Nov 9, 2013, Press TV A large shipment of weapons has been seized by Turkish security forces in the southern province of Adana near Syria border, Press TV reports. Turkish police confiscated a truck carrying rocket heads, bazookas, missiles, bombs and guns at an industrial site on Thursday. The driver …
Read More »Al Qaeda Rebels Supported by Uncle Sam: US, Allies to Blame for Chemical Attack in Syria
Nov 2, 2013, Global Research An analyst says the United States and its allies in the region are to blame for having helped militants in Syria to launch the deadly chemical attack on civilians in August. Michel Chossudovsky told Press TV in an interview on Friday that the US-led “military …
Read More »M. Agnes-Mariam begins North America Tour with KPFA radio interview
Nov. 1, 2013 Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross arrived in Tucson, Arizona last night after a 31-hour trip from Beirut, Lebanon, and gave her first radio interview to Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff, co-directors of the widely acclaimed “Project Censored” and hosts of a popular KPFA radio program. In the …
Read More »A MUSALAHA INITIATIVE
EVACUATING CIVILIANS FROM MOADAMIYA, A BESIEGED REBEL CITY IN DAMASCUS, WESTERN GHOUTA Following is the story, with photos and video links, of the rescue of thousands of citizens in Moadamiya, which ended less than 24 hours before Mother Agnes-Mariam boarded her flight to the US. The Mussalaha(“Reconciliation”) Movement and Mother Agnes-Mariam …
Read More »Saudi ‘House of Pseud’ thrives on deception
Nov6, 2013, Press TV The House of Saud is such a decrepit domain of duplicity it is hard to know where to begin in listing its numerous deceptions, but suffice to say that any appraisal should start, in the first instance, with a name change. Henceforth, in the cause of …
Read More »Syria: how the violence began, in Daraa
May 13, 2013, Op-Ed News By Tim Anderson “The claim that armed opposition to the government has begun only recently is a complete lie. The killings of soldiers, police and civilians, often in the most brutal circumstances, have been going on virtually since the beginning.’ — Professor Jeremy Salt, …
Read More »Saudis hell bent on stalling Syria solution: US analyst
Nov 6, 2013, Press TV Saudi Arabia is “hell bent” on disrupting any peaceful solution to the deadly crisis plaguing Syria, a political commentator tells Press TV. In an interview with Press TV on Tuesday, Lawrence Freeman, with the Executive Intelligence Review, described the Al Saud regime’s all-out support …
Read More »Saudis Fight a Lost Battle against Change
Nov 6, 2013, Global Research The ongoing aggressive Saudi policy for a militarized “regime change” in Syria is more an expression of internal vulnerability, trying hopelessly to avert change outside their borders lest change sweeps inside, than being a positive show of leadership and power, but Syrian developments are proving …
Read More »Syria Analysts, Impartial? Not likely. Think Tank Commentators Posing as Objective Scholars
Nov 6, 2013, Global Research As is evident with the vast majority of coverage on the Middle East, the analysis used to bolster media narratives on Syria is predominantly derived from paid “think-tank” commentators posing as objective scholars. To the discerning reader, this dynamic of the mass media relying on …
Read More »Syria has Changed
Nov 4, 2013, VoltaireNet While in Damascus, the Special Envoy of the Secretaries General of the Arab League and the UN, Lakhdar Brahimi, presented “his” draft peace conference project, Geneva 2. A conference whose objective would be to end the “civil war”. This terminology rehashes the analysis of one side …
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