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Syria to hold presidential election on June 3

 Syria will hold presidential elections on June 3, the country’s parliament speaker announced Monday, a vote President Bashar Assad is likely to contest, and win, as the country enters its fourth year of war. Assad, who has ruled the country since taking over from his late father in 2000, has suggested he would seek another […] Continue reading →

Activists: Nearly 700 dead in Syrian rebel clashes

 Rebel-on-rebel clashes have killed nearly 700 people over the past nine days in northern Syria in the worst bout of infighting among the opponents of President Bashar Assad since the country’s civil war began, activists said Sunday. The fighting between the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and several Islamist and more moderate […] Continue reading →

Iran Through Saudi Eyes

The Saudis have a point. Those words do not flow easily from my pen. For more than three decades, the Arabian royals have spent billions of petro-dollars promoting Wahhabism, a poisonously anti-Western interpretation of Islam, of which the most lethal expression is bin Ladenism. But now the Saudis are angry with the Obama administration. The […] Continue reading →

Suicide vehicle bombing of checkpoint outside Damascus : Bombing near Syrian capital kills 16

Syrian rebels assaulted a checkpoint in a pro-government suburb of Damascus on Saturday, setting off a suicide vehicle bomb that killed 16 soldiers, activists said. The state news agency SANA confirmed the blast in the suburb of Jaramana and said it caused casualties, but did not give a number. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human […] Continue reading →

A Letter Back to Vladimir Putin

Dear President Putin: First of all, thanks for “speaking directly to the American people” in your New York Times op-ed.  I’d grown used to reading various communists in those pages, but to get a note from an actual Russian president is something special. You may be noticing that it’s not going over so well.  I […] Continue reading →

Obama shows us what he’s made of

Clueless
By Dan Joppich Usually, dudes like to puff and flex in an attempt to promote their manhood and manliness. Not Obama. When Obama threw down the gauntlet in front of Assad and Congress a couple weeks ago, he wasted no time showing just how serious he was by heading straight to the golf course and […] Continue reading →

Obama’s Syria address to the nation flops

Thomas Lifson It was all too obvious last night that the only reason President Obama gave his speech to the nation was that it would have been too embarrassing to cancel it. The result was inconsistent and unsatisfying at any level. (Transcript here) Obama commandeered the nation’s airwaves to call for a “diplomatic pause” in […] Continue reading →

10 Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn�t Want You to Talk About

Wesley Messamorepolicymic.com It lacks the moral authority. We’re talking about a government with a history of using chemical weapons against innocent people far more prolific and deadly than the mere accusations Assad faces from a trigger-happy Western military-industrial complex, bent on stifling further investigation before striking. Here is a list of 10 chemical weapons attacks […] Continue reading →

See Evil Punish Evil - How Hard Is That?

Richard Butrick Last Friday Secretary of State John Kerry declared that the United States had a “moral obligation” to punish Syria for using chemical weapons. To back up his position he proceeded to paint a ghastly portrait of twitching bodies, victims foaming at the mouth and row upon row of children gassed to death. According […] Continue reading →

Is Obama Pushing Nations Into World War 3 ?

Anthony GucciardiStoryleak The plunge into taking military action on Syria is not just reminiscent of Iraq, but is representative of Obama’s continued hot war against Russia that has gone from proxy to direct over the last several days. The situation in Syria has always been a proxy war between the United States and Russia, and that […] Continue reading →

UN at site of alleged chemical attack in Syria

U.N. experts collected samples and testimony from Syrian doctors and victims of an alleged chemical weapons attack Monday following a treacherous journey through government and rebel-held territory, where their convoy was hit by snipers. As U.S. officials said there was very little doubt that Syria used chemical weapons and Western powers stepped up calls for […] Continue reading →