Just a Statistic- By Syrian Hamster. Posted by OFF THE WALL. Yesterday, Bashar Al-Assad, or as I would call it dog-poop athad to indicate my infinite contempt to this entity, was placed at the top of war criminals list. The dog and its evil master. Both have been responsible for hundreds of thousands of murders in the region and beyond. Let us start by enumerating the duration of this sadist asshole crime against humanity.

Tuesday, 26 November 2013. Conformity and obedience to authority; What makes people do the unthinkable. For the past two years we have seen incr.

Rest in Peace Stephen Hawking. In 2014 he wrote these words about Syria. They ring exactly true four years later.

Nathan Schneider interviews Judith Butler, March 2010. The gender-theorist-turned-philosopher-of-nonviolence discusses the choices that make people expendable, the violent foundation of nonviolent activism, and the role grief can play in setting a new course.

This is a story I wrote from Damascus in 2009, during the year I lived in Syria. A few weeks later in their living room, the table was cleared for a gorging of rice, grilled fish, kibbeh. A wealthy Christian family, they became refugees when Shia militias began enforcing a fanaticism of piety i.

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Thoughts on politics, religion and culture from a Levantine straddling two worlds but feeling comfortable in neither. Sunday, August 25, 2013. Hope Amid the Noxious Fumes. Physically exhausted and emotionally drained,. Yet he musters the inner strength,. To make a statement for posterity. In a strained voice, he recounts,. With clinical precision and rational analysis,. The carnage of that toxic night. What his team did right;. What they can do better.

This post first appeared on openDemocracy. Has been factually discredited by outside sources and later confirmed by none other than the AP reporter who wrote the story. For his part, Ali Abunimah. The first was an AP feature story published in August. Occupation of the Gaza Strip and its five-year hermetic blockade. This time in the Guardian, .

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