The “Pen-Breaker” Hysteria, and What Underlies It

The neurotic state of the "pen-breaker", the US special envoy to Syria, Joel Rayburn, raises a great deal of ridicule among Syrian politicians. Beyond that, his case, in our opinion, epitomizes the US policy toward Syria, particularly in the last…

Cold Policies Hide the Violence of (Survival of the Fittest)

The government managed to raise nearly 465 billion Syrian pounds from issuing treasury bonds and certificates of deposit during the previous eight months of this year, which is an internal public debt loaned by public and private operating banks and…

You Will Normalize… Or Else…

It is no secret that the US has been using different means to push Arab states toward normalization with “Israel”. These means have been for the most part indirect, and using different channels – diplomatic, political, military, civil society, development…

Resolution 2254 and the Nationalism Question

Some Syrians try to present the question of the political solution to the crisis and Resolution 2254 as contradicting Syrian patriotism, under the pretext that this resolution is an international one, in which representatives of the Syrian people did not…