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Obama set for holy Tomahawk war

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 By Pepe Escobar

The ''responsibility to protect'' (R2P) doctrine invoked to legitimize the 2011 war on Libya has just transmogrified into ''responsibility to attack'' (R2A) Syria. Just because the Obama administration says so.

On Sunday, the White House said it had ''very little doubt'' that the Bashar al-Assad government used chemical weapons against its own citizens. On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry ramped it up to ''undeniable'' - and accused Assad of ''moral obscenity''.

So when the US bombed Fallujah with white phosphorus in late 2004 it was just taking the moral high ground. And when the US target="_blank" href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/activity;src%3D3931252%3Bmet%3D1%3Bv%3D1%3Bpid%3D99619697%3Baid%3D273817041%3Bko%3D0%3Bcid%3D53784587%3Brid%3D53697746%3Brv%3D1%3Bcs%3Dv%3Beid1%3D1151892%3Becn1%3D1%3Betm1%3D0%3B_dc_redir%3Durl%3fhttp://ad.doubleclick.net/click%3Bh%3Dv8/3e…

Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack

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by Dale Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh, August 31, 2013
Dale Gavlak assisted in the research and writing process of this article, but was not on the ground in Syria. Reporter Yahya Ababneh, whom the report was written in collaboration with, was the correspondent on the ground in Ghouta who spoke directly with the rebels, their family members, victims of the chemical weapons attacks and local residents.

Gavlak is a MintPress News Middle East correspondent who has been freelancing for the AP as a Amman, Jordan correspondent for nearly a decade. This exclusive report is not an Associated Press article, rather it is exclusive to MintPress News.


Ghouta, Syria – As the machinery for a U.S.-led military intervention in Syria gathers pace following last week’s chemical weapons attack, the U.S. and its allies may be targeting the wrong culprit.

Interviews with people in Damascus and Ghouta, a suburb of the Syrian capital, where the humanitarian agency Doctors Without Borders …

DEBUNKING THE “US GOVERNMENT ASSESSMENT OF THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT’S USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS ON AUGUST 21, 2013″

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Posted on August 30, 2013 by Alexandra Valiente
By Eric Draitser

The document entitled “U.S. Government Assessment of the Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013”, released in tandem with public statements made by Secretary of State John Kerry, is merely summary of a manufactured narrative designed to lead the US into yet another criminal and disastrous war in the Middle East.  Having been released prior to even preliminary reports from UN chemical weapons investigators on the ground in Syria, the document is as much a work of fiction as it is fact.
It begins with the conclusion that “The United States Government assesses with high confidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on August 21, 2013.”  Naturally, one would immediately wonder how such a conclusion was reached when even the expert investigators on the ground have yet to conclude their own study.  If these experts with years of training in the…

Global front being formed against war on Syria: Analyst

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A global front is being formed against Washington’s potential unilateral plan to wage war against Syria, a political analyst tells Press TV.

“As the world wakes up, as the British parliament votes against a war on Syria, as people here in the US plan to turn out in a massive demonstration which will begin against war on Syria, it seems that Russia and China are also emboldened to stand up,” said Kevin Barrett in a Friday interview.

“I think the world is waking up. We have been living in an era of nonstop deception and with illegal wars of aggression since the September 11 coup d’état in the US and slowly but surely the world is catching on to these deceptions,” he added.
The analyst noted that the new US scenario against Syria is reminiscent of Washington’s similar plot “in the run-up to the war on Iraq when lies about alleged weapons of mass destruction were being said around by the same people.”

In 2003, the US and Britain invaded Iraq in blatant violation of internationa…

US revealed as enemy of world

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By Finian Cunningham
The USS San Antonio departs Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia on October 31, 2012. Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:41PM By Finian Cunningham
Can you believe how ridiculous these American puppets sound? 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. So, how’s that for credibility? The only support Washington can muster is from a feudal, sword-wielding, head-chopping regime and a criminal pariah genocidal state. Coalition of the Willing? More like Coalition of the Killing. Related Interviews: 'Israel behind the war in Syria'‘Iraq violence tied to Syria turmoil’ The United States of America stands exposed in the eyes of the entire world as the number-one terrorist threat to the future of humanity. Many have known this fact already, but now it is universally clear.
As the US prepares to launch an overt war on Syria (the covert war has been …

US-Israeli False Flag Gas Attack Unravels

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By William Bowles, williambowles.info Information Clearing House Friday, Aug 30, 2013

Commit a war crime to cover up a war crime?

I think what’s apparent here is that Mossad used a device that is quite common when governments/intelligence agencies want to plant a phoney story; release it through a relatively unknown publication and wait for it to be picked up by the MSM.

This is where it all started: The Israeli intelligence front the Debkafile, which is the source of the story that implicated the Assad government and/or its military in the gas attack on East Ghouta and now forms the basis for the war on Syria.
DEBKAfile’s military sources affirm that, just as the Assad brothers orchestrated the chemical shell attack on Syrian civilians, so too did Hizballah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah set in motion the rocket attack on Israel. – ‘The sarin shells fired on Damascus – by Syrian 4th Division’s 155th Brigade – were followed by rockets on Israel and car bombings in Lebanon‘. - Debkafile, 24…

Gilad Atzmon on Press TV - President Obama is 'confused' about possible attack on Syria

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Friday, August 30, 2013 at 10:16AMGilad Atzmon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHRXgPoe4PI

Resistance Is Our Destiny

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By: Ibrahim al-Amin Published Saturday, August 31, 2013
To hell with all the talk about democracy backed by the United States, France, Britain … and Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel.
To hell with every bid for freedom with the support of these murderers.

To hell with every fool, criminal, and coward, no matter what they look like, what they are called, where they live, or what they do.

To hell with all those who support an international war to topple Syria.

To hell with this bunch of collaborators, who people will no doubt will hold accountable one day, come chaos or stability.

To hell with all traitors, their speeches, their false tears, and to hell with their human rights groups and their subservient civil society organizations.

Israeli infantry soldiers walk in a deployment training area in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria on 29 August 2013. (Photo: AFP - Menahem Kahana)
The decision to wage war on Syria is only the last step in the course set two and …

WHEN WESTERN WARMONGERS CAN NO LONGER LAUNDER THEIR LIES

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Posted on August 30, 2013 by Alexandra Valiente
By Finian Cunninghgam

The British parliament’s rejection of military action in Syria this week may be just enough to halt the manic march to all-out war – a war that many fear would not only engulf the Middle East region, but could lead to a global conflagration. The manic march is under the orders of the imperial rulers in Washington, London and Paris – in apparent defiance of a global consensus that is sick of endless, illegal, bankrupting wars conducted by these unaccountable rogue Western regimes. But could we have reached a positive turning point? Could Syria represent a Damascene moment of revelation? This would not be due to any benign awakening among the Western political class, but rather out of a sense that the vast majority of ordinary people are acutely aware and implacably against any further war-making propaganda stunts. The British parliamentary vote against military action in Syria is reflective of the public ange…