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Why doesn’t Syria retaliate to Israeli attacks? Nasrallah’s response

Source: https://video.moqawama.org/details.php?cid=1&linkid=2116 Translation: resistancenews.org Transcript: Hassan Nasrallah: […] When (in February 2014) Israel hit us in Janta, on the Syrian-Lebanese border, they were hoping to change the rules of engagement, thinking that if they hit us in a border area, we wouldn’t feel obliged to retaliate. We retaliated (hitting an Israeli patrol …

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Syria: A new policy is needed, but not this one

The following article, by Peter Ford, is republished from Just World Educational: We’re happy to present this commentary by Peter Ford, the former U.K. ambassador to Syria. Ford was one of 15 panelists, representing a broad range of views, who took part in our “Commonsense on Syria” project in 2020, …

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Regime change operatives on Syria attempt to silence Roger Waters

The following article, by Max Blumenthal, is republished from The Grayzone where it originally ran on October 12, 2020:  Why did Amnesty UK, Bellingcat and White Helmets sabotage Roger Waters webinar on corporate pollution? by Max Blumenthal     The Grayzone obtained audio of a call in which Roger Waters …

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UN expert: crippling US sanctions on Syria are illegal and hurting civilians

The following interview, by Aaron Maté, is republished from The Grayzone:  Crippling US sanctions imposed under the Caesar Act are decimating war-ravaged Syrian civilians, are illegal, and should be lifted, the UN Special Rapporteur on sanctions says.   An independent United Nations expert is calling on the US to lift …

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More War by Other Means: Sanctioning the Wife of Syria’s President Makes No Sense to Anyone

The following article, by Philip Giraldi, is republished from the Strategic Culture Foundation:  More sanctions, by all means. More grief and suffering and more people around the world wondering what exactly the United States is doing. I am a recipient of regular, usual weekly, emails from the Department of the …

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America’s War on Syrian Civilians: After Recruiting For ISIS Anand Gopal Justifies The War Crimes The U.S. Committed While Removing It

The following article is republished from Moon of Alabama:  Apologists for war crimes are a dime for a dozen. With a new piece in The New Yorker Anand Gopal has joined that trade. Headlined America’s War on Syrian Civilians the piece starts out with some hand wringing about the total destruction of Raqqa …

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New Documents Show How The British Government Secretly Created ‘Regime Change’ Protests In Lebanon

The following article was republished from Moon of Alabama:  Three month ago we reported on documents obtained from of ‘Her Majesties Government’ in Britain which revealed the intense involvement of the UK government in organizing, financing and propagandizing ‘Syrian rebels’ since the start of the war on Syria. These programs were coordinated …

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Syria’s International Conference on Return of Refugees. A Strategic Balancing Act

The following article, by Andrew Korybko, was originally published on Global Research, November 12, 2020: The kinetic phase of the Hybrid War of Terror on Syria has mostly drawn to a close, as evidenced by the milestone event of the country hosting an international conference on the return of refugees, …

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Audio: Syria Sanctions: Intervention by other means

Unusual Sources interviews Stephen Gowans, author of Washington’s Long War on Syria. Although the Syrian government has succeeded in regaining much of its territory in opposition to a foreign-backed regime-change campaign, it faces a sustained campaign of crippling U.S. sanctions. Stephen Gowans points out that despite Syrian military successes against Contras and …

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