A jet stream blockage related to climate change caused the Russian wheat crop to fail in 2010, halting exports to Syria and the Arab world, and fueling unrest and revolt.
An exchange between Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance and Bill Weinberg of World War 4 Report on what actually constitutes solidarity with the Syrians…
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A Human Rights Watch report finds that "evidence strongly suggests" the Assad regime was behind the Ghouta attack—and paleocons and "leftists" rush to refute it.
Syria’s Christians are becoming propaganda fodder in an international war of perceptions, with atrocities carried out by the jihadist Nusra Front being attributed to the FSA.
The popular meme "I didn't join the army to fight for al-Qaeda in Syria" is a betrayal of Syria's secular civil resistance—which continues even now to exist and struggle for freedom.
New York area Syrians came out for a "Rally to Stop Assad's War on Syria" near Times Square. Placards read: "GLOBAL SILENCE IS THE CAUSE OF ATROCITIES IN SYRIA."
If anti-war forces in the West do not oppose Assad's war crimes and offer solidarity to the struggle against his rule, we forfeit all legitimacy to oppose Obama's intervention.
Anti-war voices in the US raise nonsensical slogans like "No war in Syria!"—blind to two million refugees, 100,000 dead, bombs falling on schools, and acts of genocide.
In the sudden eruption of commentary on Syria in the US and UK, very little of it is actually coming from Syrians—who are often cynical about voices from the "anti-war" camp.
The DRC charges that Rwanda's government used its M23 proxy rebel force to shell its own territory—as a provocation to justify a direct military intervention in eastern Congo.
The fearful synergy of regional sectarian war and Great Power rivalries holds the menace of the looming Syria intervention setting off a new global conflagration.
