The recent US attacks on Syria were ostensibly in retaliation for scores of deaths by chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun (Idlib governorate in the northwestern part of the Syrian Arab Republic). Instead of a unilateral attack, the proper course of action should have been an investigation of the Khan Sheikhoun deaths …
Read More »Five Myths About Syrian Refugees
March 22, 2017, Foriegn Affairs – Max Abrahms, Denis Sullivan, and Charles Simpson Separating Fact From Fiction The Syrian refugee crisis is the worst human security disaster of the twenty-first century. Beyond the death toll, which stands at around 400,000, an estimated 11 million Syrians—about half the national population—have fled …
Read More »Swedish Doctors for Human Rights: White Helmets Video, Macabre Manipulation of Dead Children and Staged Chemical Weapons Attack to Justify a “No-Fly Zone” in Syria
March 6, 2017 – The Indicter by Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli, SWEDHR chair. An examination of a White Helmets video, conducted by Swedish medical doctors, specialists in various fields, including paediatrics, have revealed that the life-saving procedures seen in the film are incorrect – in fact life-threatening – or …
Read More »Let’s Expose “The White Helmets” and block their Oscar
For those who do not already know, there is an online petition NOT to give an Academy Award to the Netflix propaganda movie “The White Helmets”. Please sign and share. https://diy.rootsaction.org/p/WhiteHelmetsPropaganda Voting for the awards takes place Feb 13 – 21 and we will send the petition with signatures soon. …
Read More »Sign Petition in Support of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s Stop Arming Terrorists Act.
The Syria Solidarity Movement® is a member of the Hands Off Syria Coalition. We support this petition and this legislation, and hope you will, too. Please sign and forward. Dear Friends of Peace and Justice, Hands Off Syria Coalition and several other national peace organizations in the United States have jointly …
Read More »U.S.-Armed ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels Join Al-Qaeda’s ‘Bin Laden Front’ in New Coalition
February 1, 2017, ALTERNET – Ben Norton The fighters were vetted by the CIA and enjoyed the backing of neoconservatives in Washington. So-called moderate rebels in Syria that have been vetted and previously armed by the U.S. government and its allies have officially partnered with al-Qaeda’s rebranded local affiliate in …
Read More »Please support Tulsi Gabbard’s courageous initiative on Syria
Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has been the lone voice in Congress to defy the warmongers and propagandists urging the US to spend more taxpayer dollars and put more American lives in harm’s way in order to overthrow Syria’s legally constituted government. She is not afraid to say that US actions …
Read More »Astana meeting on Syria ‘hopefully good basis for Geneva talks’ – Putin
January 25, 2017 – RT Tuesday will be “a good basis” for the upcoming Geneva peace talks due February 8. “We very much hope that the negotiations in Astana will become a good basis for the continuation of the negotiation process in Geneva,” Putin said ahead of talks with the …
Read More »Syrian Army Pushes Daesh Terrorists 12.5 Miles From Palmyra – Source
January 26, 2017 – Sputnik News The Syrian government’s forces pushed back Daesh terrorists some 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) from the T-4 airbase near the city of Palmyra, a military source told Sputnik on Wednesday. BEIRUT (Sputnik) — According to the source, after Bir al Fukar area and the mountain range in Al-Sharife region …
Read More »Mini-Primer on Syria by a former Assist. Attorney-General NY & Oregon
Robert Roth is a retired public interest lawyer. He enforced consumer fraud and protection law as an assistant attorney-general for New York (1981-1991) and Oregon (1993-2007). Download his mini-primer of key facts and misinformation on the Syria conflict. RobRothSyriaPrimer_v3.4
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