Syria is conducting a referendum today, signaling its disregard for the protests and violence that have been going on for so long. The last referendum in 2007 gave Assad 98% of the vote, so its not hard to predict what the outcome of this vote will be. The world still remains inert, although there are an increasing number of discussions and proposals being floated. Syria still receives support from Russia, China, and Iran so the Assad government can probably hold on for quite some time.
An article in Al Arabiya about the Greek debt crisis. This particular point of view is very common in the world, but it is rarely articulated in the Western press. Note that an article in the Toronto Star can be just as damning about how devastating the bailout terms have been, but doesn’t go to the next step of suggesting that the reason for all this pain is to bail out the banks, not the Greeks.
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