Agenda 2019

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/heres-how-syria-became-hell-on-earth/ar-AAf8uJ1?li=AAaeUIW&ocid=U142DHP     Here's how Syria became hell on earth Bashar al Assad   One of the many sides             Civil War  "The US and its allies have spent the past four years trying to figure out who to support in the conflict, and how. " That phrase sums it up in a nutshell and even right up to now, the US and its allies still have no idea what they are trying to do, or how to do it. The House of Commons may soon be asked (again) by the government to authorise British military involvement in this conflict. Any United Kingdom politician  voting in favour of authorising such intervention, no matter how limited, will be guilty of committing our service personnel to a civil war where there are numerous hostile combatants all fighting against each other and where ther...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-forgotten-massacre-8139930.html 1,700 Palestinians were killed at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps Many people will have forgotten, if they ever knew, what happened at Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in September 1982. A timely reminder from Robert Fisk. link:  http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-fisk180903.htm "............w hat we found inside the Palestinian camp at ten o'clock on the morning of September 1982 did not quite beggar description, although it would have been easier to re-tell in the cold prose of a medical examination"

Damascus is often claimed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, Ever since I first went there in the early part of 1985, I have loved the city and Syria, the people I met on numerous visits, the location, the climate, the restaurants everything in fact. Paradoxically, my first view of the country was a chilling one. Arriving at DAM the Damascus International Airport very late at night (the Airport was opened specially to receive the Company aircraft) from a refuelling stop at Larnaca, we were met on the tarmac by a deputation of high ranking army officers who accompanied us to the terminal building on special buses to collect our luggage and the trunks containing the 25 volumes of our (as yet incomplete) proposal for Phase 2 of the local manufacturing of communications equipment Contract for the Syrian Government. Almost as soon as we left the airport for the drive into the City and what was to be our home, office, meeting venue etc over the next week...