Default Editor Patrice de Bergeracpas

ERIC ZUESSE—One might say that stealing Syria’s oil is being done in order to impoverish the Syrian people so much so that they will turn against and overthrow Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, whom even Western-sponsored polls, which have been taken for years in Syria, have shown to be overwhelmingly the #1 person whom they want to be Syria’s President. However, whatever the reason might be as to why the U.S. regime is stealing Syria’s oil, the U.S. regime’s theft is equally illegal, and equally a gangster-operation that it is running there. This operation has been going on for a decade now, under American Presidents Obama, Trump, and, currently, Biden.

RON UNZ—Twitter has temporarily suspended the account belonging to Russia’s foreign ministry, officials in Moscow have revealed. According to the ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, the punitive measure was imposed after the diplomats cited a Russian military commander, who had alleged the US could have been behind the Covid-19 pandemic.
On Tuesday, Zakharova posted a message on her Telegram channel, saying that on August 5, Twitter “blocked for seven days the official account of the foreign ministry in English.” The diplomat explained that the harsh reaction had been triggered by the ministry posting a tweet featuring excerpts from a speech delivered earlier by the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, General-Lieutenant, Igor Kirillov.

JONATHAN COOK—Should a human rights organization apologize for publishing important evidence of war crimes and human rights abuses? If it does apologize, what does that suggest about its commitment to dispassionately uncovering the truth about the actions of both parties to war? And equally, what message does it send to those who claim to be “distressed” by the publication of such evidence? Those are questions Amnesty International should have pondered far more carefully than it obviously did before issuing an apology last week over its latest report on the war in Ukraine.

Putin: “The so-called collective West is purposefully destroying the European security system…They need conflict to maintain their hegemony. That is why they prepared the fate of the people
of Ukraine as ‘cannon fodder’…turned a blind eye to the spread of neo-Nazi ideology…”

THE EDITOR—TGP has long been regarded as one of the finest sources of anti-imperialist news and commentary around the world. We strive for a world of peace grounded in individual and international justice, in ecoanimal respect (where a change of moral direction is urgent), and a political system that truly represents the interests and wishes of the people. That, in the eyes of our enemies, makes us their enemies—we go to the root of society’s problems. We upset the applecart.