Kassioun Editorial 1287: The Electoral System is The Cornerstone
With the first session of the new “People’s Assembly” now convened, it has become both urgent and necessary to start thinking about the next People’s Assembly: its actual role and functions, and the legal and political environment within which it wi…
Kassioun Editorial 1286: What Comes After the Bombings and the Fuel Crisis?
Some are attempting to downplay what has taken place over the past two weeks, whether regarding the bombings, the gasoline crisis, or the many other scattered economic, security, and political incidents.
Kassioun Editorial 1285: What Is Needed: Emergency Solutions!
“After the fall of the former regime, the level of satisfaction with the new situation was higher than the level of dissatisfaction and concern regarding the country’s economic and social conditions. However, one year after the regime’s fall, dissat…
Kassioun Editorial 1284: Where To… Internationally, Regionally, and Domestically?
The fate of Syria—as a people, a state, and as political forces in different places—depends on what we do in the coming weeks and months, and on how quickly we act. It also depends on the rapidly unfolding international and regional developments. Th…
Kassioun Editorial 1283: Pressures Are Mounting, and a Turning Point is Inevitable!
The country is experiencing a persistent deadlock on every level, particularly in the socioeconomic and living conditions of its people, alongside manufactured security and social tensions that increasingly threaten civil peace. All of this is unfol…
Kassioun Editorial 1282: Syria’s Workers and Farmers Protest Movement Is the Engine of a National Solution
The scope of protest activity among Syrian farmers and workers is expanding daily across the country. They are demanding their right to a dignified life; the right to wages sufficient to secure housing, feed their children, provide them with educati…
Kassioun Editorial 1281: At a Critical Crossroads to Save the Country
The country is experiencing an extremely dangerous situation on all levels, and it is not “doing well” in any sense. Nevertheless, both the country and the Syrian people have a rare historic opportunity for a fundamental turning point that could lay…
Kassioun Editorial 1280: Lessons from the Flood
Among the lessons and conclusions drawn from the Euphrates River’s flooding — and its disastrous effects, which have not yet been fully uncovered — are the following:
Kassioun Editorial 1279: “I Am the People; I Am Moving Forward and I Know My Way!”
The areas and sectors covered by popular protests taking place daily across the country have become so extensive that merely attempting to count and document them would require a huge team of observers on the ground, as well as in the various commun…
Kassioun Editorial 1278: The Priority of the Economy: Tourist Grandeur or Combatting Poverty?
The famous English writer Samuel Johnson said in the 18th century: “Facts of life are stubborn things”. In the Syrian reality, the facts of life are stubborn and painful: the realities of rampant poverty, unemployment, IDP camps, a paralyzed economy…