Syria Hotbed of Major Geopolitical Games (and vid)
http://rt.com/news/syria-resolution-geopolitcal-game-115/
"The interest of Syria for the Western powers is great proximity to Israel,' the author and journalist claims underlining the importance of the geopolitical factor in this case rather than energy interests. 'It (Syria) has been a party in the war against Israel, it's one of the big opponents of the Israeli state,' he explained. 'There is an arc - Lebanon-Syria-Iran - of geopolitical opposition to Israel and to America's role in the Middle East.
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, the President of the International Movement for a Just World, told RT 'Both Russia and China knew that a resolution by the Security Council opens the door for military intervention by NATO,' he says. 'It would be another attempt to oust an Arab government and replace it with a government which is sympathetic to the larger geopolitical aims of Washington, London, Paris, [Ottawa] and other Western countries..."
Syrian Opposition Agrees to Russian Mediation (and vid)
http://rt.com/news/syria-opposition-assad-talks-709/
"President of the Arab Lawyers' Association, Sabah al-Muktar, believes the West has little interest in a peaceful resolution to the conflict. He told RT that the Western powers are careless about the bloodshed. 'NATO and the European counties killed enough Libyans under the pretext that they were giving them democracy. They've done the same thing in Iraq, where they killed almost a million people.'
John Rees, a political activist and national officer of the STOP THE WAR Coalition in London, told RT that there is a more serious conflict unravelling over events in Syria - one between the world's major powers. 'One of the dangerous things about the talk of intervention in Syria is it now is producing a conflict between major powers themselves. When that begins to happen then wholly different orders of danger are involved.."
