On 13 June 2012 Hillary Clinton said: "The United States has provided no military support to the opposition. None." So explain what the CIA is doing in Turkey.

Could this incident be used to put pressure on the Russians and to increase calls for western intervention to support the opposition?

No one can minimise the barbarity of the Assad regime, nor want to defend it from the justified rage of its people. But no one began the revolution wanting another Libya as the result.

Syria has become the focal point in the Middle East region, as the democratic, anti-imperialist organisations that led the peaceful protest movement initially have been eclipsed by Nato-backed forces.

The current euro crisis might look like a threat to the world as we know it. But it is nothing, absolutely nothing, compared with what could happen if Syria explodes.

The US and its allies are sponsoring regime change through civil war and while paying lip service to the Annan plan, they are making sure it won't succeed.

The opposition groups calling for Western military intervention in Syria are not different from those in the Iraqi opposition who collaborated with the US and Britain in the Iraq war.

The only way to prevent a full-scale civil war in Syria – which would destroy the country, as happened in Iraq – is to demilitarise the conflict.

Despite continued words of caution from the White House about getting into another messy Middle East war, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is pressing for more intervention.

What the hell, let's have another intervention. That is the message from the liberal press which has learnt nothing from its craven support for past wars.

The very idea that an organization principally designed to cause humanitarian disasters — for that is what war truly is — should be used to relieve human suffering is preposterous.

As in the case of Libya, this one-sided media coverage of the Syrian conflict is facilitating the escalation of the conflict towards a civil war and foreign military intervention.

Western journalists have learnt nothing from 10 years of spinning the '9/11' wars and have collectively abandoned their analytical and critical faculties when it comes to Syria.

A ruthless global 'scramble' over energy resources, pipelines, oil supply routes in the Middle East, Central Asia and beyond is being conducted under cover of "humanitarian intervention".

After decades of selling arms to dictators in the Middle East, the western powers are wrapping themselves in the rhetoric of humanitarian intervention.

If you fear the possibility of the war with Iran, says George Galloway, then the time is now to stand against the propaganda, meddling and drive for intervention over Syria and across the Middle East.