Oct 2, 2013, RPI Since when does a human rights organization take to arguing the case for a military attack that will kill scores of innocent civilians? If you are Human Rights Watch, it’s all in a day’s work. The US regime’s favorite “human rights ” organization, which once praised …

Oct 1, 2013, Global Research For years, Syria and Egypt refused to abandon their chemical weapons facing a threatening neighbor, Israel, which develops very sophisticated ones, in addition to biological and nuclear weapons. However, while Syria has joined the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons , we are taking …

Sep 25, 2013, Palestine Chronicle By Jeremy Salt Until joined by the Islamic government in 1979 and then by Hizbullah in the 1980s, Syria was Israel’s most visceral enemy.  This enemy is now being destroyed but not by Israel. So-called Muslims backed by so-called Muslim governments – Saudi Arabia, Qatar …

Oct 1, 2013, Mideast Shuffle While investigating the UN Report on chemical weapons (CW) use in Ghouta, Syria, we sought a multitude of opinions from experts and others who offered insightful observations. We published our findings in an article entitled: Questions Plague UN Report on Syria. To learn more about …

Aug 27, 2013, RTE   SEE ALSO: Obscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America’s Case Against Syria Kucinich questions expose Obama’s “intelligence” claims The Full ISTeam Report The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria [PDF] The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to …

Sep 30, 2013, Global Research U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that on August 21 the Assad government slaughtered 1,429 people, including 426 children, in a sarin chemical attack in Ghouta, a Damascus suburb. (Doctors Without Borders put the total at about 300.) Secretary Kerry insisted that now the …

Sep 30, 2013, the Independent Six weeks ago, a two-man delegation arrived in secret in Damascus: civilians from Aleppo who represented elements of the Free Syrian Army, the rebel group largely composed of fighters who deserted the regime’s army in the first year of the war. They came under a …

Sep 29, 2013, Zero Anthropology “One overall objective of any team is to sustain the definition of the situation that its performance fosters. This will involve the over-communication of some facts and the under-communication of others. Given the fragility and the required expressive coherence of the reality that is dramatized …

From Mount Qasioun overlooking Damascus. [Johnny Achi] by Johnny Achi In my 30 years living in the US I have probably visited Syria around 20 or so times, none as eventful, exciting, or as emotional as my recent trip that I had just returned from. Here is a summary of …

Sep 29, 2013, Global Research Click to download the audio (MP3 format) Most human beings by nature are anti-war. All military conflicts involve death and destruction, to say nothing of unintended consequences. This is why for generations, military planners have made use of war pretext incidents to galvanize war-averse populations …