Oct 16, 2013, Finian Cunningham They say an expert liar needs to have a good memory to succeed in maintaining deceptions. This is because sooner or later the liar is liable to trip himself up with his own previous lies. Only weeks after the deadly chemical weapons incident near the …
Read More »Israel Hides Nukes Behind “Ambiguity” Wall
Oct 15, 2013, James M. Wall This week’s Geneva nuclear table talks pit Iran against the Big Five Security Council members, plus Germany. Iran sits alone at the table, seeking release from its “sanctions jail” incarceration from its jailers, the Big Five plus one nations. Israel will not be in the …
Read More »John Kerry now says Syria’s Assad must go, situation ‘urgent’
Oct 14, 2013, Washington Times Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that Syria President Bashar Assad has no future and must be removed from power — a somewhat confusing stance given the recent praise he gave the regime for cooperating with a Russia-forged chemical weapons deal. Mr. Kerry said …
Read More »This Is What’s Planned for Syria’s Daraa
Oct 9, 2013 [translation from Arabic] Expectations arise about a raging battle might occur in Syria’s south between army units and armed groups, amid Western media reports referring to a Gulf and Western vigorous pursuit to make a breakthrough in the Syrian army field progress, ahead of any political resolution …
Read More »Obscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America’s Case Against Syria
Oct 13, 2013, Strategic Culture The US federal government and the various agencies, media organizations, individuals, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, lobbies, forces, and other entities that are tied to it have done everything in their power to obscure the details involving the chemical attacks in that took place in Syria …
Read More »Syria, Intervention and the Anti-war Movement
Oct 1, 2013, Alternatives When Barack Obama first warned Syria that its use of chemical weapons would facilitate the US decision toward military intervention in the Syrian conflict, it almost seemed like the President was implementing the first phase in a plan that would ultimately see the West intervene. To …
Read More »Red Cross workers kidnapped in Syria
Oct 13, 2013, BBC The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says gunmen have abducted six of its workers and one Red Crescent volunteer in north-west Syria. The aid agency has had no contact with the gunmen, an ICRC spokesman says. Earlier, Syrian state media said gunmen opened fire …
Read More »Syrian National Council won’t attend Geneva II peace talks
Oct 13, 2013, al Akhbar A key group within the Syrian opposition National Coalition said Sunday it would not attend proposed peace talks in Geneva and would quit the Coalition if it participated. “The Syrian National Council, which is the biggest bloc in the Coalition, has taken the firm decision… …
Read More »Time to end Israel’s nuclear weapons
Oct 2013, Zafar Bangash, Crescent Online With the Syrian government’s pledge to give up its chemical weapons, it is time to shine the light on the only nuclear state in the Muslim East: Zionist Israel. It is known to have between 200 to 400 nuclear weapons. The Zionist entity also …
Read More »West’s hypocrisy over chemical weapons
Oct 2013, Crescent Online The hysteria over the use of chemical weapons in Syria, wrongly accusing the Syrian government of using them, has inadvertently focussed spotlight on the West’s own use of poison gas and chemical weapons. The West’s record is horrible. Chemical weapons or any other weapons of mass …
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