The Syrian economy is at risk of cardiac arrest since the beginnings of 2013, which started showing its symptoms since then, and has intensified with the delay of the political solution to the Syrian crisis. This is something we have emphasized since then: “The continuation of the crisis will cause the Syrian economy to have a cardiac arrest” (September 2012).

Since the end of last year, the Syrian pound (SYP) has collapsed at an accelerated level, a harbinger of reaching a situation in which it would lose its last function. This was accompanied by tightening the sanctions and talking about Caesar's Law, the Lebanon crisis, economic stagnation, and crises between the elites of corruption, influence, and wealth within the country. Within less than six months we have witnessed two occasions in which the Syrian pound experienced an accelerating daily deterioration (the first was at the beginning of this year, the second began last week). In both cases, deterioration was being stopped by means of temporary security and propaganda mechanisms, but only at higher limits than previously, and this was often accompanied by raising of the official exchange rate.

As the overall American crisis deepens with its various dimensions – economic, social, political, and even cultural and ideological – its repercussions frequently reflect on Washington’s foreign policies.

The new malicious and criminal US sanctions package, dubbed “Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act”, will enter into force mid-this month. This package, while massively intensifying the impact of the previously-imposed sanctions, it also differentiates from it in that it expands the impact of the sanctions not only inside Syria, but also applies international bullying on any type of bilateral dealings between Syria and any other country in the world, including in the areas of food and health.

On May 27, the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and African Countries, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Mikhail Leonidovich Bogdanov received the representative of the leadership of the Syrian opposition Front for Change and Liberation, the head of the Moscow Platform of the Syrian opposition Kadri Jamil.

Since 2011, the People’s Will Party put forth its slogan of “comprehensive radical change” as an irreplaceable solution to get out of the deep Syrian crisis, which what we witnessed on 15 March 2011 was only the explosion thereof, while its accumulation had spanned decades prior to that, and accelerated catastrophically with the start of the implementation of the so-called “social market economy” in 2005, which increased poverty and unemployment rates at record numbers and within a short period, laying a solid foundation for an earthshaking explosion.

Over the last three years, the West has stopped repeating phrases it had used for five years or more – phrases such as: “Assad must go” – and replaced them with phrases of the type: “We do not want to change the regime, but to change its behavior.” Moreover, on March 19th, Trump used the expression “the Syrian government” accompanied with a highly friendly tone, while announcing that he sent a message thereto.

Media platforms were frenzied over the past few days with the issue of Syriatel’s Chairman, Rami Makhlouf, and his failure to pay the financial dues owed to the state.

Media platforms were frenzied over the past few days with the issue of Syriatel’s Chairman, Rami Makhlouf, and his failure to pay the financial dues owed to the state.

To all workers involved in muscular and intellectual labour,

To those standing on the brink of the abyss of hunger and poverty