Category Archives: Syria

Damascene Götterdämmerung (UPDATE: Defeat Doctrine)

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Damascene Götterdämmerung (UPDATE: Defeat Doctrine)”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail This Voice Of America article offers divergent points of view on the question of Syria’s chemical weapons. Given their history as deterrent to Israel’s unacknowledged nuclear force, Syrian stockpiles were never designed … Continue reading →

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Damascene Götterdämmerung (UPDATE: Defeat Doctrine)

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Arc de Triomphe a la Syria

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Arc de Triomphe a la Syria”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Continuing violence and atrocities are obviating any peace initiative in Syria: France now says the Security Council should consider the use of force in Syria if a UN-backed peace plan proposed … Continue reading →

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Look Out, Here Come the Ottomans

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Look Out, Here Come the Ottomans”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Bashar al-Assad is determined to go the hard way, and he’s making the giant to his North angry. This is Turkey’s head of state speaking: What should Turkey do in the … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Syrian Children

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Syrian Children”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Youth participation is a hallmark of genuine grassroots activism. It’s also a constant in warfare. Where activism is met with violence, children are invariably the first casualties. The children at the end of … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Russia’s “Last Chance” in Syria

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Russia’s “Last Chance” in Syria”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Russia was one of the two UN Security Council members responsible for greenlighting the Assad regime’s crackdown on dissidents. Now Russia is reportedly losing patience with the ongoing massacres, as … Continue reading →

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The Syrian Experiment

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “The Syrian Experiment”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailAs I said yesterday morning, China and Russia are using Syria as a laboratory for non-intervention. With a death toll already in the thousands, the opposition shows no sign of giving up and neither does … Continue reading →

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Rules of Politics

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Rules of Politics”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail I’m going out on a totally-unsupported limb here and rethink my whole attitude towards the Dubai assassination mess just on this guy’s say-so: “There is no reason to think that it was the Israeli … Continue reading →