4th February 2017 Diana Dayoub’s poem for Syria, her homeland… In Syria; The pigeons cooing at my grandmother’s balcony does not sound like the shelling that makes my window shiver every midnight.. In Syria; My grandma’s olives smell like the countryside; they smell like rosemary and fresh lemons; my grandma’s olives do not smell like…
4th February 2017 Vanessa Beeley 21st Century Wire “We see a lot of devastation. When you see a young child (Omran) who is obviously in shock sitting in the back of an ambulance, you are concerned with how he is, what happened to him and what situation has brought him there. The ability of the…
4th February 2017 Remains of a Nusra Front-led extemist militant centre in Hanano, East Aleppo after liberation by the SAA and allies, December 2016. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley) 21st Century Wire says… Since 2011 the United States government, led by President Barack Obama, has adopted an open policy of supporting an armed opposition in Syria. While…
4th February 2017 Vanessa Beeley 21st Century Wire “But we the people are born from the womb of the revolution, the sons of the revolution, and the servants of the Syrian revolution,” ~ Brigadier Fouad Soueid of the Free Syrian Police In 2013, the British government launched the pseudo first response unit, the White Helmets, in…
27th January 2017 Amnesty International Infographic by Prof. Tim Anderson Tim Hayward Most of us living outside Syria know very little of the country or its recent history. What we think we know comes via the media. Information that comes with the endorsement of an organisation like Amnesty International we may tend to assume is…
13th January 2017 Afraa Dagher Syrian News The western media always tries to discriminate FSA from ISIS, calling the first “moderates” as if they were any different than “ISIS” in terms of degrading secular Syria into a theocratic state, using all forms of barbarism and atrocities. The video below is of a woman who survived…
9th January 2017 Graham Phillips The Truth Speaker Excerpts from this excellent debunk of one of the most prolific propaganda peddlers, churning out questionable literature for the NATO state “regime change” foreign policy experts: In 2016, I’ll be returning to my country of the UK, and there’s a man I’d certainly like to meet for…
8th January 2017 Vanessa Beeley 21st Century Wire “Every single one of us has taken an oath to save lives regardless of political, sectarian or religious affiliation! We are neutral, impartial and humanitarian.” ~ Raed Saleh Noble words from Saleh, leader of the White Helmets, as he accepted the prestigious Right Livelihood Award on behalf of his NATO allied and Gulf…
7th January 2017 Abdo Haddad: Is Europe Shifting? Right versus Left? Or Right versus Wrong? When I first visited Poland in February 2016, President Andrzej Duda was newly elected and yet, on the plane towards Warsaw, I grabbed a local newspaper and was stunned by the amount of opposition and criticism this fresh president had…
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…
