Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Aug 29, 2013, Asia Times Online This deafeningly hysterical show of Syria as Iraq 2.0 is only happening because a president of the United States (POTUS) created a ”credibility” problem when, recklessly, he pronounced the use of chemical weapons in Syria a ”red line”. Thus the US government urgently needs …
Read More »Pepe Escobar on Bandar Bush’s Role in Syria
Roving correspondent and frequent guest Pepe Escobar of Asia Times Online joins us once again to discuss the geopolitical machinations behind the latest developments in Syria. We discuss the possibility of an Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline and how the regional players react to such a proposal, Prince Bandar of Saudi and his role in orchestrating the …
Read More »Who Is Really Behind the Syrian War?
Given that the pretext for attacking Syria is falling apart before the public’s eyes, why is the US preparing to wage war on that country? Who benefits from the ongoing destabilization of Assad’s government? What will the Middle East look like if the Sunnis take over Syria? What is Israel’s …
Read More »Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concern
Massacres of civilians are being exploited for narrow geopolitical competition to control Mideast oil, gas pipelines 30 August 2013 , the Guardian On 21 August, hundreds – perhaps over a thousand – people were killed in a chemical weapon attack in Ghouta, Damascus, prompting the US, UK, Israel and France …
Read More »“We Informed US of Chemical Weapons Transfer to Syria 9 Months Ago”
September 01, 2013, Global Research Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic had sent an official memo to the United States through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran (which serves as the US interests section in Iran) last December, in which Washington had been forewarned that “handmade articles of …
Read More »US Foreign Policy “Script” on Syria, Who Wrote It?
September 01, 2013, Global Research by Michaela Hertkorn While the US has been stepping up its war rhetoric over the past few days, German media has been focusing on matters of international law – questions that matter. Beyond that, we need to ask ourselves, however, is there …
Read More »‘Bombing Syria a win-win for Obama’
September 01, 2013, RT.com Whether the US Congress says yes or no to a strike against Syria, President Barack Obama will emerge victorious as either a law-abiding leader or at least a Nobel Peace Prize winner, investigative journalist Pepe Escobar told RT. Nevertheless, despite the success of staging an …
Read More »Chemical Hallucinations and Dodgy Intelligence
September 01, 2013, Global Research I think it’s true to say that the days of creating ‘dodgy dossiers‘(pdf)[1] are now over, at least if the latest ‘dodgy report’ is anything to go by. Put out by the UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee, it purports to offer proof that …
Read More »Cooked Up Evidence. Trying to Fool the Public over Syria
September 01, 2013, Global Research “Attempts to bypass the Security Council, once again to create artificial groundless excuses for a military intervention in the region are fraught with new suffering in Syria and catastrophic consequences for other countries of the Middle East and North Africa.” Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich. Despite the stance …
Read More »The U.S., Britain and Israel have Used Chemical Weapons within the Last 10 Years
26 August 2013 Those Condemning Syria Have Themselves Recently Used Chemical Weapons We condemn all use of chemical weapons. But the U.S. used chemical weapons against civilians in Iraq in 2004. Evidence here, here, here, here,here, here. Israeli also used white phosphorous in 2009 during “Operation Cast Lead” (and perhaps subsequently). Israel ratified Protocol III of Convention on …
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