Gilbert Achcar

 'I think that it is very important to express solidarity with the Syrian revolution, to build links with the progressives among the Syrian opposition, to counter the regime’s propaganda as well as that of Moscow, and to denounce Washington’s and the West’s complicity in the crime against humanity that is perpetrated in Syria.'

Syria deserves our support

 'Around 400 people marched today in the centre of London. If you couldn't attend then we hope to see you in the next march. Thanks to all who came and supported the Syrian people.'

Can God Save Syria?

 This is actually a spoof.

 "So what should we do about the chaos in Syria? Well, it's easier to start with what we should not do. We should not lob a handful of cruise missiles and hope that some explosions will snap Syria's leaders to attention. Beyond that, we need to be careful to nurture the fragile foundations of peace. The opportunity is there, but I worry that the path to moderation is so narrow that Syria will have to move down it very slowly. And of course Damascus needs to come to terms with its own history."

 Three days later it comes out slightly differently.

 'So what should we do about the chaos in Syria? Well, it's easier to start with what we should not do. We should not let seemingly endless frustrations cause the people of Syria to doubt their chance at progress. Beyond that, we need to be careful to nurture the seeds of democratic ideals. The opportunity is there, but I worry that the path to peace is so poorly marked that Syria will have to move down it very slowly. And of course Damascus needs to come to terms with its own history.

 Speaking with a local farmer from the large Shiite community here, I asked her if there was any message that she wanted me to carry back home with me. She pondered for a second, and then smiled and said, shad-farin-bin-yamin, which is a local saying that means roughly, "A cat may look at a Queen." '
[http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/Syria%2Band%2Bits...]

Syria’s opposition frustrated by its reluctant ‘allies’

 'What is true is that on one side you have those who want the regime to stay, and on the other you have those who do not want to see it leave. The latter side, the United States – and Israel behind the curtain – has intervened to restrict regional and international forces from substantially helping the Syrian resistance.

 Defeating the regime was actually possible until the first months of this year, when all that the Syrian resistance needed was anti-aircraft and anti-tank weaponry. And they could have perfectly completed the mission, without any direct military intervention from outside powers. Only four months ago, Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah chief, claimed the rebels could have celebrated their victory in Damascus were it not for his militia’s intervention.

 The desire of our friends to maintain the untenable status quo has turned the struggle inside Syria into an unending conflict, with vast destruction of the economy, the undermining of the social fabric and the senseless loss of tens of thousands of lives. This increasingly unstable and war-torn environment is the ideal breeding ground for the emergence of radical jihadists, as all precedents testify.'

Syria: Something must be done – I mean, anything!

 Mark Steel makes the conventional lies of the dominant media narrative, such as we'd only end up sending weapons to jihadists in Syria, seem almost funny. Let's call everyone else armchair generals when we're being liberal pacifists for the day.

Self-organization of the popular struggles in Syria against the regime and Islamist groups? Yes, it exists!

 Joseph Daher:

 'The Revolutionary Left Current in Syria, alongside 5 other socialists revolutionary organisations in the region, have declared their opposition to any possible future Western intervention...

 This said, the so-called solidarity with the Syrian people is a joke and moreover an insult from organizations and people that are saying no to Western foreign interventions in Syria, while they have said and say nothing on massive foreign interventions of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, and above all not give a shit or said a single word to condemn the more than 100 000 martyred, multiple massacres, millions of refugees and destructions since the beginning of the revolution in Syria and committed by the Assad regime, in addition to not having supported the popular movement for democracy and social justice against the Assad regime, on the opposite they have undermined it and / or tried to portray the movement as a conspiracy following the Assad regime propaganda lines most of the time.

 Solidarity has to be based first of all on the the support of the popular movement in its revolution for democracy and social justice in the case of Syria and elsewhere and on internationalism, in other words support the people in their struggle for emancipation and liberation. Only when this point is clear can you raise such slogans.'

33 Surreal Photos Of The Civil War In Syria

 Does he know where Christmas is at all?

Christian hostel has own view of Syria rebels

 'As social media abound with horror stories of jihadists murdering minorities in Syria, a group of elderly Christians in Aleppo and the rebels who care for them portray a different reality.'

Christian villagers cast doubt on Syria jihadist ‘threat’

 ' "There were around 20 of them. They looked like Islamists, but they did us no harm," one of the nuns told the BBC a few days after the incident.

 "They told us they were after Bashar al-Assad and his army, not Christians," the nun explained.'



 "You've just had Christians murdered by jihadis."

 Peter Hain on This Week went on to say that it was a sectarian proxy war financed by Saudi Arabia. Simon Schama suggested there is no moral equivalence between Assad and the forces fighting him.

"Syrian Revolutionary Youth" returns spotlight to nonviolent resistance

 'The military option will not fulfil all the demands of the revolution. It will help us reach a certain point, after which we will have to continue the peaceful struggle to meet the rest of our demands.'

Syria Rebel Spokesman: It's Not The Chemical Weapons, Stupid

 'As much as the dominating media narrative might lead you to believe there's been a big shift in the war in Syria, with Syria owning up to their chemical weapons, and agreeing to a Russian plan to dismantle them, on the ground the war continues with conventional weapons.'

Syria: the story of a revolution - video

 Cat footage from 7m30s to 7m48s. This does not exclude there being some elsewhere in the film. [The film Not Anymore by Matthew VanDyke]

Syrian rebels seize Hama checkpoints

 'The development came as government forces bombarded residential areas in the city that were protest hubs.'

Besieged residents of Syria's Homs plead for help

 'Assad's government "has imposed a strategy across the country, whereby they imprison the population in a particular area, and don't allow people out or assistance in.” '

Bashar al-Assad's hometown defiant amid threat of rebel and US-led attacks

 Jeremy Bowen was also talking to militia in Damascus. I saw a report last week that defections were rising again, maybe the government is running out of soldiers.

 'If we put our hand on it, the balance of power will be completely shaken. It will be a huge blow to the regime. If he [Assad] can't protect his hometown, the hub of Alawites and the Shabiha, how can he protect the other lands of Syria?'

 This is not quite OMG Anything Could Happen:

 'Qerdaha residents are confident that the US is unlikely to strike them because there are no strategic military sites within their borders.'

 This piece of hysteria is familiar though. Assad often talks about attacking Israel, but never does. It's so much harder than attacking civilians, and would be suicide, and I doubt any Syrian officers who wanted to survive would follow such an order. Of course it doesn't look like there will be American airstrikes, at least until the next round of escalation in the crimes against humanity rehabilitate the case for intervention further.

 'Everyone knows if the [US] strike happens, our answer will need to be direct and within 72 hours. All indicators confirm that Israel will be our first target. And when Israel is hit, it is going to be a hell, hundreds of rockets are going to fall on it. Neither the Iron Dome or Patriots can foil 400 rockets in a single hour.'

Time to aid, not stigmatize, the Syrian rebels

 'The only reasons for not engaging in a massive project of support for moderate armed opposition forces – including ones that could fall somewhere in the taxonomy of "Islamist" – would be either not to care at all about the outcome in Syria, or to implicitly or explicitly support either the long-term survival of the Damascus regime or the indefinite continuation of the conflict.'

Syria's Tragedy Could One Day Be Our Own

 'The Syrian Revolution transformed from a campaign of nonviolent resistance to civil war when tens of thousands of Syrian soldiers and police could no longer bear to kill their own neighbors, and when ordinary civilians had no choice but to defend themselves. They united to form the Free Syrian Army as the military arm of the revolution.

 Upon winning the latest edition of Arab Idol, Palestinian superstar and national hero Mohammad Assaf defined revolutionaries as "not just the one carrying the rifle, it is the paintbrush of an artist, the scalpel of a surgeon, the axe of the farmer. Everyone struggles for their cause in the way they see fit."

 In a truly national revolution, every patriotic and conscientious citizen has a role -- not limited to, but certainly including -- soldiers and policemen. Refusing to shoot your own citizens and instead defending them IS non-cooperation, and soldiers who refuse to follow illegal orders ARE honoring the tenets of civil disobedience. This realization is reflected by the growing international recognition and support of the Free Syrian Army, including the lawful activities of American NGOs such as the Syrian Support Group.'

Group of Syrians Respond to Jeremy Bowen’s “Coverage” of #Syria

 'We are appalled by BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen’s coverage from Damascus the last few weeks especially his coverage from Maloula, the historical Aramaic village. As the Middle East editor, Mr Bowen is seen as the expert who can provide fair coverage and in depth analysis of the situation wherever he travels. But in this very last trip, right after the chemical attack by government forces on Eastern Ghouta took place, we find Mr Bowen’s coverage showing the regime’s line without posing the right questions for the audience.'



 I noticed yesterday Jeremy Bowen talking of "a war that Syrians and foreigners can fuel, but can't stop,"* and thought it a wrong opinion, based on the conventional media narrative that nothing can be done to protect the Syrian revolution from Assad's barbarism, and certainly not objective reporting. Or this** from last week, "Syria has become a proxy war, a boxing ring with no rules in which regional powers use Syrians to fight their battles."

*End of the report [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24103542]

**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24012117]
Jonathan Rugman of Channel 4 News on the UN report, "the Russians are still
holding all the cards on how this plays out."

In Syria, U.N. inspectors find ‘clear and convincing’ evidence of chemical attack

 They have not ruled out al-Qaida asking the lizards to get the Israelis to sneak into Damascus and fire the rockets from government positions.

The Rise of Al Qaeda in Syria: Separating Fact from Mythology

Leila Al Shami:

 'It is too easy to adopt the simplistic binary narrative promoted by states and blanket thinkers that the choice the Syrian people face is between a secular fascist dictatorship or Al Qaeda. As Spanish revolutionaries in the 1930s fought on two fronts against both the fascists and the communists, Syrian revolutionaries have to fight against both the Assad regime and counter-revolutionary militant Jihadi groups. It is clear that militant Jihadism is gaining a foothold in Syria and that as the struggle continues without resolution they will continue to grow in strength. The answer is not to support a regime that holds responsibility for creating this problem in the first place. The answer is to stand in solidarity with those who struggle against it, in the hope that their voices will not be lost for ever.'

Assad’s regime in actual demise

 I think this is untrue and dangerous. Rather than being a democratic transition, it will leave most of the torturers and murderers in place, those that don't want Assadism without Assad will then be brutalised with the support of the international community. This is one way in which the 'anti-war' movement acts as the alibi of the US in its imperial role, this was the political solution that was always going to be offered as an alternative to the phony threat of a US attack.

 'What's expected is that the “Yemeni solution” will be suggested and that Assad and his comrades will be ousted. In this case, current institutions, particularly the army, along with the political and military opposition leaderships, will be assigned to manage the country. This is a good option that ends with gradually toppling the regime without destroying the country. Maintaining institutions means maintaining the state, not the regime.'



 That alibi in detail.

 'Obama’s speech to the nation last week was a pillar of sanity.

 He referenced our ten years of disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan. He acknowledged that while Assad is a terrible dictator, there’s no guarantee what follows would be any better. And he conceded that the attempt to use force could lead to costs we cannot predict.

 He also made it clear that he was facing down the firewall of an overwhelming public and Congressional demand for peace that would not be denied.

 A decade ago, George W. Bush deceived just enough of the American public to go to war.

 This time, no deal. Whatever it proves to be worth, a treaty has been signed. We have a precious moment where bombs aren’t flying. We’re a few steps back from the nuclear brink. And our economy is not spiraling down into another senseless military firestorm.

 It may prove a small respite…but it’s a victory by any reckoning.

 Now the SuperPower of Peace—all of us—-must make it stick.'
[http://www.counterpunch.org/.../syria-is-an-epic-victory.../]

Some Syrians in Maryland wanted military strikes to punish Assad

 'We should act now. The situation is really bad,” said Hadin Kouki, a Rockville resident who was once a political prisoner in Syria. “I don’t believe that troops should go there, but maybe strike.'

Syrian Rebels Express Disdain For Obama And Other World Leaders

 ' "The United States and Russia are playing with Syria; we mean absolutely nothing to them. The same is true of the United Nations, which accuses the regime of crimes against humanity and keeps talking and talking, as if that would solve anything. They have been talking for 30 months and done absolutely nothing."

 A man standing nearby, interjected: "Obama is a liar. He won't keep his word. He said he would attack if Assad used chemical weapons against the civilian population. What more does he need to intervene and put an end to this slaughter."

 Hassan al-Mara, a former school teacher turned fighter, agreed with the man.

 "You are right, the West has let us down again. America and Europe have shown that their threats were no more than cheap propaganda." '

The Global Left and the 'No to War' Discourse

 'It was the same imperialist trap that pushed other leftists to switch over to the call for peace. Theirs is an auspicious call, yet surprising in that it comes directly after the moment chemical weapons were used, as if whoever wielded them is asking the victims to embrace Sarin gas after inhaling it. The sense of surprise does not last long upon realizing that these are peaceful calls of despair from all that moves on Syrian soil. Perhaps those who sounded this call do not see a need for a conflict to begin with, so long as those fighting in it do not match the profile according to the imperialist catalog, itself.

 The danger of the global left’s discourse in its many permutations is not only that it dons imperialist garb in making its supposedly anti-imperialist argument, but that its logic betrays its opposition to any sort of interference whatsoever—whether imperialist or otherwise, under UN auspices or not, in or out of line with international law. Those who have built this discourse oppose military intervention not because of the intervening power’s identity, but because of the people on whose behalf that power would be intervening. They oppose intervention not because of the objectives of the former, but because of the lacking qualifications of the latter.

 The issue here is not one of sorting the “good leftists” from the “bad leftists.” I do not think that such a categorization is possible, anyway. However, I am haunted by a question: What makes a sincere leftist discourse slip into becoming a retouched version of the Islamophobic right?'

U.N. Panel Accuses Syria of Attacking Hospitals

When a government fights its own people you don't call it a war, you don't call it a sectarian proxy war.

“Government forces deliberately target medical personnel to gain military advantage by depriving the opposition and those perceived to support them of medical assistance for injuries sustained,” the panel said.

British Syrians & Friends in Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution

 'Where were the loud voices of those calling for no intervention when other countries were and still are intervening to help a dictator massacre civilians?!?! Their ideology reeks of hypocrisy!!!'

Inside the Syrian Revolution and what the Left must do

 'People either in the U.S. or in the Arab world or in Syria won’t necessarily get the message that this is really a message against the war. They’re going to see the pictures of Asad and understand that this is really propaganda, it’s not really against the war.

 I think that the left has a real task ahead of it. It has to really formulate a new position, a more coherent position. A position where one can be at the same time against the war and also against dictatorship. And as long as they don’t do that, I think that they won’t have any kind of credibility. People in Syria will see that as almost a license to kill because the Syrian regime has been actually broadcasting those demonstrations on Syrian State TV, showing how much it is popular in the West and that people are demonstrating in the streets of New York and other cities showing those pictures of Asad. Actually the Syrian regime is not even able to organize such demonstrations or rallies in Syria, so it was very happy to see that emerging in many parts.'

Putin on foreign intervention in Syria

 Putin on foreign intervention in Syria.

This is what life is like

 'Every single day for more than a year.

 Damascus (Madamiya): Sept 10, 2013 - Non-stop rocket attacks by Assad’s forces continue to rain down on the people in the suburbs of Damascus.

 20 days ago Assad’s forces unleashed an apocalyptic attack on the residents of this town with sarin gas.

 Today, nothing has changed. Tomorrow, nothing will either. In 20 days time? …. nothing. The world may just wait to ‘act’ when there are no more humans left.'

The International Socialist Organization and the imperialist onslaught against Syria

 The anti-Assad people who have been involved in anti-(US)intervention activity have had some nasty stuff from the Bashar Or Syria Burns crowd.

Aziz's story

 Robin Yassin-Kassab:

 'We must ask if it is lack of humanity or lack of imagination which makes some condemn the Syrian people’s struggle. And what kind of simple-mindedness assumes that Syrians need Gulf or Western provocateurs to prod them toward rebellion? The relevant question isn’t why a community would revolt against such oppression, but why not?'

The hateful rhetoric of the “anti-war” left toward Syria

'The last 2 minutes are the most powerful, and, I would say, the most damning of the American public. Look at the cats. Don’t you care about the kittens?'

Syrian-born professor advocates for U.S. intervention

 'This is to show you the absurdity of the régime's thinking of a military solution. Abu Kamal is a city, the rebels are stationed on the roads to Abu Kamal, not in the city. So the air raids come and target the city, and not even get close to the rebel checkpoints. Just to show you the blind eye of the régime on how to make any progress to maybe regain these areas, which is not going to happen because they have lost it and are just trying to retaliate.

 I envision the power of Syrian people to be more overwhelming, than what you called in a very institutionalised way, government.'

What if Assad wants U.S. to bomb Syria?

 Chuck Norris is scared.

 'Assad placed Obama (and, hence, America) in checkmate when he launched chemical weapons upon his people. The temptation is to blow up his chess pieces. But the right and wise move is to step away from the table, quit playing his game and form our own.'

The novelist vs. the revolutionary: My own Syrian debate

 'The novelist, living in exile, in the world of politicians and diplomats, far removed from falling shells and sudden death, wonders whether Syria should be hesitant about welcoming military strikes from the West. She argues that no country has the right to interfere in the affairs of another, that independence and national sovereignty are sacred. And she questions whether hitting military targets without taking down President Bashar al-Assad, especially while Russia and Iran continue to support him, will bring a shift from the inhumanity that the regime has imposed.

 The revolutionary, moving among guerrilla fighters and civilian activists, stands by those who are living under the regime’s bombardment and dying at the hands of its military machine. She argues that sovereignty shouldn’t mean the freedom to kill one’s own people, to displace them or to force a sectarian wedge between them. She notes that the soldiers she overheard speaking Farsi when the rural town of Haish was annihilated are evidence that international intervention happened long ago. She adds that Syria is not the Assad regime. Syria is the Syrian people.'

‘We Just Wish for the Hit to Put an End to the Massacres’

 Max Blumenthal:

 'Inside every canvas tent and corrugated tin caravan I visited across the gravelly wasteland of Zaatari, this is what residents told me: We have no future if Bashar is allowed to remain in power, and he is not going anywhere unless the US intervenes. Like most Americans, I am staunchly against US strikes, mainly because I believe they could exacerbate an already horrific situation without altering the political reality in any meaningful way. The Obama administration has made clear that its “unbelievably small” strikes would not be not aimed at toppling Assad, but only, as Obama said, to send a “shot across the bow.” However, I believe that the refugees trapped in Zaatari deserve to be heard. In the geopolitical chess match outside powers are waging over their country, their voices have been virtually ignored. Yet it is they who will have to face the direct consequences of any outcome of outside intervention.'

Ground truths

 'At the start of what may prove the biggest battle yet in this region, rebel sources claimed that a force of some 8,000 fighters had captured the northern approaches to the city of Deraa. If so, they have encircled a large government garrison that has been pounding rebel-held villages with artillery.'

The Syrian Revolution From Kafranbel

In Syria, Follow the Money to Find the Roots of the Revolt

 'Syria under Bashar al-Assad’s rule tried very hard to join the World Trade Organization. When the U.S. lifted its opposition, the World Trade Organization’s 153 members granted the Syrian government an observer status. Although the state was still the main economic generator, privatization was encouraged; foreign entities such as private banks, joint Saudi-French bank of Bimo, Fransabank, Bank of Jordan-Syria, and the Saudi Islamic bank, joined the Syrian market. The road also began opening for other credible international banks such as Citibank and HSBC to come to Syria and lend money at higher interest rates.'

Syrian oil fields, now in rebel hands, still play crucial role in nation’s economy

 “We had to revolt against this regime. It was brutal,” he responded. “But the price we are paying is too high.”

 That said, “when the revolution wins, we will consider it worth the price. We have lost materially, but our spirit has not been defeated.”

The Tsar of All the Concern Trolls

 'It is simply false that “there is every reason to believe” that the poison-gas attack was conducted by opposition forces and not by Assad’s Army. On the contrary, there is every reason to believe the exact opposite. (Please note, in passing, the pious cleverness of that last sentence, in which Putin gift wraps his whopper in a beribboned package of worried concern for the well-being of Israel.)

 Putin’s mendacity is mainly an exercise in hypocrisy. His method is as much a matter of what he leaves out as what he puts in, as a line-by-line analysis by the Washington Post’s Max Fisher suggests. What Putin puts in, for the most part, is a succession of elegantly restated points that are identical with those made in good faith by American and Europe opponents of air strikes or the threat of air strikes.'

Syria govt struggles with supplies, but holding on

 'Syria's worst harvest in decades, as civil war rages, means more pressure to import on a government whose currency reserves are dwindling - even if support from Assad's sponsor Iran, and a shrinking population to support as Syrians flee the country and provinces fall to rebel control, ease the burden and buy time.'

Local experts weigh options over potential military strike in Syria

 ' "Let me be honest with you, I think the U.S. should intervene, and I think they’re late. Because we have lost control of our borders, terrorist organizations have gotten involved and turned the revolution into a civil war," he said. "But I still think that, if the U.S. is careful about selecting its targets, they could really help."

 As for Syria’s future stability, Yaman said he still has hope.

 "You know, in France, it took them 100 years for their revolution to work," Yaman said. "I have hope for Syria. It’s a unique country with so many different religions and peoples, and a wonderful culture. I really want to return one day." '

Former rebel stronghold Homs a shadow of its old self

 That's what the whole of Syria is going to look like if Assad is not overthrown, while we continue to obsess about the possible damage from American airstrikes.

Top Five Worst Arguments Against US Airstrikes in Syria

 'The situation of the Syrian people is tragic and dire, but military action will only make their situation worse – so goes the argument. As Sarah Palin put it, “So we’re bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria?”This ostensibly civilian-centered perspective is anti-war in form but pro-war in essence since “sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down,” as Malcolm X said.'

Syrian Rebels Hurt by Delay

 "The jihadists benefit in all the chaos," said Samir Nachar, a Syrian Opposition Coalition member opposed to the rebel extremists. "They gain as the moderates waffle about waiting for the rest of the world."

 Question Time was interesting this evening. At times descending into a squabble about Cameron's statement about not respecting the will of parliament. If there was appetite for intervention, there wouldn't be such a farce. On one side those who wanted to praise the Russians, the very people who have been arming Assad and blocking any action against him, as peacemakers, who might end this "double proxy war" (Caroline Lucas). Chuka Umana and Caroline Lucas told us there were other things we could be doing like helping the refugees, just as Jeremy Paxman was pointing out on Newsnight that the vast majority of refugees have fled Assad's army.

 And so the arguments of the liberal interventionists, that it is the credible threat of force, that the time for action is now, are rehabilitated. Even Caroline Lucas was forced to say she'd support the use of force if the case that it would work was made, that if two-thirds of the UN General Assembly voted for it it could bypass the Security Council. If there isn't military support for Syrians trying to determine their own destiny, as the crisis in Syria goes from worse to who knows where, the argument will swing back to whether a solution can be imposed to them by imperial consensus or by sending the Marines.

 The Americans have supposedly finally sent through some light weaponry. It might not be a game-changer, but it can't hurt. I don't expect the rifles blow up if the owner fails to sing the Star Spangled Banner each morning.

Syria/Serbia

 'Writer, filmmaker, and "humanitarian bombing" survivor Jasmina Tesanovic reflects on the similarities between the war she experienced, and the strikes proposed by the United States against Syria.

 "Personally, I understood why we were being bombed and, politically speaking, I could not argue against it. I was a target, along with my elderly parents and my underage children, but I hoped that the rain of bombs would conclude our endless years of more subtle forms of punishment. Despite those hopes and that comprehension, I went out of my mind with fear when the first alarm sirens went off and the NATO warplanes appeared in our sky.

 That being said, I must admit that the targeting was precise, and aimed at infrastructure. So few civilians were dead that the cynical term "collateral damage" made some sense. My first horrific fears proved worse than the dull ensuing weeks of real life under the raid conditions. When it finally ended, I was relieved that so many of us had survived, and I felt ready to congratulate anyone and everyone still standing, all the NATO forces, the Serbian military and deserters, the Albanians in Kosovo, everybody but our regime which was not even toppled!" '

Syrian Citizen Journalists Set Ethical Example Focused on Dignity, Truth

 'Police also tracked mobile devices and used GPS to scuttle protests in advance, they said, but as more technologists in the regime defected or emigrated, those efforts have stalled.

 It is in these digital arenas that youth has found its calling. The group described a revolution of younger people overall, but especially in the reporting ranks, where they said at 32, 24 and 22, they were older than many. One described a 16-year-old videographer, known for his photos and footage, and a 17-year-old geek who has handily evaded regime digital spying and interference. He’s currently writing the “Guide for the Technical Revolutionist,” they said.'

Not Anymore - A Story Of Revolution Trailer

 Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution, details the experiences of two young Syrians as they fight for Syria’s freedom against the oppressive al-Assad regime.

 "Now one thing that's working, we can talk, and express our opinions about anything. That's really worth all this sacrifice. We're going to build this whole country again, from scratch, from zero, and it doesn't matter how long does this last; because really, all the males and females of this country, are willing to build it again, and even better than it was before."

These Two Men Allegedly Overheard Incredibly Explosive Skype Conversation While Being Held Hostage in Syria

 I think we'll be hearing more of these bullshit artists. They are supposed to have overheard, while kidnapped, an FSA general discussing their plans for a chemical attack in Damascus, in English, as part of their plan to establish an Islamic Caliphate? Do me a favour. I suspect they will turn out not to have been kidnapped by the rebels at all.