Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Jun 10, 2014, SSM The Syrian election has indirectly exposed and confirmed a surprising statistic that shows how badly the anti-Assad fighters are losing and how hopeless their cause is. It is of course no surprise that Assad won big in the first open and contested Syrian presidential election in …
Read More »Syrian Election Reveals Huge Population Loss in Rebel Areas: The Bankrupt War on Syria
Jun 6, 2014, Paul Larudee, Counter Punch The Syrian election has indirectly exposed or confirmed a surprising statistic that shows how badly the anti-Assad fighters are losing and how hopeless their cause is. It is of course no surprise at all that Assad won big in the first open and contested …
Read More »For 2 years, the priest aided Christians through a Syrian siege. He didn’t see the end.
May 29, 2014, McClatchy And then there were 23. Just 23 Christians, most of them elderly, left alive in the besieged Old City of Homs when a masked gunman killed the beloved Dutch priest who’d consoled them during nearly two years of government bombardment and rebel-imposed isolation, when food supplies …
Read More »Obama’s Syrian Policy Vetoed by Assad Election Victory
Jun 6, 2014, Shamus Cooke, Workers Action “Assad’s days are numbered” – President Obama, February 2012 Living in denial is the easiest way to avoid hard truths, but it’s a horrible way for a government to conduct foreign policy. Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry recently scoffed at the elections in …
Read More »Syria: Elections are a Battle Won, but the War Goes On
Jun 5, 2014, Land Destroyer It is hard for even the West to deny that the recent election was a huge success for the government in Damascus, stamping out the illusion of a divided Syria. The country is mired in protracted conflict not because of a “popular uprising,” but because …
Read More »Why Syria’s people want Assad
Jun 6, 2014, RT Op-Edge Since the start of the armed conflict in Syria in 2011, voices from Western and Gulf capitals have maintained a common narrative: that the Assad regime lacks popular legitimacy and stays in power by systematically killing its own people. The sweeping election victory of Bashar …
Read More »Peace in the Aftermath of Syria’s Elections? Washington’s Continuation of the “Civil War” After Syrian Elections [VIDEO]
Jun 4, 2014, Global Research TV
Read More »Please, Ambassador Ford. Name me a “moderate” Syrian rebel
Jun 4, 2014, Mideast Shuffle Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford said in an interview yesterday to PBS Newshour: “We need – and we have long needed – to help moderates in the Syrian opposition with both weapons and other non-lethal assistance.” “Had we done that a couple of …
Read More »Western focus on ‘delegitimizing’ Syria election
Jun 4, 2014, Sharmine Narwani, RT Op-Edge Of course these Syrian presidential elections must be the ‘parody’ and ‘farce’ that Western officials and media are relentlessly claiming. Because if Bashar Assad wins handily in the first multi-candidate presidential elections in Syria – which all evidence suggests will be the case …
Read More »Assad wins presidential election with 88.7% of the vote
Jun 4, 2014, al Akhbar Bashar al-Assad won 88.7 percent of the vote in Syria’s presidential election, parliament speaker Mohammed al-Laham said on Wednesday. “I declare the victory of Dr. Bashar Hafez al-Assad as president of the Syrian Arab Republic with an absolute majority of the votes cast in the …
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