Syria signs offshore oil and gas exploration deal with Russia — RT Business.
Ah, and this is the very stuff that genocide is made of, and for. Russia’s Putin, the great defender of national sovereignty and nonintervention in domestic affairs, rears his ugly head again and shows he’s nothing more than an oil-digger, or, an oil-thief to be exact. How fitting.
Syria’s Assad ‘has secret Iraq oil lifeline’ – Middle East – Al Jazeera English.
A world that throws so many lifelines to a genocidal maniac and almost none at all to pro-democracy activists and moderate rebels deserves no peace and has earned its misery. No one will be shielded for long from the fallouts of this travesty. No one.
150 Syrian refugees ‘disappear’ in Greece | Europe | World Bulletin.
Sweden and, to a certain extent, Germany have set a good example for how Europe should deal with Syria’s refugees arriving onto her shores. Bulgaria, Italy and Greece are setting a bad one. The United States, reflecting the thinking of her President, remains of a few minds about the situation. Meanwhile, hundreds of Syrians die every day and thousands join the ranks of refugees as the world turns its back, insistently, as if by doing so the problem would just disappear. On this Christmas Days, let me just say: “Fuck You World.”
What makes Syria’s ‘barrel bombs’ so scary.
In his comment on the use of the term “Barrel Bombs,” Eliot Higgins, AKA Brown Moses, says via Twitter: “It’s like calling it a ‘barrel bomb’ makes it some special extra powerful bomb, when it’s basically a piece of crap.” My reply, also via Twitter was: This “piece of crap” has killed 87 children in one week, who gives a damn how crude they are? I have no doubt where Eliot’s sympathies lie, but sometimes experts lose sight of what’s really at stake. It’s the on-the-ground activists who first coined the term Barrel Bomb, and its use is causing terror, mass dislocation and mayhem all over rebel-held areas. This crude device has proven quite effective in bringing down buildings on top of their inhabitants killing hundreds, including scores of children. Its use shows how determined Assad and his backers, domestic and foreign, are in seeing their genocidal venture through.
The Ammar Abdulhamid Archive 