Oct13, 2013, RT.com Some 1,500 civilians were evacuated from a hotspot suburb of Damascus on Sunday, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent said. It comes as the Syrian National Council declared they wouldn’t attend peace talks in Geneva threatening to quit the National Coalition. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) said …
Read More »Syrian TV, chemical inspectors’ hotel targeted in bomb attacks in Damascus – report
Oct 13, 2013, RT.com Multiple bomb blasts have rocked the Syrian capital of Damascus, a mortar attack on Syrian TV among them, reports RT’s correspondent at the scene. Suicide bombers blew up two booby-trapped cars near the General Organization of Radio and TV in Damascus, state TV reported. The other …
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 »USA’s Cowboy Democracy is Terrorism Dressed in Noble Clothes
Oct 9, 2013, Information Clearinghouse Recent events around Syria have brought up the subject of how the U.S. promotes the ideals of democracy in the world. There is quite a list of countries that have fallen victim to American democracy. For example, Afghanistan has become a heroin power owing to …
Read More »Nobel Prize part of West’s propaganda fog
Oct 11, 2013, Finian Cunningham The Nobel Peace Prize should be renamed the Nobel Propaganda Prize, after this year’s ever-so contrived award to the UN-approved chemical weapons team sent to disarm Syria. Other dubious winners of the “illustrious” prize include the accused war criminal, former US Secretary of State Henry …
Read More »Massacres That Matter – Part 2 – The Media Response On Egypt, Libya And Syria
Aug 29, 2013, Media Lens Corporate media coverage of atrocities in Egypt, Libya and Syria has closely matched US-UK government interpretations and priorities. While the US government has refused to describe what was very obviously a military coup in Egypt on July 3 as a coup, many media have also …
Read More »Lost Cruise fears save Obama on Syria
Oct 3, 2013, Asia Times US President Barack Obama’s reversal on the bombing of Syria took the world by surprise. For a long time, he was talking about the use of chemical weapons by Bashar Al-Assad’s regime being “a red line”. There was a feeling that Obama’s talk about chemical …
Read More »Kenyan Bloodbath: Reaping the “Benefits” of US AFRICOM Collaboration
NATO’s North African terror tidal wave predictably sweeps into Kenya Sep 23, 2013, Tony Cartalucci At face value, and how the Western media is attempting to portray it, the Westgate Mall siege in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi appears to be yet another senseless terrorist attack by the “religious fanatics” …
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