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Syria resisting economic
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Less dramatic but no
less intense than
military battles is
the economic war being
conducted against the
Syrian people and
Syrian government by
the Western powers,
led by the United
States.</p>
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Economic sanctions
imposed by the
imperialist drive for
“regime change” have
taken a heavy toll on
the Syrian people. A
sustained attack on
the Syrian pound by
international
financial institutions
has caused a drop in
Syrian currency
against the dollar and
euro.</p>
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offset this drop in
the value of their
currency, the Syrian
government ordered
double-digit increases
in salaries for public
employees and
retirees. (New York
Times, June 28) Aid
from Russia, China and
Iran totaling $500
million a month is
what is allowing the
Syrian government to
weather these attacks.
(Financial Times, June
27) Kadri Jamil,
deputy prime minister
for the economy,
described the aid as a
“counteroffensive”
against this economic
warfare.</p>
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Syrian troops,
meanwhile, have been
following up their
dramatic victory over
reactionary rebel
forces in the city of
Qusair. Rebels were
driven out of the town
of Tel Kalakh, just
two miles from the
Lebanese border “used
by the rebels … as a
transit point for
weapons and fighters
smuggled into Syria.”
(Reuters, June 26)</p>
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the Syrian
government’s military
victories are driving
the U.S. and its
European and Mideast
monarchist allies
toward greater
intervention. The
military commander of
the so-called “Free
Syrian Army” announced
recently that his
forces were receiving
anti-aircraft
missiles. This was
confirmed by the
Reuters’ report of
June 26, which
reported that Saudi
Arabia was “supplying
anti-aircraft missiles
among other weapons.”</p>
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Washington is also
escalating its role in
the war against Syria.
The BBC reported on
June 25 that 800 U.S.
troops “are now
stationed in Jordan,
many remaining on
after a joint military
exercise” ended
recently.
Demonstrations in
Jordan’s capital,
Amman, protested this
imperialist occupation
and threat against
neighboring Syria.
Jordanian Army
Brigadier General Ali
Habashna expressed his
fears, saying, “We all
know that when the
U.S. puts its troops
somewhere, in a
country, they become
part of the crisis,
they worsen it.” (BBC,
June 25)</p>
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Tensions related to
the war against Syria
spilled over into the
Lebanese port city of
Sidon on June 18 when
followers of Sheik
Ahmad al-Assir fought
members of the
Hezbollah militia.
Sheik Assir strongly
opposes the government
of President al-Assad
of Syria. By Sunday,
June 23, Lebanese Army
forces had come under
attack by the
right-wing cleric’s
forces. After major
fighting, it was
reported that 14
Lebanese government
troops had been killed
and the Sheik was in
hiding.</p>
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Perhaps in retaliation
for their defeats on
the battlefield, rebel
terrorists attacked
the Christian Old City
of Damascus. Suicide
bombers and other
explosives went off at
a medical treatment
center, a restaurant
and a Greek Orthodox
church, killing
several civilians.</p>
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talk of an
international peace
conference for Syria
has not moved forward.
Plans for talks in
Geneva first put
forward by both the
U.S. and Russia have
stalled. The two
powers have not even
been able to agree on
who should attend the
gathering.</p>
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Washington had hoped
that its proxy rebel
forces would have been
strong enough after
two years of fighting
— aided by massive
weapons shipments
coordinated by the CIA
— to force President
Assad to step down.
However, recent
military and political
defeats for the
U.S.-backed rebels
have strengthened the
Syrian government,
making a peace
conference unlikely to
achieve the
neocolonial goal of
“regime change.”</p>
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Inside the U.S.,
anti-war groups have
united in a call for
coordinated national
demonstrations against
U.S. aid to the
reactionary rebels,
demanding that the
billions spent for war
be diverted to provide
much-needed jobs and
social services right
here at home.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px
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crucial victory by the
Syrian Arab Army against
imperialist-backed
terrorist ‘rebels’ in
Qusair, a town near the
border with Lebanon, has
further disintegrated
the military and
political opposition to
the government of
President Bashar
al-Assad. At the same
time, the threats
against Syria’s
government by
imperialist and
reactionary monarchist
powers, led by the
United States, are
increasing.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px
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June 5, the Syrian army
regained the town of
Qusair after several
weeks of intense
fighting. Qusair had
been in rebel hands for
two years and served as
a transit point for
foreign fighters and
weapons flooding into
Syria from the porous
Lebanon border.</p>
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aid this victory,
volunteers from the
Lebanese Hezbollah
militia had joined in
the fighting on the side
of the Syrian
government. Syrian
troops pursued the
retreating rebels into
the many villages
surrounding Qusair.</p>
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leaders of Hezbollah,
which is renowned for
liberating Lebanon from
Israeli occupation, have
clearly defined the
struggle to preserve
Syria’s government as
being part of the
struggle against the
imperialist and
colonialist Western
powers and the Zionist
state of Israel.</p>
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has also been reported
that the military wing
of the Palestinian Hamas
organization has come
out in support of
Hezbollah’s position in
defense of Syria against
the imperialists. Al
Quds Al Arabi, the
London-based pan-Arab
newspaper, reports that
the Qassam Brigades have
decided to realign
themselves with
Hezbollah and Iran after
bitter infighting over
the direction the group
should take. The report
says that the Brigades
wrote a letter to the
political leadership of
Hamas demanding an
alliance with Hezbollah.</p>
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opposition Syrian
Coalition, already
unable to maintain a
unified political front,
quickly showed greater
signs of disunity.
Before the Qusair
defeat, the Coalition
had agreed to attend an
international peace
conference proposed
jointly by the U.S. and
Russia. With this big
setback, the military
commander of the
so-called “Free Syrian
Army” announced that the
rebels would boycott any
peace conference “if we
don’t receive ammunition
and weapons to change
the position on the
ground.” (New York
Times, June 9)</p>
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course, the rebels have
been receiving massive
shipments of armaments
from Qatar and Saudi
Arabia for the past two
years, all coordinated
by the Central
Intelligence Agency. The
Times characterized this
position as reflecting
“a growing frustration
if not desperation.” The
rebels, unable to
advance on the ground,
are really pressing for
direct and massive
military intervention by
the U.S. and its NATO
allies.</p>
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exercises in Jordan</strong></p>
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Jordanian media recently
reported that 15,000
troops from 17 countries
will soon start massive
military “exercises”
inside Jordan.
Participants include the
U.S., Canada, the U.K.,
Italy, Turkey, Yemen,
Egypt and others and
will include air-sea and
land operations.</p>
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“war game,” dubbed Eager
Lion 2013, will run for
at least two weeks. U.S.
troops have already been
stationed in Jordan and
Turkey along with
Patriot missile
batteries. The CIA has
been widely reported as
running training camps
for guerrilla forces to
be sent into Syria.
According to the June 9
Jordan Times, “Major
equipment utilised
during the exercise will
include amphibious
assault ships, AV-B
Harrier II, C130
Hercules, F18 Hornet,
F16 Falcon, Patriot
missile system and the
V-22 Osprey tilt rotor
aircraft.” It is unclear
how much of this
equipment will be left
in Jordan.</p>
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war games are a direct
threat against the
government of Syria and
could easily be used to
initiate a direct attack
on Syria. The U.S. goal
of regime change in
Syria is unlikely to be
stopped by the failures
of its proxy rebels.</p>
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years ago the U.S. and
NATO were faced with the
total inability of their
Libyan proxies to
advance militarily. The
“solution” was to
declare a “no-fly zone”
in Libya. Massive
bombing of military and
civilian targets
followed. In the end,
the “rebels” simply
walked into the capital
as imperialist planes
cleared their path. A
similar playbook may be
in preparation for
Syria.</p>
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