Oct 1, 2013, Mideast Shuffle While investigating the UN Report on chemical weapons (CW) use in Ghouta, Syria, we sought a multitude of opinions from experts and others who offered insightful observations. We published our findings in an article entitled: Questions Plague UN Report on Syria. To learn more about …
Read More »Mother Agnes Mariam exposes western funded Terrorism in Syria
Aug 27, 2013, RTE SEE ALSO: Obscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America’s Case Against Syria Kucinich questions expose Obama’s “intelligence” claims 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 …
Read More »Syria, Sarin, and Casus Belli
Sep 30, 2013, Global Research U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that on August 21 the Assad government slaughtered 1,429 people, including 426 children, in a sarin chemical attack in Ghouta, a Damascus suburb. (Doctors Without Borders put the total at about 300.) Secretary Kerry insisted that now the …
Read More »A Syrian solution to civil conflict? The Free Syrian Army is holding talks with Assad’s senior staff
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 …
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