Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people

  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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

Apr 21, 2015, Dissident Voice -Paul Larudee There are many illusions about what is happening to the Yarmouk district of Damascus and its Palestinian refugee population. The district was originally set aside in 1957 for Palestinian refugees already living there, whom Israel had expelled from their homes in 1948, with …