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This is a cross-post by Marc Goldberg
The West did a really good job of watching the Spanish Civil War from the sidelines while making absolutely sure that those fighting for freedom couldn’t get their hands on any weapons. In Hungary in 1956 the people rose up and threw off the shackles of communist dictatorial rule [...]

This is a guest post by Jacobinism
“Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,/ All centuries but this, and every country but his own…”
– W. S. Gilbert adds to his shitlist
For a commentator who gets as exercised about the killing of innocent Muslims as Glenn Greenwald does, he has had precious little to say about [...]

Michael Petrou, author of a book about the working-class Canadians who went to Spain to fight against Franco’s fascist uprising in the 1930s, makes a telling point about the parallels between that war and the current civil war in Syria. It has to do with what Petrou calls “the fallacy of non-intervention.”

That was the policy [...]

I’d be interested in what you imagine Zio-Wahhabism to be like. I picture beheading in the public square for anyone who refuses to buy State of Israel Bonds.

Some of the most devastating observations about the failure of the “international community” to act against the murderous brutality of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad have appeared on the satirical website The Onion.
For instance, this commentary by Assad himself:

Hello. My name is Bashar al-Assad. I am the president of Syria, and in the last two years, you—the [...]

It’s still not clear exactly which Syrian military facilities Israel struck on Mt. Qasioun near Damascus Sunday morning, or how much damage was done. But it is clear that whatever debate there was in Israeli government circles about whether a victory in the civil war for Bashar al-Assad or for the rebels would be better [...]

This is a cross-post by Marc Goldberg
It was weapons of mass destruction that got the United States (and others) bogged down in the Middle East and it seems that it will be weapons of mass destruction that suck the US military back in. The use of sarin gas by forces loyal to President Assad is [...]

A message from the brave people of Kafranbel, Syria, to the people of Boston.

That’s what Syrian President Bashar al-Assad alleged in an interview with a pro-Assad Turkish TV station, responding to a question about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s recent apology to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan:
The same person, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, was prime minister when the Marmara massacre took place three years ago. He is still prime [...]

Speaking of Syria, Eliyahu Kamisher, a student at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, recently entered Syria and spent a week meeting opponents of the Assad regime, both secular and Islamist.
Writing at The Times of Israel, he makes the case that supporting the secular opposition (in its struggle against both the regime and the Islamists) is not [...]