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Paul Craig Roberts:  The Neoconservative War Criminals In Our Midst    Information Clearing House: ICH Inside Syria: Aleppo’s Christians Arm Against Islamists As foreign and local radicals rise amid the chaos of Syria’s civil war, Christians are taking arms from the Assad regime. By Hugh Macleod, Annasofie Flamand and a reporter inside Syria August 01. 2012 "Global Post" -- ALEPPO, Syria and BEIRUT, Lebanon — As evidence mounts that foreign Islamists are fighting alongside Syria’s increasingly radicalized rebels, Christians in Aleppo and elsewhere are taking up arms, often supplied by the regime. “We saw what happened to the Christians in Iraq,” Abu George, a Christian resident of Aleppo’s Aziza district told GlobalPost. “What is going on in Aleppo is not a popular revolution for democracy and freedom. The fighters of the so-called Free Syrian Army are radical Sunnis who want to establish an Islamic state.”

Inside Syria: Aleppo’s Christians Arm Against Islamists:        Information Clearing House: ICH Inside Syria: Aleppo’s Christians Arm Against Islamists As foreign and local radicals rise amid the chaos of Syria’s civil war, Christians are taking arms from the Assad regime. By Hugh Macleod, Annasofie Flamand and a reporter inside Syria August 01. 2012 "Global Post" -- ALEPPO, Syria and BEIRUT, Lebanon — As evidence mounts that foreign Islamists are fighting alongside Syria’s increasingly radicalized rebels, Christians in Aleppo and elsewhere are taking up arms, often supplied by the regime. “We saw what happened to the Christians in Iraq,” Abu George, a Christian resident of Aleppo’s Aziza district told GlobalPost. “What is going on in Aleppo is not a popular revolution for democracy and freedom. The fighters of the so-called Free Syrian Army are radical Sunnis who want to establish an Islamic state.”

Mitt Romney, Palestinian culture and white supremacism: responses worth reading US Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney generated a backlash with his claims in Jerusalem that the vast (20:1) disparity in income between Israelis and Palestinians can be explained by a superior Jewish Israeli culture and “the hand of providence” – rather than by the systematic depradations of Israeli occupation on the economy of Palestinians.