Archive for the ‘Drive to Global War’ Category
Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2013
Voltairenet
23rd August, 2013
According to the Free Syrian Army, the Syrian authorities have bombarded the ghoutta, a suburb of Damascus, with sarin gas, Wednesday, August 21, 2013, resulting in a total of 1700 deaths. This announcement was immediately commented on by German, British and French authorities who have called an emergency meeting of the Security Council so that UN observers can be allowed to investigate. All of this information is taken over by the Atlanticist media as a certainty, the conditional being formally employed to allow investigators time to report evidence in the West.
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Posted by seumasach on August 21, 2013
RT
21st August, 2013
Reports by “biased regional media” about alleged chemical weapons use near Damascus might be “a provocation planned in advance,” says Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Aleksandr Lukashevich.
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Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2013
“With regard to Syria, the US is yet to deliver on its promise to send weapons to Syrian rebels after the White House in June concluded that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government used chemical weapons.”
“Also limiting Washington’s options is the fact that Americans have no taste for overseas conflicts after a brutal war in Iraq and more than a decade in Afghanistan.”
DNA India
20th August, 2013
Spiralling violence has engulfed Cairo and has spread nationwide after the recent military takeover of power from the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2013
Russia: Preliminary Meeting for International Conference on Syria Will Be Held Next Week
Fars News Agency
20th August, 2013
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Gennady Gatilov, said that the US-Russian preliminary meeting for the international conference on Syria in Geneva will be held in the Hague next week.
ITAR-TASS quoted Gatilov as saying that the meeting will be held on the level of deputy foreign ministers.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN envoy to Syria, will take part in the meeting.
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Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2013
Archbishop of Sebastia: Those, who set fire to churches in Egypt also destroy Syria
Syria News
18th August, 2013
The Archbishop of Sebastia from the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Theodosios (Atallah Hanna) of Sebastia, made several statements about the current violence and chaos in Egypt as well as about the Syrian conflict and the gruesome deeds of the Takfiri groups in both Arab states in a meeting with figures from the occupied area of Jerusalem (al-Quds).
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Posted by seumasach on August 17, 2013
[The FSA, increasingly controlled by the US via Saudi Arabia, is now engaged in battle against jihadists formerly supported by the US via Turkey and Qatar.This reformed FSA will presumably attend the Geneva2 conference representing “the rebels” although not the ones they’re now eliminating.]
Middle East Online
15th August, 2013
BEIRUT – A jihadist group has expelled rebel Free Syrian Army fighters from their positions in the northern city of Raqa, a watchdog reported on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on August 17, 2013
[Although widely unnoticed the shift in US policy in the region is deep and far-reaching. This back down by Turkey is one result of it, the marginalisation of Qatar, Hamas and the the Muslim Brotherhood is another. The stage is being set for the Geneva 2 conference.]
Voice of America
16th August, 2013
ISTANBUL — Earlier this month, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan openly criticized al-Qaida-linked terrorist groups operating in Syria. Previously, Turkey’s government had been reluctant to criticize such groups, and has been frequently accused of supporting them tacitly, if not openly. But Ankara now appears to be distancing itself from them.
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Posted by seumasach on August 13, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
The best outcome of the ‘2 plus 2′ — foreign ministers plus defence ministers — Russian-American meeting in Washington on Friday could be, arguably, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s disclosure that the US side “confirmed” at the meeting that President Barack Obama did not cancel but merely postponed his ‘bilateral’ with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, which was expected to take place in Moscow early September during his Russia visit in connection with the G20 at St.Petersburg.
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Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2013
Pierre Khalaf
Voltairenet
29th July, 2013
De la Syrie à l’Égypte en passant par la Tunisie et la Libye, les peuples arabes se soulèvent contre la terreur des Frères musulmans et des autres mouvements islamistes extrémistes, qui ont volé leurs révolutions avec l’appuie de l’Occident et d’Israël et tentent d’étouffer leurs aspirations à coups de massacres, d’assassinats politiques, de violences physiques et de terrorisme intellectuel.
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Posted by seumasach on August 6, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
6th August, 2013
After the removal of the Emir of Qatar by the United States and his abdication in favor of his son Tamim, the situation in North Africa and the Middle East has evolved rapidly. To Washington’s surprise, the Egyptian military has chosen this moment to overthrow President Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brother sponsored by Doha. As a result, the loss of Qatari support turned into a rout of the Brothers who also feel threatened in Tunisia, Libya and Gaza.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2013
The International News
4th August, 2013
LONDON: Pakistani Shia organisations have called on the British government to stop funding Al-Qaeda inspired fighters in Syria who have attacked the shrines of the Islam’s holiest figures including the shrine of Hazrat Zainab (AS), the granddaughter of Prophet Muhamamd (Peace Be Upon Him).
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