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Gasoline imported to Syria is Triple the Global Price: “Sanctions’ Profit” Could Reach $920 Million Annually!
Ashtar Mahmood
The Syrian government has started a new wave of subsidy removal. This time, the government wanted to be fair in applying the distribution of subsidies, so it targeted high capacity cars and people who own more than one car, in an effort to reduce gasoline consumption and collect additional revenues from domestic sales. However, to whom do the oil product subsidy amounts actually go? They are a source of domestic and international profit for anyone blockading Syrians.
In As-Suwayda ... Initial Signs of a New Wave of the Popular Movement
Mohannad Dlykan
As-Suwayda governorate witnessed during the past week several demonstrations whose slogans and chants ranged between demand-oriented and political, and included old slogans, including those used during the years 2011-2014, with some new ones.
Why is the Syrian Pound the Hallmark of the Current Stage?! Either Abyss or Salvation.
kassioun
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.
We Should Believe Schenker, but we Should Believe Jeffrey too!
Saad Saeb
“The Obama administration welcomed Russian intervention in Syria, assuming it would be a quagmire... and this frankly was a fatal mistake.”
Supporting Sanctions is an Aggravated National Betrayal!
Written by Mohannad Dlykan
On the June 5, the European External Action Service (EEAS) published a promotional video on Twitter regarding EU sanctions against Syria, in which it claims that the EU sanctions were “designed in a way… avoiding negative impact on the population.”
From the Documents of Neo-Malthusianism – Depopulation for Perpetual Enslavement
Dr. Osama Dlykan
«The U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries… [s]ome LDC leaders will see developed country pressures for family planning as a form of economic or racial imperialism… it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion… Assistance for population moderation should give primary emphasis to the largest and fastest growing developing countries… India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Columbia… Sterilization of men and women has received wide-spread acceptance in several areas… Bangladesh: The present 75 million, or so, unless slowed by famine, disease, or massive birth control, will double in 23 years and exceed 170 million by 2000» – from National Security Study Memorandum 1974 NSSM 200 (“The Kissinger Report”). Declassified 1989.
Regarding “Caesar”, “RAND”, and the Northeast and the Kurdish-Kurdish Dialogue
Written by Mohannad Dlykan
The new US sanctions package, which falls under the elusive name “Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act”, will enter into force mid-next month. Several events are taking place in parallel, in the northeast and northwest, and in the Syrian territories in general.
What Has Prompted the US and the West to Raise Again the Issue of the Syrian President?
Written by Mohannad Dlykan
The Western Syria-related discussion seeks to once again push the issue of “the fate of the Syrian president” to the forefront, after it had been absent for a few years. So, what lies behind this?
Don’t Be Surprised, They’ll Declare Their Loyalty to the West and Hostility to Astana!
Saad Saeb
The term “fictitious dualisms” has been part of the People’s Will Party’s rhetoric since 2005-2006, that is, precisely the period in which the prospects for a direct US invasion of Syria had reached their peak.
Regarding the “Confidentiality” of the Constitutional Committee Deliberations
Saad Saeb
The UN Special Envoy to the Syrian Crisis Geir Pedersen’s briefing to the UN Security Council last Wednesday, 29 April revealed that the date for the next meeting of the Constitutional Committee will remain pending until convening physically becomes possible, that is, until the world is done with the coronavirus crisis.
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Key Points for Deciphering US Behavior: The Northeast and Northwest, Sanctions, and Reconstruction
Written by Mohannad Dlykan
While writing this piece, the total confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US is nearly one million, about a third of confirmed cases worldwide. It is both painful and sad, whether concerning the suffering of Americans due to this catastrophe, or the suffering of American medical staff on the front lines as they genuinely fight the virus and try to protect the public’s health.
The “Compassionate” US, Abu al-Fath al-Farghali, and Wholesale “Coincidences”
Mohannad Dlykan
The US efforts to float the idea of al-Nusra and delist it as a terrorist organization are taking on a new shape with the spread of the coronavirus. One of the main factors driving Washington to engage in a new narrative about al-Nusra is the March 5th agreement between the Russian and Turkish presidents, which appears to have put into effect US’ worst nightmare with regards to Syria.
Sanctions have long been indefensible; now in the time of Covid-19, more so than ever. Nor are they some minor phenomena. Over a quarter of humanity lives under U.S. economic sanctions. That means millions of people lack untroubled access to food and medicines during a lethal pestilence. Thus in Iran, where the government fears millions of deaths from Covid-19, sanctions amount to genocide. Under ordinary circumstances, these embargoes are economic warfare. By putting Iran and Venezuela under economic siege even before the pandemic, the U.S. had murdered tens of thousands of those countries’ citizens. Yet most Americans seem unaware or unconcerned about this sadistic, criminal and murderous policy inflicted on millions in their name.
We have heard over the last month or so, as the coronavirus spread to nearly all parts of the world, that it does not discriminate among humans on any basis. Particularly that the rich and poor are equal when it comes to being infected by COVID-19, and the most vulnerable are primarily the elderly or those with underlying health conditions. This, to some, was evidence that there is finally something where all humans are equal – some went as far as saying that this was, in a way, a positive side to the virus, where the underprivileged are for once not at a greater disadvantage. This cannot be further from the truth.