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Public interest in leaked and declassified intelligence reports has surged in the era of WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden. But while media outlets focus on the antics of Donald Trump, they continue to ignore hugely revealing information that could really embarrass powerful leaders, organisations, and even entire countries. And recently, as WikiLeaks continues to uncover covert US actions around the… → Read More
Syria’s capital city has been without its primary water supply since 22 December. And civilians are increasingly panicking as intense fighting continues at the water source in the Barada Valley (Wadi Barada). The UN has condemned the water cut off, which has affected five million people in the greater Damascus area, as a potential war crime. Who’s responsible? Syrian opposition media has charged… → Read More
And it's a story that everyone in the West needs to hear → Read More
There’s a celebratory and optimistic mood on the streets of Damascus. Donald Trump’s election victory in the US has resulted in a general sigh of relief from pro-government areas of Syria. And this might come as a surprise to those familiar with Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric directed against Muslims and Middle Eastern immigrants in general. We could perhaps consider citizens in government-held… → Read More
Definitely helps to understand what's going on in Syria a bit better. → Read More
Insights from our man on the ground show why the conflict is only going to get worse, in this second report from our Syria Series → Read More
Our man on the ground reveals the reality of life in the war-torn Syrian capital → Read More
This footage of 'moderate' rebels in Syria raises massive questions → Read More
ISIS has state sponsorship after all, says Clinton. → Read More
Revealing emails about Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in the US have driven a number of global headlines since their public release on 7 October. Here are just five of them that you really ought to read. Background on the email leak According to WikiLeaks, a mere 1% of the Hillary Clinton campaign files (known as the Podesta emails) had been released at the time of this article’s… → Read More
An internal United Nations report which the public wasn’t supposed to see has just hit the web. And its findings contain some explosive and uncomfortable truths. Western sanctions on Syria, the report says, are harming ordinary civilians the most – preventing hospitals from accessing basic medical equipment and even hindering effective humanitarian aid. The 40-page UN investigation was leaked to… → Read More
In a stunning interview with a German regional newspaper, a purported al-Qaeda commander in Syria has claimed that his terror group (al-Nusra Front) received support from the US in its fight against the Assad government. He specifically said that Nusra had received shipments of US-supplied ‘TOW’ anti-tank missiles and other advanced weapons systems. The commander, identifying himself only as Abu… → Read More
Things are getting scarier by the minute in Syria. Just when it appeared that a new plan for Russian-US cooperation might take effect, the deal unravelled, leading to tense and bizarre moments at the UN. A week of escalation then followed, as each nation’s warplanes came closer and closer, a UN aid convoy was hit, and propaganda wars raged in the world’s media. As one blogger put it: > This… → Read More
My journey to overcome the deceit of wartime propaganda → Read More