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How the Sunni-Shia Schism is Dividing the World

The unprecedented Saudi refusal to take up its Security Council seat is not just about Syria but a response to the Iranian threat

(BEIRUT The Independent ) - The Muslim world’s historic – and deeply tragic – chasm between Sunni and Shia Islam is having worldwide repercussions.

Syria’s civil war, America’s craven alliance with the Sunni Gulf autocracies, and Sunni (as well as Israeli) suspicions of Shia Iran are affecting even the work of the United Nations.

Press TV - The Debate (Topic Syria) Ken O`Keefe vs. Lee Kaplan

Enjoy these dinosaurs while they are still around because their days of utility in a world waking up are clearly numbered.

(LONDON) - Lee Kaplan provides a classic example of the propagandists methods, divert, make personal attacks, revert to tired historical myths like America liberated Europe in World War II so as to imply the massive crimes during WWII and since do not matter.

I hope to be in a debate with Lee many more times as he provides one gift after another in terms of providing material that exposes the shallow, baseless foundation of lies that our global system of tyranny is built upon.

Hypocrisy of the Paranoid

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. --Andre Gide

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Americans carry a tremendous amount of guilt around with them (paranoia) as they preach moral behaviour. (hypocrisy)

Constant reminders of the holocaust during WWII are designed to keep six million victims of German camps firmly in the minds of all.

Postwar Reconstruction Looms...
Passing the Torch to a New Generation of Syrians

Reconstruction of Syria will be aided by three regime reshuffles since the beginning of the March 2011 uprising, which has infused much ‘new blood’ into the Syrian government.

(BEIRUT) - Few, one imagines, in the Syrian Arab Republic these days question the urgency and enormity of the task of reconstruction of their ancient country from war inflicted destruction caused by a carnage already more than half as long as World War I and approaching half as long as World War II.

For this ten millennium civilization and its thousands of priceless treasures, many partially destroyed, emergency efforts are needed today to preserve and protect the structures from thieves and war damage. Not many here would disagree with this priority of the Syrian government.

Is the `Blue Lantern Report` Secretly Aiding Both Sides of a Middle Eastern Civil War?

Is America again playing both sides against the middle for corporate gain as previously demonstrated by the Cuban Project of the fifties and sixties as well as the Iran Contra fiasco of the eighties and the Drug Wars of the nineties?

(COLORADO SPRINGS) - As an American citizen, I have a few questions I would like to ask Congress and The Senate of the United States, as well as the President.

Its obvious our Main Stream Media is not allowed to ask these type questions during their press conferences. If so, they would be thrown out of the room on their butts.

Truth of US-Russia Confrontation

Aggression was over the Moment those Two Missiles were Fired.

(DAMASCUS) - A well informed diplomatic source told As-Safir newspaper that...

“The US war on Syria had started and ended the moment those two ballistic missiles were fired, leaving inconsistent information, as Israel denied and Russia confirmed, until an Israeli statement was issued indicating they were fired in the context of an Israeli-US joint drill and fell in the sea, and that they were not related to the Syrian crisis.”

CIA Using Direct Commercial Sales Program to Arm Jihadist Rebels in Syria

It has been revealed that the CIA was actively smuggling weapons to Syrian rebels as the attack on the Benghazi Embassy was waged.

(OZARK, MO) - Most Americans had never even heard of Bashar al-Assad, Syria's President, until Obama started ranting about chemical weapons. I talk to people frequently who still can't identify him by name. They are often dumbfounded when they learn that this country has done little to deserve its wrath from the western powers, with the USA in the lead.

The Syrian rebels are far from rational, they are a sect of Islam that does not seek peace, nor do they accept a secular government like Assad's where Christians and Muslims and Jews lived peacefully together.

The Warmongers Will Play Along with Commonsense for a While but Eventually Come Back onto their Original Course

Henry Bellingham: “What is the Party doing, please, to rein in its dangerous loons before it's too late?”

(LONDON) - My MP Henry Bellingham has replied promptly to a letter on 26 August about the US and UK’s eagerness to “jump the gun” on Syria.

This was before the famous vote in Parliament and while media headlines were screaming: "Britain is planning to join forces with America and launch military action against Syria within days in response to the gas attack believed to have been carried out by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces against his own people..."

UN Rights Council Says Syria Gas Attack Videos, Photos Fake: Russia

Russia says the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has confirmed that the videos and photos purporting to show the victims of a chemical attack near the Syrian capital, Damascus, were fabricated.

(DAMASCUS) - The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a Tuesday statement that international experts as well as Syrian public and religious leaders presented their evidence to the 24th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 9.

It also said evidence provided by numerous witnesses confirms that militants fighting against the Syrian government used chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of western Ghouta last month.

Arriving First in Syria: Will 1000 American `Human Shields` Stop Another Criminal War?

One common topic being discussed is the reluctance of the American public to attack Syria and how Obama can ignore it. “What kind of Democracy do you have that your President can ignore the will of the American public?”

(DAMASCUS) - A sort of roller coaster atmosphere pervades Damascus these days with “good” and “bad” news rising and falling, often by the quarter hour.

Much of the population is monitoring closely the news and quickly expressing their interpretations of the latest media reports and rumors as well as predicting the fairly precise timing of the now assumed American attack on their country.