This week’s US Congressional session captured well the mood and essence of the debate on the question of military action in Syria. It is unfortunate that many questions remained unaddressed, or lacked full transparency. First, is it the intent of a military intervention only to punish Syria for a chemical […]
Day: September 5, 2013
Obama Administration Stoking Sunni Violence Against Alawites and Shi’as in Syria
One thing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry avoided telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his plea for approval of the Syria war resolution is how the Central Intelligence Agency and militant Saudi intelligence-backed Al Qaeda elements are targeting Alawite and Shi’a communities in Syria. The Alawites, the minority […]
Urgent Need for Superpower Summit
Now that Russia and China have warned the United States against militarily intervening on behalf of the Syrian rebels, the need for a separate superpower summit between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin is more urgent than ever. The dangers of a super-collision over a Middle East crisis are greater than […]
Lies, Damned Lies, and Killing Fields in Syria
The world has an America problem. Washington’s paranoiac claims of armed altruism in Syria are a humbug. They regularly lie to use force and shamelessly sell wars to the American people. They bully nations to accept their version of the half truths. The US officials gave false evidence to annihilate […]
Which Americans will arrive first to Syria?
Will 1000 American ‘human shields’ stop another criminal war? Damascus A sort of roller coaster atmosphere pervades Damascus these days with “good” and “bad” news rising and falling, often by the quarter hour. Much of the population is monitoring closely the news and quickly expressing their interpretations of the latest […]
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