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Update from Syria: Will Syria Go on the Offensive at The Hague?

The US led sanctions violate international humanitarian law due to the negative health effects of the sanctions on the civilian population of Syria.

(LA MAISON D'AVOCATS, Damascus) - It started even before the historic 139 to 8 vote of the UN General Assembly on November 29 of this year which opened up a plethora of legal remedies for Palestinians.

A “legal intifada” — to borrow a phrase from Professor Francis Boyle — has been taking form in this region.

Of Benghazi and the Liberty

Only the orders of the President of the USA could have put that nuclear air unit on high level alert.

(ST AUGUSTINE, FL) - A Texas writer, Robert Morrow, sent me the following:

There is an extremely important book that came out in 2003 and was published by Vision. It is "Operation Cyanide-Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III " by Peter Hounam and it is about Israel's attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967.

30 Countries Engaged in Full-Fledged War Against Syria

Interestingly, the United States has openly announced that it has plans to train Syrian militants.

(TEHRAN Iran Review) - At present, about 30 countries are directly or indirectly responsible for the prolongation of the ongoing crisis in Syria.

This is the main reason why despite “outward” efforts by the United Nations, the crisis in the Arab country is expanding in dimensions with every day passing by.

Syria: The Descent Into Holy War

An execution video is the most graphic illustration of deepening religious bigotry on the part of the rebels.

(LONDON) - It is one of the most horrifying videos of the war in Syria.

It shows two men being beheaded by Syrian rebels, one of them by a child. He hacks with a machete at the neck of a middle-aged man who has been forced to lie in the street with his head on a concrete block.

Political Grinchs Stealing Christmas from Palestinian and Syrian Refugees?

This holiday season many in Yarmouk campl, people are thinking of and praying for their countrymen in Lebanon, who are also waiting to return to Palestine.

(CHURCH OF NOTRE DAME, Damascus) - Church officials in Damascus advanced the hour of last night’s traditional Christmas Eve midnight service to 6:00 p.m.

Reasons include ubiquitous checkpoints, security fears, few taxis and no buses around.

Will the Destruction of Nahr al Bared be Replicated in Yamouk?

The morning of 12/21/12 saw general calm in Yarmouk, following intense clashes, widespread destruction in some areas and two bombs dropped over the past week.

(YARMOUK CAMP, Damascus) - Some Palestinian here in Damascus, from the Palestinian Writers Union with whom this observer has been meeting, including independent researcher Hamad Said Al-Mawed, are saying so.

Admittedly there are some similarities between the two camps fate. Both among the ‘better’ of the 57 Palestinian refugee camps in the hosting countries, of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza.

Susan Rice Would Have Been a Bad Secretary of State Anyway

Her openness to another U.S. war in the Middle East became apparent when she announced in September that "there is no daylight" between the United States and the right-wing Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu...

(SAN FRANCISCO FPIF) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice’s announcement that she would withdraw her name from consideration to be the next secretary of state is a mixed blessing.

On the one hand, it marks yet another example of the Obama administration’s failure to defend its appointees from concerted and misleading Republican attacks.

Alex Thomson Report from Inside Syria - Was there a `Massacre Committed by the Regime` in Aqrab?

We do not say what follows is the truth. But we can say it is the first independently observed story of Aqrab from the first outside journalist to reach this area.

(AQRAB, Syria) - To reach Aqrab is to penetrate deep into the badlands of central Syria, where many of the worst atrocities of the war have taken place.

It is not a journey undertaken lightly...

Damascus Street Notes : Syrian Students Condemn American Led Sanctions that Escalate Food Cost

Damascenes are tense, sullen, but not panicked following what many consider terrorist acts by so-called “rebels.”

(DAMASCUS Al Manar) - “Who does that obnoxious woman think she is?”

The demand came from a staffer in the Russian Embassy media office inside the vast windowless soviet style massive high walled compound.

Human Rights Investigation: Syrian Rebels Use Child to Behead Prisoner

Footage, posted to YouTube by Voice of America Arabic (Radio Sawa) anchor and journalist Zaid Benjamin, shows a child hacking a prisoner’s neck with a machete. Warning GRAPHIC.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The video then cuts to rebels displaying the man’s severed head while chanting “Allahu Akbar.”

This is the side that the United States and the European Union have backed and used to bring regime change to Syria.