Oct 28, 2013, Voltairenet Unleashed by the United States against Syria, will Saudi Arabia commit suicide if defeated? This is what one might conclude from the following events: On July 31st, 2013, Prince Bandar bin Sultan visited Russia, where he not only met his counterpart, the intelligence chief, but also President Vladimir Putin. There are…
Oct 30, 2013, Press TV The US government is second in line to lead al-Qaeda forces fighting against the Syrian government after Saudi Arabia, a French newspaper reveals. George Malbrunot, a journalist for French newspaper Le Figaro, has investigated the ways in which arms are being delivered to the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) by…
Oct 30, 2013, Finian Cunningham Is the US trying to manipulate Iran, through sanctions relief, in order to assert Washington’s agenda for regime change in Syria? The answer would seem to be ‘yes’, as suggested by the latest tour of the region by the UN-Arab League special envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi. In particular, it was the…
Oct 29, 2013, RT.com The rebels used chemical weapons in north-eastern Syria near the border with Turkey on Tuesday, a Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen reported. The toxic shell exploded near a Kurdish defense forces’ checkpoint close to the border with Turkey in the city of Ras al-Ayn al-Hasakah. The attack was reported by Kurdish defense…
Oct 30, 2013, Global Research The US is determined to strengthen the hand of the Syrian rebel forces in advance of any peace talks in order to change the alignment of forces. The recent violence could be part of that strategy, Brian Becker, Director of Answer Coalition, told RT. RT: From these latest developments, does…
download the PDF: Canadian Council of Christian Churches Statement on Syria
Oct 17, 2011, Jeremy Salt As insurrection in Syria lurches towards civil war, the brakes need to be put on the propaganda pouring through the Western mainstream media and accepted uncritically by many who should know better. So here is a matrix of positions from which to argue about what is going on in this…
Oct 26, 2013, Press TV Head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says over 210 German militants have travelled from the country to Syria since the Syrian conflict started nearly three years ago. “There are well over 210 people, that we know of, who have gone to Syria,” said Hans-Georg Maassen, the president of the Federal…
Oct 27, 2013, al Akhbar Powerful armed groups in Syria said attending peace talks or negotiating with Damascus would be an act of betrayal. The joint declaration by the 19 Islamist groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad cast further doubt on whether the long-delayed peace talks dubbed “Geneva 2″ will actually go ahead. It…
Oct 23, 2013, Stephen Gowans The Friends of Syria—an 11 country coalition ranged against the Syrian government—favors what it calls a “democratic” transition in Damascus. There are multiple problems with this. The coalition says that the current president, Bashar al-Assad, must have “no role in Syria.” How odd that an ostensibly democracy-promoting coalition should dictate…