Middle East
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Iraq: Twenty One Years of Crimes Against Humanity By Felicity Arbuthnot
With current US-led plans to remodel (read annihilate) the remaining Middle East, the 1991, twenty eight country attack on Iraq’s just 27 million people, where, arguably it all started, has largely dropped from Western consciousness, though certainly not that of Iraqis. Continue reading
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The U.S. Strategy to Control Middle Eastern Oil By Andrew Gavin Marshall
In the midst of World War II, Saudi Arabia secured a position of enormous significance to the rising world power, America. With its oil reserves essentially untapped, the House of Saud became a strategic ally of immense importance, “a matter of national security, nourishing U.S. military might and enhancing the potentiality of postwar American hegemony.” Continue reading
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Hillary Clinton and Middle East war crimes By Bill Van Auken
The ratcheting up of Washington’s rhetoric is aimed at winning public support for yet another imperialist intervention in the Middle East, with regime-change once again dressed up as a crusade for human rights. Clinton’s statement, however, begs a question. How precisely does she determine when armed violence against civilians constitutes a war crime? Continue reading
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Syria “Conspiracy Theories”: It is a Conspiracy By Felicity Arbuthnot
Sanity dictated that this would be a U.S. fantasy rampage too far and vast – until realization hit that the author of the map of this New World, planned in the New World’s “New World Order”, was Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters, who, in one of the most terrifying articles ever published, wrote in 1997: Continue reading
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ColdType, March 2012
The cover story of this month’s biggest-ever issue returns to the Middle East where the world is being prepared for a replay of the just-ended war in Iraq. Our seven essays by writers in North America and Europe point out, among other things, that there seems to be a media blackout of the fact that… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 29 February 2012: Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ Will Make Protest Illegal
29 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Manipulating Public Perceptions U.S. Military Has “Detailed Plans” On Syria Options By AP Detailed plans developed to carry out military action against Syria have been drawn up by the Pentagon and could be implemented upon orders by President Barack Obama. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30673.htm Continue reading
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Video: 'Iranian oil – not nukes – bothers the West'
Conn Hallinan, a columnist at the Foreign Policy in Focus magazine, says the West’s concern over Iran’s nuclear program is merely a pretext to take control of its vast energy resources Continue reading
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“Friends of Syria” plan war, regime change at Washington’s behest
The “Friends of Syria” are a gang of political criminals, gathered in Tunisia to plan the latest in a series of destabilization campaigns that have all ended in colonial wars of aggression. Continue reading
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Video: ‘US agenda in Middle East is very obvious’
The pressure is ramping up on the Syrian regime as calls for a peacekeeping force to get involved in the crisis intensify. But retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski says such missions hide another agenda. Continue reading
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Syria Crisis, Arab Spring Revive Cold War Alignment By Marwan Kabalan
The Russian-Chinese co-ordination on many world issues, including in the UN Security Council, makes it almost certain that the West will, from now on, face tougher resistance to its polices from underprivileged powers in the international system. Continue reading
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China Steps Up in Syria
The conventional picture of US policy in the Middle East is of a hellbound train rushing toward war with Iran, pulling burning coaches filled with European passengers howling praise of Western values out the windows at horrified bystanders. Continue reading
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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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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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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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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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Russia And Syria: Laboratory For Testing Advent Of Multipolar World
Those who berate Russia for being an openly acknowledged supplier of weapons to the Assad regime ignore the fact that the rebel Free Syrian Army is being clandestinely armed and financed by the authoritarian Arab League members. Continue reading
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Russian MPs: Foreign Military Forces In Syria Raise Ghost Of Libya
Russia has expressed alarm over the increasing tendency of foreign powers – notably NATO countries – to resolve internal conflicts in foreign countries through military force. The latest such intervention happened in Libya, which recently experienced a full-blown civil war. Continue reading
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Syrian Regime Change: West Plans To Change Political Landscape Of Entire Middle East
[A]nalysts believe that a forced regime change in Syria would have a serious impact on the political situation in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine, and even change the political landscape in the whole Middle East. Continue reading
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Western Shenanigans against Syria, Iran By Dr. Ismail Salami
The volatile situation in Syria generated by the Saudi-Qatar-funded Wahhabi armed group known as the Free Syrian Army and backed by the West is now an accident waiting to happen. Continue reading
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