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  • Syria rejects alleged US push for intervention in Lebanon, while Israel continues its aggression in southern SyriaMay 2, 2026
  • Syrians demonstrate for Palestine all over the countryApril 18, 2026
  • Rojava, Kurdish autonomy & self-determination, and the hard problem of simple demographics: An essay of mapsFebruary 12, 2026
  • One year since the Syrian rebel offensive that toppled Assad: What is the situation today?December 9, 2025
  • Sharaa government’s Suweida catastrophe: Druze fully alienated from post-revolution Syria, Israel’s ongoing aggression unleashedNovember 16, 2025
  • Syria 6 months after the revolution – Part I: The domestic situationNovember 16, 2025
  • Israel’s aggression against Syria, the Israel-Syria ‘peace talks’ deceit & the Golani people’s National PactNovember 16, 2025
  • The end of US sanctions? A huge victory for the Syrian people – but what is the price?November 16, 2025
  • Slaughter on the Syrian coast March 2025: Murderous insurgency meets genocidal pogrom, massive hole in Syrian revolutionNovember 16, 2025
  • The Syrian revolution, Iran and Israel: Squaring the circle, refuting mythsNovember 15, 2025
  • Putin: Russia not defeated in Syria because rebels ‘no longer terrorists’, blames IranNovember 15, 2025
  • Israel’s massive attack on free Syria: Background and motivationsNovember 15, 2025
  • The Syrian revolution returns with a bang: Extraordinary collapse of the genocidal regimeNovember 15, 2025
  • Ukraine myths used to justify Putin’s terrorJune 15, 2023
  • Natural and unnatural disasters: The betrayal of free Syria – once again – by the “international community”March 19, 2023
  • Ukraine war: Sub-Imperialist positioning, not “anti-colonial consciousness,” behind the neutrality of reactionary elites in the Global SouthJanuary 13, 2023
  • Iran and Israel: Same shit, different place, phoney warOctober 29, 2022
  • Tulsi Gabbard “finally” finds her political home on the hard right: Where she’s always beenOctober 25, 2022
  • Putin accuses the West of ‘Satanism’ to justify Russia’s colonial theft of 15 percent of UkraineOctober 2, 2022
  • On the fantastic tale that “the Ukrainian army killed 14,000 ethnic Russians in Donbas between 2014 and 2022”June 16, 2022
  • Putin’s conquest of southeast Ukraine: Vexed questions of ‘negotiations’, gotcha moments and real imperial interestsMay 22, 2022
  • Vladimir Putin: Can the God of global fascists and Nazis “de-Nazify” a country?April 6, 2022
  • Common sense on Syria’s election circus: Figures released are pure inventionsJune 8, 2021
  • Building alternative futures in the present: the case of Syria’s communesMarch 18, 2021
  • Assad’s 2018 chemical massacre in Douma: Why conspiracy claims make no senseJanuary 2, 2021
  • Trump’s record on Syria: Enabler of Assad’s victory, enemy of SyriansOctober 31, 2020
  • The Turkish invasion: Latest step in the Russian-led destruction of the Syrian revolutionOctober 23, 2019
  • Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victoryMay 14, 2019
  • What do Trump’s ‘withdrawal’ from Syria and the Gulf’s rapprochement with Assad have in common?January 9, 2019
  • Trump leaves Syria: On ‘regime change’ and other tall storiesDecember 21, 2018
  • Syria Endgame: Crushing Daraa, the Russia-Israel deal & the Geopolitics of CounterrevolutionAugust 23, 2018
  • Reply to a friend: How much can geopolitics tell us about Syria?April 21, 2018
  • Ghouta: Issues Behind the Apocalypse: Armed and civil rebellion, Class and IslamMarch 21, 2018
  • Northern Syria: Massive ethnic cleansing, humanitarian catastrophe, foreign intervention and betrayalJanuary 22, 2018
  • The Trump-Putin coalition for Assad lays waste to Syria: Imperial agreement and carve-up behind the noisy rhetoricSeptember 5, 2017
  • US vs Free Syrian Army vs Jabhat al-Nusra (and ISIS): History of a hidden three-way conflictAugust 1, 2017
  • My debate with Tim Anderson on Syria: Reflections on the collapse of solidarityJuly 11, 2017
  • US enforces its No Fly Zone over Rojava, leading to World War III …June 26, 2017
  • Qatar: The strange fall guy for the regional counterrevolutionJune 18, 2017
  • The Syrian Cause and Anti ImperialismMay 7, 2017
  • No, US bombing of Syria did not begin todayApril 7, 2017
  • Brief comments on the Russia-Turkey colonialist “ceasefire”December 31, 2016
  • Save Aleppo! Oh, hang on, Aleppo is not Kobani …December 13, 2016
  • Turkey, Rebels, Kurds & Assad in northern Syria: Contradictions in moves towards regional counterrevolutionary allianceSeptember 4, 2016
  • Downing warplanes, Orwell and “US-backed” rebelsAugust 10, 2016
  • How the Syrian Revolution has transformed meMay 20, 2016
  • The Kurdish PYD’s alliance with Russia against Free Aleppo: Evidence and analysis of a disasterFebruary 28, 2016
  • Bloody Counterrevolution in Aleppo: on Russian Blitzkrieg and US “betrayal”February 18, 2016
  • Compilation of Recent Russian Crimes Against Humanity in SyriaFebruary 4, 2016
  • US and Jordan demand Southern Front rebels stop fighting Assad, cut off “support”January 26, 2016
  • What’s at issue in the siege of Madaya: Mass starvation, or a few fake pics?January 14, 2016
  • What Syrians think of claim “there is no FSA”December 14, 2015
  • Turkey-Russia spat: One standard for murdered Syrian children, another for the warplanes that kill themDecember 3, 2015
  • Anti-Imperialism for Dummies: Ignoring Syrians and Their Own ContradictionsDecember 2, 2015
  • The Ongoing Civil Uprising in SyriaNovember 26, 2015
  • How Russian and American bombing consolidates support for ISISNovember 9, 2015
  • The Israel-Russia ‘Axis of Resistance’: Its place in regional geopoliticsOctober 13, 2015
  • Russian imperial aggression unites the Syrian oppositionOctober 3, 2015
  • Anti-aircraft weapons for the Free Syrian Army to fight Russian aerial massacre!October 1, 2015
  • Australia joins the ‘Axis of Resistance’September 27, 2015
  • Who has the US bombed, bombed for, and bombed with in Syria?September 3, 2015
  • ​The “Israel backs Jabhat al-Nusra” fairy-tale and its deadly consequencesJune 29, 2015
  • Revolutionary Forces Throughout Syria condemn Nusra’s massacre of Druze VillagersJune 15, 2015
  • Conspiracy theories that “the US fuelled the rise of ISIS”: Why they are a back-handed attack on the Syrian uprisingJune 8, 2015
  • Assad is now ISIS’s airforce and the US is Assad’s airforce: The moment the counterrevolution joins handsJune 3, 2015
  • Countering apologetics for the Baathist apocalypse: Once again, Assad regime responsible for sectarianism in SyriaApril 1, 2015
  • The Syrian war, Israel, Hezbollah and the US-Iran romance: Is Israel changing its view on the war?February 24, 2015
  • The battles of Kobane, Aleppo and the relearning of solidarityDecember 20, 2014
  • As Assad and US play two-step bombing Raqqa, Assad demands US bomb more efficientlyDecember 12, 2014
  • As Nusra plays at ISIS-lite, the US excels as Assad’s airforceNovember 8, 2014
  • The Syrian Revolution and the struggle for Kurdish LiberationNovember 1, 2014
  • Critique of Patrick Cockburn’s ‘Whose Side is Turkey on?’October 31, 2014
  • Yet again on those hoary old allegations that the US has armed the FSA since 2012September 28, 2014
  • Syrian rebels overwhelmingly condemn US bombing as an attack on revolutionSeptember 25, 2014
  • On accusations of FSA truces with ISIS or subservience to the USSeptember 19, 2014
  • On celebrity revolutionaries, shallow analysis, and rebels bearing armsAugust 21, 2014
  • Shameless Cooke knifes Syrian people’s resistance to Assad/ISIS fascismAugust 13, 2014
  • Comment: Will ‘anti-imperialists’ oppose US air strikes in Iraq?August 11, 2014
  • How Assad Junior has reformed SyriaJuly 20, 2014
  • Iraq and Syria: The struggle against the multi-sided counterrevolutionJune 25, 2014
  • Reluctant critique of leading Australian academic on SyriaJune 22, 2014
  • No Revolution is PerfectJune 11, 2014
  • The Gulf and Islamism in Syria: Myths and MisconceptionsJune 3, 2014
  • The sectarian regime is the cause of sectarianism among the oppositionFebruary 16, 2014
  • US: No arms to FSA while fighting ISIS because ISIS might get the arms!January 16, 2014
  • Israel and the Syrian WarJanuary 3, 2014
  • Comments on Syria early 2014January 1, 2014
  • The US, Iran, Russia-Syria and the geopolitical shift: Anything for the region’s oppressed?December 4, 2013
  • On questions of disillusion among Syrian revolutionariesDecember 1, 2013
  • For a Civil, SecularState: 106 Groups Unite in the Union of Free SyriansNovember 29, 2013
  • Assessment of new Islamic Front allianceNovember 25, 2013
  • Saudi Arabia and the ‘Islamic Army’ in Syria: What’s New, What’s Not?November 13, 2013
  • How many have died in Syria?October 10, 2013
  • Empowering the Democratic Resistance in SyriaSeptember 26, 2013
  • Syria: war threat, the US-Russia deal, and left delusionsSeptember 25, 2013
  • Report on relative strength of armed rebels in SyriaSeptember 24, 2013
  • What’s the war about?September 24, 2013
  • Stupid story about rebels spilling sarin in tunnels exposed as fraudSeptember 24, 2013
  • Palestinians and the Syrian uprisingSeptember 24, 2013
  • On tall tales of rebels tripping and spilling sarin in tunnels and Saudis supplying their nemesisSeptember 24, 2013

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Recent Posts

  • Syria rejects alleged US push for intervention in Lebanon, while Israel continues its aggression in southern Syria May 2, 2026
  • Syrians demonstrate for Palestine all over the country April 18, 2026
  • Rojava, Kurdish autonomy & self-determination, and the hard problem of simple demographics: An essay of maps February 12, 2026
  • One year since the Syrian rebel offensive that toppled Assad: What is the situation today? December 9, 2025
  • Sharaa government’s Suweida catastrophe: Druze fully alienated from post-revolution Syria, Israel’s ongoing aggression unleashed November 16, 2025
  • Syria 6 months after the revolution – Part I: The domestic situation November 16, 2025
  • Israel’s aggression against Syria, the Israel-Syria ‘peace talks’ deceit & the Golani people’s National Pact November 16, 2025
  • The end of US sanctions? A huge victory for the Syrian people – but what is the price? November 16, 2025
  • Slaughter on the Syrian coast March 2025: Murderous insurgency meets genocidal pogrom, massive hole in Syrian revolution November 16, 2025
  • The Syrian revolution, Iran and Israel: Squaring the circle, refuting myths November 15, 2025
  • Putin: Russia not defeated in Syria because rebels ‘no longer terrorists’, blames Iran November 15, 2025
  • Israel’s massive attack on free Syria: Background and motivations November 15, 2025
  • The Syrian revolution returns with a bang: Extraordinary collapse of the genocidal regime November 15, 2025
  • Ukraine myths used to justify Putin’s terror June 15, 2023
  • Natural and unnatural disasters: The betrayal of free Syria – once again – by the “international community” March 19, 2023
  • Ukraine war: Sub-Imperialist positioning, not “anti-colonial consciousness,” behind the neutrality of reactionary elites in the Global South January 13, 2023
  • Iran and Israel: Same shit, different place, phoney war October 29, 2022
  • Tulsi Gabbard “finally” finds her political home on the hard right: Where she’s always been October 25, 2022
  • Putin accuses the West of ‘Satanism’ to justify Russia’s colonial theft of 15 percent of Ukraine October 2, 2022
  • On the fantastic tale that “the Ukrainian army killed 14,000 ethnic Russians in Donbas between 2014 and 2022” June 16, 2022
  • Putin’s conquest of southeast Ukraine: Vexed questions of ‘negotiations’, gotcha moments and real imperial interests May 22, 2022
  • Vladimir Putin: Can the God of global fascists and Nazis “de-Nazify” a country? April 6, 2022
  • Common sense on Syria’s election circus: Figures released are pure inventions June 8, 2021
  • Building alternative futures in the present: the case of Syria’s communes March 18, 2021
  • Assad’s 2018 chemical massacre in Douma: Why conspiracy claims make no sense January 2, 2021
  • Trump’s record on Syria: Enabler of Assad’s victory, enemy of Syrians October 31, 2020
  • The Turkish invasion: Latest step in the Russian-led destruction of the Syrian revolution October 23, 2019
  • Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory May 14, 2019
  • What do Trump’s ‘withdrawal’ from Syria and the Gulf’s rapprochement with Assad have in common? January 9, 2019
  • Trump leaves Syria: On ‘regime change’ and other tall stories December 21, 2018
  • Syria Endgame: Crushing Daraa, the Russia-Israel deal & the Geopolitics of Counterrevolution August 23, 2018
  • Reply to a friend: How much can geopolitics tell us about Syria? April 21, 2018
  • Ghouta: Issues Behind the Apocalypse: Armed and civil rebellion, Class and Islam March 21, 2018
  • Northern Syria: Massive ethnic cleansing, humanitarian catastrophe, foreign intervention and betrayal January 22, 2018
  • The Trump-Putin coalition for Assad lays waste to Syria: Imperial agreement and carve-up behind the noisy rhetoric September 5, 2017
  • US vs Free Syrian Army vs Jabhat al-Nusra (and ISIS): History of a hidden three-way conflict August 1, 2017
  • My debate with Tim Anderson on Syria: Reflections on the collapse of solidarity July 11, 2017
  • US enforces its No Fly Zone over Rojava, leading to World War III … June 26, 2017
  • Qatar: The strange fall guy for the regional counterrevolution June 18, 2017
  • The Syrian Cause and Anti Imperialism May 7, 2017
  • No, US bombing of Syria did not begin today April 7, 2017
  • Brief comments on the Russia-Turkey colonialist “ceasefire” December 31, 2016
  • Save Aleppo! Oh, hang on, Aleppo is not Kobani … December 13, 2016
  • Turkey, Rebels, Kurds & Assad in northern Syria: Contradictions in moves towards regional counterrevolutionary alliance September 4, 2016
  • Downing warplanes, Orwell and “US-backed” rebels August 10, 2016
  • How the Syrian Revolution has transformed me May 20, 2016
  • The Kurdish PYD’s alliance with Russia against Free Aleppo: Evidence and analysis of a disaster February 28, 2016
  • Bloody Counterrevolution in Aleppo: on Russian Blitzkrieg and US “betrayal” February 18, 2016
  • Compilation of Recent Russian Crimes Against Humanity in Syria February 4, 2016
  • US and Jordan demand Southern Front rebels stop fighting Assad, cut off “support” January 26, 2016
  • What’s at issue in the siege of Madaya: Mass starvation, or a few fake pics? January 14, 2016
  • What Syrians think of claim “there is no FSA” December 14, 2015
  • Turkey-Russia spat: One standard for murdered Syrian children, another for the warplanes that kill them December 3, 2015
  • Anti-Imperialism for Dummies: Ignoring Syrians and Their Own Contradictions December 2, 2015
  • The Ongoing Civil Uprising in Syria November 26, 2015
  • How Russian and American bombing consolidates support for ISIS November 9, 2015
  • The Israel-Russia ‘Axis of Resistance’: Its place in regional geopolitics October 13, 2015
  • Russian imperial aggression unites the Syrian opposition October 3, 2015
  • Anti-aircraft weapons for the Free Syrian Army to fight Russian aerial massacre! October 1, 2015
  • Australia joins the ‘Axis of Resistance’ September 27, 2015
  • Who has the US bombed, bombed for, and bombed with in Syria? September 3, 2015
  • ​The “Israel backs Jabhat al-Nusra” fairy-tale and its deadly consequences June 29, 2015
  • Revolutionary Forces Throughout Syria condemn Nusra’s massacre of Druze Villagers June 15, 2015
  • Conspiracy theories that “the US fuelled the rise of ISIS”: Why they are a back-handed attack on the Syrian uprising June 8, 2015
  • Assad is now ISIS’s airforce and the US is Assad’s airforce: The moment the counterrevolution joins hands June 3, 2015
  • Countering apologetics for the Baathist apocalypse: Once again, Assad regime responsible for sectarianism in Syria April 1, 2015
  • The Syrian war, Israel, Hezbollah and the US-Iran romance: Is Israel changing its view on the war? February 24, 2015
  • The battles of Kobane, Aleppo and the relearning of solidarity December 20, 2014
  • As Assad and US play two-step bombing Raqqa, Assad demands US bomb more efficiently December 12, 2014
  • As Nusra plays at ISIS-lite, the US excels as Assad’s airforce November 8, 2014
  • The Syrian Revolution and the struggle for Kurdish Liberation November 1, 2014
  • Critique of Patrick Cockburn’s ‘Whose Side is Turkey on?’ October 31, 2014
  • Yet again on those hoary old allegations that the US has armed the FSA since 2012 September 28, 2014
  • Syrian rebels overwhelmingly condemn US bombing as an attack on revolution September 25, 2014
  • On accusations of FSA truces with ISIS or subservience to the US September 19, 2014
  • On celebrity revolutionaries, shallow analysis, and rebels bearing arms August 21, 2014
  • Shameless Cooke knifes Syrian people’s resistance to Assad/ISIS fascism August 13, 2014
  • Comment: Will ‘anti-imperialists’ oppose US air strikes in Iraq? August 11, 2014
  • How Assad Junior has reformed Syria July 20, 2014
  • Iraq and Syria: The struggle against the multi-sided counterrevolution June 25, 2014
  • Reluctant critique of leading Australian academic on Syria June 22, 2014
  • No Revolution is Perfect June 11, 2014
  • The Gulf and Islamism in Syria: Myths and Misconceptions June 3, 2014
  • The sectarian regime is the cause of sectarianism among the opposition February 16, 2014
  • US: No arms to FSA while fighting ISIS because ISIS might get the arms! January 16, 2014
  • Israel and the Syrian War January 3, 2014
  • Comments on Syria early 2014 January 1, 2014
  • The US, Iran, Russia-Syria and the geopolitical shift: Anything for the region’s oppressed? December 4, 2013
  • On questions of disillusion among Syrian revolutionaries December 1, 2013
  • For a Civil, SecularState: 106 Groups Unite in the Union of Free Syrians November 29, 2013
  • Assessment of new Islamic Front alliance November 25, 2013
  • Saudi Arabia and the ‘Islamic Army’ in Syria: What’s New, What’s Not? November 13, 2013
  • How many have died in Syria? October 10, 2013
  • Empowering the Democratic Resistance in Syria September 26, 2013
  • Syria: war threat, the US-Russia deal, and left delusions September 25, 2013
  • Report on relative strength of armed rebels in Syria September 24, 2013
  • What’s the war about? September 24, 2013
  • Stupid story about rebels spilling sarin in tunnels exposed as fraud September 24, 2013
  • Palestinians and the Syrian uprising September 24, 2013
  • On tall tales of rebels tripping and spilling sarin in tunnels and Saudis supplying their nemesis September 24, 2013
  • Syrian revolution: Class against class basis of uprising September 24, 2013
  • The question of arming the rebels September 24, 2013
  • Campaign for Peace and Democracy: Roundtable on Syria September 24, 2013
  • The jihadi-Kurdish war in the north: And how to write bullshit about Syria September 24, 2013
  • Homs: Is this what (BS-style) “anti-imperialist” liberation looks like? September 24, 2013
  • Issues in the current stage of Syrian revolution September 24, 2013
  • The Growing Challenge to The Syrian Regime and the Syrian Uprising September 24, 2013
  • A Dispatch from ‘Free’ Syria: How to Run a Liberated Town September 24, 2013
  • How ‘heroic Syrian army’ makes military gains September 24, 2013
  • On eating hearts and “worst atrocities” etc September 24, 2013

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  • Syria rejects alleged US push for intervention in Lebanon, while Israel continues its aggression in southern Syria May 2, 2026
  • Syrians demonstrate for Palestine all over the country April 18, 2026
  • Rojava, Kurdish autonomy & self-determination, and the hard problem of simple demographics: An essay of maps February 12, 2026
  • One year since the Syrian rebel offensive that toppled Assad: What is the situation today? December 9, 2025
  • Sharaa government’s Suweida catastrophe: Druze fully alienated from post-revolution Syria, Israel’s ongoing aggression unleashed November 16, 2025
  • Syria 6 months after the revolution – Part I: The domestic situation November 16, 2025
  • Israel’s aggression against Syria, the Israel-Syria ‘peace talks’ deceit & the Golani people’s National Pact November 16, 2025
  • The end of US sanctions? A huge victory for the Syrian people – but what is the price? November 16, 2025
  • Slaughter on the Syrian coast March 2025: Murderous insurgency meets genocidal pogrom, massive hole in Syrian revolution November 16, 2025
  • The Syrian revolution, Iran and Israel: Squaring the circle, refuting myths November 15, 2025
  • Putin: Russia not defeated in Syria because rebels ‘no longer terrorists’, blames Iran November 15, 2025
  • Israel’s massive attack on free Syria: Background and motivations November 15, 2025
  • The Syrian revolution returns with a bang: Extraordinary collapse of the genocidal regime November 15, 2025
  • Ukraine myths used to justify Putin’s terror June 15, 2023
  • Natural and unnatural disasters: The betrayal of free Syria – once again – by the “international community” March 19, 2023
  • Ukraine war: Sub-Imperialist positioning, not “anti-colonial consciousness,” behind the neutrality of reactionary elites in the Global South January 13, 2023
  • Iran and Israel: Same shit, different place, phoney war October 29, 2022
  • Tulsi Gabbard “finally” finds her political home on the hard right: Where she’s always been October 25, 2022
  • Putin accuses the West of ‘Satanism’ to justify Russia’s colonial theft of 15 percent of Ukraine October 2, 2022
  • On the fantastic tale that “the Ukrainian army killed 14,000 ethnic Russians in Donbas between 2014 and 2022” June 16, 2022
  • Putin’s conquest of southeast Ukraine: Vexed questions of ‘negotiations’, gotcha moments and real imperial interests May 22, 2022
  • Vladimir Putin: Can the God of global fascists and Nazis “de-Nazify” a country? April 6, 2022
  • Common sense on Syria’s election circus: Figures released are pure inventions June 8, 2021
  • Building alternative futures in the present: the case of Syria’s communes March 18, 2021
  • Assad’s 2018 chemical massacre in Douma: Why conspiracy claims make no sense January 2, 2021
  • Trump’s record on Syria: Enabler of Assad’s victory, enemy of Syrians October 31, 2020
  • The Turkish invasion: Latest step in the Russian-led destruction of the Syrian revolution October 23, 2019
  • Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory May 14, 2019
  • What do Trump’s ‘withdrawal’ from Syria and the Gulf’s rapprochement with Assad have in common? January 9, 2019
  • Trump leaves Syria: On ‘regime change’ and other tall stories December 21, 2018
  • Syria Endgame: Crushing Daraa, the Russia-Israel deal & the Geopolitics of Counterrevolution August 23, 2018
  • Reply to a friend: How much can geopolitics tell us about Syria? April 21, 2018
  • Ghouta: Issues Behind the Apocalypse: Armed and civil rebellion, Class and Islam March 21, 2018
  • Northern Syria: Massive ethnic cleansing, humanitarian catastrophe, foreign intervention and betrayal January 22, 2018
  • The Trump-Putin coalition for Assad lays waste to Syria: Imperial agreement and carve-up behind the noisy rhetoric September 5, 2017
  • US vs Free Syrian Army vs Jabhat al-Nusra (and ISIS): History of a hidden three-way conflict August 1, 2017
  • My debate with Tim Anderson on Syria: Reflections on the collapse of solidarity July 11, 2017
  • US enforces its No Fly Zone over Rojava, leading to World War III … June 26, 2017
  • Qatar: The strange fall guy for the regional counterrevolution June 18, 2017
  • The Syrian Cause and Anti Imperialism May 7, 2017
  • No, US bombing of Syria did not begin today April 7, 2017
  • Brief comments on the Russia-Turkey colonialist “ceasefire” December 31, 2016
  • Save Aleppo! Oh, hang on, Aleppo is not Kobani … December 13, 2016
  • Turkey, Rebels, Kurds & Assad in northern Syria: Contradictions in moves towards regional counterrevolutionary alliance September 4, 2016
  • Downing warplanes, Orwell and “US-backed” rebels August 10, 2016
  • How the Syrian Revolution has transformed me May 20, 2016
  • The Kurdish PYD’s alliance with Russia against Free Aleppo: Evidence and analysis of a disaster February 28, 2016
  • Bloody Counterrevolution in Aleppo: on Russian Blitzkrieg and US “betrayal” February 18, 2016
  • Compilation of Recent Russian Crimes Against Humanity in Syria February 4, 2016
  • US and Jordan demand Southern Front rebels stop fighting Assad, cut off “support” January 26, 2016
  • What’s at issue in the siege of Madaya: Mass starvation, or a few fake pics? January 14, 2016
  • What Syrians think of claim “there is no FSA” December 14, 2015
  • Turkey-Russia spat: One standard for murdered Syrian children, another for the warplanes that kill them December 3, 2015
  • Anti-Imperialism for Dummies: Ignoring Syrians and Their Own Contradictions December 2, 2015
  • The Ongoing Civil Uprising in Syria November 26, 2015
  • How Russian and American bombing consolidates support for ISIS November 9, 2015
  • The Israel-Russia ‘Axis of Resistance’: Its place in regional geopolitics October 13, 2015
  • Russian imperial aggression unites the Syrian opposition October 3, 2015
  • Anti-aircraft weapons for the Free Syrian Army to fight Russian aerial massacre! October 1, 2015
  • Australia joins the ‘Axis of Resistance’ September 27, 2015
  • Who has the US bombed, bombed for, and bombed with in Syria? September 3, 2015
  • ​The “Israel backs Jabhat al-Nusra” fairy-tale and its deadly consequences June 29, 2015
  • Revolutionary Forces Throughout Syria condemn Nusra’s massacre of Druze Villagers June 15, 2015
  • Conspiracy theories that “the US fuelled the rise of ISIS”: Why they are a back-handed attack on the Syrian uprising June 8, 2015
  • Assad is now ISIS’s airforce and the US is Assad’s airforce: The moment the counterrevolution joins hands June 3, 2015
  • Countering apologetics for the Baathist apocalypse: Once again, Assad regime responsible for sectarianism in Syria April 1, 2015
  • The Syrian war, Israel, Hezbollah and the US-Iran romance: Is Israel changing its view on the war? February 24, 2015
  • The battles of Kobane, Aleppo and the relearning of solidarity December 20, 2014
  • As Assad and US play two-step bombing Raqqa, Assad demands US bomb more efficiently December 12, 2014
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Month: July 2014

How Assad Junior has reformed Syria

Two weeks after the outbreak of the Syrian uprising in March 2011, when dozens had already been killed, US State Secretary Hillary Clinton asserted that Assad junior was a “reformer,” starkly contrasting the situation in Syria with that in Libya, where the US was already intervening against Muammar Gaddafi. Below is some of the evidence of how Assad Junior has “reformed” Syria.

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