Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
May 23, 2015, New Eastern Outlook -Eric Draitser The Western media has been consumed in recent days with the news that Islamic State militants have captured the strategically critical city of Ramadi in Iraq. The narrative is one of incompetence on the part of Iraqi military forces who, the corporate …
Read More »New York Times Complicit in Spreading False Syria Allegations
May 14, 2015, What’s Left By Stephen Gowans The New York Times ran an article on May 12 suggesting that the Syrian government has held back some of its chemical weapons and is using them against rebel fighters. Significantly, the allegation was backed by no evidence, yet the newspaper chose …
Read More »Hezbollah, Syria, and Historical Memory: A Tale of Two Nakbas
May 18, 2015, Counter Punch -Eric Draitser Last week, millions around the world marked the 67th anniversary of the Nakba – literally “the disaster” or “the catastrophe” in Arabic – commemorating the seizure of Palestinian land and transformation of historic Palestine into modern Israel. Naturally, there is little ambiguity among …
Read More »NATO Attempt At ‘Interim’ Government in Syria Echoes Libya Model
May 6, 2015, Activist Post The immediate clamor from the Western mainstream press regarding the fall of Idlib to Western-backed al-Qaeda/ISIS forces revealed part of the NATO plan as much as it involved the simultaneous participation of a media campaign designed to weaken the morale of the Syrian people and …
Read More »The Mideast’s S-U-N-N-I Problem
May 7, 2015, RT.com By Sharmine Narwani This needs to be spelled out: The biggest threat to Middle East stability today is a Sunni one – and it comes not from its largely downtrodden population, but from the epicenter of current Sunni political and religious leadership. “The beginning of wisdom …
Read More »US-Saudi Led Blitzkrieg against Yemen is “An Ego Boost”
May 3, 2015, Global Research -Ahmad Barqawi “Slaughter Yemenis civilians, and win a free Bentley.” That pretty much sums up Saudi Arabia’s frivolous four-week military jamboree in Yemen otherwise known as Op “Decisive Storm”, if not its entire foreign (and now military) policy in the region; it may have been …
Read More »The Creation of a Humanitarian Emergency: Britain, Libya and the Mediterranean
May 1, 2015, Counter Punch by DAN GLAZEBROOK Last week’s drownings in the Mediterranean were the foreseeable, and indeed deliberate, result of the anti-human policies of strategic violence by a dying neo-colonial empire. They were the consequence, firstly, of a series of wars of aggression that have made life intolerable …
Read More »Why is the US Trying to Replace the Assad Government With al-Qaeda in Syria?
May 1, 2015, Counter Punch -By Paul Larudee A month ago, the city of Idlib fell to opposition fighters, mainly al-Qaeda and its affiliates and allies. It was a major blow to the Syrian army. Last Saturday, the nearby town of Jisr al-Shughour also fell, mostly to the same groups. Fighting against …
Read More »The Horrors of Wall Street’s ‘New Libya’
Apr 29, 2015, New Eastern Outlook The world, including the US press, is looking on in horror at recent events in Libya. Libya is now a center of human trafficking, with human beings packed into ships bound for Europe. Libyans are so desperate to escape their country, now wrecked with …
Read More »Who Are the Starving and Besieged Residents of Yarmouk and Why Are They There?
Apr 21, 2015, Dissident Voice -Paul Larudee There are many illusions about what is happening to the Yarmouk district of Damascus and its Palestinian refugee population. The district was originally set aside in 1957 for Palestinian refugees already living there, whom Israel had expelled from their homes in 1948, with …
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