Syria
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Syrian rebels plan chemical attack on Israel from Assad-controlled territories – media
A chemical attack may be launched on Israel by Syrian rebels from government-controlled territories as a “major provocation”, a number of sources have told RT. Continue reading
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Preparations for regional war By Thierry Meyssan
Both the United States and France are busy with preparations for the bombing of Syria, although such action corresponds to no strategic objective for either state. Russia and the Axis of Resistance are therefore preparing their riposte. The major difficulty consists in transforming this agression into a regional war while avoiding the Third, (and final?)… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 September 2013: Israel’s Lobbyists Pushing Hard for another War in the Middle East
8 September 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli forces issue 4 demolition orders in Jerusalem9/8/2013 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli municipality staff and police issued four demolition orders for commercial properties in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Sunday, a local group said. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that Israeli forces raided Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 8 September 2013: These False Flags Were Used To Start A War
8 September 2013 — Information Clearing House Assad: Syria’s Allies Will Retaliate in Response to US Strike By Reuters President Bashar Assad warned that if there was a military strike by the United States on his country, there would be retaliation by those aligned with Syria. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36161.htm Continue reading
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Will President Obama Wear His Nobel Peace Prize Medal When He Bombs Syria?
For all you anti-war types sniggering over President Obama’s well-deserved Syria travails, just remember: he’s the president of the United States, and he can do something about it. Not to you. To Syria. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 September 2013: Resist Israel's unjust system, don't operate within it
7 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterMore Veteran Detainees To Be Released November 29IMEMC – Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe , stated that the second phase of releasing political prisoners, held by Israel since before the first Oslo Agreement of 1993, will be conducted on November 29, then a third Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 7 September 2013: Top 10 Unproven Claims for War Against Syria
7 September 2013 — Information Clearing House Pentagon Plans Massive Attack on Syria By Bill Van Auken The Obama administration has reportedly ordered the Pentagon to plan a far wider attack on Syria than had originally been indicated. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36149.htm Continue reading
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Depravity Redefined: Selling US Slaughter in Syria By Tony Cartalucci
The corporate interests driving the United States, its resources, and policy, have invoked dead children in the latest and grisliest propaganda campaign yet, directed at the American public to build support for an otherwise unjustified and universally unwanted war with Syria. Continue reading
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Western rationality By Thierry Meyssan
You liked the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Vietnam War, the Kuwaiti incubators and the first Gulf War, the Racak massacre and the war in Kosovo, Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and the second Gulf War and the threats to Benghazi and the Libyan war? You will just love the gassing of civilians in… Continue reading
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Obama on Syria In St Petersburg : Hitting All The Right Notes For All The Wrong People By Colin Todhunter
Somewhere in Washington , a conversation may have taken place along these lines: How are we going to sell this one to a public that is sick of war and sick of being lied to? The response is given: Don’t worry, we can bank on people’s ignorance, play to their emotions and just keep on… Continue reading
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Senate Surrenders War Powers Over False Flag Incident
The Obama administration asked the Senate for an Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) in Syria over an alleged chemical weapons attack. That AUMF was already worded incredibly wide and would have allowed the president to wage unlimited war over all the Middle East and beyond. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 31 August – 7 September 2013: Syria-US / Golan / Iran-Syria / IMF / Iraq
7 September 2013 — — Strategic Culture Foundation Global Irresponsibility 07.09.2013 | 10:50 | Georgy VOSKRESENSKY Next week the US Congress is to express its opinion on the reckless and staggering rush of Barack Obama as the President is pressuring the lawmakers to push through his decision to strike Syria. No details are known and they are changing Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 September 2013: Addressing the impact of settler violence
6 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterTalks Focused On Temporary Borders, SecurityIMEMC – Israeli medial sources have reported that the current direct Israeli-Palestinian political talks are focused on a Palestinian state with temporary borders, and on security arrangements in the occupied West Bank. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 6 September 2013: Putin: Russia “Will Help Syria” If US Attacks
6 September 2013 — Information Clearing House Russia “Will Help Syria” In The Event of a Military Strike, Putin By RT Putin: Syria chemical attack is ‘rebels’ provocation in hope of intervention’ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36136.htm Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia’s ‘Chemical Bandar’ behind the Syrian chemical attacks? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Nothing the US claims about what happened in Syria adds up. We are being asked to believe an illogical story, when it is much more likely that it was Israel and Saudi Arabia who enabled the Obama Administration to threaten Syria with war. Continue reading
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Shady PR operatives, pro-Israel ties, anti-Castro money: Inside the Syrian opposition’s DC spin machine By Max Blumenthal
During the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria on September 3, Secretary of State John Kerry and Senator John McCain both cited a Wall Street Journal editorial by Elizabeth O’Bagy to support their assessment of the Syrian rebels as predominately “moderate,” and potentially Western-friendly. What Kerry and McCain neglected to mention was that O’Bagy… Continue reading
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Obama Warned on Intel about Syrian Chemical Attack
Despite the Obama administration’s supposedly “high confidence” regarding Syrian government guilt over the Aug. 21 chemical attack near Damascus, a dozen former U.S. military and intelligence officials are telling President Obama that they are picking up information that undercuts the Official Story. Continue reading
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Arriving First in Syria By Franklin Lamb
Will 1000 American ‘Human Shields’ Stop Another Criminal War? Continue reading
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Obama’s Politics of War and US Public Opinion: The Great Divergence By James Petras
Introduction: As President Obama announces plans for another war, adding Syria to the ongoing and recent wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere, a profound gap has emerged between the highly militarized state and US public opinion. Continue reading
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