The Assads are anti-communists

Fighting (dis)information about the Assads, the Syrian Revolution, and the subsequent Syrian Civil War

## **The Assads are anti-communists**

* “The Syrian Shabiha and Their State - Statehood & Participation” by Yassin al-Haj Salih https://lb.boell.org/en/2014/03/03/syrian-shabiha-and-their-state-statehood-participation [EN]
* “Palestinian Activist Budour Hassan Explains The Case Of A Jailed Syrian Journalist” by Budour Hassan https://popularresistance.org/palestinian-activist-budour-hassan-explains-the-case-of-a-jailed-syrian-journalist/ [EN]
* “Small wonder: The global fascist love affair with the Assad regime” by Alex Rowell https://pulsemedia.org/2017/08/20/small-wonder-the-global-fascist-love-affair-with-the-assad-regime/ [EN]
* “White Supremacists And Conspiracy Theorists Rage Over Syrian ‘False Flag’ Attack” https://angrywhitemen.org/2018/04/17/white-supremacists-and-conspiracy-theorists-rage-over-syrian-false-flag-attack/ [EN]
* “Warszawa: Manifestacja przed ambasadą USA” https://xportal.pl/?p=10277 [PL]
* “European fascists fighting in Syria alongside regime forces, Sepah Pasdaran and Hezbollah” http://www.naameshaam.org/european-fascists-fighting-in-syria-alongside-regime-forces-sepah-pasdaran-and-hezbollah/ [EN]
* “Assad's Indispensable Foreign Legions” by Jeffrey White https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/assads-indispensable-foreign-legions [EN]
* “Examining White Nationalist Support for the Assad Government” by Mikhil K. https://www.thefuldagap.com/2017/05/10/examining-white-nationalist-support-for-the-assads-syria/ [EN]
* “Why Nazis from Charlottesville to Europe love Bashar al-Assad” by James Snell https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2017/8/17/why-nazis-love-bashar-al-assad [EN]
* “Syrienkonflikt : Rot-braune Allianz für Syrien” von Germano Monti https://de.qantara.de/inhalt/syrienkonflikt-rot-braune-allianz-fuer-syrien [DE], “تحالف الأضداد في أوروبا (متطرفي اليمين واليسار والكاثوليك) لخدمة نظام سوريا: هتلر وستالين وموسيليني وتطرف كاثوليكي تحت راية “الأسد Germano Monti https://ar.qantara.de/content/thlf-lddd-fy-wrwb-mttrfy-lymyn-wlysr-wlkthwlyk-lkhdm-nzm-swry-htlr-wstlyn-wmwsylyny-wttrf [AR], “The Syrian Conflict: A red-brown alliance for Syria” by Germano Monti https://en.qantara.de/content/the-syrian-conflict-a-red-brown-alliance-for-syria [EN]
* “Bleeding hearts at home, bleeding skulls abroad” by Charles Davis https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/bleeding-hearts-home-bleeding-skulls-abroad [EN]
* “Syria: Activist Dies in Jail, Second Feared Dead” https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/02/22/syria-activist-dies-jail-second-feared-dead [EN]
* “Syrian-American journalist killed in Turkey” https://cpj.org/2017/09/syrian-american-journalist-killed-in-turkey/ [EN]
* “Offline: Bassel (Safadi) Khartabil” https://www.eff.org/offline/bassel-khartabil [EN]
* “Meeting Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Syria's leading intellectual dissident” by Emran Feroz https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/amp/society/2017/10/6/meeting-yassin-al-haj-saleh-syrias-leading-intellectual-dissident [EN]
* “سوريا في المخاض: حوار مع عبد العزيز الخيّر” http://web.archive.org/web/20121025112753/http://www.adabmag.com/node/458 [AR], “Interview with Abdalaziz al-Khair, leading figure of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change, Syria” by Narmin Amir and Yusuf Fakhr ed Din in Damascus https://www.antiimperialista.org/en/al\_khair [EN], https://syrianncb.com/2012/05/17/syria-in-travail-interview-with-abdulaziz-al-khair/ [EN]
* “فائق المير” http://web.archive.org/web/20140113070024/https://now.mmedia.me/lb/ar/analysisar/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC-%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%B1 [AR], “Faiek Almeer” by Ziad Majed https://freesyriantranslators.net/2013/12/14/faiek-almeer%e2%80%8e/ [EN]
* “‘Tyrants across the world know now they can maintain power through mass slaughter.’ Interview with Leila al-Shami for Open Left” by Gabriel Levy and Ilya Matveev http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/interview-with-leila-al-shami-for-open-left/ [EN]
* “The Syrian regime is lying about the real scale of COVID-19” by Sami https://diary.thesyriacampaign.org/the-syrian-regime-is-lying-about-the-real-scale-of-covid-19/ [EN]
* “Civilian Death Toll” http://sn4hr.org/blog/2018/09/24/civilian-death-toll/ [EN]
* "State of Starvation" by Yassin al-Haj Saleh https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/state-starvation+%5BEN]
* "South Syria: The return of state failure" by Haley Schuler-McCoin https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/south-syria-return-state-failure [EN]
* "Makhlouf, Inc." by Kelly Grotke https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/makhlouf-inc [EN]
* "State extermination, not a ‘dictatorial regime’" by Yassin al-Haj Saleh https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/state-extermination-not-“dictatorial-regime” [EN]
* "Assad’s “eternal rule:” the long prelude to genocide" by Yassin al-Haj Saleh https://www.yassinhs.com/2019/10/07/assads-eternal-rule-the-long-prelude-to-genocide/ [EN]
* “Blame game Lydia Wilson on the dangers of writing about Assad” by Lydia Wilson https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/max-blumenthal-assad-syria-verso/ [EN]
* "The Left’s hollow anti-imperialism over Syria" by Joey Ayoub https://hummusforthought.com/2016/08/30/the-lefts-hollow-anti-imperialism-over-syria/ [EN]
* "List of Rebuttals to Max Blumenthal’s Anti-Syrian Article " by Joey Ayoub https://hummusforthought.com/2016/10/05/list-of-rebuttals-to-max-blumenthals-anti-syrian-article/ [EN]
* "Wretched of the Earth: Thoughts on Syria, Palestine and Discourse" by Mohammed Suliman https://hummusforthought.com/2016/10/18/wretched-of-the-earth-thoughts-on-syria-palestine-and-discourse/ [EN]
* "On The Allies We’re Not Proud Of: A Palestinian Response to Troubling Discourse on Syria" by Joey Ayoub https://hummusforthought.com/2016/10/12/on-the-allies-were-not-proud-of-a-palestinian-response-to-troubling-discourse-on-syria/ [EN]
* "Wretched of the Earth: solidarity letters between Syria and Gaza" by Joey Ayoub https://hummusforthought.com/2018/09/24/wretched-of-the-earth-solidarity-letters-between-syria-and-gaza/ [EN]
* "Syria and the Reactionary Left" by Joey Ayoub https://hummusforthought.com/2016/06/22/syria-is-the-world/ [EN]
* "Between Regime and Rebels: A Survey of Syria’s Alawi Sect" by Elizabeth Tsurkov https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/07/22/between-regime-and-rebels-a-survey-of-syrias-alawi-sect/ [EN]
* "A Dangerous Method: Syria, Sy Hersh, and the Art of Mass-crime Revisionism" by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangerous-method-syria-sy-hersh-art-mass-crime-revisionism/ [EN]
* "Syria in Revolt" by Sadiq J. Al-Azm https://bostonreview.net/world/sadik-al-azm-syria-in-revolt [EN]
* "Shell Shocked and Rouged: Syria Is Not a Disposable Bride" by Talal Alyan https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shell-shocked-and-rouged-\_b\_3837083 [EN]
* "It's clear that Turkey was not involved in the chemical attack on Syria" by Eliot Higgins and Dan Kaszeta https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/22/allegation-false-turkey-chemical-attack-syria [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* "Syria and the World: Reactionarism is Back, and Progressing" by Yassin al-Haj Saleh https://www.yassinhs.com/2016/02/19/syria-and-the-world-reactionarism-is-back-and-progressing/ [EN]
* "Russian Trolls Denied Syrian Gas Attack—Before It Happened" by Adam Rawnsley https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-trolls-denied-syrian-gas-attackbefore-it-happened [EN] (owned by IAC)
* "Forty-four months and forty-four years: 4- Palestinization of Syrians and the present world condition" by Yassin al-Haj Saleh https://www.yassinhs.com/2015/01/02/forty-four-months-and-fourty-four-years-4-palestinization-of-syrians-and-the-present-world-condition/ [EN]
* "Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets" by Janine di Giovanni https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/16/why-assad-and-russia-target-the-white-helmets/ [EN]
* "Chemical Weapons and Absurdity: The Disinformation Campaign Against the White Helmets" https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2018/12/18/chemical-weapons-and-absurdity-the-disinformation-campaign-against-the-white-helmets/ [EN]
* “Pro-Assad lobby group rewards bloggers on both the left and the right” https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/09/30/pro-assad-lobby-group-rewards-bloggers-on-both-the-left-and-the-right/ [EN]
* "Assad’s far-right Europe corps?" by Øyvind Strømmen https://www.hate-speech.org/other-volunteers/ [EN]
* “Is fascism infiltrating our rallies” by Oriana P. http://www.occupyantwerp.be/is-fascism-infiltrating-our-rallies-2/ [EN]
* "The Syrian Cause and Anti-Imperialism" by Yassin al-Haj Saleh https://www.yassinhs.com/2017/05/05/the-syrian-cause-and-anti-imperialism/ [EN]
* “From Al-Masdar to InfoWars: How a pro-Assad conspiracy theory got picked up by the far-right” by Natasha Bertrand http://web.archive.org/web/20170411122721/http://www.businessinsider.my/syriahoax-conspiracy-alex-jones-infowars-syria-trump-hoax-2017-4/ [EN] (owned by Axel Springer SE), https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/al-masdar-infowars-pro-assad-172434629.html [EN]
* “Our Man in Damascus: the CIA, Syria and the Rendition of Maher Arar” https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/01/our-man-in-damascus-the-cia-syria-and-the-rendition-of-maher-arar/ [EN]
* “Anti-imperialism of Idiots” by Leila al-Shami https://itsgoingdown.org/the-anti-imperialism-of-idiots/ [EN]; https://leilashami.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/the-anti-imperialism-of-idiots/ [EN]; https://libcom.org/library/anti-imperialism-idiots-leila-al-shami/ [EN] (libertarian communist archive)
* "Chomsky and the Syria revisionists: Regime whitewashing" by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2017/5/5/chomsky-and-the-syria-revisionists-regime-whitewashing [EN]
* "Chomsky and the Syria revisionists: The Left's moral cul-de-sac" by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2017/5/5/chomsky-and-the-syria-revisionists-the-lefts-moral-cul-de-sac [EN]
* "Pity the Fisk" by Mat Nashed https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2017/1/9/pity-the-fisk [EN]
* "Trump and Assad's fascist manual: 101 - fake news" by Yousef Khalil https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2017/2/16/trump-and-assads-fascist-manual-101-fake-news [EN]
* “The Syrian Regime's Business Backbone” by Bassam Haddad https://merip.org/2012/03/the-syrian-regimes-business-backbone/ [EN]; https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/25440/The-Syrian-Regime%60s-Business-Backbone [EN]
* "How Assad Made Truth a Casualty of War" by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/09/07/how-assad-made-truth-a-casualty-of-war/ [EN]
* "Syria’s Monumental Loss" by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/02/23/syrias-monumental-loss/ [EN]
* "Robert Fisk’s crimes against journalism" by Idrees Ahmad https://pulsemedia.org/2016/12/03/robert-fisks-crimes-against-journalism [EN]
* "Are there really “no good guys” in Syria?" by Idrees Ahmad https://pulsemedia.org/2018/05/04/are-there-really-no-good-guys-in-syria/ [EN]
* "Russia Today and the post-truth virus" by Idrees Ahmad https://pulsemedia.org/2016/12/15/russia-today-and-the-post-truth-virus/ [EN]
* "Junket journalism in the shadow of genocide" by Idrees Ahmad https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/9/15/junket-journalism-in-the-shadow-of-genocide/ [EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* "Raging with the Machine: Robert Fisk, Seymour Hersh and Syria" by Yassin al-Haj Saleh https://pulsemedia.org/2014/04/25/raging-with-the-machine-robert-fisk-seymour-hersh-and-syria/ [EN]
* "Deir Ezzor case reveals the grim reality of regime’s model of ‘retur’”" https://syacd.org/deir-ezzor-case-reveals-the-grim-reality-of-regimes-model-of-return/ [EN]
* "Displaced Syrians forced to return to Assad-held areas from Rukban facing detention, torture, death" https://syacd.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SACD\_Displaced\_Syrians\_forced\_to\_return\_to\_Assad\_held\_areas\_from\_Rukban\_facing\_detention\_torture\_death.pdf [PDF, 108 KB, EN]
* "“Reconciliation agreement” in Daraa: Insecurity, continued repression and collective punishment" https://syacd.org/reconciliation-agreement-in-daraa-insecurity-continued-repression-and-collective-punishment/ [EN]
* "Vengeance Repression and Fear" https://syacd.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SACD\_Vengeance\_Repression\_and\_Fear\_EN.pdf [PDF, 12.3 MB, EN]
* "How Syrians Talk About Assad: Zaina Erhaim vs. Partisan Girl" https://www.albawaba.com/news/how-syrians-talk-about-assad-zaina-erhaim-vs-partisan-girl-1127702 [EN]
* "Fabricator and fraudster" by Oz Katerji https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/december-2020/fabricator-fraudster/ [EN]
* “Revolution, counterrevolution, and imperialism in Syria: Interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh” by Ashley Smith https://isreview.org/issue/107/revolution-counterrevolution-and-imperialism-syria [EN]
* “WikiLeaks release excludes evidence of €2 billion transfer from Syria to Russia” https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-russia-bank-2-billion/ [EN]
* “Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory” by Michael Karadjis https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/regime-preservation-how-us-policy-facilitated-assad%E2%80%99s-victory [EN]; https://mkaradjis.com/2019/05/14/regime-preservation-how-us-policy-facilitated-assads-victory/ [EN]
* "Syriac Union Party denounces Bashar al-Assad’s statements on Syriacs being Arabs" https://syriacpress.com/blog/2020/12/11/syriac-union-party-denounces-bashar-al-assads-statements-on-syriacs-being-arabs/ [EN]
* "The Arab Spring Let the People Shout, Not Whisper" by Omar Alshogre https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/17/arab-spring-ten-years-syria-protests-prisoner-refugee/ (archived: https://archive.vn/p2xne) [EN]
* "Apologists Call Assad Secular. Assad Tells Syrians Otherwise" by Asser Khattab https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/apologists-call-assad-secular-assad-tells-syrians-otherwise/ [EN]
* "The 'Useful Idiots': How These British Academics Helped Russia Deny War Crimes At The UN" by Chris York https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-useful-idiots\_uk\_5e2b107ac5b67d8874b0dd9d [EN]
* "Charts" https://sn4hr.org/blog/category/charts/ [EN]
* "Swastikas in Damascus" by Asser Khattab https://newlinesmag.com/essays/swastikas-in-damascus/ [EN]
* "The Syrian Revolution: reflections on a decade of struggle" by Yassin al-Haj Saleh https://roarmag.org/essays/syrian-revolution-yassin-haj-saleh-interview/ [EN]
* "Erasing people through disinformation: Syria and the “anti-imperialism” of fools" https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/erasing-people-through-disinformation-syria-and-“anti-imperialism”-fools [EN]
* "Worldless Syria: Depopulated discourses and denied agency" by Yassin al-Haj Saleh https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/worldless-syria-depopulated-discourses-and-denied-agency [EN]
* "Wafa Mustafa: the woman fighting to find her father – and all of Syria’s disappeared" by Annie Kelly https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/14/wafa-mustafa-the-woman-fighting-to-find-her-father-and-all-of-syrias-disappeared (Archive: https://archive.vn/iJKKN) [EN]
* "Solidarity, Inc. Part I: The Industrialisation of Solidarity" by Omar Sabbour https://newpol.org/solidarity-inc-part-i-the-industrialisation-of-solidarity/ [EN]
* "What Western anti-imperialists prescribe for their Arab counterparts" by Omar Sabbour https://newpol.org/solidarity-inc-part-ii-the-western-teenage-anti-imperialists-prescription-for-arab-anti-imperialists/ [EN]
* "The Day the World Stood Still" by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad https://newlinesmag.com/review/the-day-the-world-stood-still/ [EN]

### **Related Pages**

* Palestine
* Palestinian genocide
* Putin is anti-communist
* Red-Brown Alliances, post-Cold War
* Syrian genocides
* Syria Protests
* Syrian refugee crisis
* War on Terror

### **Research papers**

* “Housing, Inequality, and Economic Change in Syria” by Robert Goulden https://sci-hub.st/10.1080/13530194.2011.581817 [PDF, 144kb, EN]
* “Syria: from ‘authoritarian upgrading’ to revolution?” by Raymond Hinnebusch https://sci-hub.st/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2012.01059.x [PDF, 136kb, EN]
* "Extractivism, Neoliberalism, and the Environment: Revisiting the Syrian Conflict from an Ecological Justice Perspective" by Efe Can Gürcan http://sci-hub.st/10.1080/10455752.2018.1516794 [PDF, 1.5 MB, EN]

### **News articles**

* “Why White Nationalists Love Bashar al-Assad” by Mariam Elba https://theintercept.com/2017/09/08/syria-why-white-nationalists-love-bashar-al-assad-charlottesville/ [EN]
* “Syria’s Assad has become an icon of the far right in America” by Liz Sly and Rick Noack https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/13/syrias-assad-has-become-an-unexpected-icon-of-the-far-right-in-america/ [EN] (archived: https://archive.vn/XdQKt, owned by Graham Holdings Company)
* “European far-right leader says Assad the ‘solution’ for Syria” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-far-right-marine-le-pen-syria-bashar-assad-reassuring-solution-national-front/ [EN]
* “Why do Italian fascists adore Syria's Bashar al-Assad?” by Patrick Strickland https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/italian-fascists-adore-syria-bashar-al-assad-180125115153121.html [EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* “Nazi war criminal reportedly died in a Syrian dungeon” by Lara Marlowe https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/nazi-war-criminal-reportedly-died-in-a-syrian-dungeon-1.2934705 [EN]
* “Russian neo-Nazi who fought against Ukraine in Donbas now seen in Syria – media” https://www.unian.info/war/2197709-russian-neo-nazi-who-fought-against-ukraine-in-donbas-now-seen-in-syria-media.html [EN]
* “ЗМІ: Нациста Мільчакова, який воював на Донбасі, знайшли в Сирії” https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2017/10/20/7159038/ [UK]
* “Русские националисты на сирийском контракте” https://fontanka.ru/2017/10/19/101/ [RU]
* “Tulsi Gabbard’s Fascist Escorts to Syria” by Alex Rowell and Tim Mak, Michael Weiss https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbards-fascist-escorts-to-syria [EN] (owned by IAC)
* “'No way back': The law that stops displaced Syrians from ever going home” by Zouhir Al Shimale https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/no-way-back-law-stops-displaced-syrians-ever-going-home [EN]
* “White Supremacists Defend Assad, Warn Trump: Don’t Let Israel Force You Into War With Syria” by Allison Kaplan Sommer https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-white-supremacists-call-syrian-chemical-attack-false-flag-operation-1.5988679 [EN] (archived: https://archive.vn/jz7qX)
* “Italy's Far Right Salutes Putin for Anti-Gay Law and Support for Assad” by Robert Mackey https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/italys-far-right-salutes-putin-for-anti-gay-law-and-support-for-assad/ [EN] (archived: https://archive.vn/3KKTv, owned by the New York Times Company)
* “BNP leader Nick Griffin visits Syria” by Ian Black https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jun/11/bnp-nick-griffin-syria-assad [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* “The Kardashian Look-Alike Trolling for Assad” by Noah Shachtman and Michael Kennedy https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kardashian-look-alike-trolling-for-assad [EN] (owned by IAC)
* “Meet the shady Putin crony funding Russia’s troll farm and mercenary army” by Zack Beauchamp https://www.vox.com/world/2018/2/26/17044930/yevgheny-prigozhin-putin-mueller-troll-farm [EN] (left-liberal, owned by Vox Media, Inc.)
* “Putin ally said to be in touch with Kremlin, Assad before his mercenaries attacked U.S. troops” by Ellen Nakashima, Karen DeYoung and Liz Sly https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/putin-ally-said-to-be-in-touch-with-kremlin-assad-before-his-mercenaries-attacked-us-troops/2018/02/22/f4ef050c-1781-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb\_story.html [EN] (owned by Graham Holdings Company)
* “Assad and the Kremlin knew about Russian mercenary attack on U.S. forces” by David Gilbert https://www.vice.com/en\_ca/article/7x77n4/assad-and-the-kremlin-knew-about-russian-mercenary-attack-on-us-forces [EN] (prone to gonzo journalism)
* “Assad supporter flees to Germany . . . and wins job at anti-migrant AfD” by Oliver Moody https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/assad-fan-who-fled-to-germany-gets-a-job-with-far-right-party-h556bbd8b [EN] (owned by News Corp UK & Ireland Limited)
* “How a pair of self-publicists wound up as apologists for Assad” https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/04/15/how-a-pair-of-self-publicists-wound-up-as-apologists-for-assad [EN]
* “What on earth is Nick Griffin doing in Syria?” by Lamiat Sabin https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/what-on-earth-is-nick-griffin-doing-in-syria-9895196.html [EN]
* “Are Greek Neo-Nazi Mercanaries Fighting for Assad in Syria?” by Brian Whelen https://www.vice.com/en\_uk/article/8gd9ev/are-greek-neo-nazis-fighting-for-assad-in-syria1 [EN] (prone to gonzo journalism)
* “David Duke Heaps Praise On Syrian Dictator In Bizarre Series Of Tweets” by Willa Frej https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/david-duke-bashar-assad\_n\_58c6e623e4b0428c7f121864?ri18n=true [EN] (owned by Verizon Communications)
* “Assad finds fan base among white supremacists in Charlottesville” by Joyce Karam https://www.thenational.ae/world/the-americas/assad-finds-fan-base-among-white-supremacists-in-charlottesville-1.619402 [EN]
* “The ‘war on terror’ has won” by Charles Davis https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/opinion/2017/09/war-terror-won-george-bush-doctrine-170911082005701.html [EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* “Outsourcing the Torture of Suspected Terrorists” by Jane Mayer https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/02/14/outsourcing-torture [EN] (owned by Advance Publications, Inc.)
* “UN finds 'extermination' of detainees in Syria” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/probe-finds-extermination-detainees-syria-160208154624792.html [EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* “Syrian activist and daughter murdered in Istanbul home: Turkish police” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-murder-syria/syrian-activist-and-daughter-murdered-in-istanbul-home-turkish-police-idUSKCN1BX0ZY [EN]
* «CIT назвала имена погибших под огнем коалиции США россиян в Сирии» https://www.rbc.ru/politics/12/02/2018/5a81ac729a79470fd22bc3ae?from=main [RU]
* “Russian neo-Nazi who killed Ukrainians, trained Belarus teens now fighting in Syria” https://naviny.belsat.eu/en/news/russian-neo-nazi-who-killed-ukrainians-trained-belarus-teens-now-fighting-in-syria/ [EN], «Неанацыст Мільчакоў, які трэніраваў беларускіх падлеткаў, з’ехаў у Сірыю да ‹ЧВК Вагнэра›» https://naviny.belsat.eu/news/neanatsyst-milchakou-yaki-treniravau-belaruskih-padletkau-z-ehau-u-siryyu-da-chvk-vagnera/ [BE], «Неонацист Мильчаков, который тренировал белорусских подростков, уехал в Сирию в ‹ЧВК Вагнера›» https://naviny.belsat.eu/ru/news/neonatsist-milchakov-kotoryj-treniroval-belorusskih-podrostkov-uehal-v-siriyu-v-chvk-vagnera/ [RU]
* “Goodbye Sadiq al-Azm, lone Syrian Marxist against the Assad regime” by Omair Anas https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/goodbye-sadiq-al-azm-lone-syrian-marxist-against-assad-regime [EN]
* “Abdul-Aziz al-Khayir: Decades of Confronting the Baath” by Thaer Deeb http://web.archive.org/web/20130725103333/http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/13004 [EN]
* “The Best English-speaking Friend Assad Could Ask For, Front and Center on the Net” by Zen Read https://www.haaretz.com/assad-s-best-english-speaking-friend-on-the-net-1.5317234 [EN] (archived: https://archive.vn/iIpQB)
* “From the Social Market Economy to the National Partnership” by Samer Abboud https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2019/01/31/from-the-social-market-economy-to-the-national-partnership/ [EN]
* “Syria: The Social Origins of the Uprising” by Joseph Daher https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/39149/syria-the-social-origins-of-the-uprising [EN]
* “Assad Regime Still Reliant on the Sunni Bourgeois” by Joseph Daher https://syriauntold.com/2017/12/21/assad-regime-still-reliant-on-fractions-of-the-sunni-bourgeoisie/ [EN]
* “Public-Private Partnerships as a tool for privatization and reinforcement of clientelist networks” by Joseph Daher https://syriauntold.com/2019/11/11/public-private-partnerships-as-a-tool-for-privatization-and-reinforcement-of-clientelist-networks/ [EN]
* “Syria Woos Wall Street” https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703535104574646813720403776 [EN] (owned by News Corporation)
* “The Syrian Crucible” by Jonathan Maunder http://isj.org.uk/the-syrian-crucible/ [EN]
* “Nine Years Against Assad” by Joseph Daher https://nobordersnews.org/2020/02/10/joseph-daher-nine-years-against-assad/ [EN]
* “Syria forces hold hundreds in Latakia sports stadium” by Khaled Yacoub Oweis https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria/syria-forces-hold-hundreds-in-latakia-sports-stadium-idUSTRE77D0LP20110817 [EN]
* "Escalation in Idlib: Coronavirus increases risks of displacement" https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2020/08/escalation-in-idlib-coronavirus-increases-risks-of-displacement/ [EN]
* "Opposition: Syria regime to continue assassinating opponents" https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181227-opposition-syria-regime-to-continue-assassinating-opponents/ [EN]
* "Mass Graves Surround Damascus … Millions of Victims" by Luna Watfa https://thelevantnews.com/en/2020/09/mass-graves-surround-damascus-millions-of-victims/ [EN]
* "Syrian Activist on Ghouta Attack: “I Haven’t Seen Such Death in My Whole Life”" https://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/23/syrian\_activist\_on\_ghouta\_attack\_i [EN]
* "Russia marks five-year anniversary of brutal intervention in Syria war" https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/9/30/russia-marks-brutal-five-year-intervention-anniversary-in-syria-war [EN]
* “What George Galloway neglected to mention in Syria debate“ by Tim Walker http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10278115/What-George-Galloway-neglected-to-mention-in-Syria-debate.html [EN] (archived: https://archive.vn/Kbh95)
* “'Mummy, why did everyone forget about Syria when Gaza started?'” by Ian Black https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/25/forget-syria-gaza-media-audience-wars [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* "Palestinian Refugee Muawiya AlFout Forcibly Disappeared in Syrian Prisons for 8th Year" https://www.actionpal.org.uk/en/post/10728 [EN]
* “Assad Henchman: Here’s How We Built ISIS” by Roy Gutman https://www.thedailybeast.com/assad-henchman-heres-how-we-built-isis [EN] (owned by IAC)
* “Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner ‘died in Syria’” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30275358 [EN] (British state-owned media)
* “Nazi war crinimal Alois Brunner ‘died in Syria sqalor’” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38586945 [EN] (British sate-owned media)
* “Srie: comment le nazi Aloïs Brunner a formé le premier cercle du clan Assad” par Alain Chémali https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/syrie/syrie-comment-le-nazi-alois-brunner-a-forme-le-premier-cercle-du-clan-assad\_3058415.amp [FR]
* “Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 – report” by Alain Jean-robert And Fiachra Gibbons https://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-war-criminal-alois-brunner-died-in-syria-basement-in-2001-report/ [EN] (pro-Israel bias); https://www.yahoo.com/news/nazi-war-criminal-alois-brunner-died-syria-basement-061723415.html [EN]
* “UN Syria investigator quits over concern about Russian obstruction“ by Patrick Wintour https://theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/07/we-are-powerless-un-syria-investigator-carla-del-ponte-quits-over-lack-of-political-backing [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* “Alois Brunner: The Nazi War Criminal Who Found A Home In Syria” by Palash Ghosh https://www.ibtimes.com/alois-brunner-nazi-war-criminal-who-found-home-syria-725811 [EN] (owned by IBT Media)
* “The European Far-Right’s Sick Love Affair With Bashar al-Assad” by Josephine Heutlin https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-european-far-rights-sick-love-affair-with-bashar-al-assad [EN] (owned by IAC)
* “Nick Griffin's 'fact-finding' mission to Syria mired in confusion” by Ian Black https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jun/11/nick-griffin-mission-syria-confusion [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* “Syrian refugees: The people who want four things before they go home” by Maha Yahya https://www.bbc.com/news/world-43578469 [EN] (British state-owned media)
* “Europe's far-right activists continue to throw their weight behind Syria's Assad” by Alex MacDonald https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/in-depth/features/europes-far-right-activists-continue-throw-their-weight-behind-syrias-assad [EN]
* “European far-right leader says Assad the ‘solution’ for Syria” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-far-right-marine-le-pen-syria-bashar-assad-reassuring-solution-national-front/ [EN]
* “Why do Italian fascists adore Syria’s Bashar al-Assad?” by Patrick Strickland https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/2/14/why-do-italian-fascists-adore-syrias-bashar-al-assad [EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* “Charlottesville: What we know about James Alex Fields” https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/08/13/charlottesville-what-we-know-about-james-alex-fields/ [EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* “Life in Assad’s Syria is great, tweets far-right British politician” by Adam Taylor https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/02/life-in-assads-syria-is-great-tweets-far-right-british-politician/ (archived: https://archive.vn/W7srp, owned by Graham Holdings Company)
* “Arrests and torture of Syrian refugees returning home reported” by Sally Hayden https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/arrests-and-torture-of-syrian-refugees-returning-home-reported-1.3429762 [EN] (owned by Irish Times Trust)
* “Why is the far right so against US intervention in Syria?” by Jason Wilson https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/13/syria-intervention-conservative-rightwing-opposition-trump [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* “‘Assadism’ is destroying Syria – here’s where it came from” by Juliette Harkin https://theconversation.com/assadism-is-destroying-syria-heres-where-it-came-from-95260 [EN]
* “Syrian nationalism is all about masculinity” by Rahaf Aldoughli https://theconversation.com/syrian-nationalism-is-all-about-masculinity-87406 [EN]
* “Are there really 'no good guys' in Syria?” by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2018/4/20/are-there-really-no-good-guys-in-syria [EN]
* "Residents of western Qalamoun region fear appropriation of farmlands by leader in “Hezbollah”" https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2020/10/residents-of-western-qalamoun-region-fear-appropriation-of-farmlands-by-leader-in-hezbollah/ [EN]
* "How Syria's disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets" by Martin Chulov https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/oct/27/syria-disinformation-war-white-helmets-mayday-rescue-james-le-mesurier [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* “While you were neutral about Yarmouk” by Talal Alyan https://mondoweiss.net/2014/01/neutral-about-yarmouk/ [EN]
* «Ребята, вы предназначены для войны» Лилия Яппарова https://meduza.io/amp/feature/2020/12/01/rebyata-vy-prednaznacheny-dlya-voyny [RU]
* «Кремлевского повара накрывают крышкой» Александр Панов https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2020/07/17/86304-kremlevskogo-povara-nakryvayut-kryshkoy [RU]
* «‹Вагнеровцев› списали в расход?» Ирек Муртазин https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/02/16/75527-zemlya-i-vozduh [RU]
* «Не спасать рядовых Вагнера» Ирек Муртазин, Валерий Ширяев https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/02/17/75542-ne-spasat-ryadovogo-vagnera [RU]
* «Их просто нет. Расследование» Ирек Муртазин https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2017/10/09/74125-ih-prosto-net [RU]
* “Polnische Faschisten verbünden sich mit pro-russischen rechtsradikalen Extremisten” von Anton Shekovstov http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/06/07/anton-schechowtsow-polnische-faschisten-verbunden-sich-mit-pro-russischen-rechtsradikalen-extremisten/ [DE] (funded by Open Society Foundations); “Polish fascists are joining with pro-Russian right-wing extremists“ by Anton Shekovtsov http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.com/2014/06/polish-fascists-are-joining-pro-russian.html [EN]; “Falanga rejoint l’internationale fasciste de Poutine et Assad” par Anton Shekovstov https://contresubversion.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/falanga-rejoint-linternationale-fasciste-de-poutine-et-assad/ [FR]
* “Russian toll in Syria battle was 300 killed and wounded: sources” by Maria Tsvetkova https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-casualtie/russian-toll-in-syria-battle-was-300-killed-and-wounded-sources-idUSKCN1FZ2DZ [EN]
* “In two charts, this is what refugees say about why they are leaving Syria now” by y Vera Mironova, Karam Alhamad and Sam Whitt https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/09/28/in-two-charts-this-is-what-refugees-say-about-why-they-are-leaving-syria-now/ [EN]
* “Killed by a Russian bomb, a five-year-old visiting relatives in Syria” by Emma Graham-Harrison https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/04/killed-after-posing-for-pictures-the-five-year-old-victim-of-russias-airstrikes-on-syria [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* “MEPs to visit Syria for talks with Assad officials” https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/8/26/meps-to-visit-syria-for-talks-with-assad-officials [EN]
* “US, CIA once found Syrian torture useful” https://www.denverpost.com/2014/01/23/us-cia-once-found-syrian-torture-useful/ [EN] (owned by Digital First Media)
* “Far-right Italy government mulls Syria embassy reopening” https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/amp/news/2019/1/11/far-right-italy-government-mulls-syria-embassy-reopening [EN]
* “After a New Massacre, Charges That ISIS Is Operating With Assad and the Russians” by Anne Speckhard and Ardian Shajkovci https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-assad-isis-and-the-russians-cooperated-to-carry-out-a-massacre [EN]
* “US military document reveals how the West opposed a democratic Syria” by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/syria-democracy-documents [EN] (owned by Le Monde group)
* “US strike on Syria's Idlib only complements Assad-Russia agenda” by Sam Hamad https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2019/9/3/us-strike-on-syrias-idlib-only-complements-assad-russia-agenda [EN]
* “Beirut killing strokes Lebanese fears” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2005/6/22/beirut-killing-stokes-lebanese-fears [EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* “George Hawi knew who killed Kamal Jumblatt” https://web.archive.org/web/20120607175836/http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2005/06/george\_hawi\_kne.php [EN]
* “Survey leaves no doubt: Syrians are fleeing Assad” by Richard Fuchs https://www.dw.com/en/survey-leaves-no-doubt-syrians-are-fleeing-assad/a-18775789 [EN] (German state-owned media)
* “Horst Seehofer will Abschiebestopp für Syrien nicht verlängern” https://www.zeit.de/amp/politik/deutschland/2020-11/asylpolitik-horst-seehofer-abschiebestopp-syrien-verlaengerung [DE] (owned by Zeit-Verlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG)
* “Italian Neo-Fascist Group CasaPound Visits Aleppo“ https://www.albawaba.com/news/italian-neo-fascist-group-casapound-visits-aleppo-1305565 [EN]
* “German neo-Nazi party builds alliance with Assad and Hezbollah” by Benjamin Weinthal https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/german-neo-nazi-party-builds-alliance-with-assad-and-hezbollah-490847 [EN] (pro-Israel, owned by the Jerasulm Post Group)
* “Assad close to being knighted under Blair” by Dipesh Gadher https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/assad-close-to-being-knighted-under-blair-kxg5rxtwq5n [EN]
* “Could a ‘Nazi’ Party Soon Rule Syria?” by Tracy Moran https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/could-a-nazi-party-soon-rule-syria/71156/ [EN]
* “SDF official calls on Russia to stop Turkish violations near Ain Issa, rejects handover to Damascus” by Wladimir van Wilgenburg https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/23661-SDF-official-calls-on-Russia-to-stop-Turkish-violations-near-Ain-Issa,-rejects-handover-to-Damascus [EN]
* “The Alt-Right Is In Love With A Brutal, Arab Dictator” by Rose Troup Buchanan https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosebuchanan/the-alt-right-is-in-love-with-a-brutal-muslim-dictator [EN]
* “A lesson from Syria: it’s crucial not to fuel far-right conspiracy theories” by George Monbiot https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/15/lesson-from-syria-chemical-weapons-conspiracy-theories-alt-right (archived: https://archive.vn/DaVVL) [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* “Few Options Left for Stopping the War” by Christoph Reuter https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/many-syrian-refugees-fleeing-civil-war-have-lost-faith-in-a-solution-a-1052576.html [EN]
* "Syrian government and Egypt agree to 'fight terrorism'" https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syrian-government-and-egypt-agree-fight-terrorism [EN]
* “Women in Aleppo Choose Suicide Over Rape, Rebels Report” by Michael Weiss, Roy Gutman and Alex Rowell https://www.thedailybeast.com/women-in-aleppo-choose-suicide-over-rape-rebels-report [EN]
* "Syrian detainees' families forced to pay huge bribes to corrupt officials - report" by Joshua Surtees https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/04/how-syria-uses-prison-to-extort-money-report-arrest-funding-assad-regime (archived: https://archive.vn/qPwcf) [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* "Syrian businessmen linked to firm that bought Beirut explosives" by Timour Azhari https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/14/syrian-businessmen-linked-to-firm-that-bought-beirut-blast-matter [EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* "Germany revokes the asylum status of an Assad loyalist" https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/germany-revokes-the-asylum-status-of-an-assad-loyalist-43158 [EN] (Turkish state-owned media)
* "Syria's Assad agrees to normalise relations with Israel if conditions are met" https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201008-syrias-assad-agrees-to-normalise-relations-with-israel-if-conditions-are-met/ [EN]
* "Outrage after Syrian regime imposes Sharia on Yazidis, minority targeted by genocide in neighbouring Iraq" https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2021/2/17/outrage-after-syrian-regime-imposes-sharia-on-yazidi-minority [EN]
* "The Iraq war was born and raised in torture" by Asim Qureshi, Arnaud Mafille, and Moazzam Begg https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/iraq-war-was-born-and-raised-torture [EN] (briefly mentions Syria’s role in the War on Terror)
* "Guided artillery shells force the Al Atarib Surgical (Al Magahra) Hospital out of service" https://syrianarchive.org/en/investigations/AlMagahraHospital [EN]
* "Yarmouk activist describes 'atrocious' state of war-torn camp in Syria" by Moe Ali Nayel https://electronicintifada.net/content/yarmouk-activist-describes-atrocious-state-war-torn-camp-syria/12231 [EN] (Assadist source)
* "Revealed: Syrians pay tax to rebuild after war but see little benefit" by Mohammad Bassiki *and* Nick Mathiason https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/may/24/revealed-syrians-pay-tax-to-rebuild-after-war-but-see-little-benefit [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* "Serb nationalist dies in Syria as Russian volunteer fighter" https://apnews.com/article/7db831309abb47c9af02928cf7005442 [EN]
* "US military cuts ties with Syrian rebel group" https://www.arabnews.com/node/1135886/world [EN]; https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2017/07/28/US-military-cuts-ties-with-Syrian-rebel-group- [EN] (Pentagon has no intention of overthrowing Assad)
* "US cuts ties, ends support for Syrian rebel group 'not focused on fighting IS'" by Nadia Riva https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/12172-US-cuts-ties,-ends-support-for-Syrian-rebel-group-%27not-focused-on-fighting-IS%27 [EN] (Pentagon has no intention of overthrowing Assad)
* "Syrian doctor in Germany charged with torture in Assad’s military hospitals" by Loveday Morris and Liz Sky https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/syria-doctor-germany-crimes-humanity/2021/07/28/da9ff600-efa7-11eb-81b2-9b7061a582d8\_story.html [EN]
* "Germany revokes asylum status of pro-Assad Syrian working for far-right anti-immigration party" https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/germany-revokes-asylum-status-far-right-pro-assad-syrian [EN]
* "Escaping Assad’s Rape Prisons: A Survivor Tells Her Story" by Jamie Dettmer https://www.thedailybeast.com/escaping-assads-rape-prisons-a-survivor-tells-her-story [EN] (owned by IAC)
* "Der gute Assad-Flüchtling der AfD" von Lars Wienand https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/id\_85321668/tid\_amp/mitarbeiter-im-bundestag-der-gute-assad-fluechtling-der-afd.html [DE]
* "Nazi fugitive helped train Syria torturers" https://yalibnan.com/2014/12/02/nazi-fugitive-helped-train-syria-torturers/ [EN]

### **Magazine articles**

* “Searches: The Nazis of Damascus” http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,960365,00.html [EN]
* “The New Truthers: Americans Who Deny Syria Used Chemical Weapons” by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad https://newrepublic.com/article/114676/syrias-chemical-weapons-assad-not-blame-say-truthers [EN]
* “Baathism: An Obituary” by Paul Berman https://newrepublic.com/article/107238/baathism-obituary [EN]
* "How Trolls and Conspiracy Theorists Spun the Syrian War" by Dan Spinelli https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/06/trolls-conspiracy-theorists-assad-syria/ [EN]
* “Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets” by Janine di Giovanni https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/16/why-assad-and-russia-target-the-white-helmets/ [EN]
* “Eichmann's Best Man Lived and Died in Syria” by Adam Chandler https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/eichmanns-best-man-lived-and-died-in-syria/383296/ [EN]
* “'Take Your Portion': A Victim Speaks Out About Rape in Syria” by Lauren Wolfe https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/take-your-portion-a-victim-speaks-out-about-rape-in-syria/276979/ [EN]
* "Syrian Writers, Artists, and Journalists Speak Out Against US and Russian Policy" https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/syrian-writers-artists-and-journalists-speak-out-against-us-and-russian-policy/ [EN]
* “How One Syrian Fought to the Death for a Free Internet” by Alice Su https://www.wired.com/story/how-one-syrian-fought-to-the-death-for-a-free-internet/ [EN]
* “U.S. Peace Activists Should Start Listening to Progressive Syrian Voices” by Terry Burke https://inthesetimes.com/article/u-s-peace-activists-arent-listening-to-progressive-syrian-voices [EN]
* "European fascist and neo-nazi association gets vast EU subsidy" by Daniel Vergara and Anna-Sofia Quensel https://expo.se/2016/04/european-fascist-and-neo-nazi-association-gets-vast-eu-subsidy [EN]
* "Europeiska nazister i möte med syriska ministrar" av Daniel Vergara https://expo.se/2015/06/europeiska-nazister-i-m%C3%B6te-med-syriska-ministrar [SV]
* “How Trolls and Conspiracy Theorists Spun the Syrian War” by Daniel Spinelli https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/06/trolls-conspiracy-theorists-assad-syria/ [EN] (owned by Foundation for National Progress)
* "Far-right international conferences in 2014" by Anton Shekhovtsov https://www.academia.edu/9862674/Far\_Right\_International\_Conferences\_in\_2014 [EN]
* “Syria and the Left” https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/syria-war-crisis-refugees-assad-dictatorship-arab-spring-intervention-russia/ [EN]
* “Syria and the Left” by Yassin Al Haj Saleh https://newpol.org/issue\_post/syria-and-left/ [EN]
* “Russia Needs the Islamic State to Save Assad” by Kyle W. Orten https://www.interpretermag.com/russia-needs-the-islamic-state-to-save-assad/+%5BEN%5D;+https://kyleorton1991.wpcomstaging.com/2016/06/21/russia-needs-the-islamic-state-to-save-assad/ [EN]
* “The Eagles of the Whirlwind” by Nour Samaha https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/28/the-eagles-of-the-whirlwind/ [EN] (archived: https://archive.vn/cCjS0)
* “The fascist movement at the centre of Italy’s culture war” by David Broder https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2019/08/fascist-movement-centre-italy-s-culture-war [EN]
* “Apologists Call Assad Secular. Assad Tells Syrians Otherwise” by Asser Khattab https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/apologists-call-assad-secular-assad-tells-syrians-otherwise/ [EN]
* "'More Tribal, More Sectarian, More Crony Capitalist Than Ever'" by Joe Hayns https://jacobinmag.com/2019/08/syria-bashar-al-assad-regime-class-conflict [EN]
* |New Evidence Links a Far-Right French NGO to War Crimes in Syria" by Inès Daif and Stéphane Kenech https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/new-evidence-links-a-far-right-french-ngo-to-war-crimes-in-syria/ [EN]
* "Inside the CIA's Secret Prisons Program" by Vivienne Walt http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1546119,00.html [EN] (used to be owned by Time Warner and Time Inc., currently owned by Time USA, LLC)
* "White Supremacist Support for Assad in Charlottesville (and Beyond)" by Louis Proyect https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/25/white-supremacist-support-for-assad/ [EN] (WARNING!- identified as red-brown vector)
* "The Assad Dynasty Was Hatched at My Grandfather's Home" by Nidal Betare https://newlinesmag.com/essays/the-assad-dynasty-was-hatched-at-my-grandfathers-home-they-later-destroyed-it/ [EN]
* "Syrian Medics Lay Out the Devastating Scale of Attacks on Healthcare Facilities Over 10 Years of War" by Joseph Hincks https://time.com/5943719/syria-medics-irc/ [EN] (archived: https://archive.is/zoCmb)
* "Syria Has a Massive Rape Crisis" by Lauren Wolf https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/syria-has-a-massive-rape-crisis/274583/ [EN]

### **Statements**

* "Fuck Assad, fuck his Western lackeys: An anarchist statement on Eva Bartlett" https://freedomnews.org.uk/2018/07/10/fuck-assad-fuck-his-western-lackeys-an-anarchist-statement-on-eva-bartlett/ [EN]; https://thehamiltoninstitute.noblogs.org/post/2017/01/27/fuck-assad-fuck-his-western-lackeys-an-anarchist-statement-on-eva-bartletts-hamilton-presentations/ [EN]

### **Blog posts**

* "Black Things, White Beings: Syria in Fact & Propaganda" by Amir https://medium.com/@xxcapsxx1964/black-things-white-beings-be6e9be8c4e1 [EN]
* "The Geopolitics of the Syrian Uprising: How a Convergence of Influences Served to Cripple Syria’s ‘Impossible Revolution’" by Amir https://medium.com/@xxcapsxx1964/the-geopolitics-of-the-syrian-uprising-c5eab6d3cd95 [EN]
* “How the alt-right brought #SyriaHoax to America” by DFRLab https://medium.com/dfrlab/how-the-alt-right-brought-syriahoax-to-america-47745118d1c9 [EN] (funded by Atlantic Council, a pro-USA thinktank)
* “Syria: The Greek Nationalist Socialists fighting alongside Assad's regime are far more dangerous than Golden Dawn” by Panagiotis Liakos and translated by glykosymoritis http://glykosymoritis.blogspot.com/2013/09/syria-greek-nationalist-socialists-that.html [EN]; http://www.anarkismo.net/article/26261 [EN]
* “The Syrian Revolution Is a Class War” https://notgeorgesabraarchive.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/the-syrian-revolution-is-a-class-war/ [EN]
* “SYRIA: A reading into the new wave of European far-right and the reasons behind its support for the Syrian regime” by Hisham Al Ashqar https://tahriricn.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/syria-a-reading-into-the-new-wave-of-european-far-right-and-the-reasons-behind-its-support-for-the-syrian-regime/ [EN]; قراءة” في الموجة الجديدة لليمين المتطرف في أوروبا وأسباب دعمه للنظام في سوريا” هشام الأشقرhttp://web.archive.org/web/20150507034150/http://al-manshour.org/node/4904%26usg%3DALkJrhjqYVOhwg5JmixoJ5kn2QJQJfWlMA [AR]
* “Pseudolefism and the self-destruction of George Galloway” http://web.archive.org/web/20160509091515/https://notgeorgesabra.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/self-destruction-of-pseudoleftist-the-case-of-george-galloway/ [EN]
* “Against the Oppressed, the Exploited, and the Ruled: John Rees and Phony Anti-Imperialism” http://web.archive.org/web/20161014091346/https://notgeorgesabra.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/against-the-oppressed-the-exploited-and-the-ruled-johnwrees-and-phony-anti-imperialism/ [EN]
* “Who Are Assad’s fascist supporters?” by Leila Al Shami https://leilashami.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/who-are-assads-fascist-supporters/ [EN]; https://souriahouria.com/who-are-assads-fascist-supporters-by-leila-shrooms/ [EN]; https://tahriricn.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/syria-who-are-assads-fascist-supporters/ [EN]; https://allianceofmesocialists.org/assads-white-supremacist-supporters/ [EN]
* “Syria’s legacy of torture has its own dark origins in the West” https://middleeastvoice.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/syrias-legacy-of-torture-has-its-own-dark-origins-in-the-west/ [EN]
* “SYRIA: The life and work of anarchist Omar Aziz, and his impact on self-organization in the Syrian revolution” by Leila Al Shami https://tahriricn.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/syria-the-life-and-work-of-anarchist-omar-aziz-and-his-impact-on-self-organization-in-the-syrian-revolution/ [EN]; https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leila-al-shami-the-life-and-work-of-anarchist-omar-aziz-and-his-impact-on-self-organization-in [EN]
* “Freedom for Jihad and Syria’s Wretched of the Earth” by Budour Hassan https://budourhassan.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/freedom-for-jihad-and-syrias-wretched-of-the-earth/ [EN]
* “Ode to Fallen Dreamers” by Budour Hassan https://budourhassan.wordpress.com/2016/12/17/ode-to-fallen-dreamers/ [EN]
* “Portrait of a Revolution: The Journey of Faiek al-Meer” by Budour Hassan http://web.archive.org/web/20131021030444/http://therepublicgs.net/2013/10/13/portrait-of-a-revolution-the-journey-of-faiek-al-meer/ [EN], https://budourhassan.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/portrait-of-a-revolution-the-journey-of-faiek-al-meer/ [EN]
* “Anti-Anti imperialism” by Sam Hamad https://herecomesthetumbleweed.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/anti-anti-imperialism/ [EN]
* “Ghouta: Issues Behind the Apocalypse: Armed and civil rebellion, Class and Islam” by Michael Karadjis https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/ghouta-issues-behind-the-apocalypse-armed-and-civil-rebellion-class-and-islam/ [EN] (Marxist analysis)
* “How the Syrian Revolution has transformed me” by Budour Hassan https://budourhassan.wordpress.com/2016/05/19/how-the-syrian-revolution-has-transformed-me/ [EN]
* “New Wave of Neo-Nazis Take Inspiration from Russia and Assad, not Nazi Germany” http://www.amateinitiative.com/new\_wave\_of\_neo\_nazis\_take\_inspiration\_from\_russia\_and\_assad\_not\_nazi\_germany [EN]
* “Is your Syrian source a fascist, white nationalist, and/or conspiracy theorist? Probably.” by Sol https://solprocess.noblogs.org/post/2016/12/28/is-your-syrian-source-a-fascist-white-nationalist-andor-conspiracy-theorist-probably/ [EN]
* “Is your Syrian source a conspiracy theorist or disconcertingly problematic? Probably.” by Sol https://solprocess.noblogs.org/post/2016/12/29/is-your-syrian-source-a-conspiracy-theorist-or-disconcertingly-problematic-probably/ [EN]
* “Baked Alaska, the racist blogger who disrupted the SMCRJ before going to Charlottesville resurfaced yesterday to support Assad with the LA white Left!” by Linux Beach https://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2018/04/baked-alaska-racist-blogger-who.html [EN]
* “Trump’s record on Syria: Enabler of Assad’s victory, enemy of Syrians” https://mkaradjis.com/2020/10/31/trumps-record-on-syria-enabler-of-assads-victory-enemy-of-syrians/ [EN] (Marxist analysis)
* “Polish fascists are joining with pro-Russian right-wing extremists” https://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.com/2014/06/polish-fascists-are-joining-pro-russian.html [EN]
* “US and Jordan demand Southern Front rebels stop fighting Assad, cut off ‘support’” by Michael Karadjis https://mkaradjis.com/2016/01/26/us-and-jordan-demand-southern-front-rebels-stop-fighting-assad-cut-off-support/ [EN] (Marxist analysis)
* "Trump’s record on Syria: Enabler of Assad’s victory, enemy of Syrians" by Michael Karadjis https://mkaradjis.com/2020/10/31/trumps-record-on-syria-enabler-of-assads-victory-enemy-of-syrians/ [EN] (Marxist analysis)
* “Scandinavian Fascists Fight for Russia and the Regime in Syria” by Kyle W. Orton https://medium.com/@KyleWOrton/scandinavian-fascists-fight-for-russia-and-the-regime-in-syria-c4faece733b5 [EN]
* “The Trump-Putin coalition for Assad lays waste to Syria: Imperial agreement and carve-up behind the noisy rhetoric” by Michael Karadjis https://mkaradjis.com/2017/09/05/the-trump-putin-coalition-for-assad-lays-waste-to-syria-imperial-agreement-and-carve-up-behind-the-noisy-rhetoric/ [EN]
* “The Turkish invasion: Latest step in the Russian-led destruction of the Syrian revolution” by Michael Karadjis https://mkaradjis.com/2019/10/23/the-turkish-invasion-latest-step-in-the-russian-led-destruction-of-the-syrian-revolution/ [EN]
* “What do Trump’s ‘withdrawal’ from Syria and the Gulf’s rapprochement with Assad have in common?” by Michael Karadjis https://mkaradjis.com/2019/01/09/what-do-trumps-withdrawal-from-syria-and-the-gulfs-rapprochement-with-assad-have-in-common/ [EN]
* “Trump’s record on Syria: Enabler of Assad’s victory, enemy of Syrians” by Michael Karadjis https://mkaradjis.com/2020/10/31/trumps-record-on-syria-enabler-of-assads-victory-enemy-of-syrians/ [EN]
* “Trump leaves Syria: On ‘regime change’ and other tall stories” by Michael Karadjis https://mkaradjis.com/2018/12/21/trump-leaves-syria-on-regime-change-and-other-tall-stories/ [EN]
* “How do you recognise an Assadist?” by Ghassan Hage https://criticallegalthinking.com/2016/08/24/how-do-you-recognise-an-assadist/ [EN]
* “An Overview of AANES Women’s Institutions in Manbij” by Meghan Bodette https://mjbodette.medium.com/an-overview-of-aanes-womens-institutions-in-manbij-5089c450c24b [EN]
* “Noam Chomsky jumps the shark on Syria” by Louis Proyect https://louisproyect.org/2020/10/22/noam-chomsky-jumps-the-shark-on-syria/ [EN]
* "Pew Study: Majority of Middle East & North Africa Opposes Assad" https://web.archive.org/web/20160513110438/http://bennorton.com/pew-study-majority-of-middle-east-north-africa-opposes-assad/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "56 Dead in One Day, a Glimpse of Assad’s Brutality" https://web.archive.org/web/20150214062739/http://bennorton.com/56-dead-in-one-day-a-glimpse-of-assads-brutality/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "A Calendar of Infamy: How Ahistorical Journalism Serves Power" https://web.archive.org/web/20150603012243/http://bennorton.com/a-calendar-of-infamy-how-ahistorical-journalism-serves-power/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "Statement of Worldwide Solidarity with Refugees from Syria" https://web.archive.org/web/20160531202100/http://bennorton.com/statement-of-worldwide-solidarity-with-refugees-from-syria/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "Using Photos of Assad’s Bombing to Oppose US/Gulf Bombing" https://web.archive.org/web/20150603043417/http://bennorton.com/using-photos-of-assads-bombing-to-oppose-usgulf-bombing/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "Palestinian Refugees Flood the Streets of Yarmouk, Protesting Assad’s Siege" https://web.archive.org/web/20150603005707/http://bennorton.com/palestinian-refugees-flood-the-streets-of-yarmouk-protesting-assads-siege/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "Chomsky: The US and Israel Don’t Want to Overthrow Assad" https://web.archive.org/web/20141210001756/http://bennorton.com/chomsky-the-us-and-israel-dont-want-to-overthrow-assad/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "US Government Essentially Sides with Assad" https://web.archive.org/web/20150603015505/http://bennorton.com/us-government-essentially-sides-with-assad/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "Pro-Assad Bingo" https://web.archive.org/web/20150404181131/http://bennorton.com/pro-assad-bingo/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "Remembering Assad’s Hama Massacre 33 Years Later" https://web.archive.org/web/20150214042427/http://bennorton.com/remembering-assads-hama-massacre-33-years-later/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "Blatant Anti-Semitism Is Common Among Assad Supporters" https://web.archive.org/web/20150405070630/http://bennorton.com/blatant-anti-semitism-is-common-among-assad-supporters/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "Bashar Al-Assad’s False 2014 “Election”" https://web.archive.org/web/20150520175005/http://bennorton.com/bashar-al-assads-false-2014-election/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "Stratfor Report: Assad Shares Intelligence with US" https://web.archive.org/web/20150405114328/http://bennorton.com/stratfor-report-assad-shares-intelligence-with-us/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "Revolutions Don’t “Fail”; They Are Temporarily Delayed" https://web.archive.org/web/20150603020928/http://bennorton.com/revolutions-dont-fail-they-are-temporarily-delayed/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "The “Anti-Imperialist” Nations of Iran, Syria, and Libya Participated in the CIA Torture Program" https://web.archive.org/web/20150403165743/http://bennorton.com/the-anti-imperialist-nations-of-iran-syria-and-libya-participated-in-the-cia-torture-program/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "ISIS Blew up Tadmor Prison, Destroying Evidence of Assad Torture" https://web.archive.org/web/20150531112256/http://bennorton.com/isis-blew-up-tadmor-prison-destroying-evidence-of-assad-torture/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "Left Unity’s Socialist Perspective on ISIS and Western Intervention in Iraq" https://web.archive.org/web/20141222193616/http://bennorton.com/left-unitys-socialist-perspective-on-isis-and-western-intervention-in-iraq/ [EN] (archived, Ben Norton deleted most of his tweets and posts before *The Grayzone* started associating with *RT*)
* "The Syrian fascist whose word Max Blumenthal would have us believe" by Louis Proyect https://louisproyect.org/2020/05/12/the-syrian-fascist-whose-word-max-blumenthal-would-have-us-believe/ [EN]
* "Guess what, neo-Nazi group attacked in Sacramento is pro-Assad and pro-Putin" by Louis Proyect https://louisproyect.org/2016/06/27/guess-what-neo-nazi-group-attacked-in-sacramento-is-pro-assad-and-pro-putin/ [EN]
* "Fascisti e hezbollah a roma per assad" https://vicinoriente.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/fascisti-e-hezbollah-a-roma-per-assad/ [IT]
* "Dr Tim Anderson has some funny friends" by Andy Fleming https://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=41566 [EN]
* "Richard Medhurst: Another Cog in the Pedo to Political Journalist Pipeline" by Kristen Van Houten https://medium.com/@precious\_sheen\_dog\_960/richard-medhurst-another-cog-in-the-pedo-to-political-journalist-pipeline-17e6af3be867 [EN] (archived: https://archive.is/VOMLZ)
* "Richard Medhurst, Serial Groomer of Underage Girls?" https://fashbusters.wordpress.com/2021/07/07/richard-medhurst-serial-groomer-of-underage-girls/ [EN]
* "With Friends Like These… Tim Anderson & NSW’s Fascists" https://web.archive.org/web/20170506103307/https://antifascistactionsydney.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/with-friends-like-these-tim-anderson-nsws-fascists/ [EN]
* "Bonzo goes to Oslo: Christian fundamentalists and the far-right strike a new pose" by R Totale https://libcom.org/blog/bonzo-goes-oslo-christian-fundamentalists-far-right-strike-new-pose-26022019 [EN] (libertarian communist archive)
* "Israel and the Syrian War" by Michael Karadjis https://mkaradjis.com/2014/01/03/israel-and-the-syrian-war/ [EN] (Marxist analysis)
* "Syria Endgame: Crushing Daraa, the Russia-Israel deal & the Geopolitics of Counterrevolution" by Michael Karadjis https://mkaradjis.com/2018/08/23/syria-endgame-crushing-daraa-the-russia-israel-deal-the-geopolitics-of-counterrevolution/ [EN] (Marxist analysis)

### **Documents**

* “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Dentention and Extraordinary Rendition” by Open Society Justice Initiative https://www.justiceinitiative.org/uploads/655bbd41-082b-4df3-940c-18a3bd9ed956/globalizing-torture-20120205.pdf [PDF, 1.08MB, EN]
* “Voices from the Dark: Torture and Sexual Violence Against Women in Assad’s Detention Centres” by Lawyers and Doctors for Human Rights https://web.archive.org/web/20170908214159/http://guernica37.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Voices-from-the-Dark.pdf [PDF, 908kb, EN]
* “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Deaths in Detention in the Syrian Arab Republic” https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/out-sight-out-mind-deaths-detention-syrian-arab-republic-enar#:~:text=The%20latest%20report%2C%20%E2%80%9COut%20of,2011%20and%2030%20November%202015. [AR, EN]
* “Revolts in Syria: Tracking the Convergence Between Authoritarianism and Neoliberalism” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021909611431682 [PDF, EN]
* “Syria’s Conflicting Economy” https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp16123.pdf#:~:text=more%20than%2040%20years.%20Syria%20requested%20to%20become,regulation%2C%20modernizing%20the%20monetary%20framework%2C%20developing%20a%20government [EN] (IMF supporting some reforms prior to Civil War)
* “Syrian Arab Republic: 2005 Article IV Consultation—Staff Report; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion” https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2005/cr05356.pdf [EN]
* “Syrian Arab Republic: 2008 Article IV Consultation” https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2009/cr0955.pdf [EN]
* “Banking Sector in Syria in 2018” http://scbdi.com/en/Article83/The-Banking-Sector-in-Syria-in-2018 [EN]
* “Syrian Arab Republic -- IMF Article IV Consultation, Mission's Concluding Statement” https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/52/mcs051406 [EN]
* “Butchers in Syria Heaven” https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB150/box14\_di\_file/doc04.pdf [PDF, 166kb, EN] (declassified CIA document)
* “Then and Now: The Syrian Revolution to Date” by Mohja Kahf http://www.fnvw.org/vertical/Sites/%7B8182BD6D-7C3B-4C35-B7F8-F4FD486C7CBD%7D/uploads/Syria\_Special\_Report-web.pdf [PDF, 1.2MB, EN]
* "Forcibly Disappeared in Syrian Detention Centers" by The Association of Detainees and the Missing in Sednaya Prison https://admsp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Forcibly-Disappeared-in-Syrian-EN.pdf [PDF, 1.5 MB, EN]

### **Encyclopedia**

#### **Events**

* “Corrective Movement (Syria)” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrective\_Movement\_(Syria) [EN]

#### **Movements**

* “Communist Labour Party (Syria)” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist\_Labour\_Party\_(Syria) [EN]
* “Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (Turkey)” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist\_Communist\_Party\_(Turkey) [EN]
* “Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist\_Party\_of\_Turkey/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist [EN]
* “Communist Party of Kurdistan” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist\_Party\_of\_Kurdistan [EN]
* “Syrian Revolutionary Left Current” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian\_Revolutionary\_Left\_Current [EN]
* “Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist\_Labour\_Party\_of\_Turkey/Leninist [EN]
* “Kurdistan Workers’ Party” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan\_Workers%27\_Party [EN]

#### **Individuals**

* "Adolf Eichmann" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf\_Eichmann [EN]

* “Alois Brunner” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois\_Brunner [EN]
* "Maram Susli" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maram\_Susli [EN]
* "SyrianGirl" https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/SyrianGirl [EN]
* “Kamal Jumblatt” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal\_Jumblatt [EN]
* “Salah Jadid” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah\_Jadid [EN]
* “Yassin al-Haj Saleh” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yassin\_al-Haj\_Saleh [EN]

### **Books**

* “The Impossible Revolution” by Yassin al-Haj Saleh https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=1FECD6318D09CA1DBBCA3A7F8CD5FE65 [EPUB, 769kb, EN]
* “Syria After the Uprising: The Political Economy of State Resilience” by Joseph Daher http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=9B60D944C478F900E58330861A4599D1 [EPUB, 964kb, EN]
* “Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War” by Robbin Yassin-Kassab and Leila-Al Shami http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=7DC4E55730E2B318711FF5B27D2CC6CF [PDF, 4MB, EN]; http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=C77827D098753F8A638E786C22F37A01 [MOBI, 797kb, EN]; http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=840761F9D8A57EF80CF35CC35DA01776 [EPUB, 702kb, EN]
* “The Political Economy of Investment in Syria” by Linda Mater http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=40D6482C28FB4C43C3237B43F1E185E3 [PDF, 811 KB, EN]
* “The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and Geopolitics of Death” by Yasser Munif http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=C5DEB16B34E37C268FB99C5135FE804B [EPUB, 3 MB, EN]
* “Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria” by Sam Dagher http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=8C1D149FF63945802AFAA1EB4EA7180D [EPUB, 5MB, EN]
* “Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience” by Bassam Haddad https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=18447 [EN]
* “A Small Key Can Open a Large Door: The Rojava Revolution” by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=0B6BE4F4C2ADC2269584356CB7448419 [EPUB, 550kb, EN]
* “Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World” by Jeffrey Herf http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4522803325CD5550E918C612113DF404 [PDF, 2MB, EN]; http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=223FB41CA16AFC4C5FEC20FB1EBEFA4A [EPUB, 6MB, EN]
* "Syria from Reform to Revolt: Volume 1: Political Economy and International Relations" by Raymond Hinnebusch and Tina Zintl http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=CC83A60C0DC9FE26BA1D0E0D1AA569CF [PDF, 5MB, EN]
* "Syria from Reform to Revolt: Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion" by Christa Salamandra and Leif Stenberg http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=AF0DC5A76C638FBDD7DB783D37EBD257 [PDF, 3MB, EN]

### **Podcast Episodes**

* "Denying Genocide, from Halabja to Ghouta (with Sabrîna Azad" uploaded by The firet these times https://thefirethisti.me/2020/04/11/07-genocide-denialism-from-halabja-to-ghouta/ [45:24, EN]
* "Syria, Journalism and the Cost of Indifference" uploaded by The fire these times https://thefirethisti.me/2020/04/17/10-syria-journalism-and-the-cost-of-indifference/ [57:45, EN]
* “My Father and Syria's Forcibly Disappeared“ uploaded by the fire these times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt1oxbOU2xg [1:16:04, EN]
* "Syria, State Ideology and Climate Politics (With Marwa Daoudy)" uploaded by fire these times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUN1Z97HrSE [1:11:20, EN]

### **Videos**

* “Nigel Farage: We're On The Same Page As Putin & Assad Against IS” uploaded by Sky News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuRBqdXs6pk [8:32, EN]
* “Exposing the Horrific Torture Practices of the Assad Regime (2011)” uploaded by Journeyman Pictures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuxFhhD4ARg [7:14, EN]
* “The Syrian Regime Is Torturing Innocents to Stop Activists (2011)” uploaded by Journeyman Pictures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaYGZYlKTY8 [6:08, EN]
* “Syria: The Roots of Tyranny | Al Jazeera World” uploaded by Al Jazeera English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-yiwmWw48g [47:30, EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* “Le Pen: Assad only reassuring solution for France” uploaded by AP Archive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tevu5siJffU [2:04, EN]
* “Inside Assad's Syria: Fighting the regime | Unreported World” uploaded by Unreported World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H2Ink8Z\_UQ [22:46, EN] (British state-owned media)
* “The Worldwide Church of Bashar al-Assad” uploaded by Spaghetti Kozak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07xZaYOZ5vU [3:51, EN]
* "Sharing the Syrian War on YouTube for 7 Years | Source Material" uploaded by VICE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkuKK\_ZyXBg [0:11:04, EN, AR]
* "Syria represents Capitalism far more than Venezuela represents Socialism" uploaded by The Kavernacle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vg5Sj6G8R0 [11:10, EN]
* "Timmy & the Nazis" uploaded by Antifascist Action Sydney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcZkFCquDVo [2:12, EN]

### **Websites**

* “hummus for thought” https://hummusforthought.com/ [EN]
* “Enab Baladi” https://english.enabbaladi.net/ [EN]
* ““الجمهورية.نت Al-Jumhuriya” https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/home [AR, EN]
* “Free Syrian Translators” https://freesyriantranslators.net/ [AR, DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, NL, RU]
* “FREE SILENCED VOICES OF SYRIA” http://web.archive.org/web/20190121134957/https://www.free-syrian-voices.org/ [AR, EN, RU] (URL is taken over by a different organization)
* “Yasin Al-Haj Saleh” http://www.yassinhs.com/ [EN]
* "For Kayla" http://www.forkayla.org [EN]
* "Remembering Ali Mustafa" https://rememberingalimustafa.org [EN]
* “Syria Untold” https://syriauntold.com/en/ [EN]
* “Tahrir International Collective Network” https://tahriricn.wordpress.com/ [EN]
* “Prisim” https://web.archive.org/web/20130502231549/http://prism-magazine.com/ [EN]
* “Syrian Revolution Commentary and Analysis” https://mkaradjis.com/ [EN] (Marxist)
* "Syrian Association for Citizens' Dignity" https://syacd.org [EN]
* “Yassin al-Haj Saleh” http://www.yassinhs.com/ [EN, FR]
* “Razan” https://web.archive.org/web/20200810191114/https://www.razanwzaitouneh.com/ [EN]
* “100 faces of the Syrian Revolution“ https://100facesofthesyrianrevolution.wordpress.com/ [EN]
* "What's Happening in Syria" http://whoiskillingciviliansinsyria.org/ [EN]

### **Archived**

**Explainers**

* https://archive.is/OTIWO [EN] - who Kevork Almassian is why and why he's problematic
* https://archive.vn/3iGcK [EN], https://archive.ph/sl6Uj [EN] - history of Richard Medhurst (Richard McGinty)’s YouTube channel
* https://archive.vn/V7sqv [EN] - thread about Antun Saadeh, the founder of Syrian Social Nationalist Party [SSNP]— an organization for Syrian neo-Nazis

#### **Transparency**

* https://archive.is/hNmxB [EN] - Richard Medhurst's father Paul Medhurst's LinkedIn's profile
* https://archive.is/ySvUX [EN] - Richard Medhurst's father Paul Medhurt's company
* https://archive.ph/hRFMY [EN], https://archive.ph/VCfno [EN], https://archive.ph/sQVVX [EN] - Paul Medhurst, Richard Medhurst's father, teaches counter-intelligence, media deception, and propaganda courses at AMU, including adjacent topics such as the history of how to infiltrate left movements to subvert them
* https://archive.is/bS3XI [EN], https://archive.is/quj7q [EN] - Richard Medhurst's social media IDs

#### **Factchecking**

* https://archive.is/6VgQr [EN] - fact-checking some of the claims about Richard Medhurst's family and multiple identities

#### **Contradictions**

* https://archive.is/3l5Z8 [EN] - Max Blumenthal of *The Grayzone* used to acknowledge Assad's participation in Palestinian genocide
* https://archive.vn/synBB [EN] - Vijay Prashad invokes Frantz Fanon to defend Bashar al-Assad (even though Fanon warned about & condemned national elites like the Assads)

#### **Platforming**

* https://archive.is/b4DLI [EN] - Richard Medhurst retweets a French fascist Carmen Renieri
* https://archive.is/fNtKf [EN], https://archive.is/tPMUm [EN], https://archive.ph/HhlUO [EN] - Richard Medhurst platforms Kevork Almassian, a member of the far-right German political party Alternative für Deutschland [AfD]
* https://archive.is/hAOni [EN] - Richard Medhurst quote-tweets Kevork Almassian, a member of the far-right German political party Alternative für Deutschland [AfD]

#### **Networks**

* https://archive.is/sCJ9b [EN] - Richard Medhurst acknowledges Caitlin Johnstone
* https://archive.is/Bpe6I [EN], https://archive.is/JaQwE [EN] - Caitlin Johnstone backs Richard Medhurst
* https://archive.is/PRc7F [EN] - Richard Medhurst platforms right-libertarian Glenn Greenwald

#### **Red flags**

* https://archive.vn/BLALr [EN], https://archive.is/mEGtf [EN] - Maram Susli (PartisanGirl) explicitly allying herself with US fascists
* https://archive.vn/BsRG5 [EN] - Maram Susli (PartisanGirl)’s antisemitism in her tweet about Morocco’s normalization of relations with Israel (not a defense of Morocco’s decision which is deplorable, just that there’s no need to be antisemitic about it)
* https://archive.is/zItVD [EN] - Maram Susli (PartisanGirl) says she’s not a communist
* https://archive.vn/eXwjO [EN] - Maram Susli (PartisanGirl)’s antisemitism in her tweet about Otto Warmbier
* https://archive.vn/HKjeU [EN], https://archive.vn/w0X3C [EN] (WARNING!- Bannonite outlet) - Rush Limbaugh supports Assad
* https://archive.vn/4t8WE [EN], http://archive.li/grMmu [EN] - alt-right figure Richard Spencer supports Assad
* https://archive.vn/g6qnb [EN], https://archive.vn/FG5LQ [SV] - interview with Swedish neo-Nazis about Syria
* https://archive.ph/9z2y1 [EN] - Thierry Mariani, a politician of French far-right political party Rassemblement national [RN] meets Assad with a group of identitarians
* https://archive.ph/7x6bt [EN] - German far-right magazine *Sezession* mentions Kevork Almassian, a member of the far-right German political party Alternative für Deutschland [AfD],Syrian neo-Nazi Maram Susli and antisemitic Australian conspiracy theorist Tim Anderson alongside Salem El-Hamid and American neo-fascist LaRouche follower F. William Engdahl
* https://archive.ph/UJjWL [EN] - German neo-Eurasianist branch mentions Kevork Almassian alongside French neo-fascist Leonid Savin
* https://archive.vn/e34sF [EN] - German far-right Alternative für Deutschland [AfD] supports Assad
* https://archive.vn/lVuFx [EN] - documenting Nazi support for Assad
* https://archive.vn/zNbfg [EN] - Baked Alaska supports Assad
* https://archive.ph/PEBbw [EN] - David Duke supports Assad's military

* https://archive.vn/laNhn [EN] - Katie Hopkins supports Assad

#### **Misconducts**

* https://archive.is/Iz2kW [EN] - Max Blumenthal makes fun of a Syrian for trying to protect his family for chemical attacks
* https://archive.ph/IJ2QF [EN], https://archive.ph/YA28h [EN], https://archive.ph/Sq4y7 [EN] - Richard Medhurst has a history of grooming people
* https://archive.is/Vli76 [EN] - thread about Richard Medhurst's history of grooming

#### **Unclassified**

* https://archive.vn/dpXjg [EN] - documenting fascist supporters of Assad
* http://archive.is/vKyP2 [EN] - list of Syrian leftists killed by Assad
* http://archive.is/bb3Gw [EN] - NazBols fight for Assad
* https://archive.vn/QqAKW [EN] - recalling 2013 Ghouta chemical weapons massacre
* https://archive.vn/fn6yN [EN] - Ricard Medhurst starts doing propaganda for far-right theocratic Iranian regime
* https://archive.vn/6B5Qe [EN] - Richard Medhurst lying about his identity
* https://archive.vn/uSiZC [EN] - Richard Medhurst complains about Apple suppressing Parler, a far-right alternative to Twitter
* https://archive.is/Jk1YJ [EN] - Maram Susli (PartisanGirl) and David Duke
* https://archive.vn/tFoIc [EN] - Vanessa Beeley loses Twitter followers during the Nazi purge
* https://archive.vn/4lrbF [EN] - translated videos of Assad being reactionary (load original page) [original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_G8wzFCDPU8]
* https://archive.vn/vwJSk [EN] - political cartoon about Assad’s hypocrisy
* https://archive.is/AqH4V [EN] - Maram Susli (PartisanGirl) admits to open fascism and supports Cassandra Fairbanks
* https://archive.vn/hlmzH [EN] - leader of a German right-wing party spins conspiracy theories about ISIS and Al Qaeda
* https://archive.vn/BTsci [EN] - leader of a German right-wing party supports Assad and Putin
* https://archive.is/q7zCA [EN] - Richard Medhurst is an Assadist, which most Syrian Marxists consider a fascist and an asset of the CIA
* https://archive.is/iq5lx [EN] - Richard Medhurst downplays the putsch which took place on January 6, 2021
* https://archive.is/61IZa [EN] - Vanessa Beeley joins Rokfin, a network known for far-right voices and conspiracy theorists
* https://archive.is/iylnJ [EN] - Richard Medhurst joins Rokfin, a network known for far-right voices and conspiracy theorists
* https://archive.is/0TlXF [EN] - Vanessa Beeley joins Odysee, a video-sharing website set up by a neo-Nazi programmer

### **Notes**

* Assad’s largest political ally in Syria is the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, an openly fascist neo-Nazi platform
* Syrian Ba'athism and Iraqi Ba'athism draws from different inspirations and should not be conflated
* Syria was a popular CIA black-site to torture people before the revolution
* Wagner Group private military company is inspired by fascism and have used fascistic iconography
* Assad is popular with the European New Right, invited known anti-semites and European fascists for decades. He also has growing support with American white supramacists
* Many of Assad’s international volunteers come from European fascist parties and paramilitaries
* Marxist-Leninists outside of the USA support the Rojava experiment
* Anarchists are inspired by Rojava because of critical support for the libertarian nature of democratic confederalism. There are many anarchist critiques of Rojava and of the democratic confederalism ideas online
* USA did not want to support Rojava until it was clear they were the only people willing to fight ISIS
* Trump allowed the right-wing Turkish state to crush the Rojava experiment
* No one should take WASBAPPIN seriously because of his reactionary neo-conservative tendencies. And over the years, he and his groupies have increasingly shown signs of Turkish fascist sympathies or hold ultra-nationalist Turkish views. He and his groupies are known to espouse anti-Kurdish racism. Left Twitter got together when he expressed an opinion that all of Russian people should be nuked because of the current government in Moscow, which many Russian leftists are currently fighting to overthrow
* Salah Jadid is the “socialistic” or quote-unquote “left-wing” member of the Syrian Ba'ath Party before being couped by the conservative Hafez al-Assad seven years later
* An Italian fascist leader founded the pro-Assad "European Solidarity Front for Syria"
* Assad hosted trips for CasaPound and named BNP leader Nick Griffin as the UK Ambassador to Syria
* Assad's grandfather was part of the colonial elite set up by the French military. He wrote a letter begging France to stay in Syria and divide it further to create an Alawite state on the coast
* Hafez al-Assad overthrew the left-wing faction of the Ba’ath Party because the left faction wanted to support the Palestinian revolutionaries during Black September. He instead entered the Lebanese civil war on the side of Israel and USA
* Yassin al Haj Salah is a prominent Syrian communist imprisoned by the Assad regime for 16 years. His partner was also disappeared by the regime
* Kamal Jumblatt, a Lebanese socialist, was assassinated by Hafez al-Assad
* Noam Chomsky shouldn’t be seen as an authority on chemical attack skepticism giving his history of ignoring reports of Cambodian genocides until he realized Vietnam was invaded by Pol Pot, followed by how a lot of the current Bosnian genocide denialism in the far-right ecosystems comes from his own works and he still refused to apologize for contributing to that genre of literature
* Maram Susli (Partisangirl)’s family was exiled by Hafez al-Assad for boot-licking the SSNP
* Assad released the extremists and terrorists from jails in order to deliberately subvert a peaceful uprising and ignite a violent rebellion. Assad’s regime intentionally exacerbated radicalism to make itself the least bad choice for the international community and Syrians alike.
* Syria’s constitution requires the president be Muslim, which contradicts the narrative that Syria’s government is “secular”