The president is celebrated for seeking a vote on his latest war even as his aides make clear it has no binding effect It’s a potent sign of how low the American political bar is…
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President Obama announced this weekend that he has decided to use military force against Syria and would seek authorization from Congress when it returned from its August break. Every Member ought to vote against this…
Bashar al-Jaafari, Syria’s United Nations representative, speaks to the media at UN headquarters in New York on November 29, 2012 Syria has asked the United Nations to try to “prevent any aggression” against…
Russia is rejecting American evidence of chemical weapons use inSyria as “inconclusive” and urging the United States to declassify all of its intelligence. “What we were shown before and recently by our American partners, as well as…
The ritualistic month long celebration of Merdeka (independence) activities have largely lost their meaning. Discussion about the roles that different groups played in the road to independence has largely been rewritten to support the current…
The Syrian government has dismissed US allegations that Damascus was behind a recent chemical weapons attack in the Arab country. According to the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), a source at the Syrian Foreign…
St. Petersburg, Russia (CNN) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Friday criticized Western nations for failing to ensure that weapons it plans to supply to Syrian rebels do not fall into the hands of…
Russia emphatically opposes war on Syria. Throughout months of conflict, it’s gone all out to prevent further escalation. With China, it vetoed three Security Council resolutions to do so. Putin and Obama represent opposing doctrines….
If President Barack Obama and his administration are not lying in the lead-up to a probable bombing campaign of Syria it will be a rare exception among US Presidents, particularly since their public duplicity concerning…
The British parliament’s rejection of military action in Syria this week may be just enough to halt the manic march to all-out war – a war that many fear would not only engulf the Middle…