15 December 2012 — Information Clearing House
Syria: The Descent into Holy War
By Patrick Cockburn
It is one of the most horrifying videos of the war in Syria. It shows two men being beheaded by Syrian rebels, one of them by a child.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33331.htm
10 December 2012 — Voice of Russia
The Friends of Syria nations that support regime change meet in Morocco on Wednesday for the first time since the creation of a new opposition coalition seeking wider international recognition. Voice of Russia spoke to the Director of the Damascus Research Centre Bassam Abu Abdullah about this upcoming event. He called this meeting the meeting of Syria’s enemies and not friends.
5 December, 2012 — RT
US Army Private Bradley Manning (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
The lawyer representing Bradley Manning, the US Army private accused of leaking classified information to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has issued a damning indictment of his client’s “criminal” treatment in solitary confinement.
“Brad’s treatment at Quantico will forever be etched in our nation’s history as a disgraceful moment in time,” Manning’s defense attorney David Combs said in his first-ever public appearance regarding US v. Manning.
1 December, 2012 — The Real News Network
Michael Ratner: Manning describes cruel and unusual punishment; offers to plea to lesser charges (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Guards testify about confinement at Quantico brig of suspect in WikiLeaks case
Washington Post
FORT MEADE, Md. — Some former guards at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., are testifying against an Army private charged with sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the secret-spilling WikiLeaks website. The guards are …
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/guards-testify-about-confinement-at-quantico-brig-of-suspect-in-wikileaks-case/2012/12/01/f65724ee-3b8e-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_story.html
16 November 2012 — Information Clearing House
Egypt PM Says Gaza is ‘A Disaster’
By UPI
“What I am witnessing in Gaza is a disaster and I can’t keep quiet. The Israeli aggression must stop,” he said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33054.htm
13 November, 2012 — RT
Public discontent over a ban on popular websites in the Russian sector of the internet is skyrocketing. The new law allowing authorities to compel ISPs to cut off unwelcome websites may force web surfers to unite against the government’s initiative.
2 November, 2012 — Voice of Russia
It is now evident that the recent ceasefire was violated Syria by the radical opposition groups. The terrorist’s activities led to numerous victims and, what is unthinkable, the United Nations was unable to condemn them.
This is due to the irrational and short sighted approach to the Syrian crisis, taken by Western powers. The situation is absolutely clear: it is a vivid example of a policy of double standards demonstrated by the United States, Britain and France.
29 October, 2012 — The Real News Network
Refugees from all over Germany converged on Berlin to demand the stopping of deportation (inc. transcript) Continue reading
14 September 2012 — Boiling Frogs
Part I: Syria comes to the Russian Caucasus
On August 28 Sheikh Said Afandi, acknowledged spiritual leader of the Autonomous Russian Republic of Dagestan, was assassinated. A jihadist female suicide bomber managed to enter his house and detonate an explosive device.
22 March 2012 — www.boilingfrogspost.com
The Mujahedin-e-Khalq–sometimes referred to as the MEK, the MKO, the PMOI, the NCRI or, perhaps more fittingly, “The Cult of Rajavi”–is a strange terrorist group by anyone’s reckoning. But this is not your average terror group. These are not like the blue jeans-wearing , cash-paying ,constitution-loving, third-party-candidate-supporting, picture-taking terrorists that the Department of Fatherland Security have been warning the American public about for years now. These are not the three-year-old boys in wheelchairs that the upstanding men and women of the TSA have been patting down as potential bomb-wearing suicide jihadis since 9/11.
25 February 2012 — RT
Iran insists it is only seeking a peaceful energy supply, while the West suspects Tehran is building an atomic bomb. And yet, some believe it is all about the oil. Again.
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.
16 February 2012 — Information Clearing House
Graham Doesn’t Believe Clapper: ‘I’m Very Convinced’ Iran Is Building Nuclear Weapons
By Eli Clifton
Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, repeated his position that Iran has not yet decided whether to develop a nuclear weapon. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30556.htm
13 February 2012 — Aleppo betrayed by attacks that are foreign to its nature – The National
Aleppo is a town of eminent consequence, and in all ages its fame has flown high. The kings who have sought its hand in marriage are many, and it place in our soul is dear. — Ibn Jubayr, Arab-Andalusian traveller, June 1184
Last week’s suicide bombings that killed at least 28 people in Aleppo are drawing Syria‘s second city into a conflict that it had struggled to avoid for the past year. President Bashar Al Assad blamed Al Qaeda terrorists, while the Syrian opposition accused the regime. American officials, despite Washington’s hostility to Mr Al Assad and the recent closure of the US embassy in Damascus, told McClatchey Newspapers correspondent Jonathan Landay they thought Mr Al Assad was right.
27 December 2011 — williambowles.info
27 December 2011
Arab League monitors arrive to Syria
Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 04:41
26 December 2011 — Information Clearing House
Iran and the Strategic Encirclement of Syria and Lebanon
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Washington and NATO have started the process of cordoning off Lebanon and Syria. The permanent NATO presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Syrian Accountability Act are part of this initiative. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30077.htm
25 December 2011 — williambowles.info
Three headlines, all telling a totally different story. Who to believe? It doesn’t matter, the bombings are taking place within the context of a Western media onslaught that has completely demonized the Assad regime, softening us up for yet another barbaric attack on a sovereign state in the name of ‘humanitarian intervention’.
Blast blame: Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood points finger at regime
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 20:02
The Muslim Brotherhood is denying responsibility for twin suicide blasts on Friday that took the lives of 44 people in Damascus, alleging that the Syrian government was behind them.
Muslim Brotherhood denies Syria blast claims – News – Mail …
Mail and Guardian 24/12/11
Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood denied has denied it was responsible for Friday’s suicide bombings that killed 44, saying the claims were
fabricated.
Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood Takes Credit For Friday’s Twin Suicide …
By Pat Dollard 24/12/11
(AFP) — SYRIA’S Muslim Brotherhood has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in Damascus that killed 44 people, saying they were the first step in liberating the capital and that more attacks were to come. The claim on Saturday …
23 December 2011 — williambowles.info
Maybe updated as the day wears on…
23 December 2011
Hamas denies Syrian report about Mashaal
occupation magazine – articles Today at 23:59
Ma`an News Agency – ‘The website of Syria’s General Organization of Radio and TV on Tuesday quoted Mashaal expressing disappointment at al-Qaradawi urging the Syrian people to revolt against the Syrian regime. Arab countries’ leaders have sold our cause, and the most renowned sheikhs have abandoned our people while president Bashar Assad was there to protect and support Hamas.’ ca
16 December 2011 — The David Kelly Inquest Fund
At long last a step closer to a coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr. David Kelly. This would be the first time a court would hear the medical anomalies that led many to conclude that Dr Kelly did not commit suicide. Will the lid on the government cover-up about the case and this pandora’s box be lifted?
29 July, 2011 — Media Lens
When Rupert and James Murdoch appeared before the House of Commons media select committee on July 19, not one of the MP inquisitors demanded accountability for News International’s biggest moral crime – its shameful role as a facilitator of war. Robin Beste, of the Stop the War Coalition, put it succinctly: Continue reading
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