Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Aug 29, 2013, Media Lens Corporate media coverage of atrocities in Egypt, Libya and Syria has closely matched US-UK government interpretations and priorities. While the US government has refused to describe what was very obviously a military coup in Egypt on July 3 as a coup, many media have also …
Read More »Massacres That Matter – Part 1 – ‘Responsibility To Protect’ In Egypt, Libya And Syria
Aug 27, 2013, Media Lens The ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P), formulated at the 2005 UN World Summit, is based on the idea that state sovereignty is not a right but a responsibility. Where offending states fail to live up to this responsibility by inflicting genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes …
Read More »Humanitarian Wars and Their NGO Foot-Soldiers
Oct 5, 2013, Information Clearinghouse In February, 2011, Soliman Bouchuiguir told a lie. It was a big one. As the head of the Libyan League for Human Rights, Bouchuiguir initiated a petition that was eventually signed by 70 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) demanding that the US, EU, and UN “mobilize the …
Read More »‘Youngest’ Saudi militant enters war in Syria
Oct 7, 2013, RT.com The ‘youngest Saudi’ militant has entered Syria to join hundreds of foreign armed groups fighting to topple the government in Syria, with their strongest ones paving the way for al-Qaeda to rise to power. According to Arabic-language Asia News, citing sources within Syria opposition groups, a …
Read More »‘No sarin detected in West Ghouta environment, only in human samples’ – UN’s Angela Kane
Oct 3, 2013, RT.com SEE ALSO: GRTV VIDEO: How the Syrian Chemical Weapons Videos Were Staged The Full ISTeam Report The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria [PDF] The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria One Nun …
Read More »Lost Cruise fears save Obama on Syria
Oct 3, 2013, Asia Times US President Barack Obama’s reversal on the bombing of Syria took the world by surprise. For a long time, he was talking about the use of chemical weapons by Bashar Al-Assad’s regime being “a red line”. There was a feeling that Obama’s talk about chemical …
Read More »Saudi black op team behind Damascus chem weapons attack – diplomatic sources
Oct 4, 2013, RT.com The August chemical weapons attack in the Syrian capital’s suburbs was done by a Saudi Arabian black operations team, Russian diplomatic sources have told a Russian news agency. “Based on data from a number of sources a picture can be pieced together. The criminal provocation in …
Read More »Kenyan Bloodbath: Reaping the “Benefits” of US AFRICOM Collaboration
NATO’s North African terror tidal wave predictably sweeps into Kenya Sep 23, 2013, Tony Cartalucci At face value, and how the Western media is attempting to portray it, the Westgate Mall siege in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi appears to be yet another senseless terrorist attack by the “religious fanatics” …
Read More »On the True Aims of the War against Syria
Sep 20, 2013, Strategic Culture Each expert has his own assessment of Washington’s maneuvers around Syria and his own understanding of the aims of these maneuvers. There are as many understandings of the war being waged against Syria as there are experts writing on the topic of …
Read More »Was Obama Planning on Striking Syria or Working to Gain Traction in Talks With Iran?
Sep 30, 2013, Global Research There are several ways to interpret the Obama Administration’s August 31, 2013 decision to ask the US Congress to vote on a so-called «limited strike» against Syria. These interpretations need to be analyzed to see what the intentions of the US …
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