Category Archives: Syria
Listen: Saudi and Gulf relations and influence in the Arab world
Dr James Dorsey, Adjunct Senior Fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, analyses the relations between the Persian/Arab Gulf states and their influence on other Arab countries. He also explains the motives behind the United Arab Emirates’ normalisation of relations with Israel.
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Listen: Social media as a weapon in the Syrian civil war
Amira Galal, a specialist in online harmful speech, discusses the role of social media in the Syrian civil war, from fake news and images disseminated by both the opposition groups and the government, to recruitment for the pro- and anti-government militias, to the promotion of sectarianism — the latter often hidden in the comments sections of social media postings. Read more [...]
Trailer: Five Minutes to Midnight – a new podcast covering current international issues
Mohamed El-Doufani* writes:
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The Western media are key to Syria deceptions
Jonathan Cook argues, using Western state-sponsored deception over the use of chemical weapons in Syria as example, that the Western mainstream media are not a watchdog on power but the public relations arm of giant corporations pursuing their narrow interests in the Middle East. Read more [...]
المقاتلون الأجانب مجرمو حرب. (Foreign fighters are war criminals)
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“أيهما أهم: دين الرئيس أم سلطاته” (Which is more important: the president’s religion or power?)
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اقتبس Read more [...]
ماذا يجب أن تعلمنا هذه الحرب؟ (What should the Syrian war teach us?)
بقلم منذر هنداوي
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The real war for Syria is taking place in its skies
Jonathan Cook argues that Israel’s strategy of playing both the Americans and Russians in Syria “is now beginning to unravel as Israel and the US seek to prevent Moscow and Iran from helping consolidate President Assad’s hold on power”. Read more [...]
On the clamour to repeat the disastrous Iraq and Libya interventions in Syria
Nureddin Sabir, Editor, Redress Information Read more [...]
The Bizarre Case of Bashar: The Syrian regime’s questionable use of nerve gas in Khan Sheikhoun
Uri Avnery highlights the lack of evidence that the Syrian government carried out the Sarin gas attack on its own citizens on 4 April 2017, and laments the media’s complicity in perpetuating an apparent falsehood. Read more [...]
