by Javier Sethness It was from Baba Amr that Colvin courageously went live on CNN, the BBC, ITN News, and Channel 4 News, on February 21, 2012, to belie the Assad regime's fabrications that its assault on the district was exclusively targeting so-called “terrorists.”...

by Alexander Reid Ross “What’s wrong?” I asked my friend Mikhail* as he stumbled into the dorm room. “You seem shaken up.” “It’s nothing,” he said, sitting next to me on the bed. “A gang tried to beat me up on my way from the Metro.” It happened in a central district...

As the war in Syria draws to a close, the debate on the U.S. left over that conflict seems as intractable as ever. The immediacy of Syrian politics for Americans seems to ebb and flow as the war impinges on a shifting but surprisingly broad scope of issues salient to...

By Stanley Heller (a version of this appeared on the blog Economic Uprising) Tulsi Gabbard is getting a pass from people who should know better, first from Glenn Greenwald and then from the folks at Democracy Now.  They describe her as...

Summary The reconstruction plans of the al-Assad regime largely ignore the needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees. The regime’s reconstruction strategy does not address the most pressing needs of over 10 million Syrian IDPs and refugees. Instead it...

Recently, Tulsi Gabbard, a representative for Hawaii in the U.S. Congress, announced that she is considering nominating herself as a presidential candidate in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Shiyam Galyon and Sina Zekavat, members of the Alliance of Middle...

Sudan revolts. Many people have read this short sentence many times in the past few years, but the fact is Sudan never stopped revolting since the coup of June 1989 that brought the ruling National Islamic Front party (later the National Congress Party; NCP) and the...

"It's What We Do" is a recorded play that dramatizes Israeli soldiers' testimonies, exposing their day-to-day interactions with Palestinian.  It takes you behind the headlines to see what the Israeli occupation looks like on a daily basis, how if affects the soldiers...

Five years on from the kidnapping of the ‘Douma 4’ activists, Joey Ayoub pays homage to another Damascus suburb symbolic of Syria’s peaceful, democratic revolution. By the time Huda was arrested by regime soldiers in 2013, the siege of Daraya, a suburb of Damascus,...