Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Jan 22, 2014, Stephen Gowans A report sponsored by one of the Syrian insurgency’s major weapons suppliers claims to provide (as the New York Times puts it) “new visual corroboration that Mr. Assad’s government is guilty of mass war crimes against its own citizens.” Based on photos of dead detainees …
Read More »Syria ‘Torture’ Report Warrants Careful Read
Jan 23, 2014, Christian Science Monitor The government of Syria has long used torture, collective punishment, and horrific detention conditions as a response to domestic threats to its power. When times are bad, like now or during the Sunni Islamist insurgency that challenged Hafez al-Assad’s government in 1982, the number …
Read More »‘Stopping terrorism is our priority’ says Syria’s presidential adviser
Jan 24, 2014, BBC Syria’s warring parties are beginning formal peace talks in Geneva for the first time since the conflict began three years ago, but they will not be face-to-face. The government and rebel delegations will sit in separate rooms, and conduct negotiations through the UN mediator. Diplomats …
Read More »“Geneva II” and the US Regime-Change Drive in Syria
Jan 23, 2014, Global Research Wednesday’s opening of talks on the Syrian crisis was dominated by the Obama administration’s insistence that the purpose of the “Geneva II” discussions was to remove President Bashar al-Assad and install a pro-US puppet government. In the manner of a colonial overlord, US Secretary of …
Read More »Geneva II – Syrian Foreign Minister: “The West Publicly Claims to Be Fighting Terrorism, Whilst It Is Covertly Nourishing It.”
Jan 22, 2014, Global Research Montreux, (SANA) – The international conference on Syria, Geneva2, kicked off on Wednesday morning with the participation of Syria’s official delegation, headed by Deputy Premier, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem. Minister al-Moallem said at the opening session of the conference: Ladies and Gentlemen, On …
Read More »Kerry calls for regime change in Syria
Jan 22, 2014, Press TV US Secretary of State John Kerry has once again called for regime change in Syria, insisting that President Bashar al-Assad should not be part of a transitional government. “We see only one option, negotiating a transition government born by mutual consent,” Kerry said in …
Read More »Patriarch Kirill’s address to the participants in Geneva II International Conference
Jan 23, 2014, Interfax Dear participants in the conference, Today the world expects from you decisive actions aimed at settling by peaceful means the sanguinary conflict in Syria. It is hard to overestimate the responsibility that lies with you. The scale of the tragedy, which has been …
Read More »Syria Peace Conference: the Obama’s Administration Orwellian Subterfuge
Jan 21, 2014, Ajamu Baraka There is one thing that the so-called peace conference on Syria is guaranteed to achieve and that is that when the last speech is made and the delegates leave the hall, the grotesque bloodletting and devastation will continue for the people of Syria. Why? Because …
Read More »Bashar al-Assad Interview: The Fight against Terrorists in Syria
Jan 21, 2014, AFP President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Agence France Presse. Following is the full text of the interview: Mr. President, what do you expect from the Geneva conference? President Assad: The most basic element, which we continuously refer to, is that the Geneva Conference should produce …
Read More »The disillusioned defectors joining Assad’s forces
Jan 20, 2014, ITV News They emerged from the shadows of a rubble-strewn street, hands raised and stripped to the waist to ensure they weren’t wearing suicide vests. But this wasn’t a trap or a staged piece of propaganda. These were defectors from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) who had …
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