There are some important changes taking place in the process going on in Syria since the end of July. One can easily observe a tangible escalation in bloodletting and violence; a worrying progress in the road to turn the differences among various ethnic, religious and sectarian communities into a means for sowing hostility; spreading of the effects of the process over the region; a general intensification of the initiatives of the imperialist and various regional powers. Taken in their entirety, these developments imply that we are passing through a new breaking point in the context of the...