This is a bad time to be a Syrian. Will the two sides tearing your country apart meet in Geneva…
Continue reading →The silence on Syria
In a candid interview, Laura Hughes talks to journalist Charles Glass about Syria and the silence eminating from the world…
Continue reading →Judge Not the Deserters
There were 50,000 American deserters in WWII, whose experiences have been erased from history. But Charles Glass, author of the…
Continue reading →Outsiders have not improved life in either Syria or Iraq
This month Iraq and Syria are both noting, but not celebrating, anniversaries of violence that transformed the two societies.
Continue reading →My hero: Noam Chomsky
“My heroes have always been cowboys,” Willie Nelson sang, a sentiment I shared when I was a child in California.…
Continue reading →My France: Charles Glass on the Sunday market at Reillanne
In the northern Provençal region of the Luberon, plane trees shade the highway in the long valley between Forcalquier and…
Continue reading →The last thing Syrians need is more arms going to either side
Russia and Iran are providing weapons and ammunition to Syria’s President Assad, while Saudi Arabia and Qatar deliver arms through…
Continue reading →In No Hurry
Review of House of Stone by Anthony Shadid Granta, 336 pp, £14.99, August 2012, ISBN 978 1 84708 735 5…
Continue reading →There is no ‘noble war’ that will justify this bloodshed
After the terrible bloodletting on the battlefields, the fever began to die down. People looked war in the face with…
Continue reading →Charles Glass on Syria’s Mutual Destruction and the Unconvincing Fears of Assad’s Chemical Weapons
Veteran journalist Charles Glass joins us to discuss his recent trip to Syria and its largest city, Aleppo. Addressing U.S.-led…
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