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17 May 2013 – Information Clearing House
Mystery Sponsor Of Weapons And Money To Syrian Mercenary “Rebels” Revealed
By Tyler Durden
The tiny gas-rich state of Qatar has spent as much as $3bn over the past two years supporting the rebellion in Syria, far exceeding any other government.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34989.htm
18 May 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
18.05.2013 | 12:04 | Najmuddin A. SHAIKH
New routes for supplying the Syrian opposition with arms have now been opened through Jordan. Qatar is said to have expended $3 billion for providing arms to the opposition and assistance to the Syrian refugees. Now Saudi Arabia is apparently taking the lead in the supply of arms through this new route.More carnage lies ahead and therefore any and every effort to find a solution no matter how hopeless it may seem must be pursued… more
(Several additional photos of the finish line bombing aftermath have been added to the latter portion of the essay.-JT, 4/27/13)
“For the most part we do not first see, and then define,” Walter Lippmann observed in 1921, “we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.”[1]
17 May 2013 – Infowars.com
A recent Department of Defense instruction alters the US code applying to the military’s involvement in domestic law enforcement by allowing US troops to quell “civil disturbances” domestically without any Presidential authorization, greasing the skids for a de facto military coup in America along with the wholesale abolition of Posse Comitatus.
17 May 2013 – http://www.boilingfrogspost.com
The Sunday Times Journalists Describe How the Edmonds’ Story was Inexplicably Dropped under the Pressure of Undisclosed “Interest Groups” Associated with the U.S. State Department.
17 May 2013 – Dissident Voice
In just ten months, the United States managed to transform an 82 year-old Catholic nun and two pacifists from non-violent anti-nuclear peace protestors accused of misdemeanor trespassing into federal felons convicted of violent crimes of terrorism. Now in jail awaiting sentencing for their acts at an Oak Ridge, TN nuclear weapons production facility, their story should chill every person concerned about dissent in the US.
16 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report
By The Editors
An elite class of Black millionaires has “accumulate wealth at the expense of the vast majority” of South Africa’s people, said community organizer and researcher Molefi Ndlovu, on the latest edition of Black Agenda Television. These “Black Diamonds,” as they are called, have become “a sort of middleman, people who push the envelop for the people who hold real power in the country.”
16 May 2013 – Press TV
17 May 2013 — Socialist Resistance
Over a hundred people from fifty five local groups as well as members of the day to day organising group met for the first national meeting of Left Unity in London on Saturday May 12.
13 May 2013 – South African Civil Society Information Service
Johannesburg – If capital is to be believed, it is the worker who is the main source of our contemporary social and economic problems.
16 May 2013 – VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Army Kidnapped 28 Children In The first Half Of May, Dozens Injured
IMEMC – 293 Palestinian Children Kidnapped In The First Quarter Of 2013 According to reports by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, and the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, in Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers continued their aggression against the Palestinian children, kidnaped 28 children, dozens of children have been injured by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the first half of this month. …
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16 May 2013 – Information Clearing House
Engineering Consent For Attack On Syria?
Syrians Describe Effects of Alleged Gas Attack
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A BBC news team has travelled to a town in northern Syria which eyewitnesses claim has been attacked with poisonous gas.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34967.htm
13 May 2013 – opednews.com
“The claim that armed opposition to the government has begun only recently is a complete lie. The killings of soldiers, police and civilians, often in the most brutal circumstances, have been going on virtually since the beginning.’ — Professor Jeremy Salt, October 2011 (Ankara)
16 May 2013 — Global Research
16 May 2013 — Silent Crow News
16 May 2013 – Facts for Working People
There’s no shortage of food, no shortage of wealth to solve social crises. The problem is a system that enriches a few and starves multitudes.
15 May 2013 – Solidarity Economy
At first sight no two persons could have been more dissimilar. One was a Cambridge don, with more than one foot in the British government; a supporter of the Liberal Party, staunchly opposed to the Bolshevik Revolution; an aesthete and a member of the Bloomsbury Group; a life peer in imperial Britain, and a solid, if sensitive, member of the British establishment. The other was a Russian revolutionary, spending years in exile in acute penury, immersed in bitter conflicts among the émigrés, until suddenly confronted with a revolutionary uprising whose strivings and possibilities he comprehended with such clarity that he came to lead it, facing a civil war, a typhus epidemic, and an assassination attempt that ultimately claimed his life.
15 May 2013 – VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Clashes, Injuries, Reported In Hebron
IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that dozens of Palestinians have been injured during clashes that took place with Israeli soldiers in Kharsa village, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli army sources said that four soldiers have been injured. …
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15 May 2013 — FAIR Blog
During the run-up to the Iraq War, the New York Times amplified erroneous official claims about weapons of mass destruction (FAIR Action Alert, 9/8/06). Looking at the paper’s coverage of allegations of chemical weapons use by Syria, some of the same patterns are clear: an over-reliance on official sources and the downplaying of critical or skeptical analysis of the available intelligence.
15 May 2013 – Information Clearing House
Israeli Official Hints At More Attacks On Syria, Warns Assad Not To Respond
By Barak Ravid
“If Syrian President Assad reacts by attacking Israel…he will risk forfeiting his regime,” a senior Israeli official told the New York Times on Wednesday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34956.htm
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