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Iraq
bombings kill at least 14 civilians and wound dozens, officials say:
A new wave of
bombings in Iraq killed at least 14 civilians and wounded dozens on Tuesday, as
insurgents try to exploit the country's political instability and undermine
government efforts to maintain security.
Fact or fiction? Report:
Russia Transferred S-300 Missiles into Syria:
Russia has transferred several S-300 missile
batteries into Syria, Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported Tuesday. The transfers
took place despite statements by Russian officials, including Russian President
Vladimir Putin, that Russia would not provide Syria with the advanced
anti-aircraft system.
Syria
accepts Russian chemical weapons plan:
"We agreed to
the Russian initiative," Interfax quoted Foreign minister Walid al-Muallem as
telling the speaker of Russia's lower house parliament house in Moscow on
Tuesday. He said Syria had agreed because this would "remove the grounds for
American aggression,"
Syria
wants to join chemical weapons ban treaty: FM:
Syria is ready to give other countries and the
United Nations access to its arsenal, Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said
Tuesday."We are ready to state where the chemical weapons are, to halt
production of chemical weapons and show these installations to representatives
of Russia, other countries and the UN," Muallem said in a statement
UN
Security Council to hold emergency meeting on Syria's chemical weapons:
At Russia's
request, the UN Security Council is set to hold an emergency closed-door meeting
regarding Syria at 4 P.M. EDT (8 P.M. GMT) on Tuesday
Russia
withdraws request for UN Security Council Syria meeting:
"Following withdrawal of the request for
consultations, Security Council meeting scheduled for 4 pm will not proceed,"
Australian Ambassador Gary Quinlan, president of the 15-nation council this
month, announced on his Twitter feed @AustraliaUN.
Putin: Syria chem arms handover will work only
if US calls off strike:
"Of course, all of this will only mean
anything if the United States and other nations supporting it tell us that
they're giving up their plan to use force against Syria. You can't really ask
Syria, or any other country, to disarm unilaterally while military action
against it is being contemplated," President Putin said on Tuesday.
Obama
wants UN to hear Russia's plan for Syrian chemical weapons:
According to
the AP, Pres. Obama spokes with French President Francois Hollande and British
Prime Minister David Cameron early Tuesday before agreeing to take the proposal
to the UN Security Council.
Kerry
still pushes Senate for Syria action:
The US secretary of state spoke before the US
Senate's Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, a day after the chamber decided to
delay a vote on use of force, originally scheduled for Wednesday. He told the
committee that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had responded to calls for
diplomacy with violence, and that it was the Syrian regime, not the US
government, that had chosen the current situation.
John
Kerry accused of lying about being opposed to the Iraq War:
Secretary of
State John Kerry added to his public embarrassments as he was accused of lying
today when he claimed that he and Secretary of State Chuck Hagel had 'opposed
the president's decision to go into Iraq'.
War pimp says:
UN
resolution on Syria to test if Russian chemical weapons plan is 'ruse':
British PM says
UK, France and US will table resolution to see if Moscow's proposal is delaying
tactic
War pimp says:
French
Foreign Min: Russian Proposal on Syria May be a Trap to be Avoided:
France wants at
least three conditions to be associated to prevent the proposal from becoming an
eleventh-hour manipulation, he said.
Senate
delays Syria vote as Obama loses momentum:
President
Obama's push for congressional approval for military airstrikes in Syria ran
aground Monday, forcing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to delay a
procedural vote as opposition builds among senators in both
parties.
Syrian opposition
slams Russia plan:
Syria's main opposition group denounced as a
"political manoeuvre" a Russian plan to head off threatened punitive US
airstrikes on Syria by destroying the regime's chemical weapons.
War criminal:
Sen.
John McCain and Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer draft alternative Syria
resolution:
The alternative
legislation would direct the UN to pass a resolution confirming that chemical
weapons were used in Syria. Then UN officials would go in to the civil war-torn
country and remove existing chemical weapons caches by a certain
time.
Pro-Israel groups
in United States scramble to save Syria strike resolution:
AIPAC, AJC, WJC lobby as over 150 House
members signal they will oppose measure; Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, an
American Israel Public Affairs Committee official acknowledged the difficulty of
the task ahead, calling it a "challenge well worth undertaking." "It's
difficult, but it's doable," the official said.
Intercepts caught
Assad rejecting requests to use chemical weapons, German paper says:
Syrian
President Bashar Assad has repeatedly rejected requests from his field
commanders for approval to use chemical weapons, according to a report this
weekend in a German newspaper.
Leaked
Iranian letter warned US that Syrian rebels have chemical weapons:
According to
leaked diplomatic correspondence, Iran has been warning Washington since July
2012 that Sunni rebel fighters have acquired chemical weapons, and called on the
US to send "an immediate and serious warning" to rebel groups not to use
them.
'CIA
fabricated evidence to lure US into war with Syria':
The intelligence gathered against Syria's
Assad was manufactured by elements within the spy community in order to mislead
the US President to take punitive action, Ray McGovern, a veteran CIA analyst,
told RT.
Syrian
rebels plan chem attack on Israel from Assad-controlled territories:
A chemical
attack may be launched on Israel by Syrian rebels from government-controlled
territories as a "major provocation," multiple sources told RT.
Al
Qaeda's strength with Syrian rebels now being downplayed:
The Obama
administration has started to rebrand Syria's rebels by de-emphasizing the
number of al Qaeda fighters among them - a move critics say is based on
questionable intelligence designed to downplay the risks associated with a U.S.
military strike on the regime of President Bashar Assad.
Obama:
Even Michelle's answer on war 'is no':
President Obama
acknowledged Monday that even his wife, Michelle, is skeptical of having the
U.S. become embroiled in another overseas military conflict
Sign
the Peace Voter Pledge: Send a message to Congress that they will hear and
understand.:
"I pledge that
I will not vote to reelect any member of Congress who votes for the
Authorization for the Use of Military Force against Syria."
U.S.
media suppressed 2009 UN report showing Israel using chemical weapons against
Palestinians:
Obama ignores
Israel's chemical weapons abuse while targeting Syrian government that may not
be responsible for recent chemical attacks
Liberman: Israel
will have to deal with Iranian "threat" on its own:
As Russian
initiative reduces likelihood of quick US reaction to Syria's nerve gas use,
tough-talking ex-FM says Jewish state has 'no expectations or demands from the
world'
A
'Message' to Iran-or Misinformation?:
The
International Atomic Energy Agency "does not say Iran has a bomb, nor does it
say it is building one, only that its multiyear effort pursuing nuclear
technology is sophisticated and broad enough that it could be consistent with
building a bomb."
Turkish
man killed as police clash with protesters in Antakya:
A 22-year-old
man was killed in southern Turkey after fresh protests over a 14-year-old left
in a coma during anti-government demonstrations in June, a news agency reported
on Tuesday.
Roadside bombs
kill 11 in Afghanistan, including on bus that took detour to avoid an explosive:
Two roadside bombs killed 11 people in
Afghanistan on Tuesday, including passengers on a bus that took a detour to
avoid a bomb-laden road, officials said.
NATO
kills civilians in Afghanistan, claims Karzai:
President Hamid
Karzai has condemned a NATO air strike in Afghanistan's lawless east that Afghan
officials say may have killed up to eight civilians, the latest evidence of
friction between the president and his international backers
Pakistan to
release senior Afghan Taliban prisoner:
The Afghan
government has long demanded that Islamabad free Baradar, whose arrest in
January 2010 saw Pakistan accused of sabotaging initiatives to bring peace in
war-torn Afghanistan.
Egyptian army
kills 9 "militants" in Sinai offensive:
Egyptian army
troops backed by helicopter gunships attacked hideouts of Islamic militants in
Sinai on Tuesday, killing nine and arresting 10, a military official said. The
latest raids raised the death toll from four days of operations to
29.
Libyan
student who attended anti-war protests in London faces life imprisonment in
Libya:
A Libyan
student who studied in the UK is facing life imprisonment in Libya for taking
part in a pro-Gaddafi anti-war protest in London two years ago.
The
NSA's next move: silencing university professors?:
A Johns Hopkins
computer science professor blogs on the NSA and is asked to take it down. I fear
for academic freedom
NSA
spying on Petrobras, if proven, is industrial espionage:
President Dilma
Rousseff : Brazil's Globo television network reported on Sunday that the U.S.
National Security Agency hacked into the computer networks of Petrobras and
other companies, including Google Inc., citing documents leaked by former NSA
contractor Edward Snowden.
Another
Reason The NSA Needs To Go: It's Been Doing What It Explicitly Was Told Not To
Do:
Even if the NSA
is told to stop doing the various things it's doing, it's only a matter of time
until they do them anyway.
Documents Shed
Light on US Border Laptop Searches:
The documents,
obtained by our client David House as a result of his lawsuit against the
Department of Homeland Security, demonstrate how the government is abusing its
border search authority to evade constitutional restrictions on its surveillance
powers.
6 ways
your life is personally affected by the War on Drugs:
US drug policy
has unequivocally curtailed your basic civil rights, regardless of whether
you're a user
Richest
one percent take home record share of US income in 2012:
New analysis of
IRS data finds that income gap has widened to its highest levels in a
century
Study:
America's Public Pensions Are Even Deeper In Debt Than Previously Thought:
Some funny
bookkeeping practices mean that cities like Detroit face an even deeper public
pension funding crisis.
United
State sets another food stamp record:
Households on
food stamps at new peak and more Americans live in poverty compared to the
entire population of Spain.
Tiny
kidneys are world's first 3D printed organs living;
Two years ago,
Anthony Atala took to the stage at TED and showed the world that human organs
could be 3D printed. Now, a team from eastern China has successfully printed a
series of living kidneys. This is a huge step forward in the quest for 3D
printed replacement organs.
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"Let
us be peace and joy"
Tom
Feeley
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