13th January 2016 This is a report from a Latakia resident on the recent recapture of the strategic hill town of Selma: “Selma is a very small village on the Turkish-Syrian border, just 1 hour drive North East from Latakia. With good hiking shoes you could walk to Turkey, and there was never any border…
13th January 2016 A siege of another kind is also being forced on the minds of the Western public by the Western media; it involves starving them of the truth. Written by Finian Cunningham for Sputnik The Western news media are at it again – telling barefaced lies and half-truths about starving towns in Syria being liberated from sieges. Fake…
12th January 2016 It seems we are seeing the reappearance of the kitten campaigns in Madaya over the last 10 days. When is a terrorist not a terrorist ~ The Kitten Campaign. The heart wringing laments describing feline throat cutting and accompanying photos have been circulating in both main stream media and social media with…
12th January 2016 Letter written to the CBC ombdusman by an informed member of the public in Canada, enraged by the blatant anti Syrian stance in the CBC reporting of the Madaya “starvation” situation. “Hello, I have counted The Current and CBC news as among the most reliable sources of news and information we have. I…
11th January 2015 THIS IS AN APPEAL TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH THE MSM IGNORED VILLAGES OF KAFARYA AND FOUA ENDURING GENUINE STARVATION, TERRORIST SIEGE, SHELLING & MURDEROUS GROUND ATTACKS. This is Dr Ali Almoustafa. He is the only general surgeon in Kafarya and Foua, working alongside an orthopaedic surgeon 24/7 under genuine…
11th January 2016 Letter to: Hon Melissa Parke MP Federal Labor Member for Fremantle Dear Melissa My apologies for writing to you once more in what should be a time to relax and reflect – as well as plan for a way forward in the New Year that could help us to break out…
29th November 2015 Father Andrew Ashdown in Homs, Syria “Another visit to Homs in the heart of the ruined city to meet some of the most remarkable people of faith in the world – the Ministry for Reconciliation led by Fr Michel Naaman and the local Sheikh in the city. Throughout the occupation of the…
29th November 2015 Lebanon: Update from Father Andrew Ashdown. “This morning we went to the site of the bombing in Burj Al Burajneh that killed over 40 people and injured over 100 the day before the Paris bombing, and laid flowers and placed candles there. One young man (whose picture is highlighted above) had…
“Hollywood” in Syria? Oh yes. Scene-setting the likes of which we have not yet seen outside of celluloid fiction. Delivering lines to a rapt audience that seems incapable of questioning the plot. Some of what transpires in Syria in the future will depend on this: Do people want to go behind the velvet curtain and…
Jay Tharappel on Facebook My Email Correspondence With Noam Chomsky: 1/1/15 – 3/1/15 3 January 2015 at 11:13 Note: As I understand legal principles. This transcript has not been altered to the extent that it constitutes a misrepresentation of the original source. All alterations are purely cosmetic, i.e. the removal of repetitive back correspondence. Disclosing this correspondence is ONLY…
The Wall Will Fall 