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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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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. …
Read More »Trump‘s Red Line
June 26, 2017, WELT – Von Seymour M. Hesh President Donald Trump ignored important intelligence reports when he decided to attack Syria after he saw pictures of dying children. Seymour M. Hersh investigated the case of the alleged Sarin gas attack. On April 6, United States President Donald Trump authorized …
Read More »The Gatekeepers for Empire? “Independent Media” Failed Coverage of Syria
June 25, 2017, GlobalReseach – Michael Welch, Vanessa Beeley, and Daniel Borgstrom The long-running program Democracy Now boasts of its independence from corporate and state sponsorship, which would compromise its ability to critique in a sustained way the powerful for-profit and government interests potentially linked to their paymasters. As a …
Read More »Is There a Western Plot to Overthrow Assad?
June 25, 2017, The Libertarian Institute – William Van Wagenen The Western narrative of the Syrian conflict, which began in the Spring of 2011, suggests that the Syrian people began to peacefully protest for an end to the Assad regime, which then responded with brutal oppression; killing, imprisoning and torturing …
Read More »How America Armed Terrorists in Syria
June 24, 2017, The American Conservative – Gareth Porter Three-term Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a member of both the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees, has proposed legislation that would prohibit any U.S. assistance to terrorist organizations in Syria as well as to any organization working directly with them. …
Read More »Resist This: the United States is at War With Syria
June 22, 2017, CounterPunch – Jim Kavanagh The United States is at war with Syria. Though few Americans wanted to face it, this has been the case implicitly since the Obama administration began building bases and sending Special Ops, really-not-there, American troops, and it has been the case explicitly since …
Read More »Spoiling for a Wider War in Syria
June 22, 2017, Consortiumnews – Robert Parry The U.S. mainstream media’s near universal demonization of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin – along with similar hatred directed toward Iran and Hezbollah – has put the world on a path toward World War III. Ironically, the best hope …
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