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At Least 13 Killed, 29 Injured after Car Bombs Rock Central Damascus

July 2, 2017 –  Alamanar News The number of people killed in Sunday’s blasts in Syria’s capital of Damascus has increased to 13, while at least 29 others have sustained injuries, a medical source told Sputnik. Earlier in the day, the Syrian state TV reported that at least eight people …

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The Syrian war’s worst kept secret that could become Israel’s nightmare

July 2, 2017, Middle East Eye – Richard Silverstein Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal published an interview with a Syrian rebel commander and half a dozen fighters, who confirmed the worst kept secret of the Syrian conflict: Israel is directly aiding Syrian rebel factions with both humanitarian and financial aid. …

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Why Haven’t Chemical Weapons Inspectors Gone to Syria’s Shayrat Air Base?

July 1, 2017, The Century Foundation – Aron Lund On Monday evening, the White House released a statement saying U.S. intelligence had “identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack” in Syria. If President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons, the statement warned, his military would pay a “heavy price.” The warning was …

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Dubious OPCW CW Report on Syria

July 1, 2017 – Stephen Lendman The Hague-based intergovernmental Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is mandated “to implement the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention…to achieve…a world…free of” CWs. Its mission includes “credible and transparent” on-site inspections to verify use of or destruction of these weapons. In …

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White House Says It Will Fake “Chemical Weapon Attack” in Syria

June 30, 2017 – Government Slaves MOON OF ALABAMA—The White House claims that the Syrian government is preparing “chemical weapon attacks”. This is clearly not the case. Syria is winning the war against the country. Any such attack would clearly be to its disadvantage. The White House announcement must thereby …

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Media’s propaganda war on Syria in full flow

June 30, 2017 – Jonathan Cook If you wish to understand the degree to which a supposedly free western media are constructing a world of half-truths and deceptions to manipulate their audiences, keeping us uninformed and docile, then there could hardly be a better case study than their treatment of …

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Ex-Weapons Inspector: Trump’s Sarin Claims Built on ‘Lie’

June 30, 2017, The American Conservative – Scott Ritter On the night of June 26, the White House Press Secretary released a statement, via Twitter, that, “the United States has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of …

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UNHCR seeing significant returns of internally displaced amid Syria’s continuing conflict

June 30, 2017, UNHCR UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is seeing a notable trend of spontaneous returns to and within Syria in 2017. Aid agencies estimate that more than 440,000 internally displaced people have returned to their homes in Syria during the first six months of this year. In parallel, …

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Hersh’s new Syria revelations buried from view

June 27, 2017 – Jonathan Cook Blog Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the man who exposed the Mai Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the US military’s abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004, is probably the most influential journalist of the modern era, with the possible …

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Intel Behind Trump’s Syria Attack Questioned

June 27, 2017, Consurtiumnews – Ray McGvern Legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh is challenging the Trump administration’s version of events surrounding the April 4 “chemical weapons attack” on the northern Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun – though Hersh had to find a publisher in Germany to get his information out. …

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