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May 2, 2015, Hurriyet Daily News The latest U.S.-led plan to train and arm a Syrian opposition force will start in Turkey on May 9, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told a Turkish newspaper. The programme to train and arm a force that is expected to eventually total more than 15,000 troops has been …
Read More »The Creation of a Humanitarian Emergency: Britain, Libya and the Mediterranean
May 1, 2015, Counter Punch by DAN GLAZEBROOK Last week’s drownings in the Mediterranean were the foreseeable, and indeed deliberate, result of the anti-human policies of strategic violence by a dying neo-colonial empire. They were the consequence, firstly, of a series of wars of aggression that have made life intolerable …
Read More »Why is the US Trying to Replace the Assad Government With al-Qaeda in Syria?
May 1, 2015, Counter Punch -By Paul Larudee A month ago, the city of Idlib fell to opposition fighters, mainly al-Qaeda and its affiliates and allies. It was a major blow to the Syrian army. Last Saturday, the nearby town of Jisr al-Shughour also fell, mostly to the same groups. Fighting against …
Read More »The Horrors of Wall Street’s ‘New Libya’
Apr 29, 2015, New Eastern Outlook The world, including the US press, is looking on in horror at recent events in Libya. Libya is now a center of human trafficking, with human beings packed into ships bound for Europe. Libyans are so desperate to escape their country, now wrecked with …
Read More »Syria: Turkish Military Provided ‘Support Fire’ in al-Qaeda Takeover of Town
Apr 28, 2015, Antiwar.com Syria’s Foreign Ministry was quoted on the nation’s state media today as blaming Turkey in large measure for al-Qaeda’s takeover of the border town of Jisr al-Shughour, saying Turkish military forces providing both logistics support and providing “support fire” for advancing Islamists. This is not the …
Read More »What’s really going on in Yarmouk?
Apr 29, 2015, Father Dave, Prayers for Syria I thought it might prove difficult to get to Yarmouk. My God, it’s hard enough to get into Syria at the moment! At first I thought we weren’t even going to make it out of Sydney! As soon as the airport authorities …
Read More »8 Reasons HRW’s report of “chlorine attacks” stinks
On April 13, 2015, Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report “Syria: Chemicals Used in Idlib Attacks”. It begins: “Evidence strongly suggests that Syrian government forces used toxic chemicals in several barrel bomb attacks in Idlib”. The report has been widely broadcast and accepted without skepticism or public scrutiny …
Read More »Who Are the Starving and Besieged Residents of Yarmouk and Why Are They There?
Apr 21, 2015, Dissident Voice -Paul Larudee There are many illusions about what is happening to the Yarmouk district of Damascus and its Palestinian refugee population. The district was originally set aside in 1957 for Palestinian refugees already living there, whom Israel had expelled from their homes in 1948, with …
Read More »From the Engel/NBC Hoax to HRW’s Chlorine Gas Report: Biased Reporting on Syria in the Service of War
Apr 20, 2015, Counter Punch -Rick Sterling It has been confirmed that TV journalist Richard Engel’s kidnapping/rescue in norther Syria in late 2012 was a hoax. NBC management knew the story was probably false but proceeded to broadcast it anyway. There are at least two good things about “Engelgate”. * …
Read More »The Saudi Strategy in Yemen [ VIDEO interview]
Apr 21, 2015, Stop Imperialism.org Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on Press TV to provide his analysis of the continuing Saudi airstrikes on Yemen. He explains that, aside form the ghastly humanitarian crisis the aggression has created, Saudi Arabia has done little to break the Houthi-Saleh alliance. Draitser also comments …
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