September 2013
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Information Clearing House 7 September 2013: Top 10 Unproven Claims for War Against Syria
7 September 2013 — Information Clearing House Pentagon Plans Massive Attack on Syria By Bill Van Auken The Obama administration has reportedly ordered the Pentagon to plan a far wider attack on Syria than had originally been indicated. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36149.htm Continue reading
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Depravity Redefined: Selling US Slaughter in Syria By Tony Cartalucci
The corporate interests driving the United States, its resources, and policy, have invoked dead children in the latest and grisliest propaganda campaign yet, directed at the American public to build support for an otherwise unjustified and universally unwanted war with Syria. Continue reading
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Western rationality By Thierry Meyssan
You liked the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Vietnam War, the Kuwaiti incubators and the first Gulf War, the Racak massacre and the war in Kosovo, Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and the second Gulf War and the threats to Benghazi and the Libyan war? You will just love the gassing of civilians in… Continue reading
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Obama on Syria In St Petersburg : Hitting All The Right Notes For All The Wrong People By Colin Todhunter
Somewhere in Washington , a conversation may have taken place along these lines: How are we going to sell this one to a public that is sick of war and sick of being lied to? The response is given: Don’t worry, we can bank on people’s ignorance, play to their emotions and just keep on… Continue reading
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Senate Surrenders War Powers Over False Flag Incident
The Obama administration asked the Senate for an Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) in Syria over an alleged chemical weapons attack. That AUMF was already worded incredibly wide and would have allowed the president to wage unlimited war over all the Middle East and beyond. Continue reading
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‘Globesity’: US junk food industry tips global scales
The newly released United Nations report on global nutrition does not make for very appetizing reading: Amid an already floundering global economy, the reality of a fattening planet is dragging down world productivity rates while increasing health insurance costs to the tune of $3.5 trillion dollars per year – or 5 percent of global gross… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 31 August – 7 September 2013: Syria-US / Golan / Iran-Syria / IMF / Iraq
7 September 2013 — — Strategic Culture Foundation Global Irresponsibility 07.09.2013 | 10:50 | Georgy VOSKRESENSKY Next week the US Congress is to express its opinion on the reckless and staggering rush of Barack Obama as the President is pressuring the lawmakers to push through his decision to strike Syria. No details are known and they are changing Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 September 2013: Addressing the impact of settler violence
6 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterTalks Focused On Temporary Borders, SecurityIMEMC – Israeli medial sources have reported that the current direct Israeli-Palestinian political talks are focused on a Palestinian state with temporary borders, and on security arrangements in the occupied West Bank. … Continue reading
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When It Comes to State Violence, Too Much Is Never Enough By Jim Naureckas
Obama does “hesitate to use force”–is that his problem? Since 2009, US drone strikes have killed more than 2000 people in Pakistan, including 240 civilians, 62 of them children. Since Obama took office, they’ve killed more than 400 in Yemen; drone deaths in Somalia are harder to quantify. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 6 September 2013: Putin: Russia “Will Help Syria” If US Attacks
6 September 2013 — Information Clearing House Russia “Will Help Syria” In The Event of a Military Strike, Putin By RT Putin: Syria chemical attack is ‘rebels’ provocation in hope of intervention’ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36136.htm Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia’s ‘Chemical Bandar’ behind the Syrian chemical attacks? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Nothing the US claims about what happened in Syria adds up. We are being asked to believe an illogical story, when it is much more likely that it was Israel and Saudi Arabia who enabled the Obama Administration to threaten Syria with war. Continue reading
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Shady PR operatives, pro-Israel ties, anti-Castro money: Inside the Syrian opposition’s DC spin machine By Max Blumenthal
During the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria on September 3, Secretary of State John Kerry and Senator John McCain both cited a Wall Street Journal editorial by Elizabeth O’Bagy to support their assessment of the Syrian rebels as predominately “moderate,” and potentially Western-friendly. What Kerry and McCain neglected to mention was that O’Bagy… Continue reading
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Obama Warned on Intel about Syrian Chemical Attack
Despite the Obama administration’s supposedly “high confidence” regarding Syrian government guilt over the Aug. 21 chemical attack near Damascus, a dozen former U.S. military and intelligence officials are telling President Obama that they are picking up information that undercuts the Official Story. Continue reading
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Arriving First in Syria By Franklin Lamb
Will 1000 American ‘Human Shields’ Stop Another Criminal War? Continue reading
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Obama’s Politics of War and US Public Opinion: The Great Divergence By James Petras
Introduction: As President Obama announces plans for another war, adding Syria to the ongoing and recent wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere, a profound gap has emerged between the highly militarized state and US public opinion. Continue reading
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Identification of the dead children in Ghouta
The children do not correspond to a sample of the population : they are all almost of same age and have light hair. They are not accompanied by their grieving families. They are in fact children abducted by jihadists, to weeks before in Alaouite villages in the surrounding of Latakia, 200km away from Ghouta. Continue reading
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Putin: Syria chemical attack is ‘rebels' provocation in hope of intervention’
There was no 50/50 split of opinion on the notion of a military strike against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, Putin stressed refuting earlier assumptions. Only Turkey, Canada, Saudi Arabia and France joined the US push for intervention, he said, adding that the UK Prime Minister’s position was not supported by his citizens. Continue reading
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With The NSA, The GCHQ, The FRA Planting Crypto Backdoors In Infrastructure, They Are Now The Enemy Of All Mankind
The security services of the US, UK, and Sweden have been actively working to plant backdoors into most commercial cryptography software. While intended to use for wiretapping business secrets, medical journals and bank transactions, those backdoors are also there for any other adversary. This is effectively a declaration of war from the security services against… Continue reading
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The Strange Thing About Cluster Bombs By Jim Naureckas
That’s the strange thing about cluster bombs: When they’re used by official enemies, they’re weapons of indiscriminate terror (FAIR Blog, 4/16/11,1/2/13). When they’re used by the United States, they’re not much worth talking about. Continue reading
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Russia gave UN 100-page report in July blaming Syrian rebels for Aleppo sarin attack By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Foreign Staff
Russia says a deadly March sarin attack in an Aleppo suburb was carried out by Syrian rebels, not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, and it has delivered a 100-page report laying out its evidence to the United Nations. Continue reading
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