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On Syria, Sunday Morning TV Journalists Don't Need Proof By Peter Hart
The public doesn’t seem to support going to war in Syria–but some high-profile Sunday morning TV journalists are either declaring their support for the war, or professing faith in the case for going to war. Continue reading
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“Funny Things” Keep Happening on the Way to the War On Syria. The Whole World is on a Dangerously Slippery Slope By Jooneed Khan
Funny things on the way to the War ON Syria have been happening ever since the war IN Syria began two and a half years ago, and they just keep piling on. Continue reading
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URGENT: False Flag Involving Israel to Implicate Syria in the Works Says RT By Tony Cartalucci
After a stunning geopolitical move by Russia and Syria involving the surrendering of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, the special interests seeking war have been forced to adjust their rhetoric and timetable around what is now a quickly dissolving casus belli. Continue reading
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Kerry’s Syria gaffe takes wings By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
Launching a war in slow motion against a faraway country is never a smart thing to do, but it can have its advantages, too, in case the need arises to rein in the war on reflection before it gets under way. That seems to be happening in the case of the United States’ planned strike… Continue reading
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Persuading the Left Intelligentsia on Syria
Barack Obama’s fervent drive for yet more war carries a number of important lessons in terms of propaganda and the extent to which the “progressive left” literati can be persuaded to jump on the homicidal bandwagon. Continue reading
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Syrian rebels plan chemical attack on Israel from Assad-controlled territories – media
A chemical attack may be launched on Israel by Syrian rebels from government-controlled territories as a “major provocation”, a number of sources have told RT. Continue reading
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Preparations for regional war By Thierry Meyssan
Both the United States and France are busy with preparations for the bombing of Syria, although such action corresponds to no strategic objective for either state. Russia and the Axis of Resistance are therefore preparing their riposte. The major difficulty consists in transforming this agression into a regional war while avoiding the Third, (and final?)… 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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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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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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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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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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Chemical weapons sent from Turkey to Syria: Former Turkish provincial official
A former member of a city council in the Turkish province of Hatay says that the chemical weapons used in last month’s attack in Syria were transported from Turkey, Press TV reports. Continue reading
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