Our Full Interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad The Full Paris Match interview of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, granted in Damascus on November 28th. Paris Match: Mr. President, three years into this war, and considering how things have turned out, do you regret that you haven’t managed things differently at the beginning, with the appearance of…

For the last week we heard that the FSA and other Radical Islamic terrorists in Turkey were meeting and actively planning another attack on Kassab.   Kassab has suffered missile and mortar attacks, but no deaths in the recent past. Several days ago, on or about Christmas eve (24th) the terrorists began a push to attack…

http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2014/09/17/syria-avaaz-purpose-the-art-of-selling-hate-for-empire/ SYRIA: AVAAZ, PURPOSE & THE ART OF SELLING HATE FOR EMPIRE admin Sep 17, 2014 350.org / 1Sky, Amnesty International, Antarctica, Avaaz, Earth Day Network, Examples of Legitimate Organizations, Human Rights Watch, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex,Occupy Wall Street, Pacifism as Pathology, Purpose, TckTcktck Partner: Meet ‘The Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change’, The…

Latakia Update from a resident there for the last 19 years ~ “Latakia, Syria update: we have no cooking gas; we have no gasoline for cars; we have no diesel heating fuel for home heaters. We have electricity 3 hours in morning, and 3 hours in early evening. The electricity goes off at 8 pm…

Note from Sharmine Narwani ~ “This is an article I started researching when I first visited Yarmouk camp outside Damascus in 2012 – back when it was an ‘oasis of calm.’ Much has changed since then, but today, this much is clear: Palestinians didn’t jump into the fray in Syria. They were dragged into it…

“Who outside of Syria knows the names Yara Abbas, Maya Naser, Mohamed al-Saeed…? The corporate media has inundated us with news of the two American journalists allegedly beheaded, the first of whose execution video has been deemedfaked. But what of the non-Western journalists and civilians beheaded and murdered by ISIS, al-Nusra, and associated terrorists in…

“Here is my KOBANI story: Jehan is a widow who has lived in Ayn Al Arab for 15 years. The western mainstream press insists on using the Kurdish name for the place, Kobani. They want to establish that the area is Kurdish, not Syrian.Regardless of ethnicity, the country it is located in the Syrian Arab…

“Most days Amal sits near the window and looks out at the street.  She smokes too many cigarettes and drinks too many cups of coffee, but what else is there for her to do?  She is past middle age, retired and has time to sit and think about those happy days gone by before the…

I dithered over posting this (on facebook) as I will probably lose “friends” over it…but enough is enough. Assad stands against the US NATO and the whole Axis of Interventionism Assad has steadfastly resisted Zionism and supported the Palestinian cause, one of the few Arab nations to remain loyal despite not always being appreciated for…