Tag Archives: Saudi Arabia

Sep 2, 2013, McClatchy The Obama administration’s public case for attacking Syria is riddled with inconsistencies and hinges mainly on circumstantial evidence, undermining U.S. efforts this week to build support at home and abroad for a punitive strike against Bashar Assad’s regime. The case Secretary of State John Kerry laid …

Oct 11, 2013, Asia Times Every sentient being with a functional brain perceives the possibility of ending the 34-year Wall of Mistrust between Washington and Tehran as a win-win situation. Here are some of the benefits: The price of oil and gas from the Persian Gulf would go down; Washington …

Sep 12, 2013, Information Clearinghouse As part of the Obama administration’s repeated insistence – though without offering proof – that the recent sarin gas attack near Damascus was the work of the Assad regime, the administration has downplayed or denied the possibility that al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebels could produce deadly chemical …

What’s Going On In Syria? by Syria Solidarity Movement and Mussalaha (Reconciliation) Movement This workshop will feature a live presentation by Mother Agnes Mariam who is coming directly from the Middle East. She will discuss the background to the conflict and the conclusions of her detailed study of the chemical …

Oct 15, 2013, RT.com As Syria’s rebels refuse to take part in Geneva-2, Saudi Arabia has emerged as the primary state-backer of rebel groups now trying to escalate the Syrian conflict and topple Assad by force. When Vladimir Putin met with Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia in August, the newly …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

            Oct 10, 2013, Global Research Israel and Saudi Arabia are rogue states writ large. They’re two of the world’s worst. They deplore democratic values. They spurn rule of law principles. They commit horrendous human and civil rights abuses. They’re responsible for daily crimes against …