Two Things You Don't Know About Syria (If You Only Read The Mainstream Press)

07-22-2012 • Reuters

The current events are not some new phenomenon, are not directly tied to the phony "Arab Spring" democratization movement (Saudi Arabia promoting democracy? Are you joking?). In fact this is a flare up of longstanding attempts to overthrow the Syrian

US Writing New Syrian Constitution - "Tutoring" the SNC For Syria Take Over

07-22-2012 • http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Tony Cartalucci

The US State Department, via the "US Institute of Peace" is working directly with Syrian "opposition" groups to formulate a "government" to put into place, if and when NATO covert military operations succeed in collapsing the Syrian state.

Syria Roulette

07-21-2012 • http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Stephen Lendman

In Las Vegas, the house seldom loses. Rarely are dirty Washington schemes foiled. It's playing hardball against Syria.

Report: Assad Disappears from Damascus

07-20-2012 • israelnationalnews, Chana Ya'ar and Reuters

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to have disappeared from Damascus after his top security staff was killed in a suicide bombing.

Damascus bomb shows "real momentum" against Assad - U.S.

07-18-2012 • Reuters

A suicide bombing that killed members of Bashar al-Assad's inner circle as fighting raged in the Syrian capital showed the uprising was gaining "real momentum", Washington said, urging other countries to press the president to quit.

US "Intelligence Assets" leading the Syrian "Opposition", the Role of the Bilder

07-18-2012 • http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Chris Marsden

In a July 12 article for the Guardian’s “Comment is Free” section, Charlie Skelton poses the fundamental question the world’s media does not want asked.

West is using 'blackmail' in new draft of UN resolution on Syria - Lavrov

07-17-2012 • http://www.rt.com/news/blackmail-resolution-syria-

Western governments are trying to blackmail Russia into supporting their interpretation of the Syrian resolution, said Russia’s Foreign Minister.

Details of a Battle Challenge Reports of a Syrian Massacre

07-16-2012 • New York Times

New details emerging about what local Syrian activists called a massacre of civilians near the central city of Hama indicated it was more likely an uneven clash between the heavily armed Syrian military and local armed rebels.

Syria has begun moving its chemical weapons stockpile out of storage, U.S. warns

07-15-2012 • Daily Mail

Syria has started to move part of its chemical weapons arsenal out of storage facilities, according to U.S. officials. The country's undeclared stockpiles of sarin nerve agent, mustard gas and cyanide have long worried the U.S. officials and its a

Syrian Opposition's Amazing CIA Credentials

07-13-2012 • Lew Rockwell blog

The amazingly open ties of the Syrian opposition to their Western paymasters. As the astonishing Guardian story linked in the MoA piece outlines, down to the person these Syrian engines of regime change are products of the US empire and its intervent

George Galloway on Syria

07-13-2012 • youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)

George Galloway warns against western intervention in Syria.

Why Turkey won't go to war with Syria

07-13-2012 • http://www.aljazeera.com, Pepe Escobar

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has yet to understand the new deal struck between Russia and the US.

Covering Syria: The information war - "distortion, manipulation, lies and videotape"

07-12-2012 • Aisling Byrne, Asia Times

The aim being precisely to elicit a heart-wrenching emotional response in Western audiences that trumps all other considerations and makes the call for Western/Gulf intervention to effect regime change.

Russia sends warships to Syria

07-11-2012 • http://www.telegraph.co.uk, By Tom Parfitt

Russia despatched a flotilla of warships to its naval base in the Syrian port of Tartus on Tuesday in an apparent show of support for President Bashar al-Assad.

War on Syria and Imperial Hubris: Clinton Demands Russia And China to “Pay The Price”

07-09-2012 • http://www.globalresearch.ca,

At the third meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria in Paris on July 6, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proved once again that diplomacy is to the United States what refined dining etiquette is to a jackal.

Syriagate: Western firm's advice for Syria proves ineffective in media war

07-08-2012 • http://www.rt.com

Syria received specific guidance from a private communications company on how to fight back in a massive media battle launched by the West, a fresh leak of Syria-linked files has revealed. But that war was lost the day it began.

Wikileaks Publishes the 'Syrian Files'

07-06-2012 • http://www.commondreams.org, staff

Email trove to shed light on the ongoing conflict in Syria including critical look at Assad regime, opposition forces, and western influence

Ocean explorer Bob Ballard finds bodies of Turkish pilots shot down by Syria

07-04-2012 • Washington Post

elebrated ocean explorer and Titanic finder Bob Ballard, working for the Turkish government, has located the bodies of two Turkish pilots shot down by Syria over the eastern Mediterranean last month, the Turkish military said in a statement released

The faces of the dead in Syria’s unrest

07-04-2012 • Washington Post

Day by day, the death count in Syria climbs as headlines mark dozens of men, women and children shot and stabbed in Houla, or entire families killed in Qubeir. But beyond the numbers, scant attention is paid to the individuals who have lost their

Saudi warns against travel to Lebanon

07-02-2012 • AFP

Tensions in Lebanon are rising after deadly clashes linked to the conflict in neighboring Syria erupted on several occasions in the past few months. Syria and Lebanon share a complex web of political and sectarian ties and rivalries that often spill