Kassioun Editorial 1139: Lessons of the Past are the Movement’s Tools, Now and in the Future
The most important weapon in the popular movement’s hands in its newest wave is understanding and comprehending the lessons learned by its previous wave, and benefitting from the major lessons enriching the collective human heritage of peoples’ move…
Kassioun Editorial 1138: Yet it Continues!
Syria-related events and developments are moving fast inside Syria and in its surroundings, near and far. This is connected to several factors, the most important of which on the external level is the continued shift in the international balance of…
Kassioun Editorial 1137: The People’s Power in the Regions, How and When?
The new wave of the popular movement in Syria is still in its infancy, and possibilities are still open before it – the positive and the negative ones. This is the nature of things. That the movement develops peacefully and with just and rational sl…
Kassioun Editorial 1136: Nominal Increase and Actual Decrease
The share of wages in the national income is divided into two main items: the wages/salaries block and the subsidy block. Any talk of increasing wages should consider these two items together.
Kassioun Editorial 1135: “Drought Prayer” for War!
In recent days, an organized media-political and psychological campaign has been taking place, in which extremists in both the regime and the opposition alike are participating, as if one central button had been pushed.
Kassioun Editorial 1134: Sooner or Later, the Popular Movement Will Return!
The Syrian atmosphere is in a state of pent-up anger accompanied by cautious anticipation. People’s living conditions have reached unbearable limits. Additionally, the processes of lifting subsidies and the state’s withdrawal from playing any social…
Kassioun Editorial 1133: Neither the Government Governs nor the People’s Assembly Legislates!
The tension and uproar that took place last week about the exchange rate, the living situation, the extraordinary session of the People’s Assembly, and the government’s behavior during it, reflect a deep crisis whose roots go back to 2005. That year…
Kassioun Editorial 1132: Sarouja and the Attempt to Assassinate Syrians’ Spirit!
Sarouja’s tragedy (a fire that burned down a significant part of a neighborhood in Old Damascus on July 16) is being approached from several angles, all of which have in common attempts to overlook the essence of the issue, and even work to cover an…
Kassioun Editorial 1131: In Syria, Silencing with Hunger!
In July 2021, the minimum wage in Syria was increased to 71,000 Syrian pounds (SYP). Now, two years later, it has reached 93,000 SYP. Let’s look at this “increase” from the perspective of the SYP’s purchasing power and the exchange rate against the…
Kassioun Editorial 1130: What Will the World Look Like Post-BRICS 2023?
Preparations continue for a long-discussed and long-awaited pivotal BRICS summit, the Johannesburg, South Africa Summit, in August 2023.