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Sep 30, 2013, the Independent Six weeks ago, a two-man delegation arrived in secret in Damascus: civilians from Aleppo who represented elements of the Free Syrian Army, the rebel group largely composed of fighters who deserted the regime’s army in the first year of the war. They came under a …
Read More »On UN Security Council Resolution 2118 and Syria: Reality, Resolutions, Representations
Sep 29, 2013, Zero Anthropology “One overall objective of any team is to sustain the definition of the situation that its performance fosters. This will involve the over-communication of some facts and the under-communication of others. Given the fragility and the required expressive coherence of the reality that is dramatized …
Read More »Six weeks in the life of Syria
From Mount Qasioun overlooking Damascus. [Johnny Achi] by Johnny Achi In my 30 years living in the US I have probably visited Syria around 20 or so times, none as eventful, exciting, or as emotional as my recent trip that I had just returned from. Here is a summary of …
Read More »Justifying War: From Yugoslavia to Syria (audio)
Sep 29, 2013, Global Research Click to download the audio (MP3 format) Most human beings by nature are anti-war. All military conflicts involve death and destruction, to say nothing of unintended consequences. This is why for generations, military planners have made use of war pretext incidents to galvanize war-averse populations …
Read More »‘Win at all cost’ Syrian rebels shun diplomatic solution
Sep 27, 2013, RT.com Many among the Syrian rebels will fight to the end to win the conflict and will do anything to sabotage the diplomatic effort that offers a non-violent solution, Eugene Puryear from the ANSWER coalition told RT. RT: Is the final approval of a draft resolution going …
Read More »Interview with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moualem: fighters from 83 countries all over the world in Syria
Sep 28, 2013, RT.com The conflict in Syria could be over in weeks once the West and other regional powers stops supporting the opposition fighters on the ground, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moualem told RT after the UNGA session in New York. RT: Now that Russia and the United States …
Read More »How the US is enabling Syriastan
Sep 27, 2013, Asia Times If any extra evidence was needed to shatter the myth of a “revolution” struggling for a future “democratic” Syria, the big news of the week cleared any remaining doubts. Eleven, 13 or 14 “rebel” brigades (depending on the source) have ditched the “moderate”, US-propped Syrian …
Read More »‘Staged and scripted’: Mother Agnes finalizes chronology of Damascus chemical attack
Sep 26, 2013, RT.com A new version of a study produced by Mother Agnes, a catholic nun, pointing to a number of fabricated videos used as evidence of complicity by the Assad government in a recent chemical attack is in the works, she told RT. The report by the Christian …
Read More »Homemade sarin was used in attack near Damascus – Lavrov
Sep 26, 2013, RT.com Russia has enough evidence to assert that homemade sarin was used on August 21 in a chemical attack near Damascus, the same type but in higher concentration than in an Aleppo incident earlier this year, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said. “On the occasion of the incident …
Read More »Killing Syrian children with one hand, saving them with other
Sep27, 2013, RT.com All over British television this week, in ads strategically placed in the middle of news bulletins, the Disasters Emergency Committee fund has been raising money from viewers for Syrian refugees alongside the ‘No Child Born To Die’ campaign. The TV ads show pictures of starving and destitute …
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