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Stand by Syria

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

THE SYRIANS are bracing themselves for a massive missile strike following the blatant and illegal threats of intervention in the civil war coming from Washington, London and Paris following ludicrous claims that the Syrian government was responsible for the poison gas attack that killed over 300 civilians and wounded 1,000 more last week.

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Scotland’s first bedroom tax victim

LORRAINE Fraser, a severely disabled single mother, is about to become the first council tenant in Scotland to be evicted because of the bedroom tax — the cut in housing benefit for tenants deemed to have more bedrooms than they need.

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Editorial

Syria: can the US and Britain get away with it again?

THE IMPERIALIST governments of Britain and the United States are gathering their forces for an intervention in Syria, which, if it goes ahead, will follow an all too familiar and dismal path.

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