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The following news article is republished from The Globe and Mail:  Canada has ended all funding to Syria’s famed White Helmets rescue group, with the final cut being the severance of $70 a month in stipends to 43 people who were left behind in a Jordanian refugee camp following a …

Independent Irish Member of European Parliament Clare Daly highlighted attempts to shut down questions to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) regarding the scandal involving its changed findings in Douma, Syria. Quite used to being vilified for asking inconvenient questions. Big establishment backlash when we first raised …

The following article is republished from Al Masdar News:  BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 P.M.) – Private sources revealed to Sputnik Arabic about the establishment of an operations room (Russian, Iranian, Syrian) with the aim of securing a safe and stable flow of oil supplies, wheat and some other materials to Syria …

The following report is republished from Press TV. Laith Marouf discusses here with Marwa Osman: The Kurds are fond of saying that they have no friends but the mountains. Yet one entity has pushed for their separation from both Iraq and Syria, over many decades. Israel. The relationship between the …

The following article, by Caitlin Johnstone, is republished from the author’s Substack:   I saw a line in a recent New Yorker article about America’s endless wars, and it’s been been rattling around in my head ever since: “In Syria, McKenzie visited the Green Village, a community of decrepit apartment blocks near a bombed-out oil …

We are republishing the important Statement of Concern below, signed by prominent experts around the world, from the Courage Foundation:  Statement of Concern The OPCW investigation of alleged chemical weapons use in Douma, Syria We wish to express our deep concern over the protracted controversy and political fall-out surrounding the …

The following article is republished from Press TV: Syrian and Russian officials say the United States continues to impede the restoration of stability in the country through the imposition of economic sanctions, arguing Washington is using various methods of economic and political pressure on international bodies and organizations to turn …

Since March 2011, Washington has led a coalition of NATO countries, Arab monarchies and Israel, in a proxy regime change war, using terrorist mercenaries as foot soldiers. Today, US troops illegally occupy nearly a third of Syria, containing much of Syria’s oil and gas and some of its best farmland. …

The following article was published originally on Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox: The New War Criminal is the Same as the Old War Criminal, and the other one and Ad Nauseum (Cindy Sheehan) This will probably come as a surprise to no one reading this that we here at the Soapbox condemn …

Both places suffered a cold snap but US & western sanctions on Syria are the cause of the misery and hardship there. Article by Syrian journalist, Steven Sahiounie, republished from Mideast Discourse.  Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Americans in Texas and several other states have been badly hit by a severe …