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We are discovering that rule by the military council is a carbon copy of Mubarak's regime. The ruler may have changed but the system remains as it was.
Very few Syrians have really been loyal to the Ba'ath party, and so no new constitutional gimmicks of Bashar Assad will do the trick. The die for him was already cast.
A different, more democratic Iran and Syria may mean a world of difference for Israel, and one that is likely to be more favorable than the current climate.
The U.S. government could speak openly and directly about what is going on in Bahrain, and the sky wouldn't fall. But it might be "inconvenient." So the U.S. government is not going to speak openly and directly, unless there is some real public pressure.
News that is obviously fabricated, or written from behind desks in the U.S, Europe, and east Beirut, angers me because I value the integrity of investigative journalism. I hate seeing how the Syrian peoples' uprising has been manipulated to serve as a tool for some political agendas.
At least 16 people were killed in the wake of the Port Said incident in six days of fighting between security forces and youths seeking to storm the interior ministry in central Cairo.
Last weekend's double veto should have put a nail in the coffin of the idea that Russian opposition to UN Security Council action in Syria was about post-Libya fallout and the "Responsibility to Protect." The veto was about arms, allies and power. Nothing more, nothing less.
What are the possible scenarios for a post-Assad Syria, in both the short- and long-terms, and how is the global community prepared to deal with them?
My people, who have faced death bare-chested and singing, are at this very moment being subjected to a campaign of violence like never before. Our rebel towns face sieges unprecedented in the history of world revolutions.
Even as Russia and China face growing criticism, there is no consensus among analysts on the question of intervention in Syria.
An important and underreported aspect of the intense violence in Syria is the role being played by the Iranian regime.
What we seem to have is a three-level chess game in Syria: internal, regional and worldwide.
Civilian protection must be the primary concern and focus of any new multilateral proposal for Syria -- and this means putting together a deal that brings an end to the violence.
The remaining advocates of Bashar Assad are working overtime to portray a vision of a completely chaotic Middle East if and when the Alawite regime finally collapses. To predict chaos in the Middle East is a safe bet, so what's really new in this case?
Though the revolution united most Libyans, the inspiration driving revolutionary groups to fight against the Gaddafi regime was not the same.
While the mainstream media focuses on the political game of chess the world's most powerful leaders are involved in, the contribution of Syrian women in the battle for freedom continues to be under-reported.
