Barack Obama honors Israeli president with Medal of Freedom

(Meanwhile Israel is playing into the propaganda on Syria claiming they have stockpiles of chemical weapons that they will use against their own people. Looks to me like we can expect a chemical weapon False Flag somewhere in Syria, probably one of the locations that Susan Rice mentioned the other day. “The Israeli army is considering using military force to prevent Syria’s alleged chemical warfare stockpiles from getting into the hands of Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda“. Anyone remember the Amerithrax attacks just after 9/11? Where did that biological WMD come from?)

from Voltaire Net

Is it just me or is this photo creepy looking?

US President Barack Obama has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Israeli President Shimon Peres, the man who has overseen the killing of Palestinian women and children by Israeli forces in the occupied territories for decades.

Imperialism and the Houla massacre

by Alex Lantier, WSWS

Investigations of the May 25 massacre in Houla, Syria have shattered the lies Washington and its allies are using to justify their escalating military intervention in Syria.

Responsibility for the deaths of 108 people massacred in Houla lies not with the Syrian army, but with the Syrian “rebel” forces the US is arming against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a leading German daily. The newspaper reported that the Syrian guerilla groups functioned as Sunni sectarian death squads, wiping out much of Houla’s Shiite Muslim minority. Its sources were not drawn from the Assad regime, but from the Syrian opposition itself, as well as from French religious groups in Syria.

The implications of this revelation go far beyond the atrocity in Houla. They undermine the rotten foundations of the US-led campaign for war with Syria. The media uncritically reports opposition accounts of the killings and Western denunciations of Assad to cynically present arms support for the opposition—or, possibly, a US invasion of Syria—as acts of conscience to halt a humanitarian disaster.

[read the rest, here]

Syria Scenario-News Analysis-06-13-2012