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Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

Guest Editorials: If you want to go to heaven, you had better get busy overthrowing Syria

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May 072013
 
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By Paul Craig Roberts

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The United States government has been at war for eleven years. The US military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting that had been kept in check by the secular Saddam Hussein government. On any given day in “liberated” Iraq, the death toll is as high as during the height of the US attempted occupation. Continue reading »

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Obama, Syria and the Arrogance of Imperialism

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May 062013
 
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Washington DC is an Imperial Nation

by RON JACOBS
The West will not stop its meddling until it gets what it wants, even if all of Syria is turned into a big heap of rusting rubble.

The US will not stop its insidious meddling until it gets what it wants.  Washington doesn’t care if all of Syria is turned into a big heap of rusting rubble.

Imperialists are not just arrogant, they are stupid.  Pretending that they might get a different result than previous US administrations have obtained before, the Obama administration is planning to send lethal arms to Syrian rebels.  According to the Washington Post, Obama and his advisors have been “edging” toward this decision for months.  Their rationale for jumping in now is because they believe it will give Washington more control over which rebel factions actually end up with the weaponry.  The expressed hope is that such arms would stay with the Free Syrian Army headed by Syrian Army defector General Salim Idriss.  Of course, as any student of war knows, once unleashed the demons that operate during such endeavors have a life of their own.  In other words, once the weaponry is in Syria, there is no telling who will end up with it.  The Syrians themselves are incapable of determining how their civil war will end.  Does Washington seriously think it can? Continue reading »

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The US and Israel’s Syrian Airstrikes

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May 062013
 
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SIlence Gives Consent 

by ROBERT FISK

Debris from Israeli strikes.

Debris from recent Israeli strikes. A casus belli under any standard, but Syria can’t afford to retaliate or properly defend herself and commit suicide. The villainy of these cowardly attacks is undeniable.

Lights in the sky over Damascus. Another Israeli raid – “daring” of course, in the words of Israel’s supporters, and the second in two days – on Bashar al-Assad’s weaponry and military facilities and weapons stores. The story is already familiar: the Israelis wanted to prevent a shipment of Iranian-made Fateh-110 missiles reaching Hezbollah in Lebanon;  they were being sent by the Syrian government. According, at least, to a ‘Western intelligence source’. Anonymous, of course. And it opens the old question: why when the Syrian regime is fighting for its life would it send advanced missiles out of Syria? Continue reading »

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Google Recognizes Palestinian Statehood

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May 062013
 
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by Stephen Lendman

Palestine's president M. Abbas reviews Turkish honor guard upon arrival in Turkey.

Palestine’s president M. Abbas (white hair) reviews Turkish honor guard upon arrival in Turkey.

On May 1, Google recognized Palestine. It did so on its homepage. Earlier it referred to “The Palestinian Territories.” More on that below. On January 4, Abbas’ presidential decree acknowledged the State of Palestine. It followed gaining UN nonmember observer status.  Continue reading »

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The Israeli strikes on Syria

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May 062013
 
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By Alex Lantier, wsws.org

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Israel’s bombing of Damascus International Airport Thursday night and Syrian army targets across Damascus yesterday morning are unprovoked and illegal acts of war, abetted by Washington and its European allies as part of their escalating campaign against Syria.

Russian media reported that 300 Syrian soldiers had been killed and hundreds more wounded in Sunday’s attacks alone. Continue reading »

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The Fall of Libya: A Study in Hypocrisy

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Apr 292013
 
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By Max Ajl

Gaddafi's brutal murder at the hands of fanatical hyenas unleashed on him by the Western alliance was a cynical and cold-blooded war crime. Hillary memorably joked about his killing.

Gaddafi’s brutal murder at the hands of the fanatical hyenas unleashed on him by the US-led Western alliance was a cynical and cold-blooded war crime. Hillary Clinton typically and memorably joked about his killing.

Global Research, April 29, 2013

Perhaps no war in recent memory has so thoroughly flummoxed the Euro-Atlantic left as the recent NATO war on Libya. Presaging what would occur as U.S. proxies carried out an assault on Syria, both a pro-war left and an anti-anti-war left started filling up socialist e-zines and broadsheets with endless explanations and tortuous justifications for why a small invasion, perhaps just a “no-fly-zone,” would be okay—so long as it didn’t grow into a larger intervention. They cracked open the door to imperialism, with the understanding that it would be watched very carefully so as to make sure that no more of it would be allowed in than was necessary to carry out its mission. Continue reading »

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