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Facing total economic meltdown at home US/UK, spear-heading NATO, have chosen the path of confrontation with the rest of the world, a path which will lead us to the brink of war with Russia and China
Posted by seumasach on May 31, 2014
Voltairenet
30th May, 2014
Syrian refugees in Lebanon had the opportunity to cast their ballots in the Syrian presidential elections as early as Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 May 2014 at their country’s Embassy in Beirut.
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Posted by seumasach on May 30, 2014
Voltairenet
28th May, 2014
A large Russian delegation arrived in Damascus last week. It was headed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and comprised Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak and Alexander Fomin, Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation.
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Posted by seumasach on May 28, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
27th May, 2014
The US president Barack Obama has made up his mind about the American troop presence in Afghanistan beyond end-2014. The figure is 9800. But the figure will come down by half by the end of next year and by end-2016, all troops will have been withdrawn, leaving only the security squads that ensure the protection of the American embassy. (Reuters).
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Posted by seumasach on May 23, 2014
Before clinching the deal, Iran required Meshaal to publicly endorse Iran’s policy in Syria and his support for Bashar Assad.
The Hamas politburo chief accordingly stated in Doha Thursday night that he “welcomed the position of Tehran toward Syria,” adding: “We will never forget Syrian President Bashar Al- Assad’s support for the Palestinian nation.”
Debka
23rd May, 2014
The Palestinian Hamas terrorist group has been restored to the Iranian fold and won the promise of an annual allowance of $200 million per year, military assistance and advanced weapons on a par with the hardware supplied to Jihad Islami. DEBKAfile’s sources report that this deal was secretly sealed in Doha on Thursday, May 22, at a meeting between Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Hamas’s politburo head Khaled Mashaal.
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Posted by seumasach on May 7, 2014
Saudi Arabia Says it Dismantled a Major Terrorist Organization
Arutz Sheva
7th May, 2014
Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday it had dismantled a major “terrorist organization” with links to extremist elements in Syria and Yemen, Al Arabiya reports.
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Posted by seumasach on May 6, 2014
Voltairenet
5th May, 2014
A cease-fire was reached between Syria and the mercenaries who occupy the Old City of Homs allowing for its evacuation and leading to the total liberation of the city.
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Posted by seumasach on May 6, 2014
Voltairenet
5th May, 2014
Syria’s High Constitutional Court announced that only three candidacy applications for the presidential elections had garnered the support of at least 35 MPs.
The three validated candidates are:
Maher Abdel Hafez Hajjar MP (Communist leanings)
Hassan Abdallah al-Nouri (former Minister of State for Administrative Development Affairs, and a member of the internal opposition)
Bashar al-Assad (outgoing President of the Republic, President of the secular Baath Party).
The election will be held on June 3.
The new Electoral Code provides each candidate with funding, personal police protection, and access to media.
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Posted by seumasach on May 3, 2014
Cristoph Germann
Boiling Frogs Post
2nd May, 2014
Edward Bernays once famously promoted the “conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses” through the use of propaganda, which he considered an “important element in democratic society”.[1] Today’s so-called “liberal democracies” are testament to Bernays’ assertion. The “father of public relations” demonstrated early on that propaganda can be used for many different purposes, from selling cars to selling wars. Especially the latter has become the primary task of media in the United States and other NATO countries in recent years. With Iraq still burning, Western media played a decisive role in turning Libya and Syria into failed states as well. The propaganda was never particularly sophisticated. After “Saddam has weapons of mass destruction” came “Gaddafi is killing his own people” and eventually “Assad is like Hitler”. But mainstream media reporting got even worse during the Ukraine crisis and this could have unforeseen consequences for those in power.
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Posted by seumasach on April 30, 2014
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
28th April, 2014
While NATO member states and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC ) persist in presenting Syria as a dictatorship, the country continues its reforms. On June 3, it will elect its President of the Republic, while the war continues to ravage a part of its territory. Damascus is doing everything possible to ensure that this election is democratic and blameless, while its attackers have instructed their media to minimize the coverage and their jihadists to disrupt the procedings.
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Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2014
Under pressure from John Kerry, he was divested of the Syria dossier in February 2014.
Voltairenet
17th April, 2014
Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has, by royal decree, been relieved of his duties as national security adviser and director of Saudi intelligence services. According to the national news agency, the decision was made “at his request.”
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2014
“All global and regional indicators underline how Assad is there to stay. Change will come only under his leadership or his guidance. The sooner the United States realizes this the better for all concerned parties.”
Nicola Nasser
Asia Times
11th April, 2014
Long gone are the days when the so-called “Friends of Syria” could plausibly claim that two thirds of Syria was controlled by rebel forces, that Damascus was under siege and that the days of President Bashar al-Assad were numbered.
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