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US Exploited Assad's Fight Against Al-Qaeda

Thursday September 24, 2015

The US government has been relying on its standard narrative that the Syria crisis emerged spontaneously after an "Arab Spring" inspired protest was violently suppressed by the Syrian government. The entire US intervention was justified on these grounds. In other words, the "Assad must go" position of the US government was simply a reflection of his decision to attack his own citizens in 2011. Thus the Obama Administration, as it did in Ukraine, has attempted to disavow any role in fomenting the uprising and thus any responsibility for the violence that ensued.

But like much else in US foreign policy the narrative is wholly false, constructed to propagandize the American people in favor of US intervention and shield the US government from any fallout.

In fact the US government had long had its sights on regime change in Syria, starting at least with the Project for a New American Century's plan peddled to George W. Bush to overthrow five countries in five years and remake the entire Middle East. The neocons always like to think big, but like any slimy salesman they never deliver as promised. Their Iraq "cakewalk" proved a deathwalk.
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Washington's Bias Toward War

Thursday September 24, 2015

College of William & Mary Professor and Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member Lawrence Wilkerson examined, in an interview last week with host Paul Jay on the Real News Network, the connection between war and profits. War brings profits, and this feeds a Washington, DC bias toward war, says Wilkerson.
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Eric Margolis: When Assad Is Gone, We Will Definitely Miss Him

Monday September 21, 2015

Speaking Friday with host Scott Horton on the Scott Horton Show, Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member Eric Margolis related the devastating consequences foreign intervention to depose Syria President Bashar al-Assad has created, as well as the further devastation that would be wrought if the intervention accomplishes its goal.

Concluding a discussion largely focused on governments, including those of the United States, Britain, and France, intervening in Syria, Margolis presents an important warning. “The question is ‘Why overthrow Assad?’” asks Margolis, “because, when he’s gone, we are definitely going to miss him.”
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New Hampshire Library Stands Up to US Government, Reinstates Tor Relay

Wednesday September 16, 2015

The board of trustees overseeing the Kilton Public Library in West Lebanon, New Hampshire on Tuesday decided, despite pushback from the United States Department of Homeland Security, to reinstate a Tor relay the board had approved in an effort to enhance privacy on the internet. The library board drew the attention of Homeland Security when the board decided in June to make the Kilton Public Library the first library in America to install a Tor relay. After Homeland Security promptly responded by telling state and local government officials that the Tor relay may aid criminals, the board had suspended the relay.
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Assange, Manning, and Snowden (as Statues) Challenging War in Geneva

Monday September 14, 2015

The whistleblowers and government secrets revealers Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden are not free to travel. But, this week — in the form of a sculpture including their life-size bronze statues — they are standing in a Geneva, Switzerland plaza near the European headquarters of the United Nations. The sculpture’s message is antiwar, says its Italian sculptor Davide Dormino.
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Ron Paul Discusses Evangelical Zionists’ Support for US Wars

Saturday September 12, 2015

Ron Paul, the former United States presidential candidate and Republican House of Representatives member from Texas, discussed in an August 8 radio interview evangelical Zionists who support the US government’s wars overseas. Paul examines the matter with Patriot’s Lament show host Joshua Bennett on KFAR radio of Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Foreign Invasion Force In Yemen Grows

Friday September 11, 2015

The invasion force in Yemen is growing. The invasion troops now include:

• 3,000 United Arab Emirates

• 1,000 Qatar

• 1,000 Saudi Arabia

• 6,000 (somewhat unreliable) Yemeni expats hired and trained by Saudi Arabia

• 600-800 Egypt small contingents from Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan

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Ron Paul: The More US Intervention, the More Chaos in the Middle East

Thursday September 10, 2015

Speaking Wednesday with host Charles Payne on Fox Business, Ron Paul Institute Chairman and Founder Ron Paul said “interventionism of Republicans and Democrats” to “remake the Middle East” is to blame for the “utter mess” from which many Middle Easterners are fleeing. In short, concludes Paul, “the more we’re involved, the more chaos there is.”
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Daniel McAdams and Tom Woods on The Syrian Refugee Crisis: What’s the Cause?

Wednesday September 9, 2015

What is the latest with Europe's massive refugee/migrant crisis? RPI Executive Director Daniel McAdams was a guest today on the Tom Woods Show to look at the various explanations for this historic movement of humans from the Middle East to Europe. Was it spontaneous? Engineered? Assad's fault? US interventionism? Listen to McAdams and Woods on today's Tom Woods Show.
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Are Manned US Helicopters Flying In Syria?

Wednesday September 9, 2015

A NYT piece on the failure if the  "Division 30" Pentagon mercenaries in Syria and their coming Version 2 includes some interesting bits (in bold). The general line of the piece is that the failure of the first group sent in does not lead to significant changes but to attempts to create more of the same. That is not really new but the usual Pentagon mindset.
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