In Syria Foreign Intervention Will Only Shed More Blood
By Seamus Milne, The Guardian As Syria descends deeper into civil war and human misery, pressure for yet another western military intervention in the Arab world is growing. Last week, General Martin...
View ArticleWestern Military Intervention in Syria Would Be a Disaster
As the hell of Syria’s ongoing and increasingly intractable internal conflict continues to play out, the announcement by newly installed US Secretary of State John Kerry that the US is to step up its...
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The Oslo Illusion
This is a fantastic article from Adam Hanieh, analysing not just the failure of the Oslo process, but the effect it’s had on the economy of Palestine. It was published in Jacobin, a left-wing ‘magazine...
View ArticleThe alleged threat of Syria’s chemical weapons
By Robert Fisk The Independent THE BIGGER THE LIE the more people will believe it. We all know who said that – but it still works. Bashar al-Assad has chemical weapons. He may use them against his own...
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Allegations of chemical weapons use by Syrian government forces don’t stack up
At a time when after two and a half years of an unrelentingly brutal conflict, Syrian government forces are on the front foot, enjoying continuing success against a polyglot opposition increasingly...
View ArticleKobane – we have met the enemy and it is us
Morning Star On the Turkish frontier, around the town of Kobane in northern Syria, the world is witnessing the very best of humanity alongside the very worst. The very best are of course the Kurdish...
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Jihadi John may not be a victim, but he is a consequence
The sympathetic portrayal of Mohammed Emwazi (Jihadi John) by Asim Qureshi of the campaigning group CAGE inevitably and understandably met with short shrift in a society that is rightly repelled by the...
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The return of the Syrian Army
Robert Fisk Counterpunch While the world still rages on at Russia’s presumption in the Middle East – to intervene in Syria instead of letting the Americans decide which dictators should survive or die...
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