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President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to al-Manar TV broadcasted on Thursday. Following is the full text of the interview: Al-Manar: In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Assalamu Alaikum. Bloodshed in Syria continues unabated. This is the only constant over which there is little disagreement between those loyal to the Syrian state and those opposed to it. However, there is no common ground over the other constants
Following the Moscow meeting between Lavrov and Kerry and the announcement of an international conference on Syria it was to be expected that all parties would scramble to be in the strongest possible position to bargain. Indeed, this is exactly what happened:1) The Syrian government launched a successful assault on the strategic town of al Qusayr.2) The US Senate passed a resolution allowing the arming of the anti-Syrian opposition.3) Hezbollah
Note: after thinking about how to best present the speeches of Hassan Nasrallah on this blog and lisening to your suggestions, I came to the conclusion that the “least bad” option was still to post it here full length since this is the only way for me not to pre-judge which part of the speech each of you would find important or secondary. I hope that you don’t mind this.
On this Memorial Day when doubleplusgoodthinking zombies of the Empire remember the men and woman who have served in the US military, let us remember the many millions of people murdered by these global killers. Let us remember all those whom the Empire has murdered, killed, oppressed, tortured and exiled in the name, of course, progress, ‘manifest destiny’, democracy, human rights, anti-communism, anti-terrorism and all the other lame excuses for
“If Syria falls into the hands of the Americans and Israel and extremists, and want to impose its own project on Lebanon, Jerusalem will be lost. The resistance will be lost. The people of our region will witness a very difficult and dark period. You can take any side you want, however Hezbollah cannot be on the side of America or Israel or people who dig the graves and open
Check out this video – its mostly combat footage with some commentary in Russian (which I will summarize below): There really is no point giving you a word for word translation, but a few comments are worth making: First, the Syrians are advancing, rather easily in fact. During the two days of combat it took them to take the fortified position shown in the footage the Syrians only suffered one
I just read this: US Secretary of State John Kerry has said the militant Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hezbollah and Iran are helping perpetuate President Bashar al-Assad’s “campaign of terror” in Syria. Mr Kerry said thousands of Hezbollah fighters were contributing significantly to the violence. He added that Iran was actively supporting Hezbollah’s involvement. Oh jeez, Mr. Kerry is deploring that foreign elements are involved in the war on Syria.
by Nadezhda Kevorkova, Russia TodayAs the Syrian army and rebels fight for control of Qusair, it is necessary to realize why the town is strategically important and vital for Shias on both sides of the border, making it a military and media battleground. There are far more elements surrounding the situation in Qusair than first meet the eye, RT’s Nadezhda Kevorkova reveals.The army’s advance to Qusair is a key strategic
A strategic town is about to be taken by “the bad guys”. The town is full of civilians. An “impending massacre” needs to be stopped. Does that ring a bell? Is that Bosnia in 1995? Nope. This is Syria in 2013.Please read this article by the BBC.Here are the key quotes from it with my comments in blue: Following a day of heavy bombardment by aircraft and artillery, the army
It turns out that that Russians – clearly fed up with the CIA’s arrogance in spite of repeated warning – has, indeed, made public the name of the CIA station chief in Moscow: Steven Hall.But now things get really hilarious: while lots of Anglo media outlets reported this fact, none of them – as far as I can tell – dared to actually mention the spook’s name. Ok, well, maybe
Oh God, it appears that everyday some appalling video comes out of Syria. Though these are mostly from the anti-government side, supporters of government have also produced their own share of horrors. I know about a video of prisoners stabbed to death, and of another of prisoners being cut into pieces by a chainsaw while forced to scream “Assad is my god!”.But there is an important difference between the two
As a father of three kids who never spent a single day of their lives in any school (my wife and I home schooled them from kindergarten to college) and with two kids already in college, I fully endorse the message in this video (but not the organization which produced it about which I know exactly *nothing*).It is my strong belief that the three main steps to liberate your children
Interesting information is being leaked to reporters in Moscow about the recent CIA spy incident in Moscow:a) The Russians knew that Fogle was CIA even before he arrived in Russia.b) The Russians had already expelled another US diplomat in January of this year for attempting to recruit a Russian citizen and told the Americans to stop these kinds of attempts. The Americans ignored these warning so the Russians got fed
I have been listening to the Russian reports about yesterday’s CIA SNAFU and unless the Russians are lying through their teeth, the details which are emerging just make no sense to me. According to the Russian media, Ryan Christopher Fogle, the third secretary of the Political Section of the American embassy in Moscow and CIA spook, gave a telephone call to a Russian security services officer who specializes in anti-terror
RT reports: CIA agent trying to recruit Russian intelligence officer detained in Moscow CIA agent trying to recruit Russian intelligence officer detained in Moscow Russia’s counterintelligence agency has detained a CIA agent in Moscow trying to recruit an officer of the Russian secret service, the Federal Security Service (FSB) announced. The agent was operating under guise of career diplomat. The FSB Public Relations Center has announced that the person detained
I saw this video a few days ago but I hesitated to post it as it could be a fake, or a false flag, or a propaganda piece. Now, since the Mail Online confirms it, and even such a pro-FSA pro-CIA outfight light Human Rights Watch confirms it: Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch said that he had seen an original, unedited copy of the video and that Abu Sakkar’s
Recently, Mari asked me to post the latest speech of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Actually, since I try to post all his speeches, I would like to ask you all what you would prefer:Option A: I can do as I did in the past and post the full speech as a post. This, however, takes a of space and “pushes down” all the other posts.Option B: I could upload the speech
Robert recently posted the following comment on this blog: Manicheanism tends to take over with civil wars. Both sides tend to believe all that is good is with them and all that is evil with the other and this usually leads to fiendish atrocities on both sides. The media often then gives selective reporting of atrocities by the side they favour. In a war with a foreign enemy you can
