Dec 29, 2013, Consortium News The New York Times has, kind of, admitted that it messed up its big front-page story that used a “vector analysis” to pin the blame for the Aug. 21 Sarin attack on the Syrian government, an assertion that was treated by Official Washington as the slam-dunk …
Read More »UN Investigator Undercuts NYT on Syria
Dec 23, 2013, Consortium News Ake Sellstrom, the head of the United Nations mission investigating chemical weapons use in Syria, agrees that the vector analysis – at the heart of the New York Times’ indictment of the Syrian government for the deadly Aug. 21 Sarin gas attack – doesn’t stand …
Read More »Whose sarin?
Dec 8, 2013, London Review of Books Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intelligence, and in others …
Read More »Syria: Another Illegal War of Aggression based on Manipulation and Fake Intelligence
Sep 4, 2013, Global Research “Their [pro-Israel neocon] plan, which urged Israel to re-establish ‘the principle of preemption,’ has now been imposed by (Richard) Perle, (Douglas) Feith, (David) Wurmser & Co. on the United States.” Patrick J. Buchanan, American political commentator, The American Conservative, March 24, 2003 “I wasn’t afraid …
Read More »Bankrupt at Home and Abroad, Syria Shows Washington is a Spent Geopolitical Player
Oct 19, 2013, Strategic Culture Foundation US policy on Syria could be described as «a comedy of errors» if the consequences for human suffering were not so brutal. Having largely created a quagmire of terrorism and lawlessness in Syria through covert insurgency operations over the past two and half years, …
Read More »How US Pressure Bends UN Agencies
Oct 16, 2013, Consortium News For at least the past dozen years, the U.S. government has aggressively sought to gain control of the leadership of key United Nations agencies, including the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) which is central to the dispute over the Syrian government’s alleged …
Read More »To some, US case for Syrian gas attack, strike has too many holes
Sep 2, 2013, McClatchy The Obama administration’s public case for attacking Syria is riddled with inconsistencies and hinges mainly on circumstantial evidence, undermining U.S. efforts this week to build support at home and abroad for a punitive strike against Bashar Assad’s regime. The case Secretary of State John Kerry laid …
Read More »U.S. Military Confirms Rebels Had Sarin
Sep 12, 2013, Information Clearinghouse As part of the Obama administration’s repeated insistence – though without offering proof – that the recent sarin gas attack near Damascus was the work of the Assad regime, the administration has downplayed or denied the possibility that al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebels could produce deadly chemical …
Read More »Obscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America’s Case Against Syria
Oct 13, 2013, Strategic Culture The US federal government and the various agencies, media organizations, individuals, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, lobbies, forces, and other entities that are tied to it have done everything in their power to obscure the details involving the chemical attacks in that took place in Syria …
Read More »Foreigners train Syrian rebels in Afghanistan to use chem weapons – Lavrov
Oct 11, 2013, RT.com There are reports that some third countries are training Syrian rebels to use chemical weapons in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. The intention is to put the skill to use in new false flag actions in Syria, he explained. The suspected training happened in …
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