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Who supplied the news from the Syrian civil war?
PATRIK PAULOV looks back on how the Western media covered the key battle of Aleppo in 2016 with scant regard for actual events on the ground
US troops on exercises alongside Kurdish SDF forces in Syria this month. Western media outsourced most Syrian war reporting to the rebel side
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
ON DECEMBER 22 2016, the dramatic battle of eastern Aleppo was over. The last armed groups in Syria’s largest city had either given up or accepted to be bussed to the countryside west of the city or to the neighbouring Idlib province.
How should we view these events? My contacts in Syria described it as a significant victory on the road to liberating all of Syria from the terrorist groups backed by the West and the Gulf states.
On the other hand, most Western journalists claimed that the city had fallen. The battle of Aleppo had for months been pictured as an ongoing genocide.
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