Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Aug 6, 2015, Hands Off Syria Mufti Sheikh Hassoun addresses an Australian solidarity delegation in Damascus, July 2015. English interpreting by Ms Reme Sakr. Part 1 of 3. ** Part 2 ** Part 3
Read More »The Road to Empire Overreach is Fraught with Calamities
Aug 7, 2015, Counter Punch Back at the beginning of August 1914, Europe was on the cusp of collective suicide yet it failed to grasp the severity of the situation in time to prevent disaster. In the years preceding WWI, European nations had engaged in intense coalition-building. France, along with …
Read More »Saudis block humanitarian aid in bid to starve Yemen
Aug 2015, Crescent International Having failed in their bombing mission, the Najdi Bedouins are using starvation as a tool to subdue the valiant Yemeni people. While battles continue to rage across Yemen, the Najdi Bedouins in control of the Arabian Peninsula are scrambling for new ways to exert pressure on …
Read More »Iran nuclear deal: Why Empire blinked first
Aug 5, 2015, RT.com -by Sharmine Narwani We’ve now spent three weeks watching American politicians argue needlessly over the Iran nuclear deal. For or against, they all miss this one salient point: It is the US that needed to end this standoff with Iran – not the other way around. …
Read More »Quietly American Foreign Office Having Dialogue with Damascus and Mouallem off to Moscow
Aug 5, 2015, (Arabic: Al Akhbar) Intibah Wakeup This is an article that appeared in the Arabic Al-Akhbar yesterday. Al Akhbar 5 August 2105 By Nahed Hatter Translated by Ghassan Kadi and Intibah Kadi. The regional and international scene looks like a kaleidoscope of colours in a fantasy painting. However, …
Read More »British SAS Special Forces “Dressed Up as ISIS Rebels” Fighting Assad in Syria
Aug 4, 2015, Global Research On August 2, Britain’s Sunday Express newspaper headlined “SAS dress as ISIS fighters in undercover war on jihadis,” saying: “More than 120 members belonging to the elite regiment are currently in the war-torn country” covertly “dressed in black and flying ISIS flags,” engaged in what’s …
Read More »No such thing as moderate militants in Syria for US to back: FM Muallem
Aug 5, 2015, Press TV The Syrian foreign minister has slammed the US for making a distinction between the armed Takfiri groups fighting against the Damascus government, saying there is no such thing as “moderate” militants in the Arab state. “For us in Syria, there is no such thing as …
Read More »Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch lobbies for war on Syria: he wants another NATO intervention in the Middle East
Aug 6, 2015, The Angry Arab “This is an unabashed call for war by a director of an ostensible human rights organization. Can you imagine this guy (who has been obsessed with the “pro-Israel donors” to his organization in all of his weak work on human rights) daring ever to …
Read More »‘Moderate Syrian rebel’ speaks her mind [INFOGRAPHIC]
*from Professor Tim Anderson FB page The Angry Arab News Service reported: “She wrote: “The more arrogant Syria’s minorities become I become more certain that there should be a holocaust to exterminate them from existence and I request [God’s] mercy upon Hitler who burned the Jews of his time …
Read More »The Brookings Institute Plan to Liquidate Syria
Aug 5, 2015, Counter Punch Here’s your US foreign policy puzzler for the day: When is regime change not regime change? When the regime stays in power but loses its ability to rule. This is the current objective of US policy in Syria, to undermine Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s …
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