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Western Leaders Fear-Monger to Mobilize Support for Air-Strikes on Syria

Aug 24, 2014, Stephen Gowans One of the roles of leading politicians and top officials of the state is to enlist public support for policies which serve the goals of the upper stratum of the population from whose ranks they sometimes come and whose interests they almost invariably promote. When …

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Media Myths and Distortions: More NATO Aggression Against Syria?

Sep 3, 2014, Counter Punch -Rick Sterling Syria will be an important subject of discussion at this week’s NATO Summit meeting in Wales.  The US and NATO powers will evaluate whether to expand air strikes against ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq & Syria) into Syria, whether to do it in …

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John McCain, Conductor of the “Arab Spring” and the Caliph

Aug 18, 2014, Voltaire Net John McCain is known as the leader of the Republicans and unhappy 2008 US presidential candidate. This is, we will see, only the real part of his biography, which serves as a cover to conduct covert actions on behalf of his government. When I was …

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​Attack on Ghouta, 1 year on: ‘War is always main course for US’

Aug 21, 2014, RT.com Eric Draitser This week marks the first anniversary of the infamous chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. What makes that incident significant, both politically and historically, is the fact that, despite the evidence of Syrian government involvement being non-existent, the Obama administration nearly …

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‘Another wave of Western intervention threatens to pull Iraq apart’

Aug 22, 2014, RT.com The Obama administration’s recent decision to intervene in Iraq has seen the first US air strikes since the end of the American occupation in 2011, in response to the sweeping territorial gains made by militants belonging to the Islamic State group. Two and a half years …

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ISIS Kills 900 Syrian Tribesmen in Crackdown on Revolt

Aug 18, 2014, Antiwar.com Growing reports of massive death tolls are coming out of eastern Syria, where earlier this  month, the Shueitat tribe rebelled against ISIS rule, ousting them from several villages and burning an ISIS headquarters to the ground. Over the weekend, it was reported that some 700 tribesmen …

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‘ISIS a pretext for US-sponsored regime change in Iraq’

Aug 15, 2014, Eric Draitser, RT The ousting of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is part of a broader US plan for Iraq and the Middle East as a whole. Against the backdrop of the war against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), Washington has managed to kill two birds …

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