Recommended Reading

Links to online news reports and articles that offer true insight into the Syrian conflict. Please send us your suggestions for new content via the Contact page.

Beyond reasonable doubt?

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…

Will We Ever See any Silver Lining of US Strikes on Syria?

by Mark Nadim, member of step-back team   Perhaps as soon as this coming Wednesday, but no one really knows of course, the US will start missile and bombing strikes against the Syrian army and presumably also target the government…

Mind the gap! Democratic deficit in UK, US has never been bigger

Neil Clark is a journalist, writer and broadcaster. His award winning blog can be found at www.neilclark66.blogspot.com. Follow him on Twitter. The issue of Syria has demonstrated the massive gap that has opened up between the elite and ordinary people in…

News Unspun – Syria: Running Blog

News Unspun are keeping an eye on media reporting of the news around the Syrian conflict and the Western escalation of plans to attack. Visit their running blog for more.

Media complicity in war crimes exposed

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…

A rigorous analysis of politics and propaganda around the Syrian conflict

Jay Tharappel from Sydney University has written a long article on various controversial aspects of the Syrian conflict, published here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-imperial-left-and-the-proxy-war-against-syria/5343850 His focus is specifically on the views expounded by the American “Campaign for Peace and Democracy”, following its release…

10 Reasons To Oppose Intervention

Syria: Ten Reasons Why We Oppose Intervention 25 June 2013 Stop the WarCoalition Syria 1 Intervention in Syria will have huge regional and global consequences. The conflict is already spreading to Lebanon and Turkey, and could spark a regional war involving…

Introduction

A recommended reading list for someone wishing to understand what is really going on in the Syrian conflict would probably go back a few hundred years, but historically events of the last sixty odd give a good background.  There are…

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