4 hours ago by John Glaser

The chaos and violence in Syria has created tension in neighboring Lebanon since the start of the uprising 11 months ago, but now actual fighting has broken out. In the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, gunmen exchanged automatic weapons fire and volleys of rocket-propelled grenades for hours acros ...

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4 hours ago by John Glaser

Elements of al-Qaeda’s affiliates in Iraq have been moving into Syria to distribute weapons to the opposition and to carry out attacks against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials. These terrorists, often described as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) carried out two recent bomb ...

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8 hours ago by JScotlive

That the US UN ambassador felt justified in to seizing any moral high ground on the ‘shielding of craven tyrants’ when the US remains a major ally of Saudi Arabia, and up until recently was key in helping to maintain Mubarak in power in Egypt, is stark evidence of the hubris that continues to abound ...

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9 hours ago by František Šulc

Násilností v Sýrii přibývá. Jakoby návštěva ruského ministra zahraničí Sergeje Lavrova vůbec nepřispěla k uklidnění, naopak spíše přispěla k ujištění, že má syrský vládce Bašár Asad volnou ruku a že může počítat s podporou Ruska. Pro Moskvu je Sýrie významná především z hlediska geostrategického. V ...

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9 hours ago

Syria’s First Family An illustrated guide to the Assad clan. via soupsoup

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10 hours ago by Abu Pessoptimist

A Syrian oil train was derailed by an explosion on 15 January 2012. (SANA) More food for thought on Syria: Many things have been said about the Arab League observer mission, but strangely enough the official report of this mission was not really brought into the open by the League, let alone by West ...

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11 hours ago by aletho

By Daniel McAdams | LewRockwell.com | February 10, 2012 Michael Lofgren, an old friend who recently retired after a long career analyzing House and Senate national security budgets, has an excellent piece in the Huffington Post, in which he admits that after dismissing the decades of scare reports o ...

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12 hours ago by winterbanyan

Noontime News is a snapshot of our RSS feeds from the noon (Eastern time) hour. Obama budget projects $1.3 trillion deficit this year WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama expects the federal budget deficit to reach $1.33 trillion this year, administration officials said Friday evening, the fourth str ...

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12 hours ago by Gary

The killings continue in Syria. The UN will take no action. Once again, the United States is faced with a dilemma. Should the country intervene? To what degree? And at what cost?

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