Jan 9, 2014, Press TV Former British Foreign Secretary and a present member of the UK Parliament Jack Straw has called for Iran’s participation in the upcoming international talks on the crisis in Syria. “We believe very strongly that a solution to the terrible situation in Syria is only …
Read More »Jan 8, 2014, James Petras Press TV has conducted an interview with James Petras, a Middle East expert from New York, about the issue of Syria and what impact the upcoming Geneva 2 Conference will have on the crisis situation there. The following is an approximate transcript of the interview. …
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Jan 7, 2014, Global Research Western corporate media, its Oil and Gas counterparts (GCC), and the various acolytes and paid-propagandists in the “tailored analysis” industry, are once again attempting to bolster and rebrand the public image of the fundamentalist rebels in Syria. In the space of a week, two new …
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Jan 7, 2014, Finian Cunningham US top diplomat John Kerry must have taken us for fools. Earlier this week, speaking in Saudi Arabia, he warned that al-Qaeda in Syria and Iraq are “the most dangerous players in the region.” The US secretary of state vowed Washington’s support for the Iraqi …
Read More »Jan 6, 2014, AFP UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Monday sent invitations to 30 countries to attend a Syria peace conference this month, but did not include Iran, a spokesman said. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet on January 13 in a …
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Jan 7, 2014, Press TV UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated his support for Iran’s participation in the upcoming Geneva II Conference on resolving the Syrian crisis. Ban said in a statement on Monday that the final decision on the participation of the Islamic Republic in the Geneva II …
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May 17, 2013, Business Insider In eight months since an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi left four Americans dead, a Republican-led investigation has focused on potential missteps by the White House — and come away with nothing significant. There has been little attention given, however, to covert actions …
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Jan 4, 2014, Middle East Monitor Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) announced on Friday that five staff doctors have been kidnapped from one of their houses in the north of Syria. MSF said in a statement that the doctors were kidnapped on Thursday; it is expected that a jihadist group kidnapped …
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Dec 29, 2013, the Independent Anti-Shia hate propaganda spread by Sunni religious figures sponsored by, or based in, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies, is creating the ingredients for a sectarian civil war engulfing the entire Muslim world. Iraq and Syria have seen the most violence, with the majority of …
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Dec 31, 2013, Consortium News Monday’s terrorist bombings only 400 miles away from the site of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, have a geopolitical back story involving implied threats from Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan to Russian President Vladimir Putin last summer when Bandar was pressing …
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Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
