Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
17 September, 2013, Countercurrents.org The UN chemical weapons inspectors, who went to Syria to investigate the use of chemical weapons, should have stopped on their way at Occupied Palestine (Israel), where Israeli government has the largest stockpile of chemical and other WMD in the entire Middle East. They would have …
Read More »Israel Still Angling for Attacks on Syria and Iran
Sep 18, 2013, Counterpunch President Barack Obama may have drawn his seemingly regretted “red line” around Syria’s chemical weapons, but it was neither he nor the international community that turned the spotlight on their use. That task fell to Israel. It was an Israeli general who claimed in April that …
Read More »‘Al-Qaeda and Al-Nusra in Syria may have significant amounts of sarin’
September 17, 2013, RT.com WATCH VIDEO HERE The US military have reportedly proved that sarin gas production is going on among some Sunni salafists in Iraq, and via Turkey, can reach Syrian rebels, former Pentagon official Michael Maloof told RT, citing classified sources. RT: France, the US and UK are …
Read More »Canada: Hypocrites ‘R Us
September 16, 2013, Yves Engler Somewhere in the Lester B. Pearson Building, Canada’s foreign affairs headquarters, must be a meeting room with the inscription “The World Should Do as We Say, Not As We Do” or perhaps “Hypocrites ‘R Us.” With the Obama administration beating the war drums, Canadian officials …
Read More »Syria: Has Obama Finally Forsaken the Insurgency?
September 16, 2013, Global Research Current events surrounding the Syrian conflict appear to be on the brink of a partial agreement toward peace. Brokered by the United States and Russia, the new quick-fire round of talks in Geneva between US Secretary of State John …
Read More »WHO Refuses to Publish Report on Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq Caused by Depleted Uranium Ammunition
September 13, 2013, Global Research The World Health Organisation (WHO) has categorically refused in defiance of its own mandate to share evidence uncovered in Iraq that US military use of Depleted Uranium and other weapons have not only killed many civilians, but continue to result in the birth of deformed …
Read More »Obama’s Ally to the North: Canada and Syria
Sep 10, 2013, Yves Engler The Obama administration is looking to attack Syria. If they go forward without UN approval, the US would once again be violating international law and would likely inflame a conflict that’s already left 100,000 dead and displaced millions more. For its part, Ottawa seems to …
Read More »Who gets to invoke international mores? (audio)
Sep 16, 2013, The Taylor Report President Obama overstepped, and tried to mislead his audience as to what the rights and duties of a state are. Stephen Gowans explains that the talk about “international norms” is designed to distract us from “international law:” Syria hasn’t violated any international law, whereas …
Read More »Has Canada ‘crossed the line’ in terms of international law? (audio)
Sep 16, 2013, The Taylor Report Yves Engler joins the program to explain Canada’s “special role” in the world, in this case, the assault on Syria. Once again, our government is a sad appendage of Empire, condemning the official enemies while staying out of major combat operations. Yves describes the …
Read More »Syria: nearly half rebel fighters are jihadists or hardline Islamists, says IHS Jane’s report
September 16, 2013, Global Research Current events surrounding the Syrian conflict appear to be on the brink of a partial agreement toward peace. Brokered by the United States and Russia, the new quick-fire round of talks in Geneva between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey …
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