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Republished from Eva Bartlett In Gaza: Eva is a Canadian independent journalist and activist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine. She is a recipient of the International Journalism Award for International Reporting. Visit her personal blog, In Gaza, and support her work on Patreon.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 2, 2020 Why Do You Support Syria? (Plus Video Playlist)
I get asked that a lot by Syrians who are genuinely curious or surprised by support of Syria by a non-Syrian.
And it's sometimes hard to give a good reply, or at least a concise one, because the reasons are manifold.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 9, 2020 Interview On #FreeAssange Vigil
Interview I did recently on the Free Assange Vigil.
We discuss media freedom and censorship issues, persecution of journalists, smears of journalists"
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 28, 2019 Lovely Encounters in Sevastopol, Crimea
I have a lot to update on from various areas of Russia over the past few weeks, but have been working hard on a special project that takes priority over all my other work and over even simple updates (and which unfortunately two days ago I had to re-start from the beginning when my project and backup project inexplicably failed).
SHARE Tuesday, September 3, 2019 Ukraine's War on Donbass: An Interview with Filmmaker Maxim Fadeev
The following is an interview conducted by email with a documentary maker based in Donetsk, who has been documenting Ukraine's war on the Donetsk People's Republic and the tragedies this has caused civilians living there.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Life in Russia vs. Russophobic Stereotypes
Thomas Röper is the creator of the Anti-Spiegel, a website that examines content produced by the German news site Der Spiegel for lies or misinformation.
SHARE Saturday, January 25, 2020 US to Grant $35 Million to Promote Fake News Bubble in Syria
Although Western media has a shoddy track record of lying on Syria (and Libya, Iraq"), the US State Department will pump $35 million more into future war propaganda on Syria, under the guise of promoting honest reporting.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 16, 2020 Daesh Terrorists Confess, Terrorism Done in Coordination with US Occupation Forces
The three terrorists, in a program broadcast on the Syrian TV on Thursday, confessed to perpetrating different terrorist operations, inducing acts of killing, execution, abduction, acts of sabotage and destruction of public and private properties.
SHARE Saturday, August 24, 2019 Eva Bartlett Attacked in Moscow by Man Screaming Anti-Russian Slogans
CANADIAN JOURNALIST CRITICIZING RALLIES ATTACKED IN MOSCOW WITH ANTI-RUSSIAN SLOGANS
by Vadim Manukyan
"Canadian journalist and blogger Eva Karene Bartlett came to Russia for tourism, journalism, including on the Moscow protests, and also to visit Crimea and Donbass.
It was she who owned the famous phrase about Moscow 'opposition':
SHARE Tuesday, January 7, 2020 Media Propaganda Against Syria
"Steadfast Canadian journalist Eva Karene Bartlett, who has spent months on the ground in many parts of Syria since 2014, discusses Western propaganda...
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 14, 2019 From Moscow to Donbass
The other day, I was interviewed by Vadim Manukyan on the Moscow protests but also on issues related to Syria, Gaza, Venezuela and western corporate media propaganda.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Brief History of Kurdish Contras and their Ethnic Cleansing Campaigns; and Recent Events.
In Damascus, I have an informal conversation with geopolitical analyst and media policy and law consultant, Laith Marouf, about recent events in Syria.
Laith addresses issues related to Kurds in Syria here, but for a really detailed breakdown, listen to this interview we did. Eva Bartlett
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 17, 2019 Western Leaders: Screw Your "Sanctions Target the Regime" Blather
The US has a favourite tool for bullying non-compliant nations: sanctions. Sanctions inflict considerable suffering, even death, on ordinary people in targeted nations. Yet those defiant nations persist and resist.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, September 23, 2019 Villagers Under Constant Attack by Kiev-Ukraine Government
The other day I went to Krutaya Balka, a frontline village N of Donetsk and just outside of Yasinovataya. Around 15 people (mostly elderly) remain in this village, under Ukrainian shelling & heavy machine gun fire.
SHARE Sunday, March 8, 2020 Russian "War Crimes" in Syria Based on "We say so"
A UN-mandated report, which accuses Russia of war crimes in Syria, heavily relies on anonymous sources and lacks evidence, but also smacks of deliberate disinformation that is halting the eradication of terrorism in Idlib.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 7, 2019 The Ukrainian Side Shoots Whenever They Want; No One Holds Them Accountable
When in the People's Republic (DPR) and visiting the Mine 6-7 area, I saw a school whose basement is now used as a shelter.
There, I met an elderly couple who have been living in that dank, stinking, basement for six years, their home destroyed.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 5, 2019 Syria's Rukban Refugee Camp Belie Corporate Media Reporting
Eva Bartlett visited refugees in Syria escaping the horrid conditions in the Rukban Refugee Camp, a desolate outpost in the US administered deconfliction zone. What she found was very different than the 'reality' depicted by the Western press.
SHARE Thursday, July 25, 2019 Eva Bartlett on Rukban Refugee Camp, Syria
Eva Bartlett: "In this interview we go over the US-run al-Rukban internment camp in Syria and what these people have been forced to endure even as the MSM ignores their plight, as well as some of what Eva saw while living in Palestine, the parallels between the two atrocities, and the governmental ties that bind them."
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 24, 2020 U.S. Meddling in Venezuela Has No Boundaries
America's meddling in Venezuela has no boundaries. After a failed coup attempt, trying to install a bogus president, and imposing crippling sanctions, will it ever be held to account?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 23, 2020 Tortured by West's "Moderate Rebel" Terrorists
ALEPPO MAN IMPRISONED & TORTURED BY WEST'S "REBELS" IN TERRORIST-OCCUPIED HOSPITAL COMPLEX
Long, productive, rewarding, and also sad, day in Aleppo.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Syria: Walking Tour of Beautiful Damascus
Great day of walking yesterday. I had things to do, but also many pleasant encounters, from morning till late afternoon.
Morning encounters included greeting people I've gotten to know in this area-some from 2014, others more recently.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 17, 2019 Under Fire From Ukraine and Misperceived by the West
On September 2, I left the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don via minibus heading northwest to the border of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and on into Donetsk. For my first few days there, I rented an inexpensive apartment in the heart of the city. Walking on a long tree-lined and cafe-filled pedestrian walkway, life seemed normal. But I would soon find that for the people living in Donetsk, it is anything but.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 21, 2019 Syrian Spirit!
...these kids, age 12, lived under terrorist mortars for years. Precisely this area of Damascus, where we met, was heavily targeted over the years. Yet, look at the love and hope they retain!
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 7, 2019 Remembering Andrei Stenin, A Russian Photojournalist Killed in Eastern Ukraine
Yesterday, visiting Rossiya Segodnya (which translates to Russia Todaybut is not actually RT) in Moscow, I was told about a photojournalist named Andrei Stenin, who was martyred 5 years ago yesterday, in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. According to Sputnik, Stenin was killed on August 6
SHARE Thursday, September 5, 2019 Interview with MARIA ZAKHAROVA, Coming Soon
I am very pleased that my interview & conversation with Maria Zakharova will be published soon on MintPress News. Mint has tweeted a short trailer.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, September 13, 2019 Interview of Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakhar
In a simple meeting room at the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry building, Russia's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova gave me a generous hour of her time in a conversation peppered with bemused laughter at Western allegations about Russia and clear frustration at the West's incessant vilification of all things Russia.
SHARE Friday, May 1, 2020 Syria is NOT Under Lockdown, is NOT the Dystopian Society of War Propagandists
After seeing a pathetic propaganda piece on life in Syria during Covid, shared by a Beirut-based representative for the Canadian regime"I decided to both address the shoddy article and add my own thoughts on life in Syria nowadays.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, October 21, 2019 Syria Still Under Strangling Western Sanctions
Canada's (shameful) closure of Syrian embassies/consulates years ago...western media and fake-left insisted the "revolution" was peaceful in Syria...
(8 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 30, 2020 Impressions From an Informal Meeting with First Lady Asma Al-Assad
Meeting Syria's first lady confirmed what I already knew from speaking with countless Syrians over the years, and from observing from afar the work she does: she is a strong, intelligent, down to earth, and compassionate woman dedicated to empowering and helping her fellow Syrians.
SHARE Wednesday, June 24, 2020 The Latest Attack on Syria Didn't Drop from a Plane
The recent passage of the Caesar Act is the newest level of criminality targeting Syria, even the name of the act is based on a lie. An implementation of yet further brutal sanctions against the people of Syria, it will cause immense suffering, all under the premise of targeting Syria's leadership and helping Syria's people.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 9, 2020 The Streets of Damascus Syria Today
DAMASCUS STREETS EARLY MAY and Compilation of scenes around Damascus on my daily walks, where an air of normality continues to prevail.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, May 8, 2020 Many Elites Behind Lockdown Don't Believe Their Own Fear Porn
There are many many examples that are popping up of politicians and health experts and all of these people who are telling you to lock down who are not socially distancing and doing all the rules that they're telling you to do
SHARE Saturday, June 22, 2019 US Exceptionalism: Exploiting Certain Syrians, Ignoring Others
Syria and Russia have been evacuating civilians from yet another region starved by its Western-backed terrorists. But Western corporate media ignore this and instead continue spinning nightmarish war propaganda on Syria.
SHARE Saturday, April 25, 2020 Damascus Life and Calm
Scenes from April 21, walking through old Damascus, where shops have re-opened partially and where calm and humanity prevail.
The government has been taking precautions but not being draconian about it.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, December 7, 2020 BBC Attacks Journalists Challenging "White Helmets" Narrative
The BBC contacted Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett and British journalist Vanessa Beeley. In emails provided to me last month, we can see how the BBC in its attempt to reach out to them, prepared a list of smears and allegations. The state funded broadcaster accused them of being conspiracy theorists, called them "tools" of the Syrian and Russian governments---
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 17, 2020 UK's BBC Threatening Independent Journalists
The British state-funded BBC, which has a history of perverted war propaganda against the people of Syria, a history of whitewashing the crimes of terrorists in Syria, a history of flat out lying about events in Syria, has decided to launch another smear against myself, Vanessa Beeley, researchers of the Working Group on Syria, a former ambassador to Syria, and others.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 25, 2021 The US Loves to Accuse Other Nations of Being Unable to Cope in a Crisis, but---
The US has finger-wagged at other countries for decades, alleging they can't care for their people. But when disaster strikes at home, America is not prepared, with the winter storm in the Lone Star State just the latest example.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 8, 2021 New US admin stands for same grotesque & brutal policies against Venezuela
Venezuelan non-president, Juan Guaido, is back in headlines after the new US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called him to discuss America's favorite talking points: "a return to democracy" via "free and fair elections."
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 18, 2021 It's 10 years since the war in Syria began
It's 10 years since the war in Syria began, and Western media & pundits are still eager to keep it going.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 22, 2021 Canadians' growing rebellion against draconian Covid restrictions
Increasing numbers of Canadians, including doctors, scientists, lawyers and business owners, are pushing back hard at their country's increasingly oppressive Covid-19 restrictions, using the law as their weapon.