In this RT interview British Respect Party MP, George Galloway, talks about his upcoming documentary film The Killing of Tony Blair. He also gives his views on the harassment of The Guardian by British authorities and the strange death of Dr Abbas Khan in a Syria prison. British citizen Khan
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drive-by planet: Ghouta sarin attack whodunnit: Seymour Hersh ‘old media’ methods criticized by Brown Moses
In a recent article Whose Sarin? Pullitzer-prize winning investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, makes the case that the Obama administration misled Americans about the August 21 sarin attack outside Damascus. Hersh also raises questions about who might have been behind the attack. We know the neurotoxin sarin was used to devastating
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Syria- A Short History
SYRIA – A SHORT HISTORY By Phillip K. Hitti, Colier Books, New York 1961 This book is an abridgement of the author’s previous work ‘History of Syria Including Lebanon and Palestine’ (1951). Before the present ‘Arab Spring’ and the subsequent civil war in Syria this country wasn’t
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SYRIA – A SHORT HISTORY By Phillip K. Hitti, Colier Books, New York 1961 This book is an abridgement of the author’s previous work ‘History of Syria Including Lebanon and Palestine’ (1951). Before the present ‘Arab Spring’ and the subsequent civil war in Syria this country wasn’t
Continue readingLeDaro: Syria: U.S hypocrisy on Syria situation
First it was Assad who was murdering the civilians. U.S was all set to invade Syria. It was a matter of days according to reports in late August and early September of this year. Now the tune has changed. It is the rebels and Al-Qaida who are doing the murdering and forcing people
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Iran & Syria: Obama Talks Softly but carries a Big Stick
Teddy Roosevelt’s Big Stick Policy President Obama has confounded his domestic and international critics by adopting the negotiation posture first espoused by President Teddy Roosevelt: The widespread use of ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’ began with American president Theodore Roosevelt. In a letter to Henry L. Sprague, on
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Arab Spring: uprisings, protests… not much to do with revolution
A recent Tariq Ali article in Guernica – What is a Revolution – challenges misconceptions about the popular uprisings in the Middle East that some pundits characterise as the Arab Spring or more dramatically as “revolutions.” A key point in Ali’s article is that popular uprisings, however large, do not
Continue readingLeDaro: Bashar Al-Assad, Russia and Chemical Weapons
Aid to Putin said that if Assad does not co-operate to handover chemical weapons then Russia may kick Assad’s butts. “Russia could abandon support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if it learnt that he was not committed to handing over control of his chemical weapons arsenal, the chief of staff for
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Obama & Syria: A UN Formula that meets the interests of Obama and Putin
The Reluctant World Sheriff Right now, despite Senator Kerry waving a piece of paper after the negotiation session he had with Russia’s Foreign Minister, the wheels seem to be coming off the UN negotiations for a Security Council resolution that meets the needs of Obama, the French and the British,
Continue readingLeDaro: John Kerry: After concluding a deal with Russia over Syria, he headed for Israel
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after speaking to the media at the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013. Kerry on Sunday sent a strong warning to Syria, saying ‘the threat of force is real’ if it
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Speaking of George Zimmerman, Here’s Ol’ Man McCain and Lindsey Graham On the Warpath.
Forget the unabomber. America’s moved on and filled Ted Kaczynski’s shoes with the duobombers. That’s right, old man McCain and his longtime girlfriend, Lindsey Graham. These geezers think calling off the aerial shitstorm planned for Iran Syria is a big mistake. In a statement released on Saturday, McCain and Graham
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: U.N. Team Finds No Proof of Chemical Weapons Use in Syria
The report of a U.N. weapons inspection team finds that Assad forces have plenty to answer for but can’t be shown responsible for chemical attacks. “On the evidence currently available, it was not possible to reach a finding about the chemical agents used, their delivery systems or the perpetrators,” the
Continue readingDid Putin really write that?
I’ve always thought of Vladimir V. Putin as an amoral ex-KGB thug. And I still do. But I have to admit he wrote a rather progressive op-ed piece in the New York Times on Wednesday. Overlook a belittling of Syrians’ desire for democracy, a fudge about who used the poison
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The U.S. and Assad. America Has Been Down This Road Before.
Is the United States poised to repeat the same mistakes in Syria that it made in Iraq after 1991? Chatham House, Associate Fellow, Nadim Shehadi, warns that is exactly what might happen. Some of the statements on Iraq from that period are eerily echoed today on Syria. Dick Cheney, then
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Democracy Now interview with Noam Chomsky on Syria and related matters: U.S. ‘torturing’ Iran for 60 years
In this talk hosted by Democracy Now, Noam Chomsky raises a number of key points with respect to the U.S. government’s approach to Syria and Iran. He also addresses the self-serving attitude of the U.S. with respect to international law. The spectacle of Barack Obama, a president known for his
Continue readingbastard.logic: Hilzoy Speak, You Listen
While still ardent in her conviction to make her cold turkey retirement from blogging a permanent one, beloved ObWi ex-pat Hilzoy sends us this all-too brief dispatch (courtesy Donkeylicious) on why, if we can’t exactly trust Assad re: Russia’s opportune embrace of Kerry’s apparently off-the-cuff Syrian CW solution, we at least can count
Continue readingbastard.logic: Hilzoy Speak, You Listen
While still ardent in her conviction to make her cold turkey retirement from blogging a permanent one, beloved ObWi ex-pat Hilzoy sends us this all-too brief dispatch (courtesy Donkeylicious) on why, if we can’t exactly trust Assad re: Russia’s opportune embrace of Kerry’s apparently off-the-cuff Syrian CW solution, we at least can count
Continue readingLeDaro: Bashar al-Assad’s perception of democracy
In times of tragedy it is refreshing that cartoonists provide the humorous perspective.
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