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5 January 2012
Syria accuses U.S. of grossly interfering in LAS affairs
Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 09:53

4 January 2012
‘America preparing military intervention in Syria’
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 23:46
Damascus is criticizing the US for sending an envoy to Cairo’s Arab League discussions about ending the Assad regime’s crackdown on dissent. London-based political analyst Chris Bambery says the US is preparing for a…

Pounding the War Drums Against Iran
The Greanville Post Yesterday at 18:44
There They Go Again
Despite its capabilities, Iran’s navy is no match for a combined imperial assault.
by JAMES ABOUREZK
I watched another news program today—this one on MSNBC—with Dylan Ratigan shouting into the camera that if Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz through which 40 per cent of the world’s oil flows, it is an act of war.

OpEds: Former “Dumbest Member of Congress” Scorches Romney
The Greanville Post Yesterday at 18:18
The Deranged Chorus
by ALEXANDER COCKBURN, Counterpunch
A  Catholic former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania once rated the dumbest man in the US Congress crested  Tuesday night in Iowa’s see-saw battle among candidates for the Republican nomination and ran a virtual tie with Mormon millionaire Mitt Romney.  Well after  chilly midnight on caucus night in the Midwestern state, Iowa’s Republican Party declared Romney the winner by 8 votes, a count that Santorum will inevitably question and perhaps contest. Each hovered just below 30,000 votes, with libertarian  Republican Ron Paul of Texas running third with a respectable 26,000-plus votes. IMAGE: Rick Santorum

Syria ‘deceiving’ Arab monitors
BBC News Yesterday at 17:58
Opposition activists accuse the Syrian government of deceiving Arab League monitors by replacing military vehicles in city centres.

Syria blames US for meddling in Arab League’s affairs
Strategic Culture Foundation Yesterday at 16:52

Suspicious Syria spin
Morning Star Yesterday at 16:46
Images of children suffering are incredibly emotive and one has to ask why the BBC has now chosen to show such images in their reports on Syria, when throughout all of the recent Nato ‘surgical’ bombing campaigns, they chose not to.

VIDEO: Syrian injured treated in Lebanon
BBC News Yesterday at 16:15Activists suggesting the monitors are not getting a full picture of the situation in Syria