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Spencer Platt / Getty Images / AFP Nearly 400 miles west of Manhattan, the New York Police Department descended on the City of Buffalo. It was a rough Buffalo winter in January 2009 and three…
AFP Photo / Johanna Leguerre “You should have expected us.” It’s the calling card that Anonymous has signed-off their online assaults with since the start of their Internet crusades. As the hacktivists continue to come…
U.S. Senator John McCain. (Reuters / Soe Zeya Tun) Two congressional conservative warhawks have spoken up about how to handle the uprising in Syria, and their solution would involve arming the rebel forces with American…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/usa/news/troops-house-ron-paul-791/i67573236b1dfe9249ea5e597a2f46795_02.20.12-5pm—wahl-pkg.flv] Ron Paul’s consistently strong anti-war message is one that resonates with many US troops today. Hundreds of active duty troops, veterans and Paul supporters gathered at the Washington monument this afternoon. After a series…
A Foot in the Door The conventional picture of US policy in the Middle East is of a hellbound train rushing toward war with Iran, pulling burning coaches filled with European passengers howling praise of…
US and its allies are pushing Syria into civil war by backing the armed opposition, a Chinese newspaper writes. The article asserts that Beijing must stick to opposing violence in Damascus. “If Western countries continue…
Republican presidential candidate US Representative Ron Paul (Reuters / Brian Snyder) Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul slammed America’s system of governance at a rally in Kansas City, saying businesses and government are pushing the country…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/ron-paul-candidate-liberties-717/i2ac1b93e4a3ed38f568f47b2b8a9ca60_guest-shivani-0100.flv] United States presidential contender Ron Paul has warned that his country is slipping into a twenty-first century fascist system with a broke government ruled by big business. RT asked some experts whether they agree….
In contrast to Libya, Syria became the scene of a revolt that almost immediately went off script: the majority of Syria’s population remain the government’s loyalists, and the Syrian army never disintegrated into warring factions. According to Western estimates, the rebel forces in Syria combined with the relatively small bunch of army defectors are outnumbered by at least a factor of four by the regular army which is also much better armed. The attacks launched by guerrillas on the regions where most of the residents are traditionally hostile to B. Assad and the attempts to cause the people to rebel are at the moment being successfully suppressed, while the opposition’s street marches typically run into response rallies staged by the supporters of the legitimate authority. Importantly, Russia and China strongly hold their own in the UN and block whatever Security Council resolutions that might be read as authorizing an intervention against Syria. As a result, the key objective behind the revolt in the country — to unleash a full-blown civil war in Syria — at the moment stays out of reach for those who orchestrated the unrest.