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AIPAC and the Israel Lobby: Down, but Not Yet Out!

President Obama's speaks to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference. (photo: AP)

Feb 4, 2014, Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News n March 2006, the London Review of Books published a path-breaking essay on “The Israel Lobby” by University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer and Harvard’s Stephen Walt. The two then published a book the following year, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. …

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Syria cements cooperation with China and South Africa

Feb 1, 2014, NSNBC Syria is cementing its cooperation with China and South Africa with focus on rebuilding the war torn country. Meetings focused on rebuilding housing, industry and a modernization of Syria’s Mediterranean ports, which could boost the Syrian economy after the completion of the Iran – Iraq – …

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Takfiris massacre civilians in southern Syria: Report

  Jan 31, 2014, Press TV   Witnesses say al-Qaeda-affiliated militants operating in Syria have massacred people of different religions as well as medical workers in a southern city last month. Residents in Syria’s southern industrial city of Adra said Takfiri militants belonging to the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nursa Front and the …

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Russia is interested in preventing the extinction of the Christian church in Syria

Speaker of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament, Valentina Matviyenko hosted a meeting with Patriarch John X of Antioch during this his first official visit to Russia as Patriarch of Antioch.

  Jan 29, 2014, Orontes Russia is interested in preventing the extinction of the Christian church in Syria, the Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said Tuesday at a meeting with the Patriarch of Antioch and All The East John X. “The prospect of a complete exodus of Christians from Syria …

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Humanitarian deal reached on war-hit Homs, people return to embattled Aleppo

Free Syrian Army fighters prepare to launch a mortar towards fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from a street in the Kadi Askar neighbourhood of Aleppo, after seizing it from the ISIL, activists said, January 7, 2014.(Reuters / Abdalrhman Ismail)

Jan 27, 2014, RT.com [watch video here] As the Syrian government and opposition in Geneva have taken a step towards resolving the humanitarian crisis in besieged Homs, RT visited another major battleground, Aleppo, to see people returning to devastated homes in areas liberated by the army. The slowly-progressing talks between …

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Syria: Innocent civilians caught in the crossfire of the siege of Adra as Islamist rebels are accused of massacre

Rebels were accused of a massacre in the town last month, forcing survivors to flee or hide. Patrick Cockburn finds that neither side has the strength for a victory Jan 28, 2014, The Independent “They came through the main sewer at 4.30am and caught us by surprise,” says a Syrian …

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Israel attacked Syrian base in Latakia, Lebanese media reports

Smoke rises in the city of Latakia, August 14, 2011. Photo by Reuters

Jan 27, 2014, Haaretz The Israel Air Force bombed a Syrian base in the Latakia airport in the north of the country on Sunday, Lebanese media reported Monday morning.  There are currently no other confirmations of this report. Israeli security sources refused to confirm or deny the claims and there …

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Does a Qatar-Sponsored ‘Smoking Gun’ Report Reveal An Ulterior Motive?

Qatari Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani addresses the opening of the high-level segment of the annual U.N. climate talks in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

Jan 24, 2014, Mint Press News A report released exclusively this week to CNN and The Guardian has been touted as evidence possibly proving widespread torture, starvation and the cause of thousands of prisoner deaths by the Syrian regime. However, the allegations are drawn from documentation acquired by a legal …

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