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Jun 3, 2015, Consortium News Exclusive: The New York Times’ new conspiracy theory about Syria is that the Assad regime is in cahoots with the Islamic State, calling those two bitter foes only “nominal enemies” and using this new story to implicitly push for another U.S.-imposed “regime change,” writes Robert Parry. By …
Read More »Israel a criminal offender at large, UN listing or not
*Farah Abu Halima, 3, severely burned by Israeli-fired White Phosphorus, January 4, 2009 (Photo by Eva Bartlett) Jun 5, 2015, RT.com -by Eva Bartlett Reports have come out that the UN was considering adding Israel to the list of “grave violations against children in armed conflict.” As detailed below, Israeli …
Read More »How has Syria’s political system changed over the course of the war?
Jun 4, 2015 -by Jay Tharappel Short Answer: In 1973 the Syrian electorate voted in favour of a constitution that institutionalised the dominance of the Baath Party. This constitution remained in effect until it was replaced by a new one, which the Syrian electorate voted for on the 26th of …
Read More »Most of ISIL terrorists recruited by US and allies: Analyst
May 31, 2015, Press TV Most of the ISIL terrorists were recruited by the United States and its allies in order to further their agenda in the Middle East, an antiwar activist and political commentator in Canada says. Ken Stone, a member of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, …
Read More »The Syrian Army and Hezbollah Triumph Over Al-Qaeda in the Qalamoun Mountains
May 29, 2015, Al Masdar News While the militants from the Syrian Al-Qaeda group “Jabhat Al-Nusra” boast about their victory at the city of Ariha in the Idlib Governorate, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Hezbollah have secured 90 percent of the territory in the Qalamoun Mountains of Syria after …
Read More »Stop the Destruction of Syria, Iraq and the Middle East!
May 24nd 2015, SiriaPax The undersigned Associations which have been following the crisis in Syria from up close have long been documenting this state of affairs. Today as we get nearer and nearer to the “point of no return” we wish to ask the questions that governments and the mainstream …
Read More »A letter to the UN concerning the situation in Yemen
The Syria Solidarity Movement is a proud signatory of this letter. May 27, 2015, IHRC We the undersigned urge you to spare no effort to bring the warring sides in Yemen to implement an immediate ceasefire for humanitarian and political purposes Secretary General Ban Ki-moon United Nations New York, NY …
Read More »Washington Confesses to Backing “Questionable Actors” in Syria
May 25, 2015, New Eastern Outlook Taking advantage of a Syrian military stretched thin to protect everywhere at the same time, high concentrations of well-coordinated Al Qaeda forces, based in NATO-member Turkey as well as in US-allies Jordan and Saudi Arabia, have attacked across several fronts. The tactical and strategic …
Read More »Only Syrian government, nation truly fighting ISIL: Analyst
May 27, 2015, Press TV Press TV has conducted an interview with Mimi al-Laham, a Syrian activist and political commentator in Australia, to investigate the death of about 200 ISIL terrorists during airstrikes by the Syrian government across the war-torn country. This is a rough transcription of the interview. Press …
Read More »Ramadi and America’s Fracturing of Iraq
May 23, 2015, New Eastern Outlook -Eric Draitser The Western media has been consumed in recent days with the news that Islamic State militants have captured the strategically critical city of Ramadi in Iraq. The narrative is one of incompetence on the part of Iraqi military forces who, the corporate …
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