Even though it’s published on Al-Jazeera, which has become a hub for biased, sectarian media coverage of Syria, this is a very good article by Rima Majed, a PhD student at Oxford, United Kingdom. Majed argues that framing of the Syrian uprising as an ages-old sectarian war […]
Read more →Jadaliyya has published a moving report by two American academics summarising one aspect of their research on the plight of Syrian refugees. In numerous interviews they conducted last summer, they asked Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon this question: “What do you miss most?” The responses they […]
Read more →– Western powers want Assad to stay – Palestinian actor dies in Syrian regime prisons WESTERN POWERS WANT ASSAD TO STAY According to Reuters, Western powers have signalled to the Syrian opposition that the long-awaited Geneva 2 ‘peace talks’ next month “may not lead to the removal […]
Read more →Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has, once again, renewed Iran’s strong opposition to the western support for the armed rebels and “terrorists” in Syria, and stressed that arms shipments to the “Muslim country” must stop. Source: http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920919001382 COMMENT FROM THE EDITOR: Meanwhile, there have been […]
Read more →The destruction in Qaboun, Damascus. Some 1,500 mosques in Syria have been targeted and destroyed by the Syrian regime forces, backed by Hezbollah and Sepah Pasdaran. Source: http:[email protected]/11340060585/?rb=1
Read more →This shameful, cheap song is one of the Mahdi Army songs used as a propaganda tool to recruit fighters to join the Iraqi Shia militia to go and fight in Syria alongside the regime. In the song, the all-made-up and heavily armed singer says: “Take us to […]
Read more →A very moving and well-made series of photo-journalistic reports published by the Washington Post about the plight of Syrian refugees. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/syrian-refugees/story/refuge/
Read more →‘Veto’, a powerful short film (12 min) on how a peaceful uprising in Syria was pushed into an armed struggle because of the regime’s brutal repression and the political games played by the regime’s allies (Russia, China, Iran).
Read more →Not very long ago, brigadier Ramazan Sharif, Sepah Pasdaran’s PR man, denied any kind of Iranian military interference in Syria. A few weeks ago, however, following bloody battles between a group of Iranian armed men fighting in Syria and opponents of the Assad regime, the Syrian opposition […]
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