Disastrous consequences could ensue if President-elect Donald Trump picks John Bolton for secretary of state Post-election comments on Middle East policy last week by President-elect Donald Trump and one his campaign advisers have provoked speculation about whether Trump will upend two main foreign policy lines of the Obama administration in …
Read More »‘Propagandising For War’ – Gareth Porter Responds To The BBC Today Programme On Syria
A report published by the London School of Economics last month found extreme levels of bias in BBC reporting. The ‘impartial’ BBC’s early evening news was almost five times more likely to depict Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in a negative light. In the time period studied (September 1 – November …
Read More »How Putin’s leverage shaped the Syrian ceasefire
Gareth Porter By his military withdrawal, Putin was actually enhancing his leverage over both the military situation and the political negotiations still to come When Russian President Vladimir Putin had a substantive meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry last week, it was an extremely rare departure from …
Read More »