The dogs of war bark and the emerging-powers caravan … keeps on trucking. That’s the Group of 20 meeting in St Petersburg in a nutshell. Count on the indispensable (bombing) nation — via US President…
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As leaders of countries making up half of the world’s population firmly opposed military action against Syria without a UN mandate, the US kept pushing for a strike, claiming that many countries represented…
Obama Warned on Syrian Intel Despite the Obama administration’s supposedly “high confidence” regarding Syrian government guilt over the Aug. 21 chemical attack near Damascus, a dozen former U.S. military and intelligence officials are telling President…
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD – Syrian President Bashar Assad warned that if there was a military strike by the United States on his country, there would be retaliation by those aligned with Syria. CBS reported Assad’s…
Recalling the massacres and destruction during the 1820’s Greek war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, then Victor Hugo wrote, “the Turks have passed by here – All is in ruins and mourning.” Today, the…
Washington represents Israel and a handful of powerful organized private interests. Washington represents no one else. Washington is a plague upon the American people and a plague upon the world. The “New American Century” proclaimed…
We’re witnessing the last grotesque convulsions of a dying empire. As it threatens humanity with annihilation, it’s also nauseating the still sane among us with an unending farce, as in the hypocrite Kerry declaring, “this is not the time to be silent spectators to slaughter,” but John, you lying cynic, the world has been asked to be a mute audience to American mass murder for how long now? But Johnny wants more, much more. Feigning outrage, the former anti-war darling and Democratic Presidential candidate was talking about the Syria chemical attack, which was likely the work of America itself, through its crazed terrorists,
Damascus: Syria said on Wednesday it had taken “every measure” to retaliate if hit by a feared US-led military strike and would never give in, even if a third world war erupts. In an exclusive interview with a news agency, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad also insisted that Russia had not wavered in its support, despite comments by President Vladimir Putin suggesting a more conciliatory tone towards the West. “Syria has taken every measure to retaliate against… An aggression,” he said, although he refused to provide any clue as to what that might mean. “The Syrian government will not change position even if there is World War III. No Syrian can sacrifice the independence of his country,” he added.
Plans for both large scale chemical weapons use and a major military campaign against Syria have been known since June. Three reports, published on nsnbc international on 29 June and 7 July and 11 July already detailed…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) listens to Syrian opposition leader Haytham Manna (R) of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change during their meeting in Moscow, on March 11, 2013. A top Syrian opposition…