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America’s War on Syria: Another Anti-Assad False Flag?

By   /  May 13, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Stephen Lendman | BLN Since early 2011, Obama’s been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme’s familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism’s dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited Mujahideen fighters battled  Afghanistan’s Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them “the moral equivalent of our founding fathers.” He characterized Contra [...]

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Syria Condemns Turkey Bombings as Acts of Terrorism and warns Israel about the Golan

By   /  May 13, 2013  /  In Other News, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Christof Lehmann | nsnbc Syria´s Minister of Information, Omran al-Zoubi has condemned the bombings in the Turkish city al-Rihaniya by all human and moral standards as an act of terrorism, and offered condolences to the Turkish people and wished a full recovery for the injured. Al-Zoubi denounced Turkish accusations of Syrian involvement and issued [...]

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18 killed, 22 injured as explosions rock Turkish town on Syrian border – officials

By   /  May 11, 2013  /  Breaking News, News, World  /  No Comments

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RT Eighteen people were killed and 22 injured when several explosions struck a city in southern Turkey, near the border with Syria, Turkish media reported quoting officials. It remains unclear how many explosions took place with conflicting reports of two and four blasts emerging.”Two car [bombs] were set off in front of the municipality,” Interior Minister [...]

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In eastern Syria oil smugglers benefit from chaos

By   /  May 11, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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Todays Zaman In Syria’s eastern province of Deir al-Zor, a network of tribes and smugglers has exploited the chaos of war to create an illicit oil trade that makes European hopes of buying crude from President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents a distant prospect. Powerful Sunni Muslim tribes have deployed armed fighters around oil production facilities and [...]

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Was Syria ‘nuked’?

By   /  May 10, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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Striking evidence of the use of American EPW (Earth Penetrating Weapons) nuclear weapons in Syria has come to light. Experts say the proof is irrefutable.

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US Presses for War on Syria, Dismisses Al Qaeda Rebels Use of Chemical Weapons

By   /  May 8, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Thomas Gaist | Global Research US officials continued to press for war against Syria yesterday, dismissing United Nations investigator Carla del Ponte’s statement that Western-backed opposition forces, not the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, had used chemical weapons. Del Ponte’s comment, based on an investigation including extensive interviews by UN officials, tore to shreds [...]

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Syrian Internet Goes Dark, Leaving Questions and Uncertainty

By   /  May 8, 2013  /  In Other News, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Danny O’Brien | EFF Earlier today, we learned that Internet traffic between Syria and Western online services had plummeted drastically, indicated that the country’s connection to the wider Internet had been shut down. Reports from Renesys and Google confirmed the routes into Syria had been withdrawn, implying either a massive infrastructure cut, or a [...]

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4 Big Pushers of War in Iraq Now Gunning for Intervention in Syria — Consequences be Damned!

By   /  May 6, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Alex Kane | Alternet Recent days have seen an uptick in strident calls for American intervention in Syria. The news from Syria over the past week has been dizzying. But if you can keep your head on straight you’ll recognize an uptick in strident calls for American intervention in Syria, though it remains unlikely [...]

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The Israeli-Jihadist Alliance

By   /  May 6, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

Israel set to help terrorist Free Syrian Army

By Justin Raimondo | Antiwar It’s seems counterintuitive, to say the least. Indeed, it seems quite mad. And yet we now have all the evidence we need to point to a de facto Israeli alliance with Al Qaeda. The bombing of Damascus suburbs by Israeli jets – purportedly in order to prevent the Syrians from supplying Hezbollah with long range [...]

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Syrian militants used chemical weapons: UN investigators

By   /  May 6, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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United Nations investigators say they have found testimony from victims and medical staff that shows militants have used the nerve agent sarin in Syria, which has been classified as a weapon of mass destruction in UN Resolution 687.

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The Hypocrisy of Ban Ki-moon about Israel’s Attacks on Syria

By   /  May 6, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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By UN News Centre via Global Research Global Research Note We bring to the attention of our readers the following news release about the Israeli attack on Syria from the United Nations. Ban Ki-moon has called ”on all sides to exercise maximum calm and restraint.” No words of condemnation were uttered against Israel’s attack on Syria and [...]

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‘Israel used depleted uranium shells in air strike’ – Syrian source

By   /  May 5, 2013  /  Breaking News, World  /  No Comments

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RT Israel used “a new type of weapon”, a senior official at the Syrian military facility that came under attack from the Israeli Air Force told RT. “When the explosion happened it felt like an earthquake,” said the source, who was present near the attack site on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday morning. “Then a giant [...]

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