Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
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 …
Read More »Pictures emerge showing US Secretary John Kerry and President Assad dining in Syria together
Sep 3, 2013, the Independent Pictures have emerged showing the US Secretary of State John Kerry dining with President Bashar al-Assad, as Mr Kerry continued to push for a military strike on Syria following a suspected chemical attack. The images, believed to have been captured in Damascus in February 2009, …
Read More »Which Syrian Chemical Attack Account Is More Credible?
Sep 1, 2013, FAIR Let’s compare a couple of accounts of the mass deaths apparently caused by chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21. One account comes from the U.S. government (8/30/13), introduced by Secretary of State John Kerry. The other was published by a Minnesota-based …
Read More »Jimmy Carter calls for Syria peace summit
Aug 30, 2013, Politico Former President Jimmy Carter condemned possible chemical weapons attacks in Syria, but called for a “peace conference” and working with the United Nations, rather than using a military solution. In a statement Friday from the Carter Center, the former president said that the U.N. investigation into …
Read More »Humanitarian Intervention: The Human Rights Gift That Keeps on Giving to U.S. Imperialism
Sep 3, 2013, Black Agenda Report “That there are two mutually exclusive moral standards: one for the vast majority of nations and another for those comprising the dying but dangerous collection of European colonial capitalist nations.” With the announcement by the Obama administration that it intends to launch an attack …
Read More »Kerry doesn’t want Syria option to preclude U.S. troops
Sep 3, 2013, Reuters U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that he did not want the resolution on the use of force in Syria before the U.S. Congress to be cast in a way that would remove the option of putting U.S. “boots on the ground”. “I …
Read More »How Intelligence Was Twisted to Support an Attack on Syria
September 3, 2013, Truthout Secretary of State John Kerry assured the public that the Obama administration’s summary of the intelligence on which it is basing the case for military action to punish the Assad regime for an alleged use of chemical weapons was put together with an acute awareness of …
Read More »From Syria to Gaza: The West’s Humanitarian Double Standards Exposed
November 20, 2012, Common Dreams As images pour out of Gaza of the dead and wounded; whole buildings and blocks destroyed by Israeli shelling, it might seem incomprehensible that anything positive could come out of this horrible situation. But I believe that something hopeful is developing. You see, one of …
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