August 22, 2013
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Miranda detention: UK’s actions ‘incompatible’ with Human Rights Convention – Council of Europe
The Guardian’s partial legal victory over the UK government’s seizure of documents still bodes badly for press freedom and is incompatible with EU convention, Daniel Holtgen, Director of Communications at the Council of Europe told RT. Continue reading
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Egypt’s ‘color coup’ By Eric Walberg
The military cheered the opposition Tamarod movement on—no limits to their demonstrations—providing the pretext for the coup, employing standard Great Game tactics as used in Iran (1953), Brazil (1964) and Chile (1973). (Ironically, just this week the CIA finally admitted its role in Iran in 1953.) Continue reading
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Larry Summers and the Secret “End-Game” Memo By Greg Palast
The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet. When you see 26.3% unemployment in Spain, desperation and hunger in Greece, riots in Indonesia and Detroit in bankruptcy, go back… Continue reading
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Syrian govt ready to cooperate with UN experts in chemical attack probe – Moscow
The Syrian government is ready for “maximum” cooperation with UN experts working to clarify the alleged use of chemical weapon in attacks, Russia’s Foreign Ministry says. Syria will provide all materials related to the investigation. Continue reading
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Syria: Only Rebels Benefit from Recent Chemical Attack By grtv
Wildly varying reports have emerged of recent chemical weapons use in Syria, with hundreds allegedly killed in the latest attack. RT talks to reporter and international affairs analyst Patrick Henningsen. Continue reading
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The West Strikes Back in Syria By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
No sooner than the United Nations chemical weapons inspectors arrived in Damascus – within 72 hours, in fact – the Syrian opposition figures based in Istanbul, Turkey, have claimed that up to 1400 people have been killed in chemical weapons attacks by the government forces on the outskirts of the Syrian capital on Wednesday morning. Continue reading
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Syria chemical warfare claims aim to provoke Western intervention By Bill Van Auken
The unsubstantiated charges that the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad carried out a chemical weapons attack outside Damascus killing large numbers of civilians have all the hallmarks of a staged provocation aimed at provoking Western intervention. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 21 August 2013: It was all part of the plan
21 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Invade Village Near Nablus, Kidnap Five PalestiniansIMEMC – Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday evening, the village of Beita south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and kidnapped five Palestinians; clashes and injuries have been reported. … Continue reading
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ICH 21 August 2013: ‘Sending A Message’: What The US And UK Are Attempting To Do
21 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Chemical Missile Launched from Rebel-controlled Eastern Suburbs By Voice Of Russia The missile with a chemical poison gas sarine was launched by Syrian rebels and targeted the eastern suburbs of Damascus. This is according to the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35928.htm Continue reading
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Syria: Chemical Attack in Ghouta ‘an Accident Caused by Free Syrian Army’ By Gianluca Mezzofiore
The attack that killed over 200 people in the Damascus suburbs could be an accident caused by a riot control agent, and those responsible may be a faction of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and not the Assad regime, according to a chemical weapons specialist. Continue reading
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