of the rebels. Continue reading

Syria Chemical Weapon Attacks – Do You Really Think Assad is That Stupid?

Are we honestly supposed to believe that Assad carried out chemical weapon attacks at the exact time and in the exact location that U.N. chemical weapons experts had just arrived to investigate previous allegations? Are we supposed to believe that Assad would risk giving the U.S. an excuse to commence overt military action against him? Are we supposed to believe that Assad would risk losing the moral high ground and with it his Russian re-supply lines? And finally, are we supposed to believe that Assad would risk all these things to carry out an attack of no strategic and negligible tactical importance? Continue reading

Syria Chemical Weapon Attacks – Where’s the Evidence John?

The U.S. has once again started the march to a war of aggression. Once again the public is being manipulated through appeal to emotion. Let’s cut through the rhetoric and analyze point-by-point the conclusions made by U.S. intelligence and cited by Secretary of State John Kerry in his August 30th, 2013 speech on the Syrian chemical weapon attacks. The reality is a complete and utter absence of hard evidence substantiating any of Kerry’s claims. Continue reading

Meet the Syrian Rebels: Who Are They And What Do They Fight For?

Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator whose forces are responsible for both long term oppression of the Syrian people and many egregious atrocities during the present civil war.

But the FSA is clearly the greater of two evils. What began as a legitimate uprising by the people has been thoroughly co-opted and dominated by foreign Islamic extremists bent on imposing Sharia law and genocide for all infidels. Continue reading