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What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update

by Boris Dolgov

Moscow (Russia) | 30 January 2012
In this article Boris Dolgov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, reports on his recent trip to Syria. His field investigation is particularly valuable since most of the information about Syria in recent months has emanated from Beirut, Paris or London. Professor Dolgov confirms that, far from a contrived "Arab Spring" scenario, Syria is undeniably grappling with the threat of foreign occupation. He observes that while the offensive is inordinately violent, the population will not be intimidated. Aware of the disaster wrought by NATO "humanitarian" operations in Yugoslavia and Libya, the Syrians refuse to be drawn into a sectarian ambush. A process of reform and development is on track, but it will not be dictated from abroad. In Syria, one may object to the president, but not to national (...)

Syria: Repeated terrorist attacks against the population and public infrastructure

16 January 2012
If further proof were needed that Syria is not in the grips of a widespread revolt, but of a continuing string of attacks aimed to terrorize the population and fuel resentment toward a government which has proven to be too popular, the recent acts of sabotage of public facilities no longer leave little doubt.
In the province of Idleb, a handcrafted explosive device planted along the roadside killed six workers of a textile factory and wounded 16 others who were on a minibus headed to their (...)

Racism, secret war, murder and torture on Republican candidates’ foreign policy agenda

12 January 2012
In the race to the primary elections, the seven candidates vying for the Republican nomination have engaged in a neoconservative bidding war on foreign policy issues.
Mitt Romney, second in the polls and considered one of the more moderate candidates, called for "covert actions within Syriam, to get regime change there."
Rick Santorum, former senator from Pennsylvania, considered that Washington was behind the recent explosion of an Iranian missiles deposit and pledged to continue along (...)

Syria: another misconception

by Angie Todd

7 January 2012
Syria, the heart of the Middle East, in both a geostrategic and nationalist context. It shares borders with Iraq, Lebanon (where it has bases), Israel, Turkey and Iran, with which last country it has a strong alliance, recently confirmed by Iranian President Ahmadinejad in the context of the current heightened European and U.S. aggression against Syria, when he stated that Iran will not permit any foreign injustice there.
Syria has always been a staunch defender of Palestine, with more (...)

Free Syrian Army commanded by Military Governor of Tripoli

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 19 December 2011
In the wake of the "Arab Spring" and NATO interventions, both official and secret, Qatar seeks to impose Islamist leaders wherever possible. This strategy has led it not only to fund the Muslim Brotherhood and to hand Al-Jazeera over to them, but also to support Al Qaeda mercenaries, who will henceforth oversee the Free Syrian Army. However, this new scenario raises serious concerns in Israel and among the supporters of the "clash of civilizations."

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

What would Einstein say?

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 7 January 2011
In a Reflection published on August 25, 2010 under the title of “The Opinion of an Expert”, I mentioned a really unusual activity of the United States and its allies which, in my opinion, underlines the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran. I was referring to a long article by the well-known journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, published in the US journal The Atlantic in September of that year, entitled “The Point of No Return”.

Gates renewing "targeted killings" team

6 January 2011
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is about to name Michael A. Sheehan as deputy to oversee special operations, low-intensity conflict and interdependent capabilities.
Colonel Sheehan has a long track record of targeted killings. He rose to fame serving with the U.S. Army in Panama and El Salvador, and later as a UN blue helmet in Somalia and Haiti. Back to civilian life, he was appointed roving counterterrorism ambassador, followed by a senior peacekeeping role at the U.N.
A (...)

"Targeted killings" increase under Obama

6 June 2010
Far from having broken with the practice of extrajudicial executions (also known as "targeted killings") which the Bush administration had made ample use of, the Obama administration has turned it into a priority tool of intervention.
According to the Washington Post, the White House has set aside $ 9.8 billion for Special Operations in 2011 (6.3 billion funded from the general budget and 3.5 billion off costs) .
Under the authority of Admiral Eric T. Olson, secret interventions have (...)

Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Roza Revolution’ - Cui Bono: (Part 4)

Washington and the Kyrgyz future—Securing the Pivot

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 2 June 2010
In this fourth and final part, F. William Engdhal explains why the stakes for Washington in the Kyrgyzstan events are of vital geopolitical importance. Central Asia is key for Washington’s strategy of global dominance, hinging on the militarization of the entire region. To this end, time-tested tactics of Low Intensity Warfare are generating the pretext for NATO’s permanent expansion under the guise of the ‘war on terror’, with opium gainfully fueling the operations. In Central Asia, as Engdhal suggests, the survival of the U.S. empire hangs in the balance.

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Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?

by Benjamin Dangl, Wes Enzinna

22 April 2010
A resurgence of US-backed militarism threatens peace and democracy in Latin America. By 2005, US military aid to Latin America had increased by thirty-four times the amount spent in 2000. In a marked shift in US military strategy, secretive training of Latin American military and police personnel that used to just take place at the notorious School of the Americas, in Fort Benning, Georgia—including torture and execution techniques—is now decentralized in Budapest, Hungary; Bangkok, Thailand; Gaborone, Botswana; and Roswell, New Mexico.

Obama Declares War on Pakistan

by Webster G. Tarpley

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 15 December 2009
As he made clear in his West Point speech, President Obama is poised to use the escalation of the Afghan War as an excuse to further escalate the Pakistan War as well. Since taking office he has dramatically increased the number and severity of the drone strikes against northern Pakistan and is being pressed to expand the strikes into Baluchistan. According to Webster G. Tarpley, the most immediate goal of Obama’s Great Game strategy in this region is the dismemberment of both Afghanistan and Pakistan by fomenting a secessionist uprising among the ethnic groups on both sides of the border.

Afghanistan : Don’t Try to Arrest the Sea

by Mehar Omar Khan

3 December 2009
In the wake of President Obama’s announcement that he will send an additional contingent of troops to Afghanistan, a Pakistani Army officer who does not dispute the political justification of the U.S. "mission" in Afghanistan, does however point out that it is a military absurdity. As it has been defined, the mission is doomed to fail and the reported mid-term withdrawal is nothing but a ploy.

US seeks to fragment Iran and Pakistan

13 September 2009
Pakistani General Hamid Gul in a 2004 interview to ’India Abroad’, the largest circulated newspaper for the Indian-American community.
A former Pakistani intelligence chief asserts that the ultimate goal of the United States in Pakistan is cutting out a ’favorable state’ out of parts of Iran and Pakistan to run its regional operations.
In a Sunday interview with Press TV, former head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Hamid Gul said the US growing and suspicious presence in (...)

US Agencies Keep Trying to Destabilize Cuba

9 August 2009
Eva Golinger presenting her book: El Código Chávez
The Venezuelan-American researcher Eva Golinger said that several US agencies are investing on the destabilization of the Cuban Revolution through two types of operations.
The analyst explained that these actions are undertaken through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Golinger, who has devoted herself for many years to studying US harassment against Cuba, said that the (...)

Honeymoon over?

US military base plan fuels Latin American tensions

by Bill Van Auken

5 August 2009
While Barack Obama was enchanting his Latin American listeners at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad earlier this year, with promises of "equal partnership" and "mutual respect", plans to establish a base in South America that could be used "as a location from which mobility operations could be executed” were already in full swing. Recent developments in Honduras and, now, in Colombia have exposed Obama’s deceptive rhetoric, making it clear that Latin America is still regarded by Washington as its "own backyard" and that this president, too, is determined to keep it that way, albeit under a smoother veneer.

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