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The End of Syria as We Know It?

Why Obama is Declaring War on Syria...

(BEIRUT) - The short answer is Iran and Hezbollah according to Congressional sources. “The Syrian army’s victory at al-Qusayr was more than the administration could accept given that town’s strategic position in the region. Its capture by the Assad forces has essentially added Syria to Iran’s list of victories starting with Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, as well as its growing influence in the Gulf.”

Other sources are asserting that Obama actually did not want to invoke direct military aid to the rebels...

Betrayal in Benghazi

Edited for Salem-News by Richard Nauman

(WASHINGTON DC) - The combat code of the US Military is that we don't abandon our dead or wounded on the battlefield. In US Air Force lingo, fighter pilots don't run off and leave their wingmen. If one of our own is shot down, still alive and not yet in enemy captivity, we will either come to get him or die trying.

Among America's fighting forces, the calm, sure knowledge that such an irrevocable bond exists is priceless.

Britons in Aid Convoy Kidnapped and Sexually Assaulted in Libya

Three women taking part in aid convoy to Gaza were attacked in Benghazi.

(BENGHAZI The Guardian) - Three women who were part of an aid convoy passing through Libya on the way to Gaza have been sexually assaulted in Benghazi, after a group of five British nationals were briefly kidnapped.

The three women, two of whom are sisters, were part of a large aid convoy travelling to the Gaza Strip.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Who`s Playing With the Imam Sadr Case and Why?

Is Kuwait trying to scapegoat the Palestinians? Graphics by Alex

(BEIRUT) - The Imam Musa Sadr, Sheik Mohammad Yaacoub, and journalist Abbas Badreddine case, are like the Tell Tale Heart in Edgar Allen’s Poe novel.

They simply will not stop crying out for justice despite more than three decades of political efforts to close the file.

Extremely Graphic! Libyan Arab Spring: Making: Wine from Dead Bodies

Wish you would tell us more on the subject of making wine from the bodies of the dead and even the living, how could this happen? Is it fit for human consumption?

(TRIPOLI) - Here’s a shocking side of the ‘democracy’ the Arab Spring brought to Libya, remember Libya?

It’s an oil rich country north of Africa that the west intervened by itself to ‘protect’ its people from themselves...

Tipping Point or Turning Point? A Watershed Speech at the Opera

Mr. Assad, in what historians and Middle East analysts may well dub an historic speech, offered a new plan to immediately end the crisis...

(DAMASCUS, Syria) - Easy walking distance from this observer’s hotel near the city center is the Damascus Opera House, the site of yesterday’s Presidential address.

It was inaugurated in May of 2004 by the President and his wife, completing a project of his late father, Hafez, who actually planned the opera house in detail, but which had been put on hold since the late 1970’s.

Update from Syria: Will Syria Go on the Offensive at The Hague?

The US led sanctions violate international humanitarian law due to the negative health effects of the sanctions on the civilian population of Syria.

(LA MAISON D'AVOCATS, Damascus) - It started even before the historic 139 to 8 vote of the UN General Assembly on November 29 of this year which opened up a plethora of legal remedies for Palestinians.

A “legal intifada” — to borrow a phrase from Professor Francis Boyle — has been taking form in this region.

Of Benghazi and the Liberty

Only the orders of the President of the USA could have put that nuclear air unit on high level alert.

(ST AUGUSTINE, FL) - A Texas writer, Robert Morrow, sent me the following:

There is an extremely important book that came out in 2003 and was published by Vision. It is "Operation Cyanide-Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III " by Peter Hounam and it is about Israel's attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967.

Damascus Street Notes : Syrian Students Condemn American Led Sanctions that Escalate Food Cost

Damascenes are tense, sullen, but not panicked following what many consider terrorist acts by so-called “rebels.”

(DAMASCUS Al Manar) - “Who does that obnoxious woman think she is?”

The demand came from a staffer in the Russian Embassy media office inside the vast windowless soviet style massive high walled compound.

Flooding Syria with Foreign Arms: A View from Damascus

Whose weapons are in the hands of Syrian rebels?

(DAMASCUS Al Manar) - Among the top 24 countries sending weapons to Syria to achieve regime change are USA, Iraq and Israel. The 24 arms suppliers constitute the majority of NATO’s 28 country membership.

They are all benefiting from the crisis in Syria by injecting arms and watching the two sides kill and destroy their hope for a solid future.