Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Jan 22, 2015, Al-Akhbar While the numbers of sick and wounded have increased during the Syrian war, the number of available doctors dropped significantly due to the security situation and immigration. The economic blockade has also had a major impact on the availability of medicines and medical equipment. Damascus In …
Read More »Aleppo Photographer Brings Syrian Reality to the United Nations
Jan 23, 2015, Dissident Voice, Rabble -By Eva Bartlett Twenty-six distinct photos, in black and white. Scenes of a ravaged city and the human beings within struggling to exist, let alone to find hope for the future. Gravestones of rubble. Homes looted, trashed. Civilians defending their country. Children aged beyond …
Read More »Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar al-Ja’afari on Sovereignty, Terrorism, and the Failure of the UN
Dr. Bashar al-Ja’afari, a veteran diplomat and Syrian Arab Republic Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Al-Akhbar English/Eva Bartlett Jan 17, 2015, Al Akhbar [re-published version on author’s blog, In Gaza] On January 8, in his sparsely-furnished New York City office, the Syrian Arab Republic Ambassador and Permanent …
Read More »US is Preparing up to 5k Militants That Would Flee to ISIL
Jan 16, 2015, New Eastern Outlook Reported along the peripheries of the Western media, it was reported recently that some 3,000 so-called “moderate rebels” of the “Free Syrian Army” had defected to the “Islamic State” (ISIS). While not the first time so-called “moderates” have crossed over openly to Al Qaeda or …
Read More »Turkish military says MIT shipped weapons to al-Qaeda
Jan 15, 2015, al Monitor Secret official documents about the searching of three trucks belonging to Turkey’s national intelligence service (MIT) have been leaked online, once again corroborating suspicions that Ankara has not been playing a clean game in Syria. According to the authenticated documents, the trucks were found to …
Read More »US to Deploy 400 Troops to Train Syria Militants
Jan 16, 2015, Al Akhbar Defense officials of the United States said on Thursday the US will deploy about 400 troops in countries neighboring Syria to train “moderate” opposition fighters. The US military has not yet identified where it will draw its forces from for the training mission, expected to …
Read More »Charlie Hebdo, the free press and racism
Jan 13, 2015, Workers World -By Sara Flounders The banner of ‘Youth against racism’ in a protest in Paris, November 2013. How do we put in perspective the international media focus on the massacre of 12 journalists in Paris on Jan. 7 at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, notorious for …
Read More »Jaafari Exposes Israeli Alliances in the Golan [VIDEO]
Jan 15, 2015, Nizar Abboud Syrian representative to the UN Bashar Jaafari lambasts Isreali unholy alliances in the Syrian Golan.
Read More »The “Why”: The Spectacular Media Failure on Charlie Hebdo
Jan 14, 2015, Counter Punch A core tenet of journalism is answering the question “why.” It’s the media’s duty to explain “why” an event happened so that readers will actually understand what they’re reading. Leave out the “why” and then assumptions and stereotypes fill in the blank, always readily supplied by …
Read More »Al Qaeda in Syria kills woman accused of adultery
Jan 14, 2015, Reuters Al Qaeda’s Syria wing, Nusra Front, shot dead a woman in the northwest of the country after accusing her of adultery, a monitoring group said on Wednesday, saying it showed such execution-style killings were not confined to the militant Islamic State group. Islamic State, which split …
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