Syria

Do Syrian Rebels Have Sarin Gas?

September 19, 2013 Staff, www.rt.com Educate! Syria, Wars and Militarism

" I have a report from a source who has direct connections with classified information and he basically told me that [the] US military did an assessment based upon 50 indicators and clandestine interviews that the sourcing of sarin originated out of Iraq and into Turkey before some of it was confiscated in May in Turkey. He believes that since that report was disseminated in August in 2013, that there has actually been a more significant amount of sarin production both in Iraq and in Turkey going to the opposition, principally Al-Qaeda and Al-Nusra."

What Is Syria Really About?

September 18, 2013 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Syria, Wars and Militarism

Syria is really about Iran. Syria is the strongest ally for Iran in the region and by changing the leadership of Syria, i.e. removing Assad, the United States will isolate Iran in the region. Obama says Assad's "days are numbered. It's a matter not of if, but when. Now, can we accelerate that? We're working with the world community to try to do that. It is complicated by the fact that Syria is a much bigger, more sophisticated, and more complicated country than Libya . . ." Libya did not turn out well for Libyans, the country is in chaos, but it gave the US what it wanted, regime change and Libya no longer being a challenge to US Empire interests.

McCain Feels A ‘Little Lonely’ Because Nobody Wants To Attack Syria

September 17, 2013 David Edwards, www.rawstory.com Educate! Syria, Wars and Militarism

"Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said on Monday that he “felt a little lonely from time to time” because most of his colleagues did not want to use U.S. military force against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria. During an interview on MSNBC, host Mika Brzezinski told the Arizona Republican that it seemed like he was standing alone because Congress had been prepared to vote against military strikes and polls showed that Americans were not in favor of taking action. “You know, it’s felt a little lonely from time to time,” McCain admitted, pointing out that former President Harry Truman’s approval rating sunk down to the 20s during the Korean War."

The CIA, The Press And Black Propaganda

September 17, 2013 Doug Valentine, www.counterpunch.org Educate! CIA, Syria, Vietnam, Wars and Militarism

Simply stated, black propaganda is one of many criminal but legally deniable things the CIA does. It often involves committing a heinous crime and blaming it on an enemy by planting false evidence, and then getting a foreign newspaper to print the CIA’s scripted version of events, which sympathetic journalists in America broadcast to the gullible public. In the case of Syria, the CIA is using cooked Israeli “intelligence” as a catalyst – which is why, as Johnstone and Bricmont explain, the “intelligence” is so “dubious.” Black propaganda has other “intelligence” applications as well, and is often used to recruit informants, and create deserters and defectors.

UN Issues Chemcial Weapons Report

September 16, 2013 Staff, www.un.org Educate! Syria

A United Nations team probing the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria has found “clear and convincing evidence” that Sarin gas was used in an incident that occurred on 21 August in the Ghouta area on the outskirts of Damascus and which reportedly killed hundreds of people. “The report makes for chilling reading,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reportersfollowing a closed-door briefing to the Security Council on the team’s work, which concludes that on the basis of evidence obtained during its investigation, “chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in [Syria], also against civilians, including children, on a relatively large scale.”

White House Mum on Rebel Chem Weapons Use

September 15, 2013 Bryant Jordan, www.military.com Educate! Syria, Wars and Militarism

The news report contradicts the narrative currently being laid out by Obama administration in an official assessment, not only in terms of who was responsible for the sarin deaths, but in the number of casualties. MintPress' reports the deaths at "more than 355" -- the figure arrived at by Doctors Without Borders, which treated victims of gas exposure at three hospitals in Damascus. The U.S. assessment, laid out in a 4-page unclassified brief released Aug. 30, claims that 1,429 people were killed … including at least 426 children. British intelligence reports a death toll of "at least 350," while the French put the number at 281, according to multiple press reports.

Chomsky: Syria Descends Into Suicide, Israel & US Enjoy The Spectacle

September 14, 2013 Noam Chomsky and Frank Barat, www.ceasefiremagazine.co.uk Educate! Chomsky, Human Rights, Palestine, Syria, Wars and Militarism

"Well, Syria is descending into suicide. It’s a horror story and getting worse and worse. There’s no bright spot on the horizon[...]. Meanwhile, Israel is looking by and enjoying the spectacle. If you look at the New York Times this morning there’s a quote by an Israeli official essentially expressing their joy at watching Arabs slaughter each other[...]For the United States, that’s fine, they don’t want an outcome either."

While US Demands Syria Disarm, CIA Arms Rebels

September 13, 2013 Ernesto Londoño and Greg Miller, www.washingtonpost.com Educate! Syria, Wars and Militarism

The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials and Syrian figures. The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear — a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria’s civil war. The arms shipments, which are limited to light weapons and other munitions that can be tracked, began arriving in Syria at a moment of heightened tensions over threats by President Obama to order missile strikes to punish the regime of Bashar al-Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons in a deadly attack near Damascus last month.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – In The Midst Of A Transformational Moment

September 13, 2013 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Democracy, Education, Finance and the Economy, Syria, Wars and Militarism

This week, we focus on one of the fundamentals for the advancement of all societies, and certainly a foundation for the development of all movements – youth organizing for better education and a more just world. When we think back to other successful movements in the U.S. and around the world, youth have been a key force as they challenge old ideas and bring energy to new ones. We saw the beginning of the youth movement in Occupy which, while multi-generational, was energized by youth mistreated by two decades of government that cut services and privatized everything for the benefit of the wealthy. The success of stopping a war and youth activism among other signs are showing that we may be at one of those moments in history where a dramatic political shift is occurring. We may be in the midst of major change, and not even realize it, as so often transformations are only evident when they are behind us.

Questions About Human Rights Watch And Syria

September 13, 2013 Harel B., www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Syria, Wars and Militarism

Human Rights Watch has come out stating that it "strongly" believes that the Syrian government was behind the August 21 2013 chemical attacks, countering the mounting evidence that rebels did it (evidence which it does not mention, at least not in its extended overview) with its own "evidence" -- the following is from HRW's own website summary, presumably the strongest evidence is at least summarized there, let's look at what it says: 1) The rockets used to deliver the weapons were ones which "Human Rights Watch and arms experts [which ones?] monitoring the use of weapons in Syria have not documented Syrian opposition forces to be" in possession of. Come again, HRW? You "have not documented" rebels to be in possession of these rockets? And that's enough to "Strongly suggest" that the Syrian government did this?

Syria’s Nonviolent Resistance Is Dying To Be Heard

September 12, 2013 Rania Khalek, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! Syria, Wars and Militarism

Typically ignored in that conversation are the voices of the non-violent opposition movement that took to the streets to challenge Assad in March 2011, and which has persisted against great odds. "No matter how beleaguered it is, civil resistance continues," says Mohja Kahf, a Professor of Middle East studies and literature at the University of Arkansas and a member of the Syrian Non Violence Movement (SNVM). A network of peaceful groups remains active in opposition to the regime inside Syria. Many in the antiwar left ignore the grassroots base of the Syrian uprising, viewing it "only through the endgame of geopolitics," a narrative that turns the uprising into "nothing but the proxy of U.S. imperialism" -- a view she strenuously rejects. Instead, she and others argue that making sense of Syria, today more than ever, demands that more attention be paid to the opposition voices of Syrian civil society whose voices have been increasingly drowned out by the sounds of war.

Veterans’ Group Responds to President Obama’s Call to War

September 12, 2013 Straff, www.veteransforpeace.org Resist! Syria, Wars and Militarism

The Veterans For Peace statement while condemning, “the use of all chemical weapons, as well as the targeting of civilians with conventional weapons” also strongly opposes U.S. military intervention, “whether direct or indirect, in the civil war that is currently raging in Syria.” Pressing the president to pursue recent diplomatic opportunities provided by Russia and Syria that will lead to disposal of Syria’s chemical weapons, the group states that if the current initiative fails, diplomacy and holding those accountable via following international law is the answer to the crisis - “not U.S. military intervention which will certainly lead to more lives lost.”

VIDEO: Acronym TV Weekly Resistance Report 007

September 12, 2013 Denis Trainor, Jr,. AcronymTV, www.popularresistance.org Resistance Report Corporatism, Democracy, Syria, TPP, Video, Wars and Militarism

Stories covered in this Resistance Report: Occupy Turns 2, Rejecting American Exceptionalism, TPP Protests Escalate | Resistance Report #007 Rejecting American Exceptionalism In invoking American Exceptionalism as a reason we should intervene in Syria. President Obama is invoking the same principle that self empowers us remain “the greatest purveyors of violence on Earth today.” Occupy Turns 2 Occupy Activist Joel Northam reflects on lessons learned from Occupy, specifically, “regardless of their perceived power and influence that they maintain through brute force, the capitalists, with their incredibly linear objectives, who only exist to satisfy their insatiable lust for wealth and resources, along with the bureaucratic, top-down, mechanistic and predictable arm of state power that protects them, is no match for the fluidity, creativity, adaptability, ferocity, and soul of this sleeping dragon that is the people in struggle for liberation. Our task is to awaken it.”

Obama’s Humiliating Defeat

September 12, 2013 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Syria, Wars and Militarism

It was a strange speech, in which the real news was left for last, popping out like a Jack-in-the-Box after 11 minutes of growls and snarls and Obama’s bizarre whining about how unfair it is to be restrained from making war on people who have done you no harm. The president abruptly switched from absurd, lie-based justifications for war to his surprise announcement that, no, Syria’s turn to endure Shock and Awe had been postponed. The reader suddenly realizes that the diplomatic developments had been hastily cut and pasted into the speech, probably only hours before. Obama had intended to build the case for smashing Assad to an imperial peroration – a laying down of the law from on high. But his handlers threw in the towel, for reasons both foreign and domestic. Temporarily defeated, Obama will be back on the Syria warpath as soon as the proper false flag operations can be arranged.

Votes Against Syria War Continue To Pile Up

September 12, 2013 Rick Klein, www.abcnews.com Educate! Syria, Wars and Militarism

Opposition to strikes against Syria has only grown in Congress since the president made his case to the nation - a case, of course, that includes the military option if the diplomatic option fails. That's playing out now, but just in case the newest New York Times op-ed contributor [Vladimir Putin] doesn't come through for the United States government, the president is going to be back where he started at some point on Capitol Hill. Actually, he'll be in a worse position than before, with the White House able to keep fewer lawmakers on the fence. That's one measure of the depth of public sentiment on Syria: Members of Congress are taking stands even though the president is explicitly asking them not to.

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