Country’s healthcare system is going backwards in time, at a rate of a decade a month

Syria in crisis: Country’s healthcare system is going backwards in time, at a rate of a decade a month – The Independent.

Time travel is one of Assad’s major achievements, the problem is he only perfected it one way: backward.

Syria signs offshore oil and gas exploration deal with Russia

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’

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

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.”