“I will continue serenading happiness.”
Arab revolutions four years on

"Joseph argued that western bombs are no help to the revolution, but he also criticised the western anti-war movement for failing to align itself with the democratic revolution in Syria."
A message that seemed lost on conference organiser Anne Alexander, who repeated the mantra that the job of leftists is to expose their own governments, ignoring the role of Russia and Iran that are crushing Syria while the world, and especially the Left, looks on. As Robin Yassin-Kassab said, the fake anti-imperialists have to understand that Syria is to Russia as Vietnam was the the United States, and Russia is to Syria as the United States is to Israel.