News/Politics

 Bad Precedent and Bad Faith 

 
 
 by Lawrence Davidson
 
Part I – Hedges v. Obama
 

Al-Qaeda replacing Assad is the biggest threat to US security – CIA deputy director
Rubble and debris litter the street following an explosion in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, early on August 7, 2013.(AFP PHOTO/ABDULLAH AL-SHAM)
 

 Lebanon offers Palestinians fleeing death in Syria Ramadan greetings: “Eid Mubarak, dear brothers and sisters!  Yalla! Go back where you came from!”
Many Palestinian refugees, without any money left from their many travails, are forced to walk from the Masnaa border crossing near the Syrian/Lebanese to the Jilil Palestinian Refugee camp near Baalbec, August 5, 2013 (Photo: Franklin Lamb)

Israeli Talk Show – What the Israelis Really Think About Christians
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPwOHS9oMtw
Edited by Elias Harb
This video is one more example of the racism that exists in Israel. Israeli forces and settlers have on numerous occasions attacked mosques and Christian holy sites in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Muslim Brotherhood switches its focus from Egypt to Syria
Syrian rebels with bloodied captured policeman in Aleppo
 
Special to WorldTribune.com

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Why are Palestinians blamed for violence in Lebanon?
A slashed poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Burj al-Barajne refugee camp, Beirut, June 2013. (Liam Maloney / Polaris)
by Moe Ali Nayel

US remains ‘uninterested’ as Kurds massacred by Syria’s militant opposition
A Syrian-Kurdish refugee family sits in their tent at a refugee camp (AFP Photo / Safin Hamed)
 
 
by Patrick Henningsen

Vows of ‘Occupation Until Martyrdom’

 
 Seven of the camps—two in the north and five in the Damascus area and in the south of Syria—are presently with their throats under the jackboot of foreign Salafi-Jihadists
 
by FRANKLIN LAMB
Homs Palestinian Camp, Syria

The poetry of absence: remembering Mahmoud Darwish five years on
Mahmoud Darwish wove the poetry of politics and protest with the wonder of life and love.(Jamal Nasrallah / EPA)
 
 

What If a Russian Snowden?
Russia’s grant of temporary refugee status to Snowden for one year was in full accord with the normal level of protection to be given to anyone accused of nonviolent political crimes in a foreign country, writes Richard Falk [AP] 
‘Political Crimes’ are Non-Extraditable and Snowden’s Transfer to the United States for Prosecution would have been a Setback for Human Rights and International Law
 
by Richard Falk