Syria
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Red Cross officials arrive in Homs
3 March, 2012 — Voice of Russia Officials of the International Red Cross have arrived in the Baba Amr area of the city of Homs, known to be the worst-damaged during the recent clashes between the Syrian government troops and armed opposition units. Access to the area has been closed by the authorities for security… Continue reading
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Syria And Beyond: Most Serious East-West Confrontation Since End Of Cold War By Vladimir Radyuhin
The veto Russia slapped jointly with China on two United Nations Security Council resolutions that sought the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad marked the most serious East-West confrontation since the end of the Cold War. Continue reading
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Planned Regime Change in Syria By Stephen Lendman
Strategies and tactics vary. Objectives are consistent. They involve replacing independent regimes with pro-Western ones by any means, including war. Continue reading
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Syria “Conspiracy Theories”: It is a Conspiracy By Felicity Arbuthnot
Sanity dictated that this would be a U.S. fantasy rampage too far and vast – until realization hit that the author of the map of this New World, planned in the New World’s “New World Order”, was Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters, who, in one of the most terrifying articles ever published, wrote in 1997: Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 29 February -1 March 2012: Ambassador: West Wants Libyan And Iraqi Models For Syria
1 March 2012 21:54:55 — williambowles.info 012Syrian rebels pull out of besieged HomsStrategic Culture Foundation Today at 19:37 Continue reading
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Self-appointed revolutionaries shooting people in the streets – Homs eyewitness
RT in Damascus managed to contact an eyewitness in Homs, who says self-proclaimed revolutionaries are killing civilians in the streets. Galina says leaving home is out of the question, as snipers “can shoot you in the back.” Continue reading
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Assad in Western eyes: From riches to rags By Dmitry Babich
The recent pronouncements by Western leaders and the monarchs of the Persian Gulf Emirates on the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his regime make one want to rub one’s eyes. Are we hearing them from the same people we have just seen shaking hands with Assad and hinting at lucrative contracts with his “regime”? Didn’t… Continue reading
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France and US arming Syrian opposition – report
A general in the opposition militia known as the Free Syria Army has told journalists that the rebels have received French and American military assistance, amid reports of worsening violence in the stricken nation. Continue reading
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Video: The Syrian Opposition and the External Players
Bassam Haddad: The Syrian revolution must guard against interference by external powers and the Syrian National Council Continue reading
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Syria: Clinton Admits US On Same Side As Al Qaeda To Destabilise Assad Government By Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that Al Qaeda and other organizations on the US “terror list” are supporting the Syrian opposition. Clinton said: “We have a very dangerous set of actors in the region, al-Qaida [sic], Hamas, and those who are on our terrorist list, to be sure, supporting – claiming to… Continue reading
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SYRIA: US-NATO behind the Killings of Civilians By Ben Schreiner
Ever since its failure to win United Nations Security Council backing for “regime change” in Syria, Washington and its lackeys in the corporate media have been unrelenting in voicing their great moral outrage at both the violence of the Assad regime and the seeming indifference to it all by the likes of Russia and China. Continue reading
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In Search of Syria’s True Friends By Polina Chernitsa
The ‘Friends of Syria’ is a contradiction in terms. In reality, these countries are Syria’s enemies which are not trying to reach a peaceful settlement but want to provoke a civil war, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for International Affairs Alexey Pushkov has declared. An international conference of the Friends of Syria, which includes… Continue reading
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Putin On Libyan Scenario For Syria: We Will Set Up Coalition Of Concerned States, We Will Strike
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hopes that the ‘Libyan scenario’ will not be implemented in Syria and that Western countries led by the United States will not circumvent the United Nations Security Council by launching a military operation in this country. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 26-27 February 2012
27 February 2012 — williambowles.info Maybe updated as the day wears on… Syrian conflict destabilizes LebanonWorld Socialist Web Site Today at 12:29The conflict in Syria, where US-backed “rebels” are fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad, is exacerbating tensions in neighboring Lebanon. Continue reading
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Syria: Seeking a Convenient Casus Belli By Tony Cartalucci
You are an embattled nation with the entire world watching. Your allies Russia and China just made a major decision at the UN Security Council in your favor with much of their reputation and future at stake. Western propagandists have been relentlessly making up news stories regarding your nation no matter what you do, for… Continue reading
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Syria: Rogue Elements Rampant By Felicity Arbuthnot
For anyone who has forgotten the details, the (1990-1991) Iraq model went like this: vast US government employed PR agency, Hill and Knowlton (“we create value by shaping conversations: we start them, we amplify them, we change them. We can connect seamlessly with all of your audiences…”) produced a fifteen year old girl called “Nayirah”,… Continue reading
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Progressives Embrace Humanitarian Imperialism – Again! By John V. Walsh
“Foreign Intervention in Syria? A Debate with Joshua Landis and Karam Nachar” promised the headline on DemocracyNow! on 22 February. Eagerly I tuned in, hoping to hear a thorough exposé of the machinations of the US Empire in Syria on its march to Iran. Continue reading
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Memo To POTUS–Eyes Only: From The Department of Pre-War Planning And Threat Exaggeration By Danny Schechter
This is a digest of the multi-dimensional and multi-track strategy that is in place, and is being pursued simultaneously in a coordinated manner, by The Executive Branch, Defense Department, State Department, and all intelligence agencies. (And despite reports from our spy agencies that Iran is right to insist it is not making nuclear bombs. Why… Continue reading
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