Feb 12, 2015, Al Akhbar The steady advances by the Syrian army toward villages in southern Syria allowed the return of Deir al-Adas, al-Danaji, Deir Maker, and the hills of Masih, Mer’i, al-Arous, and al-Sarjah to the control of the state. Meanwhile, Zahran Aloush has renewed his threats against the …
Read More »RT Arabic crew comes under militant fire in Syria
Feb 14, 2015, RT.com A crew from RT’s Arabic channel, together with a group of other TV journalists, came under fire from Al-Nusra Front militants near the Syrian city of Daraa. None of RT’s staff were hurt in the attack, though two members of a Syrian television crew were injured. …
Read More »Turkey, Terrorism, and the Global Proxy War
Feb 2, 2015, New Eastern Outlook While the world’s attention has been fixed on France in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings, the subsequent manhunt, and the political fallout from the incident, a number of important news items have quietly been pushed off the front pages of the world’s …
Read More »Western Intervention and The Colonial Mindset
Jan 20, 2015, Global Research Colonisation of language is at work everywhere, amongst highly educated populations, but is peculiarly virulent in colonial culture. ‘The West’, that self-styled epitome of advanced civilisation, energetically reinvents its own history, to perpetuate the colonial mindset. Writers such as Fanon and Freire pointed out that …
Read More »BBC interview with President Bashar al-Assad [VIDEO]
Feb 9, 2015, BBC TRANSCRIPT at SANA News
Read More »Scoundrels & gangsters at UN: Silencing the Syrian narrative
Feb 4, 2015, RT.com -By Eva Bartlett “Welcome to the United Nations. It’s your world,” reads the UN logo. Apparently, however, there are limitations as to just how “welcome” some of its representatives are. Syria’s Ambassador to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Ja’afari, was sworn in as Permanent Special Representative in …
Read More »Distorting the story of Syria’s Heritage destruction
Feb 3, 2015, Crescent International -By Eva Bartlett Much has been written about the destruction and looting of Syria’s heritage sites. Syria’s Directorate-General of Antiquities & Museums (DGAM), as well as UNESCO, have documented the vast damage and looting as extensively as possible in this time of proxy-war-manufactured crisis. In …
Read More »Nasrallah: The Rules of Engagement with Israel Are Over
Jan 30, 2015, Al-Akhbar “Don’t try us,” Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah told Israel in a televised speech Friday broadcast during a memorial ceremony to honor the six Hezbollah fighters and the Iranian general killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria earlier this month. On January 18, an Israeli helicopter airstrike …
Read More »Saudi oil and U.S. hypocrisy
Jan 27, 2015, International Action Center -By Sara Flounders Few events expose the utter hypocrisy of U.S. politicians’ grand words about democracy so starkly as their praise for the recently deceased King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. For decades U.S. imperialism and all the imperialist powers have given political, military and …
Read More »Syrian Gov’t, Opposition Agree on Four Key Points in Moscow Talks
Jan 29, 2015, Sputnik News Delegates from Syria’s government and opposition managed to reach consensus on four key points during talks in Moscow, the Deputy Secretary General of the Syrian National Youth Party told Sputnik Thursday. The main points include the “activation and acceleration of delivery of humanitarian aid to all regions of Syria, without exception on the basis of a relevant UN …
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