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What We See in Raqqa is No Attempt to Protect Civilians

By Vanessa Beeley on June 14, 2017

Photo: Hamid Khatib

The US coalition is carpet bombing Raqqa without any UN mandate, raising the question whether there is something they want to hide or destroy before it is discovered by the Syrian Army. (more…)

Campaign for National Constituent Assembly to Begin July 9

June 8, 2017

The campaign to choose 545 territorial and sectoral members of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC, Spanish acronym) on July 30, will begin on July 9, said the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) Tibisay Lucena. (more…)

Meet Aylan & Omran: Child Victims Used for Syrian War Propaganda

Eva Bartlett on June 12, 2017

In September 2015, a young boy was found washed up on a beach in Turkey. Photos of Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body were quickly splashed across mass media, much the same way that Omran Daqneesh’s photo inside an ambulance would also be disseminated. (more…)

You Only Hate Assad Because Your TV Told You To

By Caitlin Johnstone on May 26, 2017

Syrian President Assad and his family

“What we’ve been undergoing to a large extent is a form of psychological abuse, actually, by very narcissistic, hegemonic governments and officials for a very long time. It’s a form of gaslighting where actually our own faith in our ability to judge a situation, and to some extent even our own identity, has been eroded and damaged to the point where we’re effectively accepting their version of reality.” –Vanessa Beeley (more…)

Mass March in Gaza Declares; Donald Trump, US Imperialism not Welcome in Palestine!

May 23, 2017

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine organized a mass march and rally in Gaza City on Tuesday, May 23, from Palestine Square to the prisoners’ support tent for the hunger strike, in rejection of the visit of the war criminal, US President Donald Trump, in our occupied homeland Palestine. (more…)

The Afghan Toll

By Vijay Prashad on May 27, 2017

The American war in Afghanistan will soon enter its 16th year. Over this period, the United States and its allies have lost close to 3,000 soldiers, while an unknown number of Afghans have died. (more…)

A Victory Towards Liberation: Salute to the Palestinian Prisoners and the Struggle for Freedom

May 27, 2017

On the occasion of the victory of the Strike of Freedom and Dignity, the valiant battle of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails, confronting the occupier with their bodies and their lives, we salute the Palestinian prisoners on achieving their victory, not only for themselves and their families, but for the entire Palestinian people and global movement for justice and liberation. (more…)

Bashar al Assad’s Interview with Telesur

April 27, 2017

Telesur: Thank you for receiving us, Mr President. Bashar al-Assad: I welcome your team and Channel Telesur to Syria.  Telesur: Let me get straight to the most recent event.
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