Iraq
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Israel is fighting a regional war in Syria By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Not only have the US and its allies been trying to militarily buttress the retreating anti-government militias, but now they aim to create a new phase in the conflict where states start asserting leverage against Syria in place of the weakening anti-government forces. In other words, external pressure is being applied to replace the declining… Continue reading
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ICH 22 May 2013: Syria Rebels Threaten to Wipe Out Shiite, Alawite Towns
22 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria: Turning Point in the Battle of Qusayr By Radwan Mortada Syrian government forces stormed the strategic town early on Sunday. Many opposition fighters fled, accusing their commanders of betrayal. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35042.htm Continue reading
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ICH 21 May 2013: The Globalization of Hypocrisy
21 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Noam Chomsky: Obama Was Willing to Start Nuclear War to Kill bin Laden By Eric W. Dolan MIT professor Noam Chomsky criticized the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Friday, saying President Barack Obama could have provoked a nuclear war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35033.htm Continue reading
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‘US opened Pandora’s box in Iraq, regional sectarian violence almost impossible to stop now’
“Everyone in Iraq must be terrified that the situation in Syria is spilling over into Iraq” Bambery said as Tuesday’s attacks in the country kill over 40, a day after over 70 people were murdered, escalating fears of all-out sectarian war between minority Sunnis and majority Shiites. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 20 May 2013: Dutch probe sends warning to firms abetting Israel’s crimes
20 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterP.A Security Arrests A PFLP Leader In NablusIMEMC – Palestinian sources reported that Palestinian security officers kidnapped, on Monday evening, one of the political leaders of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), from his home, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Continue reading
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ICH 20 May 2013: “This Is An Outrage For All America”
20 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria Has No Reason To Use Chemical Weapons By Patrick Cockburn The Syrian army has no need to use it as a terror weapon because artillery, aerial bombardment and death squads are quite enough to frighten people into taking flight. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35020.htm Continue reading
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ICH 18 May 2013: Israeli Special Forces in Syria
18 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Bashar al-Assad: ‘I’m Here To Stay’ By Martin Chulov Bashar al-Assad has used a rare interview to warn the United States and Russia that their efforts to bring about talks will do little to halt the civil war laying waste to his country, and that he has no intention Continue reading
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ICH 17 May 23013: “Astoundingly Disturbing” Obama Claims Power to Wage Endless War Across the Globe
17 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Mystery Sponsor Of Weapons And Money To Syrian Mercenary “Rebels” Revealed By Tyler Durden The tiny gas-rich state of Qatar has spent as much as $3bn over the past two years supporting the rebellion in Syria, far exceeding any other government. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34989.htm Continue reading
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ICH 16 May 2013: 75 Years in Prison For Videotaping Police
16 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For Attack On Syria? Syrians Describe Effects of Alleged Gas Attack Video A BBC news team has travelled to a town in northern Syria which eyewitnesses claim has been attacked with poisonous gas. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34967.htm Continue reading
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Action Alert: Iraq Then, Syria Now? New York Times, sarin and skepticism
During the run-up to the Iraq War, the New York Times amplified erroneous official claims about weapons of mass destruction (FAIR Action Alert, 9/8/06). Looking at the paper’s coverage of allegations of chemical weapons use by Syria, some of the same patterns are clear: an over-reliance on official sources and the downplaying of critical or… Continue reading
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ICH 15 May 2013: The Posterior of Fascism
15 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Israeli Official Hints At More Attacks On Syria, Warns Assad Not To Respond By Barak Ravid “If Syrian President Assad reacts by attacking Israel…he will risk forfeiting his regime,” a senior Israeli official told the New York Times on Wednesday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34956.htm Continue reading
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ICH 14 May 2013: The Criminalization of Political Dissent in America
14 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Syrian Minister: We Have the Right to Enter the Occupied Golan Heights Anytime By Elad Benari “Everybody should know that we are people who don’t forget to respond to an aggression against the aggressors, nor do we forget our martyrs and those who killed them,” said al-Zoubi. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34934.htm Continue reading
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ICH 13 May 2013: Chris Hedges: Murder Is Our National Sport
13 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria Endgame Approaching Fast By Shamus Cooke Syrian government forces have scored significant battlefield victories over the rebels, and this has provoked a mixture of war provocations and peace offers from the U.S. and its anti-Assad allies. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34922.htm Continue reading
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ICH 12 May 2013: Ronald Reagan: Accessory to Genocide Claims
12 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Buying Time in Syria By Phil Greaves The current softening of US rhetoric is merely a smokescreen to enable the US Government and its autocratic GCC (Gulf Co-Operation Council) allies to shift strategies and proxy allegiances. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34907.htm Continue reading
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ICH 11 May 2013: Guantánamo is Not an Anomaly – Prisoners in the US are Force-fed Every Day
11 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Explosions Kill 40 People In Turkey Video Forty people were killed and 100 injured when several explosions struck a city in southern Turkey, near the border with Syria. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34894.htm Continue reading
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U.S. Currently Fighting 74 Different Wars … And Many More Covert Wars
Today US military operations are involved in scores of countries across all the five continents. The US military is the world’s largest landlord, with significant military facilities in nations around the world, and with a significant presence in Bahrain, Djibouti,Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Kyrgyzstan, in addition to long-established bases in… Continue reading
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ICH 10 May 2013: Death is Preferable to Life at Obama’s Guantanamo
10 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Free Syrian Army Rebels Defect to Islamist Group Jabhat al-Nusra By Mona Mahmood and Ian Black al-Qaida, is luring many anti-Assad fighters away from Free Syrian Army, say brigade commanders. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34880.htm Continue reading
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ICH 8 May 2013: A Look Into Your Future
8 May 2013 — Information Clearing House The West and its Allies Cynically Bleed Syria to Weaken Iran By Seumas Milne If western politicians were really interested in saving lives, they would use their leverage to negotiate a settlement. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34872.htm Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘This Madman Must Be Stopped’ – Syrian Chemical Weapons By David Edwards
This really is astonishing, in the strange world of media propaganda, news reports contradict editorials and headlines contradict content. The guiding ethic: ‘I want to believe!’ It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that media performance is shaped by state-corporate forces that are deeply invested in decades of war and the spoils that go with… Continue reading
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