From 2011 to 2016, demonstrations in Syria against the Ba’athist government headed by Bashar al-Assad escalated into an armed insurgency and large-scale pitched battles, sieges and counter-sieges in and around major Syrian cities such as Aleppo and Damascus. During that time, agents of U.S. diplomacy, soft power, defense and...
Part 1 of a series exposing the farce of so-called U.S. “democracy promotion”
If Americans know anything about U.S. involvement in Syria, they probably think of the recent Syrian Civil War (2011 to 2024). However, U.S. intervention in Syrian affairs goes back almost to Syrian independence from French colonialism in...
Though branded in Western media as a success story, Bangladesh shows eery parallels to Syria
In 2024, The Economist magazine named Bangladesh as its “country of the year,” stating that it had “improved the most” of any other country in the world over the previous 12 months.
The watershed event in...
Seek to unseat pro-Chinese leader and restore Kiribati’s diplomatic relations with Taiwan
Americans familiar with the history of the Pacific War know all about the Tarawa atoll in Micronesia, where the U.S. military suffered heavy casualties on “annihilation beach” in November 1943 after carrying out a botched amphibious invasion/landing.
To win...
U.S. Seeking to Dominate Chain of Pacific Islands in Preparation for Potential War with China
As the primary agency responsible for U.S foreign assistance programs, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is keen to meddle in other countries’ election activities.
The U.S. believes that only like-minded regimes can defend its...
Advances the Fantasy that the U.S. is Winning the Ukraine War and that Putin Will Soon Fall
As the Ukrainian counteroffensive continues to sputter, CIA Director William J. Burns delivered a talk at the British Ditchley Foundation on July 1, affirming the U.S. strategy of regime change in Russia.
The talk,...
Less than a year after the United States and the U.S.-backed Organization of American States (OAS) supported a violent military coup to overthrow the government of Bolivia, the Bolivian people have reelected the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and restored it to power.
In the long history of U.S.-backed “regime changes”...