Syria Times H.E. President Bashar Al-Assad answered scores of questions raised by Belgian media means accompanying the visiting Belgian Parliamentarian Delegation, chaired by MP Filip Dewinter, February 6, 2017: Question 1: Mr. President, we’ve been to Aleppo, we’ve seen the destruction, how do you see the way forward to peace nowadays after Astana? President Assad:…
6th January 2017 On the road out of Sukare, East Aleppo. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley) Apparently, the US Left has yet to figure out that Washington doesn’t try to overthrow neoliberals. If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were a devotee of the Washington Consensus–as Counterpunch’s Eric Draitser seems to believe–the United States government wouldn’t have been calling…
9th November 2016 “Terrorism is a card the West wants to play in the Syrian arena…”
14th September 2016 “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ~ George Orwell. The media furore surrounding the now viral image of wounded Syrian child, Omran Daqneesh, in terrorist-held eastern Aleppo, Syria is still raging, while the push back against the tide of western-sponsored…
14th September 2016 Apologies for lack of posts lately. I have just returned from an extended visit to Syria and the border towns of Lebanon/Syria. My visit included meeting with Syria’s President, Bashar Al-Assad as part of the US Peace Council delegation itinerary. Syrian Arab News Agency report on this meeting 28/7/2016: “Damascus, SANA-President Bashar…
