Syria
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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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ICH 7 May 2013: In Pictures: Inside Americas Gulag
7 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Robert Fisk: The Syrian Government Is Winning Americans are Living In A Fantasy World Must Watch – Video Fisk discusses his reaction to what he calls President Obama’s “pitiful” backing of the recent Israeli missile strikes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34854.htm Continue reading
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The Syria Chemical Weapons Saga: The Staging of a US-NATO Sponsored Humanitarian Disaster? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The following article first published in December 2012 [scroll down] documents how the Pentagon not only provided chemical weapons to Al Nusra, an affiliated Al Qaeda terrorist organization, but also provided training to the rebels in the use of these weapons. Continue reading
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West's WMD Lies Fray as Syrian Army Overruns Terrorist Proxies
Absurd “chemical weapons” claims begin to fall apart amidst NATO’s desperate bid to save its collapsing terror front in Syria. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 5 May 2013
6 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Kidnaps 13 Palestinians In Bethlehem, 2 In JeninIMEMC – Monday at dawn, May 6 2013, Israeli soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar, Al-Khader and Beit Sahour, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and kidnapped 13 Palestinians. Army also invaded Jenin and kidnapped two residents. … Continue reading
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ICH 6 May 2013: Chris Hedges : The Death of Truth
6 May 2013 — Information Clearing House UN Investigator ‘Stupefied by Syrian Opposition Sarin Use’ Video It’s the rebels, not President Bashar Assad’s forces, who have used chemical weapons. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34842.htm Continue reading
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Reporting 'Says' Rather Than 'Says It Believes' Could Make a War of Difference By Jim Naureckas
White House Says Syria Has Used Chemical Arms. Well, that’s pretty definitive, isn’t it? But then if you read the first line of the story, you get a different picture Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Syria Skepticism – Chemical claims should be investigated, not used as pretext for war
U.S. suggestions that the Syrian government could have used chemical weapons have been treated as fact by some media outlets, and are helping to fuel the case for greater U.S. military involvement. But subsequent reporting has called into question these early, credulous reports–and highlighted the continuing media failure to treat WMD claims with the skepticism… Continue reading
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Syria: The Feckless Left by Malooga
One must not forget the disgraceful petition put out by what calls itself the “Left” in the name of “dignity and freedom” last week, the so-called “Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution”. The geo-political analysis of the screed would not pass the muster of a child, and the empty verbiage comes straight out… Continue reading
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ICH 5 May 2013: Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Gas: UN Has Testimony
5 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Did Syrian “Rebels” Cross Red Line? UN Has Testimony That Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Gas – Investigator By Reuters U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria’s civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 5 May 2013
5 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli court rules to allow mosque demolition in JerusalemIMEMC – An Israeli court in Jerusalem has decided to allow the Israeli government to demolish part of a mosque, despite appeals from the mosque’s imam and several Palestinian members of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament). … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 May 2013:
4 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterTo Break Their Strike; Israel Denies Jordanian Detainees Access To LiquidsIMEMC – The Israeli Prison Authority decided, Friday, to deprive the hunger striking Jordanian detainees in its prisoners access to liquids in an attempt to force them end their strike that entered its second day. … Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 5 May 2013: “Israeli False Flag” in Syria and Fracking’s True Dangers
5 May 2013 — Global Research America and Israel: Imperial Partners in War against Syria, Stephen Lendman, May 05, 2013 Longstanding ties remain firm. Both nations are imperial partners. Naked aggression is official policy. Regime change in Syria is planned. Daily events head inexorably toward full-scale intervention. The latest incident ups the stakes. Continue reading
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Israel Bombs Syria Becomes Israel Is Only Defending Itself By Danny Schechter
An Israeli plane bombs a target in Syria. The news is passed along first to Fox News, (huh?) by someone in the Administration. It happened on a Thursday, but we find out about it late on Friday. The New York Times assigns three reporter to cover the story that goes up on the website in… Continue reading
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ICH 4 May 2013: Israel Bombs Damascus – Launches Another Attack On Syria
4 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Israel Launches Another Attack On Syria Explosions shake Damascus; Syria blames Israel By Reuters Explosions shook Damascus early on Sunday and Syrian state television said Israeli rockets had struck a military research centre on the outskirts of the capital. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34829.htm Continue reading
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The European Union and the McJihad in Syria By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Interesting developments have been taking place in the European Union. Red flags are going up across the EU, with officials in the European Union and various EU member states expressing fears about their returning nationals fighting in Syria. Continue reading
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Desperate Acts to Provoke Syria and Iran: Israel’s “Air Strikes” against Syria By Tony Cartalucci
Alleged airstrikes hope to expand conflict, undermine Syrian advances, and provoke Syria and Iran to give US justification for military intervention. Once again, Israel is “leaking” information about alleged airstrikes it claims it has conducted against Syria along the Lebanese-Syrian border. Continue reading
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Desperate Acts to Provoke Syria and Iran: Israel’s “Air Strikes” against Syria By Tony Cartalucci
Alleged airstrikes hope to expand conflict, undermine Syrian advances, and provoke Syria and Iran to give US justification for military intervention. Once again, Israel is “leaking” information about alleged airstrikes it claims it has conducted against Syria along the Lebanese-Syrian border. Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Syria Sarin Skepticism, Tom Friedman's Sick Madness, Darkening the Tsarnaevs By Peter Hart
This week on FAIR TV: Do the claims about Syria’s chemical weapons hold up? And why do some pundits seem to want to push for a U.S. military response? Also, we’ll take a look at Tom Friedman’s column about the “sick madness” of attacking innocents, and how The Week magazine turned the Caucasian Tsarnaev brothers… Continue reading
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ICH 3 May 2013: Israel Attacks Syria
3 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Israel Attacks Syria By Nancy Cooper Israeli officials acknowledged Friday evening that they had launched airstrikes that hit inside Syria, say U.S. officials. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34815.htm Continue reading
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