Nov 3, 2013, Daily Star A leading Syrian rebel commander announced his resignation Sunday, in the wake of battlefield setbacks and infighting among rebel groups. Col. Abdel-Jabbar Ukaidi, the head of the Aleppo Revolutionary Military Council of the mainstream Free Syrian Army, also had harsh words for the international community …
Read More »Turkey seizes huge chemicals haul near Syria border
Nov 4, 2013, Press TV Turkish authorities say they have seized a large quantity of chemicals on the country’s border with Syria, adding that the chemicals “could be transformed into weapons.” Turkey’s army said in a statement issued on Sunday that a convoy of three vehicles attempted to smuggle the …
Read More »Media Fabrications and the War on Syria: How the Western Press Parrots Israeli Propaganda
Nov 3, 2013, Global Research In a report titled “Hezbollah shows strain of Syria war”, The Guardian’s Middle East Editor Ian Black, explains to the reader that Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah “sounds more troubled than defiant when he talks about the Syrian war these days”. Black doesn’t offer the …
Read More »Israel bombs Syria: Statement from the ANSWER Coalition condemning Israel’s new strikes
Oct 31, 2013, ANSWER Bitterly frustrated that the Obama administration was forced to pull back from its planned aerial war against Syria, the Israeli government has just launched its own bombing of Syria. The Israeli Air Force struck the Syrian city of Latakia in this latest major bombing. Funded by …
Read More »Mother Agnes in Ottawa, Canada
HEAR MOTHER AGNES MARIAM SPEAK IN Ottawa! Mother Agnes-Mariam of The Cross What is Really Happening in Syria Today? Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross is Mother Superior at the Monastery and Convent of St. James in Qara, Syria. Much of the population in the towns and villages around the …
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Read More »Syrian Religious Leader Speaks on Syrian Crisis – News Conference
Contact: Dan Buhrdorf – 402-610-5552, United Front Against Austerity Midwest, ufaamidwest@gmail.com Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross will discuss the situation in Syria at a news conference hosted by Nebraskans for Peace and the Lincoln NFP Chapter Monday, November 18, 2013 at the Courtyard by Marriott Lincoln Downtown/Haymarket, 808 R Street, Lincoln, …
Read More »Open Letter to the American people from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
Nov 1, 2013, Common Dreams My dear friends, As a teenager living in Belfast, I admired the American Peace Movement and many prominent figures within it. Fifty years later, two of the most inspiring people still remembered across the world are Americans: Martin Luther King and Dorothy Day. American peace …
Read More »Mother Agnes-Mariam states her positions
Nov 1, 2013: Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross gave a radio interview to Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff, co-directors of the widely acclaimed “Project Censored” and hosts of a popular KPFA radio program. In the interview, she described her peacemaking work, responded to critics, and outlined the intentions of her …
Read More »Orbiting the world with George Galloway
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