[Note FPSN: As quality journalism has no access to the Main Stream Media anymore, we assume it a duty to re-publish their articles on our Free Press Support Networks website.] By Jonathan Cook Published before, on: CounterPunch , 27 June 2017 Global Research, June 28, 2017 Featured image: An area allegedly hit by the “sarin gas” attack in Khan Sheikhoun (Photo from Zaman al-Wasl) Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the man who exposed the Mai Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the US military’s abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004, is probably the most influential journalist of the modern era, with the possible exception of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the pair who exposed Watergate. For decades, Hersh has drawn on his extensive contacts within the US security…

President Donald Trump ignored important intelligence reports when he decided to attack Syria after he saw pictures of dying children. Seymour M. Hersh investigated the case of the alleged Sarin gas attack. By Seymour M. Hersh Previously published on: Die Welt 25 June 2017 Global Research, June 26, 2017 Publication was refused by: The New Yorker London Review of Books On April 6, United States President Donald Trump authorized an early morning Tomahawk missile strike on Shayrat Air Base in central Syria in retaliation for what he said was a deadly nerve agent attack carried out by the Syrian government two days earlier in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun. Trump issued the order despite having been warned by the U.S. intelligence community that it had found no evidence that…

If official human rights reports  get removed from publication, it's our duty to get them back in the public as much as possible. For that reason I copied it here. An article of Richard Falk, one of the investigators/authors of the march 15 2017 UN report, that was immediately removed after pressure and treat from Israel and the US. (more…)

The ESCWA report by Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley, entitled:  Israel Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid  ,   has been removed from the UN ECSWA website. It is available in pdf here Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) head Rima Khalaf  was forced to resign for refusing to retract the damning report, calling Israel an apartheid state, an indisputable fact – written by Israel Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid  ,   has been removed from the UN ECSWA website.distinguished academics Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley. They proved their accusation “beyond a reasonable doubt” – based on definitions of apartheid by the International Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (the Apartheid Convention) and Rome Statute of the International Criminal…

The russian Foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov delivered remarks at the international security conference in Munich. He accused the United States of escalating the crisis in Ukraine, but expressed optimism that a deal could be reached. (more…)

(Posted by Dr. Vacy Vlazna on October 19, 2016 in Palestine/Israel) ‘While the resolution will unlikely alter the nature of the conflict fundamentally, it rejects – legally and morally – all Israeli efforts aimed at denying the rights of Muslims – and Christians – in their city, which they aspire to make their future capital,’ said Ramzy Baroud, the editor of Palestine Chronicle. In an interview with Muslim Press, Dr. Ramzy Baroud discusses Israeli Palestinian conflict and UNESCO’s latest resolution that strongly condemn the Zionist regime In what follows, full transcription of the interview has been provided. (more…)

Max Blumenthal Previously published on Alternet.org  (2,3 okt. 2016) Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government.   October 3, 2016 On September 30, demonstrators gathered in city squares across the West for a "weekend of action” to “stop the bombs” raining down from Syrian government and Russian warplanes on rebel-held eastern Aleppo. Thousands joined the protests, holding signs that read "Topple Assad" and declaring, "Enough With Assad." Few participants likely knew that the actions were organized under the auspices of an opposition-funded public relations company called the Syria Campaign. By partnering with local groups like the Syrian civil defense workers popularly known as the White Helmets, and through a vast network of connections…

JERUSALEM // The death of Shimon Peres, the former Israeli president, was greeted with a stony silence from Arab leaders on Wednesday amid the outpouring of tributes from western politicians. Peres, who died early on Wednesday aged 93, won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for his role in negotiating the Oslo accords, which envisioned an independent Palestinian state. As the last surviving founding father of the Jewish state, he was revered in Israel and praised as a statesman. But in the Arab world and particularly for Palestinians, Peres was a deeply controversial figure. His role in a now defunct peace process has been called into question, but he is most reviled for his hawkish early years, when he was a…