Rick Sterling

Rick Sterling is a journalist and member of the Syria Solidarity Movement based in the San Fransico Bay area. He can be reached at [email protected]

NPR Mocks Cancer Survivor in Drumbeat of Syria Propaganda

While NPR snorts about Asma Assad « sporting a chic blonde pixie cut », Lilly Martin points out that she was recently bald while fighting for her life. 

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Asma Assad NPR Feature photo

It may be a new low in propaganda. National Public Radio (NPR) used the news that Syrian First Lady Asma Assad had overcome breast cancer to mock her and continue the information war against Syria.  They interviewed a Human Rights Watch staffer named Lama Fakih who is an American from Michigan now based in Beirut. Do you believe Ms. Fakih in

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Tulsi Gabbard Challenges US Exceptionalism In San Francisco Speech

Tulsi Gabbard is challenging the core policy of US exceptionalism and identifying who benefits and “who pays the price” for those policies.

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Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard visited the San Francisco Bay Area last weekend. The three term Congresswoman from Hawaii is 37 years old and ethnically diverse. Remarkably, she has 15 years of military experience in the US Army and National Guard as well as substantial political experience. She was elected to the Hawaii State Assembly at age 21. Tulsi Gabbard

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Marie Colvin, Homs and Media Falsehoods about Syria

Seven years after death, Rick Sterling examines Marie Colvin’s reporting from Syria amidst a wave of new articles, books, and movies about her and how she died.

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In April 2014 I was part of an international delegation which visited Syria for five days. The delegates came from many different countries. Among the notables were the Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire, a Syrian-British heart surgeon, and Julian Assange’s father. We spent time in Damascus and then traveled by bus to Latakia and then Homs. In

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Western Media Launch Attack on Critics of Controversial White Helmets Group

The media and political impact of the White Helmets show what money and marketing can do.

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White Helmets Award

The October 16 issue of NY Review of Books has an article by Janine di Giovani titled “Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets”. The article exemplifies how western media promotes the White Helmets uncritically and attacks those who challenge the myth.     A Crude & Disingenuous Attack Giovani’s article attacks several

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A Tribute to American Patriot and Investigative Journalist Robert Parry

Robert Parry was a man wholly dedicated to truth. He worked tirelessly to uncover the Iran-Contra scandal, Oliver North’s secret work at the Reagan White House, the CIA’s role in smuggling cocaine from Colombia and more recently the decline of American journalism.

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Robert (Bob) Parry was born in 1949 and died suddenly from pancreatic cancer in January 2018. An enthusiastic tribute to him and his work was recently held in Berkeley California. A video of the event is online here. Although Robert Parry never became personally famous, many readers will recall news stories he played a key role in bringing to

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The Two-State Solution Is Dead, Palestinian Courage Should Spur International Action

The recent bloodshed and massacres underscore the fact that there is no solution on the current path. It only leads to increasingly unlivable conditions in Gaza plus more illegal settlements and oppression in the West Bank.

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After 70 years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is still unresolved. The conflict simmers for a few years, then erupts again with new massacres and violence. After the failure of the two-state solution, recent events have again highlighted the need for a different approach. In the past couple months, Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers have

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An Iranian Perspective on the Battle for Syria

A new feature film from Iran gives a different perspective of the war raging in Syria and the fight against ISIS than Western audiences are accustomed to.

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A still from the Iranian film "Damascus Time"

West against East on the Syrian battlefield, in the newspapers and now on film: A new, full-length action movie, titled “Damascus Time,” gives an Iranian perspective on the battle against ISIS in Syria. The movie comes from Iranian screenwriter and film director Ebrahim Hatamikia. Two award-winning Iranian actors, Hadi Hejazifar and Babak

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