by Susan Dirgham, published on Pearls and Irritations, November 13, 2023 Australian foreign policy makers seem not to realise that the demographic makeup of Australia means increasing numbers of us are connected to victims of wars instigated by the United States. Australians’ support for future US wars cannot be relied …
Read More »Pope Needs to Condemn US Warmongering
Jan 2, 2014, Information Clearinghouse In his annual New Year’s address, Catholic Pope Francis sounded particularly vexed when he urged an end to wars and conflict. “What on Earth is happening in the hearts of men? What on Earth is happening in the heart of humanity?” the pontiff decried to …
Read More »NYT Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis
Dec 29, 2013, Consortium News The New York Times has, kind of, admitted that it messed up its big front-page story that used a “vector analysis” to pin the blame for the Aug. 21 Sarin attack on the Syrian government, an assertion that was treated by Official Washington as the slam-dunk …
Read More »The Last Chance for Peace in Syria?
Dec 23, 2013, Counterpunch The war in Syria grinds on, an endless wreckage of shattered limbs and lives. The blood flows across borders, fueling the religious sectarian killing across the Middle East that is the life-blood of the Syrian conflict. Hopes rose in Syria after Obama’s last minute decision not to …
Read More »Washington’s New Islamic Front: Expanded U.S. Support to Al Qaeda Rebels in Syria
Dec 15, 2013, Global Research From the outset, the Western military alliance has (covertly) supported the terrorists with a view to destabilizing Syria as a nation state. Lest we forget, Al Qaeda is a creation of the CIA. The US, NATO, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have channeled most …
Read More »Al Qaeda Terrorism in Syria is a “Weapon of Mass Destruction”
Dec 17, 2013, Global Research On November 27, 2013, at a United Nations Security Council Stakeout, the Syrian Ambassador displayed a file of 258 letters addressed to the Security Council, documenting terrorist actions, terrorist groups and terrorist individuals currently operating in Syria, or arrested for such activities. These letters urgently …
Read More »Whose sarin?
Dec 8, 2013, London Review of Books Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intelligence, and in others …
Read More »Religious leader speaks about US media’s misrepresentation of country’s issues
Nov 18, 2013, The Daily Nebraskan Mainstream media has depicted the crisis in Syria as a black and white cinema. At a talk in downtown Lincoln Monday morning, Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross said that isn’t the case. Mother Agnes is Mother Superior of the monastery of St. James the …
Read More »Tariq Ali asks did USA rely on tainted Israeli evidence to justify Damascus Missile Strikes
Nov 16, 2013 British-Pakistani historian, activist and editor of the New Left Review, Tariq Ali, says that without publicly available evidence, Barack Obama’s claim that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against civilians and rebels is “totally unconvincing.” During a (Aug 29, 2013) debate http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/29… on “Democracy Now!” on …
Read More »Rania Masri Debates Syria’s Path Forward
Sep 10, 2013, Democracy Now We host a debate on how to resolve the Syrian conflict between Rafif Jouejati of the Syrian Local Coordination Committees, a network of activists throughout Syria, and Rania Masri, Lebanese-based human rights activist and professor at the University of Balamand in Lebanon.
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