Syria on the Boil
Stephen LendmanSyria
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Cowardly Terrorists Murder Syrian Civilians
Stephen LendmanSyria
Tensions persist between Turkey, Syria after cross-border military exchange
• Washington PostTurkey’s parliament authorized the Turkish government to take military action against Syria, as the international community scrambled to defuse tensions heightened by a Syrian artillery strike a day earlier in which 5 Turkish civilians died.
Syria's Divided Opposition
Stephen LendmanSyria
Clinton Bashes Russia’s Syria Peace Plan
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz'No Point in Passing Resolution,' Clinton Insists
United Nations Says 100,000 Refugees Fled Syria in August
• New York TimesMore than 100,000 Syrians fled their country last month, a sharp acceleration of the exodus prompted by 18 months of conflict, the United Nations said, adding renewed urgency to the mission of a new peace envoy given dim prospects for success.
China Says Syria Situation Worsening, Still Opposes Intervention
• ReutersChina said on Tuesday the situation in Syria was worsening but that it still opposed any outside armed intervention in the country, ahead of a visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Pentagon Prepares to Seize Syria's Weapon Supply
• Free Press PublicationsIn late August the Pentagon announced a contingency plan is in place for seizing Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal should President Obama order them to do so, and that the plan involves sending “small teams” of special operations forces into Syria.
Syrian Rebel Leader Threatens To Form Alliance With Al-Qaeda If West Doesn’t Provide Arms
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph WatsonTerrorists already meet with rebels “every day,” coordinate bombings
Death Squad Atrocities in Syria
Stephen LendmanSyria
Day of Infamy at General Assembly
Stephen LendmanGeneral Assembly operates as an imperial tool.
New spin in media war? Syria uncovers TV hijack plot
• http://www.rt.comSyria has accused Western and Arab intelligence agencies of plotting to “hijack” its satellite channel frequencies in order to spread misinformation about the alleged advances of the rebels, military defections or the fall of certain cities.
Washington's Plan B for Syria
Stephen LendmanSyria
Two Things You Don't Know About Syria (If You Only Read The Mainstream Press)
• ReutersThe current events are not some new phenomenon, are not directly tied to the phony "Arab Spring" democratization movement (Saudi Arabia promoting democracy? Are you joking?). In fact this is a flare up of longstanding attempts to overthrow the Syrian
US "Intelligence Assets" leading the Syrian "Opposition", the Role of the Bilder
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Chris MarsdenIn a July 12 article for the Guardian’s “Comment is Free” section, Charlie Skelton poses the fundamental question the world’s media does not want asked.
Strategically Timed Syrian Massacre
Stephen LendmanSyria
Syrian Opposition's Amazing CIA Credentials
• Lew Rockwell blogThe amazingly open ties of the Syrian opposition to their Western paymasters. As the astonishing Guardian story linked in the MoA piece outlines, down to the person these Syrian engines of regime change are products of the US empire and its intervent
George Galloway on Syria
• youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)George Galloway warns against western intervention in Syria.
Why Turkey won't go to war with Syria
• http://www.aljazeera.com, Pepe EscobarPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has yet to understand the new deal struck between Russia and the US.
Pressure Builds for More Middle East War
Stephen LendmanSyria
Covering Syria: The information war - "distortion, manipulation, lies and videotape"
• Aisling Byrne, Asia TimesThe aim being precisely to elicit a heart-wrenching emotional response in Western audiences that trumps all other considerations and makes the call for Western/Gulf intervention to effect regime change.
Russia sends warships to Syria
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk, By Tom ParfittRussia despatched a flotilla of warships to its naval base in the Syrian port of Tartus on Tuesday in an apparent show of support for President Bashar al-Assad.
Clinton: Assad's Days Are Numbered
Stephen LendmanSyria
War on Syria and Imperial Hubris: Clinton Demands Russia And China to “Pay The Price”
• http://www.globalresearch.ca,At the third meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria in Paris on July 6, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proved once again that diplomacy is to the United States what refined dining etiquette is to a jackal.
Syriagate: Western firm's advice for Syria proves ineffective in media war
• http://www.rt.comSyria received specific guidance from a private communications company on how to fight back in a massive media battle launched by the West, a fresh leak of Syria-linked files has revealed. But that war was lost the day it began.
US Intelligence Says Turkish Warplane Downed in Syrian Waters
Stephen LendmanAnti-war
Saudi warns against travel to Lebanon
• AFPTensions in Lebanon are rising after deadly clashes linked to the conflict in neighboring Syria erupted on several occasions in the past few months. Syria and Lebanon share a complex web of political and sectarian ties and rivalries that often spill
Failure in Geneva
Stephen LendmanExpect war. It's coming.
Annan: Russia, West agree on transition government for Syria
• http://www.rt.comThe Syrian crisis is to be resolved by a transition government consisting of the current authorities and opposition leaders. The proposal was announced by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan after talks in Geneva.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar bankroll Syrian rebels?
• http://www.rt.comFree Syrian Army (FSA) militants are about to go on the Saudi payroll, the country’s officials shared with The Guardian.
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