Syria Sinking
Rats fleeing a sinking ship
Ten Years On: No Peace for Iraq
On Saturday 12th another car bomb exploded in the Iraqi city of Samarra killing at least 14. Civilians, and more recently school children, have been deliberately targeted in attacks. The fact that the car bomb exploded in a sh...
A Brutal Account of the Syrian Civil War (Warning: Graphic Content)
On Oct. 28, 2012, journalist Olly Lambert was filming an interview with a Syrian rebel leader in the village of al-Bara for FRONTLINE, a government airstrike hit barely 300 meters from where he was filming. Keeping the cameras ...
WATCH: The Crowd In The Machine
What shall we make of the flood of images and voices coursing through the Internet, and how shall we process it? In our minds, the details of so much material overlap and overwhelm. On the Internet, we say, our attention is get...
Why Russia Continues to Support Assad
Despite the current political climate in Moscow with its own unrest in the south, and concern over its “sphere of influence,” President Putin appears dedicated to supporting the Assad regime. Yet Russia, as well as the Unit...
Syria: “Lens of a Young Homsi”, Photographs of a City under Siege
When demonstrations started in Syria in March 2011, a group of friends from Homs, all under 25, took their cameras to photograph these unprecedented protests in their city. Soon after, they were photographing the destruction o...
WATCH: Ellie Goulding’s #Song4Syria
Pop icon Ellie Goulding has released her single “I Know You Care” in support of Syria’s children – children who have watched their peers die, children who are starving, children who have been forced to f...
National Security’s Cameo
Having been cast to the wayside in a way that it hadn’t been during the previous two presidential elections, eleven years after the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, the topics of National Security and Terrorism have ...
How Europe Is Failing Syria’s Refugees
Barring a miracle, the war in Syria will soon enter its fourth year. Hope among experts that the conflict may reach a prompt conclusion has waned. Every aspect of what has happened in the country – from the sheer number o...