Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
September 5, 2013, Rick Rozoff MOSCOW: The United States will inevitably deal a strike against Syria although over a half of the country’s population is against this idea and nearly all of its closest allies have refused to participate in such use of force, the director of the Russian Institute …
Read More »Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves plan to strike Syria
September 04, 2013, Russia Today WATCH VIDEO HERE The United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted on Wednesday to approve President Barack Obama’s plan to strike Syria in retaliation for the reported use of chemical weapons by leader Bashar al-Assad’s regime. A committee vote on Wednesday afternoon ended with the …
Read More »Al-Qaeda-linked rebels attack Christian village in Syria
September 05, 2013, Russia Today An Al-Qaeda-linked group attacked a predominantly Christian village sympathetic to the Assad regime in western Syria on Wednesday while rebel and government forces clashed in Damascus. The attack began at dawn when a Jabhat al-Nusra fighter blew himself up at a government checkpoint near the …
Read More »France’s “Intelligence Brief” for War on Syria: Collection of Discredited Lies
September 03, 2013, Global Research France’s intelligence services released a perfunctory, eight-page brief for war with Syria yesterday, as Socialist Party (PS) Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault met with leaders of France’s right-wing opposition parties to press them to support President François Hollande’s war …
Read More »Evidence Indicates that Syrian Government Did Not Launch a Chemical Weapon Attack Against Its People
August 24, 2013, Global Research CBS News reports that the U.S. is finalizing plans for war against Syria – and positioning ships to launch cruise missilesagainst the Syrian government – based on the claim that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its people. The last time …
Read More »Which Americans Will Arrive First To Syria?
04 September, 2013, Countercurrents.org Will 1000 American ‘human shields’ stop another criminal war? Damascus: A sort of roller coaster atmosphere pervades Damascus these days with “good” and “bad” news rising and falling, often by the quarter hour. Much of the population is monitoring closely the news and quickly expressing their …
Read More »Syria ‘chemical weapons’ crisis: LIVE UPDATES
International pressure has been building for a military strike on Syria in the wake of an alleged chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb. The West has laid the blame at the feet of President Assad, as UN experts collected chemical samples on-site. Thursday, September 5 11:48 GMT: The …
Read More »US: The indispensable (bombing) nation
Sep 3, 2013, Asia Times Online Yes We Scan. Yes We Drone. And Yes We Bomb. The White House’s propaganda blitzkrieg to sell the Tomahawking of Syria to the US Congress is already reaching pre-bombing maximum spin – gleefully reproduced by US corporate media. And yes, all parallels to Iraq …
Read More »‘Hands off’: Syrians form human shields outside possible US strike targets
September 04, 2013, Russia Today As the US Congress inches closer to a decision on a military strike on Syria, citing allegations that Assad forces used chemical weapons against the civilian population, activists in Damascus are stepping up their protest against possible attacks. Damascene activists protesting possible US strikes on …
Read More »Russia releases key findings on chemical attack near Aleppo indicating similarity with rebel-made weapons
September 04, 2013, Russia Today Probes from Khan al-Assal show chemicals used in the March 19 attack did not belong to standard Syrian army ammunition, and that the shell carrying the substance was similar to those made by a rebel fighter group, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated. A statement released …
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