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My Fickle Friends – by Bashar al-Assad

My Fickle Friends – by Bashar al-Assad

How fickle friendship can be. After all the years of close co-operation, the dinners out together, the help we provided, and the dirty work we did for them, its come to this. Yesterday I was a [...]

UN provides cover to the aggression of Major Powers

UN provides cover to the aggression of Major Powers

Abid Mustafa “…the UN emerged chiefly as a result of an agreement among the great powers led at that time by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. They concluded that the founding of a world organization was in [...]

Don’t Weep over the Grand Delusion of an Assadic Resistance.

Don’t Weep over the Grand Delusion of an Assadic Resistance.

Abdul-Latif Halimi It will not be long before Bashar al-Assad will sit naked and battered, haemorrhaging to death on the curb of history like other uninhibited despots before him. As his regime hurtles chaotically out of [...]

Syria and the Line Between Imperialism and Humanitarianism

Syria and the Line Between Imperialism and Humanitarianism

Anyone who followed Twitter during last week’s BBC Question Time would have seen a barrage of criticism four letter insults towards one of the panelists after a question to the panel on Syria. A member of [...]

The Assad Regime – Falling Apart

The Assad Regime – Falling Apart

In March 2011, only a week before the Syrian revolution sparked off, Michael Broning of Foreign Affairs wrote an article about the “Sturdy House that Assad Built”, arguing the robustness of the Syrian military dictatorship and [...]

The Syrian Uprising doesn’t need American Meddling

The Syrian Uprising doesn’t need American Meddling

US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford is quite a feisty diplomat. He shows up unannounced and uninvited at various hot spots in the country, greeted with varying degrees of enthusiasm, and, oftentimes, anger. When he made [...]