Like you, I’m appalled by the news from Manchester. My views on its causes are no secret. Now is not the time to restate them. * Why don’t I shut up about Syria? My views aren’t popular and I’m not … Read More »
Last night as I sliced peppers in the kitchen, too slow to switch from BBC Radio 4 to 3 before the seven oclock ‘news’ put a Tomahawk size dent in my mood, I caught the latest Assad evil. On my … Read More »
It’s rare for me to post the writing of another in its entirety. Equally unusual is the fact this piece, from the blog of its author, Stephen Gowans, is 7,000+ words long. It begins as a very specific, esoteric even, … Read More »
This from Global Research.org, April 29: Read in full the Global Research post here. It gives the historic context of the west’s disdain for the right to self determination of a Syrian people for whom it has shed such Niagaras … Read More »
“Ba’athism promotes a unified Arab state through the leadership of a vanguard party over a revolutionary government and the creation of one-party states, and rejects political pluralism … it is a secular ideology that supports socialist economics to a varying degree, and … Read More »
Yesterday’s Guardian features claims that French Intelligence have proof of Assad’s guilt at Idlib. Do read the piece. I have four questions: Why would we trust this source, an agency of one of the lead belligerents? If we strike out … Read More »
Media Lens today: It is hard to believe that just three weeks ago the entire corporate media was in uproar over Syria; specifically, about the need to ‘do something’ in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Khan Shaykhun, … Read More »
“The whole world speaking in the name of the Syrian People. But no one wants to listen to the Syrian People.” https://youtu.be/-bUptGA5HOs
[ezcol_3quarter][/ezcol_3quarter] [ezcol_1quarter_end] “By any objective measure – invasions since WW2 .. actual use of nuclear weapons .. refusal to forgo first-strike use of same .. eastward expansion of NATO .. $10 trillion for-profit arms sector ($596 billion a year) .. … Read More »
Apropos my two most recent posts, on Syria in the wake of Idlib and on the US strikes at Homs, Steve Spencer, a friend for close to forty years, emailed his doubts about my defence of Assad’s government and the … Read More »