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Iran Foreign Minister: “We Informed US of Chemical Weapons Transfer to Syria 9 Months Ago”
In an interview with Aseman (Sky) weekly in Tehran, Zarif added, “In the same note, we warned [Washington] that radical groups might be planning to use these chemical agents. During this period [of war in Syria] Takfiri groups have been encouraged to continue their fratricide and war the result of which has been human catastrophes… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 25-31 August 20103: Syria / Iran / Russia-USA / Brics / Latin America
31 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation US – Syria: «Great Plans» Going Awry 31.08.2013 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV In a whirlpool of rapidly changing events around Syria one fact seems to be indisputable. The US has very little international support, the plans to lead a representative international coalition have gone awry. It’s an outright foreign Continue reading
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Britain’s vote against Syrian military action provokes political crisis By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland
Bitter recriminations have followed the parliamentary defeat of a UK government motion intended to authorize military action against Syria. Continue reading
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US Threatens Syria: Trigger Happy Foreign Policy (II) By Andrei AKULOV
The UN Security Council failed to take a decision on Syria on August 28 and it’s not known what was said behind the closed doors. Russia said the UN must finish its investigation into the claims before discussing any resolution. Taking into consideration how strong is the support for intervention on the part of the… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 29 August 2013: US Attack on Syria Would be Illegal ‘Act of War’
29 August 2013 — Information Clearing House CONFIRMED: US Claims Against Syria – There is no Evidence By Tony Cartalucci The Wall Street Journal reveals that the US is citing claims from Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency fed to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36015.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 August 2013: ’Religion and politics’ in Israel: The mythology of Jewish nationalism
27 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Killed In Askar Refugee CampIMEMC – [Tuesday August 27, 2013] A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Palestinian security fire reportedly during clashes between the security forces and gunmen in the Askar refugee camp, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Continue reading
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Reuters: US to Strike Syria Before UN Evidence Collected By Tony Cartalucci
The US has accused the Syrian government of delaying UN inspectors from accessing the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Damascus. But now, according to Reuters, the US appears to be preparing to strike Syria militarily before the UN’s now ongoing investigation is concluded and evidence revealed to either support or conflict with… Continue reading
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CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran’s Coup: The agency finally owns up to its role in the 1953 operation By Malcolm Byrne
Sixty years ago this Monday, on August 19, 1953, modern Iranian history took a critical turn when a U.S.- and British-backed coup overthrew the country’s prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The event’s reverberations have haunted its orchestrators over the years, contributing to the anti-Americanism that accompanied the Shah’s ouster in early 1979, and even influencing the… Continue reading
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NSA: CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup
Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, the National Security Archive is today posting recently declassified CIA documents on the United States’ role in the controversial operation. American and British involvement in Mosaddeq’s ouster has long been public knowledge, but today’s posting includes what is believed to be the… Continue reading
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“Perfidious Albion”- The View of the U.S. National Security Archive? By Felicity Arbuthnot
This week, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the CIA-MI6 overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossaddegh, on 19th August 1953, the (US) National Security Archive has released documents confirming the details of the coup and the grubby US-UK involvement. Continue reading
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“Perfidious Albion”- The View of the U.S. National Security Archive? By Felicity Arbuthnot
This week, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the CIA-MI6 overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossaddegh, on 19th August 1953, the (US) National Security Archive has released documents confirming the details of the coup and the grubby US-UK involvement. Continue reading
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Lying About Syria, and the Lying Liars Who Lie About the Lying By David Swanson
“U.S. prepares for possible retaliatory strike against Syria,” announces a Los Angeles Times headline, even though Syria has not attacked the United States or any of its occupied territories or imperial forces and has no intention to do so. Continue reading
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ICH 24 August 2013: Accusations Continue, But Still No Evidence of a Syrian Military Gas Attack
24 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For US Attack On Syria? U S Preps For Possible Cruise Missile Attack An Syrian Gov’t Forces Video Report By CBS News The Pentagon is making the initial preparations for a cruise missile attack on Syrian government forces. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35956.htm Continue reading
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Deaths on the Nile: Is Egypt’s revolution following the course of Iran’s? BY SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
Now that the Egyptian Army has decided to break the stalemate and cleanse the public space of Islamist protesters, and the result is hundreds of deaths, one should first just imagine what an uproar this would have caused if the same bloodbath were to happen, say, in Iran. However, it is more urgent to take… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 18-24 August 2013: Syria / Iran / Eurasia /Egypt / Lebanon / Europe / Greece
24 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Chemicals Seep Through the Cracks in Western-led Axis Against Syria 24.08.2013 | 09:31 | Finian CUNNINGHAM A recurring pattern throughout the Syrian crisis is the coincidence of massacres suspiciously at times when there is a shift in the political backdrop. This is important to bear in mind when assessing Continue reading
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Egypt’s ‘color coup’ By Eric Walberg
The military cheered the opposition Tamarod movement on—no limits to their demonstrations—providing the pretext for the coup, employing standard Great Game tactics as used in Iran (1953), Brazil (1964) and Chile (1973). (Ironically, just this week the CIA finally admitted its role in Iran in 1953.) Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 21 August 2013: It was all part of the plan
21 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Invade Village Near Nablus, Kidnap Five PalestiniansIMEMC – Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday evening, the village of Beita south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and kidnapped five Palestinians; clashes and injuries have been reported. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 17 August 2013
17 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Invade Village Near Nablus, Kidnap Five PalestiniansIMEMC – Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday evening, the village of Beita south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and kidnapped five Palestinians; clashes and injuries have been reported. … Continue reading
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Egypt’s Junta Has Nothing to Lose By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
The appointment of Robert Ford as the new American ambassador to Egypt was indeed an ominous sign that the Obama administration expected civil war conditions to arise in Egypt. Ford’s forte during his hugely successful «diplomatic» assignment in Baghdad in the middle of the last decade was to organize the notorious death squads, which tore… Continue reading
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The Stark Reality Behind Obama’s Russian ‘Statesmanship’ By F. William Engdahl
In a press conference Obama described the Russian President as having a “slouch…looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the classroom.” Yet behind the childish form of the latest White House refusal to meet President Putin before the G-20 St. Petersburg Summit is a grim reality Continue reading
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