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Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the...
Media fails to properly frame everything going on in the middle east, especially Syria. Here's whats going on in Idlib https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPK5hVFfZ0
Marko Marjanovic returns to FPF to talk about Venezuela and Syria. Kyle and Marko discuss how US regime change efforts in Venezuela have failed to topple Maduro. The US actions have hurt the Venezuelan people and increased Maduro's popularity. In Syria, Assad is...
On FPF #254, I discuss a close call between US and Chinese Navy ships. The US ship was conducting a 'freedom of navigation' mission in waters claimed by China. The Chinese ship carried out maneuvers that brought it very close to the US ship. I review the history of...
On FPF #248, I discuss recent developments in the Syrian Civil War. An attack by Israel led to the Syrian government accidentally downing a Russian surveillance plane. Turkey and Russia reached an agreement to put the Syrian government offensive in Idlib is on pause....
Trump and Kim Jong Un are planning a second meeting. [Link] A new citizenship program in India deprives about 4 million Muslim Indians of citizenship. [Link] At least 68 have been killed by a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. [Link] Taliban officials say they are ready...
The US and Russia block a UN proposal to ban autonomous killer robots. [Link] The US is considering sending more weapons to Ukraine. [Link] The leader of the Ukrainian separatists was killed in a bombing. [Link] Eric Margolis on the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in...
On FPF #241, I discuss the US role in continuing the Syrian Civil War. David Ignatius of the Washington Post reports that a Trump official said the US policy is to draw Syria and Russia into a quagmire in Idlib. Ignatius argues for the US to do more to assist the...
Mehdi Hasan will release a series of shows on blowback. [Link] The US provocations in the South China Sea will lead to a Chinese military buildup. [Link] Pence says US embassy in Jerusalem to open by end of next year. [Link] The US switching the Afghan military to...
What follows is a response to a July 26 article published at the Washington Post entitled “Why is the Trump Administration Empowering al-Qaeda in Syria?” penned by columnist Marc Thiessen. The article—while its headline sounds like something many non-interventionists...
Journalist Jenan Moussa has sent undercover reporters to Idlib Province, home of Uncle Sam and friends' "moderate" al Qaeda fighters there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9NyL78kDUQ Yet U.S. support for these terrorists continues under President Donald Trump.
Reese Erlich, author of Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect, discusses the deadly chemical gas attack/release in Syria's Idlib province - which has been widely blamed on Assad's forces - and Trump's decision to launch dozens of...
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