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Russia ready to send observers to Syria – foreign minister

Posted by seumasach on December 7, 2011

RiaNovosti

7th December, 2011

Russia proposed on Wednesday sending its monitors to Syria as part of international efforts to settle the nine-month old political crisis in the Arab country.

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Thierry Meyssan Reporting from Syria

Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2011

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Britain rules out military intervention in Syria

Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2011

Surely reason hasn’t prevailed- or has it? Are the Brits chickening out of WW3? Let’s hope so!

LONDON – The most senior security policy adviser to British Prime Minister David Camerontold a committee of the Houses of Parliament on Monday that it was highly unlikely that there would be any British military intervention in Syria.

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Russia supplies cruise missiles to Syria

Posted by seumasach on December 5, 2011

RT

2nd December, 2011

Fulfilling a contract signed in 2007, Russia has supplied Bastion coastal missile systems with Yakhont cruise missiles to Syria under a contract signed in 2007, a diplomatic source in Moscow has told Russian media.

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Syria has WMDs or how they learned to love the lie

Posted by seumasach on December 3, 2011

Pinheiro Report against Syria is as truthful as the tale of ‘weapons of mass destruction in Iraq’

by Nathaniel Braia

Pravda

3rd December, 2011

The recent “report” of the Commission of inquiry on Syria by the UN Human Rights Council stands for its bombastic accusations against the Syrian government, but entirely omitted to present material evidence, or evidence corroborating the charges. It is based upon testimony from unidentified, unqualified people. The “investigative” method used is no different than the “cover” provided by the western corporate media wtih “information” that is without confirmation as to its truthfulness, yet repeated to exhaustion nevertheless.

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Russia deploying warships in Syria

Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2011

M.K.Bhadrakumar

28th November, 2011

Russia is deploying warships at its base in Syria. The battle group includes aircraft carrying missile cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov. The deployment is being projected as pre-planned and having no relation to the current tensions in Syria, but it follows the US move to station the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group with support vessels off Syria. Speculation is mounting about a western ‘humanitarian intervention’ in Syria.

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Media lies used to provide a pretext for another “humanitarian war”

Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2011

Julie Levesque

Global Research

29th November

Media Lies Used to Provide a Pretext for Another “Humanitarian War”: Protest in Syria: Who Counts the Dead?

According to numerous reports from the Western media, human rights organisation, as well as the UN, countless peaceful civilians have been killed by the Syrian forces since the beginning of the unrest in the country in mid March. But where do the numbers come from?

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Millions Gather in Syria’s Squares to oppose Arab League and Western intervention

Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2011

Millions Gather in Syria’s Squares to Express Condemnation of Arab League Decisions and Reject Foreign Interference Photographic Evidence: People against US-NATO R2P

Global Research

29th November, 2011

Millions of Syrians flooded the squares of Syrian cities and towns on Monday, gathering in Damascus, Aleppo, Hasaka, Deri Ezzor, Raqqa, Sweida and Tartous to proclaim their rejection of the Arab League’s conspiring decisions against Syria, pledging to protect Syria at any cost.

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Goebbel’s disciples tackle Syria

Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2011

Domenico Losurdo

Voltairenet

23rd November, 2011

Professor Domenico Losurdo pinpoints several inconsistencies in the Western rhetoric against Syria. They reveal that the problem is not where we think it is and that the discourse aims to justify a war, not to report the facts.

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Lies and truths about Syria

Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

28th November, 2011

For eight months, Western leaders and some public media have been agitating for a war in Syria. The extremely serious accusations leveled against Assad intimidate those who question the justification for a new military intervention. But not everyone, because – on the initiative of Voltaire Network – some came to Syria to investigate for themselves and were able to measure the extent of NATO’s propaganda. Thierry Meyssan reports on the state of the media war.

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The rise of Qatar and the fall of Gaddafi

Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2011

Sergei Balmasov

Pravda

29th November, 2011

The year 2011 can be called “the year of Qatar.” The events in Syria and Libya are particularly clear demonstration of the emergence of new regional powers, whose names until recently were not familiar to ordinary people.

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