Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
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 …
Read More »Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch lobbies for war on Syria: he wants another NATO intervention in the Middle East
Aug 6, 2015, The Angry Arab “This is an unabashed call for war by a director of an ostensible human rights organization. Can you imagine this guy (who has been obsessed with the “pro-Israel donors” to his organization in all of his weak work on human rights) daring ever to …
Read More »The Brookings Institute Plan to Liquidate Syria
Aug 5, 2015, Counter Punch Here’s your US foreign policy puzzler for the day: When is regime change not regime change? When the regime stays in power but loses its ability to rule. This is the current objective of US policy in Syria, to undermine Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s …
Read More »The Fake War on ISIS: US and Turkey Escalate in Syria
Aug 2, 2015, New Eastern Outlook It is late July 2015, and the media is abuzz with the news that Turkey will allow US jets to use its bases to bomb Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria. There is much talk about how this development is a “game-changer,” and how …
Read More »War By Deception: Obama Reboots Old ‘No Fly Zone’ Scam, Bombing For Regime Change in Syria
Aug 3, 2015, 21st Century Wire Get ready for Libya 2.0. Looks like the Pentagon will be getting its illegal regime change war in Syria after all… Finally this week, President Barack Obama appears to have sprung his own trap for the next big war, now promising to intervene the …
Read More »Erodoğan and Netanyahu Declare War
Aug 1, 2015, Information Clearing House The rulers of the two most powerful authoritarian regimes in the Middle East are launching major wars to reconfigure the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has declared war by proxy on Iran, announcing full-scale military mobilization within Israel (July 27 -29) and organizing the …
Read More »Obama’s “Safe Zone” in Syria will Inflame the War Zone
Information Clearing House The road to war is paved with a thousand lies. A fresh fib was tossed on the lie-cluttered warpath to Syria, when it was announced that the U.S. and Turkey would create a “safe zone” inside of Syria — supposedly to be aimed against ISIS. This “safe …
Read More »Balkanizing Syria, Buffer Zone in Northern Syria. Redrawing the Middle East Map
Jul 29, 2015, Global Research Longstanding US/Israeli plans call for redrawing the Middle East map – including balkanizing Iraq and Syria along with installing regional puppets serving Western/Zionist interests. The ugly scheme involves endless wars – killing millions through violence and deprivation. Imperialism works this way – causing unspeakable human …
Read More »ISIS could have been prevented – if it hadn’t been deliberately fostered
Jul 23, 2015, RT.com In an interview with Fox News earlier this week, retiring US Chief of Staff Ray Odierno said that the US could have prevented the rise of ISIS. He is absolutely correct: but his reasoning is topsy-turvy. Whilst he blames the group’s rise on a lack of …
Read More »Mythology, Barrel Bombs, and Human Rights Watch
Jul 21, 2015, Counter Punch To read Human Rights Watch and the western mainstream media, the Syrian government army is inflicting massive casualties upon the Syrian civilian population, most especially through the use of “barrel bombs”. Thousands of bombs have been dropped, inflicting thousands of casualties. But wait a minute. …
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