April 2018
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The Anti-Empire Report #157 By William Blum – Published April 18th, 2018
19 April 2018 — Anti-Empire Report Unpersons One reason it’s so easy to get an American administration, the mainstream media, and the American people to jump on an anti-Russian bandwagon is of course the legacy of the Soviet Union. To all the real crimes and shortcomings of that period the US regularly added many fictitious Continue reading
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Emails reveal White Helmets tried to lobby ex-Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters
Emails have emerged revealing how the controversial Syrian activist group the White Helmets tried to lobby Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters with Saudi money. The revelations have been published on Max Blumenthal’s project. Continue reading
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Novichok News Links 14-19 April 2018
19 April 2018 — williambowles.info 19 April 2018 Russia exposes British lies on Skripal, but trail leads to US By M.K. Bhadrakumar https://williambowles.info/2018/04/19/russia-exposes-british-lies-on-skripal-but-trail-leads-to-us-by-m-k-bhadrakumar/ The Skripals Have Survived but They Are Not Safe: The Novichok Fraud Should Bring Down the UK Government https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-skripals-have-survived-but-they-are-not-safe-the-novichok-fraud-should-bring-down-the-uk-government/5636754 Continue reading
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Syria News Links April 18-19 2018
19 April 2018 12:19:05 PM — williambowles.info 19 April 2018 Syria, Iran and “Chaos in International Relations” https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/04/19/syria-iran-and-chaos-in-international-relations.html Why Each US President Ends Up As Ruthless Interventionist These Days https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/04/19/why-each-us-president-ends-up-as-ruthless-interventionist-these-days.html Continue reading
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Russia exposes British lies on Skripal, but trail leads to US By M.K. Bhadrakumar
Moscow says it has proof that the agent used in the UK attack is a chemical weapon patented in the US. So was this a covert operation aimed at ratcheting up tensions between the West and Russia? Continue reading
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As Israel marks 70 years, what have been the true costs? By Jonathan Cook
The Zionist project was intended, so its founders claimed, to provide a sanctuary from persecution for all Jews around the world. But at what cost, both to the native Palestinians on whose homeland a Jewish state was built and to the moral character of those who settled there? And has it really provided the sanctuary… Continue reading
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Striking Syria: U.S. Shameless Violation of International Law. Fabricating Evidence and False Flag Operations
he United States government has once again shamelessly violated international law. There was no legal or moral justification for launching more than a 100 missile strikes against so-called chemical weapons’ sites in Syria on the 14th of April 2018. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 18 April 2018: White Lies, Black Disbelief, Fading Empire; Syria & Press Propaganda; US International Crimes
18 April 2018 — Black Agenda Report White Lies and Black Disbelief in a Fading Empire – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor If killing “your own people” is the worst kind of crime, then it is the U.S., not Syria, whose murderous instincts must be restrained by the peoples of the world. Continue reading
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Behind Theresa May’s ‘Humanitarian Hysterics’: The Ideology of Empire and Conquest By Colin Todhunter
18 April 2018 — CounterCurrents Until the 17th century, India was the richest country in the world and had controlled a third of global wealth. Political unity and military security helped evolve a uniform economic system, increased trade and enhanced agricultural productivity. Once the British had colonised India and left, it was a basket case. Continue reading
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Disgusting Conflict of Interest: Theresa May’s Husband’s Investment Firm Made a “Financial Killing” from the Bombing of Syria By Tom D. Rogers
Whilst it is pretty obvious that almost all married couples act as informal advisors to each other in some capacity, Tyrie’s admission that the Prime Minister’s husband has such a great influence over his wife’s decisions is made all the more worrying by the fact that Mr May – who is a Senior Executive at… Continue reading
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Disgusting Conflict of Interest: Theresa May’s Husband’s Investment Firm Made a “Financial Killing” from the Bombing of Syria By Tom D. Rogers
Whilst it is pretty obvious that almost all married couples act as informal advisors to each other in some capacity, Tyrie’s admission that the Prime Minister’s husband has such a great influence over his wife’s decisions is made all the more worrying by the fact that Mr May – who is a Senior Executive at… Continue reading
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Syria News Links 17-18 April 2018
18 April 2018 10:43:06 PM — williambowles.info OPCW: Fact-finding team still outside Syria’s Douma https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/opcw-fact-finding-team-syria-douma-180418155208033.html Still unclear when mission can be deployed to Syria’s Douma, OPCW chief says http://tass.com/world/1000611 Continue reading
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Who “Staged” the Syria Gas Attack? Selected Articles
17 April 2018 — Global Research Russia Reveals Who “Staged” Syria Gas Attack, As US Claims Moscow “May Have Tampered” with Douma Site By Zero Hedge, April 17, 2018 The Russian envoy to the chemical weapons watchdog group, OPCW, said that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) funded by the UK and US carried out the April 7 chemical Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 17 April 2018
17 April 2018 8:28:10 PM — williambowles.info The Crisis Is Only in Its Beginning Stages https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-crisis-is-only-in-its-beginning-stages/5636599 The Latest Atlanticist Tough Guy Act. Western Media in Crisis. The Syria Gas Attack Saga https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-latest-atlanticist-tough-guy-act-western-media-in-crisis-the-syria-gas-attack-saga/5636609 Continue reading
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Pseudo-left parties promote US-French-British bombing of Syria By Will Morrow
A number of political parties that call themselves socialist proved they are nothing of the sort by lending support to Friday night’s illegal US, French and British bombing of Syria. Continue reading
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'Oxygen starvation, not gas’: Veteran UK reporter Fisk doubts MSM narrative on Douma ‘chem attack’
Veteran UK reporter Robert Fisk went to Syria’s Douma and heard that residents shown in notorious “gas attack footage” actually suffered from oxygen loss due to hiding in trash-filled shelters, and not from chemicals. Continue reading
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Syria: The Tentacles of This War of Aggression
16 April 2018 — Global Research Voices of the Syrian People By Andre Vltchek, April 16, 2018 Three countries with zero moral mandate to judge or punish anybody; three countries, already responsible for hundreds of millions of human lives lost on all continents for centuries, showered Syria with their missiles. Continue reading
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US-UK-France Strike on Syria, The Chain of Events: Statements, Facts and Speculations By South Front
Early on April 14, the US, the UK and France delivered a massive missile strike on Syria using warships, fighter jets and strategic bombers. US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis described the strikes as “harder” than the 2017 strikes on Shayrat military airfield. However, he added that no further launches had been planned for the moment. Continue reading
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Washington seeks permanent deployment of special forces brigade to Africa By Eddie Haywood
16 April 2018 — WSWS Republican Senator James Inhofe of the Senate Armed Services Committee last week sent a letter to Secretary of the Army Mark Esper outlining a proposal that would constitute an increase in troop levels deployed under AFRICOM, as well as broadening the American military’s footprint across Africa. In his letter, Inhofe Continue reading
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Frack Off April Newsletter: Fracking Industry Counts Cost Of More Delays
Diary of events covering anti-fracking actions across the UK. Excellent Resource. Continue reading