War in Syria

It's an extremely dire and dangeous crisis jftb...Foreign forces must be constrained from attacking or invading and comprehensive peace talks by the parties with a cessation of hostilities must occur. Please post anything you think relevant...

Israel Claims Joint US Missile Launch in Mediterranean For 'Target Practice' (and vid)

http://rt.com/news/ballistic-launch-eastern-mediterranean-343/

"Israel says it carried out a 'joint' US missile launch in the Mediterranean, having earlier claimed ignorance. Russian radar detected two ballistic rockets fired in the region on Tuesday, sparking widespread speculation over who was behind the launch."

The USRAELI Hannibal Lector plays his outrageous and dangerous games at the edge of a precipice...

Syria 'Hemorrhaging' People in Worst Refugee Crisis in Recent History - UN

http://rt.com/news/syria-two-million-refugees-339/

"The UN Refugee Agency has announced the number of Syrians who have fled the country since the civil war began in March 2011, has exceeded 2 million.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterras, said displacement of Syrians was 'unparalleled in recent history'..."

Breaking: "France won't intervene in Syria if US Congress votes against offensive"

Pipeline Politics and the Syrian War (and vid)

http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2013/09/pipeline-politics-and-syrian-war

James Corbett and Pepe Escobar discuss the possibility of an Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline and how the regional players react to such a proposal and Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia's role in the current crisis..."

Ban Rejects Any Offensive Against Syria Without UN Mandate (and vid)

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/09/03/321951/ban-rejects-syria-strike...

"He added that an ongoing UN investigation into the [poison gas] incident is uniquely placed to independently establish the facts in an objective and impartial manner."

Well I got a response back from my congressman in the HOR and he is going to vote no. That's one down, two to go; I still haven't heard from my two senators yet.

All three of them are Republicans, being a Democtrate in Texas I don’t do too well in congressional elections…

I requested he ask as to why there has been no physical evidence such as parts of the missiles or rockets used to make the attack presented by the administration as evidence of the regime using artillery to deliver the chemicals (Kerry claimed it was a missile attack). I explained to him how that stuff would be lying around. I told him I would like him to ask around about it and get back with me on what he finds out. I’ll let you guys know if he gets back with me or not.

Who knows, I might have started some shit up on Capitol Hill…LOL

Hatay Residents: Syrian Militants Receive Chemical Weapons via Turkey (and vid)

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/09/04/322125/hatay-residents-syrian-m...

"Residents in the southern Turkish province of Hatay claim the chemical weapons used in an August 21 attack in Syria's capital Damascus were used by Al-Qaeda linked Al Nusra Front insurgents and NOT the Syrian government.

Farid Mainy, a Hatay resident and an activist himself, told me these chemicals were sent to Syria from Turkey..."

Towards the Vindication of a Syrian Invasion  -  by Ismail Salami

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/09/towards-the-vindication-of-a-syria-inv...

"In a naked lobbying effort, three pro-Israel groups; ie, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) urged American lawmakers on Tuesday to authorize President Barack Obama to launch an attack on Syria.

As a major beneficiary to an invasion of Syria, Tel Aviv may end up a bad loser in the eventuality of a war on Syria.."

US Planned Syrian Civilian Catastrophe Since 2007

http://nsnbc.me/2013/09/04/us-planned-syrian-civilian-catastrophe-since-...

"More than 2 million Syrians have poured into neighbouring countries as refugees, the UN revealed on Tuesday.

But while the UN and nations across the world feign shock over the growing humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in and around Syria, the goal of a violent sectarian conflict and its predictable catastrophic results along with calls to literally 'bleed' Syria have been the underlying strategy of special interests in [Canada], the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia and their regional partners since at least 2007...

Here is a timeline that will illuminate the true cause of Syria's current conflict and the foreign interests, not the Syrian government, responsible..."

Impeach Obama!   -  by Stephen Lendman

http://othersite.org/stephen-lendman-impeach-obama-now/

"Obama exceeds the worst of his predecessors. He's guilty of repeated high crimes. They're too grave to permit. They can't be allowed to go unpunished."

Canada Decries Russian Stubbornness on Syria as Leaders Arrive For G20

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/prime-minister-heads-to-g20-summ...

"...This is the issue we're tackling, Russia's great intractability to work with others on this issue. In some respects that's the heart of the problem." - John Baird

Rep. Alan Grayson on Syria: Congress Should Reject "Warmongering" and Focus on Problems at Home

video & transcript

quote:

REP. ALAN GRAYSON: Well, I think that the forces of warmongering and the forces of the military-industrial complex are headed for an historic defeat in the House. According to the New York — The Washington Post whip count as of this morning, there are 19 members of Congress in favor of this resolution and 174 against. And the reasons are simple: It’s not our responsibility, it’s not going to do any good, it’s expensive, and it’s dangerous. And those arguments are winning the day among House members, both Democrat and Republican. The margin among Democrats right now in the House is four-to-one against. The margin among Republicans is over 10-to-one against.....

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/5/rep_alan_grayson_on_syria_congress

Kerry: Arab Nations Offered To Pay For Syria Strike

http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?fromval=1&cid=18&frid=18&...

"Arab Nations have offered to help pay for any US military intervention in Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers Wednesday as he sought support for missile strikes..."

'US War on Syria Not To Be Limited' (and vid)

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/09/05/322142/us-war-on-syria-not-to-b...

"An American anti-war activist says US President Barack Obama's claim of having a limited and surgical plan for military action against Syria is nothing but a lie...

Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO: 'Once the monsters are let out of the Pandora's box, it's impossible to put it back again,' he concluded."

Turkey Deploys Military Units Along Syria Border

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/09/05/322272/turkey-deploys-military-...

"Turkey has deployed military units along its southern border with Syria, reports say, amid speculation that the US may launch a military strike against the Arab country."

75,000 Troops Needed To Secure Chemical Weapons If Damascus Falls

http://rt.com/news/syria-chemical-weapons-troops-458/

"The potential of strategic US strikes in Syria has sparked fears Damascus' chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands if the government is toppled. A recent Congressional report says 75,000 troops would be needed to safeguard the WMD caches.

'Due to the urgency of preventing access to these weapons by unauthorized groups, including terrorists, the US government has been preparing for scenarios to secure the weapons in the event of the Assad regime's loss of control,' the document reads.."

Russia Warns of Nuclear Disaster if Syria is Hit

http://rt.com/news/syria-strike-nuclear-disaster-427/

"If a warhead, by design or by chance, were to hit the Minature Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR) near Demascus, the consequences would be catastrophic,' Alexsandr Lukashevich said in a Wednesday statement..."

Syria: Time For Brinksmanship? - Syrian Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk4FFcpquJw

Russia Gave UN 100 Page Report in July Blaming Syrian Rebels For Aleppo Sarin Attack

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/05/201268/russia-releases-100-page-re...

"Russia says a deadly March Sarin attack in an Aleppo suburb was carried out by Syrian rebels; not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, and it has delivered a 100-page report laying out its evidence to the UN.

'The Russian document is specific,' the ministry statement said. 'It is a scientific and technical document.' The Russian staement said Russian officials had broken the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' code of silence on such probes only because Western nations appear to be preparing the ground for military action.' in retaliation for the Aug 21 incident.

White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said US officials were unmoved by the Russian report and held the Assad government responsible for both the Khan al Asal attack in March and the Aug 21 attack outside Damascus."

Evidence Syrian Rebels Used Chemical Weapons (not Assad) [and vid]

http://shoebat.com/2013/08/27/evidence-syrian-rebels-used-chemical-weapo...

"Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior UN diplomat said Monday..."

The powerful pro-Israel lobby AIPAC is planning to launch a major lobbying campaign to push wayward lawmakers to back the resolution authorizing U.S. strikes against Syria, sources said Thursday. Officials say that some 250 Jewish leaders and AIPAC activists will storm the halls on Capitol Hill beginning next week to persuade lawmakers that Congress must adopt the resolution or risk emboldening Iran’s efforts to build a nuclear weapon. They are expected to lobby virtually every member of Congress, arguing that “barbarism” by the Assad regime cannot be tolerated, and that failing to act would “send a message” to Tehran that the U.S. won’t stand up to hostile countries’ efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction, according to a source with the group.

 http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/aipac-syria-96344.html#ixzz2e7mxok6t

Hands Off Syria! Anti-War Actions, Sep 7th and 9th

A collective fierce voice demanding, “Not another war” is resounding across the country and around the world.

Now is the moment to make our voices heard.

Join unified actions this Sat. Sept. 7, in

NEW YORK’s TIMES SQUARE, 42ND STREET AND SEVENTH AVENUE AT 1 PM & in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles

and on

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE with Syrian American Forum from 10 to 12. Marching to Congress – Upper Senate Park

http://interoccupy.net/blog/from-unac-hands-off-syria-actions-momentum-g...

NDPP wrote:

StoptheWar; Next 'Don't Attack Syria!' Rally, Saturday, Sept. 7 at 2 PM, US Consulate, 360 University Avenue, Toronto, TTC: Osgoode

https://www.facebook.com/events/488807064546019/

There Is Still Time to Stop Them: Hands Off Syria!

Don't Forget TO...

G20 Syria Divide: World's Largest Nations Speak Out Against US-Led Strike

http://rt.com/news/g20-against-syria-strike-527/

"...President Putin on Friday quoted his South African counterpart as saying that the world's smallest countries feel 'increasingly vulnerable and insecure' with the notion that a more powerful nation can 'at any time and at its own discretion use force against them.' In this regard, a military strike outside of a UN Security Council resolution would set a dangerous precedent Putin warned..."

Syria's Assad 'Ratcheting Up' Weapons Use, Harper Says (and vid)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/09/06/pol-syria-harper-danger...

"Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the world must act in the wake of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria that he blamed on the regime of Bashar al Assad, or risk setting a precedent 'very dangerous for humanity.'

Imagining A Strike Against Syria (and vid)

http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Politics/ID/2404602703/

Retired Canadian NATO war-criminal, Lt-Gen Charles Bouchard, the butcher of Libya, on what a unilateral US attack could accomplish

Groundswell on Syria: The People Versus AIPAC  -  by Philip Weiss

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/09/groundswell-on-syria-the-people-versus-aip...

"We're at a defining moment in the history of the special relationship between the US and Israel - Israel wants war and the American people don't...

The presence of non-Zionist and anti-Zionist Jews will be critical to this movement..."

The US Government Stands Revealed to the World as a Collection of War Criminals and Liars    -  by Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/stands-revealed-to-the-world-as-a-collec...

"Are the American people and the rest of the world just going to stand there, sucking their thumbs, while a new NAZI State rises in Washington?"

Damascus Notes Late Night 'Town Meetings' Before the American Attack  -  by Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb060913.htm

"One sentiment, that is virtually unanimous here is that very few, if any at all, credit the White House smooth talk to the effect tthat the purpose of the American attack, without benefit of UN Security Council approval, is to be very limited and short..."

AIPAC To Lobby Congress For Syria Strike 

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4426658,00.html

"American Israeli Political Activity Committee to attempt to persuade Congress to vote in favor of attacks, as constituents urge Congress to vote against intervention.

At the moment most congressional representatives are against a US intervention in Syria.

Some 250 Jewish leaders and AIPAC activists, according to the Politico website , intend to storm the halls on Capitol Hill beginning next week.."

Baird Says Canada Cannot Allow Syria to Act With Impunity

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/09/07/pol-the-house-baird-syr...

"As world leaders wrapped up their meetings at the G20 Summit in St Petersburg, Russia, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Canada supports calls for a military intervention against the Assad regime in Syria as a direct response to that government's use of chemical weapons against civilians.

'This is a poor man's weapon of mass destruction and this guy cannot be allowed to get away with it."

Dogs of War Versus the Emerging Caravan  - by Pepe Escobar

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-05-060913.html

"Not even the ghost of Machiavelli would come up with an adjective to describe the whole planet waiting in disbelief to see whether the almost universally despised House of Representatives (15% approval rating, according to RealClear Politics) decides Roman Empire style, to give the thumbs down and authorize the bombing of one of the oldest cities in humanity

(well, they have an illustrious precedent of applauding Shock and Awe over Baghdad, which topped the Mongols going medieval in the 13th century).

And all this against the will of the 'American people', who, According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll support this folly by an overwhelming 9%..."

At G20, Push For War Isolates Obama From World Leaders

President presses for Syria strikes despite overwhelming global opposition, denounces UN legal channels as 'hocus pocus'

Update:

After a vigorous lobbying effort, Obama walked away from the G20 summit with a statement signed by 11 countries that asserts Bashar al-Assad was behind the alleged chemical attacks and urges "a strong international response to a grave violation of the world's rules" but notably falls short of supporting direct strikes.

The statement—rejected by countries including Russia, China, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina and Brazil—includes the wording, "[T]he UN security council remains paralysed, as it has been for two and a half years. The world cannot wait for endless failed processes that can only lead to suffering in Syria. We support efforts by the US and other countries to reinforce the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons."

While the development does not equate to majority support among G20 member countries for military intervention, it does appear to signify a diplomatic gain on the part of Obama after days of isolation at the meeting. Meanwhile, Putin released a vague threat of Russian military action in the event of US strikes....

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/06-2

MNN: Syria Hard Sell

http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2013/09/05/syria-hard-sell/

"Corporate rulers know only war. Everything they have is stolen..."

Proxy Warfare in Syria    -   by Claude Coulomb

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/09/proxy-warfare-in-Syria/

"If Sarin gas is the red line, then what to make of beheadings, mass assassinations by shooting squads, killing of Christian minorities and partaking in 'heart-eating' by the opposition?

But let me concentrate on the fact that as a Canadian taxpayer I'm funding extremist groups.

I don't know what we need to do, but actions need to materialize now, it's already too late.

The responsibility rests on our shoulders, we might not agree with the direction of our various 'representative democracies', but it's our reponsibility to deviate the indented actions,

failing to do so results in our culpability in this matter..."

Will the US  Use Agent Orange Against Syria?  -  by Roy Tov

http://www.roitov.com/articles/orange.htm

"The Agent Orange attack on Vietnam was a flagrant, purposefully public violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention by the United States of America..."

Shady PR Operatives, Pro-Israeli Ties, Anti-Castro Money: Inside the Syrian Opposition's DC Spin Machine  -  by Max Blumenthal

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/09/shady-pr-operatives-pro-israel-ties-anti-c...

"According to the press release, participants in the seminar pledged 'To coordinate all of our political, diplomatic, logistic, and humanitarian efforts in pursuit of the liberation of Cuba and Syria, hence constituting a united front for freedom and democracy.

Therefore, the Cuban Resistance and the Syrian Revolution jointly declare:'The people want the overthrow of the dictatorial regimes of Assad and Castro..."

Three Days' Ops: Reports that Pentagon Aiming At Heavier Syria Strike

http://rt.com/usa/pentagon-syria-strike-three-577/

"Despite stiff opposition at home and abroad to any military solution to the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, the Region is preparing for a much broader attack on Syria than it originally had planned. The new plan calls for three days of cruise missile attacks, followed by a second wave of attacks on targets that the initial salvos failed to destroy.

Two officers have also alleged that the White House 'requested' an expanded target list in recent days to include many more than the 50 or so targeted on the initial list..."

US Military A Cancer (and vid)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36158.htm

"The core purpose of militaries is to to kill people. Every country that has ever had one claimed it was for defence. But all history proves their function has never varied: To kill people and appropriate their wealth."

LOL! I guess John Baird hasn't gotten that news yet..

John Baird Fears Assad Poised to Gas Citizens Again: Tim Harper

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/09/08/john_baird_fears_assad_poi...

"Canada's foreign minister asks 'What will we say when we see 25,000 children, men and women foaming at the mouth, their nerves jerking, as their lungs dissolved?

You know I've been briefed on this, the effects of the gas...you almost want to cry."

Baird accepts the evidence [WHAT Evidence?] that Assad was behind the August 21 gassing, while acknowledging that evidence is not 100 percent.

'Nothing in life is 100 percent,' he says."

...Excepting the lies and dissembling of our politicians foaming at the mouth on Syria

Syria: Colonization Redux  -  by Rana Bose

http://www.countercurrents.org/bose080913.htm

"This is what has always kept colonization alive. Speaking with two tongues...

Nothing that one says about Syria is going to change the minds of those in the other camp. Just as the missing WMDs of those who insisted that Baghdad should be bombed back to the Stone Age.

The Syria adventure has been in the making for years. It is not about oil. Not about gas. Not about democracy. Not for refugee relief and for sure not about the use of chemical weapons.

It is a cynical campaign that uses all of the above as propaganda to colonize and lay down pipelines for gas to warm water ports, as we shall see later in this report.

As the world waits to see how Obama, the butler in the White House, pulls off his cavort - let us remember that the entire Syria episode was scripted several years ago, not because there was a humanitarian crisis, but because the neocon - neoliberal entente had it on their colonial sights to rule this region by any means necessary..."

TRR: US Lacks Justification For Strike on Syria (and vid)

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&I...

"It's illegal to make this war without going to the UN, illegal for the US to do that. And secondly, I consider the chemical weapons issue to be a pretext. I think the US has other motives for wanting to, quote, degrade Assad and support the 'rebels'..."

Michael Ratner: President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York, Chair of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin.

Syria Conflict Attracts Canadians To Fight on Front Line (and vid)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/09/04/syria-canadian-extremists....

"Estimates of Canadian jihadi fighters in Syria range from a few dozen to as many as 100."

These Canuklehead reinforcements for the jihadi head-choppers, throat slitters and heart eaters, should be thought of as simply part of Canada's war effort on behalf of imperialism, Zionist expansion and regional destabilization. Welcome to the new 'peacekeeping' - cut throat Al CIA-DUH 'Contras' and 'regime change' for Israel...

Syria Welcomes Russia's Offer to Put Its Chemical Weapons Under International Control

http://rt.com/news/syria-chemical-weapons-handover-619/

"We are calling on the Syrian authorities not only [to] agree on putting chemical weapons storage under international control, but also for its destruction and joining the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,' Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier..."

Now along with Syria, Israel and USA must also be forced to do the same

RT Sources: Syrian Rebels Plan Chemical Attack from Assad-Controlled Territories

http://rt.com/news/syria-rebels-chemical-attack-israel-618/

"A chemical attack may be launched on Israel by Syrian rebels from government-controlled territories as a 'major provocation', a number of sources have told RT.."