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Une guerre contre la liberté religeuse

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Turkey main target of anti-Syria campaign: Kamalak

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2012

PressTV

10th August, 2012

The leader of Turkey’s Felicity Party, Mustafa Kamalak, has warned that his country is the main target of the campaign against neighboring Syria.

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Al-Qaeda to fill in Kofi’s void in Syria

Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2012

M.K.Bhadrakumar

7th August, 2012

For all those pundits in our strategic community who religiously take the word from the Council of Foreign Relations in New York as the Bhagavad Gita, this must come as a terrible shock — an argumentative piece by a senior fellow of the CFR justifying the logic of using the Salafist fighters as instrument of US policy to bring about ‘regime change’ in Syria. The argument runs like this:

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Clinton to pep up Turkey’s Erdogan

Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2012

M.K.Bhadrakumar

9th August, 2012

 

Both Russia and China have decided to move on with life and leave the Syrian killing fields open to the brave lads — or idiots, depending on how you look at life — from Turkey, United States, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Russian and Chinese assessments are strikingly similar, namely, that a civil war has commenced in right earnest and the outcome of it, if at all, will only be known in the fulness of time.

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Iran’s new summit diplomacy

Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2012

Kaveh Afrasiabi

Asia Times

10th August, 2012

August is a crucial month in Iran’s diplomatic calendar for 2012. If it plays its cards right, Tehran could see big dividends for its counter-sanction and regional strategies.

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France deploys troops to Syria-Jordan border

Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2012

PressTV

9th August, 2012

France has sent troops to the Syrian border with Jordan amid reports of escalating foreign support for the insurgents fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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27 world countries attending Tehran Conference on Syria

Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2012

Fars News Agency

9th August, 2012

TEHRAN (Source: FNA)- Representatives of 27 world and regional states as well as the UN envoy to Tehran are participating in the international consultative conference on the developments in Syria, which started work here in Tehran on Thursday.

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Petraeus VP talk bubbles to surface

Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2012

Petraeus as VP would offer continuity on CIA- backed subversion in Middle East as well as the option of backing away in the likely event of its failure.

Union Leader

8th August, 2012

WASHINGTON — The White House and Central Intelligence Agency moved quickly Tuesday to deny reports that President Barack Obama told a supporter that he believed his presidential campaign opponent, Republican Mitt Romney, had selected CIA Director David Petraeus as his running mate.

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Christ almighty! US foreign policy vs. Middle Eastern Christianity

Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2012

Justin Raimondo

Antiwar.com

8th August, 2012

The US State Department has quietly ceased cataloging violations of religious freedom in its “Country Reports on Human Rights.” Of course, it’s just a coincidence that this comes at a time when Washington isallying with radical Islamists in Libya, Syria, and Iraq. As CNS reports:

The U.S. State Department removed the sections covering religious freedom from the Country Reports on Human Rights that it released on May 24, three months past the statutory deadline Congress set for the release of these reports.

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Washington’s proxy in Syria: Al Qaeda

Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2012

WSWS

9th August, 2012

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday issued a warning against anyone “attempting to exploit the misery of the Syrian people, either by sending in proxies or sending in terrorist fighters.” She insisted that such actions would “not be tolerated.”

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Israel supports regime change in Syria: Israeli spy chief

Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2012

PressTV

8th August, 2012

The Israeli spy chief says Tel Aviv supports regime change in Syria, amid ongoing efforts by the anti-Syria governments to oust President Bashar al-Assad.

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