Syria
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Video: US double standards: Indirectly arming Syrian rebels? — RT
The conflict in Syria is intensifying and the UN is unable to agree on a solution to end the bloodshed. Meanwhile, US politicians are calling to arm opposition forces, amid suspicions the US may already be supplying weapons through its Arab allies. Continue reading
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Who Arms the Gang Called «Free Syrian Army» By Leonid Savin
Militant terrorist groups are the main force of those who apply efforts to destroy Syria after doing the same thing in Libya. The Report of the League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria (11) made public in January 2012 and ignored by the West, says there is no government organized repression against peaceful protesters… Continue reading
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Lies, Revolutions and Wars: A House of Sand and Fog By Nebojsa Malic
Last summer, as the Sandstorm mistakenly dubbed the “Arab Spring” swept across North Africa, a cadre of professional revolutionaries the Empire created in Serbia bragged about their role in the revolts to some European videographers. Sure, the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt may have begun spontaneously, but Empire-trained activists soon took control and channeled the… Continue reading
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Video: High-Tech Trickery in Homs? By Sharmine Narwani
The “satellite photos,” says Ford, “have captured both the carnage and those causing it — the artillery is clearly there, it is clearly bombing entire neighborhoods…We are intent on exposing the regime’s brutal tactics for the world to see.” But within 24 hours, the blog Moon of Alabama had taken a hammer to the ambassador’s… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 16-17 February 2012
17 February 2012 — williambowles.info Maybe updated as the day wears on… 012China sits out Syria regime change tango Asia Times Online Today at 11:00 There is a window of opportunity for China to promote its desired outcome in Syria – a ‘third path’ political strategy, one that eschews both regime change and perpetuation of… Continue reading
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Video: Arab League Calls for Arming Syrian Opposition
Christian Henderson: Great hypocrisy of Saudis, crushing opposition in Bahrain and and supporting it in Syria Continue reading
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Rights and regime change By Shahnaz Durrani
The dawn of twenty-first century has brought a new phenomenon in its wake, which unfortunately has been little questioned or debated: the right of the mightiest to regime change. Where earlier the pretext of communism’s displacement reigned, followed by orthodox theocracy, now is the age of supplanting assertive regimes, even though they may be progressive… Continue reading
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Media Lens: UN ‘Travesty’: Resolutions Of Mass Destruction – Part 2
Ironically, like other media that dismissed highly credible scientific analyses of the death toll in Iraq – published in one of the world’s most respected medical journals, the Lancet – the BBC has been reporting hundreds of deaths in Homs based on anecdotal evidence and highly questionable sources. Continue reading
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Syria’s ‘Arab Spring’: failed or hijacked? By Fiona Hill
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is ‘disgusted’ at the stance taken by Russia and China against foreign military intervention in Syria. But clearly ‘Madame Clinton’, as many Syrians enjoy calling her, has not made time to read the report by the Head of the Arab League (AL) Observer Mission that was deployed throughout Syria’s… Continue reading
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Aleppo betrayed by attacks that are foreign to its nature By Charles Glass
Last week’s suicide bombings that killed at least 28 people in Aleppo are drawing Syria’s second city into a conflict that it had struggled to avoid for the past year. President Bashar Al Assad blamed Al Qaeda terrorists, while the Syrian opposition accused the regime. American officials, despite Washington’s hostility to Mr Al Assad and… Continue reading
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Britain’s Socialist Workers Party covers for imperialist regime change in Syria By Chris Marsden
The first response of Washington, London, and Paris to the revolutionary overturns in Tunisia and Egypt was a pre-emptive campaign for regime change in Libya, working through local proxies whose task was to prepare the way for military intervention. The pattern is being repeated in Syria. It falls to the various ex-left tendencies to conceal… Continue reading
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UN’s Syria Vote: Kings And Ex-Colonial Powers Champion “Democracy” By Prabir Purkayastha
The irony of the Gulf monarchies fighting for ‘democracy’ is not lost on the people. Neither is an Iraqi- or Libyan-style military intervention for bringing democracy to the region. No wonder that the US and other Western countries rejected out of hand Russia’s amendments, one of which asked for democracy, not just in Syria but… Continue reading
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Media Lens: UN ‘Travesty’: Resolutions Of Mass Destruction – Part 1
It has been said that compassion is ‘the only beauty that truly pleases’ While beauty ordinarily provokes the fiery itch of desire or the sullen shadow of envy, compassion is cooling, blissful, inspiring awe and wonder. It implies an ability to stand outside our own needs as observers, to perceive the suffering of others as… Continue reading
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Road To Damascus…And On To Armageddon? By Diana Johnstone
The United States has decided that as sole superpower it doesn’t really need to stoop to diplomacy to get what it wants, and the United Nations has been turned into the instrument of US policy. The clearest evidence of this was the failure of the UN Security Council to block the NATO powers’ abuse of… Continue reading
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Carla Stea: World War and the Russia-China Veto – Towards a Break Point at the UN Security Council?
It is troubling, indeed, that although Mrs. Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had never set foot in Syria during the period about which she professed expertise, she was, nevertheless invited to address the United Nations Security Council on December 9, 2011, and much of the Western media quoted her as… Continue reading
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Video: ‘Western media indiscriminate in Syria reports’ — RT
Reports about hundreds of dead and wounded coming from Syria on a daily basis has become commonplace in Western media, while the sources of such information are highly questionable, investigative journalist Asa Winstanley told RT. Continue reading
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NATO’s “Secret War” on Syria: Replicating the Libya Model By Stephen Lendman
In January, Michel Chossudovsky reported British media confirming UK/CIA/MI6 operatives in Syria training anti-Assad Western-backed insurgents. They’re also supplying them with arms, ammunition, and equipment. Continue reading
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SYRIA: NATO’s Next “Humanitarian” War? ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
The “protests” did not emanate from internal political cleavages as described by the mainstream media. From the very outset, they were the result of a covert US-NATO intelligence operation geared towards triggering social chaos, with a view to eventually discrediting the Syrian government of Bashar Al Assad and destabilizing Syria as a Nation State. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 10-11 February 2012
11 February 2012 18:46:51 — williambowles.info 012Foolishly ignoring the Arab League Report on Syria occupation magazine – articles Today at 23:59 Sharmine Narwani – Alakhbar English – There is powerful evidence that the mission of the Arab League Observers in Syria has been subjected to a campaign of sabotage aimed at eliminating the possibility of a… Continue reading
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