August 2013
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Russian FM Blasts West Over Syrian Chemical Weapons
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday slammed Western countries for suggesting the Syrian government carried out a chemical attack earlier this month, without offering convincing proof to back up these claims. Continue reading
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US fabricating pretexts to justify military act against Syria: Analyst
In an article published on Press TV website on Sunday, American activist and author, David Swanson, described the recent threats issued by Washington regarding a potential military intervention in Syria as “immoral” and “illegal” under the United Nations Charter. Continue reading
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Déjà vu and Syrian Chemical Weapons By Wayne MADSEN
The Obama administration is dusting off the Bush administration’s playbook and using it on the government of Bashar al Assad of Syria… The Obama administration first showed its neo-conservative traits when it justified NATO and Gulf Arab intervention in the Libyan rebellion against Muammar Qaddafi as falling under its «responsibility to protect» civilians being attacked… Continue reading
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Black Agenda TV, August 26, 2013
26 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report WATCH THE LATEST EDITION OF BLACK AGENDA TV Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 25 August 2013: Testimonies: Systematic abuse, beatings and threats against Palestinian children
25 August 2013 —VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Injured Near JerusalemIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian man was injured in the foot, on Saturday evening [August 2r, 2013] when an Israeli soldier raised a spike strip as the young man was stepping on it. … Continue reading
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Obama keeps hold of the Syrian ball By M K Bhadrakumar
Moscow now admits that the current controversy over the chemical weapons attacks near Damascus might be a pre-meditated one choreographed carefully with a political objective. But then, it is too late, since it emerges that Sellstrom is unbound already and is at large, and Moscow cannot easily circumscribe his future activities in Syria. Continue reading
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Snipers shoot at UN chemical inspectors in Syria – UN spokesman
The inspectors’ car “was deliberately shot at multiple times by unidentified snipers in the buffer zone area,” the spokesman for the UN secretary-general, Martin Nesirky, said. He added the car was no longer serviceable and a replacement vehicle was being obtained. Continue reading
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ICH 25 August 2013: US Training “Rebels” Since 2011 And The Complete Grand Plan – The March 2012 Leak
25 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Syrian Rebels Manufactured Chemical Weapons Outside Damascus: Report By Fahim al-Surani Yara Saleh says that the warehouse was at the also a laboratory where shells were stuffed with poisonous chemicals. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35964.htm Continue reading
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Chemicals Seep Through the Cracks in Western-led Axis Against Syria By Finian CUNNINGHAM
A recurring pattern throughout the Syrian crisis is the coincidence of massacres suspiciously at times when there is a shift in the political backdrop. This is important to bear in mind when assessing reports this week of an alleged chemical weapon massacre near Damascus where some reports put the death toll at over 1,100. Continue reading
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Yinon’s Revenge? A Panoramic of Chaos in the Arab World By Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
The Middle East and North Africa have been turned into an arc of instability all the way from Iraq and the Persian Gulf to Libya and Tunisia. Chaos and violence seem to be in almost every corner of the Arab World and the Middle East. The bloodletting does not seem to stop. One country in… Continue reading
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“Doctors” Behind Syrian Chemical Weapons Claims are Aiding Terrorists By Tony Cartalucci
The “evidence” upon which the West is propping up its narrative of the Syrian government using chemical weapons against large numbers of civilians hinges so far entirely on claims made by “Doctors Without Borders.” Continue reading
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Defeated NATO Dangerously Desperate in Syria By Tony Cartalucci
There is nothing left except direct military intervention, which cannot be sold as helping an opposition now clearly exposed as being Al Qaeda. That means, the humanitarian intervention, “right to protect” (R2P) must be wiped clean of NATO’s lies and crimes in Libya, and prepared for Syria. Only what exactly could the West use to… Continue reading
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Government Should Not Define What a Reporter Is — or Isn’t By Walter Brasch
Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a horde of members of Congress of both parties want to decide who is and who isn’t a reporter. Sen. Feinstein says a “real” reporter is a “salaried agent of a media company.” Continue reading
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NSA: CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup
Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, the National Security Archive is today posting recently declassified CIA documents on the United States’ role in the controversial operation. American and British involvement in Mosaddeq’s ouster has long been public knowledge, but today’s posting includes what is believed to be the… Continue reading
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“Perfidious Albion”- The View of the U.S. National Security Archive? By Felicity Arbuthnot
This week, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the CIA-MI6 overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossaddegh, on 19th August 1953, the (US) National Security Archive has released documents confirming the details of the coup and the grubby US-UK involvement. Continue reading
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“Perfidious Albion”- The View of the U.S. National Security Archive? By Felicity Arbuthnot
This week, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the CIA-MI6 overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossaddegh, on 19th August 1953, the (US) National Security Archive has released documents confirming the details of the coup and the grubby US-UK involvement. Continue reading
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Lying About Syria, and the Lying Liars Who Lie About the Lying By David Swanson
“U.S. prepares for possible retaliatory strike against Syria,” announces a Los Angeles Times headline, even though Syria has not attacked the United States or any of its occupied territories or imperial forces and has no intention to do so. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 24 August 2013: Confessions at Any Price: Patterns of Torture and Abuse by Israeli Officials
24 August 2013—VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterJerusalem Child Forced Under House ArrestIMEMC – The District Police in occupied East Jerusalem released on Friday evening [August 23, 2013] a Palestinian child after detaining him for two days, and ordered him under house arrest. … Continue reading
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ICH 24 August 2013: Accusations Continue, But Still No Evidence of a Syrian Military Gas Attack
24 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For US Attack On Syria? U S Preps For Possible Cruise Missile Attack An Syrian Gov’t Forces Video Report By CBS News The Pentagon is making the initial preparations for a cruise missile attack on Syrian government forces. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35956.htm Continue reading
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