The Siege of Syria -English
After admittedly organizing, training, funding, and equipping the very mobs littering Syria’s streets, many of whom have resorted to arson and...
After admittedly organizing, training, funding, and equipping the very mobs littering Syria’s streets, many of whom have resorted to arson and armed clashes with Syrian security forces, the United States is pressuring the Syrian government to step down. The US does not expect a sovereign nation to stand-down in the face of openly foreign-funded sedition, rather it is simply using the resulting violence to justify wider intervention and the eventual seizure and despoiling of yet another Arab nation.
The coverage by the corporate-owned Western media exclusively relies on “activists inside and outside the country,” the London-based “Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Centre” which apparently has no web presence, the Damascus Center for Human Rights which boasts memberships with the National Endowment for Democracy and Tides Foundation-funded International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, funded by the European Union, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, and Humanity United.
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CIA death squads behind Syria bloodbath - Webster Tarpley - Nov 21, 2011...
Moscow has accused the west of stirring up tensions in the Arab world by calling for the overthrow of the Syrian regime. Russia says calls from...
Moscow has accused the west of stirring up tensions in the Arab world by calling for the overthrow of the Syrian regime. Russia says calls from certain states for the Syrian opposition to avoid dialogue with the government, are only provoking further violence. Author and journalist Webster Tarpley, who's in Damascus, says, it's very simple, western powers are behind the violence in Syria
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National dialogue to end Syria unrest - 24 Dec 2011 - English
Thousands of people have taken to the streets across Syria, condemning the terrorist attacks that killed at least 55 people in the capital,...
Thousands of people have taken to the streets across Syria, condemning the terrorist attacks that killed at least 55 people in the capital, Damascus.
Interview with George Jabour, political commentator
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[18 Feb 2012] Asi said - Reforms with New Sincere People in Syria -...
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A political analyst says the Syrian government has the legal right to target the US military and intelligence drones operating...
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A political analyst says the Syrian government has the legal right to target the US military and intelligence drones operating over Syria, Press TV reports.
“Syria has the right to use military capability to disturb this mission and even to attack those aircraft,” said Hisham Jaber, the director of Center for Middle East Studies in an interview with Press TV on Saturday.
He made the comment after NBC News claimed earlier that the US military has dispatched a “good number” of unmanned drones for operations in Syrian airspace to monitor “the Syrian military attacks against opposition forces and civilians.”
“They [the Syrian government] can sue them [the US] before the international court,” Jaber added.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011. Hundreds of people, including many Syrian security forces, have been killed in the course of the turmoil.
Damascus blames “outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad. The West and the Syrian opposition, however, accuse the government of killing the protesters
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[07 April 2012] Assad supporters rally across Syrian cities - Presstv -...
Large numbers of Ba’ath Party members and supporters rallied across several Syrian cities marking the 65th anniversary of the Party’s...
Large numbers of Ba’ath Party members and supporters rallied across several Syrian cities marking the 65th anniversary of the Party’s establishment. In the capital Damascus, supporters packed into Saba’ Bahrat square, showing their support for the Ba’ath Party and the president Bashar al-Assad.
Syrians waved the Syrian flag and sang national anthem in a show of unity against what they described as a conspiracy targeting their country.
Syrians reiterated their adherence to the Ba'ath Party principles, including supporting the Palestinian cause and resisting the Israeli occupation.
The Ba’ath Party was the only ruling party in Syria for decades.
Nevertheless, Syrians in a referendum in February voted for a new constitution which allowed a multiparty system in the country and political pluralism which gave all political parties the right to share power.
Supporters have gathered to renew adherence to their party led by president Bashar al-Assad, expressing confidence in the party’s ability to build a new Syria stronger than before.
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[24 April 2012] International observers in Syria - Middle East Today -...
[24 April 2012] International observers in Syria - Middle East Today - Presstv -English
Despite a ceasefire brokered by the UN and Arab League...
[24 April 2012] International observers in Syria - Middle East Today - Presstv -English
Despite a ceasefire brokered by the UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, fighting in Syria continues. It seems that there are not only divisions within Syria itself but the regional and global powers are divided on how the issue should be dealt with as well. Some are calling for arming the Syrian opposition forces and others call for a dialogue.
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[26 April 2012] Truce & Terrorists - News Analysis - Presstv - English
[26 April 2012] Truce & Terrorists - News Analysis - Presstv - English
More than ten days into a ceasefire, Syria is still grappling with...
[26 April 2012] Truce & Terrorists - News Analysis - Presstv - English
More than ten days into a ceasefire, Syria is still grappling with terrorist attacks. What is really preventing an end to violence and where is the Syrian crisis headed if the peace plan fails
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[19 May 2012] 'UN observers in Syria cannot be trusted - News Analysis -...
[19 May 2012] 'UN observers in Syria cannot be trusted - News Analysis - English
Two failed US-backed Security Council resolutions vetoed by...
[19 May 2012] 'UN observers in Syria cannot be trusted - News Analysis - English
Two failed US-backed Security Council resolutions vetoed by Russia and China, promised reforms by Damascus, a new constitution, Kofi Annan's 6-point peace plan followed by a fragile cease-fire and a flock of UN observers and most recently multi party parliamentary elections, all of those have been decisive factors over the past year or so in Syria. But is the Syrian solution gradually turning into the Syrian conundrum as the U-S and its Arab allies are arming groups fighting the government with significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks?
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US-NATO - Humanitarian Intervention in Syria: Towards a Regional War? -...
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization weighs in on the insurrectionary nature of the Syrian conflict and...
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization weighs in on the insurrectionary nature of the Syrian conflict and its potential to generate a larger regional conflict in the Middle East.
As the Syrian crisis enters its 16th month, the recent massacres in Houla and Hama have revived calls for foreign intervention and the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad. US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has recently hinted that the United States would soon take action outside of the Annan plan and the authority of the United Nations if the persistent violence in Syria continued unabated. While the Syrian opposition severs its commitment to uphold Kofi Annan's peace plan and openly calls for a UN- no-fly zone to replace the monitoring mission, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced a new transition plan that would remove Assad from power completely. As outside forces plan a post-Assad transition strategy, the people of Syria are fast approaching a historic crossroads, of which may lead to a broader sectarian conflict that would forever reshape the Middle East
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[21 June 2012] Satanic alliance forms against Syria - English
[21 June 2012] Satanic alliance forms against Syria - English
A group of CIA agents are helping anti-government armed gangs in Syria in their...
[21 June 2012] Satanic alliance forms against Syria - English
A group of CIA agents are helping anti-government armed gangs in Syria in their fight against the Damascus government, a report says. According to a New York Times report published on Thursday, some US and Arab intelligence officials say a group of "CIA officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey" and that the agents are helping the anti-Syria governments decide which gangs inside the Arab country will "receive arms to fight the Syrian government."
Press TV has conducted an interview with Mohsen Saleh, a professor at the Lebanese University in Beirut, to further shed light on the issue.
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[26 June 2012] Turkey vows retaliation Russia calls for restraint - News...
[26 June 2012] Turkey vows retaliation Russia calls for restraint - News Analysis - English
Turkey vows retaliation and Russia calls for...
[26 June 2012] Turkey vows retaliation Russia calls for restraint - News Analysis - English
Turkey vows retaliation and Russia calls for restraint.
On this edition of News Analysis we look at two apparently opposing camps on the Syrian unrest, will possible plans for a full-scale military intervention give diplomacy a chance on Syria?
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[28 June 2012] Turkey aims to mount pressure on Syria - English
[28 June 2012] Turkey aims to mount pressure on Syria - English
Tension between Ankara and Damascus has escalated since Syria shot down a Turkish...
[28 June 2012] Turkey aims to mount pressure on Syria - English
Tension between Ankara and Damascus has escalated since Syria shot down a Turkish fighter jet in Syrian air space with Turkey in response now moving dozens of military vehicles to the border.
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[6 July 2012] CIA directing arms flow to gangs in Syria - English
Switzerland has decided to suspend arms shipments to the United Arab Emirates following a report that Swiss-made hand grenades are being used by...
Switzerland has decided to suspend arms shipments to the United Arab Emirates following a report that Swiss-made hand grenades are being used by armed gangs in Syria.
The measure was taken on Wednesday after the Sonntagszeitung newspaper published a photograph taken of one such device in possession of anti-Damascus forces in the town of Marea, north of Aleppo, at the end of June, AFP reported.
Preliminary inquiries into the photo showed the grenade in question was made by the Bern-based arms manufacturer RUAG, and was part of a shipment made by the company to the UAE in 2003.
The Federal Department of Economic Affairs (FDEA) says 225,162 hand grenades were exported to the UAE, who signed an agreement not to re-export the munitions.
"As far as the FDEA is aware, the hand grenade ... originates from a RUAG shipment to the United Arab Emirates in 2003. At present there is no evidence that Swiss hand grenades have found their way to Syria; inquiries are ongoing, however," the government statement said.
The FDEA statement also said arms shipments from Switzerland to Syria stopped in April 1998, and raised doubt whether the photograph was taken in Syria after all.
Antje Baertschi, a spokeswoman for the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) said as a “provisional" measure, Switzerland immediately moved to "freeze all arms export permits to the UAE."
Press TV has conducted an interview with Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author & historian, to hear his opinion on this issue. The following is a transcription of the interview.
Press TV: The Swiss claim that they are surprised about this entire issue because they have a “neutral stance” when it comes to issues like Syria. Are they as innocent as they claim considering they have been providing weapons in the first place to repressive states such as the UAE?
Tarpley: I think everybody in the world with an effective intelligence service and that would emphatically include Switzerland through their banking system; they are as well informed really as anybody in the world, they know very well that the [Persian] Gulf states, these reactionary feudal absolute monarchies like the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait but above all Saudi Arabia, all of them have been massively shipping weapons to the death squads that are working for NATO in Syria and this has been known now for months.
There is really no news except that Switzerland, to cover themselves, to cover themselves maybe on liability suits, have decided to cut off the air shipments to these feudal monarchies in the [Persian] Gulf.
But other than that, we have known, even the New York Times always the last to know, has confirmed that there were CIA officers who are directing traffic in southern Turkey sending these weapons to the groups that they want to receive them. I think that we could see a larger context; tomorrow there would be another one of these Orwellian ‘Friends of Syria’ conferences in Turkey, I believe, tomorrow, or is it Paris?
Anyway, the Russians and the Chinese have said that they will not go. I think Hilary Clinton, however, will be there. I believe it is in Paris. So that entire exercise will continue.
One of the things that NATO is doing is simply lying. Whenever they have a diplomatic meeting with Russia, in particular, then they come out and lie about it and the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov was asked today, are you going to call Assad and offer him asylum in Russia? And Lavrov said that is a bad joke; why don’t you ask the same question to the German Foreign Minister [Guido] Westerwelle we were standing with? Why don’t you see if Assad is going to go to Germany?
It is all really absurd. The big development of today though that I would urgently point to is NATO is now rolling up its heavy artillery and that means WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
Sophisticated knowledgeable observers all over the world have long known since the very beginning in 2010 that WikiLeaks is a NATO-CIA conduit for various kinds of fake or real documents that are released with political aims in mind and Assange in that sense is a tool of NATO.
We are now told that there are 2.4 million cables; 400 thousand in Arabic, 70 thousand in Russia that are all embarrassing to Syria, embarrassing to the Syrian government but also embarrassing to companies that are still selling various things to Syria.
The example given is Finmeccanica, an Italian firm that has been selling radios to Assad. Also notable is that Assange and WikiLeaks have got a consortium of international press organs; they have got the Associate Press of the United States, the biggest indeed.
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[10 July 2012] Exclusive interview with Syrian parliament Speaker - English
[10 July 2012] Exclusive interview with Syrian parliament Speaker - English
In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Syria's parliament speaker...
[10 July 2012] Exclusive interview with Syrian parliament Speaker - English
In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Syria's parliament speaker has criticized Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar for fueling the unrest in his country by supporting armed groups fighting against the government.
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[19 July 2012] Andaz-e-Jahan دمشق میں دہشت گردانہ...
[19 July 2012] Andaz-e-Jahan دمشق میں دہشت گردانہ حملہ - Urdu
مہمان:ڈاکٹر جعفر رضی خان-محترم...
[19 July 2012] Andaz-e-Jahan دمشق میں دہشت گردانہ حملہ - Urdu
مہمان:ڈاکٹر جعفر رضی خان-محترم شمیم فیضي-ڈاکٹر اشتیاق احمد
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[DOCUMENTARY] A Day In Homs, Syria - Arabic sub English
Press TV Documentary.
An investigative documentary on how the events unfold in the Syrian city of Homs.
This investigation is in Arabic with...
Press TV Documentary.
An investigative documentary on how the events unfold in the Syrian city of Homs.
This investigation is in Arabic with English subtitles.
Broadcast - July 2012
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[25 July 2012] Gangs destruct Syria on behalf of israel - English
[25 July 2012] Gangs destruct Syria on behalf of Israel - English
The infrastructure of Syria is facing dangerous levels and the fighting between...
[25 July 2012] Gangs destruct Syria on behalf of Israel - English
The infrastructure of Syria is facing dangerous levels and the fighting between the Syrian army and the armed groups is spreading to other cities as well.
Syria has been the scene of violence by armed groups since March 2011. The violence has claimed the lives of hundreds of people, including many security forces.
The Syrian government says outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorists are the driving factor behind the unrest and deadly violence while the opposition accuses the security forces of being behind the killings.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Kevin Barrett, author and Islamic studies expert, to further discuss the issue.
The video also offers the opinion of an additional guest: Lawrence J. Korb from the Center for American Progress.
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[25 July 2012] NATO is al Qaeda wing clipped in Syria Tarpley - News...
[25 July 2012] NATO is al Qaeda wing clipped in Syria Tarpley - News Analysis - English
Since deadly unrest gripped Syria more than a year ago,...
[25 July 2012] NATO is al Qaeda wing clipped in Syria Tarpley - News Analysis - English
Since deadly unrest gripped Syria more than a year ago, the government has frequently blamed its foreign enemies for directing a destructive militant attack against country. Now a growing number of western media reports are proving just that.
On this edition of News Analysis we will discuss the situation.
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[28 July 2012] Syria A Small-Scale World War - News Analysis - English
[28 July 2012] Syria A Small-Scale World War - News Analysis - English
The situation in Syria was supposed to be about Syrians demonstrating for...
[28 July 2012] Syria A Small-Scale World War - News Analysis - English
The situation in Syria was supposed to be about Syrians demonstrating for reforms and change: The situation in Syria has turned out into a proxy-war, involving several players, such as the US, UK, Turkey, not to mention fighters from different nationalities, including from Egypt, Libya, and Jordan, with German intelligence citing al-Qaeda's involvement and the money that is being provided by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Some observers say Syria has become the scene of a "small-scale world war".
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[30 July 2012] West provoking civil war in Syria Jonathan Steele - English
[30 July 2012] West provoking civil war in Syria Jonathan Steele - English
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 and many people,...
[30 July 2012] West provoking civil war in Syria Jonathan Steele - English
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 and many people, including large numbers of security forces, have been killed in the turmoil.
The Syrian government says outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorists are the driving factor behind the unrest and deadly violence while the opposition accuses the security forces of being behind the killings.
The anti-Syria Western regimes have been calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, but Russia and China remain strongly opposed to the Western drive to oust Assad.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on July 28, "Our Western partners... together with some of Syria's neighbors are essentially encouraging, supporting and directing an armed struggle against [the Syrian government]."
Press TV has conducted an interview with Jonathan Steele, former foreign editor of the Guardian and the author of Ghosts of Afghanistan, to further talk over the issue.
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[01 Aug 2012] Turkey plays US dangerous game on Syria Tarpley - News...
[01 Aug 2012] Turkey plays US dangerous game on Syria Tarpley - English
For more than a year, the deadly unrest in Syria has brought about more...
[01 Aug 2012] Turkey plays US dangerous game on Syria Tarpley - English
For more than a year, the deadly unrest in Syria has brought about more questions than answers but what's definitely clear is that civilians have been the main victims of what the armed opposition says is a government crackdown and the government says is a foreign-backed attempt to destroy the country.
On this edition of News Analysis we will discuss the situation.
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[14 Aug 2012] US violates all of the laws on Syria - English
[14 Aug 2012] US violates all of the laws on Syria - English
The mission of the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her recent visit to...
[14 Aug 2012] US violates all of the laws on Syria - English
The mission of the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her recent visit to Turkey was to supply the Syrian insurgents with anti-aircraft equipment and missiles, a report says.
According to a report published on August 12 by the newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's achievements on the ground against the insurgents in Aleppo have frustrated both Ankara and Washington.
The report added that, the US is trying to establish a no-fly zone in Syria in order to weaken the Syrian army's air force. However, they will not succeed.
Considering the situation, the US tries to supply the Syrian insurgents with anti-aircraft equipment and Stinger missiles, the report said.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, director of Pan-African News Wire, from Detroit, to further discuss the issue.
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