Stephen Gowans

If the BBC journalists were not convinced by this source, perhaps telling the school children that they risk becoming conspiracy theorists, then the students could go on to quote a detailed article by writer and political activist Stephen Gowans called The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasn't.

Stephen Gowans Correspondent The United States has invaded Syria with a significant military force, is occupying nearly one-third of its territory, has announced plans for an indefinite occupation, and is plundering the country's petroleum resources. Washington has no authorisation under international or ...

Stephen Gowans Correspondent Washington is hiding its leadership of the war on Yemen behind the Saudis In October, 2016, two Reuters' reporters published an exclusive, under the headline: “As Saudis bombed Yemen, US worried about legal blowback.” The reporters, Warren Strobel and Jonathan ...

Yes, it would seem so, however much the perpetrators of such national crimes seek to hide their true purpose under banners of high sounding abstractions and ideals.” This quote from Norman Bethune is the frontispiece for Washington's Long War on Syria by Stephen Gowans, just out from Baraka Books.

Unfortunately, while Ottawa blogger Stephen Gowans presents some worthwhile historical background, his effort is ultimately undermined by a combination of rigid rhetoric and an analysis with roots in Cold War binaries that fails to prove convincing. Gowans's thesis – that Syria's position as an “Arab secular nationalist” ...