Tag: syria
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Boiling Frogs Post Roundtable #5: NATO, Russia, Turkey and the “New Cold War”
from boilingfrogspost.com: In this edition of the BFP Roundtable, Peter B. Collins, Guillermo Jimenez, James Corbett and Sibel Edmonds discuss the latest moves in the formation of a so-called “new cold war” between NATO and Russia. We also tackle Seymour Hersh and his recent article in the London Review of Books examining Turkish involvement in…
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Libya’s Cache of Toxic Arms All Destroyed
from nytimes.com: Even as the international effort to destroy Syria’s vast chemical weapons stockpile lags behind schedule, a similar American-backed campaign carried out under a cloak of secrecy ended successfully last week in another strife-torn country, Libya. The United States and Libya in the past three months have discreetly destroyed what both sides say were…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode179 – Ukraine Unrest, IP Address Wins, Google Glass Eye
Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Ukraine Opposition Sets 24-hour Deadline As Protests Rage Putin Scores a New Victory: What Really Happened In Ukraine Ukraine Texts Citizens: Hey,…
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Geneva II: Day 1 of Syria Peace Talks Ends on Fragile Ground
from cbsnews.com: Peace talks to carve a path out of Syria’s civil war got off to a rocky start Wednesday as a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad’s future threatened to collapse the negotiations even before they had begun. The dispute over Assad cast a pall over an international conference that aims to map out…
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Kerry Offers Assurances as Syria Talks Draw Near
from nytimes.com: As the Syrian opposition neared a decision on whether to attend an international peace conference next week, Secretary of State John Kerry offered a public assurance on Thursday that the Obama administration had not pulled back from its goal of establishing a transitional government that would not include President Bashar al-Assad. In a…
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Talking Peace, Waging War
from indybay.org: Obama’s war on Syria rages. It’s taken a horrific toll nationwide. Tens of thousands died. Dozens more do daily. Millions were displaced. Numbers internally and abroad range up to one-third of Syria’s population. Humanitarian crisis conditions exist. Human suffering is extreme. Peace talks reflect more illusion than reality. On January 22, they’re scheduled…
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‘Nearly 500’ Killed in Syria Rebel Infighting
from aljazeera.com: Clashes between Syrian rebel and fighters from an al-Qaeda-linked group have killed nearly 500 people in northern Syria over the past week, according to a monitoring group. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that at least 482 people have been killed in the fighting that has pitted a loose alliance of…
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As Polio Spreads In Syria, Politics Thwarts Vaccination Efforts
xfrom npr.org: The World Health Organization has declared a polio emergency in Syria. After being free of the crippling disease for more than a decade, Syria 10 confirmed cases of polio in October. Now the outbreak has grown to 17 confirmed cases, the WHO last week. And the virus has spread to four cities, including…
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Israeli Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Units Active in Damascus Battles
from phantomreport.com: Israel military in East Gouta to Damascus? Battles, which began last Friday, a surprise attack on the outposts of the Syrian army in the far East Gouta, may turn out to be the first occasion involving Israelis effectively in the Syrian war along one of the parties. According to sources cross, the Israelis…
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New World Next Week: Episode166 – 9/11+12, Putin’s Op Ed, Kenyan Water
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode166 – 9/11+12, Putin’s Op Ed, Kenyan Water Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: New Poll Finds Most Americans Open to Alternative 9/11 Theories Sept. 11 ‘Truthers’…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode165 – Global Tax Grid, Hemisphere Project, RFID ID
Story #1: G20 Nations Chase Tax Evaders With Plan To Swap Data Globally // Story #2: AT&T Helps DEA Collect More Phone Calls Than NSA // Story #3: California Abruptly Drops Plan to Implant RFID Chips in Driver’s Licenses
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Syria, Egypt Strife Sparks Surge In Cyber Attacks
from reuters.com: Syria’s civil war and political strife in Egypt have thrown up new battlegrounds on the Web and driven a surge in cyber attacks in the Middle East, according to a leading Internet security company. More than half of incidents in the Gulf this year were so-called “hacktivist” attacks – which account for only…
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New World Next Week: The Syria Situation – August 29, 2013
DOWNLOAD MP3 – NewWorldNextWeek.com: The Syria Situation (This is an audio-only version of ‘New World Next Week’.) Welcome to the New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week, James and James continue last week’s…
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Why the Syrian Electronic Army loves to hack the American media
from washingtonpost.com: The New York Times web site went down on Tuesday afternoon in an external cyber attack that appears most likely committed by the Syrian Electronic Army. The informal pro-Assad hacker collective has made a habit of targeting prominent Western media outlets, typically by seizing their Twitter feeds but sometimes hitting their sites as…
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Syrians in capital hoard food, seek shelter as strike looms
from reuters.com: Syrians in the capital Damascus are racing against time to prepare for a foreign strike, with many hoarding supplies and others scrambling to find accommodation further away from potential military targets. In a city where dozens of military sites are mixed in among the civilian population, many worry Damascus could become an especially…