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Jan 25, 2014, Oriental Review The idea of Montreux” – the idea of engaging in a peace process and national dialog in Syria under international mediation – died before it could be born.  A nasty intrigue, involving the UN Secretary-General and the employment of such petty chicaneries as delaying the …

Jan 23, 2014, Michel Chossudovsky The Western media has tacitly acknowledged, faced with overwhelming evidence, that the opposition rebels have not only committed countless atrocities, they were also behind the chemical weapons attack of August 21.  In the wake of these tragic events, a new dribble of media disinformation is …

Jan 22, 2014, Stephen Gowans A report sponsored by one of the Syrian insurgency’s major weapons suppliers claims to provide (as the New York Times puts it) “new visual corroboration that Mr. Assad’s government is guilty of mass war crimes against its own citizens.” Based on photos of dead detainees …

Jan 23, 2014, Christian Science Monitor The government of Syria has long used torture, collective punishment, and horrific detention conditions as a response to domestic threats to its power. When times are bad, like now or during the Sunni Islamist insurgency that challenged Hafez al-Assad’s government in 1982, the number …

  Jan 24, 2014, BBC Syria’s warring parties are beginning formal peace talks in Geneva for the first time since the conflict began three years ago, but they will not be face-to-face. The government and rebel delegations will sit in separate rooms, and conduct negotiations through the UN mediator. Diplomats …

Jan 23, 2014, Global Research Wednesday’s opening of talks on the Syrian crisis was dominated by the Obama administration’s insistence that the purpose of the “Geneva II” discussions was to remove President Bashar al-Assad and install a pro-US puppet government. In the manner of a colonial overlord, US Secretary of …

Jan 22, 2014, Global Research Montreux, (SANA) – The international conference on Syria, Geneva2, kicked off on Wednesday morning with the participation of Syria’s official delegation, headed by Deputy Premier, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem. Minister al-Moallem said at the opening session of the conference:    Ladies and Gentlemen, On …

  Jan 22, 2014, Press TV US Secretary of State John Kerry has once again called for regime change in Syria, insisting that President Bashar al-Assad should not be part of a transitional government. “We see only one option, negotiating a transition government born by mutual consent,” Kerry said in …

      Jan 23, 2014, Interfax Dear participants in the conference, Today the world expects from you decisive actions aimed at settling by peaceful means the sanguinary conflict in Syria. It is hard to overestimate the responsibility that lies with you. The scale of the tragedy, which has been …

Jan 21, 2014, Ajamu Baraka There is one thing that the so-called peace conference on Syria is guaranteed to achieve and that is that when the last speech is made and the delegates leave the hall, the grotesque bloodletting and devastation will continue for the people of Syria. Why? Because …