Desperate Acts to Provoke Syria and Iran: Israel’s “Air Strikes” against Syria By Tony Cartalucci

4 May 2013 — Land Destroyer

Israeli Airstrikes Signal Western Desperation in Syria

ISRAEL WEIZMAN FUNERAL

Alleged airstrikes hope to expand conflict, undermine Syrian advances, and provoke Syria and Iran to give US justification for military intervention.  

Once again, Israel is “leaking” information about alleged airstrikes it claims it has conducted against Syria along the Lebanese-Syrian border.

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Desperate Acts to Provoke Syria and Iran: Israel’s “Air Strikes” against Syria By Tony Cartalucci

4 May 2013 — Land Destroyer

Israeli Airstrikes Signal Western Desperation in Syria

ISRAEL WEIZMAN FUNERAL

Alleged airstrikes hope to expand conflict, undermine Syrian advances, and provoke Syria and Iran to give US justification for military intervention.  

Once again, Israel is “leaking” information about alleged airstrikes it claims it has conducted against Syria along the Lebanese-Syrian border.

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FAIR TV: Syria Sarin Skepticism, Tom Friedman's Sick Madness, Darkening the Tsarnaevs By Peter Hart

4 May 2013 — FAIR Blog

This week on FAIR TV: Do the claims about Syria’s chemical weapons hold up? And why do some pundits seem to want to push for a U.S. military response? Also, we’ll take a look at Tom Friedman’s column about the “sick madness” of attacking innocents, and how The Week magazine turned the Caucasian Tsarnaev brothers into non-whites.

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The Anti-Empire Report #116 By William Blum: Boston Marathon, this thing called terrorism, and the United States

3 May, 2013 — Anti-Empire Report

Boston Marathon, this thing called terrorism, and the United States

What is it that makes young men, reasonably well educated, in good health and nice looking, with long lives ahead of them, use powerful explosives to murder complete strangers because of political beliefs?

I’m speaking about American military personnel of course, on the ground, in the air, or directing drones from an office in Nevada.

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Was the Syria Chemical Weapons Probe “Torpedoed” by the West? By Adam Larson

2 May, 2013 — Global Research 

Since the perplexing conflict in Syria first broke out two years ago, the Western powers’ assistance to the anti-government side has been consistent, but relatively indirect. The Americans and Europeans lay the mental, legal, diplomatic, and financial groundwork for regime change in Syria. Meanwhile, Arab/Muslim allies in Turkey and the Persian Gulf are left with the heavy lifting of directly supporting Syrian rebels, and getting weapons and supplementary fighters in place.

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Was the Syria Chemical Weapons Probe “Torpedoed” by the West? By Adam Larson

2 May, 2013 — Global Research 

Since the perplexing conflict in Syria first broke out two years ago, the Western powers’ assistance to the anti-government side has been consistent, but relatively indirect. The Americans and Europeans lay the mental, legal, diplomatic, and financial groundwork for regime change in Syria. Meanwhile, Arab/Muslim allies in Turkey and the Persian Gulf are left with the heavy lifting of directly supporting Syrian rebels, and getting weapons and supplementary fighters in place.

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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 4 May 2013

4 May 2013 — williambowles.info

 

Government-operated spyware on the rise around the world – report

RT

More and more regimes across the world are using Western-made ‘lawful intercept’ software to spy on their own citizens, a brand new report has revealed. Citizen Lab, a digital research unit at the University of Toronto, says that servers running …

http://rt.com/news/citizen-lab-finfisher-wikileaks-spyware-788/

 

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New at SCF 29 April – 4 May 2013: Terrorism / Germany / Latin America / EU / CIA / Boston Bombing

4 May 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation

A Finnish Haven for Terrorists

03.05.2013 | 08:34 | Vladislav GULEVICH

The extremist Internet site «Kavkaz-Center», which is once again being talked about in connection with the terrorist attacks in Boston, used to operate out of Sweden and at one time was located in Estonia and Lithuania, but has seriously become a mouthpiece for Chechen terrorists since moving to Finland. Here it has been taken under the wing of Mikael Storsjö, whose activities are regarded quite favourably by the Finnish authorities. Operating out of Finland, «Kavkaz-Center» successfully acts as an «information window» to the outside world for the «Caucasus Emirate» – an organisation classified as terrorist in Russia. Characteristically, the US authorities have also included the Caucasus Emirate on its list of terrorist organisations, but are doing nothing to neutralise it…

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