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September 2, 2013, Taylor Report Summary:  The U.S. is acting as if a Congressional vote will legalize a war of aggression. It won’t, and world parliaments are struggling to represent their anti-war populaces. The problem is that NATO views itself as an entity replacing political nation-state distinctions. Apparently, Turkey is “NATO’s South-Eastern …

August 31st, 2013,  Dissident Voice “Mr. President, in the case of military operations in Libya you stated that authorization from Congress was not required because our military was not engaged in “hostilities.” In addition, an April 1, 2011, memorandum to you from your Office of Legal Counsel concluded: “… President …

August 31, 2013, CNEWS As the possibility of a military strike against Syria looms, some details of Canada’s supporting role in the conflict have emerged. Canada has given $5.3-million to the Syrian opposition to support the rebels in anti-government propaganda since April 2012, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs …

September 1st, 2013,  Dissident Voice President Barack Obama often praised for his oratorical brilliance found himself backed into a corner by his own words. He had drawn a line in the sand and promised dire consequences to the government of Syrian president Bashar Al Assad if he dared to cross …

Aug 28, 2013, Paul Craig Roberts   Have you lost patience, as I have, with the pretense that a US/UK military attack on Syria is a response to Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons? If only one journalist on live camera would ask one of the many liars–Obama, Cameron, Hague, …

              Aug 29, 2013 A strike against the Syrian regime, accused of having used chemical weapons in its war against the rebels, is almost certain.  This Western military intervention will be led by the United States, United Kingdom and France.  Damascus pledged to defend …

August 29, 2013,  Information Clearing House –by William Bowles This is where it all started: The Israeli intelligence front the Debkafile, which is the source of the story that implicated the Assad government and/or its military in the gas attack on East Ghouta and now forms the basis for the war …

September 2, 2013, al-Akhbar Commentators in the West will surely declare that it was their democratic systems of government that forced US President Barack Obama to back down on attacking Syria. But the events that led up to Washington’s de-escalation suggest there were other factors at play. When Obama stepped …

August 28, 2013, Jeremy R. Hammond   How Time magazine headlined the poll: More Americans Have Supported Syrian Air Strikes Than Opposed Forty-nine percent of Americans back strikes by cruise missiles and drones that don’t risk U.S. lives, the Quinnipiac poll found, with 38 percent opposed The actual headline from the poll: American Voters Say 2-1 Stay …

Sep. 2, 2013, Reuters If President Barack Obama has disappointed Syrian rebels by deferring to Congress before bombing Damascus, he has also dismayed the United States’ two main allies in the Middle East. Israel and Saudi Arabia have little love for each other but both are pressing their mutual friend …