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Patrick Cockburn on U.S. Plans to Arm Syrian Rebels: Where is the Skepticism About Chemical Weapons?

[youtube=http://youtu.be/BMi-Y7ff1Oc] democracynow Published on Jun 14, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org - Veteran foreign correspondent Patrick Cockburn of the Independent joins us to discuss the Obama administration's decision to begin directly arming Syrian rebels after concluding the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons. "There must be some doubts about this," Cockburn says, adding that it "reminds me More

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Patrick Cockburn> Descent Into Holy War> Syria

What is Really Happening in Syria Descent Into Holy War “I have now been in Damascus for 10 days, and every day I am struck by the fact that the situation in areas of Syria I have visited is wholly different from the picture given to the world both by foreign leaders and by the More

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Patrick Cockburn> Descent Into Holy War> Syria

What is Really Happening in Syria Descent Into Holy War “I have now been in Damascus for 10 days, and every day I am struck by the fact that the situation in areas of Syria I have visited is wholly different from the picture given to the world both by foreign leaders and by the More

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I have been asked to remove this interview of Assad of Syria. The reason is that it purportedly makes WAMM look like we support Assad. WAMM does not support Assad. WAMM also does not support the foreign "rebels" who are fighting in Syria. We are Women Against Military Madness. The interview was first posted by More

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Jay Janson> Syria: NY Times' Deadly Aim to Fool ALL the People ALL the Time

Syria: NY Times’ Deadly Aim to Fool ALL the People ALL the Time By Jay Janson November 2, 2012 A veil of disinformation by Western business controlled media, never possible by any outright State-controlled media, has descended on the world. But with technology is racing toward easy electronic access to documented history, those employed More

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Jay Janson> Syria: NY Times’ Deadly Aim to Fool ALL the People ALL the Time

Syria: NY Times’ Deadly Aim to Fool ALL the People ALL the Time By Jay Janson November 2, 2012 A veil of disinformation by Western business controlled media, never possible by any outright State-controlled media, has descended on the world. But with technology is racing toward easy electronic access to documented history, those employed More

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Syrian opposition, Western powers push for regime change in Syria

Syrian opposition, Western powers push for regime change in Syria By Johannes Stern 5 September 2012 wsws.org The Western powers and the pro-imperialist Syrian opposition are intensifying their campaign for regime change in Syria. On Monday the Syrian opposition reiterated its calls for military intervention in Syria, demanding more weapons to fight the regime More

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Brendan O'Neill> Syria: how the West is sanctioning sectarianism

Syria: how the West is sanctioning sectarianism Brendan O’Neill Monday 13 August 2012 Spiked In the name of making a PR performance of their moral resolve, Western governments are meddling in Syria in an ever-more lethal way. For a textbook example of how Western meddling in other states’ affairs makes bad situations worse, look no More

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Brendan O’Neill> Syria: how the West is sanctioning sectarianism

Syria: how the West is sanctioning sectarianism Brendan O’Neill Monday 13 August 2012 Spiked In the name of making a PR performance of their moral resolve, Western governments are meddling in Syria in an ever-more lethal way. For a textbook example of how Western meddling in other states’ affairs makes bad situations worse, look no More

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Eric Margolis> Syria and the Invisible Hand of Foreign Intervention

Syria and the Invisible Hand of Foreign Intervention Eric S. Margolis August 10, 2012 National Interest via antiwar.com The Polish Zionist ideologue Vladimir Jabotinsky, the father of Israel’s right wing, observed nearly a century ago that much of the Arab world was a fragile mosaic. A few sharp blows, he wrote, would cause it More

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Eric Margolis> Syria and the Invisible Hand of Foreign Intervention

Syria and the Invisible Hand of Foreign Intervention Eric S. Margolis August 10, 2012 National Interest via antiwar.com The Polish Zionist ideologue Vladimir Jabotinsky, the father of Israel’s right wing, observed nearly a century ago that much of the Arab world was a fragile mosaic. A few sharp blows, he wrote, would cause it More

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Thierry Meyssan> Who is fighting in Syria?

Who is fighting in Syria? by Thierry Meyssan Though the Western press portrays the Free Syrian Army as an armed revolutionary group, for more than a year Thierry Meyssan has affirmed that it is on the contrary a counter-revolutionary body. According to him, it would have progressively passed from the hands of reactionary monarchies in the More

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