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Will Obama Succumb to Pro-War Baiting?

Oct 20, 2015, Consortium News The “you’re a weakling” baiting of President Obama to get him to attack the Syrian government is unrelenting, stretching from the neocon Right to some elements of the liberal Left. And, there are doubts he is strong enough to rebuff the warmongers and pursue a path toward a …

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The Dirty War on Syria: Barrel Bombs, Partisan Sources and War Propaganda

Oct 7, 2015, Global Research -Professor Tim Anderson War propaganda often demands the abandoning of ordinary reason and principle, and the Dirty War on Syria demonstrates this in abundance. A steady stream of atrocity stories – ‘barrel bombs’, chemical weapons, ‘industrial scale’ killings, dead babies – permeate the western news …

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Deconstructing the NATO Narrative on Syria

Oct 10, 2015, Dissident Voice [and In Gaza] [in Polish] -by Eva Bartlett Over the past five years, the increasingly ridiculous propaganda against President al-Assad and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has ranged from the scripted (OTPOR fomented -“revolution“) “peaceful protesters under fire” rhetoric, to other deceitful lexicon like “civil …

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Syria: Russian Intervention Exposes Coalition Lies. “The Terrorists R US”

Oct 7, 2015, Global Research How speedily the lies of the “international community” in general and those of the US and UK in particular about the Syrian situation are unraveling since the participation of Russia. Take UK Prime Minister David Cameron. On 24th September last year he addressed the United …

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The Douma Market Attack: a Fabricated Pretext for Intervention?

Aug 21, 2015, Counter Punch -by Eric Draitser The August 16, 2015 attack on a market in the Syrian town of Douma, just outside the capital Damascus, has caused international outrage. Condemnations of the Syrian government have poured in from seemingly all corners of the globe as President Assad and …

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Why Syria is Winning: Advancing towards a Strategic Victory that will transform the Middle East?

Aug 10, 2015, Global Research -Professor Tim Anderson Syria is winning. Despite ongoing bloodshed and serious economic pressure, Syria is advancing steadily towards a military and strategic victory that will transform the Middle East. There is clear evidence that Washington’s plans – whether for ‘regime change’, for rendering the state …

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Western Imperialism and the ISIS Alibi

Aug 10, 2015, Dissident Voice It’s fairly obvious to keen observers that Turkey’s Recep Erdogan is not the moderate reformist he once pretended to be, back when Turkey harbored fantasies of joining a surging European Union. In the end, the EU’s temporizing about Turkey’s entry turned out to be a …

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Obama is Setting his Sights on Armed Intervention in Syria

Aug 8, 2015, Strategic Culture At a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the White House on Aug. 4, US President Barack Obama stated that Syria needs a «realistic political process» to settle its internal armed conflict, which would «lead to a stabilizing of the country and a transition …

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The Road to Empire Overreach is Fraught with Calamities

Aug 7, 2015, Counter Punch Back at the beginning of August 1914, Europe was on the cusp of collective suicide yet it failed to grasp the severity of the situation in time to prevent disaster. In the years preceding WWI, European nations had engaged in intense coalition-building. France, along with …

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