Syria

Obama’s Last Stand Against War On Syria

November 5, 2016 Joe Lauria, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! Barack Obama, Syria, Wars and Militarism

By Joe Lauria for Consortium News - For five years, President Obama has resisted neocon/liberal-interventionist pressure to go to war against Syria, but – as his departure grows near – the hawks see more “regime change” wars coming into view, says Joe Lauria Through five years of war in Syria, President Obama has been in a constant internal struggle with hawks in his administration who want the U.S. to directly intervene militarily to overthrow the Syrian government.

US Uranium Weapons Have Been Used In Syria

November 1, 2016 John LaForge, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Syria, Uranium, weapons

By John LaForge for Counter Punch - This month, the Pentagon admitted it has used uranium weapons in attacks inside Syria — violating its public promise last year that it would not use DU there, and contradicting the claim that US bombing is done in defense of the Syrian people, according to the Int’l Campaign to Ban Uranium Weapons. Like the Pentagon’s past denials of the dangers of the chemical weapon Agent Orange, US military officials still claim publicly that its uranium weapons are not known to cause health problems.

Media Roll Out Welcome Mat For ‘Humanitarian’ War In Syria

October 31, 2016 Belén Fernández, www.fair.org Strategize! Hillary Clinton, Syria, Wars and Militarism

By Belén Fernández for FAIR - As she marches toward the US presidency, Hillary Clinton has stepped up her promotion of the idea that a no-fly zone in Syria could “save lives” and “hasten the end of the conflict” that has devastated that country since 2011. It has now been revealed, of course, that Clinton hasn’t always expressed the same optimism about the no-fly zone in private. The Intercept (10/10/16) reported on Clinton’s recently leaked remarks in a closed-door speech to Goldman Sachs in 2013

Tomgram: Hartung – Doctrine Of Armed Exceptionalism

October 30, 2016 William Hartung, www.tomdispatch.com Educate! Afghanistan, Elections, Syria, Wars and Militarism

By William Hartung for Tom Dispatch. War, what is it good for? In America, the answer is that, much of the time, you’ll probably never know what it's good for -- or, in some cases, even notice that we’re at war. Right now, the U.S. is ever more deeply involved in significant conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Libya, and increasingly Yemen -- at least five ongoing wars in the Greater Middle East. Yet, in the midst of Election 2016, with the single exception of the long-proclaimed, long-awaited Iraqi-Kurdish offensive against Islamic State militants in the city of Mosul (with U.S. advisers on the frontlines and U.S. Apache helicopter crews in the air), the rest of our spreading military actions might as well be taking place on Mars.

A Courageous Syrian Collective Challenges Both ISIS And Assad In Raqqa

October 29, 2016 Sarah Aziza, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! ISIS, Syria

By Sarah Aziza for Waging Nonviolence - Just hours after Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced that the United States is preparing to launch an offensive against the Syrian city of Raqqa, Abdalaziz Alhamza, a 25-year-old Raqqa native, spoke to a New York City audience about his hometown. Before the Islamic State captured the city in 2014, he recalled, few people outside of Syria had heard of Raqqa, “but now, most people hear about our city as the capital of ISIS.”

Syria’s “Voice Of Conscience” Has A Message For The West

October 27, 2016 Murtaza Hussain and Marwan Hisham, www.theintercept.com Resist! Syria, West

By Murtaza Hussain and Marwan Hisham for The Intercept - YASSIN AL-HAJ SALEH has lived a life of struggle for his country. Under the Syrian regime of Hafez al-Assad, he was a student activist organizing against the government. In 1980, Saleh and hundreds of others were arrested and accused of membership in a left-wing political group. He was just 19 years old when a closed court found him guilty of crimes against the state. Saleh spent the next 16 years of his life behind bars.

The White Helmet Controversy

October 25, 2016 Rick Sterling, www.truepublica.org.uk Educate! Propaganda, Syria

By Rick Sterling for True Publica – Unknown to most people, the White Helmets brand was conceived and directed by a marketing company named “The Syria Campaign” based in New York. They have managed to fool millions of people. Walt Disney might have made a great movie about this: unarmed volunteers fearlessly rescuing survivors in the midst of war without regard to religion or politics. Like most other “true life” Disney movies, it is 10% reality, 90% fiction.

Newsletter: Time To Stop The Next War Now

October 23, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Afghanistan, Anti-war Movement, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Libya, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Wars and Militarism

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. There is another drumbeat growing for the United States to go to war. The media is walking in lockstep with bi-partisans in Washington, DC and with the war profiteers to this end. The likely next president, Hillary Clinton, is calling for escalation in Syria with a no fly zone that risks conflict with Russia, a nation she has been demonizing.Gulf of Tonkin How often has the United States been misled into war? How often have the people of the United States been lied to about the need for war, e.g. using a “humanitarian crisis” to justify mass slaughter and the creation of a failed state as in Libya; Weapons of Mass Destruction that did not exist in Iraq leading to a war that created much of the chaos that exists in the region today; and the 9/11 attack that has led to the longest war in US history when it should have led to the arrest of the prime suspect, Osama bin Laden, and his trial in the Hague.

Risk Of Clinton’s Syrian ‘No Fly Zone’

October 23, 2016 Dennis Kucinich, www.worldbeyondwar.org Organize! Peace, Syria, Wars and Militarism

By Dennis Kucinich for World Beyond War. The most consequential statement by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Wednesday night’s debate was her pronouncement that a no-fly zone over Syria could “save lives and hasten the end of the conflict,” that a no-fly zone would provide “safe zones on the ground” was in “the best interests of the people on the ground in Syria” and would “help us with our fight against ISIS.” It would do none of the above. A U.S. attempt to impose a no-fly zone in Syria would, as Secretary Clinton once cautioned a Goldman Sachs audience, “kill a lot of Syrians,” and, according to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dunford, lead to a war with Russia. If the U.S. has not been invited into a country to establish a “no-fly zone” such an action is, in fact, an invasion, an act of war.

Syria And The Left: Time To Break The Silence

October 22, 2016 Eric Draitser, www.counterpunch.org Strategize! Syria

By Eric Draitser for Counter Punch - The cold, hard reality of the war in Syria is that the violence, bloodshed, and chaos continues unabated while the Left, such as it is, continues on in a state of schizophrenic madness. Different points of view, conflicting ideological tendencies, and a misunderstanding of the reality of the conflict are all relevant issues to be interrogated, with civility and reasoned debate in short supply. But those issues are not the urgent task of this article

United States Hands Off Syria Campaign

October 16, 2016 Staff of Hands Off Syria, www.handsoffsyriacoalition.net Organize! Syria, Wars and Militarism

By Staff of Hands Off Syria. We raise our voices against the violence of war and the enormous pressure of war propaganda, lies and hidden agendas that are used to justify this war and every past U.S. war. We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, endorse the following Points of Unity and will work together as an Ad Hoc Coalition to help put an end to the regime change intervention by the United States, NATO and their regional allies and the killing of innocent people in Syria. Only in a peaceful and independent Syria, free of foreign aggression, can the people of Syria freely exercise their sovereign rights, express their free will and make free choices about their government and their country’s leadership. We invite all supporters of peace and peoples’ right to self-determination around the world to join hands of cooperation in this effort to achieve these most humanitarian demands.

New ‘Group Think’ For War With Syria/Russia

October 7, 2016 Robert Parry, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! Russia, Syria, US Foreign Policy

By Robert Parry for Consortium News - Not since the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq has Official Washington’s political/punditry class clamored more single-mindedly – and openly – for the U.S. government to commit a gross violation of international law, now urging a major military assault on the government of Syria while also escalating tensions with nuclear-armed Russia.

Inside Shadowy PR Firm That’s Lobbying For Regime Change In Syria

October 5, 2016 Max Blumenthal, www.alternet.org Educate! Lobbying, PR, Syria

By Max Blumenthal for AlterNet - On September 30, demonstrators gathered in city squares across the West for a "weekend of action” to “stop the bombs” raining down from Syrian government and Russian warplanes on rebel-held eastern Aleppo. Thousands joined the protests, holding signs that read "Topple Assad" and declaring, "Enough With Assad." Few participants likely knew that the actions were organized under the auspices of an opposition-funded public relations company called the Syria Campaign.

Syria: False Claims In Western “News”

September 30, 2016 Moon Of Alabama, www.informationclearinghouse.info Educate! Propaganda, Syria

By Moon Of Alabama for Information Clearing House - The White House and State Department are miffed that Syria and Russia are cleaning up their Jihadis in Aleppo city. There is a false claims evolving in western "news" that the current Aleppo operation led to the breakdown of the ceasefire agreement. Two points on this: 1. The ceasefire did not "break down". It expired after a previously agreed period. Both sides did not agree to a prolongation. 2. The most important ceasefire point was the physical separation of al-Qaida and other U.S. proxy rebels. The U.S. was unable (or unwilling) to fulfill that point. The main priority in Syria, according to the document, is the demarcation of territory controlled by Daesh and al-Nusra Front terrorist groups and territories controlled by Syrian rebels.After the end of the ceasefire the U.S. and its subaltern allies are flooding Syria with new weapons

Was It Mutiny? U.S. Rulers Split Over Syria

September 27, 2016 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Syria, US Foreign Policy

By Glen Ford for Black Agenda Report - The decades-long U.S. policy of deploying Islamic jihadists as foot soldiers in U.S. imperial wars -- the world’s most unholy alliance -- has led to a catastrophic split at the highest civilian and military levels of the U.S. State. Last weekend’s American air attack on Syrian Army positions at Deir al-Zor that killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers and resulted in a temporary victory for ISIS forces was a blatant bid by the Pentagon and the CIA to sabotage any prospect of cooperation between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria.

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