Sep 25, 2013, Tony Cartalucci Video emerges of unmarked truck-mounted launcher surrounded by militants, firing same ordnance used in August 21 Damascus (and other) chemical attacks. A note of clarification: The US maintains that the chemical weapons attack in Damascus in late August could only have been the work of …
Read More »U.S. Policy Is To Prolong the Violence in Syria: The Ultimate Goal of the Obama Administration Remains Regime Change
Sep 24, 2013, Foreign Policy Journal Although the threat of U.S. strikes against Syria has for the time being abated due to intervention from Russian President Vladimir Putin and an agreement from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to declare its stockpiles of chemical weapons to the Organization for the Prohibition of …
Read More »The maneuvers at the United Nations in perspective Obama administration seeks to lay basis for UN-sanctioned assault
Sep 20, 2013, Richard Becker Having been forced to back off from a threatened military attack on Syria by intense international and domestic opposition, the Obama administration is now seeking to lay the basis for a UN Security Council-sanctioned assault. On Sept. 13, an …
Read More »Myths About the Syrian “Revolution”
Sep 24, 2013, al Akhbar The narrative of the Syrian revolution is an official version of events: All Western media and governments (and all Arab oil and gas media and governments) are expected to strictly adhere to it, and they all do, without dissent. All accounts of the beginning, evolution, …
Read More »Questions Plague UN Report on Syria
Sep 23, 2013, al Akhbar A senior United Nations official who deals directly with Syrian affairs has told Al-Akhbar that the Syrian government had no involvement in the alleged Ghouta chemical weapons attack: “Of course not, he (President Bashar al-Assad) would be committing suicide.” When asked who he believed was …
Read More »John Kerry Supports Al Qaeda in Syria, in Violation of US Anti-terrorism Laws
Jun 5, 2013, Global Research “The United States and its allies are not seeking a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis. If they were seeking a solution they would disengage in terms of their support to al-Nusra, which is a terrorist organization. Their actions are not only a violation of …
Read More »US anti-war delegation returns from Syria
Sep 21, 2013, Press TV Early friday morning, a group of U.S. Anti-War activists returned from a trip to Syria. The delegation that visited Syria included Sara Flounders of the International Action Center, former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clarke, John Parker of Workers World Party, …
Read More »Syria: Controversy surrounding MintPress Chemical Weapons Ghouta Report
Sep 22, 2013, Global Research On Friday 20th September, the corporate media’s favourite “YouTube Syria analyst” and self-proclaimed “weapons expert” Eliot Higgins – aka “Brown Moses” – released a statement on his blog from the Associated Press correspondent Dale Gavlak; in response to his queries …
Read More »“What about Israel’s nuclear weapons?” asks Putin
Sep 21, 2013, MEMO Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the big question that has been the elephant in the corner as the debate continues about Syria’s possession and use of chemical weapons: What about Israel’s nuclear weapons? Putin was speaking in defence of Moscow’s position on the Syrian crisis, …
Read More »Gas missiles ‘were not sold to Syria’
Sep 22, 2013, the Independent While the Assad regime in Damascus has denied responsibility for the sarin gas missiles that killed around 1,400 Syrians in the suburb of Ghouta on 21 August, information is now circulating in the city that Russia’s new “evidence” about the attack includes the dates of …
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