Syria

Lessons unlearned

I watched the rhetorical run-up to war in Syria, with a sinking sense of fascination. I wondered if the nation…

September 26, 2013

U.S. anti-war delegation witnesses Syria’s resistance to imperialism

By John Parker and Sara Flounders Damascus, Syria Sept. 20 — With the U.S. government keeping both massive bombing and…

September 25, 2013

The real WMDs

Over the next few weeks heads of state and foreign ministers from predatory imperialist countries and developing nations trying to…

September 25, 2013

AFL-CIO delegates against U.S. wars

One by one or in small groups, delegates to the the AFL-CIO national convention, held Sept. 8-11 in Los Angeles,…

September 20, 2013

Turkey protests death of student activist

Ahmed Atakan was a young Turkish student who was killed by the cops on Sept. 10 while protesting the Turkish…

September 20, 2013

U.S. anti-war activists visit Syria

An anti-war delegation from the United States visited Syria the week of Sept. 16 to see for themselves what is…

September 19, 2013

U.S. solidarity & fact-finding delegation visits Syria

A delegation of anti-war and human-rights activists from the United States entered Syria Sept. 16 on a fact-finding and people-to-people…

September 18, 2013

Syrian Americans say ‘No!’ to U.S. war on their country

A significant turnout of nearly 1,000 anti-war demonstrators, most from the Syrian-American community, marched in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 9,…

September 18, 2013

Syrian agreement postpones U.S. aggressive war

Sept. 16 — While U.S. warships continued to sail in the Eastern Mediterranean to keep the Syrian people under threat,…

September 18, 2013

Chemical weapons arsenals and the hidden truths about the ‘Convention’

The hammering by politicians and the corporate media about chemical weapons use in Syria, which, according to secret CIA "evidence"…

September 13, 2013