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Foreign Ministry: UAE followed suit and decided to prevent Syrian presidential vote

  May 27, 2014, Sana News Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said the United Arab Emirates has joined the club of the countries conspiring against Syria and followed suit by deciding to prevent a Syrian presidential vote from taking place on its land. “It is little wonder that the rage and …

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Six UN members abducted in Syria: foreign ministry

May 27, 2014, the National Eleven people, including six members of a UN chemical weapons fact-finding mission, have been abducted by armed groups in Syria, said the foreign ministry. The ministry said the abductions occurred in the countryside around Hama in central Syria on Tuesday. It blamed rebels fighting to …

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As Syria’s war rages, this cradle of civilisation is plundered

May 26, 2014, the National Last week, a prominent Arab archaeologist sent me a web­link to a doubly-depressing story from the Hasakeh region of north-east Syria. Bordering Turkey and Iraq, it’s long been one of the poorest areas in the country and now, with control of the area being contested …

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The So-called War on Terror Is A Criminal Fraud

May 26, 2014, Prof. Michael Keefer, Information Clearing House “The so-called War on Terror is a criminal fraud, designed to frighten Americans and the citizens of its allies into supporting systematic violations of international law. It was from the outset Islamophobic both in intention and in the wars of aggression …

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‘Intelligence officials from several states to discuss anti-Syria plans in Turkey’

May 26, 2014, Press TV Intelligence officials from several countries are reportedly scheduled to meet in the city of Antakya in Turkey to discuss plans aimed at stopping the progress of the Syrian army in its battle against the militants in Syria. The meeting between intelligence officials from the US, …

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Syrian rebels describe U.S.-backed training in Qatar in new documentary

May 26, 2014, McClatchy [VISIT ORIGINAL SOURCE TO VIEW 2 BRIEF VIDEO CLIPS FROM THE DOC] With reports indicating that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad are gaining ground in that country’s brutal civil war, moderate Syrian rebels have told a visiting journalist that the United States is arranging …

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U.S. Wars in the Middle East: Imperialism and the Battle for Water

May 26, 2014, Global Research Water is to the twenty-first century what oil was to the twentieth century: the commodity that determines the wealth and stability of nations. People who think that the West’s interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria are only about oil are mistaken. Broadly speaking, Western interest …

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The Middle East we must confront in the future will be a Mafiastan ruled by money

Apr 20, 2014, the Independent Saudi Arabia is giving $3bn – yes, £2bn, and now let’s have done with exchange rates – to the Pakistani government of Nawaz Sharif. But what is it for? Pakistani journalists have been told not to ask this question. Then, when they persisted, they were …

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Syrians Slap Smelly Shoes In the Faces of Zionism and Modo-Colonialism

May 25, 2014, NSNBC In 2012, when Syrians held a referendum and adopted the by far most democratic constitution among Middle Eastern countries, they slapped a smelly shoe into the face of Zionism and Modo-Colonialism. In May 2014, Syrians unite again and extend their arms to slap an even more …

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