Tag: Syria

The story “hangs there,” a week now, no one will touch it other than the Times of Israel, their answer to VT, a publication run by former spies.

US military contracts for al-Qaeda - including provisions of ice cream - raise questions about the so-called "war on terror.":

In the last day of July 2013, Israel issued an unprecedented warning towards the "Syrian Free Army," the mercenaries attempting to topple the Syrian government.

This is the purified nectar of a series of emails that one of my readers—openly related to certain government—sent me a couple of years ago. He was trying to support a non-valid comparison he had made in answer to one of my articles.

Takfiri gourmets have been roaming the rebel-held areas seeking exotic bits of human flesh for their culinary orgies.

"In truth, the calls for ‘kinetic strikes’ on Syria came from Senator John McCain of Arizona, a member of the Israeli lobby who met with Al Qaeda leaders in the Arab country in late May, 2013.”

Could Western hypocrisy on terrorism could sink any lower?

- They have been blowing up and slaughtering innocent civilians without any bad publicity by people like Mr. Choudary

"It is an insult, don't say that, say Hmong, as we call ourselves," the man speaking with me said.

"It is an insult, don't say that, say Hmong, as we call ourselves," the man speaking with me said.

On July 16, 2013, at least 25 mortars landed next to an Israeli stronghold near Quneitra on the Golan Heights. Astonishing images published by Israeli media show that the IDF has been redeployed in an offensive pattern.

It is a mistake to look on what has become endless wars, first centering in the Middle East, as struggles over religion, political theories, sectarian struggles or post-colonial realignments. Each hypothesis fails.

Nothing debunks the success of a mission to destroy air defenses more than losing a plane to those defenses.

Egypt accused Iran of "unacceptable interference" in its domestic affairs for having criticized the Egyptian army's removal of elected president Mohamed Mursi last week.

Syria invites U.N. chemical arms chief, but access is in doubt --- From www.DefenseWeb.Co.Za --- The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad invited chief U.N. chemical weapons investigator Ake...

- The Sunburn anti-ship missile can fly at three times the speed of sound, giving targets only seconds to react

Obama calls them "rebels," Syria calls them "terrorists" but everyone agrees they are Al Qaeda.

The neocons did 9/11 to "take out seven countries in five years." They're behind schedule in Syria.

So much for the Muslim Brotherhood's "Rothschild Islamism."

Who are the Arabs, the Egyptians, the Syrians, the Palestinians? What do they believe in? What unites them? What separates them? What can they agree upon? What terrifies them? What makes them happy?

The following exchange is my response to an email that showed up this morning. I am awake early, before noon, as I have a conference call on a disaster relief project.

Takfiri "Muslims" and Zionist "Jews": Two sides of the same coin?

It was a breezy summer day; global warming was still in the future. The wind caressed the tall building, which didn't bend under that soft pressure.

The purpose of the story by Bloomberg News, now exposed as a hoax, was to hamstring and humiliate President Obama in his meetings with Putin and show American weakness and indecision on Syria...

After two years of hesitating, US President Barack Obamaannounced he will deliver arms to the Syrian rebels, citing unverified “proof” that the troops of the Syrian Bashar Al-Assad government used Sarin gas against so-called opposition rebels.

The Selling of "Snowden" The Selling of Snowden By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor We are told, "and how" we are told, aided by every discredited media hack on the planet, that poor Snowden is flying to Russia where he will either be given "safe passage" or "considered" for asylum.

He noted that the second shipment of the Russian systems will be delivered to Syria soon.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, commander-in-chief of the Iraqi armed forces, decided on the night of June 16, to move nearly 8,000 Iraqi troops toward the Iraqi-Syrian and Iraqi-Jordanian borders.

There's a new Sheriff in town in the Middle East. President Putin reminded Barry that he's in charge.

The US will now supply weapons and ammunition to Syrian rebels the Washington Post says are, not just Al Qaeda “affiliates” but working to destabilize and “Balkanize” Iraq as well:

The two minute video from this morning (Sunday, June 16, 2013) outlines the misguided policy of the US in Syria and its failures across the region

After resisting for more than two years hawkish political pressures to intervene militarily in Syria’s bitter civil war, the Obama administration apparently has decided that now’s the time.

“The danger here is that we fall into a totalitarian state. This is something the KGB, the Stasi or the Gestapo would have loved to have had.”

"The NSA is the largest signals intelligence agency in the world and has quite publicly recorded, and quite publicly admitted to as well, every international communications from every nation to any nation for many years. Everyone here knows that, or I thought they knew that, everyone but “the press” it seems.”

On May 26, 2013, the Hebrew headlines on ynet, the website of the Hebrew newspaper Yediot Ahronot, was the dream of George Orwell.

A US government report concluding Syria has used chemical weapons against rebels, crossing what US President Barack Obama has previously described as a “red line,” is a fabrication, a senior Russian lawmaker said Friday.

A Florida lawyer has written Congress alleging that some veterans are falsifying Department of Veterans Affairs benefit claims for sleep apnea.

Erdogan: Hoist with his own petard.

Erdogan: Hoist with his own petard.

- Eric Cantor wants to send the Marines into Lebanon, to be the cannon fodder he sees them to be.

The media in Israel is far more tolerant toward criticism than the Zionist dominated Media in the West.

VT editors Gordon Duff and Jeff Rense in 18 carefully selected minutes of clarity from a caffeine ridden "late night" rant session.