Dec 9, 2013, Foreign Policy Journal The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—along with certain Arab League countries, plus Turkey and Israel, have this past week reportedly committed themselves to raising nearly $6 billion to “beef up” the just-hatched Islamic …
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 »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 »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 »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 »Saudi Arabia urges arming Syria militants
Nov 6, 2013, Press TV Former Saudi intelligence agency chief has demanded sending more arms to foreign-backed Takfiri militants fighting the Syrian government, expressing concern that the continuation of war in the country would endanger Israel. Prince Turki al-Faisal made the remarks in an interview with American daily newspaper Washington …
Read More »Regional War Scenario. NATO-US-Turkey War Games Off the Syrian Coastline
Nov 5, 2013, Global Research According to Turkish press reports, Turkey’s High Command will be hosting NATO’S Invitex military exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean in a clear act of provocation directed against Syria. The Invitex-Eastern Mediterranean war games are scheduled from November 4 to 14. Deafening silence. Not a single …
Read More »Kerry on despot tour to reassure
Nov 4, 2013, Press TV America’s top diplomat John Kerry is not known for honesty. Recall a couple of months ago how Russian President Vladimir Putin labeled Kerry a “blatant liar” when the latter tried to deny the involvement of al-Qaeda in Syria’s charnel house. But the American secretary of …
Read More »‘Scandalous’: Israel fumes as US officials spill the beans on Syrian missile strike
After sources in the Obama administration said Israel was responsible for Wednesday’s attack on a Syrian missile base, an Israeli analyst warned that the US risks starting ‘a very major flare-up.’ The Israeli Air Force struck a military base near the Syrian port city of Latakia, targeting Russian-made SA 125 …
Read More »Media Fabrications and the War on Syria: How the Western Press Parrots Israeli Propaganda
Nov 3, 2013, Global Research In a report titled “Hezbollah shows strain of Syria war”, The Guardian’s Middle East Editor Ian Black, explains to the reader that Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah “sounds more troubled than defiant when he talks about the Syrian war these days”. Black doesn’t offer the …
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