Articles by Franklin Lamb
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The Siege of Yarmouk
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Crimes against Humanity Warranting Prosecution of the Guilty, Not Blame for the Victims…
→ read full articlePrivacy Rights: Did We Ever Really Have Them?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
The answer to this question is being pondered across America in light to the two seeming mutually contradictory US Federal Court decisions handed down this month from Courts in Washington DC and New York.
→ read full articleBibi and Bandar Badger Obama: Better Six Billion than Six Trillion!
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—along with certain Arab League countries, plus Turkey and Israel, have this past week reportedly committed themselves to raising nearly $6 billion to “beef up” the just-hatched Islamic Front (IF) in Syria.
→ read full articleInside Emergency Damascene Shelters
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Palestinian Sisters as Keepers of Their Brothers – This brief update it seeks to highlight the esprit de corps, solidarity, resistance, and good will among Palestinians here in Damascus who were forced from Yarmouk and other camps and how they are huddled and preparing for a harsh winter which one senses these frigid nights it not far off.
→ read full articleWhy Ain al Hilweh?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
Because it Exists – A modest tempest is brewing in Lebanon among some supporters of Palestine and the US State Department over the decision by the Sabra-Shatila Scholarship Program , which intends to grant an additional 150-200 tuition scholarships to Palestinian students for spring semester enrolled in Lebanon’s dozen colleges and universities.
→ read full articleIran to Follow? White House Expected to Ease Sanctions Targeting Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Pressure on Obama from Putin is part of the ‘price tag’ for Russia’s role in bailing out the American president, whose chemical weapons ‘redline’ became something of an albatross. But another reason for the relaxation is that the White House believes it needs to communicate to Damascus that prospects for better relations, and possibly even some cooperation, are not completely dead.
→ read full articlePeres Suffering from Portnoy’s Complaint?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
At a cocktail party last year, Peres was overheard telling Vice President Biden, “Who knows if there is a god or not? But if so, I doubt he deals in real estate!” Biden appeared shocked, quickly summoning a waiter for replacement glasses of scotch, hoping to cheer the president of Israel up a bit. “He needs to be more philosophical,” Biden said, reporting on his “psychoanalytic session” with Peres.
→ read full articleFrançois Hollande’s Missteps Put France on Levant Sidelines
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
When Mr Hollande cast himself in the role of western war leader for the second time in a year, his popularity shot up again, though not with the French public, but with the US Zionist lobby and the neocons in Congress.
→ read full articleFour Decades after the Tishrin…War Self-Delusion
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
In Damascus and many other areas of Syria this weekend, citizens will celebrate the accomplishments of the October 6, 1973 – 19 day war jointly launched by Syrian and Egyptian armies to regain Arab land illegally occupied since 1967.
→ read full articlePassing the Torch to a New Generation of Syrians
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Few, one imagines, in the Syrian Arab Republic these days question the urgency and enormity of the task of reconstruction of their ancient country from war inflicted destruction caused by a carnage already more than half as long as World War I and approaching half as long as World War II.
→ read full article31 Years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatila
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The Sabra-Shatila massacre took place September 16-19th in Beirut, a well-documented 48 hours of slaughter that saw the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp surrounded and sealed off by the occupying Israeli army, whose intent was to block and force back inside the killing field anyone seeking to escape the predicted orgy of butchery.
→ read full articleAmerican Bombing Still Likely – “Go Tell It on the Mountain, From the Peaks of Qasioun!”
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
At the height of the war scare here in early September, a group 9 primarily Sunni, Christian, and Alawite students and activists, led by a charismatic and agnostic pro-Hezbollah Lebanese Shia woman from Hermel in Lebanon’s North Bekaa Valley, set up a Human Shields and Observers camp to protect the Syrian TV channels, radio and communication towers situated at the crest of Mount Qasioun which rises up 1,151 meters (3,776 ft) at its crest.
→ read full articleA View from Tehran
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Truth told, it’s a bit intense these days in Tehran as in most other countries in this region, and this observer fairly soon may be on what just might be the last Tehran-Damascus flight for some time in light of what could occur in the coming days.
→ read full articleVows of ‘Occupation until Martyrdom’
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Seven of Syria’s Thirteen Palestinian Camps Now Controlled by Salafi-Jihadists who are entering the country at an accelerating pace, according to Syrian, UNWRA and Palestinian officials as well as residents in the refugee camps here. For the now-estimated 7000 imported foreign fighters, Palestinian camps are seen as optimal locales for setting up bases across Syria.
→ read full articleA Formula for Palestinian Survival in Damascus
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Will it Work? For more than a year, Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, one of nine in Syria, has been a war zone between supporters of the Syrian government and those seeking its overthrow. But the number of camp residents actively engaged in fighting on either side is negligible.
→ read full articleAre Palestinian Students in Lebanon Being Pressured to Choose Kalashnikovs over College?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The choice for many Palestinian young men in Lebanon has come down to guns or education. By force of Lebanese law and under threat of prison for violators, Palestinians are denied the elementary civil rights to work in more than 50 professions and are barred by a 2001 racist law from even owning a home.
→ read full articleThe Bomb in My Neighborhood
Franklin Lamb – Al Manar,
15 Jul 2013
This observer’s neighbors seemed to believe, especially over the past year, as most of us did, that the war in Syria would, in one form or another, spill into our neighborhood, Dahiyeh, the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut.
→ read full articleThe West to Pay a High Price for Targeting the Syrian Government, Security Experts Claim
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Sevice,
17 Jun 2013
This is one subjects that is reportedly being analyzed by the by US Intelligence Community. It is to be hoped that Washington and Brussels listen and act appropriately. If so they will avoid a steep price for their currently flawed policy.
→ read full articleWhy Obama is Declaring War on Syria
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
“The Syrian army’s victory at al-Qusayr was more than the [Obama] administration could accept given that town’s strategic position in the region. Its capture by the Assad forces has essentially added Syria to Iran’s list of victories starting with Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, as well as its growing influence in the Gulf.”
→ read full articleUS And Israel Lobby Reel from Hezbollah Al-Qusayr Victory
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Plenty of adjectives and some clichés are being bandied about from Washington to Beirut to describe the al-Qusayr battle results and significance. Among them are game-changer, mother of all battles, a new regime approach to fighting, altered balance of power, critical turning point in the civil war, and so on. Perhaps less appreciated here in Beirut are al-Qusayr’s effects on the Zionist occupiers of Palestine and their currently traumatized US lobby.
→ read full articleThe EU Continues Targeting the Civilian Population of Syria with US-Led Sanctions While Scraping the EU Arms Embargo
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Oxfam warned before and after the vote of “devastating consequences” if the embargo ends.”There are no easy answers when trying to stop the bloodshed in Syria, but sending more arms and ammunition clearly isn’t one of them,” the aid agency’s head of arms control, Anna Macdonald told the media this week.
→ read full articleHezbollah and the Syrian Pit
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
It is the strategic crossroads town of al-Qusayr, and its environs, which whoever controls, can block supplies and reinforcements to and from Damascus and locations north and east. For those seeking the ouster of Syria’s government, including NATO countries led by Washington, were their “allies” to lose control of al-Qusayr it would mean the cutting off of supplies from along the Lebanese border, from which most of the local opposition’s weapons flow and fighters have been smuggled over the past 26 months.
→ read full articleRefugee Camps as War Zones – How Lebanon’s Palestinians Are Being Pulled into Syria’s War
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
Historically, Palestinian refugees, wherever they have sought temporary sanctuary following the ethnic cleansing of their country by the 19th century Zionist colonial enterprise, and pending their return to Palestine, have insisted on avoiding local and international conflicts while seeking a modicum of interim civil rights from the host countries.
→ read full articleUN General Assembly Vote Reflects Shift in Syrian Public Opinion
Franklin Lamb - CounterPunch,
20 May 2013
At the UN this past week a US-Qatari-Saudi drafted General Assembly Resolution designed to increase pressure on the Assad government stumbled badly and fell far short of a predicted overwhelming vote in favor. A major diplomatic victory for Syria’s UN Ambassador as public opinion shifts in favor of the Assad government and pressure as well as certain optimism builds in the run-up to the Geneva II conference being organized by the White House and the Kremlin.
→ read full articleCan Richard Falk Achieve Civil Rights for Palestinians in Lebanon?
Franklin Lamb - CounterPunch,
20 May 2013
Two-Thirds of Palestinian Refugees are Living in Poverty
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