Syria

Global Day Of Action Against Turkish Invasion On Oct. 12

October 11, 2019 ROAR Collective, Roarmag.org Resist! Middle East, Occupation, Syria, Türkiye

Since the establishment of the Kurdish democratic autonomous self-administration in North and East Syria (DASA), the border between Turkey and North and East Syria has been highly secure and no armed actions against Turkey have originated from this territory. In recent talks mediated by the US administration between the DASA and the Turkish state, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have demonstrated their willingness to work for lasting peace. The new statement released by the White House, US President Donald Trump has violated the agreement negotiated between the DASA and the Turkish state.

Tricontinental: Institute For Social Research Newsletter On Syria, Ecuador And India

October 11, 2019 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Educate! Ecuador, India, Syria

Turkey has invaded Syria. In particular, Turkey has crossed the border to destroy the largely Syrian Kurdish province of Rojava, south of the Turkey-Syria border and east of the Euphrates River. The green light for this invasion came from Washington, DC, when US President Donald Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the US would withdraw its troops from the area. Syria’s Kurdish population – no more than two million people – seized control of their own lands, built a creative society in the area, and fought for it against the various jihadi groups, most recently the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Turkey’s Safe-Zone And Refugee Peace-Corridor Is A Cover For Encroachment

October 10, 2019 By Sarah Abed, Infobrics.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Syria

On Saturday, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that preparations have been made for a unilateral cross border air and land military operation in the next day or two, in northern Syria, east of the Euphrates River. Erdogan expressed his frustration with Washington’s lack of adherence to a September 30th deadline to establish a thirty-kilometer-deep safe zone on Syria’s northern border. In response to Erdogan’s threat, the US-backed Kurdish militia group known as The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stated that they are ready to respond to an unprovoked Turkish attack with an all-out war if necessary.

US Plans Permanent Occupation Of Syrian Territory

October 10, 2019 Stephen Lendman, Stephenlendman.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Occupation, Syria

International law is clear and unequivocal. No nation may interfere in the internal affairs of others. No foreign military of proxy force may occupy another country’s territory. No nation may attack another state without Security Council authorization — permitted only in self-defense, never preemptively for any reasons. As a signatory to the UN Charter, international laws of war and related ones are automatically US constitutional law under its Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Paragraph 2).

No Deadlines Must Be Imposed On Syrian Constitutional Committee

October 1, 2019 By Syria360.wordpress.com Educate! Nationalism, Syria, United Nations

The recently established Syrian Constitutional Committee must not face any imposed deadlines or timetables that may affect its activities, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said. “No deadlines or timetables must be imposed on the committee. Each step taken must be prudent and informed since the constitution is an essential step in the determination of Syria’s future”, the minister said, addressing the UN General Assembly. According to Muallem, the committee must not face any imposed preconditions.

Open Letter In Support Of Canadian Attending Labor Conference In Syria Against Witchhunt

September 26, 2019 Staff, Syriasolidaritymovement.org Educate! Canada, Diplomacy, Syria

We write to you as fellow trade unionists and comrades dedicated in the struggle for workers’ rights in support of Donald Lafleur and his visit to the GFTU trade union congress in Damascus. Brother Lafleur has been unjustly placed on administrative leave despite the fact that he attended the meeting as a private individual, on his own time and at his own expense. The Union Executive is continuing its deliberations and considering further actions against him. We demand that he be permitted to resume his full duties!

The Syria You Won’t See: Max Blumenthal On Visiting Damascus After The Proxy War

September 25, 2019 Aaron Mate, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Proxy War, Syria

Blumenthal interviewed residents who were caught between Western and Gulf-backed extremist insurgents and the Syrian government’s war to retake territory, and who now struggle to recover under a US-led economic blockade. “They want to attack and intimidate people from the West who want to have cultural and personal contact with Syrians in the area where most Syrians live,” Blumenthal says. “I went there and I took that opportunity to have contact with them because I’ll take any reasonable opportunity to break the media blockade in countries targeted with regime change, and to show my fellow citizens what’s on the other side of the corporate media and the US national security state’s information war.”

International Conference in Syria on Sanctions And Its Blowback

September 23, 2019 Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance Educate! Assad, Syria

Throughout my short one-week stay, Syrians, on seeing I was a foreigner, would muster their best English to ask where I was from. Invariably upon hearing that I was from the US, the questioner would shake my hand, touch hand to heart, and say “welcome.” Ironically, these victims of the US-backed war of regime change and economic sanctions went out of their way to extend their hospitality to us, while the jihadists, whom the US has been arming, training, and implicitly backing, are the ones who, at least according to George W. Bush, “hate us.” As a Syrian university student proudly explicated about her homeland: “We are a country where people resist any colonialism; we have 9,000 years of culture.”

How The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville Created Fairytales Of Underground Hospitals In Syria

September 17, 2019 Staff, Moonofalabama.org Educate! Media, Propaganda, Syria

In August 2013 the BBC produced a fake video headlined "Saving Syria’s Children" about an alleged chemical weapon attack in Syria which it claimed was caused by the Syrian government. Robert Stuart has since pressed the BBC to admit the obvious fabrication of these scenes. Today the BBC posted on its website another Syria clip under the title Idlib's secret hospitals hiding from air strikes: Air strikes have been targeting hospitals in the rebel-held province of Idlib, Syria, despite the fact that it is a war crime. Medics have been forced underground in order to survive.

Hong Kong Protest Leader Hangs Out With White Helmets Boss

September 14, 2019 Makia Freeman, Global Research. Educate! Color Revolution, Hong Kong, Syria, White Helmets

Joshua Wong has recently been doing some flyin’ around and hobnobbing with the rich, famous and powerful. He went to Berlin and met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other ‘pro-democracy’ figures like Mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko, who was for awhile himself a Western favorite when the US was actively involved in the color revolution in Ukraine. While there, Wong met with Raed Al Saleh, the head of the White Helmets. For those who don’t know, the White Helmets are a Western propaganda construct with close links to terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda and Jahbat Al Nusra (now known as Tahrir Al Sham). What would a supposedly organic grassroots movement leader in China have in common with a Syrian war organization? On the surface, nothing; under the surface, everything; they are both propaganda and destabilization tools of Western (US-UK) foreign meddling and interference.

War And Militarism Are Class Issues

September 13, 2019 Ajamu Baraka. Educate! Neoliberalism, Syria, Wars and Militarism, Working Class

As a Black working-class oriented alliance residing in the center of empire and committed to peace and abolishing war, repression and imperialism, we are quite clear about how we see the world and our responsibilities. We say that there can be no working-class justice, no working-class rights in a world where powerful elite social forces are prepared and are using extreme violence in the form of political and economic destabilization and war. We are clear that war is a class issue. That it is always the rural and urban working classes that are required to fight the wars against other working classes and oppressed peoples and nations. That is why we in BAP say clearly and without equivocation “Not one drop of blood from the poor and working-class to defend the capitalist dictatorship in the U.S. and oppressor classes and peoples’ world-wide.”

What Is the Biggest Lie About The Syrian War? Western War Propaganda, Regime Change, Terrorism

July 13, 2019 By Mark Taliano and Cindy Sheehan, Globalresearch.ca Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Regime Change, Syria, Wars and Militarism

In this episode of Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, Cindy and Mark discuss criminal Western war propaganda, how it fabricates tacit “consent” from ostensibly “anti-war” protestors, and how it enables the current overseas holocaust that imperils us all. Some of the issues raised throughout the interview include these: “Anti-war” protestors embrace the “brutal dictator” myth, oblivious to known facts on-the-ground such as the multitudes of displaced Syrians in Lebanon who clamored to vote for President Assad and even a 2013 NATO...

Did Assad Really Use Chemical Weapons In Douma?

June 14, 2019 Helena Cobban, Lobelog.com Educate! Chemical Weapons, Syria

Last month, a network of UK-based academics challenged allegations—which the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) officially corroborated on March 1—that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against civilians in the outer Damascus suburb of Douma in April 2018. The challenge came in the form of a 15-page assessment, apparently prepared by a team of OPCW engineering experts, that seriously critiqued a fundamental conclusion of the March report. An unknown party leaked this assessment to the UK-based network, the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media.

More Evidence US Armed Syria Terrorists As Trump Pleads Ceasefire

June 12, 2019 By Finian Cunningham, Strategic-culture.org Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Syria, Trump Administration, US Imperialism

Remember when Donald Trump was running for president back in 2016, and he bragged he would “bomb the hell out of” terrorists in Syria. Now, in a reversal, Trump is calling on Syrian and allied Russian forces to stop bombing Idlib, the last redoubt of terror groups in Syria. Trump urged Syria, Russia and Iran to “stop bombing the hell out of Idlib” claiming that civilians were being indiscriminately killed in the offensive to retake the renegade northwest province. It seems like a strange plea from the American president.

Leaked OPCW Report Suggests Syria Gas attack Was ‘Staged,’ MIT Scientist

June 2, 2019 Aaron Maté, The Grayzone Project Educate! Chemical Weapons, Syria

“The evidence is overwhelming that the gas attacks were staged,” Postol said in an interview with The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté. Postol continued: “If I were advising somebody, as I did when I was in the Pentagon, I advised the chief of naval operations, and part of my job was to take technically detailed analysis and translate it into information that could be readily understood by an intelligent non-expert, . . . I would simply say that the evidence is overwhelming that the gas attacks were staged, and then I would explain why this evidence is overwhelming.”

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