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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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Information Clearing House 8 September 2013: These False Flags Were Used To Start A War
8 September 2013 — Information Clearing House Assad: Syria’s Allies Will Retaliate in Response to US Strike By Reuters President Bashar Assad warned that if there was a military strike by the United States on his country, there would be retaliation by those aligned with Syria. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36161.htm Continue reading
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Will President Obama Wear His Nobel Peace Prize Medal When He Bombs Syria?
For all you anti-war types sniggering over President Obama’s well-deserved Syria travails, just remember: he’s the president of the United States, and he can do something about it. Not to you. To Syria. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 September 2013: Resist Israel's unjust system, don't operate within it
7 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterMore Veteran Detainees To Be Released November 29IMEMC – Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe , stated that the second phase of releasing political prisoners, held by Israel since before the first Oslo Agreement of 1993, will be conducted on November 29, then a third… 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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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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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 31 August – 7 September 2013: Syria-US / Golan / Iran-Syria / IMF / Iraq
7 September 2013 — — Strategic Culture Foundation Global Irresponsibility 07.09.2013 | 10:50 | Georgy VOSKRESENSKY Next week the US Congress is to express its opinion on the reckless and staggering rush of Barack Obama as the President is pressuring the lawmakers to push through his decision to strike Syria. No details are known and they are changing… 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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Information Clearing House 6 September 2013: Putin: Russia “Will Help Syria” If US Attacks
6 September 2013 — Information Clearing House Russia “Will Help Syria” In The Event of a Military Strike, Putin By RT Putin: Syria chemical attack is ‘rebels’ provocation in hope of intervention’ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36136.htm 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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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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Obama’s Politics of War and US Public Opinion: The Great Divergence By James Petras
Introduction: As President Obama announces plans for another war, adding Syria to the ongoing and recent wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere, a profound gap has emerged between the highly militarized state and US public opinion. 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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Information Clearing House 5 September 2013: A Syrian Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
5 September 2013 — Information Clearing House Telling It Like It Is: Putin Calls Kerry a Liar on Syria By David Jackson Putin called Obama Secretary of State John Kerry a liar over Kerry’s testimony this week before Congress. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36117.htm 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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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 September 2013: PHOTOS: Life before expulsion in the South Hebron Hills
4 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterChildren, Women, Injured As Israeli Extremists Break Into The Al-Aqsa MosqueIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in occupied Jerusalem have reported that several children and women were among the injured after extremist Israelis broke into the yards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque since early dawn hours Wednesday [August 4… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House September 2013: How Intelligence Was Twisted to Support an Attack on Syria
4 September 2013 — Information Clearing House Attack Syria Resolution Approved By Senate Foreign Relations Committee By ICH and Agencies How did senators vote? Here’s a breakdown: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36107.htm Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 4 September 2013: Obama Warlike as Bush, US Chemical Warfare, Obama's Accomplices
4 September 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obama: As Warlike as Bush, and Just as Lonely by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Most of the planet recoils from President Obama’s plans to smash the Syrian state – as do a majority of Americans. “The First Black U.S. President now… Continue reading
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