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Feb 4, 2014, Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News n March 2006, the London Review of Books published a path-breaking essay on “The Israel Lobby” by University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer and Harvard’s Stephen Walt. The two then published a book the following year, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. …

Feb 1, 2014, NSNBC Syria is cementing its cooperation with China and South Africa with focus on rebuilding the war torn country. Meetings focused on rebuilding housing, industry and a modernization of Syria’s Mediterranean ports, which could boost the Syrian economy after the completion of the Iran – Iraq – …

Feb 1, 2014, World Bulletin An Israeli news website with close ties to Israeli intelligence has reported that Israel is using the current unrest in Syria as an excuse to create two buffer zones as a precaution against Al-Qaeda and the Assad regime. According to claims made by the Debkafile …

  Jan 29, 2014, Orontes Russia is interested in preventing the extinction of the Christian church in Syria, the Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said Tuesday at a meeting with the Patriarch of Antioch and All The East John X. “The prospect of a complete exodus of Christians from Syria …

Jan 27, 2014, Haaretz The Israel Air Force bombed a Syrian base in the Latakia airport in the north of the country on Sunday, Lebanese media reported Monday morning.  There are currently no other confirmations of this report. Israeli security sources refused to confirm or deny the claims and there …

Jan 24, 2014, Mint Press News A report released exclusively this week to CNN and The Guardian has been touted as evidence possibly proving widespread torture, starvation and the cause of thousands of prisoner deaths by the Syrian regime. However, the allegations are drawn from documentation acquired by a legal …

Jan 28, RT.com Congressional lawmakers have quietly authorized sending small arms, an assorted variety of rockets, and financial backing to so-called “moderate” rebels fighting in Syria’s civil war, according to a new report. American and European security officials told Reuters that the US will provide anti-tank rockets, but nothing as …

Jan 27, 2014, Reuters  Light arms supplied by the United States are flowing to “moderate” Syrian rebel factions in the south of the country and U.S. funding for months of further deliveries has been approved by Congress, according U.S. and European security officials. The weapons, most of which are moving …

Jan 21, 2014, Monteaux, Switzerland   Dear friends, The people of Syria are crying out for peace and they have a right to peace, and all other rights. As the human family we have developed many individual and collective rights. As a prerequisite for many of these rights, is the …

Jan 25, 2014, Oriental Review While little of substance seemed to come from the Geneva 2 peace conference and the dirty war against Syria seems set to continue, this does not mean the process has not advanced. John Kerry still mouths the 2011 mantra ‘Assad must go’, but it is …