Syria
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From the Cold War to NATO's "Humanitarian Wars" – The Complicity of the United Nations By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Humanitarian wars, especially under the guise of the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P),” are a modern form of imperialism. The standard pattern that the United States and its allies use to execute them is one where genocide and ethnic cleansing are vociferously alleged by a coalition of governments, media organizations, and non-governmental front organizations. The allegations… Continue reading
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WESTERN PSY-OPS AGAINST SYRIA: When Mrs Assad’s “Shopping” Becomes a “Crime Against Humanity” By Finian Cunningham
Michelle Obama, the fashion style icon wife of US President Obama, is to have travel sanctions imposed on her by member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, including Russia, China and SCO associate state Iran. Continue reading
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World On The Brink Of Third World War By Nadir Mir*
US geostrategy has been embroiled in Afghanistan and Iraq; now it seeks to extend the war to Iran-Pakistan. Of course, the real war is against Russia and China, the opposing alliance. Washington sees China rising, Russia resurgent, the Islamic world defiant (with the Arab Spring likely to turn anti-Western) and Israel endangered, besides Western economic… Continue reading
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Syrian Victims: When Truth Is the First Casualty of War By Ross Ruthenberg
The Western mainstream media continuously beat the war drums for Libya-like treatment of Syria, using body count statistics to attempt to paint the year-old Syrian conflict as a humanitarian disaster crying out for NATO and its allies to bomb the government’s military forces into submission. Ironically, under the guise of “responsibility to protect”, the NATO… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 March 2012: Germany Brings Cold War to Middle East
27 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli border patrol kill two men along Egypt borderIMEMC – Just after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu toured the route of a border fence under construction between Israel and Egypt Tuesday, Israeli border patrol agents shot and killed two men on the border. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 27 March 2012: Afghan Massacre and the Obama Cover-Up
27 March 2012— Information Clearing House The Massacre of the Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-Up By James Petras The ever-complicit Obama regime constructed an elaborate cover-up, exposing the Administration up to charges of conspiracy to suppress the essential facts, falsify data and obstruct justice: All are grounds for criminal prosecution and impeachment. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30922.htm Continue reading
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Video: Bifront Saudi Arabia: Mediaeval freedoms for export
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is bound for Riyadh this week to mull over the Syrian crisis with Saudi King Abdullah. But while the Arab Kingdom rules with an iron fist at home, double standards abound in every way imaginable abroad. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 March 2012: Hospital ‘may consider force-feeding’ Shalabi
26 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Ashrawi Condemns Israeli Threats of Cutting Tax RevenueIMEMC – On Monday Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, member of the PLO executive committee, slammed the Israeli government threats to cut tax revenue as part of Israeli response to the last week UN council for Human Rights decision to investigate… Continue reading
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The World’s Most Formidable Military Power: Iran Or Syria?
[The U.S.] has not escaped the fate that is the inheritance of an imperial power, it too is a victim of insecurity complex. The imperial power imagines conspiracy against it in every nook and corner. The conspirators must be crushed. The armed might the imperial power has accumulated is surely not for the sake of… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 March 2012: Ayalon: “We Will Not Allow UN Committee Members Into The Country”
25 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Female Detainee On Hunger Strike Since TuesdayIMEMC – Lawyer of the Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Firas Sabbah, stated that he managed, last Thursday, to visit detainee Amani Al-Khandaqji, at the Asqalan Israeli prison, and that she told him that she started an open-ended… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 March 2012: Ambassadors Of Portugal, South Africa, Teargased Near Ramallah
24 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Attack Detainees, Conduct Forced DNA TestsIMEMC – The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported Saturday that Palestinian political prisoners in Nafha, Majiddo, Galboa’, and Ramon Israeli prisons, returned their meals on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning, in protest to forced DNA tests conducted on them by,… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 24 March 2012: War Criminal Heartless Dick Cheney Gets New Heart
25 March 2012— Information Clearing House The Dangerous Mess in Syria Grows Murkier By Eric Margolis US, British and some European media keep depicting Syria‘s civil war as a simple passion play pitting the evil Asad regime in Damascus against mostly unarmed democratic protestors. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30908.htm Continue reading
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What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update By Boris DOLGOV
The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime. Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: March 25, 2012
25 March 2012 — Stop NATO Ottawa: First Joint Meeting Of U.S., Canadian, Mexican Defense Leaders Clinton Approves $1.3 Billion In Military Aid To Egyptian Junta Three NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan Italian Soldier Killed, Five Injured In Afghanistan NATO Helicopter Violates Pakistani Air Space U.S. Ambassador-Designate: Georgia To Join NATO, U.S. To Upgrade Military U.S.… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 23-24 March 2012
24 March 2012 — williambowles.info 012 Syrian Army continues clashing with rebelsVoice of Russia, News Today at 09:47The Syrian Army continues clashing bitterly with the rebels. Government troops are firing on rebel positions in many Syrian regions. Fighting was especially fierce Saturday in the Idlib Province, in the north, with the insurgents driven out of… Continue reading
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Syria: China And Russia Slow Down West’s Global Military Juggernaut
The West has dominated the evolution of the Arab Spring. The change of tone is good for China and Russia. If this trend continues, it may break the tradition of the West dominating Middle Eastern affairs. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 23 March 2012:
23 March 2012— Information Clearing House Worrisome Security Council Presidential Statement on Syria By Stephen Lendman Washington’s longstanding policy wants pro-Western leadership replacing Assad. All means will be employed to achieve it, including war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30898.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 March 2012: Israel’s Nuclear Triggers
23 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Detains A Child At Roadblock Near JeninIMEMC – Israeli soldiers detained, on Thursday evening, a 12-year-old Palestinian child at a roadblock close to an illegal Israeli settlement, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. … Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 22-23 March 2012
23 March 2012 13:35:55 — williambowles.info Maybe updated as the day wears on… 012Medvedev against solving problems by forceVoice of Russia, News Today at 12:51Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev believes that threats of using force against any country are very dangerous. He said this at an international conference on security in Europe and the Atlantic region, which… Continue reading
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'Syrian armed groups destroy civilian facilities with imported weapons'
23 March, 2012 — RT With the United States still threatening Damascus with more pressure and isolation, Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour told RT that the policy of backing one side in any national conflict could lead to disaster for the entire region. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 