anti-imperialism
YARMOUK: understanding the situation
Given the immense amount of lies and war-mongering prevalent not only in the corporate media/MSM but also amongst Palestine supporters who either unknowingly have got the story of Yarmouk wrong or, worse, are collaborating with the war-mongerers against Syria, and thus against Palestine… I’ve collated some important articles for anyone who is genuinely interested in understanding what is happening in the Yarmouk district of Damascus and how this came to be.
Souria Samideen–words of a Syrian from Quneitra
In a mini mart yesterday afternoon, a guy patiently waiting for me to stuff my cucumbers and other groceries into my bag and clear out of the way, pointed at my wristband with surprise. “I couldn’t wear that here,” he smiles. Aha, gut feeling confirmed: Syrian. Another man shows up, his brother, and we get chatting.
They now work at the construction site across the road but are from a Jabal al-Shaykh area village.
“Propaganda for war is a crime against humanity.”
Tim Anderson: “Propaganda for war is a crime against humanity.” https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205383627843104&set=a.10204665741736400.1073741955.1021408357&type=1Filed under: anti-imperialism, Syria
Syria Seminar at the University of Sydney, 17 March 2015 [VIDEOS]
via Hands Off Syria
Syria: four years of ‘humanitarian intervention’, Tim Anderson
The US and the Syrian crisis, Malcolm Jorgensen
UPDATE on the Syrian crisis, 17 March 2015, by Reme Sakr
Syrian reform and the crisis, Jay TharappelFiled under: anti-imperialism, Syria
“AVAAZ, “White Helmets”, HRW, PHR, Amnesty & More: Humanitarians for War on Syria”
Tim Anderson graphic
Rick Sterling on the war-mongering “humanitarian” interventionalists…
(no, they haven’t *forgotten* Libya, they were instrumental in engineering the death and destruction in Libya, as they are doing in Syria)
Mar 31, 2015, Counter Punch
as if kissing zionist boots and applauding their massacres of Palestinians weren’t enough… “Canadian parliament approves military mission in Syria”
Canadian CF-18 fighter jets (file photo)
**the ONLY ones promoting terrorism in Canada are Harper and his cronies.
Mar 31, 2015, Press TV
Canada’s parliament has approved to expand the country’s current military mission in Iraq to target Takfiri ISIL terrorists in neighboring Syria.
important reading and listening on Yemen, Syria, Iran…
2 million Syrians marched in Damascus in support of President Bashar al-Assad on March 29th, 2011
The Geopolitics behind the War in Yemen (I), Mar 30, 2015, Strategic Culture
President Assad Interview with Charlie Rose-CBSNEWS [VIDEO]
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ALSO: “The Syrian Crisis Can Be Solved” President Assad interview with Russian media, March 2015
excerpts:
“…We have always believed and spoke publicly that every problem, however big, should have a political solution. This is in principle. However, its success depends very much on the substance genuinely reflecting the title which you have spoken about. The title is: a Syrian-Syrian dialogue. In order for this dialogue to succeed, it should be purely Syrian.
