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Vegetable Oil Import Data refute the Pretexts of the “Government of Raising Prices”

The Ministry of Internal Trade and Costumer Protection has set the price per liter for sunflower’s seed oil through the “smart card” at 7200 SP, and with only one bottle per month per family. This has become a valid resolution to be applied starting from Saturday, November 06, 2021, and it has been rightly criticized by both citizens and experts (even in official newspapers) that this price is much higher than global prices and it has an exorbitant profit margin. In the following article, we try to calculate the profit rates of vegetable “frying oil” in two methods (or two scenarios) giving the fact that there are no enough official revelations regarding the data of import to Syria so that data to be sufficient for accurate calculation, so we can only resort to global publications and current statements. However, bot the most optimistic and most pessimistic calculations refer to profit rates that can only be described as full-fledged plunder, as through various methods we have found that the profit rate is no less than 100% and may reach 746%.

Kassioun Editorial 1044: Astana + China, a Vehicle for 2254

What has been constant during all the years of the crisis, in addition to the roles of the extremists among Syrians, who are governed by their selfish interests, is that the role of the West, headed by Washington, and in close cooperation with “Israel”, has worked from the outset against a political solution, using various tools and methods, not the last of which are sanctions and an embargo.

Raising Telecommunication Fees; Have Operating Expenses Really Increased?

Over the past month, resolutions about raising internet, landline, and cellphone fees by the Syrian Telecom, “Syriatel” and “MTN” mobile network providers have taken place. As for landline and the internet, the increase included raising the prices of calls and corporate packages, as landline service fees has increased from 200 to 500 SP, while international calls and home fiber internet service have increased by 100%, whereas increase rates in internet packages have reached 40% to 70%. Also, the price of a cellphone minute for prepaid lines has increased from 13 to 18 SP, and for postpaid lines from 11 to 15 SP. In addition to increasing the prices of internet services for cellphone by varying rates and according to the service type.

Kassioun Editorial 1043: The Northeast and 2254

Northeastern Syria has been going through a tense and complex situation for several weeks, as a result of the many entanglements therein, and under the impact of continuous Turkish threats of a new aggression.

Kassioun Editorial 1042: Responding to the Resentment, an Entry Point for the Solution

The entirety of humanity is experiencing a violent struggle in the face of the Western project, with its new-old coordinates, which seeks within “The Great Reset” to jump over the intractable capitalist crisis through a criminal vertical expansion after the possibilities of getting out of crises through horizontal expansion have ended.

1.8 Million Syrian Pounds is the average of the Living Expenses of a Family in September 2021

Based on its issue No. 1036, Kassioun adopts a specific method to calculate the living expenses of a Syrian family of 5. This method consists in calculating the costs of the necessary food basket (according to the daily need of an individual for 2400 calories from various food sources). For this aim, Kassioun depended on calculating the main meal of an individual during one day, which was formulated by the Innovation and Self-reliance Conference of the General Federation of Trade Unions in Syria in 1987, and from which the productive citizen receives the calories that guarantee her/his life and reproduce her/his workforce again).  It was also taken into consideration that these food costs represent 60% of the total living expenses of the family, while the remaining 40% represents other essential needs for the family (the costs of housing, transportation, education, clothing, healthcare, household appliances, tele-communications, and others).

Kassioun Editorial 1039: They Have Confessed!

Last Saturday, during the television program “The Last Edition”, on “Israeli” Channel 12, journalist Ehud Yaari admitted that: “The gas for power generation that will be transported from Egypt to Lebanon via pipes through Jordan and Syria, is Israeli gas”. This is the first “Israeli” admission of the truth of something that was not difficult for serious researchers to reach themselves.

Kassioun Editorial 1038: What is Behind the Western “Detour”?

The events of the past two months show a “detour” (or a “sudden turn”) in the way the West deals with the Syrian file. The West, in the political sense, though it is under American leadership, includes, in addition to Britain, France, and others, Arab countries such as Jordan, the UAE, and others.