September 06, 2013, Global Research While the mainstream media admonishes John McCain for playing a poker game on his iPhone during the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearings on Syria last Wednesday, no one seems to have …
Read More »Obama opts to expand Syria operation with allied air strikes
September 6, 2013, Debka File US military sources report that President Barack Obama has decided to expand the US operation against Syria’s chemical weapons. Instead of confining the action to Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from warships, he is now turning to the introduction of air strikes by US, French, Turkish …
Read More »No law will stop Obama’s democracy-bombs over Syria
September 05, 2013, RT.com Regardless of how Congress votes, Obama is going to attack Syria. The president is doing his best to avoid constructive dialogue when the focus should be international law, not ‘international norms’ as defined by Washington. As world leaders descend on the Russian city of St. Petersburg …
Read More »Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Cross-hairs
September 4, 2013, Ellen Brown Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the cross-hairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario. In an August 2013 article titled “Larry Summers and the Secret ‘End-game’ Memo,” Greg Palast posted evidence of a secret …
Read More »Pope calls on world leaders to abandon military options in Syria
September 05, 2013, RT.com Pope Francis called on world leaders attending the G20 summit in Russia to seek peace in Syria through diplomatic means and to lay aside the “futile pursuit” of a military solution. In a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is hosting the G20 summit, Francis …
Read More »Congress Moves Closer To Approving Strike Against Syria
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Read More »‘US war on Syria not to be limited’
Sep 05, 2013, Press TV “The claims by the Obama administration and its supporters in Congress that what they are contemplating is a limited, surgical and symbolic military strike is simply but a lie” said Rick Rozoff, the manager of “Stop NATO” Network in an interview with Press TV. The …
Read More »General: Syria “Smells Like War Near Russia’s Southern Borders”
September 5, 2013, Rick Rozoff MOSCOW: The United States will inevitably deal a strike against Syria although over a half of the country’s population is against this idea and nearly all of its closest allies have refused to participate in such use of force, the director of the Russian Institute …
Read More »Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves plan to strike Syria
September 04, 2013, Russia Today WATCH VIDEO HERE The United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted on Wednesday to approve President Barack Obama’s plan to strike Syria in retaliation for the reported use of chemical weapons by leader Bashar al-Assad’s regime. A committee vote on Wednesday afternoon ended with the …
Read More »Al-Qaeda-linked rebels attack Christian village in Syria
September 05, 2013, Russia Today An Al-Qaeda-linked group attacked a predominantly Christian village sympathetic to the Assad regime in western Syria on Wednesday while rebel and government forces clashed in Damascus. The attack began at dawn when a Jabhat al-Nusra fighter blew himself up at a government checkpoint near the …
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