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Steven Lee Myers, The New York Times News Service: ''The United States and more than 60 other countries moved closer on Sunday to direct intervention in the fighting in Syria, with Arab nations pledging $100 million to pay opposition fighters and the Obama administration agreeing to send communications equipment to help rebels organize and evade Syria s military, according to participants gathered here. The moves reflected a growing consensus, at least among those who met here this weekend under the rubric 'Friends of Syria,' that mediation efforts by the United Nations peace envoy, Kofi Annan, were failing to halt the violence in Syria and that more forceful action was needed.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8231-united-states-moves-closer-to-direct-intervention-in-syria

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Syria: America Steps Onto The Slippery Slope

By Robert Wright

Could we at least be honest about we are doing? The U.S., by giving the rebels this communications equipment, is now officially helping Syrians kill other Syrians.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30986.htm



'All options on Syria should remain open'

In an interview with ITV News, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told Mark Austin that Britain should ''keep all the options open'' when it comes to Syria.

http://itv.co/HTzwIR



Putting Syria Into Some Perspective

By William Blum

The Holy Triumvirate recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that they can do whatever they want in the world, to whomever they want, for as long as they want, and call it whatever they want, like ''humanitarian intervention''.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31017.htm



'Military intervention in Syria not completely ruled out'

An internationally supported military intervention in Syria could still take place as a last resort for settling the Syrian crisis, given that recent international efforts are unlikely to affect the status quo and the conflict will not end in the near future, political observers have claimed.

http://bit.ly/HslpK9



A ticking clock on Syria: Intervention is likely, and the United States won t wait as long as it did in Bosnia.

http://lat.ms/HC8sg4



Syrian Cease-Fire Looks like a Long Shot

By Patrick Cockburn

Assad needs to make a show of moderation to keep Russia and China on side.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31043.htm



Expect War. It s Coming

By Stephen Lendman

While disingenuously supporting peace, Washington, rogue NATO partners, and regional allies continue arming, funding, training, and actively aiding insurgents other ways to violently oust Assad.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31055.htm


From Information Clearing House



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