A Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the United States on Syria was issued on May 9, 2016, published by the two countries’ Foreign Ministries. The Statement included three major points: cessation of hostilities, ensuring humanitarian access, supporting the political settlement.

The Secular Democratic Delegation, emanating from Moscow-Istana Platforms, to Geneva Intra-Syrian Talks, has recently unveiled the outlines of its proposal presented to the Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, regarding its vision for the Transitional Period. Media, in general, is dealing and interacting with this proposal, however, with some suspicion and caution.

The Syrian Pound suffered from a sharp decline vs. the US Dollar, in 2015 and 2016. This has been leading to continuous deterioration of the living standards of the Syrians who still inside the country. The most recent blow the Syrians received was on May 10, 2016, when the Central Bank of Syria, adopted the black  market exchange rate as a new actual high starting point for the green currency at $1/S.P 620..!

Kassioun had early, since 2002, caught the onsets of the U.S. general decline, depending on an in-depth analysis of the organic and deeply rooted crisis of the world capitalist system, that the USA had tried to circumvent through what it had called the «War against Terrorism», i.e., the campaign that couldn't fulfill its desired goals, leading to the explosion of the financial facet of the crisis in 2008, to be followed by the economic, social and political ones.