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UN Report on Syria a devastating indictment of Western intervention By Chris Marsden
The report produced is a devastating indictment of the United States and other western powers, who have worked with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to depose of Bashar al-Assad by recruiting and aiding a Sunni insurgency overwhelmingly made up of Muslim Brotherhood supporters, Salafist and Al Qaeda-style groups. Many are foreign fighters brought to Syria… Continue reading
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ICH 20 December 2012: UK Government warned on direct Syrian intervention
20 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria: Palestinian Camp Empties Pending Government Counter-Attack By Franklin Lamb Souha said she passed about a dozen bodies on the steps and front ground next to the Abdul Qader Al-Hosseini mosque as she left Yarmouk. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33391.htm Continue reading
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US seeks ‘world supremacy’ through advanced weapons – Russian Security Chief
Nikolay Patrushev, commenting on how atomic weapons play more of a political role than a military one, said the consequences of even a “limited nuclear intervention” are so catastrophic that it makes the usage of such weapons absolutely impossible. Continue reading
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America Invades Africa: The Resource War and the Conquest of Mali By Timothy Alexander Guzman
The US and its Western Allies use military force, whether by an invasion or by creating a coup d’état within the country of interest. AFRICOM’s goal is to eliminate China and other countries influence in the region. Africa’s natural resources is another important element to consider because it includes oil, diamonds, copper, gold, iron, cobalt,… Continue reading
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U.S.’s Duplicitous Policy Toward Syria
The United States recognized the Syrian Opposition Council, Syria’s newly formed main opposition group, as the sole “legitimate representative” of the Syrian people on Tuesday. It is evident that the US-led Western countries are determined to push their own agenda on the Syria crisis. Continue reading
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New at SCF 9-15 December 2012: Palestine / Egypt / USA / NATO / Gold / Iran
15 December 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Winner`s Parade in the Gaza Strip, or When «a Pillar of Cloud» Cleared 15.12.2012 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ No matter how hard Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with the Israeli propaganda machine claim that the outcome of operation «a Pillar of Cloud» against the Gaza Strip Continue reading
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Apostles of a war without end By Neil Clarke
The West stepped up its intervention in the Syrian civil war this week, with the United States formally recognising the rebel coalition as “the legitimate representative” of the Syrian people. Continue reading
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Secret Meeting in London: Plotting to Wage War on Syria without UN Authorization By Felicity Arbuthnot
Remember Libya was “not going to be another Iraq” disaster, “lessons have been learned”? Libya’s ruined towns and social structure of course, chillingly resemble Iraq. Now, it is Syria’s turn, but Syria will “not be another Libya”, yes mistaks were made, but lessons have yet again been learned. Continue reading
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“Military Voyeurism” or Invasion of Syria? French Special Forces Team Up with Foreign Backed Terrorists By Dr. Ismail Salami
As part of the sinister plan for Syria at work, French military agents have recently held face-to-face meetings with the foreign-backed militants inside the country in a bid to “assess the situation on the ground.” Continue reading
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“Military Voyeurism” or Invasion of Syria? French Special Forces Team Up with Foreign Backed Terrorists By Dr. Ismail Salami
As part of the sinister plan for Syria at work, French military agents have recently held face-to-face meetings with the foreign-backed militants inside the country in a bid to “assess the situation on the ground.” Continue reading
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West’s Syrian Chemical Weapons Canard: Prelude to Intervention
“The real concern is that the U.S. may have other plans; to provide the terrorist groups with such weaponries…to justify any foreign intervention in Syria’s internal affairs,” Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad told local media on Thursday. Continue reading
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NATO In Syria: The Lion Is Ready To Pounce By Oleg Severgin
Washington and Brussels state that if the regime of Bashar al-Assad uses chemical weapons against the armed units of the opposition, it may serve as a cause of war. However, a number of experts believe that today the use of such a weapon is technically impossible for Syria. Continue reading
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Video: The Rise of a New, Revived Form of Liberal Interventionism by Seumas Milne
Seumas Milne: We’ve seen the rise of a new, revived form of liberal interventionism, or humanitarian interventionism, in the last couple of years, and the key to it is the idea that there mustn’t be too many boots on the ground because that was the problem with Iraq and Afghanistan. You’ve got to be seen… Continue reading
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Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization By Prof. James Petras
By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged the resources of mineral-rich and agriculturally productive countries, in consort with multi-national corporations. Financial critics have provided abundant data on the ways in… Continue reading
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Straining Credulity? By Alastair Crooke
The UN Secretary General was reported on March 3 saying that he had received “grisly reports” that Syrian government forces were arbitrarily executing, imprisoning and torturing people in Homs after retaking control of the Baba Amr district from insurgents. Did he really believe this; or was he just “saying it”? Continue reading
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ColdType, November 2012: Arun Gupta / Edward S. Herman / Dave Lindorff…
Cover story this month is Arun Gupta’s journey back to Niles, Ohio, where steelworkers are striking to protect their community as it falls deeper into a post-industrial abyss. Other top stories include Edward S. Herman’s indictment of the double standards and hypocrisy that mark the West’s flawed concepts of ‘war on terrorism’ and ‘humanitarian intervention’;… Continue reading
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Australia’s Uranium Bonanza: Making the World a More Dangerous Place By John Pilger
Australia has 40% of the world’s uranium, all of it on indigenous land. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just been to India to sell uranium to a government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and whose enemy, Pakistan, is also a non-signatory. The threat of nuclear war between them is constant.… Continue reading
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