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April 11, 2017, Consortiumnews.com More than two dozen ex-U.S. intelligence officials urge President Trump to rethink his claims blaming the Syrian government for the chemical deaths in Idlib and to pull back from his dangerous escalation of tensions with Russia. MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)* SUBJECT: Syria: Was …

The recent US attacks on Syria were ostensibly in retaliation for scores of deaths by chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun (Idlib governorate in the northwestern part of the Syrian Arab Republic). Instead of a unilateral attack, the proper course of action should have been an investigation of the Khan Sheikhoun deaths …

April 10, 2017, Consortiumnews.com – Rick Sterling Exclusive: The mainstream U.S. media now reports as “flat-fact” the Syrian government’s guilt in the April 4 chemical weapons incident, but the real facts are less clear and some point in the opposite direction, says Rick Sterling. Historian and journalist Stephen Kinzer has …

March 23, 2017, Black Agenda Report – Danny Haiphong “President Assad’s commitment to self-determination and international solidarity, not human rights violations, has placed him in the cross hairs of US imperialism.” The corporate media has spent little energy on Syria since the election of Donald Trump. Trump has become the …

March 22, 2017, Foriegn Affairs – Max Abrahms, Denis Sullivan, and Charles Simpson Separating Fact From Fiction The Syrian refugee crisis is the worst human security disaster of the twenty-first century. Beyond the death toll, which stands at around 400,000, an estimated 11 million Syrians—about half the national population—have fled …

March 3, 2017 – Consortiumnews.com Hollywood activists prefer their human rights causes blessed by the U.S. government, which contributed to the dubious Oscar for “The White Helmets” propaganda flick, writes Patrick Hennigsen at 21st Century Wire. By Patrick Hennigsen In your average lifetime, everyone will get to see his or her …

March 6, 2017 – The Indicter by Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli, SWEDHR chair. An examination of a White Helmets video, conducted by Swedish medical doctors, specialists in various fields, including paediatrics, have revealed that the life-saving procedures seen in the film are incorrect – in fact life-threatening – or …

February 21, 2017 – Dissident Voice by Rick Sterling The Netflix movie The White Helmets may win an Oscar in the “short documentary” category at the Academy Awards on Sunday February 26.  It will not be a surprise, despite the fact that the group is a fraud and the movie …

February 22, 2017 – Rogue Nation by David Mizner Assad is primarily responsible for the rise of ISIS. No one else is even close, with the possible exceptions of former Iraqi presidents Maliki and Hussein. That’s the predictable message of the State Department and its proxy reporters at outlets like …

February 17, 2017 – SPUTNIK Amnesty International’s latest report on mass extrajudicial killings in Syria would not stand scrutiny, according to former British ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford. On February 7, the organization issued an explosive report titled ‘Human Slaughterhouse, Mass Hangings and Extermination at Saydhaya prison, Syria,’ alleging that the …