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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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
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. …
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