weapons of mass destruction

François Hollande’s Missteps put France on Levant sidelines
 
 
Franklin Lamb
Beirut
 

PROVE WHAT YOU DON’T HAVE
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged that Tehran would never develop nuclear weapons.
 
by Paul Balles
 
Prove that you don’t have what I believe you have! That was an exact demand made on Saddam Hussein.
He scoffed.  That brought “shock and awe”, and Saddam was hanged on the mother of all ropes.
Prove that you don’t have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

Fox News Interviews Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

 

 
The interview was conducted Tuesday, September 17th, by former Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a Fox News contributor, and Fox News Channel Senior Correspondent Greg Palkot.
 

President al-Assad’s speech to Rossiya 24 TV channel

 
Damascus, (SANA), September 13, 2013 – President Bashar al-Assad gave a speech to Rossiya 24 TV channel. Following is the full text of the speech.
Interviewer: Why did Syria agree to the Russian initiative which proposes handing over its chemical weapons to the international community? Why so rapidly?

US threats Syria: Powerful – but amazing…
 
By JAMAL KANJ
 
The myopic view of the world’s most powerful men in Washington never ceases to amaze me. I am reminded of the 1980s when then American president Ronald Reagan compared the Afghan Mujahideen to America’s founding fathers.

The Return of the Golems
Image credit: republicreport.org
 
William A. Cook                 Intifada Palestine

In Syria, Weapons of Mass Destruction Redux


 
by Dr. Lawrence Davidson
If you ever doubted the erosion of popular democracy in the U.S., the next few weeks should set you straight. The simple fact is that the voting population is the main “constituency” of politicians only at election time.

Jumping the gun on Syria
 

President al-Assad: Syria will never become a western puppet state, we will fight terrorism and freely build relationships that best serve the interests of the Syrians

US; the real global terror alert
A man stands in a sea of rubble in Hiroshima on September 8, 1945
By Finian Cunningham
 
(PRESS TV) – Sixty-eight years ago this week, the United States wiped out more than 200,000 people when it dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.