Originally posted on Yemen Common Sense:
By: Hassan Al-Haifi I went to the Old City of Sana’a on September 24, just four days after the barbaric and absolutely criminal Saudi air raid on the UNESCO declared World Heritage City (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/385) More than any other place in this world I dwelt in or visited in my…
“Acts of violence– Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death–and the meaninglessness of killing.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold This is a simple story recounted to me this morning by a friend in Yemen. A simple story but one that reduced me to tears as it so aptly exemplified…
Dear American friends who are reporting on, analyzing, or advising decision makers on Syria, No one is expecting you to “Support Assad”, just like you really shouldn’t have wasted the past four years committed to supporting Assad’s adversaries and opponents. You started (summer 2011) by working with your allies (especially the French) to pass a…
Yemen is the moral litmus..it is revealing more than any other nation the naked, exposed evil of the destroyer alliance. There is no hidden agenda here, it is unmitigated genocide permitted, facilitated and condoned by the international community of tyrants and cowards. A brief snippet from the conversation I had tonight with Mohamad Shami in…
It is a fascinating, though rather grim, story, spanning the First World War, the creation of the states of Israel, Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia, and taking in Lawrence of Arabia, the fall of Gadaffi in Libya, the Syria Civil War and Rise of Islamic State, among other things. It’s a story of long-term manipulation,…
Below are two accounts of the horrific terrorist crimes against Syrian people in al Houta, Raqqa. First is translated from an Al Akhbar article [written by Firas al Hakkar]. The second is from Al Hayat. Both are from 2014 “Houtat Sulūk”, which is located within the desert of the northern province of Reqqa, used to be…
I thought that these vehicles were burned out years ago, but it was couple of nights ago. These are two out of three cars for civilians, in a Christian area (mixed residential and commercial) in Aleppo. This was after a shelling by the terrorist cooking gas cylinder bombs. I was passing by today and managed…
Source: The Life & Death of GADDAFI’S LIBYA – A Study of the Libya That No Longer Exists (1969 – 2011)…
The Wall Will Fall 