No More War for Israel? The People Against the 800 Pound Gorilla
by JEAN BRICMONT and DIANA JOHNSTONE
The past ten days have seen what could be the start of an historic turning point away from endless war in the Middle East. Public opinion in the United States, in harmony with the majority of people in the world, has clearly rejected U.S. military intervention in Syria.
President al-Assad’s speech to Rossiya 24 TV channel
Damascus, (SANA), September 13, 2013 – President Bashar al-Assad gave a speech to Rossiya 24 TV channel. Following is the full text of the speech.
Interviewer: Why did Syria agree to the Russian initiative which proposes handing over its chemical weapons to the international community? Why so rapidly?
Punishment for Syria, rewards for Syria’s neighbour Israel
by Stuart Littlewood
US Secretary of State John Kerry accuses Syrian government forces of killing 1,429 people, including 426 children, in a chemical weapons attack in Damascus last week described as an “inconceivable horror” and “a crime against conscience”.
President Obama is considering lethal punitive strikes against the Assad regime, strikes that Britain, for one, will not take part in.
Walk away, Palestinians!
Choose new leaders and fight for justice under fair and decent procedural rules
by Stuart Littlewood Intifada-Palestine.com
A Formula for Palestinian Survival in Damascus
Palestinian woman, who fled her home in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, feeds her baby inside a school, at the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, (photo credit: AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
House demolitions: Zionism’s constant background noise
Hardly a day goes by without the State of Israel demolishing an Arab home between the Jordan River and the sea. The hum of bulldozers is the constant background noise of Zionism. Listen to it for a few moments.
House owner weeps while Palestinian contract workers for the city of Jerusalem, demolish her house in Anata. Photo by Meged Gozani/Activestills.org
