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Jan 13, 2014, Michel Chossudovsky   RT: Western leaders are undertaking a last-ditch attempt to pressure the Syrian National Council into participating in the forthcoming talks in Geneva. Do you think they will succeed? Michel Chossudovsky: I think the fundamental issue is to address the nature of the conflict. The …

Jan 9, 2014, RT.com

Jan 4, 2014, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya The events in Volgograd are part of a much larger body of events and a multi-faceted struggle that has been going on for decades as part of a cold war after the Cold War—the post-Cold War cold war, if you please—that was a result …

Jan 8, 2014, Global Research Obsessed with the “Iran threat,” which leads to its warmongering in Syria, Saudi Arabia is acting like a bull in a china shop, wreaking regional havoc in an already Arab fragile political environment and creating what George Joffe’ of Cambridge University’s Centre of International Studies, …

  Jan 9, 2014, Press TV Former British Foreign Secretary and a present member of the UK Parliament Jack Straw has called for Iran’s participation in the upcoming international talks on the crisis in Syria. “We believe very strongly that a solution to the terrible situation in Syria is only …

Jan 8, 2014, James Petras   Press TV has conducted an interview with James Petras, a Middle East expert from New York, about the issue of Syria and what impact the upcoming Geneva 2 Conference will have on the crisis situation there. The following is an approximate transcript of the interview. …

Jan 7, 2014, Global Research Western corporate media, its Oil and Gas counterparts (GCC), and the various acolytes and paid-propagandists in the “tailored analysis” industry, are once again attempting to bolster and rebrand the public image of the fundamentalist rebels in Syria. In the space of a week, two new …

Jan 7, 2014, Finian Cunningham US top diplomat John Kerry must have taken us for fools. Earlier this week, speaking in Saudi Arabia, he warned that al-Qaeda in Syria and Iraq are “the most dangerous players in the region.” The US secretary of state vowed Washington’s support for the Iraqi …

Jan 6, 2014, AFP UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Monday sent invitations to 30 countries to attend a Syria peace conference this month, but did not include Iran, a spokesman said. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet on January 13 in a …

Jan 7, 2014, Press TV UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated his support for Iran’s participation in the upcoming Geneva II Conference on resolving the Syrian crisis. Ban said in a statement on Monday that the final decision on the participation of the Islamic Republic in the Geneva II …