Washington’s statements threatening to use military force against Syria unilaterally are unacceptable, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement.

The intelligence assessment the US administration presented as evidence that the Syrian government deployed chemical weapons on its own people is baseless and based on “terrorist lies” and “media exaggeration,” Syrian foreign ministry sources say.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said during a speech Friday that US intelligence had determined “with high confidence” that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for killing hundreds of people in a chemical weapons attack last week.

Wenn Obama jetzt Syrien angreift, ohne Deckung von der UNO oder von der NATO oder vom amerikanischen Volk oder vom Kongress und indem er Repräsentantenhaus und Senat ignoriert, wird Obama vor der ganzen Welt eindeutig als Kriegsverbrecher dastehen.

Continental powerhouse South Africa says it opposes Western military intervention in Syria, a stance that appears to mirror that of other African nations and align with United Nations Security Council members China and Russia.

With a few exceptions in the past half-century, there has been a simple rule of thumb when it comes to international conflict: America does not use force without Britain at its side.

In dieser kriegshetzerischen Rede des amerikanischen Außenministers kommt die ganze Scheinheiligkeit und Obszönität der Kriegsverbrecher – der „Führer“ des Westens – zum Ausdruck

Secretary of State says US will not wait for UN weapons inspectors to finish work before decision on military action.

The Russian and Chinese officials walked out of the U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Wednesday, August 28, after U.S. Permanent Representative Samantha Power had called for an immediate action in Syria.

We‘ve pointed out many times now how the old guard media seems to hate the new guard, in part because they‘re not getting their stories the „old fashioned way“ — which is buddying up to government officials and having them as „sources“ where the reporter acts as an unofficial press officer for the government. Instead, when a Glenn Greenwald comes along, and gets information from Ed Snowden, he‘s accused of criminal acts.

A prominent Sunni Muslim cleric offered tacit support on Friday for any Western strike on Syria in response to an apparent chemical attack on civilians, suggesting foreign powers were God‘s instrument for vengeance.

Gestern bei “Beckmann”, einer ARD-Tlak-Sendung, wagte sich Nahost-Experte Lüders von einer in der Syrien-Diskussion scheinbar allgemeingültigen Sprachregelung weg und wandte stattdessen reine Logik an. Aber nicht nur das. Er sprach auch offen über im Irak-Krieg verwendete Uranmunition, über US-Beteiligung an Giftgas-Einsätzen und über eine mögliche Verschwörung gegen Syrien.

Freitag, 6. September 2013
18:00 (UTC+02)
US-Airbase Wiesbaden

Sonntag, 1. September 2013
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TTZ, Marburg

Matinee zu Syrien
mit dem außenpolitischen Sprecher der Fraktion DIE LINKE im Bundestag Wolfgang Gehrcke und der Journalistin Christiane Reymann

Frankfurt am Main – Das „Frankfurter Solidaritätskomitee für Syrien“ ruft zu einer Demonstration unter dem Motto „ NATO, Golfmonarchien, Israel:

Hände weg von Syrien!“
am Samstag, dem 31. August 2013, anlässlich des diesjährigen Antikriegstages, in Frankfurt
am Main auf.

Samstag, 31. August 2013
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Köln, am Römerbogen auf der Domplatte
Kundgebung zum Antikriegstag 2013 – Nie wieder Krieg!

As more than 100 lawmakers on Capitol Hill implore the Obama administration to ask for their approval before taking military action in Syria, the American public steps in to back them up.

Die Existenz der Tailored Access Operations (TAO), einer speziellen Abteilung bzw. Einheit der NSA zur geheimdienstlichen Aufklärung durch Infiltration ausländischer Rechner und Netzwerke, war schon länger bekannt.

Das Kabel verbindet 33 Länder auf vier Kontinenten – und wird demnach von mindestens drei westlichen Diensten abgehört.

Saudi Arabia, a supporter of rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad, has raised its level of military alertness in anticipation of a possible Western strike in Syria, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Jordanians protest in Amman against western military intervention in Syria, which they believe would put Jordan at risk.

Adel Daoud is an American teen who was arrested last year in one of the FBI‘s many infamous home grown plots, in which FBI agents entice people into claiming they want to take part in a terror plot, plan the whole thing, give the person a fake bomb, and then arrest them. In this case, the „plot“ which only involved Daoud and a bunch of FBI agents, was supposedly to bomb a Chicago bar. Daoud had no actual way of doing this until the FBI showed up and „helped.“ And then arrested him and celebrated, while admitting the public was „never at risk.“ Well, duh.

Wir schlagen deshalb vor, den bevorstehenden G20-Gipfel zu nutzen, um einen Ausweg aus der Gewaltspirale in Syrien zu finden. Der Gipfel sollte eine Vierergruppe, bestehend aus dem UN-Generalsekretär, dem amerikanischen und dem russischen Präsidenten und dem Generalsekretär der Arabischen Liga bitten, gemeinsam Verantwortung zunächst für eine Durchbrechung der Gewaltspirale und mittelfristig für einen politischen Prozess zu übernehmen.

(28.08.) Bundeskanzlerin Merkel telefonierte heute Abend erneut mit dem britischen Premierminister Cameron über die Situation in Syrien. Beide waren sich einig: Der flächendeckende Einsatz von Giftgas gegen die syrische Zivilbevölkerung ist inzwischen hinreichend belegt. Und: Das syrische Regime verfügt über die entsprechenden Kampfstoffe, das Know-how zu dessen Einsatz und die Träger für dessen Ausbringung.

Dieser Giftgasangriff ist eine Zäsur in dem schon lange andauernden internen Konflikt. Das syrische Regime darf nicht hoffen, diese Art der völkerrechtswidrigen Kriegführung ungestraft fortsetzen zu können. Daher ist nach Ansicht der Kanzlerin wie des Premierministers eine internationale Reaktion unabdingbar.

George Galloway syria speech. Parliament Debates Military Action Against Syria. George Galloway speaks as The British House of Commons holds an urgent debate on possible military action against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Prime Minister David Cameron recalled parliament following reports of a chemical weapons attack against Syrian citizens.

(02.06.) Im Folgenden ein kurzes Mosaik von ausgewählten Informationen

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Frank Thorp, of NBC News, and Reuters report that after the conference call, Rep. Eliot Engel, a Democrat from New York, said the administration told them intercepted communications from high level officials proved it was the regime, not the rebels who used chemical weapons.

The White House made very clear that it is beyond a doubt that chemical weapons were used, and used intentionally by the Assad regime. I agree with the President that the use of these weapons not only violates international norms, but is a national security threat to the United States.

(29.08.) Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee was joined by 53 Members of Congress on a letter to President Obama condemning the reported use of chemical weapons in Syria and calling for full congressional debate and appropriate response. The letter comes on the heels of rumors surrounding a military strike in Syria.

The war in Syria has no clear national security connection to the United States and victory by either side will not necessarily bring in to power people friendly to the United States

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The President has in the past insisted that Assad must go, but this week his press secretary insisted that regime change is not part of any planned action in Syria. Given this lack of strategic consistency, Congress has every right to ask what the basic purpose of this action would be? On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry expressed certainty that the Assad regime was responsible for the attack, but today we are learning there are outstanding questions about who actually ordered it and who controls the weapons. Given this confusion, Congress has every right to ask what the basis is for action at this time?

Some questioned the use of military force as a punitive measure and suggested that the White House lacks a coherent strategy. If the administration is ambivalent about the wisdom of defeating or crippling the Syrian leader, possibly setting the stage for Damascus to fall to fundamentalist rebels, they said, the military objective of strikes on Assad’s military targets is at best ambiguous.

Consider two recent polls. One, published by an American website, ranks French president François Hollande number one on a Top Ten list of the World’s Worst Politicians, ahead of Italy’s disgraced Silvio Berlusconi (2), and ousted Australian PM Julia Gillard (4)

A military strike could escalate into a wider conflict with many hundreds of thousands more victims and no exit strategy