Syria
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Turning Point on the Syrian Front: Dealmaking in Search of a Face-Saving Exit By Sharmine Narwani
In recent weeks, there has been a notable shuffle in the positions of key external players in the Syrian crisis. Momentum has quite suddenly shifted from an all-out onslaught against the Assad government to a quiet investigation of exit strategies. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 March 2012: Israel’s Willing Executioners: AIPAC Invades Washington
22 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR Weekly: “Army Conducts 56 Invasions Into W. Bank, 1 In Gaza”IMEMC – The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, published its weekly report on Israeli violations against the Palestinians in the occupied territory for the period between March 15-21, 2012, revealing that… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 22 March 2012: Sociopaths in US Governance
22 March 2012— Information Clearing House No Matter Who Does Them By War Criminals Watch People of conscience must insist on accountability for the actions of U.S. officials, no matter who is president. It is our obligation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30888.htm Continue reading
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GR Week in Review: Bahrain Backlash, Beyond Kony 2012 and the Middle-East “Package War”
22 March 2012 — Global Research URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29914 GLOBAL RESEARCH’S NEW ONLINE STORE: Request for Readers’ Feedback – 2012-04-15 Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 21 March 2012: Arundhati Roy – Capitalism: A Ghost Story
21 March 2012— Information Clearing House Afghan Villagers Say Shootings Were Revenge By Deb Riechmann and Mirwais Khan Several Afghans near the villages where an American soldier is alleged to have killed 16 civilians say U.S. troops lined them up against a wall after a roadside bombing and told them that they, and even… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 March 2012: A Planned Escalation: Israel Prepares for War
21 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Kidnap 11 year old Child From His ClassroomIMEMC – A report by the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, revealed that on Monday Israeli soldiers kidnapped an 11-year-old Palestinian child while he sat behind his desk at an elementary school in Rad Al-Amoud neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem. … Continue reading
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Media Lens: Constructing Consensus – The ‘Victims-And-Aggressor Meme’
Together, politics and media combine to provide an astonishingly consistent form of reality management controlling public perception of conflicts in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Alastair Crooke, founder and director of Conflicts Forum,notes how the public is force-fed a ‘simplistic victims-and-aggressor meme, which demands only the toppling of the aggressor’. Continue reading
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Video: ‘West to launch package war in Middle East’
The West will launch a package war against Iran, Syria and Hezbollah as soon as they decide what to do with the Iranian nuclear program, Abdel Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of a London-based Arabic newspaper told RT in an interview. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 20 March 2012: 9/11 Insider Trading – The Facts Laid Bare
20 March 2012— Information Clearing House Afghanistan MassacreNo One Asked Their Names By Qais Azimy Mainstream media outlets channelled a significant amount of energy into uncovering the slightest detail about the accused soldier. But the victims became an anonymous footnote. Just the number 16. No one bothered to ask their ages, their hobbies, their aspirations.… Continue reading
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Syria, Bahrain: A Tale of Two Uprisings… One Fabricated, The Other Forgotten by Finian Cunningham
The violent turmoil in Syria and Bahrain over the past year, taken together, provides a sharp comparative case study of the deception and hypocrisy of Western governments and the mainstream media. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 March 2012: UN: Settlers grab Palestinian water springs
19 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 23 Detainees Holding Hunger-StrikeIMEMC – The Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association reported, Monday, that there are 23 detainees who are currently on hunger-strike protesting the illegal policies of Administrative Detention used by Israel to keep hundreds of detainees behind bars without charges. … Continue reading
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Russian Position On Syria: Myths And Reality Russia By Alexander Yakovenko*
I consider it important to share with readers the basic elements of Russia’s real position on the situation in Syria. Unfortunately, public opinion has formed a distorted view of Russia’s approach to the current political crisis in the country with which we have long-standing bonds of friendship and whose fate is not a matter of… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 March 2012: Israel: “P.A Not Ready For Statehood”
18 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettlers Attack Homes In HebronIMEMC – A group of armed extremist Israeli settlers of the Ramat Yishai illegal settlement outpost, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, attacked on Sunday at night several Palestinian homes in Tal Romedia neighborhood, and chased the children around while… Continue reading
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Video: Conflict in Syria is a Civil War
Putting it all together—the Arab League report, journalist reports out of the country, my own knowledge of the region, and experts’ views, which are passed to me from time to time, including several people who served lengthy tours in Damascus when we had better relations with Syria, I would say it is a civil war. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 March 2012: In Memory of Rachel Corrie 2012
17 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Broke Into Detention Camps 6 Times Last WeekIMEMC – Palestinian Researcher specialized in detainees’ affair, Riyadh Al-Ashqar, stated that Israeli soldiers broke into prisons and detention centers six times last week, attacked and violated the rights of the Palestinian detainees, and wounded eleven. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 March 2012: “The End Of Israel”?
17 March 2012— Information Clearing House “The End Of Israel” Israel Too Small to Last Even One Week of Real War Video “If Israel ever makes that mistake [attacking Iran’s nuclear sites], that will set the time for the end of Israel. They know it very well…. We don’t consider Israel a country. Israel… Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 12-17 March 2012: Ugandan Oil, Wall Street Criminality and Al Qaeda in Syria
17 March, 2012 — Global Research GLOBAL RESEARCH’S NEW ONLINE STORE: Request for Readers’ Feedback – 2012-04-15 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 