Jan 13, 2015, Workers World -By Sara Flounders The banner of ‘Youth against racism’ in a protest in Paris, November 2013. How do we put in perspective the international media focus on the massacre of 12 journalists in Paris on Jan. 7 at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, notorious for …

Jan 15, 2015, Nizar Abboud Syrian representative to the UN Bashar Jaafari lambasts Isreali unholy alliances in the Syrian Golan.

Jan 14, 2015, Counter Punch A core tenet of journalism is answering the question “why.” It’s the media’s duty to explain “why” an event happened so that readers will actually understand what they’re reading.  Leave out the “why” and then assumptions and stereotypes fill in the blank, always readily supplied by …

Jan 14, 2015, Reuters Al Qaeda’s Syria wing, Nusra Front, shot dead a woman in the northwest of the country after accusing her of adultery, a monitoring group said on Wednesday, saying it showed such execution-style killings were not confined to the militant Islamic State group. Islamic State, which split …

Dec 29,  2014, Voltaire Network -Thierry Meyssan When, in 2001, President George W. Bush decided to place Syria on his list of targets to destroy, he had three objectives: – Breaking the “Axis of Resistance” and encouraging Israeli expansion; – Laying hands on the huge gas reserves; – Reshaping the …

Jan 8, 2015, al-Akhbar Al-Qaeda branch in Syria, al-Nusra Front, have blown up the 13th century tomb of a revered Islamic scholar in southern Syria, Syrian state news agency SANA and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, reported on Wednesday. The mausoleum of Imam Nawawi is in …

Jan 7, 2015, al-Akhbar An estimated 670,000 children in Syria are being deprived of education after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremist group ordered the closure of schools until the curriculum is made to conform with its medieval reading of the Islamic Sharia, the United Nations Children’s …

Jan 7, 2015, Activist Post John McCain’s sordid travel history is back in the headlines. This time, it is his notorious visit to Syria in 2013 that is once again being put at the forefront of informed discussion due to a Syrian complaint filed with the United Nations regarding McCain’s …

Jan 4, 2015, Information Clearing House -Finian Cunningham This week saw yet another ship-load of refugees marooned on the Mediterranean high seas trying to make their way to “fortress Europe”. Some 360 people, including pregnant women and children, nearly lost their lives as the cargo ship they were onboard made …

Dec 15, 2014, Sputnik News An area of Syria is so heavily populated with British-born Jihadi fighters that it has been nicknamed ‘Little London’, according to a former hostage and aid worker. Ahmed Walid Rashidi, a Danish aid worker, was one of the lucky few to be released by the Islamic State after being …