By Dr. Kevin Barrett, PressTV.ir The al-Nusra front in Syria has officially announced that it is part of al-Qaeda. Even before the announcement, everyone knew it was al-Qaeda. So why is it being armed to the teeth with US-supplied weapons, and given training and strategic and diplomatic support by the US government? The US, after all, is officially at war with al-Qaeda, which the American government blames for the still-unsolved crimes of September 11th, 2001… Read the complete article at http://presstv.com/detail/2013/04/13/298068/why-is-us-backing-alqaeda-terrorists/
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Israel, US arm al-Qaeda to break Syria into pieces: Dr. Kevin Barrett
Watch the Press TV video An analyst says the United States and its Zionist masters are using al-Qaeda and other militant groups as a tool to break up Syria into pieces. In the background of this the al-Nusra rebel Group in Syria, financed and supported with equipment and training by certain Western and Arab countries, has confessed to being a part of al-Qaeda. Syria is now urging the United Nations to classify the al-Nusra Front as an al-Qaeda-linked group. Syria has always maintained that the bulk of fighting and atrocities in Syria are being conducted by these extremist foreign entities…
FULL ARTICLETuesday’s show: Feroze Mithiborwala on Damascus peace conference
Feroze is a Gandhi fan Note: I will not be doing live shows Monday and Wednesday – tune in to AmericanFreedomRadio.com 3 to 5 pm Central on those days to catch a “best of Truth Jihad Radio” re-run! Tuesday, April 9th, 11 a.m. to noon Central (9-10 Pacific) on NoLiesRadio.org (then archived here a few hours after broadcast). Guest: Feroze Mithiborwala, who is helping organize a peace conference aimed at ending the war in Syria. Feroze is one of India’s leading activist intellectuals. He has worked to build a 9/11 truth movement in India and to expose India’s own false-flag…
FULL ARTICLEIsrael gets Turkey on board to destroy Syria: Dr. Kevin Barrett (Press TV)
Press TV “…all of these countries are under the sway of the international Zionists and they are trying to break up [Syria] as part of the Oded Yinon plan to smash all of the potential enemies of Israel in the region into little tiny statelets along ethnic and sectarian lines. So that is the real reason of course that Israel wants to make friends with Turkey: to get Turkey fully on board with the Israeli plan to destroy Syria.” A political analyst tells Press TV that the real reason that Israel wants to make friends with Turkey is to get…
FULL ARTICLEAl-Qaeda operates on behalf of Israel, West
-Press TV (watch video) The al-Qaeda mercenaries in Syria operate on behalf of the Israeli regime and the West, aiming to break up the Middle East and spread sectarianism, an analyst tells Press TV. Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri recently called for support for the foreign-backed insurgents in Syria in their fight against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Meanwhile, despite a temporary truce that took effect in Syria on Friday, the insurgents launched attacks in several areas, killing dozens of people and injuring tens of others. Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Many people, including large numbers…
FULL ARTICLEQuestioning the Syria hype on Russia Today
In a recent Russia Today interview I questioned the official Western version of events in Syria. While I don’t doubt that the Syrian government and allied forces are committing atrocities, as would any sovereign government attempting to save itself from a rebellion armed and partly directed from abroad, the bottom line is that when the Syrian opposition chose to start a civil war and ally itself with the Zionist-US-Saudi-NATO criminals, it robbed itself of the moral legitimacy it might have otherwise enjoyed. excerpted from http://rt.com/news/daraya-massacre-reports-syria-590/ : ‘Orchestrated PR event?’ The timing of the “massacre” reports is of no coincidence, believes…
FULL ARTICLENuclear crisis special with Helen Caldicott and others…
Wed. 8/8/12: Nuclear crisis special! Note: We were unable to broadcast the Helen Caldicott interview live, so it will be broadcast next Tuesday, 11 to noon Central, on NoLiesRadio (archived here shortly after the show). Legendary anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott Today’s show: 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Post your questions to my Facebook page. We’re in that no-man’s-land, smack in the middle of the dog days of August between Hiroshima Day and Nagasaki day, waiting for the next bomb to drop. During the first hour of the first show, Iranian journalist Kourosh Ziabari will correct some common…
FULL ARTICLENew Syria Press TV interview; Night of Power & 9/11 truth
Sunni Ship sent this wonderful post on 9/11 truth and the Night of Power, the climactic night of Ramadan: http://ummahphantom.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/night-of-destiny-campaign-for-911-truth/ Meanwhile, I just did another Press TV interview on Syria. It came out better than expected, considering that I was feeling slow-witted from fasting, had no time to prepare, and kept losing contact with Press TV due to Zionist jamming and/or sunspots. Watch the video: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/07/25/252734/syria-gangs-act-for-americanzionist-empire/ The infrastructure of Syria is facing dangerous levels and the fighting between the Syrian army and the armed groups is spreading to other cities as well. Syria has been the scene of…
FULL ARTICLEAlexander Cockburn and the hypocrisy of ‘Non-Proliferation’
File photo of a US-made B61 nuclear bomb that can be launched from a range of different aircraft. Alexander Cockburn and the hypocrisy of ‘Non-Proliferation’ By Kevin Barrett “Today, the Zionist-dominated US empire is seeking to establish a near-monopoly of nuclear weapons, which would allow that empire to use these weapons at will. To prevent their use, as Alexander Cockburn saw, we must arm the prospective victims.” read the full article at Press TV
FULL ARTICLEDouble standards?! Who, US? (Plus, my Press TV interview archive)
Here’s my latest interview on Press TV. Scroll down to find links for previous Press TV interviews. -KB US seeks to dominate world through double standards: Analyst Press TV has conducted an interview with Kevin Barrett, author and Islamic studies expert, Madison about US double standards in supporting a pledge to hunt down global terrorism, but actually supporting terrorist gangs and working with them to topple independent or sovereign governments. The following is an approximate transcription of the interview. Press TV: We were discussing the role of the US and its Arab allies in fueling the unrest in Syria. Kofi…
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