Syria
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 February 2012: Standing in solidarity with Khader Adnan
16 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Extremists On Facebook Celebrate Death of Palestinian Children Killed In Traffic Accident IMEMC – Earlier on Thursday morning, 9 Palestinian children and one adult were killed, and 42 were wounded in a tragic traffic accident between a school bus and a truck, near… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 16 February 2012: Bipartisan Support for World War III
16 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Graham Doesn’t Believe Clapper: ‘I’m Very Convinced’ Iran Is Building Nuclear Weapons By Eli Clifton Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, repeated his position that Iran has not yet decided whether to develop a nuclear weapon. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30556.htm Continue reading
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Week in Review: Crushing the Dollar, Anti-Dissent Laws and NATO’s Secret War on Syria
16 February 2012 — Global Research The Globalization of War: The “Military Roadmap” to World War III ONLINE INTERACTIVE READER – by Michel Chossudovsky, Finian Cunningham – 2012-03-10 The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US–NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously. Continue reading
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Video: Arab League Calls for Arming Syrian Opposition
Christian Henderson: Great hypocrisy of Saudis, crushing opposition in Bahrain and and supporting it in Syria Continue reading
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Media Lens: UN ‘Travesty’: Resolutions Of Mass Destruction – Part 2
Ironically, like other media that dismissed highly credible scientific analyses of the death toll in Iraq – published in one of the world’s most respected medical journals, the Lancet – the BBC has been reporting hundreds of deaths in Homs based on anecdotal evidence and highly questionable sources. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 15 February 2012: Dozens of Palestinians declare Hunger Strike as Fasting prisoner Khader Adnan is on day 60
15 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Despite domestic cuts, US aid to Israel up by $25 million in proposed budget IMEMC – An examination of the proposed US budget submitted by President Barack Obama to the US Congress this week shows that although billions of dollars will be cut from… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 15 February 2012: George Galloway: Clinton Irresistible… And Not Just To Women
15 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Save Us from the Liberal Hawks By David Rieff Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of (humanitarian) war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30535.htm Continue reading
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Syria’s ‘Arab Spring’: failed or hijacked? By Fiona Hill
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is ‘disgusted’ at the stance taken by Russia and China against foreign military intervention in Syria. But clearly ‘Madame Clinton’, as many Syrians enjoy calling her, has not made time to read the report by the Head of the Arab League (AL) Observer Mission that was deployed throughout Syria’s… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: February 15, 2012: Russia To Counter U.S. Interceptor Missile Ships Off Coasts
15 February 2012 — 012 Russia To Counter U.S. Interceptor Missile Ships Off Coasts U.S. Aircraft Carrier Passes Through Strait Of Hormuz NATO Holds High Level Consultations With Four Gulf Countries Russian Foreign Minister: West Preparing Replay Of Libyan Model In Syria NATO Representative: Georgia’s Full Membership Is Decided Issue Germany Supports Macedonia’s Full NATO… Continue reading
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Tariq Ali says Assad has to go: I’m depressed – no, I’m outraged By William Bowles
So Tariq Ali thinks it’s time for Assad to go. Once more the Western ‘left’ reveals its true colours. Who needs enemies with a friend like this? Continue reading
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Aleppo betrayed by attacks that are foreign to its nature By Charles Glass
Last week’s suicide bombings that killed at least 28 people in Aleppo are drawing Syria’s second city into a conflict that it had struggled to avoid for the past year. President Bashar Al Assad blamed Al Qaeda terrorists, while the Syrian opposition accused the regime. American officials, despite Washington’s hostility to Mr Al Assad and… Continue reading
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Bahrain Newslinks 14-15 February 2012
15 February 2012 — williambowles.info 012 US-Backed Regime Replays State of Emergency to Crush Pro-Democracy Movement by Finian CunninghamDandelion Salad Today at 07:12 by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 14 February 2012 Bahrain’s first anniversary of its pro-democracy protests has been met with massive police and army violence, with many civilians injured from… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 February 2012: Take Action to Oppose Ever-Greater Amounts of Military Aid to Israel
14 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center UN Envoy Tours Palestinian Territories To Assess Settler Violence IMEMC – After a recent increase in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian civilians, property and holy sites, the UN envoy Richard Falk arrived in the West Bank this weekend to begin an eleven-day tour of… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 14 February 2012: Chomsky : 'Losing' the World – Paul Craig Roberts – Is Western Democracy Real
13 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Israel and Proxy Terrorism By Robert Wright Should Israel be classified as a state sponsor of terrorism? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30532.htm Continue reading
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Britain’s Socialist Workers Party covers for imperialist regime change in Syria By Chris Marsden
The first response of Washington, London, and Paris to the revolutionary overturns in Tunisia and Egypt was a pre-emptive campaign for regime change in Libya, working through local proxies whose task was to prepare the way for military intervention. The pattern is being repeated in Syria. It falls to the various ex-left tendencies to conceal… Continue reading
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Bahrain Newslinks 10-14 February 2012
14 February 2012 — williambowles.info VIDEO: Protests on Bahrain anniversary BBC News Today at 13:30 Police try to prevent people marking the anniversary of pro-democracy protests in Bahrain’s capital, after a second day of clashes in outlying villages. Continue reading
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UN’s Syria Vote: Kings And Ex-Colonial Powers Champion “Democracy” By Prabir Purkayastha
The irony of the Gulf monarchies fighting for ‘democracy’ is not lost on the people. Neither is an Iraqi- or Libyan-style military intervention for bringing democracy to the region. No wonder that the US and other Western countries rejected out of hand Russia’s amendments, one of which asked for democracy, not just in Syria but… Continue reading
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Media Lens: UN ‘Travesty’: Resolutions Of Mass Destruction – Part 1
It has been said that compassion is ‘the only beauty that truly pleases’ While beauty ordinarily provokes the fiery itch of desire or the sullen shadow of envy, compassion is cooling, blissful, inspiring awe and wonder. It implies an ability to stand outside our own needs as observers, to perceive the suffering of others as… Continue reading
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Road To Damascus…And On To Armageddon? By Diana Johnstone
The United States has decided that as sole superpower it doesn’t really need to stoop to diplomacy to get what it wants, and the United Nations has been turned into the instrument of US policy. The clearest evidence of this was the failure of the UN Security Council to block the NATO powers’ abuse of… Continue reading
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