Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Le Dr Nabil Antaki est un témoin important sur ce que les Syriens endurent depuis 2011. Son témoignage profondément humain exprime avec dignité ce que les Syriens en leur immense majorité ressentent. Feb 26, 2015, Silvia Cattori M. Antaki aurait pu quitter sa ville d’ Alep pour se mettre à l’abri. Il a au contraire décidé de rester pour se …
Read More »Hundreds of Turkish citizens protest against Turkish support for terrorists
May 3, 2015, SANA Hundreds of Turkish citizens gathered in Istanbul and Mersin cities to express their solidarity with Syria in confronting terrorist organizations which are supported by Turkish government. In Istanbul, demonstrators who gathered in Kadykoy square condemned the terrorist crimes against the Syrian people in Idleb, Jisr …
Read More »US-Saudi Led Blitzkrieg against Yemen is “An Ego Boost”
May 3, 2015, Global Research -Ahmad Barqawi “Slaughter Yemenis civilians, and win a free Bentley.” That pretty much sums up Saudi Arabia’s frivolous four-week military jamboree in Yemen otherwise known as Op “Decisive Storm”, if not its entire foreign (and now military) policy in the region; it may have been …
Read More »Turkey, US to start train-and-equip plan for Syria rebels May 9
May 2, 2015, Hurriyet Daily News The latest U.S.-led plan to train and arm a Syrian opposition force will start in Turkey on May 9, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told a Turkish newspaper. The programme to train and arm a force that is expected to eventually total more than 15,000 troops has been …
Read More »The Creation of a Humanitarian Emergency: Britain, Libya and the Mediterranean
May 1, 2015, Counter Punch by DAN GLAZEBROOK Last week’s drownings in the Mediterranean were the foreseeable, and indeed deliberate, result of the anti-human policies of strategic violence by a dying neo-colonial empire. They were the consequence, firstly, of a series of wars of aggression that have made life intolerable …
Read More »Why is the US Trying to Replace the Assad Government With al-Qaeda in Syria?
May 1, 2015, Counter Punch -By Paul Larudee A month ago, the city of Idlib fell to opposition fighters, mainly al-Qaeda and its affiliates and allies. It was a major blow to the Syrian army. Last Saturday, the nearby town of Jisr al-Shughour also fell, mostly to the same groups. Fighting against …
Read More »The Horrors of Wall Street’s ‘New Libya’
Apr 29, 2015, New Eastern Outlook The world, including the US press, is looking on in horror at recent events in Libya. Libya is now a center of human trafficking, with human beings packed into ships bound for Europe. Libyans are so desperate to escape their country, now wrecked with …
Read More »Syria: Turkish Military Provided ‘Support Fire’ in al-Qaeda Takeover of Town
Apr 28, 2015, Antiwar.com Syria’s Foreign Ministry was quoted on the nation’s state media today as blaming Turkey in large measure for al-Qaeda’s takeover of the border town of Jisr al-Shughour, saying Turkish military forces providing both logistics support and providing “support fire” for advancing Islamists. This is not the …
Read More »What’s really going on in Yarmouk?
Apr 29, 2015, Father Dave, Prayers for Syria I thought it might prove difficult to get to Yarmouk. My God, it’s hard enough to get into Syria at the moment! At first I thought we weren’t even going to make it out of Sydney! As soon as the airport authorities …
Read More »8 Reasons HRW’s report of “chlorine attacks” stinks
On April 13, 2015, Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report “Syria: Chemicals Used in Idlib Attacks”. It begins: “Evidence strongly suggests that Syrian government forces used toxic chemicals in several barrel bomb attacks in Idlib”. The report has been widely broadcast and accepted without skepticism or public scrutiny …
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