CrossTalk: Destroying Syria (Excellent show! Must watch)
Great host, great speakers, great show. Its good to hear some sane people, a rare privilege. Watch and enjoy:
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The “sissy option” in Syria will send a message alright – but not the one the Anglosphere intends to send
All the latest leaks seem to be pointing to the same scenario: Obama would order ‘limited’ strikes on ‘key’ targets to ‘send a message’ to Assad. Ok, let’s look into that.First, this probably means that cruise missiles will be used, but little or no air strikes. We will come back later to this one.Second, what are ‘limited’ strikes. We are talking about high visibility static targets such as security services
Words spoken today – three quotes which say it all
“It’s got to be done quickly. Bang, boom. And then let the chips fall where they may. But no more dead kids breathing poison gas.” Bill O’Reilly “We have two options: either to surrender, or to defend ourselves with the means at our disposal. The second choice is the best: we will defend ourselves“ Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Muallem “The West behaves towards the Islamic world like a monkey
What do recent US/NATO/Israeli military aggressions tell us about what might happen next in Syria?
During his emergency press conference today Foreign Minister Lavrov said something to the effect that attempting to predict the future is not a helpful exercise and I will not argue with this wise man. However, Lysander did ask an interesting question today: Is it possible that a NATO air campaign might still fail in removing the government? I think that while attempting to predict the future is, indeed, a useless
Full text of the interview of President Assad to Izvestia
President of the Syrian Arab Republic told about threat of US invasion, about his relationship with Putin and about common fate of Russian and Syrian people. All in exclusive interview in Izvestia. Interviewer: Mr President, the most pressing question today is the current situation in Syria. What parts of the country remain under the rebels’ control?President Assad: From our perspective, it’s not a matter of labelling areas as controlled by
Hysteria around chemical attack suits those who want military intervention in Syria – Lavrov
Syria: US-al-Qaeda-Zionist coalition gets its way – war against Syria appears inevitable
According to RT the ‘Syrian’ insurgents have now used the excuse of the (false flag) chemical attack to refuse to attend the Geneva II conference:“We refused to speak about Geneva after what’s happened. We must punish this dictator, Bashar the Chemist we call him, and then we can discuss Geneva,” coalition Secretary General Badr Jamous told Reuters, after a meeting with international opposition backers Friends of Syria in Istanbul. This
A credible report about what happened at the recent meetings between Russian officials and Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan
First, here is the report as published by Information Clearing House translating As-Safir. I have just bolded out the particularly important parts. This is the text in-extenso:——-A diplomatic report about the “stormy meeting” in July between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan concluded that the region stretching from North Africa to Chechnya and from Iran to Syria — in other words, the entire Middle
Russian TV report shows insurgent chemical weapons lab seized by Syrian forces
The video below is the footage shown on Russian TV of the chemical weapons laboratory recently seized by Syrian government forces in the Ghouta neighborhood of Damascus. The footage has been taken by a crew of reporters from the Izvestia newspaper and is here shown with a voiceover commentary by the Rossia 1 “Vesti” news report. I am sorry that I cannot provide a translation for the commentary, but I
US fabricated excuses for military intervention from Markale to Ghouta?
One of the labels which I have been using more and more recently is the “Bosnia v5 Chechnia v4 Kosovo v3 Libya v2 Syria v1” which refers to the fact that the Empire uses exactly the same trick over and over again to justify its military aggressions.Though history is replete with false flag attacks, the end of the Cold War saw a systematization of a specific complex of measures designed
Why I say that the “homo rights in Russia” lobby is full of crap
In the comments section of my previous post, Jack brought to my attention the following video:It is supposed to show how a “Gay Reporter Kicked off Kremlin Network After Protesting Anti Gay Law“ Now the way this video ends one could be forgiven for thinking that the homo in question, James Kirchick, was rudely thrown off the set or something similar. Except that what actually happened is that they simply
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speech on the anniversary of July War celebration 2013
Bradley Manning wants to be called “Chelsea” and become a woman through hormony therapy
This is Manning’s full statement to the public: Subject: The Next Stage of My Life I want to thank everybody who has supported me over the last three years. Throughout this long ordeal, your letters of support and encouragement have helped keep me strong. I am forever indebted to those who wrote to me, made a donation to my defense fund, or came to watch a portion of the trial.
A few options to do something to support Bradley Manning
Petition to have Bradley Manning pardoned:http://action.firedoglake.com/page/m/5958d046/4597d4b4/62e2f6d2/3dc76ea9/2227044611/VEsH/Petition to give Bradley Manning the Nobel Peace Prize:http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7612Write to Bradley Manning:http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more/write-to-bradley-manning
The Empire insults our collective intelligence. Again.
This is the sequence which the Empire submits to our attention: on August 18th a UN inspection team arrives in Syria to investigate the reports of use of chemical weapons. Two days later, on August 20, the Syrian government uses chemical weapons against hundreds of civilians. And not in some distant and remote corner of the country, but in a suburb of Damascus, conveniently near the UN inspection team.Does anybody
The smartphone as a weapon to defeat the Empire’s propaganda
Tonight I was watching the latest video footage of the bloodbath in Egypt – this time infantry fighting vehicles using their guns to shoot at demonstrators. What caught my attention was that in the corner of the video you could see two Egyptian men standing with smartphones making their own video recording of the massacre taking place under their window. See for yourself: And I thought to myself “at least
YouTube deactivates Press TV’s account under orders of the ADL
Press TV reports:A political commentator says YouTube deactivation of Press TV’s official page under pressure from the Israeli-American Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows the video-sharing site is afraid of people’s awareness. “Press TV has become essentially the CNN of activists and persons who do not want to be fed a steady diet of execrable hasbara of CIA lies and half truths,” Randy Short, member of the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization,
’Israeli’ Ambassador to Egyptian Minister: Al-Sisi ’National Hero for All Jews’
Al-Ahed news reports: The “Israeli” ambassador to Cairo has supposedly told a minister in the interim government that “Israelis” view Egyptian General Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi as a “national hero”. According to the Middle East Monitor citing from the “Israel” Radio, the ambassador phoned the Egyptian Agriculture Minister Ayman Abu-Hadid to congratulate him on his new post, adding, “Al-Sisi is not a national hero for Egypt, but for all Jews in “Israel”
Saudi beheadings bring execution tally to 60 this year
Al-Akhbar reports: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded by the sword two nationals convicted of murdering a Syrian and of armed robbery, the interior ministry said. Ibrahim al-Qanbar and Ahmed al-Musalam were found guilty of attacking a labor camp and opening fire on residents, killing Mohammed al-Shuja and wounding another person, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. Qanbar was also charged with several acts of
