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Rick Sterling is an investigative journalist who grew up in Canada, but currently lives in San Francisco Bay area of California.












Independent journalist with experience in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Based in the SF Bay Area, California.

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President Trump and President Erdogan, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 1, 2020
How USA and Turkey Plunder and Loot Syria with Impunity While President Trump lashes out at rioting and looting in Portland and Kenosha, half way around the world, the USA and Turkey are plundering and looting Syria on a vastly greater scale with impunity and little publicity.
Syrians participated on Thursday in a large demonstration against the U.S.-applied
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 25, 2020
Caesar Tries to Suffocate 17 Million Syrians Since 2011, the US and allies have promoted, trained and supplied militants trying to bring about "regime change" in Damascus. Having failed in that effort, they have tried to strangle Syria economically. The goal has always been the same: to force Syria to change politically. This month, June 2020, the aggression reaches a new level with extreme sanctions known as the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 8, 2020
SouthFront Is Censored under Cover of Pandemic A major disinformation and censorship drive against SouthFront was recently launched. On April 30 the SouthFront Facebook account with about 100,000 subscribers was deleted without warning or notice.
Unidentified Syrian rebels surround a piece of US weaponry during training by an American special forces member in Tanf. Photo | Hammurabi's Justice News, From Uploaded
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 20, 2019
Sorting Facts From Fiction About the US Withdrawal From Syria If one believes in the restoration of international law and the tenants of the UN Charter, then the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from northern Syria is a good thing. Here are some facts and history that explain why.
Asma Assad while visiting cancer-stricken children at a hospital in the city of Harasta in Damascus in 2018.), From Uploaded
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 22, 2019
NPR Mocks Cancer Survivor in Drumbeat of Syria Propaganda 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.
Syrian Children, From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 15, 2019
"Saving Syria's Children". Was the Video Footage "Real" or "Staged"? The issue at stake is not only the BBC; it is the manipulation of media to deceive the public into supporting elite-driven foreign policy. 'Saving Syria's Children' is an important case study.
How Russiagate replaced Analysis of the 2016 Election, From FlickrPhotos
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 22, 2019
How Russiagate replaced Analysis of the 2016 Election An honest and accurate analysis of the 2016 election is not just an academic exercise. It is very relevant to the current election campaign.
Miko Peled, From WikimediaPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 11, 2017
A Silenced Israeli Critic Although the U.S. news media's fancies itself the world's "gold standard," it operates with stunning hypocrisy and huge blind spots, none bigger than its fawning coverage of Israel that ignores critics like Miko Peled, notes Rick Sterling.
Retired Gen. Michael Flynn (left) sitting next to Russian President Vladimir Putin at a dinner marking the RT network's 10-year anniversary in Moscow, December 2015. Also, at the table (on the right) is Jill Stein, who became the Green Party's presidentia, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 17, 2017
The Trump/Obama "Leak War" "Leaks" can be whistleblowers exposing government wrongdoing, but many actually are government agencies manipulating the public or punishing enemies, as is playing out in today's Trump/Obama "leak war," says Rick Sterling.
Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN, addresses the Security Council meeting on Syria, Sept. 25, 2016. Power has been an advocate for escalating U.S. military involvement in Syria., From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 1, 2017
The War Against Alternative Information The U.S. government is creating a new $160 million bureaucracy to shut down information that doesn't conform to U.S. propaganda narratives, building on the strategy that sold the bloody Syrian "regime change" war, writes Rick Sterling.

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