September 05, 2013, RT.com Pope Francis called on world leaders attending the G20 summit in Russia to seek peace in Syria through diplomatic means and to lay aside the “futile pursuit” of a military solution. In a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is hosting the G20 summit, Francis …
Read More »Congress Moves Closer To Approving Strike Against Syria
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Read More »‘US war on Syria not to be limited’
Sep 05, 2013, Press TV “The claims by the Obama administration and its supporters in Congress that what they are contemplating is a limited, surgical and symbolic military strike is simply but a lie” said Rick Rozoff, the manager of “Stop NATO” Network in an interview with Press TV. The …
Read More »General: Syria “Smells Like War Near Russia’s Southern Borders”
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 …
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