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Phyllis Bennis, ZNet: ''Fifteen months on, the short Syrian spring of 2011 has long since morphed into a harsh winter of discontent. Syria is close to full-scale civil war. If the conflict escalates further, it will have ramifications far outside the country itself. As former UN Secretary-General and current envoy of both the UN and the Arab League Kofi Annan put it, 'Syria is not Libya, it will not implode, it will explode beyond its borders.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10129-syria-no-to-intervention-no-to-illusions

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If the US Loses Syria, the US Loses its Empire

By Tony Cartalucci

The global hegemony of Wall Street and London has been built behind a facade of ''human rights,'' ''freedom,'' and ''democracy.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31781.htm



'Bloody bandits and Western lies: What's really going on in Syria'

Everything you have heard about Syria is a lie says Ankhar Kochneva, a Russian journalist who has seen first hand the realities of the Syrian civil war. Kochneva told RT she has proof a Western invasion of Syria will be launched by summer s end.

http://www.rt.com/news/syria-lies-invasion-reality-interview-671/



'America s Syrian Friends and Afghan Foes are Same People'

By RT

It s puzzling how the US can treat radical Islamists in Syria as allies while fighting against them as enemies in Afghanistan, says the chair of the Russian parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31818.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Everything They are Telling Us About Syria Is False?
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/baker-r17.1.html



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