Patrick Hilsman

Mar 3, 2025 | turningpointmag.org | Patrick Hilsman |Nizar Al Rifai

by Patrick Hilsman & Nizar Al RifaiMarch 3, 2024When we first started writing this piece in the autumn 2024, the Syrian regime seemed poised to control the crime scene it had created and the narrative we would remember forever. We were afraid the digital memory of Syria’s uprising and civil war were at risk of being erased, along with the crimes of the dictatorship.

Feb 6, 2025 | globalresearch.ca | Patrick Hilsman |Noah Hurowitz |Henri Sulku

Menzeer al-Hamid has started smoking again. Standing in his yard on a hill overlooking the city of Kobane, al-Hamid, a veteran ambulance medic, takes a drag and looks out across his hometown. Turkish jets can be heard roaring overhead, followed by the distant whump of bombs dropping in the countryside. War is closer every day. And as a medic, al-Hamid has been at the center of the fray. “We like freedom and peace — we don’t want to fight,” he says.

Dec 12, 2024 | theintercept.com | Patrick Hilsman

Early on the morning of December 8, Suhail AlGhazi did the unthinkable: He spoke with his family in Syria openly, and without fear. AlGhazi fled Syria in 2013 after taking part in early protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad and surviving two brutal and terrifying stints in prison. Now living in Europe, he has spent the past decade working in support of the opposition, publishing commentary and maintaining a lively and at times belligerent presence on X, formerly Twitter.

Jul 17, 2024 | turningpointmag.org | Patrick Hilsman

On June 30, 2024, pedestrians cross ponds of wastewater in the city of Khan Younis in south Gaza as a result of the Israeli invasion that has decimated the enclave’s sewage system. © Rizek Abdel JawadThe destruction of Gaza’s environment is more than an ecological disaster. It has created deadly conditions that will keep killing Palestinian civilians even if the bombs stop falling. The Israeli military’s stranglehold over access to food and water means conditions of famine now exist.

Apr 7, 2024 | copernical.com | Patrick Hilsman

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites ahead of two weekend launchesby Patrick Hilsman Washington DC (UPI) Apr 5, 2024SpaceX launched a payload of 23 Starlink satellites Friday atop a Falcon 9 booster from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Complex. The spacecraft launched at 5:12 a.m. EDT with the first stage booster rocket separating shortly after liftoff and landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean shortly afterward.