Syria
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 7-13 July 2013: Snowden / Syria / Turkey-Israel / Egypt US-EU /Asia
13 July 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Pursuit of Edward Snowden 13.07.2013 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN Latin America responded to the Morales plane incident by rallying to Snowden’s side. Offers of asylum came from Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia and Brazilian legislators called for Brazil to reverse its original denial of asylum and grant it Continue reading
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ICH 12 July 2013: Edward Snowden: ‘I Have No Regrets’
12 July 2013 — Information Clearing House Noam Chomsky: The Arab World And The Supernatural Power of the United States Mohammed Attar Interviews Noam Chomsky America and Israel remain unwilling to bring down Assad regime. They may not like the regime, but it is nevertheless a regime that is well practised in accommodating their demands and any Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 11 July 2013: Settlers cut down 1,150 olive trees in Nablus
11 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterFive-year-old Palestinian boy detained in HebronIMEMC – Despite being below the age of criminal responsibility, 5-year-old Wadi’ Maswadeh was detained for two hours by Israeli soldiers July 9th near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron after he allegedly threw a stone at a settler’s car. Continue reading
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ICH 11 July 2013: Arab Oil Cash to Kill Democracy in Egypt
11 July 2013 — Information Clearing House How Egypt’s ‘Revolution’ Betrayed Itself By Ramzy Baroud These very forces were openly involved in toppling the democratically-elected president and his party, as they happily celebrated the return to oppression as a glorious day of freedom. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35518.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 10 July 2013
10 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterActivists to launch flotilla from Gaza to Europe in defiance of Israeli-imposed blockageIMEMC – Canadian, European, and Palestinian activists plan to launch a flotilla – dubbed “Gaza’s Ark” – from Gaza to Europe carrying produce and textiles, with the goal of raising awareness of the Continue reading
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ICH 10 July 2013: Russian Inquiry to UN: Rebels, not Army, Behind Syria Aleppo Sarin Attack
10 July 2013 — Information Clearing House NSA Blackmailing Obama? Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice Video Abby Martin talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower, about how he saw spying orders for including former senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35505.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 9 July 2013: Echoes of South Africa’s ’District Six’ in the Negev
9 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Invades Al-QararaIMEMC – Palestinian sources have reported that a number of Israeli military vehicles advanced on Tuesday at dawn [July 9 2013] hundreds of meters into the Al-Qarara town, north east of Khan Younis city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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Syrian war hits Beirut By Franklin Lamb
DAHIYEH, Beirut – This observer’s neighbors seemed to believe, especially over the past year, as most of us did, that the war in Syria would, in one form or another, spill into our neighborhood, Dahiyeh, the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut near the Shatila and Burj el Barajeh Palestinian refugee camps. And now it has… Continue reading
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Video: Syria: Nobel Peace Laureate Tells Her Account of What She Witnessed
Nobel Peace Prize laurete, Mairead Maguire tells her account of her visit to Syria. While Maguire was in Syria she discovered that the people the U.S. are funding are violent groups and do not want peace in Syria. Her her view is that Syria is being used as a proxy war by the U.S., Great… Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 8 July 2013: When non-violence is criminal: Palestinian women stand trial for West Bank protest
8 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterMousa: “Hamas Will Be A Heavy Price For Interfering In Internal Egyptian Affairs”IMEMC – Legislator Yahia Mousa, a political leader of the Hamas movement, stated that the Hamas movement and the Gaza Strip will pay a heavy price for interfering in internal Egyptian affairs, and called on Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Struggle for Influence in Syria By Eric Draitser
This week’s resignation of Ghassan Hitto, the so-called “Prime Minister in waiting” of the Syrian Opposition Coalition, coupled with the July 6th election of Ahmed Assi al-Jarba to head the umbrella coalition of US-supported proxy groups attempting to topple the Assad government, has revealed further cracks in the edifice of the imperialist assault on Syria. Continue reading
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Secret Meeting to Plan Renewed Rebel Offensive against Syria: Senior Intelligence Officials Meet behind Closed Doors at British Embassy in Ankara
According to a Fars News Agency report, senior intelligence officials from US-NATO and allied countries including the US, Britain, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar met on June 7, behind closed door at the residence of the British Ambassador in Ankara. Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 7 July 2013
7 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Bedouins attacked by right-wing Israeli settlers near NablusIMEMC – An armed gang of around 50 Israeli settlers stormed a Palestinian Bedouin community of shepherds in Huwwara area, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank on Saturday. … Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 6 July 2013: Palestinians sue US groups over support for settler attacks
6 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterEgyptian officials indefinitely close Rafah border crossing with GazaIMEMC – As protests and unrest continue throughout Egypt, with over 40 people killed since Sunday, the Egyptian government closed the Rafah border crossing, which is virtually the only way in and out of the sealed Gaza Strip for Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 29 June – 6 July 2013: Egypt / Russia / Israel / Global Elite / Brazil / Qatar / Spies
6 July 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Gas Summit in Moscow: What Has Been Left Unsaid? 06.07.2013 | 00:00 | Igor TOMBERG …The leaders of 13 states – Algeria, Bolivia, Venezuela, Egypt, Iran, Qatar, Libya, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Trinidad and Tobago, Equatorial Guinea, Oman and Russia, which together control more than 70 percent of Continue reading
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Qatar: US Proxy in America’s Terror War in Syria By Phil Greaves
A recent report in the New York Times (NYT) claims, through trusted “sources”, that Qatar began weapons shipments to opposition militants in Syria at the same time they “increased” support for Al Qaeda linked militants fighting Colonel Gaddafi in Libya in 2011. Continue reading
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Roland Dumas to SANA: West was preparing attack on Syria before crisis started
In an exclusive interview given to SANA’s correspondent in Paris, Dumas said that while he was in Britain before the crisis began in Syria, he was invited to a party where two people an Englishman and a Frenchman, asked him if he would like to participate in preparations for an attack on Syria to topple… Continue reading
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Treason and the Supreme War Crime Committed by The British Government By Dr. David Halpin
Firstly we start with the definition of a supreme war crime as defined at Nurnberg. That is to engage or conspire to engage in aggressive war, ‘from which all other crimes flow’. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 1 July 2013: Whitewashing apartheid with Israel’s dirty water
1 July 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Official: Israeli settlers torch Palestinian fields in Burin7/1/2013 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers started several fires in Burin village south of Nablus on Sunday evening, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlements in the northern West Bank, said residents of Bracha and Yitzhar settlements torched Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 30 June 2013
30 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterReport: “1790 Palestinians Kidnapped, 16 Killed, In First Half of 2013”IMEMC – The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights have reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped 1790 Palestinians in the first six months of this year, including 300 who were kidnapped in June, and added that Continue reading