Analysis

Jun 6, 2014, Paul Larudee, Counter Punch The Syrian election has indirectly exposed or confirmed a surprising statistic that shows how badly the anti-Assad fighters are losing and how hopeless their cause is. It is of course no surprise at all that Assad won big in the first open and contested …

Jun 6, 2014, Shamus Cooke, Workers Action “Assad’s days are numbered” – President Obama, February 2012 Living in denial is the easiest way to avoid hard truths, but it’s a horrible way for a government to conduct foreign policy. Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry recently scoffed at the elections in …

Jun 5, 2014, Land Destroyer It is hard for even the West to deny that the recent election was a huge success for the government in Damascus, stamping out the illusion of a divided Syria. The country is mired in protracted conflict not because of a “popular uprising,” but because …

Jun 6, 2014, RT Op-Edge Since the start of the armed conflict in Syria in 2011, voices from Western and Gulf capitals have maintained a common narrative: that the Assad regime lacks popular legitimacy and stays in power by systematically killing its own people. The sweeping election victory of Bashar …

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Jun 4, 2014, Mideast Shuffle Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford said in an interview yesterday to PBS Newshour: “We need – and we have long needed – to help moderates in the Syrian opposition with both weapons and other non-lethal assistance.” “Had we done that a couple of …

Jun 4, 2014, Sharmine Narwani, RT Op-Edge Of course these Syrian presidential elections must be the ‘parody’ and ‘farce’ that Western officials and media are relentlessly claiming. Because if Bashar Assad wins handily in the first multi-candidate presidential elections in Syria – which all evidence suggests will be the case …

Jun 2, 2014, Sara Flounders, Workers World Why is the election in Syria so important that U.S. government officials have condemned it before it takes place? Why, at the same time, have U.S. officials embraced and applauded the results of elections organized by the military coup government of General Abdel …

Jun 2, 2014, Fight Back News Beirut, Lebanon – In a front page story, May 30, headlined “Foreign Jihadis in Syria Pose Risk to West,” the New York Times reports that the U.S. and the UK are concerned about the blowback from the U.S./NATO war on Syria. Hundreds of sectarian …

Jun 4, 2014, Ajamu Baraka, Oriental Review Defying threats of violence, tens of thousands of ordinary Syrians went to the polls to cast a vote that was more about Syrian dignity and self-determination than any of the candidates on the ballot. After three years of unimaginable atrocities fomented by a …