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Israel Formulates Tripartite Plot to Destroy Syria

"What happened in Houla and elsewhere (in Syria) are brutal massacres which even monsters would not have carried out" - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

(TEHRAN) - A politically incorrect wave of labyrinthine madness is casting its heavy shadow over Syria as the country is being surrounded left and right by Zionist plots thickening beyond control.

The complicated situation in Syria is ever more obfuscated by myriad forces at work to destroy the friend of Iran and the foe of Israel.

As UNCA Pushes Anti-Press Move, Sri Lanka Says ICP Faces Jail

Mainstream press and the UN pull a u-turn on media freedom.

(UNITED NATIONS) - As UN Correspondents Association officials have proceeded against Inner City Press, they were told that their campaign could set anti media freedom precedents.

Activist James Morris Confronts John McCain for Ignoring Israeli Attack of USS Liberty

Many call him the Manchurian Candidate; at any rate McCain is a sellout to his fellow sailors...

(SALEM) - Memories of the deadly and intense 1967 Israeli attack on the American Navy ship, U.S.S. Liberty, will never go away.

You might assume that John McCain, a former U.S. Naval officer, would be a proponent of this movement for accountability. No dice though.

Notes on a Snowbird Stock Market... Heading South

"I wouldn't belong to a club that would have me for a member" - Groucho Marx

(SASKATCHEWAN) - There's an old adage on Wall Street – not unlike Groucho's bon mot above – that if you can get stock in a hot new IPO, you shouldn't.

The most recent example, of course, was the over priced, over-pitched and over-supplied Facebook stock issue, which soared only to plummet, as in the favored journalistic verbs, in its first two trading days.

Transit of Venus

The story of how man measured the sun, from the Ancient Greeks up to the Transit of Venus in 1769.

(NASELLE, WA) - This is the story of how man discovered how to use that rarest of alignments in our solar system to measure the distance between the earth and the sun.

IC Role in Massacre of Tamils a Shame for Entire Century: Kurdish Activist

Kurdish activist said that when “illegal and militarist states” cooperate with one another, it was necessary for people oppressed by such states to build greater solidarity with each other.

(CHENNAI, India TamilNet) - The international players knew what would happen to the Tamils in May 2009; they did nothing to prevent it.

Mirham Yigit, Head of Kurdish Institute in Germany, says that was a shame right at the beginning of the 21st century, and a shame for the entire century.

ANNA News Journalist Marat Musin about Houla Massacre

The town was attacked from the north-east by groups of bandits and mercenaries, numbering up to 700 people.

(ROME / DAMASCUS) - In the weekend of May 25, 2012, at about 2 PM, big groups of fighters attacked and captured the town of Al – Hula of the Homs province.

Al-Hula is made up of three regions: the village of Taldou, Kafr Laha and Taldahab, each of which had previously been home for 25-30 thousand people.

The Devilish Plan of Saudi-Bahrain Merger

Unquestionably, Bahrain's annexation to Saudi Arabia will pose a serious threat to the security and stability of the Persian Gulf.

(TEHRAN) - Members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council plan to annex the soil of Bahrain to Saudi Arabia and form a greater Arab union.

The move attests to the fact that the tyrannical and merciless rulers of Arab sheikhdoms in the Persian Gulf are still obliviously living in the colonial era.

World Heritage in Sri Lanka Observes Buddhist Sites Only

“If a religious war is to break out in Sri Lanka, it is Buddha Sasana Minister, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake and Christian Affairs Minister, Milroy Fernando who will be locking horns first.” – The Sunday Leader, 4 July 2004

(GARGE LES GONESSE, France) - In March 2001 when Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban destroyed two giant Buddha statues, Buddhists in Sri Lanka marched through Colombo in protest.

However no similar action has protected the religious symbols of other faiths.

A `Warm` Jubilee Welcome

Rajapaksa arrives on SriLankan Airlines flight UL505 on the night of the 3rd of June at terminal four in Heathrow.

(LONDON) - Several songs have been composed urging British Tamils to rally together and extend President Rajapaksa a ‘warm’ welcome. One is a remix of the popular Tamil song ‘Kolaveri’.