Tag: Trump VS Syria

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research     In 2007 at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, former NATO commander General Wesley Clark (image below) said America underwent a post-9/11 transformation – his address on YouTube deleted. A “policy coup” occurred, he said. With no public debate or acknowledgement, hardliners usurped power. From Pentagon commanders, Clark learned about plans to “destroy the governments in seven countries,” he said. Besides Afghanistan – Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Iran would be targeted. As a one-star general in 1991, then Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz told him Washington intended multiple premeditated wars. US policymakers wanted the Middle East destabilized, its map redrawn. Clark explained their plan was “to s...

NOVANEWS By Miri Wood Syria News   Recent news reports claim that US President Donald J. Trump has frozen more than $200 million in funds “earmarked for Syria recovery efforts” that nobody seems to have known about until this freezing  announcement.  Ostensibly, recently fired SoS Tillerson had mentioned — at some ‘aid’ conference in Kuwait — such money would be given to Syria through the State Department for infrastructure projects like power, water, and roads.  In what galaxy would a pissant $200 million make a dent in the billions of dollars of Syrian infrastructure destroyed by the Obama and Trump regimes is unknown.   What is known is that the 59 Tomahawk missiles Trump used to slaughter Syrian soldiers and collateral damage civilians on 7 April 2017, cost the US taxpayer $...