Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Sep 10, 2013, Yves Engler The Obama administration is looking to attack Syria. If they go forward without UN approval, the US would once again be violating international law and would likely inflame a conflict that’s already left 100,000 dead and displaced millions more. For its part, Ottawa seems to …
Read More »Who gets to invoke international mores? (audio)
Sep 16, 2013, The Taylor Report President Obama overstepped, and tried to mislead his audience as to what the rights and duties of a state are. Stephen Gowans explains that the talk about “international norms” is designed to distract us from “international law:” Syria hasn’t violated any international law, whereas …
Read More »Has Canada ‘crossed the line’ in terms of international law? (audio)
Sep 16, 2013, The Taylor Report Yves Engler joins the program to explain Canada’s “special role” in the world, in this case, the assault on Syria. Once again, our government is a sad appendage of Empire, condemning the official enemies while staying out of major combat operations. Yves describes the …
Read More »Syria: nearly half rebel fighters are jihadists or hardline Islamists, says IHS Jane’s report
September 16, 2013, Global Research Current events surrounding the Syrian conflict appear to be on the brink of a partial agreement toward peace. Brokered by the United States and Russia, the new quick-fire round of talks in Geneva between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey …
Read More »Turkey Indicts Six Jihadists for Alleged Attempts to Acquire Chemicals With Intent to Produce Sarin
Sep 14, 2013, Information Clearing House The Turkish Republican Prosecutor in Adana has issued a 132-page indictment, alleging that six members of the al-Qaeda-aligned al-Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham – one Syrian and five Turks – tried to acquire chemicals with the intent to produce the chemical weapon sarin …
Read More »The “Indispensable Nation” Threatens Another War Against Children
September 17, 2013, Global Research “I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never drop an atomic bomb …
Read More »Former Attorney General: US Sanctions are Genocidal
September 17, 2013, Global Research TV Abby Martin speaks with former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, discussing Iraq before the first Gulf War, his opinions on Syria, why he legally represented Saddam Hussein, and how US sanctions have a far greater negative effect on people than on the regimes of …
Read More »Chemical Weapons Deal Only A Hiccup For Saudi Goals In Syria
Toby Jones: Saudi Arabia is interested in ousting Assad but not a popular government taking his place Sep 12, 2013, The Real News Network
Read More »Next Step for Peace in Syria — Stop the “Lethal Aid”
September 17, 2013, Global Research Now that public pressure has foiled U.S. plans to bomb Syria, the next urgent step is to build public pressure for stopping the deluge of weapons into that country. Top officials in Washington are happy that American “lethal aid” has begun to flow into Syria, …
Read More »No More War for Israel?
The People Against the 800 Pound Gorilla September 13, 2013, Dissident Voice The past ten days have seen what could be the start of an historic turning point away from endless war in the Middle East. Public opinion in the United States, in harmony with the majority of people in …
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