OBAMA TO ATTACK SYRIA
REGARDLESS OF
CONSEQUENCES:

KERRY STATEMENT A CLOWNISH
DIATRIBE OF SYRIA:

The determination of the Obama government to mount a military strike on

Syria on the basis of spurious allegations on use of chemical weapons will have grave consequences for world peace and security and only exacerbate the tragic civil war

there with more death and destruction in the name of "humanitarian intervention".

US Secretary of State, John Kerry, went on public media today with a prepared statement of purported "evidence" possessed by the US that the Assad Government in Syria had carried out a chemical attack on civilians in Damascus last week.

No such thing. Kerry's meandering statement of abuse of the Syrian Government laced with references to dubious You Tube videos, anecdotal reports by unidentified "medical sources", "reporters on the ground" and unverified "intelligence" was a farrago of stale propaganda being peddled by his new Al Qaeda jihadist friends for months now and contained no concrete evidence from any independent reliable sources to prove anything other than the Washington Government is using these discredited and false flag concoctions as an excuse to join the civil war in Syria with an attack on the military assets of the Syrian Government and assist the rag-tag collection of terrorists causing mayhem and murder in Syria for the past two years.

 

Deprived of the fig-leaf of "international" action by yesterday's democratic decision by the House of Commons in London to disallow British forces to participate in military aggression against Syria, Washington's Imperialist agenda of regime change in Damascus, like Libya previously, is exposed to full view. Discounting the efforts of the United Nations as they did in Iraq in 2003 and accusing Russia and China of "obstructionism" although both allowed the resolution on Libya to pass, Kerry ignores the US veto on every single resolution of the Security Council condemning Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people including the use of chemical weapons such as white phosphorous against the civilian population of Gaza in 2009. No bombing missions or condemnations allowed on Zionist Israel.

Kerry's deviant logic in claiming that Iran was developing nuclear weapons because of being attacked with chemical weapons by Saddam Hussein in the Iraq-Iran war of the 1980's (weapons supplied to Iraq by US companies in a savage irony to Kerry's condemnation of Syria) is worthy of a Dr Goebbels propaganda outburst.

Kerry's statement would be laughable except that it is the preliminary to an aggressive military strike on Syria for political gain in which unknown numbers of people in Damascus will be killed to advance US imperialist aims and to save face for Mr Obama's "red line" speech last year. The stultifying hypocrisy of this shows how far the NATO war criminals will go to pursue their imperialist agenda.

 

 

Irish Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Eamon Gilmore said yesterday that a solution to the Syrian crisis should be sought by diplomatic means; Mr Gilmore said “the appropriate place” for an international response to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime was “through the United Nations and particularly through the United Nations Security Council”.

 

Answering press queries on the safety of Irish peacekeeping troops in the UN Golan Heights mission Mr Gilmore said: " The safety and security of Irish troops in the Middle East region has been paramount in the Government’s discussions with the United Nations on the Syrian crisis".

Mr Gilmore said the matter had been a central point when he spoke to UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon about the situation in Syria. “We have been assured by the United Nations that every arrangement that is possible will be put in place to ensure their safety and security. But it is obviously something that we will continue to discuss with the UN,” he said.

Some 115 Irish troops are to be sent to the Golan Heights area, between Israel and Syria, next month to join three others serving the area. A further 360 Irish troops are stationed in Lebanon as part of a UN force and there are concerns military personnel could be at risk from reprisal attacks should the US and other allies launch air strikes on Syria.

 

 

 

 

 

Syrian War Tragedy worsens:

OPPOSITION MOUNTING

TO NATO PLANS FOR ATTACK

ON SYRIA:

 

CAMERON FAILS TO GET PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY

IN HOUSE OF COMMONS FOR MILITARY ACTION;

71 TORY BACKBENCHERS REVOLT;

LABOUR DEMANDS DELAY UNTIL UN INSPECTORS'

REPORT IS PUBLISHED; WASHINGTON ISOLATED AS NATO

ALLIES DECLINE TO SUPPORT ILLEGAL WARFARE; GERMANY,

ITALY AND SPAIN DECAMP; CYPRUS PROTESTS USE OF

BRITISH BASES FOR ATTACK ON SYRIA:

 

 

The plans for an attack on Syria by the US and Britain began to unravel today as mounting popular opposition domestically and political forces demanded evidence be provided to back up Washington and London's crude propaganda attempts to slander the Damascus government with responsibility for an alleged chemical attack in east Damascus last week which supposedly caused several hundred civilian casualties in the rebel opposition controlled suburb of the city.

Anti-War coalitions in the US and Europe have begun mobilisation against the criminal intent of the Washington and London elites and demonstrations have already been mounted in Times Square, New York, London, Glasgow, and several European cities which will be reinforced this coming weekend by further events in opposition to a new war in the Middle East with horrendous unforeseen consequences for the entire region and global peace and security.

In London, British Premier, David Cameron, faced an open revolt by as many as 70 Conservative Party Mp's who demanded more time and further evidence be presented to parliament before a vote would be taken and the  British opposition Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband,  scuttled Cameron's plans by announcing just after 5pm today that he would instruct his MPs to vote against the government motion if a separate Labour amendment – calling for any action to be delayed – was defeated.

                                                       House of Commons, Westminster.

Within two hours, Downing Street issued a statement, as it published its motion for the debate, that a second vote would have to be held before Britain joins any military action. The motion states: "Before any direct British involvement in such action a further vote of the House of Commons will take place."

An enraged Cameron turned on Miliband accusing him of having suffered a giant "wobble" after he had appeared to indicate on Tuesday night that he would be prepared to support military action, subject to legal approval. But Labour hit back and said that the Prime Minister had been resisting a second vote until Miliband tweeted his plan to table his own amendment.

A Labour source said: "We will continue to scrutinise this motion but at 5.15pm David Cameron totally ruled out a second vote, an hour and a half later he changed his mind. Ed Miliband was determined to do the right thing. It has taken Labour forcing a vote to force the government to do the right thing."

Downing Street spinners immediately said Cameron offered a second vote because he wants to act in a consensual way. A spokesperson said: "The Prime Minister is acutely aware of the deep concerns in the country caused by what happened over Iraq. That's why we are committed to taking action to deal with this war crime – but taking action in the right way, proceeding on a consensual basis."

"So this motion endorses the government's consistent approach that we should take action in response to Assad's chemical weapons attack; reflects the need to proceed on a consensual basis, taking account of the work done by weapons inspectors; and reflects the Prime Minister's respect for the UN process – something he made clear to President Obama several days ago."

The Government move is likely to take the heat out of Thursday's parliamentary debate that will be opened by Cameron at 2.30pm and wound up by Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat), the Deputy Prime Minister, at 10pm. The debate will be preceded by a meeting of the cabinet that will receive a recommendation from the National Security Council that Britain should join the military strikes. Dominic Grieve, the British Attorney General, advised the NSC that such action would be legal under international law. The shadow of War Criminal Blair's calculated deception of the House of Commons in 2003 over the preparations for War in Iraq loomed large over events in London today with newspaper polls reporting 74% of voters opposed to any new war in the Middle East.

The National Security Council reportedly also discussed a specific plan for a British contribution to military action. This focused on a "limited one-off" operation and the measures that might have to be taken to protect British interests in the region, including the defence of the UK's sovereign base in Cyprus, which is thought to be potentially within range of President Assad's Scud missiles. The Cyprus Government is extremely alarmed at the possibility of longer range Syrian missiles being fired at the British bases in Akrotiri and hitting cities and towns in Cyprus by random off-target events.

Some sources in London speculated that it was possible the US would act without British support – which would be a huge embarrassment for Cameron. It would also be politically difficult for the White House. US officials have previously been at pains to stress that the US would not act unilaterally, but in concert with partners. The US claims that "it knows" that the Assad government was the author of a chemical attack, as stated by Vice-President Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday in bellicose statements threatening use of force against Syria, is based on the dubious and partisan reports from Israeli "intelligence" of alleged interception of Syrian military cables discussing such an event. The US has failed to produce any concrete evidence from independent sources to back up it's slanderous claims. Not much different from the kind  of "intelligence" presented to the UN in 2003 as justification for the War and invasion of Iraq and later found to be entirely spurious.

 UNITED NATIONS:

Russia and China refused to collaborate today with British attempts to rush the UN Security Council into making a premature decision on using military force against Syria.

The permanent representatives of Russia and China to the United Nations left the closed meeting of the Security Council on Syria after its end, there was no demarche, the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN told waiting Press representatives.

It was reported earlier in the day that the Russian and Chinese officials had walked out of the UN Security Council meeting in New York after US Permanent Representative Samantha Power had called for an immediate action in Syria. The permanent members of the UN Security Council – Russia, Britain, China, the US and France – had been invited to the closed meeting. An hour later the Russian and Chinese diplomats left the meeting and headed to the Security Council’s main conference room where debates on Haiti was taking place.

Western countries could have, until the end of the day, submitted to the Security Council a draft resolution that would give the green light to an armed operation in Syria. Russia and China, which have the right of veto in the Security Council, have spoken up strongly against the use of force. However some Western countries have made it clear that they might take measures without waiting for the U.N. Security Council’s decision as they did in 1999 in Kosovo.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said this would be a gross violation of international law. “Certain states are ready to use force even before UN experts make public the results of their investigation. Our country will be committed to international law,” he said. “Modern international law allows the use of force only in exceptional cases: for self-defence and if so authorised by the UN Security Council. Some states see priorities in a distorted way.”

Meanwhile, Syria has formally asked the UN to investigate three chemical attacks  which the Syrian Government believes were carried out by rebels in the suburbs of Damascus on August 22, 23 and 24.

Syrian Bishop warns intervention could spark ‘world war’ :

A Syrian Chaldean Catholic bishop on Monday warned that an armed intervention in Syria could unleash a “world war”, while the Vatican’s official newspaper called for more “prudence” from Western powers. “If there is an armed intervention, that would mean, I believe, a world war. That risk has returned,” Monsignor Antoine Audo of Aleppo told Vatican Radio.

“We hope that the pope’s call for real dialogue between the warring parties to find a solution can be a first step to stop the fighting,” he said. Bishop Audo is also the head of the Syrian arm of the international Catholic charity Caritas and has repeatedly warned about the human cost of the war.

 

 

                                                 Monsignor Antoine Audo of Allepo, Syria.

The Vatican daily, L’Osservatore Romano, meanwhile criticised Western powers in an editorial. “The drumbeat of an armed intervention by Western powers is becoming ever more insistent and ever less restrained by prudence,” it said. “Several representatives of these countries say they are convinced that the accusation that the Syrian Army used chemical weapons is founded – a question which the United Nations is investigating,” it said.

Pope Francis on Sunday called for the international community to help find a solution to the civil war.

“I launch an appeal to the international community to be more sensitive to this tragic situation and to commit itself to the maximum to help the dear Syrian nation find a solution to a war which spreads destruction and death,” he said.

Attacks on Christians, Chaldeans, Copts and other religious minorities are daily occurrences in Syria, Iraq and Egypt with no expressions of outrage from either Washington or London.




LIES, HYPOCRISY, WAR CRIMES:



The Union of Liars, Hypocrites and War Criminals = NATO, were planning their own chemical attack in Syria according to the London Daily Mail last January:

 

"London, Jan 30 (ANI): The Obama administration gave green signal to a chemical weapons attack plan in Syria that could be blamed on President Bashir al Assad's regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country, leaked documents have shown.

A new report, that contains an email exchange between two senior officials at British-based contractor Britam Defence, showed a scheme 'approved by Washington'.

As per the scheme 'Qatar would fund rebel forces in Syria to use chemical weapons,' the Daily Mail reports.

Barack Obama made it clear to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad last month that the U.S. would not tolerate Syria using chemical weapons against its own people.

According to Infowars.com, the December 25 email was sent from Britam's Business Development Director David Goulding to company founder Philip Doughty.

The emails were released by a Malaysian hacker who also obtained senior executives resumes and copies of passports via an unprotected company server, according to Cyber War News.

According to the paper, the U.S. State Department has declined to comment on the matter. (ANI)"

Details from Cyber War News here:

http://www.cyberwarnews.info/reports/a-look-into-the-britam-defence-data-leak-files/

ROME:

                                                          Italian Foreign Ministery, Rome.

Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino says Italy will not support force in Syria
without UN mandate:

"Italy will not take part in any military solutions without a UN Security Council mandate," Foreign Minister Emma Bonino told parliamentarians in Rome.

"

Even the option of a limited intervention risks becoming unlimited," the minister said, adding that Italy was "already stretched and even over-stretched" militarily in other parts of the world.

"There is no military solution to the Syrian conflict. The only solution is a negotiated political solution," she said, calling for "great determination" in pursuing negotiations between the warring sides.


LONDON

 

 

National demonstration: No attack on Syria

Stop the War Coalition, 31 August 2013.

National Demonstration: assemble Saturday 31 August, 12 noon, Temple Place, London (nearest tube Temple)

The national demonstration on Saturday will gather at Temple Place (near Temple tube) and march via Parliament and Downing Street, ending in central London for a political rally to say No attack on Syria.

Called by Stop the War and CND.

 

Statement on Syria

Stop the War Coalition, 27 August 2013.

The Stop the War Coalition strongly opposes any military attack on Syria. While we oppose all use of chemical weapons, the latest alleged such attack in Damascus should not be used as a pretext for further exacerbating an already bloody civil war.

It seems that the Western governments have already made up their minds about this attack before it has even been reported on by UN weapons inspectors. They are demanding that ‘something must be done’ even though their record of ‘doing something’ has been nothing short of catastrophic.

There have been numerous western interventions in the Middle East and South Asia over the past 12 years. While the attacks on Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya were all argued for on humanitarian grounds, they have all increased the levels of killing and misery for the ordinary people of those countries. They were in reality all about regime change. This is also what Syria is about.


PARIS

French National assembly will debate Syria crisis:

                                                                                  French President, François Hollande

The French parliament will hold an emergency session to debate the Syria crisis on September 4, minister Alain Vidalies said on Wednesday.

The announced debate comes as France and US/UK threaten a potential military intervention in Syria following an alleged chemical weapons attack last week in the Damascus suburbs that the governments in Washington and London are blaming on the Assad regime.

"There will be a special debate in the (lower house) National Assembly and in the (upper house) Senate," said Vidalies, who is in charge of relations between the Government and parliament.

It is as yet unclear whether a military operation will take place over last Wednesday's alleged attack and if it does, when it will happen. But, under French law, a one-off military intervention does not need parliamentary approval.

French President François Hollande gave a militant speech on Tuesday warning the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad that France was "ready to punish" those responsible for the chemical weapons attack. Hollande further warned that the Syrian civil war posed "a threat to world peace." Stressing a "responsibility to protect civilians," Hollande also said that "chemical massacre cannot remain without a response from France."

Neither Hollande or the French Government have produced any evidence associating the
Assad regime with a chemical attack in Damascus but, have seen fit only to parrot Washington and London's disputed claims.

Hopefully, more sober elements of French politics will come to the fore in the debate.



IN WHOSE INTEREST?

 

Stock shares of perennial Defence contracting powerhouse Raytheon hit nearly $77 apiece Tuesday as news of a possible US strike in Syria intensified. The US has said if it strikes Syrian government targets for alleged use of chemical weapons, it would likely use Tomahawk cruise missiles from warships positioned in the Mediterranean. Raytheon is responsible for making and selling the bulk of the long-range, subsonic missiles to the US government.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THATCHER KICKS BUCKET, UPROAR IN HELL!

THATCHER KICKS BUCKET;

BUT, CONSTERNATION IN HELL AS DEMONS PROTEST

THERE IS NO ROOM

FOR ANY MORE

IMMIGRANTS:

Pope Francisco requested to temporarily

restore LIMBO until dispute is settled!

 

 

Former Brit Prime Minister, Margaret Hilda Thatcher, died early Monday, 8 April in London from the affects of a stroke and promptly divided the country as she did when she was alive. The usual gang of sycophants, who expressed admiration for Dame Hilda's combative class war policies, queued up on British TV channels to whitewash the monster's career and attempt to give a veneer of humanity to the personality who made it her mission to wipe out effective trade unionism in Britain along with the consensus Welfare State established in 1945 by the post-WW2 Labour Government.

 

Never an economist herself, Thatcher swallowed whole the Neo-Liberal fantasies of the US right-wing and continued to parrot the same ideas throughout her time in Downing Street(1979-90) until she was unceremoniously dumped by her own Conservative Party in 1990. Hailed today by the sycophant circus in London as a politician of "conviction"; so was Hitler, so it depends on the content of the actual "convictions" whether this appellation has any worthwhile meaning or not. She did succeed in doing something Hitler failed to do with his Luftwaffe and Blitz on Britain during WW2, that is, destroy Britain's manufacturing base which Thatcher did with the stroke of a pen with her "privatisation" programme of Britain's major traditional industries like shipbuilding, steel production, vehicle manufacture, aircraft design and manufacture and of course her greatest "triumph" the destruction of the coal mining industry, producing large-scale unemployment and the heartless wiping out of communities and even whole towns in those areas of the country dependent on this industry.

This correspondent is proud to have been a member of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions during the 1984 Miners Strike in Britain, when we organised two ship containers per week, one to Liverpool and one to Cardiff each week while the strike continued; filled with food, clothing, household goods, children's toys and other requirements for the miners and their families to counter Thatcher's aims to starve the strikers into submission. We also arranged for the transfer of NUM funds to Dublin banks where they were safe from confiscation by Thatcher's kangaroo "Industrial Relations Court", staffed by legal muppets of the Tory Party intent on trying to bankrupt the Trade Unions by confiscating their funds. Despite an attempt by Thatcher's government to sequester the funds in Dublin, the Irish Courts refused to comply as the Irish Republic's constitution forbade the confiscation of private property.

Thatcher aligned herself with Cold-War Washington, especially the Reagan regime which had the same dogmatic character as herself, supported the continued possession of nuclear weapons (the Trident submarine fleet bought from the US cost £12Bn) and NATO's first strike policy; During her first year as Prime Minister she supported NATO's decision to deploy US nuclear cruise and Pershing missiles in Western Europe and permitted the US to station more than 160 cruise missiles at RAF Greenham Common, starting on 14 November 1983 and triggering mass protests by the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; indulged in flag-waving anti-Soviet and anti-communist/socialist rhetoric at every opportunity all in the name of "freedom" and "liberty" but, had no compunction in offering political and military support to such odious regimes of murder and oppression as Pinochet's Chile and Botha's Apartheid South Africa. Also as noted in today's bulletins from Tel-Aviv, she was a firm supporter of Zionist Israel and its brutal oppression of the Palestinian people. Freedom and Liberty how are ye, a dyed-in-the-wool hypocrite never advancing an inch beyond her petty-bourgeois madam's restricted view of the world in general.

 

In the Falklands/Malvinas war in I982 following the invasion of the islands by the Military Dictatorship then ruling in Argentina, Thatcher achieved further infamy by personally ordering the sinking of the Argentine Navy light cruiser General Belgrano by the nuclear submarine HMS Conquerer, despite the fact that Belgrano was leaving the conflict zone and returning to port. Three hundred and twenty-three members of Belgrano's crew died in the incident. Over 700 men were rescued from the open ocean despite cold seas and stormy weather. The losses from Belgrano totalled nearly half of the Argentine deaths in the Falklands/Malvinas conflict. This callous act caused the Irish Government, then led by Charles J. Haughey as Taoiseach, to withdraw its support for the EU imposed sanctions against Argentina and led to a bitter diplomatic hostility between Dublin and London while Haughey was Taoiseach. Despite railing against the military dictators in Argentina, Thatcher hypocritically continued to rely on the neighbouring odious Pinochet regime in Chile for intelligence against the Argentines and territorial backup for stray British aircraft having to land there during the conflict. When Pinochet, under threat of arrest for war crimes by courts in France and Spain arrived in London years later, Thatcher was the only British politician to provide accommodation and a welcome for the despicable war criminal and murderer.

 

Thatcher entertains War Criminal Pinochet in London.

Thatcher's policy in Northern Ireland was an unmitigated disaster, prolonging the conflict for many more years than was necessary given the legitimate demands for the nationalist-minded population there for the same democratic standards which she lauded for the rest of the UK. In 1980 and 1981, Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison carried out hunger strikes in an effort to regain the status of political prisoners that had been removed in 1976 under the preceding Labour government. Bobby Sands began the 1981 strike, saying that he would fast until death unless prison inmates won concessions over their living conditions. Thatcher refused to countenance a return to political status for the prisoners, declaring "Crime is crime is crime; it is not political", but nevertheless the UK government privately contacted Sinn Fein leaders in a bid to bring the hunger strikes to an end. After the deaths of Sands and nine others, some rights were restored to paramilitary prisoners, but not official recognition of their political status. Violence in Northern Ireland escalated significantly during the hunger strikes; in 1982, Sinn Féin politician Danny Morrison described Thatcher as "the biggest bastard we have ever known".Thatcher's militarism and gung-ho employment of illegal state murder campaigns only alienated the population further and consolidated support for the IRA military responses resulting in the assassination attempt on herself and her Conservative Party colleagues in Brighton in 1984.

As with all despots, Thatcher eventually got her comeuppance in 1990 when, despite opposition by most of her cabinet colleagues, she insisted on pursuing her policy of imposing a local tax dubbed the "Poll Tax", officially the "Community Charge" ostensibly to fund local government services which she had stripped of funding for many years previously and was first imposed in Scotland. Popular opposition in Scotland led to the wipeout of her Conservative Party there and in England & Wales a mounting crescendo of militant resistance led to the events of 31 March 1990 in London when a massive demonstration of over 200,000 protesters blockaded central London from 11am in the morning until late in the night. Aggressive police tactics, stupid in the extreme since they were severely outnumbered by the huge crowd, led to the most serious outbreak of public violence ever in the history of the British capital.

As a large cohort of mounted police charged the crowd in Trafalgar Square, trampling many people in the process, outraged protesters resisted and a violent melee spread throughout the central area. Windows were smashed and buildings were set alight creating a scene of utter mayhem in full view of the international press and TV, rapidly broadcast throughout the world. What became known as the Poll Tax Riot shocked Thatcher's cabinet and the British ruling elite, especially as they were told the next day by London and Provincial police chiefs that the police forces did not possess enough resources to contain the following weekend's planned demonstrations in every major city in Britain by the organisers of the Anti-Poll Tax Campaign and Martial Law might have to be considered as an option. The implementation of the poll tax in England & Wales was immediately postponed and in November that year Thatcher was forced into a leadership challenge by her cabinet colleagues and replaced by John Major who abolished Thatcher's poll tax on the day he became Prime Minister.

              

THE POLL TAX RIOT, LONDON, 31 MARCH 1990:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRj2K0ulD8Q

The only liberty Thatcher was really interested in was the liberty to exploit by the capitalist economic and financial system by restricting trade union rights in Britain and facilitating the export of British industrial jobs to Sweatshop Asia and de-regulating the City of London stock market allowing the likes of Goldman Sachs to set up shop in London along with the other fake credit fraudsters with their pyramid schemes which has led directly to the current world crisis of financial capitalism and the vicious class-war austerity attacks on working peoples standard of living throughout the  developed capitalist countries. Thatcher's deliberate and planned destruction of Britain's industrial base has left the country floundering in the weakest position of the major EU economies as it struggles to survive the consequences of the collapse of the so-called financial "industry", a corporate conspiracy which produces nothing but debt based on false credit and is succeeding in its audacious claims on the savings of ordinary people to pay off its gambling debts on an unprecedented scale.

This is the real legacy left to the British people by Dame Hilda and her Stock Market Bandits as we can see today.

As this article is being posted, spontaneous demonstrations of celebration of Thatcher's demise have started in several cities throughout Britain, much to the chagrin of the Whore Press and the Sycophant Circus in London!

 

 

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Aibreán/April 9, 2013