http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11645/
US-Israeli missile-defense 'test' in Mediterranean rattles nerves
http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11644/
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Israel Launches Test Missiles Amid Soaring Regional Tensions
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/03-0
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Israel and U.S. Conduct Missile Test in Mediterranean
By Jodi Rudoren
Israel and the United States launched a missile from deep in the Mediterranean Sea that caused consternation in Syria and Russia.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36080.htm
Russia Has Equipped Syria With Their Most Advanced Anti-Ship Missiles
By Michael Snyder
When the United States strikes Syria, they might be quite surprised at how hard Syria can hit back.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36076.htm
US General Says Syria Action Could be 'More Substantial Than Thought'
By Hannah Strange
Gen. Keane said he understood Mr Obama was planning increased support for the opposition forces, including training from US troops.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36085.htm
How 'Progressives' and the American "Left" are Failing Over Syria
By Shamus Cooke
There are four pieces of information that all left groups have a duty to report about Syria, but they have either ignored or minimized.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36077.htm
There Are Too Many Bodies Buried On Britain s Moral High Ground
By Laurie Penny
The bodies buried on the Anglo-American moral high ground are beyond number, and the flowers that grow there are dank and reek of corruption.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36087.htm
Point-By-Point Rebuttal of U.S. Case for War In Syria
By WashingtonsBlog
No one contests that some kind of chemical agent was used. The question is, more importantly, who used it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36079.htm
Noam Chomsky Weighs In On Syria Strike
By Ryan Grim
'[T]hat aggression without UN authorization would be a war crime, a very serious one'.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36073.htm
Hillary Mann Leverett Slaps Down Warmonger/Presstitutes
Video
She makes the case for how actors other than Assad might have initiated the chemical attack and seems to wonder why Assad would use the weapons when he appeared to be winning on the battlefield.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36074.htm
How Israel is Driving the US to War in Syria
By Max Blumenthal
Israel s military-intelligence apparatus does not exactly have a reputation for trustworthiness.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36081.htm
Female Veteran Arrested and Brutalized After No War With Syria Rally
2 Minute Video
A United States Military Veteran was enjoying shade under a tree after marching in a 'No War with Syria Rally'. She was asked to move by Federal Parks Police. When she asked why she could not stand there they arrested and brutalized her.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36086.htm
Harkin on Classified Syria Briefing: 'Frankly Raised More Questions Than It Answered'
President Obama has some work to do if he wants congressional authority to bomb Syria. Already some of his liberal allies are questioning the evidence which is supposed to show that Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons on his own people.
http://is.gd/6B3mOp
To some, US case for Syrian gas attack, strike has too many holes
The Obama administration s public case for attacking Syria is riddled with inconsistencies and hinges mainly on circumstantial evidence, undermining U.S. efforts this week to build support at home and abroad for a punitive strike against Bashar Assad s regime.
http://is.gd/NaHV9C
Obama s 'Source' on Syrian Chemical Weapons is Israel s NSA
A shadowy Israeli military unit is apparently the source of the 'intelligence' that the Obama administration is using as justification for its planned attack on Syria.
http://is.gd/iezG9u
'I did not join for this': US military men speak out against Syria strike
Many US servicemen are against the looming strike on Syria, Republican Congressman Justin Amash said on Twitter, in an attempt to counter the idea that the country might be overwhelmingly in favor of military action.
http://is.gd/bh0l1T
Russia to send delegation to US Congress for Syria talks
Russian authorities are planning to send a parliamentary delegation to the United States for talks with the Congress over Syria, in a move publicly endorsed Monday by President Vladimir Putin.
http://is.gd/KhZREM
Iran warned US about Sarin gas in Syria: Defense Minister
'Threats of a military strike under the pretext of using chemical weapons in Syria come as [the US] ignored Iran s warnings about Sarin gas being taken to Syria eight months ago and [thereby] practically paved the way for chemical attacks in Syria,' Dehqan said on Monday.
http://is.gd/towDVF
Human shield formed to protect Syria from military action
Syrians from all walks of life have joined a human shield campaign to help protect the country from potential foreign military action.
http://is.gd/I86kNj
From Information Clearing House
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Can you trust the case for war this time?
Downsize DC
by Perry Willis
09/03/13
Before we opened Downsize DC, our team opposed the Iraq invasion in 2003 with a website called Truth About War. We predicted that Iraq had no WMDs. The war mongers hated that. We got death threats. Well, we were right, and they were wrong. But we also argued a larger point...Politicians cannot be trusted when they argue for war...
http://tinyurl.com/nshvqwr
'Surgical strikes' an Orwellian dream
Antiwar.com
by Kelley B. Vlahos
09/03/13
For people whose threshold is about 12 minutes before whining for a new checker when the grocery line is too long, a queue that wraps around the store, out the door and into the parking lot would be a new and most unwelcome misery. Throw in the cloud of collective punishment, frightened children, the prospect of elderly parents not being able to travel, banks and gas stations closing and stocks diving, and you ve got panic. Welcome to Damascus. As our leaders and phony baloney pundit class talk about 'surgical strikes,' 'punitive measures,' and 'limited attacks,' the Syrian people are grimly preparing for the worst...
http://tinyurl.com/mrevxsu
Congress must block Obama s war
The Nation
by Bob Dreyfuss
09/01/13
It s up to Congress now to stop President Obama s push for war. That ought not be encouraging, even though rogue Republican neo-isolationists and Obama-haters in the House might still vote no out of spite. The White House (not to mention the Israel lobby) will push hard for approval of a war resolution, and even staunch, liberal pro-Obama members of Congress, especially in the Senate, will probably go along. But that doesn t make the desire of the president and Secretary of State Kerry, who s emerged as the administration s uber-hawk, to go to war any less insane...
http://tinyurl.com/kchnog8
How to sell a war
CounterPunch
by Jeffrey St. Clair
09/02/13
The war on Iraq won t be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as 'weapons of mass destruction' and 'rogue state' were hurled like precision weapons at the target audience: us...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/02/how-to-sell-a-war-2/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Who the heck is John Kerry anyway?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-secret-government-1/who-the-heck-is-john-kerry-anyway.html
A 'surgical strike'
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket-1/a-surgical-strike-.html
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Eight Arguments Against Going to War With Syria
Stephen Zunes, Truthout: US military action against Syria would be illegal, strategically counterproductive, destructive and deeply unpopular.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18579-seven-arguments-against-going-to-war-with-syria
Response to Syria a Duplicitous Affair
Antonia Darder and Peter Mayo, Truthout: Caution about war against Syria is more than warranted by knowledge of the history of US interventions in other countries' domestic quarrels and in the absence of clear-cut evidence of the Assad regime s use of chemical weapons.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18584-response-to-syria-a-duplicitous-affair
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