Syrian regime air raids kill scores in Aleppo

Syrian regime air raids kill scores in Aleppo – Middle East – Al Jazeera English.

Syria, rebel-held areas, AKA the forgotten zones, AKA the Land of the Poor and the Betrayed: No more milk, no more bread, and death comes by the barrel. Schools are closed, because they are often targeted by “random” shelling. So are the bakeries, and the hospitals. There’s no more education, except in the arts of survival and war, and no more healing, for wounds are meant to remain forever open, to feed the hate, and fuel the agony. Elsewhere, a Tiny Tim might say: “God bless us every one!” In #Syria, he says: “Fuck you all. Just wait until I grow up.” Foolishly, the world does wait.

Don’t Get in Bed With Assad

Don’t Get in Bed With Assad – NYTimes.com.

For more than 1,000 days, the kind of rational arguments and proposals reiterated here by Emile Hokayem have fallen on deaf ears. The Obama Administration will continue to be willfully blind and deaf in regard to the Genocide in #Syria for which their moral culpability is increasing by the hour and with each additional death.

Syrian rebels have taken iconoclasm to new depths, with shrines, statues and even a tree destroyed – but to what end?

Robert Fisk: Syrian rebels have taken iconoclasm to new depths, with shrines, statues and even a tree destroyed – but to what end? – Comment – Voices – The Independent.

While #Assad embarks on a wholesale destruction of our cultural heritage by bombing places like Old Damascus, Old Aleppo and Old Homs, Al-Qaeda adopts a more piecemeal approach, destroying our heritage one statue at a time, garnering more public attention and generating more publicity in the process, so that the likes of Fisk can use it to smear and defame the entire rebel movement.