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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Syria et al

In times of turmoil, it's helpful to read the opinions of others, especially those with whom we disagree.

Below is a collage with more to be added.

It's time to question the U.S. role as the World's Police and whether we want to continue to squander our resources to support the Military-Industrial-Complex.

This should not be a partisan issue, but rather a search to regain our Common Wealth, a Republic with an obligation to uphold American values.  


FROM: Information Clearing House

"You really can change the world if you care enough. - Marion Wright Edelman

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." - Orison Swett Marden

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca

"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." - Plato
 
Obama to Seek Congressional Approval on Syria Action
 Video and Transcript
President Barack Obama on Saturday backed away from an imminent military strike against Syria to seek the approval of the U.S. Congress, in a decision that likely delays U.S. action for at least 10 days.
Congressional Approval Is Not The Critical Issue
By Michael S. Rozeff
It's still the wrong action, morally and pragmatically. It's still part of what Albert Einstein termed "The Military Mentality" in 1947.
Impeachment: Congress Fires Opening Shot Across Obama's Bow.
By John Walsh
The letter of Scott Regall (1) to Barak Obama has exploded on the scene with its opening words:
Did Putin Stop Obama?
Putin to (Nobel Peace Prize Winner) Obama: 'Think About Future Syria Victims'
-Video-
 
The Russian president has expressed certainty that the strategy for a military intervention in Syria is a direct response to the Syrian government's recent combat successes, coupled with the rebels' retreat from long-held positions.
US "Proof" Assad Used Chemical Weapons Is One Hundred YouTube Videos
US Government's Unclassified Estimate of What Took Place in Syria
We have identified one hundred videos attributed to the attack - We assess the Syrian opposition does not have the capability to fabricate all of the videos.
People of the World are Fighting Back
By Finian Cunningham
What the deluded Americans do not seem to realize is that they are on their own. The only entities willing to support their aggression on Syria is Saudi Arabia and Israel.
 
25 Quotes About The Coming War On Syria That Every American Should See
By Michael Snyder
 
If it could be made to look like the Assad regime was using chemical weapons, that would give the U.S. government the "moral justification" that it needed to intervene militarily on the side of the rebels.
Where's Congress on Syria?
By Robert W. Merry
We have a president who declares in word and deed that war decisions, as artificially defined by him as something short of actual war, are exclusively within his constitutional domain.
Another Jolly Little War
By Eric Margolis
Let's face some hard facts about the vicious conflict in Syria. If the US directly attacks Syria, the real cause will not be the recent chemical attacks.
Israeli Firsters Urge President Obama to Respond to Assad's Chemical Attack
By James Kirchick, Christopher J. Griffin, Dan Senor, Robert Zarate, Robert Kagan, William Kristol
The full text of the letter follows.
 
Miss Liberty Speaks:
"America, Be a Mench...Not an Empire!"
By Philip A Farruggio
Finally, the Statue of Liberty is speaking up. Enclosed a few tidbits from that great symbol of freedom for all mankind:

A brief history of key military "interventions" by the United States -

10 instances when America has intervened, sometimes without authorization from the United Nations.


France ready to kill people in Syria air strikes:

France is ready to play a substantial role in air strikes on Syria, including sending Rafale fighters to launch missiles at selected targets from 200 miles away.


Did Saudi buy France?

France wins Saudi defence deal: Report:

France has won a billion euro defence contract with Saudi Arabia to overhaul four frigates and two refuelling ships, sources said on Thursday.


Putin rejects US's Syria chemical use claim, demands proof: -

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday dismissed claims that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons, demanding that the United States provide proof rather than taking rash action.


Russia sends forces:

Russia will be sending an anti-submarine ship and a missile cruiser to the Mediterranean "over the next few days" as the West prepares for possible strikes against Syria, the Interfax news agency says.



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By Wayne Madsen

(WMR)—Just as Americans were led astray by the cable news media about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction prior to the disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, once again, viewers of cable news channels are being subjected to another information warfare campaign. This time it is an alleged Syrian government chemical attack on “thousands” of civilians in the Ghouta region outside of Damascus.
 
By Linda S. Heard
Barack Obama’s ‘red lines’ have undoubtedly been crossed. Hundreds of Syrians gasping for air and unable to control their limbs were no Hollywood extras. Distraught parents cuddling their dead toddlers close to their chests were no bit-part actors.
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR)—President Obama has played a cruel joke on critics of National Security Agency surveillance by naming to his Review Committee on NSA Programs his former chief of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Cass Sunstein. Also known as Obama’s “information czar,” Sunstein, who is married to UN Ambassador Samantha Power, left the administration to return to Harvard Law School. Sunstein also works out of the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress in Washington, DC.
By Lisa Simeone
When I use the dreaded “p” word, it’s amazing how many people get their knickers in a twist.
 
By Larry Chin
In the wake of a chemical weapons attack carried out by US and CIA-backed Syrian rebels and blamed on the Assad regime, US Secretary of State John Kerry declared the act “a moral obscenity”, promising a military attack in response.

By Paul Craig Roberts

Washington and its British and French puppet governments are poised to yet again reveal their criminality. The image of the West as War Criminal is not a propaganda image created by the West’s enemies, but the portrait that the West has painted of itself.


By Lisa Simeone

As the U.S. (and U.K.) get set to bomb yet another country, to blow yet more people to smithereens, to use the excuse of a “red line”—because, don’tchya know, murdering people by gassing them is so much worse than murdering them by blowing their brains out—that’s just logic—can’t you numbskulls see that? Our overlords can.

By Wayne Madsen

(WMR)—WMR’s sources in Lebanon report that three deadly car bombings, one on August 15 in a Hezbollah-controlled area south of Beirut and two outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on August 23 during Friday prayers were intended to import into fragile Lebanon the Sunni-Shi’a/Alawite/Christian violence that is currently raging in neighboring Syria.


By Peter Chamberlin

Which is the greater moral obscenity? The fact that more than three-hundred civilians have been killed by chemical weapons, or the undeniable fact that over 100,000 Syrians have been killed by various means (most of them civilians), in a premeditated plan to create civil war in another sovereign nation?


By Jerry Mazza

First, we have a purported dictator bad guy Bashar El-Assad inviting Doctors Without Borders to hospitals around the country, shortly after claims were made that 1,000 people were chemically gassed and 300 of them died. Why would he be willing to make himself culpable and vulnerable if he committed the heinous act? Sounds like a false-flag operation to me.

By Nicola Nasser

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday, August 26, removed the sword of the alleged Syrian chemical weapons from its sheath and let the snowball of this subterfuge for a military aggression on Syria roll unchecked, raising the stakes from asking whether “it will happen” to “when” it will happen, promising that President Barak Obama “will be making an informed decision about how” to take on Syria and warning not to make a “mistake” because Obama “believes there must be accountability,” making clear that a U.S.-led military action is in the making and imminent.
 
By Ramzy Baroud
How many Egyptians have been killed since the January 2011 revolt? My pursuit for exact figures has proven to be futile. Various sources suggest all sorts of numbers, some scrambled in such a way as to make a political point. It is as if the life of the ordinary Egyptian doesn’t matter on its own, as an absolute value that must be guarded aside from any political considerations. If it does matter at all, it is only within a larger context to simply prove a point.
By Gilad Atzmon
It doesn’t take a genius to grasp that the American president doesn’t really want to attack Syria. He doesn’t want to topple Assad’s regime—he doesn’t have an alternative partner on the ground.

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