The situation in Syria is deteriorating rapidly, following the campaign by Saudi Arabia and Turkey to send thousands of fighters into the North West back in March. Recently Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei has recognised this action as a specific act of…
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Synergising conflicts – the connection between Syria and Ukraine explored
March 29, 2015
In the introduction we talked of the ‘Russian connection’ between the Ukraine conflict and the Syrian one, and aimed to explore this later. But today an ‘authoritative source’ has put the two conflicts into sharp focus as intimately associated through…
Ratting on Obama – Hersh’s second volley
April 9, 2014
When Seymour Hersh asked the question that no-one else seemed to think necessary – ‘Whose Sarin’ was it that killed people in a Damascus suburb last August? – he didn’t, or couldn’t provide a definitive answer. Even though his elimination…
The real story of Moadamiya
October 31, 2013
And how the ‘release’ of over 5000 women and children was negotiated and secured by a team led by Mother Agnes Mariam. While Western media have been talking of the siege of Moadamiya – of a siege imposed on suffering…
A plea for Australian neutrality on Syria
September 23, 2013
As the UN General Assembly gathers for its annual session this week, and the UN Security Council deliberates on a resolution over Syria under the chairmanship of Australia, there are worrying signs that Australian ‘guidance’ may not be impartial on…
Beyond reasonable doubt?
September 9, 2013
The basis on which prison sentences are decided has always been – in civilised countries – that of ‘guilty beyond reasonable doubt’; – where the death penalty may be involved this would surely be a minimum requirement. So it is with…
Truth is the first casualty of war – but not this time…
August 30, 2013
For a war built on an edifice of lies, the truth has been long dead and buried. The architects of this dreadful construction must keep piling lies on its grave, lie upon lie, until we are dizzy from seaching for…
Stretching credibility to breaking point
August 22, 2013
Claims that the Syrian Arab Army has used chemical weapons on a gross scale near Damascus the day after UN officials arrived to investigate previous claims, should break our belief in the stories of the Syrian Opposition and its network…
Guarding National Security and protecting our interests
August 2, 2013
— seems to be the agenda of ‘The Guardian’, if today’s offering on Syria is a guide: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/un-inspectors-syria-chemical-weapons In a report whose length one might expect to indicate thorough coverage of its subject – the imminent UN visit to Syria…
Media complicity in war crimes exposed
July 31, 2013
Finian Cunningham, writing in ICH and struck by the total failure of the Western media to report on recent massacres committed by foreign backed mercenaries in Syria says: That charade ( of the freedom and democracy supporting rebels ) is…