Moscow Mules

Wyatt Cenac reports that Russia's opposition to intervention in Syria is really just an attempt to regain its status as the Evil Empire.

Open letter to the Stop the War Coalition
(STWC), or real solidarity is needed!

"Just like the overthrow of Saddam’s ugly Baathist regime in Iraq, it is the right of the Syrian people to topple the Syrian Baath regime too. This is the desire of the majority of Syrians and they have declared it with their blood, and it was not the desire of the Gulf states or an American agenda. On the contrary, these countries supported Assad at the beginning of the revolution in order to persuade him to absorb the demonstrations."

Assad circle 'could be charged with crimes against humanity'

"Fresh evidence has emerged that members of President Bashar al-Assad's family and inner circle are directly ordering the commission of crimes against humanity in Syria.
Experts in international law consider it "preposterous and completely implausible" that Assad himself would be unaware of the systematic and widespread killing and torture."
No shit.

The Art of Insurrection

Leon Trotsky

About Syria.
"But if it is true that an insurrection cannot be evoked at will, and that nevertheless in order to win it must be organised in advance, then the revolutionary leaders are presented with a task of correct diagnosis. They must feel out the growing insurrection in good season and supplement it with a conspiracy."