Michael Beshara

Media Ignores Syrian Water Contamination Catastrophe

by Michael Beshara | Jan 9, 2017 | Blog

Damascus, the Syrian capital that has as many as five million residents in the city and its surroundings, has now gone weeks without water. Al-Qaeda-linked rebels dumped diesel fuel into the water supply. Damascus gets nearly all of its water from one source: Wadi Barada. Wadi Barada has been occupied by rebel groups since 2012, and have made constant threats since then to contaminate the water supply, which they finally did just a couple weeks ago. Damascus has had to resort to using water trucks to supply the people there, as well as individual residents catching rainfall in a geographical...

The Peril of American Empire

by Michael Beshara | Nov 28, 2016 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

It’s 2016, and our liberties are threatened more than ever. We’ve seen more sporadic terrorist attacks in the last seven months than in any given year, the Middle East is in a geopolitical mess, and we haven’t been closer to nuclear conflict since the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, these issues of 2016 have not come out of nowhere. They are the result of American attempts of foreign intervention throughout our time as a world superpower. These can include but are not limited to: The attempts at regime change in Syria and Libya, the wars in Iraq, the arming of the mujahideen in...

Michael Beshara is a Syrian-American Libertarian activist from Upstate New York who has written for Loveliberty.net and has made an appearance on Public Radio International’s “The World” program. Email: mbeshara@colgate.edu

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