I Met A Syrian Working at Home Depot.
• Daily Paul.comWhile shopping at the Home Depot, I asked an employee where I could find a product. After he told me where it was I asked where he was from. He said Syria. His name is Sam, short for Samar.
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BASHAR ASSAD: IT'S OVER, I WIN
• Business InsiderSyria's President Bashar Assad claimed in an interview published Thursday that his opponents have "used up all their tools" and failed to overthrow his regime.
Full Disclosure: What the Media Isn't Telling You About War in Syria
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Trafficking in Lies about Syria
Stephen LendmanSyria
Enemies of Syria Plan Escalated Aggression
Stephen LendmanSyria
So You Want to Intervene in Syria Without Breaking the Law? Good luck with that.
• Daily Paul.comSo,let's say you're the president of the United States and you want to use military force to intervene in Syria.
In Syrian chemical weapons claim, criticism about lack of transparency
• Washington PostDespite months of laboratory testing and scrutiny by top U.S. scientists, the Obama administration’s case for arming Syria’s rebels rests on unverifiable claims that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its own people
Fast-Tracking Toward War on Syria
Stephen LendmanSyria
Putin Alone at G8
Stephen LendmanSyria
High Level Opposition to Escalating Syria's Conflict
Stephen LendmanSyria
US' Shah of Syria Introduced
• Washington PostGen. Salim Idriss, 56, heads the Supreme Military Council of the fragmented Free Syrian Army, and the Obama administration has anointed him as the sole conduit of weapons to the rebels, whether supplied by the United States or by vassals
Syria is Iran's Stalingrad
• Gary Gambill at Middle East ForumThe growing infusion of Iranian-backed Lebanese and Iraqi Shiite fighters into the Syrian civil war is causing some veteran pundits to panic. Vali Nasr, dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, warns that
U.S. to Keep Warplanes in Jordan, Pressing Syria
• New York TimesRatcheting up the pressure on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the United States will keep American warplanes and antimissile batteries in Jordan, officials said Saturday.
The Chemical Weapons Hoax
Stephen LendmanSyria
One-Sided Anti-Syrian Human Rights Council Resolution
Stephen LendmanSyria
Obama Ups the Stakes in Syria
Stephen LendmanSyria
Decision to arm Syrian rebels was reached weeks ago, U.S. officials say
• Washington PostPresident Obama’s decision to begin arming the Syrian rebels followed a year of internal debate over whether it was worth the dual risks of involving the US in another war and seeing US weapons fall into the hands of extremist groups
U.S. considers no-fly zone after Syria crosses nerve gas 'red line'
• ReutersThe United States is considering a no-fly zone in Syria, potentially its first direct intervention into the two-year-old civil war, Western diplomats said on Friday, after the White House said Syria had crossed a "red line" by using nerve gas.
Assad: Winning Hearts, Minds and Battles
Stephen LendmanSyria
US close to OK on arming Syrian rebels
• APMoved by the Assad regime's rapid advance, the Obama administration could decide this week to approve lethal aid for the beleaguered Syrian rebels and will weigh the merits of a less likely move to send in U.S. airpower to enforce a no-fly zone
Syria's Qusair Victory Matters
Stephen LendmanSyria
Anti-Syrian Blame Game Escalates
Stephen LendmanSyria
George Galloway on Syria
• Lew Rockwell blogBritish MP George Galloway gave his opinion about the latest incident where Abu Saqqar, a commander in one of the earliest "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) brigades, the al-Farouq Brigade, ate the heart and liver of a dead Syrian soldier
France says it is ‘certain’ that Syrian government has used sarin gas
• Washington PostThe French government said it has confirmed the use of sarin gas by Syria’s government, and a UN panel reported that it has “reasonable grounds” to believe that chemical weapons have been used in the country’s civil war,
Israel Threatens Syria
Stephen LendmanSyria
Israel: Syria Missile Defense Acquisition a ‘Red Line’ for Military Action
• antiwarMeeting EU ambassadors, Israeli National Security Adviser declared the Syrian government’s imminent acquisition of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to be a “red line” that would obligate Israeli military action to prevent them becoming operational.
Israel Threatens Russia
Stephen LendmanSyria
Lifting the Fake EU Arms Embargo
Stephen LendmanSyria
Russia Sending Air Defense Missiles to Syria to Deter Foreign 'Hot Heads'
• ABC NewsThe S-300, one of the world’s most advanced air defense systems, could make it harder for foreign forces to carry out airstrikes inside Syria, as Israel has done this year, or to impose a no-fly zone, as some members of Congress have called for.
E.U. to allow arms embargo for Syrian rebels to lapse
• Washington PostThe Obama administration’s go-slow policy on Syria came under renewed pressure as European leaders opted to remove a legal hurdle that had blocked arms flows to rebel groups, while a top Republican critic swooped into Syria to dramatize
