Archive for 'Tag Archives: 'Syria''
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 [...]
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
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
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 [...]
Sufi Scholar Mohammad al-Yaqoubi: Arab Tyrants ruled in name of Secularism and Democracy
Syrian Scholar Mohammad al-Yaqoubi is a prominent Syrian religious figure from amongst the well know Sufi leaders who held the position of Imam in the al-Hasan mosque in Damascus. He was removed from the position once [...]
Syria – Russia’s Arab Spring Dilemma
Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s demise is all but a done thing, carried out with a UN blessing, however dubious, and only belatedly opposed by Russia and China. Russian policy makers are now wondering if their quasi-principled condemnation of [...]
