By Ghaleb Kandil – 22 APRIL 2014 A week after its liberation from extremist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda, President Bashar al-Assad visited the historic town of Maaloula, where he celebrated Easter with residents, full of joy and sadness because at the destructions provoked by the terrorists. While visiting the city, including the famous monastery of St. Sergius and Bacchus, looted …
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By Paul Craig Roberts VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 7 MARCH 2014 According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine’s …
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A recent statement by a member of the government in Priština concerning plans to demolish a Serbian Orthodox church in that town has caused reactions. The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Eparchy of Raška and Prizren called on Tuesday Dardan Gashi’s pronouncement “an open provocation.” The Kosovo Albanian official, in charge of spatial planning, was on Monday quoted as saying by …
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By Eileen Fleming Exclusive to The Arab Daily News This Palm Sunday in Palestine, Fatah Central Committee Member Nabeel Shaath, the Governor of Jerusalem Adnan Husseini, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal and the bishop of Palestine William Shomali participated in the annual procession to the Old City of Jerusalem, which marks the beginning of the Christian Holy Week …
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PETRODOLLAR ALERT: PUTIN PREPARES TO ANNOUNCE “HOLY GRAIL” GAS DEAL WITH CHINA By Tyler Durden on 03/21/2014 If it was the intent of the West to bring Russia and China together – one a natural resource (if “somewhat” corrupt) superpower and the other a fixed capital / labor output (if “somewhat” capital misallocating and credit bubbleicious) powerhouse – in the process marginalizing …
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SOME THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS In all truth, when looking at the present “engineered” crisis in the Ukraine, one is at a loss for words, and even more so due to our hesitancy to provide a critique on geopolitical matters.[1] But on the other hand, we are presented with very serious questions that also pertain to spiritual …
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March 1, 2014 Young Sydney woman Reme Sakr risked her life to travel to war-torn Syria in an attempt to convince her father to return to Australia. Chris Ray charts her journey. The slight young Australian is boarding a dilapidated long-distance bus on the outskirts of Damascus, steeling herself for the perilous journey ahead. Syrian friends have begged her …
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WHY DOES UKRAINE SEEM SO MUCH LIKE SYRIA? Daniel McAdams In Ukraine, US-backed rebels seize weapons from a military depot and begin firing on police — killing at least ten. The rebel groups occupy and torch government buildings, trade union headquarters, the central post office, and political party headquarters. They occupy local government facilities in other cities and physically attack …
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19.02.2014 By Giovanni Giacalone On February 12th and 13th 2014 Field Marshall Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s had his first and historical visit abroad as Egypt’s Deputy Prime Minister as well as Defense Minister and head of the Egyptian armed forces and such visit was to Moscow, not Washington. A clear sign that the relations between Egypt and the US are in …
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CHRISTIANS ARE BEING THROWN TO THE LIONS AGAIN Friday, September 27, 2013 Archbishop Justin Welby’s choice of the word “martyrs” to describe the 81 Pakistani Christians killed when their church in Peshawar was targeted by suicide bombers has raised eyebrows. It is the sort of language avoided nowadays in the secular, sceptical West, with its taken-for-granted religious freedoms, in case it makes people …
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ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.