EVACUATING CIVILIANS FROM MOADAMIYA, A BESIEGED REBEL CITY IN DAMASCUS, WESTERN GHOUTA Following is the story, with photos and video links, of the rescue of thousands of citizens in Moadamiya, which ended less than 24 hours before Mother Agnes-Mariam boarded her flight to the US. The Mussalaha(“Reconciliation”) Movement and Mother Agnes-Mariam …
Read More »Saudi ‘House of Pseud’ thrives on deception
Nov6, 2013, Press TV The House of Saud is such a decrepit domain of duplicity it is hard to know where to begin in listing its numerous deceptions, but suffice to say that any appraisal should start, in the first instance, with a name change. Henceforth, in the cause of …
Read More »Syria: how the violence began, in Daraa
May 13, 2013, Op-Ed News By Tim Anderson “The claim that armed opposition to the government has begun only recently is a complete lie. The killings of soldiers, police and civilians, often in the most brutal circumstances, have been going on virtually since the beginning.’ — Professor Jeremy Salt, …
Read More »Saudis hell bent on stalling Syria solution: US analyst
Nov 6, 2013, Press TV Saudi Arabia is “hell bent” on disrupting any peaceful solution to the deadly crisis plaguing Syria, a political commentator tells Press TV. In an interview with Press TV on Tuesday, Lawrence Freeman, with the Executive Intelligence Review, described the Al Saud regime’s all-out support …
Read More »Saudis Fight a Lost Battle against Change
Nov 6, 2013, Global Research The ongoing aggressive Saudi policy for a militarized “regime change” in Syria is more an expression of internal vulnerability, trying hopelessly to avert change outside their borders lest change sweeps inside, than being a positive show of leadership and power, but Syrian developments are proving …
Read More »Syria Analysts, Impartial? Not likely. Think Tank Commentators Posing as Objective Scholars
Nov 6, 2013, Global Research As is evident with the vast majority of coverage on the Middle East, the analysis used to bolster media narratives on Syria is predominantly derived from paid “think-tank” commentators posing as objective scholars. To the discerning reader, this dynamic of the mass media relying on …
Read More »Syria has Changed
Nov 4, 2013, VoltaireNet While in Damascus, the Special Envoy of the Secretaries General of the Arab League and the UN, Lakhdar Brahimi, presented “his” draft peace conference project, Geneva 2. A conference whose objective would be to end the “civil war”. This terminology rehashes the analysis of one side …
Read More »Saudi Arabia urges arming Syria militants
Nov 6, 2013, Press TV Former Saudi intelligence agency chief has demanded sending more arms to foreign-backed Takfiri militants fighting the Syrian government, expressing concern that the continuation of war in the country would endanger Israel. Prince Turki al-Faisal made the remarks in an interview with American daily newspaper Washington …
Read More »Press Release: NUN WHO CALLS FOR RECONCILIATION IN SYRIA STARTS NORTH AMERICA TOUR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov 3, 2013 /1:30 PM CONTACT: Rick Sterling (925) 639.2670 Paul Larudee(510) 236.5338 Mother Agnes-Mariam is a Melkite Catholic nun who ordinarily lives in a monastery in Qara, Syria. Just days ago she successfully negotatiated with rebel and government forces to arrange a ceasefire which allowed …
Read More »Bodies of Christian Family Discovered in a Syrian Well
Nov 6, 2013, AINA Inhabitants of Sadad, near Homs, who fled the largely Syrian Orthodox town when rebels attacked last month, are now returning home to discover the scale of atrocities in what is being seen as the worst act of anti-Christian persecution since the war in Syria began. The …
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