[64] 9/11 First Responders, US Funds Syrian Opposition, Food Stamps [video]
Russia Today
December 11, 2012
Abby Martin Breaks the Set on Hunger in America, the Washington Wall Street Revolving Door, 9/11 First Responders and Syria’s Civil War.
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EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin highlights Newark Mayor, Cory Booker, as the hero of the day for raising awareness of the 850,000 people in New Jersey who face hunger every day, and calls out white house advisor Bob Ryan for being the perfect example of the revolving door relationship between Washington and Wall Street Banks. Abby then talks to 9/11 first responder Michael McPhillips about the Zadroga Act and the delay to the funding that first responders not only need, but deserve. BTS wraps up the show with an interview with Syrian Blogger, Mimi al Laham, about the civil war in Syria and how to break through the propaganda and misconceptions of the crisis.
Meet the Syrian National Coalition – James Corbett on PressTV [video]
PressTV
December 12, 2012
Since the flop of the foreign-created Syrian National Council Germany is trying desperately to put a new face on the latest Syrian National Coalition creation.
PressTV talks to James Corbett about this latest move from his home in Japan.
Syria: For Russia The Time To Act Is Now – Soviet Bear [video]
108morris108
December 12, 2012
Russia can leave Syria – or reinforce its military presence but it cannot sit on the fence while the West bolsters its military muscle and tears up previous agreements with Russia regarding Syria.
North Korea fires missile over SK and Japan [video]
Ryan Dawson
December 11, 2012
Right before Japanese and South Korean elections how timely.
DOCUMENTARY — Battle For Syria: View from the Frontline! [video w/ English subtitles]
Friends of Syria
December 9, 2012
Strange how the Western Media follows the terrorist stories and the Russians follow the government and the real Syrian people. Yes the USA are always saying that it is the Russians that are in the wrong.
Make up your own mind when you see what is really happening, the films you will not see on Western media. Yet Sky News has recently been showing the truth when it is in the country legally and speaking with the army. The BBC have always crossed the borders illegally with the help of the terrorists and published the terrorist lies and propaganda to call on foreign intervention.
The BBC and CNN have been caught out by showing fake propaganda films.
US Defense Contractors Training Syrian Rebels to Handle Chemical Weapons
by John Glaser
Global Research
December 11, 2012
Antiwar.com 10 December 2012
The US and some of its European allies “are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria,” according to “a senior US official and several senior diplomats,” CNN reports.
The US-funded training is going on inside Syria, as well as in neighboring Turkey and Jordan and “involves how to monitor and secure stockpiles and handle weapons sites and materials,” according to CNN.
Last week, Washington began warning about the possibility that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad might use his chemical weapons stockpiles against the armed rebellion trying to overthrow his regime.
But top Syrian officials vehemently denied this would ever happen, and it appeared obvious that US officials were less concerned with Assad’s unleashing the chemical weapons, and more concerned with the possibility that Islamic jihadists fighting on behalf of the Syrian opposition might get their hands on them.
Islamic extremists make up the great bulk of Syria’s rebel fighters, and this is widely acknowledged by official Washington. Indeed, the State Department recently designated Jabhat al-Nusra, one of the most prominent Syrian rebel factions, as a Global Terrorist organization.
The US decision to hire unaccountable defense contractors to train Syrian rebels to handle stockpiles of chemical weapons seems dangerously irresponsible in the extreme, especially considering how inept Washington has so far been at making sure only trustworthy, secular rebels – to the extent they exist – receive their aid and the weapons that allies in the Gulf Arab states have been providing.
It also feeds accusations that the Syrian Foreign Ministry recently made that the US is working to frame the Syrian regime as having used or prepared for chemical warfare.
“The U.S. administration has consistently worked over the past year to launch a campaign of allegations on the possibility that Syria could use chemical weapons during the current crisis,” the Syrian Foreign Ministry wrote in letters to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
“What raises concerns about this news circulated by the media is our serious fear that some of the countries backing terrorism and terrorists might provide the armed terrorist groups with chemical weapons and claim that it was the Syrian government that used the weapons,” the letters said.
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