By Global Issues TORONTO / BEIRUT, Dec 17 (IPS) – Sixty-four days of unrelenting war machine by Israel against Lebanon put my entire beliefs and ethos to a painful test: my sincerity in promoting social justice, human rights, integrity, patriotism, spirituality and, philosophically speaking, universal human values of love, peace and non-violence. Read the full […]
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Foreign countries stepped up efforts Sunday to establish contacts with Syria’s interim rulers, a week after Islamist-led rebels sent President Bashar al-Assad fleeing to Moscow, ending decades of brutal rule. The United Nations special envoy for Syria was among those arriving in the Syrian capital, where he pressed for “justice and accountability for crimes”. “And […]
After the fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria, large stockpiles of the illicit drug captagon have reportedly been uncovered. The stockpiles, found by Syrian rebels, are believed to be linked to al-Assad military headquarters, implicating the fallen regime in the drug’s manufacture and distribution. But as we’ll see, captagon was once a pharmaceutical drug, […]