If we are to judge humanity by the quality and intelligence of
her political leaders, who have just strutted their stuff at the UN for our collective
horror, the verdict will have to be harsh. Yet, they are these people that we
need to make see the obvious: that thugs cannot be stopped by empty threats, nor
can they be allowed to rule countries and determine the fate of entire nations.
Thursday September
27, 2012
Today’s
Death toll: 133. The Breakdown: 35 in
Damascus and Suburbs, 29 in Aleppo, 20 in Idlib, 13 in Homs, 11 in Daraa, 5 in
Hama, and 2 in Latakia (LCC).
News
Special
Reports
On the northern edge of this war-torn
country, barely 100 meters from the Turkish border, thousands of desperate
Syrians slept in the dirt.
People with cellular subscriptions
received the messages while those with prepaid phones did not, residents in the
Syrian capital said.
As over 120 leaders meet in New York
for the UN General Assembly, the civil war in Syria is generating significant
attention but little collective action. After eighteen months, the toll is
dire: nearly 30,000 killed, more than a million internally displaced, and at
least 25,000 detained. At the same time, the conflict is increasingly taking on
international dimensions.
Bashar al-Assad may fall, but is the
worst yet to come?
Op-Eds
Time to accept that what others did in
18 days, or six months, or however long, does not matter, when we are resilient
and confident that we will be here for not only an "Arab Spring" but
for many seasons to come, as many as it takes. Time to accept that the
revolution is not a just something you enjoy when it's uplifting and abandon
when it becomes too ugly or too painful. Revolution, like freedom, has an
expensive dowry. It's time to remember what we have forgotten: the absence of
fear keeps the revolution alive. And remember the people's conviction that in
the end, victory is ours.
Ammar Abdulhamid & Khawla
Yusuf: The
Shredded Tapestry: The State of Syria Today
Iran’s President, Ahmadinejad says
he loves both parties, well our party does indeed feel his love all the way to our
bone marrow, sliding along the edge of a dull blade.
Egypt’s president, Morsi, says he opposes
foreign intervention in Syria, but of course. Islamists like him feel the
coming of their moment in the region, a long bloody conflict in Syria, a
country historically known for its more pragmatic culture, will facilitate the rise
of Islamists there and will add another Islamist piece to the puzzle of the new
caliphate to which all aspire. Assad is willing to sacrifice so many Syrians
for the sake of retaining some power, and the Islamists willing to sacrifice
more for the sake of gaining and expanding their power, no matter how tenuous
their foothold happens to be at this stage.
There is simply too much unjustified hubris and lust in the air. But no
one will have his way, but this realization will not dawn upon us until we
spent few years cannibalizing each other. We are the colonialists in our own
land. So long as we keep looking at what we have through the filter of totalitarian
ideologies we will never be worthy of it, and we will never be able to really
own it, or develop it.
Video Highlights
Pounding lead to a new massacre in Haass, Idlib Province http://youtu.be/3oi6RSqZ14M , http://youtu.be/RPV9gQlGX7U , http://youtu.be/f1TFVZdoHK8 , http://youtu.be/lL0lUGQvDb8 In Khan
Shaikhoon, locals pull bodies from under the rubble http://youtu.be/31t36n2_wlI Nearby Kafrenbel
gets pounded by fighter jets http://youtu.be/Q1MOq8dgJto
, http://youtu.be/HUg7ARH2DXg , http://youtu.be/2Sf7917DEjE
The pounding of Deir Ezzor City by tanks continues http://youtu.be/TcNhIHVaXhU
A new massacre in Qaboun Neighborhood in Damascus City http://youtu.be/puQmne3H4o0 , http://youtu.be/b0hUaqBFSeM
In Tartous, the ethnic cleansing of restive Sunni suburbs begins in Baydah
village on the outskirts of Banyas City, as the village comes under artillery
fire http://youtu.be/E-n7ecofOzk
MIGs pound the town of El-Bab in Aleppo Province http://youtu.be/0eZ5XgeqjAs
A new massacre in Tseel, Daraa Province http://youtu.be/gwLL0gDIZco , http://youtu.be/_J_KuvVcdEc Another in Ibtaa
http://youtu.be/By8Bf7NTO-0 , http://youtu.be/PROIfDcXNdg
In Jobar Neighborhood, Homs City, a new massacre http://youtu.be/xezPJLwX8tg the massacre
was the result of random shelling http://youtu.be/xKiJvGrgRVU
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