Mar 26, 2015, Forces TV **see video at original link** Britain is to provide military training to moderate Syrian opposition groups fighting Islamic State forces, the Government has announced. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the UK would send around 75 military trainers and headquarters staff to provide instruction in the …
Read More »Assad: Anti-ISIS coalition doesn’t want to get rid of Islamic State completely
Mar 27, 2015, RT.com The alliance of 60 countries declaring plans to finish off the Islamic State is not serious, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Russian media. Some of its members would prefer to retain the terrorist force to blackmail different countries, he said. The rate of airstrikes conducted by …
Read More »The Houla Massacre Revisited: “Official Truth” in the Dirty War on Syria
Mar 24, 2015, Prof. Tim Anderson, Global Research This article examines and documents the Houla massacre of May 2012, a terrible incident in the Syrian Crisis which came closest to attracting UN intervention. The analysis here seeks to include all relevant evidence, both from witnesses and on the UN processes. …
Read More »Massive New Propaganda Campaign for War against Syria
Mar 24, 2015 A massive new propaganda campaign against Syria is underway. The goal seems to be to confuse the public, distort the situation and create public support for a US/NATO attack on Syria with imposition of a “No Fly Zone”. This is how the invasion of Iraq began. This …
Read More »excerpts from US delegation visit to Syria, Feb 2015
Mar 22, 2015, Eva Bartlett, In Gaza Ramsey Clark and US delegation meet with four French representatives, ” naughty Frenchmen, against our government.” “It was as though we were supposed to talk about terrorism as ‘Freedom’: Freedom to kill, Freedom to destroy, Freedom to kidnap, to loot…This was viewed by …
Read More »Syria: four years of humanitarian intervention
Tim Anderson’s slides on ‘Four years of Humanitarian Intervention in Syria’, from the 17 March 2015 seminar at the University of Sydney. Download the PDF: Syria: four years of humanitarian intervention “Humanitarian intervention is not really a legal doctrine, it is trying to put a good face on war, by …
Read More »UPDATE on the Syrian crisis, 17 March 2015, by Reme Sakr [VIDEO]
Mar 21, 2015, Hands Off Syria Seminar at the University of Sydney, on the fourth anniversary of the recent conflict in Syria.
Read More »YouTube Clips Of Syrian “Chemical Attacks” Are Back – Meet The Man Behind The Propaganda
Mar 19, 2015, Your News Wire The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in the UK tracks the conflict in Syria through a network of sources. But just who is this ‘Syrian Observatory for Human Rights’? Zero Hedge report: US foreign policy is becoming so easy and predictable, even Derek …
Read More »Avaaz call for a ‘no-fly zone’ in Syria.
Mar 19, 2015, Interventions Watch Avaaz describe themselves as a ‘global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere’, and are fairly well known within human rights and development circles. They had previously used their reach and status to drum up support for a ‘no-fly zone’ over Libya (a …
Read More »NATO allies Saudi Arabia and Israel edge closer to War with Iran
Mar 19, 2015, New Eastern Outlook A recent report by an Israeli TV station revealed that Saudi Arabia would allow Israeli jets to use its airspace to attack Iran, demonstrating the clandestine strategic alliance between Saudi Arabia and Israel. As the Times of Israel reported in an article titled: Saudis …
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