By Shamus Cooke
In perfect Bush-like fashion, President Obama has invented a bogus pretense for military intervention in yet another Middle East country.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35339.htm
Senators pledge 'full support' for 'decisive' military action in Syria
Syria is at a ''critical juncture'' and the United States must do what it can to reverse Assad s recent gains on the ground, the chairmen of the Foreign Relations and Armed Forces panels, Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.), wrote in a letter to Obama along with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
http://is.gd/HsMpRc
Models for possible Syria intervention
Western states have been edging towards more direct support for President Bashar al-Assad s opponents, with the US now saying it will provide military aid to rebels. Here, Jonathan Eyal of the Royal United Services Institute looks at recent examples of Western military action that could provide models for intervention, if diplomacy fails.
http://is.gd/eA9Zqc
Fast-Tracking Toward War on Syria
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35365.htm
Rand Paul One of Four Senators To Introduce Bill To Block Military Funds to Syria
Sens. Tom Udall (D-N.M), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have introduced legislation that would block military funds from going to Syria. Text of the bill , courtesy of Sen. Udall s office.
http://is.gd/AwKBwj
U.S. Secretly Providing Training For Syrian Rebels
By David S. Cloud and Raja Abdulrahim
Since late last year, CIA and U.S. military operatives have been teaching Syrian rebels how to use anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns at bases in Jordan and Turkey, according to U.S. and rebel sources.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35379.htm
Lavrov: US actions may derail Syria peace conference
Russia s foreign minister calls arms shipments to rebels a 'very big mistake,' says it s unrealistic that Assad will step down
http://is.gd/36K2S1
U.N. expert: More arms for Syria mean more war crimes
Increasing the flow of weapons to Syria s government and rebel forces will most likely cause an increase in war crimes in a two-year-old civil war that has killed more than 90,000 people, a U.N. human rights investigator warned on Friday.
http://is.gd/2PrBeG
Nick Clegg warns over Syria intervention
Deputy prime minister tells LBC radio Britain must not become embroiled in a conflict it would struggle to influence.
http://is.gd/lYkk0f
How Syria s Islamists govern with guile and guns
The United States and other Western powers support the Syrian National Coalition, a group of opposition figures based in Cairo. But the coalition has very little influence on the ground in Syria, so locals are increasingly turning to the Islamists as their best alternative to chaos.
http://is.gd/IHYbl2
Syrian FSA General: I Want Sharia in Future Syria,
Int l Community Has One Month to Give Us Advanced Weapons
Video
http://is.gd/2Cekqx
Syria: Thousands Flee After Islamic Rebels Execute Priest, Loot, Burn Monastary In Northern Syria
Syrian Catholic priest François Murad was murdered in the locality of Gassanieh, northern Syria, according to a statement from the Custody of the Holy Land sent to the Fides Agency. Pizzaballa said, adding that, 'with such stances, not a single Christian will remain in the East.'
http://is.gd/clDPC9
U.S. starts sending arms for Syrian rebels
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has started sending weapons to Jordan with a view to arming small groups of vetted Syrian rebels within a month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
http://is.gd/1PlrJR
Russia says Saudi arming Syria 'terrorists'
Russia accused Saudi Arabia and some other Gulf states on Thursday of funding ''international terrorists and extremists'' in the Syria conflict. Moscow s angry statement came in response to accusations by Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, that Russia was responsible for mass killings in Syria because of its military support for the regime.
http://is.gd/9HpPOv
Lifting the Arms Embargo on Syria
A Decision Whose Results Will Be Measured In Hecatombs
By Steve McGiffen
To begin, anyone who confidently tells you what s going on in Syria, who are the 'good guys' and who the bad, and whether indeed there is any meaning to these handy categories, is either a liar or a fool.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35446.htm
What the Media Isn t Telling You About War in Syria
Video
''The War in Syria is not a true civil war.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35442.htm
US Sends Two Planeloads of Heavy Arms to Syrian Rebels from Afghanistan
''The United States sent two huge cargos of its heavy weapons and ammunitions in Afghanistan to the Syrian rebels through Jordan on June 18, the day NATO ceded control of security affairs to the Afghan army and government,'' A ranking member of the US marine troops deployed in Afghanistan told FNA on Saturday.
http://is.gd/7ouKK7
Jordan Does Not Welcome US Troops, Weapons
The United States has kept F-16 warplanes and Patriot missiles in Jordan since a joint military exercise ended on June 20, and a defense official says Washington now has 1,000 troops in the country, reports France 24.
http://is.gd/bNkff5
Foreign Media Portrayals of the Conflict in Syria are Dangerously Inaccurate
By Patrick Cockburn
The foreign media reporting of the Syrian conflict is surely as inaccurate and misleading as anything we have seen since the start of the First World War.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35459.htm
U.S Special forces are training Syrian rebels for war
8,000 military personnel are behind Operation Eager Lion training exercise.
http://is.gd/htG5wm
The Arab World And The Supernatural Power of the United States
Mohammed Attar Interviews Noam Chomsky
America and Israel remain unwilling to bring down Assad regime. They may not like the regime, but it is nevertheless a regime that is well practised in accommodating their demands and any unknown alternative might prove worse in this respect.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35527.htm
New front opens in Syria as rebels say al-Qaeda attack means war
Syrian rebels said on Friday the assassination of one of their top commanders by militants linked to al-Qaeda was tantamount to a declaration of war, opening a new front for the Western-backed fighters struggling against President Bashar al-Assad s forces.
http://is.gd/MfikkJ
Assassination of FSA commander is declaration of war in Syria
''We are going to wipe the floor with them. We will not let them get away with it because they want to target us,'' a senior rebel commander said on condition of anonymity.
http://is.gd/LJ6Gfo
No arms to Syrian rebels, most Americans say
Sixty-one percent of voters, including a majority of both parties, say it is not in America s interest to become involved, while only 27 percent disagree. Similarly, 59 percent of voters oppose providing arms and military supplies to Syrian rebel groups, while only 27 percent would support such a move.
http://is.gd/KBJnMs
Rifkind Risks a Repeat of Balkans Mistakes in Syria
By Robert Fisk
Today s superpowers are fighting in Syria, but lets be in no doubt as to their motivations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35543.htm
With Eyes on Syria, U.S. Turns Warehouse Into Support Hub for Jordan
On the outskirts of Jordan s capital is a corrugated steel warehouse that serves as a testament to the fact that with enough plywood, electrical cable and bottled water, any austere structure anywhere in the world can be converted into an American military headquarters.
http://is.gd/yjoYjx
From Information Clearing House
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US to Leave 700 Troops in Jordan in Sign of Deepening Involvement in Syrian Crisis
Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers: Obama said the troops would remain in Jordan to help provide that country with security, but he did not say specifically what they would be doing.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17145-us-to-leave-700-troops-in-jordan-in-sign-of-deepening-involvement-in-syrian-crisis
Syria and the Monarchs: A Perfect Storm
Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy In Focus: The Obama administration s decision to directly supply weapons to the Syrian opposition will almost certainly accelerate the chaos of this three-year old civil war.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17241-syria-and-the-monarchs-a-perfect-storm
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Obama s secret CIA hit squad detailed in ''The Way of the Knife''
Tenth Amendment Center
by Joe Wolverton, II
06/23/13
President Barack Obama has converted the CIA into his personal army and granted it unfettered assassination authority. The story behind the development and deployment of this presidential killing corps is told in The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth, the latest book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Mazzetti...
http://tinyurl.com/lyk5mm5
Obama s War in Syria
The Nation
by Bob Dreyfuss
06/27/13
The US war in Syria is underway. According to The Wall Street Journal, the CIA has already begun shipping weapons to 'vetted Syrian rebels.'...Most worrisome is that, with American support, Saudi Arabia is shipping Manpads, shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, to the rebels, despite the risk that those deadly arms could fall into the hands of Al Qaeda and its allies...
http://www.thenation.com/blog/175004/obamas-war-syria
US in opposition to US intervention in Syria
Come Home America
by various
07/10/13
We in ComeHomeAmerica (
http://www.ComeHomeAmerica.US ) condemn our government?s war on Syria, prosecuted first with sanctions, then with covert support through 'allies' like the dictatorial petro-monarchies of the Gulf and now with overt provision of arms for the anti-government forces and perhaps even a bombing campaign. We demand an immediate cessation of this bellicose policy by our government. Sanctions and military intervention in Syria are not in the interests of the American people; nor are they in the interests of the Syrian people...
http://tinyurl.com/mjf2g6w
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