The intro to the video above is an intervention by Dr. Rola Hallam, who took part in an event called How Should the World Protect Syria’s Children? in November 2013, in which she appeared in the capacity of eyewitness of the Syrian crisis and spokesperson of the aid organisation Hand in Hand for Syria, which portrays itself to the public as a … Continue reading →

The falsified material Member of Parliament George Galloway is referring to in the video above is of course the famous report the BBC released in August 2013, which was claimed to portray the victims of a napalm attack on a school near Aleppo, perpetrated by the Syrian air force. Too many are the questions that have been raised by independent … Continue reading →

Diplomatic Negotiations In April 2011, a Human Rights Council Resolution (A/HRC/RES/S-16/1) requested “to dispatch a mission to the Syrian Arab Republic to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law and to establish the facts and circumstances of such violations and of the crimes perpetrated”. Interestingly, this came to pass only ten days after it was revealed that the … Continue reading →

Much has been said about the impact that social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, have had on the uprisings in the Middle Eastern and North African region, the so-called Arab Springs, to the point that the marketing department in charge of selling these uprisings to the West have dubbed them “the Twitter Revolution”, an expression immediately adopted by compliant … Continue reading →

On May 15th, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning the ongoing violence in Syria. The Resolution was voted on one day after High Commissioner for Human Rights Navy Pillay had publicly denounced the latest horrific act committed by anti-government rebel forces in Syria: a video had appeared on the internet, showing a rebel leader cutting out and … Continue reading →