Syria
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 27 February 2012: CNN Silences War-Skeptical Soldier
27 February 2012 — Information Clearing House By Global Times What the West wants from Syria is not democracy but the overthrow of the regime so as to eliminate Iran‘s influence over Syria. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30656.htm Continue reading
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SYRIA: US-NATO behind the Killings of Civilians By Ben Schreiner
Ever since its failure to win United Nations Security Council backing for “regime change” in Syria, Washington and its lackeys in the corporate media have been unrelenting in voicing their great moral outrage at both the violence of the Assad regime and the seeming indifference to it all by the likes of Russia and China. Continue reading
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In Search of Syria’s True Friends By Polina Chernitsa
The ‘Friends of Syria’ is a contradiction in terms. In reality, these countries are Syria’s enemies which are not trying to reach a peaceful settlement but want to provoke a civil war, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for International Affairs Alexey Pushkov has declared. An international conference of the Friends of Syria, which includes… Continue reading
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Putin On Libyan Scenario For Syria: We Will Set Up Coalition Of Concerned States, We Will Strike
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hopes that the ‘Libyan scenario’ will not be implemented in Syria and that Western countries led by the United States will not circumvent the United Nations Security Council by launching a military operation in this country. Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: February 27, 2012: Qatari Prime Minister: Arm Syrian Rebels, Intervene Militarily
27 February 2012 — Stop NATO News Turkey Says Military Intervention In Syria Discussed In Tunis Civilians Flee As Turkish Artillery Pounds Northern Iraq Russian Bombers Over Black Sea Amid Syria, Iran Crises Drones, Anti-Aircraft, Missile Defense: $1.6 Billion Israeli-Azeri Deal U.S. Soldier, Afghan Civilian Killed As Protests Grow Germany Pulls Advisers Out Of Afghan Ministries… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 26-27 February 2012
27 February 2012 — williambowles.info Maybe updated as the day wears on… Syrian conflict destabilizes LebanonWorld Socialist Web Site Today at 12:29The conflict in Syria, where US-backed “rebels” are fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad, is exacerbating tensions in neighboring Lebanon. Continue reading
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Syria: Seeking a Convenient Casus Belli By Tony Cartalucci
You are an embattled nation with the entire world watching. Your allies Russia and China just made a major decision at the UN Security Council in your favor with much of their reputation and future at stake. Western propagandists have been relentlessly making up news stories regarding your nation no matter what you do, for… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 February 2012: The myth of Israel’s liberal Supreme Court exposed
26 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Heavy Israeli Military Clampdown in JerusalemIMEMC – Many Jerusalem Streets and its surrounding towns witnessed Heavy Israeli Military Procedures early Sunday Morning. Israeli Soldiers and their Machines were spread all over the streets, towns and neighborhoods. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 26 February 2012: 'US to Announce Aerial Blockade on Syria'
26 February 2012 — Information Clearing House “Regime Change” ‘US to Announce Aerial Blockade on Syria’ By Ynet News US readies for possibility of intervention without UN resolution, Asharq Al-Awsat reports, citing US military official; plan to include humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees on Turkey’s border. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30651.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing house Newsletter 24 February 2012: U.S. Knows Iran Not Building Nuclear Bomb
24 February, 2014 — Information Clearing House U.S. Does NOT Not Believe Iran is Trying to Build Nuclear Bomb By Ken Dilanian Iran continues to enrich uranium at low levels, U.S. officials say they have not seen evidence that has caused them to significantly revise that judgment. Senior U.S. officials say Israel does not… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 February 2012: How Khader Adnan Exposed the Irrationality of Administrative Detention
25 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Detainee Shalabi Enters Her Eighth Day Of Hunger StrikeIMEMC – Female detainee, Hana Ash-Shalabi, entered her eighth day of open-ended hunger strike at her cell at the Ha-Sharon Israeli prison, protesting her illegal detention and the administrative detention order served against her without charges. … Continue reading
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Syria: Rogue Elements Rampant By Felicity Arbuthnot
For anyone who has forgotten the details, the (1990-1991) Iraq model went like this: vast US government employed PR agency, Hill and Knowlton (“we create value by shaping conversations: we start them, we amplify them, we change them. We can connect seamlessly with all of your audiences…”) produced a fifteen year old girl called “Nayirah”,… Continue reading
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Progressives Embrace Humanitarian Imperialism – Again! By John V. Walsh
“Foreign Intervention in Syria? A Debate with Joshua Landis and Karam Nachar” promised the headline on DemocracyNow! on 22 February. Eagerly I tuned in, hoping to hear a thorough exposé of the machinations of the US Empire in Syria on its march to Iran. Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: February 25, 2012: Syria: Clinton Calls China, Russia “Despicable,” Demands Regime Change
25 February 2012 — Stop NATO News Syria: Clinton Calls China, Russia “Despicable,” Demands Regime Change Two NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghan Capital U.S. Increases Military Presence In Strait Of Hormuz Kyrgyz President: U.S. Air Base Should Not Be Used Against Iran U.S. Leads Airborne Exercise In Mali Saakashvili: Georgia Finds Safety In European Family, NATO Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 February 2012: When it is illegal to use your front door: Freedom of movement in Al Khalil
24 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center New Video Showing Israeli Soldiers Abusing A Cuffed, Blindfolded PalestinianIMEMC – A new video showing Israeli soldiers abusing a cuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee was released after being shot by a hidden camera in Ni’lin village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. … Continue reading
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“Friends of Syria” plan war, regime change at Washington’s behest
The “Friends of Syria” are a gang of political criminals, gathered in Tunisia to plan the latest in a series of destabilization campaigns that have all ended in colonial wars of aggression. Continue reading
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The Real News Network: This Week February 20 – February 24
25 February, 2012 — The Real News Network February 24 Greeks Look to the Left for SolutionsCostas Lapavitsas: The left is gaining in popular support but have so far failed to present a coherent programGo to story | Go to homepage Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 19-25 February 2012: Kosovo / Syria / UN / Arab League / Russia / China /Venezuela / Afghanistan
25 February 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Kosovo Serbs Caught in Crossfire from Three Points 25.02.2012 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV The debates over Serbia’s bid for the status of a EU candidate, which are due to open in Brussels in March, will likely provoke a new round of destabilization in the Serbian districts of the… Continue reading
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Video: ‘US agenda in Middle East is very obvious’
The pressure is ramping up on the Syrian regime as calls for a peacekeeping force to get involved in the crisis intensify. But retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski says such missions hide another agenda. Continue reading
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