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Impending Attack on Syria

Tracking the latest developments involving the impending military assault on Syria.

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  • truth

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  • J. Patriot

  • Philadelphian

     You don't really believe Obama decides anything do you?  Wonder who the real government of the country is.  What country are they giving our puppets orders from?

  • mystery

  • Roy Patterson

  • Less Prone

    War on Syria will draw in Russia, trigger World War III: Analyst

    “Russia has made [it] very, very clear that they would not sit by and allow yet another country to be bombarded and effectively raped and pillaged in terms with the empires’ designs. It will not allow this to happen,” O’Keefe said.

    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/21/314820/attack-on-syria-will...

  • Less Prone

    A Syrian soldier Sam talks to me about what he is believes he is fighting for. "We're fighting for the whole world against Imperialism", "AlQaeda is run by the US", "this is not a sectarian war", "This is not about defending one man (Assad) this is about defending the country". As well as updates on Aleppo and his experience in fighting in Qusayr.

  • Less Prone

    Putin Laughs At Saudi Offer To Betray Syria In Exchange For "Huge" Arms Deal

    "Saudi Arabia approached Putin with a proposal for a huge arms deal and a pledge to boost Russian influence in the Arab world if only Putin would abandon Syria's Assad." Putin declined.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-08/putin-laughs-saudi-offer-b...

  • mystery

    I really, really like Putin.

  • mystery

    Tyler Durden has some very good articles.

  • Roy Patterson

  • truth

    New poll: Syria intervention even less popular than Congress

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:49 AM

    A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has finally found something that Americans like even less than Congress: the possibility of U.S. military intervention in Syria. Only 9 percent of respondents said that the Obama administration should intervene militarily in Syria; a RealClearPolitics poll average finds Congress has a 15 percent approval rating, making the country’s most hated political body almost twice as popular.

    Information Minister : US has no evidence on Syria's use of chemical weapons

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:49 AM

    "Any aggression on Syria is illegitimate as the pretext for launching this aggression will be unfruitful, particularly that the UN team charged to investigate in the use of chemical weapons in Syria hasn't yet completed its mission and hasn't set its report," al-Zoubi said in an interview with al-Manar TV Channel on Monday.

    He reiterated that the "US has no evidence on Syria' use of chemical weapons because Syria did not use it", accusing the US of fabricating the evidence as it had already done in Iraq.

  • truth

    Military strikes on Syria 'as early as Thursday,' US officials say

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013 11:17 AM

    “If there is no action, we are afraid that in the coming days, not coming weeks, Bashar will use chemical weapons and chemical materials against very wide areas and, I’m afraid, to kill maybe 20,000 or 30,000 more people,” he told NBC News’ Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel.

  • truth

    Syria: Western Chemical Weapons Experts Cast Doubt on Obama Nerve Gas Claims

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:57 AM

    Dan Kaszeta, a former officer in the US Army's Chemical Corps, said tell-tale signs of a chemical weapons attack were conspicuously absent from footage shot in the aftermath of the attack.

    He said medics treating the victims would have been expected to suffer serious health problems after coming into direct and prolonged contact with the victims, in the absence of protective clothing.

    "None of the people treating the casualties or photographing them are wearing any sort of chemical-warfare protective gear," said Kaszeta.

    "Despite that, none of them seem to be harmed."

    UN Spurns US Call to Withdraw Syria Inspectors as War Looms

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:55 AM

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today rejected US demands to withdraw chemical weapons inspectors from Syria, with those familiar with the conversation saying he “stood firm on principle.”

    US and other Western officials are desperate to retain the narrative of Syrian chemical weapons use, and seem to be anticipating the UN investigation doing serious harm to that claim.

    That’s why after initial demands to allow inspectors into the site, the US suddenly reversed course when Syria agreed, insisting it was “too late.” Since then, officials have maintained that they are already convinced of Syria’s guilt because of media reports and rebel accounts, and are preparing to launch attacks in the next couple of weeks.

  • truth

    What is Obama's next step in Syria? Nuke our own ships and blame Iran?

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013 11:41 AM

    The US Government is trapped. Having gone this far into the "Clash of Civilizations" (Actually a war between private central banking and government-issued currency, the same war America fought and won during the revolution) the US is unable to turn around and return to status quo ante. This "dollarification" of the world was an all-or-nothing deal.

    Along with the realization that the world simply does not believe the US story about Assad, the White House has to realize that screaming about weapons of mass destruction is no longer a propaganda option they can use. Certainly it will not work with the planned war with Iran.

    What to do?

  • truth

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    Syria crisis: Russia and China step up warning over strike

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013 12:15 PM

    Russia and China have stepped up their warnings against military intervention in Syria, with Moscow saying any such action would have "catastrophic consequences" for the region.

    The US and its allies are considering launching strikes on Syria in response to deadly attacks last week.

    Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich has called on the international community to show "prudence" over the crisis and observe international law.

    "Attempts to bypass the Security Council, once again to create artificial groundless excuses for a military intervention in the region are fraught with new suffering in Syria and catastrophic consequences for other countries of the Middle East and North Africa," he said in a statement.

    Russian Deputy Premier Calls West ‘Monkey With Hand Grenade’

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013 12:10 PM

    A firebrand Russian nationalist-turned-senior official said Tuesday that the West was acting in the Islamic world like a “monkey with a hand grenade.”

    Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s former envoy to NATO, did not elaborate on his comparison, made on his Russian-language Twitter page.

    But Rogozin, who used to head a popular nationalist political party and now oversees Russia’s military industrial complex, has previously lambasted on Twitter the alleged plans of “Anglo-Saxons” to attack Syrian government forces.

    The United States may launch missile strikes against the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad as early as Thursday, NBC reported Tuesday.

  • Frances Farmer

    AFP

    Tuesday, August 27, 2013 5:53 PM GMT

    Iran's Defence Minister Hossein Dehqan warned Tuesday that any Western military action against its ally Syria would threaten the stability and security of the region.

    "In case of military action against Syria, the region's security and stability will be threatened," Dehqan said, quoted by the official IRNA news agency.

    "This definitely will not be in the interest of those fanning violence," the brigadier general said, referring to backers of the rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

  • Frances Farmer

    seems to have issued alert for security forces to be on maximum alert: (NB, dates in document are Hijri)

  • Frances Farmer

    Unconfirmed reports of a senior royal family member dead. Unclear if security alert (see below) due to this or (or both)

  • olde reb

    the USS Maine was a lie. (no mine involved)

    the HMS Lusitania sinking was a lie. (500 tons of counterban)

    Pearl Harbor was a lie. (code broken for 17 months)

    Korea was a lie (border raides for years)

    Bosnia was a lie (in and out in two months)

    Iraq was a lie (no WMD were there)

    Afghanstan was a lie (the US wants minerals, oil pipeline, and opium)

    Pakistan  shucks, we needed practice for the drones.

    Libya was a lie. they were too prosperous.

    It never ends.

  • Cryptocurrency

    Hey olde reb, would be super stellar if you could link examples to all of what you just said.

  • Frances Farmer

    About being to late:
    A delay in accessing the site is not believed to negatively affect the investigation. Speaking to journalists in New York, a UN spokesperson said that “with hundreds of human fatalities, the passage of such few days does not affect the opportunities to collect valuable samples and to perform witness interviews.”http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45708#.Uh2G6D8piRM

  • Cryptocurrency

  • Frances Farmer

    Israeli intelligence 'intercepted Syrian regime talk about chemical attack http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/israeli-intelligence-i...

  • Frances Farmer

    Russia Rejects US Claims on Syria: Situation Undermining Efforts

    "John Kerry put forward judgments which he said were based on information from reliable sources and according to which the Syrian government is to blame for the incidents with the probable use of chemical weapons," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement. "This argument was rejected by Sergei Lavrov, who put forward the corresponding position of the Russian side." http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=107919&cid=2...

  • Frances Farmer

    : says resolution to be put to UN Security Council later on Wednesday

  • Frances Farmer

    Jordan: No attacks on Syria from our soil

    "Jordan will not be a launching pad for any military action against Syria," said spokesman Mohammad Momani, who is also the country's information minister.

    He said Jordan prefers a "diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis" and called on the international community to "consolidate efforts in that regard."

    The remarks come a day after Jordan hosted a meeting of top commanders from Western and Middle Eastern countries, including some that are likely to participate in a military action. http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/08/28/2544133/jordan-no-attack-o...

  • truth

    Western Democracies And Criminal Interventionism

    Thursday, August 29, 2013 4:39 PM

    By Gilad Atzmon

    Brzezinski: ‘Global Political Awakening’ Making Syrian War Difficult

    Thursday, August 29, 2013 4:28 PM

    During a short interview with Germany’s DW News last Monday, former US National Security Adviser and Trilateral Commission co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski commented on the growing inefficiency of war due to the increased political knowledge of the public.

    NATO’s Assault on Syria: A Crime and a Mistake

    Thursday, August 29, 2013 4:22 PM

    Humanitarian imperialism at its finest

    A NATO attack on Syria seems almost inevitable, inexorably taking us all to witness one more criminal madness.

    Sensible advice on Syria | Norman G. Finkelstein

    Thursday, August 29, 2013 4:20 PM

    Even if Assad used chemical weapons, the west has no mandate to act as a global policeman

    By ordering air strikes against Syria without UN security council support, Obama will be doing the same as Bush in 2003

    Murder is Immoral. Ignoring it is immoral. United WE STRIKE! ... or more of the same.

    Thursday, August 29, 2013 4:19 PM

    Karen Quinn-Tostado

    I will never forget the photograph of the Kurdish Father, holding his baby Daughter, on the cover of time or news week magazine, poisoned and gassed under the regime of Saddam.

    Murder is Immoral.

    Ignoring murder is immoral.

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  • Frances Farmer

    Here's a link to the US government's unclassified report on the chemical weapons attack: (pdf)

    Note "We intercepted"rather than Israel" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/israeli-intelligence-i...

  • Frances Farmer

    I've yet to see any piece covering Kerry's comments today about what proof USG has re CW being used by Assad to mention the intercepts were Israel's rather than our own. I find that disturbing. We deserve to know if our gov't is acting on our own gov'ts intel or intel of another country. It goes back to that "special relationship." Our interests and those of Israel are not mutually inclusive. Those lines must not be blurred, IMO.

  • Frances Farmer

    http://rt.com/news/russia-us-syria-intelligence-236/ Washington’s statements threatening to use military force against Syria unilaterally are unacceptable, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.

    Given the lack of evidence, any unilateral military action bypassing the UN Security Council – “no matter how limited it is” – would be a direct violation of international law and would undermine the prospects for a political and diplomatic solution to the conflict in Syria and will lead to a new round of confrontation and victims, Lukashevich concludes.

    DETAILS TO FOLLOW

  • Central Scrutinizer

  • Maria De Wind

    Obama's choice

    2013

     

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    One of Obama's friends

    The choice is perfectly simple: President Barack Obama will show he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, or else insult it and all its long list of proud holders, tarnishing the Nobel Institution, spitting in the face of humankind, disrespecting the will of his people, who are today in syntony with the hearts and minds of the international community.

    If Barack Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, he is intelligent enough to have accepted it knowing that it came with a tacit agreement that Washington would turn away from a bloodthirsty and failed policy of trying to import democracy from 30,000 feet, strafing civilian structures with military hardware, murdering men, women and children indiscriminately, destroying electricity grids, water supply networks, attacking schools, hospitals and children's homes with "precision weaponry".

    This policy has earned the United States of America the very worst reputation in the hearts and minds of the international community, a reputation which in the last decade has morphed into a seething, white-faced, clenched-fist hatred, translated into so many American travelers claiming to be Canadians when they travel abroad.

    Since business and dollars and the bottom line are the only things that seem to hold any meaning for those who dictate US policy, then let us also point out that moves are under way to boycott US goods, and the companies which sell them, which will signify the loss of millions of jobs for US citizens, ....Source and more...

  • Roy Patterson

    The Report I read, from a reliable source, a long time NPR reporter, in the middle east was the following:" Saudi Arabia had given the chemical weapons to the rebels and they accidentally used them". The Syrian government did not use any chemical weapons. Both Obama and the Secratary of State are both Liers with the news media following along like sheep.

  • Maria De Wind

    Female Veteran Arrested and Brutalized After No War With Syria Rally

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    List of countries bombed by the United States under the pretext of establishing democracy since the end of World War II:
    - China 1945-1946
    - Korea 1950-1953
    - China 1950-1953
    - Guatemala 1954
    - Indonesia 1958
    - Cuba 1959-1960
    - Guatemala 1960
    - Belgian Congo 1964
    - Guatemala 1964
    - Dominican Republic 1965-1966
    - Peru 1965
    - Laos 1964-1973
    - Vietnam 1961-1973
    - Cambodia 1969-1970
    - Guatemala 1967-1969
    - Lebanon 1982-1984
    - Grenada 1983-1984
    - Libya 1986
    - El Salvador 1981-1992
    - Nicaragua 1981-1990
    - Iran 1987-1988
    - Libya 1989
    - Panama 1989-1990
    - Iraq 1991
    - Kuwait 1991
    - Somalia 1992-1994
    - Bosnia 1995
    - Iran, 1998
    - Sudan, 1998
    - Afghanistan, 1998
    - Serbia 1999
    - Afghanistan, 2001
    - Iraq in 2003
    - Libya 2011

    Answer this question :
    How many times was democracy recognized by these American military interventions?

    STOP THE MADNESS! STOP THE SLAUGHTER!
    DEMAND NO WAR WITH SYRIA!

  • Maria De Wind

  • Nobody Will Observe

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  • Nikki

  • Nikki

    Just whose war is this? asks Pat Buchanan.
    Why, Israel’s, of course.
  • Maria De Wind

  • Nobody Will Observe

  • truth

  • truth

    Media blacks out Seymour Hersh exposé of US lies on Syrian gas attack

    http://j.mp/R0Sfdn