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Antidotes Against the Allure of War: Information and Empathy

by Susan Dirgham, published on Pearls and Irritations, December 22, 2023 ‘In the document drawn up by a top secret and high-level working group that met in Washington in September 1957, Mr Macmillan and President Eisenhower were left in no doubt about the need to assassinate the top men in …

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Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government To Conceal Source of Syria’s Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis

by Jeremey Kuzmarov, published on CovertAction Magazine, June 30, 2023 Illegal U.S. bombing raids, brutal economic sanctions, and incredibly brazen theft by U.S. forces of 66,000 barrels of Syrian oil per day (80% of its total output) have visited a biblical-scale tragedy upon the Syrian people that has battered them virtually back …

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We Will Deliver Aid to Syrians Even if Bab al Hawa Crossing Closes

They can’t deliver aid to needy Syrians in most of Syria, because US sanctions prevent charities from operating in the government-controlled parts of Syria unless their own personnel distribute the aid. For this reason, most desperate Syrians do not receive that aid. We are the only US-based charity that administers …

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An open letter from a Syrian Arab priest to His Holiness, Pope Francis

The following letter was issued by Fr. Elias Zahlaoui on March 13, 2020: Holy father, The tenth anniversary of the cosmic war on Syria, my homeland, is in a couple of days. I would like, today, to ask you, personally, and the whole Catholic Church, everywhere, a question that is …

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President al-Assad: The American presence in Syria will generate military resistance

The following interview, initially published by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) is reprinted from Mark Taliano’s website: DAMASCUS-  President Bashar al-Assad has stressed that nobody believes that Turkey will repatriate 3 million Syrian refugees to the northeast of the country and this is a deceptive humanitarian slogan raised by …

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Open Letter from a Syrian Priest to Pope Francis

Damascus, September 14, 2019 Holy father, This is the tenth letter I, a simple Catholic priest, allow myself to write to you from Syria on this day of September 14, 2019. I am addressing it to the representative of Jesus Christ only, not to the President of the Vatican City. Yes, …

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Syrian Permanent Representative Dr. Ja’afari at UN: Syria has sovereignty over the province of Idlib, not western powers

Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afari, May 17, to Security Council: Statement of Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afar on May 17 to the UN Security Council’s meeting on the situation in the Middle East, specifically in Idlib: Mr. President, I would like to start by congratulating you and your friendly country, Indonesia, on your successful …

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Syrian mother opens her heart about her martyred son

With the family of martyr,  22 year old Majed Monif Qiddeeseh , in Mhardeh. This is his mother. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley.) The following video and article were originally published by Vanessa Beeley on Facebook: A MOTHER OPENS HER HEART AFTER HER YOUNGEST SON WAS MARTYRED BY A NUSRA FRONT ROCKET …

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US, NATO Terrorist Suicide Bombers Massacre Civilians in Coastal Towns

May 23, 2016, 21st Century Wire “We forgot what is to wake up to sunshine in this land now we wake up to limbs all over the streets, to cries of fear, to the smell of blood..” ~ Shababeek Souria This morning, at 9am, a series of suicide bomb attacks …

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