Syria: Trump’s Tomahawks, Double Standards – Using Chemical and Radioactive Weapons for Profit? By Felicity Arbuthnot

17 May 2017 — Global Research

“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.” Frantz Fanon, 1961. (1925-1961.)

Although the US’ entirely illegal attack on Syria’s Shayrat Airbase in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government, showed not a thought towards Congressional debate, United Nations mandate or the rule of law, it seems that some thought might have gone in to the date. Continue reading

Media to Trump: Don’t Cozy Up to Dictators–Unless They’re the Right Dictators

17 May 2017 — FAIR

New York Times: Trump Embraces Another Despot

The New York Times (5/1/17) is critical when Trump embraces a despot not on the Approved Despots List.

After a series of friendly gestures by President Donald Trump toward Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over the past few months, US media have recoiled with disgust at the open embrace of governments that ostensibly had heretofore been beyond the pale.

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