Syria War: U.S. Dreams of Hegemony Up in Smoke

Published: Dec. 27, 2016, 5 a.m.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker discusses developments in the war in Syria with journalist Eva Bartlett, Loud & Clear producer Walter Smolarek, and host of Radio Sputnik's weekly show Hard Facts John Wight.

The saying goes that in war, the first casualty is the truth. While the corporate media reports that Aleppo has fallen, many Syrians consider the city as having been liberated. This momentous development came just before the assassination of Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov and the following day’s watershed summit between Turkey, Russia and Iran.