With a voter turnout at 73.42% (11.6 million people), the incumbent president received 88.7% of the vote (10.2 million people). Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has won a third term in office after reportedly securing 88.7% of votes in Tuesday’s presidential election. These are the
On May 26th, PBS ran a report entitled “Syrian Rebels Describe U.S.-Backed Training in Qatar“. In the article, they quote interviews with rebels who are currently receiving arms and training from the U.S. According to those rebels, the U.S. is teaching them tactics which blatantly violate the
Vancouver’s Mega ILL cafe is making headlines this week for its pot-positive vibes and pot-infused pies. Said to be the city’s first “pizzeria-cum-vapor lounge”, the cafe is, as owner Mark Klokeid explained to CTV News last month, a “pot friendly” establishment where patrons are
It is hard to be amazed by anything you see on the internet these days, when you know for a fact that any teenager with a computer and a copy of Adobe Photoshop or other photo manipulation software can put together a fake photograph
More than one hundred U.S. militants are currently fighting in the extremist insurgency in Syria, according to Western intelligence reports (the number may actually be more than that, but the lowest estimates start at 50). Daily Beast wrote in a new report that the
The “Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe” (OSCE) has urged Kiev authorities to release the Russian journalists captured in eastern Ukraine, saying that intimidation and obstruction of media working in the country is “unacceptable.” Before that, Moscow had called on the (OSCE) to
“The Simpsons” is argued to offer concrete proof that the U.S. is behind the crisis in Syria and what called “Arab Spring” revolutions, according to an Egyptian TV station. An AnAl-Tahrir TV anchor said the presence of a Syrian opposition flag in the 2001
Since 2007, each year the Global Peace Index has been issued by the IEP (Institute for Economics and Peace) and is a measurement of nations’ and regions’ peacefulness based on external and internal measures. Although it seems like the world is becoming crueller and
Called America’s most mysterious monument by many, the structure of the Georgia Guidestones are referred to as an “American Stonehenge” by some, and the “Commandments for a New Age of Reason” by others. At the center of each tablet edge is a small circle, each
In September 2013, the so-called Syrian “rebels” attacked and overtook the ancient Christian town with an Assyrian/Syriac population that speaks Western Neo-Aramaic (language of Christ), Ma’loula. The town is located 56 km to the northeast of Damascus, and built into the rugged mountainside at
