Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Jan 18, 2016, Off Guardian by Mark Taliano Canadians should be hanging their heads in shame. Our government is guilty of the most egregious criminal acts as defined by Nuremberg Principles, and we are bona fide members of the State Sponsors of Terrorism club. When our government bombs the sovereign …
Read More »Latest ISIS Atrocity in Syria. “Moderate Terrorists” Trained by the CIA
Jan 18, 2016, Stephen Lendman, Global Research CIA operatives, US special forces and their rogue state counterparts train ISIS recruits in the fine art of committing gruesome atrocities, including beheadings, use of chemical and other toxic agents, as well as mass slaughtering civilians. US-led Western imperial ruthlessness bears full responsibility …
Read More »Syrian Reconciliation: Al-Hussinieh
Jan 21, 2016, Middle East Channel Getting back to a normal life in Al-Hussinieh Al-Hussinieh was the first quarter in Damascus and its countryside to witness a reconciliation which allowed its residents to return and live there. The reconciliation process took 3 months to be achieved, and it followed a …
Read More »100s of displaced families return home in southern Damascus
Jan 21, 2016, Press TV Hundreds of displaced Syrians have been able to return to their homes in a district in southern Damascus. This comes as part of a reconciliation deal between the Syrian government and foreign-backed militants. Press TV’s Mohamad Ali has more on the story from the Syrian …
Read More »US Role as State Sponsor of Terrorism Acknowledged in US Congressional Research Service Report on Syria Conflict
Jan 10, 2016, Stephen Gowans, What’s Left The implication of a report written for the US Congress is that the United States is a state sponsor of terrorism in Syria. At the same time, the report challenges widely held beliefs about the conflict, including the idea that the opposition has …
Read More »Syria: ‘Moderate Rebel’ Massacres and Everyday Propaganda
Dec 16, 2015, Tim Anderson, Telesur Sadly, eyes often glaze over at the latest massacre in Syria, because the story is so repetitive. But what story? A double massacre by “moderate rebels” in Homs and Damascus and the subsequent re-spinning of the story, show the wall of disinformation we face. …
Read More »Syria is the Middle Eastern Stalingrad
Jan 2, 2016, New Eastern Outlook Day and night, for years, an overwhelming force has been battering this quiet nation, one of the cradles of human civilization. Hundreds of thousands have died, and millions have been forced to flee abroad or have been internally displaced. In many cities and villages, …
Read More »Turkey, Saudi Reap Machiavellian Whirlwind
Jan 2, 2016, Finian Cunningham, Strategic Culture The year ended, appropriately, with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan flying to Riyadh to hold a summit with Saudi King Salman. The meeting had the air of two leaders closing ranks after a year of setbacks. As the old adage puts it, misery needs company. …
Read More »Is the UN resolution on Syria a positive initiative?
The Syria Solidarity Movement welcomes the UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire and political settlement in Syria. It is a hopeful initiative for three main reasons. First, if it is true that the US and its allies no longer seek to overthrow the legal government of the sovereign …
Read More »President al-Assad: Britain and France have neither the will nor the vision on how to defeat terrorism
Dec 6, 2015, SANA Damascus, SANA – President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to The Sunday Times in which he said Britain and France have neither the will nor the vision on how to defeat terrorism and their airstrikes against ISIS will yield no results, but will rather be illegal …
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