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Turkey: “Do as I say, not as I do”

September 6, 2013 By Anthony Sardelli

Turkey has joined the U.S., Britain, and France in calling for military intervention in neighboring Syria, following the reported deployment of a chemical nerve agent against Syrian civilians.

Filipino workers urged to flee Syria, lawmaker condemns U.S. attack

September 4, 2013 By Sharon Elizabeth P. McAllister

The Philippine Embassy in Damascus is urging Filipinos working in Syria to either return home or seek refuge in neighboring countries due to increasing danger and possible U.S. intervention.

“Humanitarian intervention” in Syria is a hoax

September 4, 2013 By Emile Schepers

The language the administration is using to argue for an attack on Syria is morally bankrupt power politics, not humanitarianism, and would violate international law.

Agrarian strike in Colombia triggers repression, wider struggle

September 3, 2013 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Angry small farmers are rejecting free trade agreements Colombia signed with the United States, Canada, and the European Union. Rrural people in Colombia are suffering.Eight million Colombians are hungry,

Kurdish struggle a key factor in Syria and beyond

August 30, 2013 By Conn Hallinan

For almost a century, the Kurds-one of the world's largest ethnic groups without its own state-have been deceived and double-crossed, their language and culture suppressed, their villages burned and bombed, and their people scattered; now they...