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MIT study of Ghouta chemical attack challenges US intelligence
A new MIT report is challenging the US claim that Assad forces used chemical weapons in an attack last August, highlighting that the range of the improvised rocket was way too short to have been launched from govt controlled areas. Continue reading
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Syria Chemical Weapons: Who was behind the East Ghouta Attacks? By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
By design, the final report of the United Nations Mission to investigate allegations of the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic did not address the question of who was responsible for the August 21, 2013 gas attack in the suburbs of Damascus. Continue reading
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Case Against Syria’s Assad Falls Apart
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh recently destroyed America’s claim that it was clearly the Syrian government which carried out the chemical weapons attacks. Now, the U.N. weapons inspectors have quietly retracted one of their main claims implying that Assad we behind the attack. Continue reading
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Russia: Aug. 21 Syria Chemical Attack Was 'Staged'
Russia’s ambassador told the council that the dramatic Aug. 21 attack that led to Syria agreeing to give up its chemical stockpile was “staged” and a “large-scale provocation.” Continue reading
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Media Lens: An Awkward Silence – Burying The Hersh Revelations Of Obama’s Syrian Deceit By David Cromwell
After the nerve gas attack at Ghouta, Obama had unequivocally pinned the blame on Syrian President Assad, a propaganda claim that was fervently disseminated around the world by a compliant corporate news media. Continue reading
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UN Syrian Chemical Weapons Report Exposes Washington’s Lies By Patrick O’Connor
The release of a United Nations chemical weapons inspectors’ report pointing to multiple sarin gas attacks carried out by so-called “rebel” forces further exposes the Obama administration’s lies about Syrian government responsibility for an August 21 chemical shelling of the Ghouta area outside of Damascus. Continue reading
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Video: Inside the Evidence: The Truth about Chemical Attacks in Syria By Mother Agnes Mariam
RT’s Meghan Lopez speaks with Mother Agnes-Mariam de la Croix, founder of the James the Mutilated Monastery in Syria, who says that the videos show the chemical weapons were used by Syrian rebels, not the Assad administration. Continue reading
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NATO’s War on Syria Just Got Dirtier By Tony Cartalucci
West scrambles to cover up Syria false flag revelations as Pulitzer Prize-winner & Syria’s Electronic Army expose all. The lengthy report goes on in detail, covering the manner in which Western leaders intentionally manipulated or even outright fabricated intelligence to justify military intervention in Syria – eerily similar to the lies told to justify the… Continue reading
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Hersh: Syria Sarin Story 'Was Bought by the Mainstream Press' By Peter Hart
A new piece by veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh argues that the Obama administration’s case against Syria over a sarin gas attack last August relied on cherry-picked intelligence. Hersh’s piece was not published in the New Yorker, where so much of his work appears. And it apparently was not of interest to the Washington Post… Continue reading
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Seymour Hersh: US Security State Deceived Us on Syria Chemical Weapons By Jonathan Cook
Seymour Hersh publishes his latest, illuminating essay on the machinations of the US security state, this time in regard to Syria. Hersh makes a very convincing case that the US had no credible intelligence that August’s chemical weapons attack in Ghouta using sarin was carried out by Assad’s troops but that it did know that… Continue reading
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Syria: Whose sarin? By Seymour M. Hersh
In the months before the attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, culminating in a formal Operations Order – a planning document that precedes a ground invasion – citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida, had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable… Continue reading
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Syria's chemical weapons: is the UN exceeding its mandate? By Bob Rigg
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons should be a technical agency of the UN. But it has arguably become a piece in a geo-political chess game dominated by the US, invited into Syria to act in contravention of its remit. Continue reading
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The Syria Chemical Weapons Attack and the Role of Saudi Intelligence. The Mint News Report By Phil Greaves
Following AP reporter Dale Gavlak’s attempt to disassociate from the Mint Press News report: “Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack” (see previous article for background here) Mint Press Editor in Chief Mnar Muhawesh published a statement in response reiterating her support for, and the credentials of, the two journalists involved, along with… Continue reading
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Mother Agnes and the ‘liberal’ hawks out to silence her By Neil Clark
Just when you thought the ‘liberal interventionists’ and neo-cons couldn’t stoop any lower, they just have. For the West‘s ‘liberal hawks’ and serial interventionists, this elderly lady, who is working tirelessly for peace and an end to the bloodshed in Syria, has become Public Enemy Number One. Continue reading
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What a sorry state of affairs By William Bowles
So Stop the War have organised (yet another) conference and Mother Agnes got invited (and as it turns out, the only person speaking who had actually experienced Syria first-hand!) and a couple of rogues, Jeremy Scahill activist journalist and Owen Jones of the Independent newspaper, refused to attend if Mother Agnes was on the platform,… Continue reading
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Ready to detonate: Saudi-backed rebels strap bombs to Geneva-2 talks By Nile Bowie
As Syria’s rebels refuse to take part in Geneva-2, Saudi Arabia has emerged as the primary state-backer of rebel groups now trying to escalate the Syrian conflict and topple Assad by force. Continue reading
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Obscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America’s Case Against Syria By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
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 that took place in Syria on August 21, 2013. Continue reading
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Top US and Saudi Officials Responsible for Chemical Weapons in Syria By Christof Lehmann
Evidence leads directly to the White House, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, CIA Director John Brennan, Saudi Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar, and Saudi Arabia´s Interior Ministry. The Strategic Situation, leading up to the Use of Chemical Substances in the Eastern Ghouta Suburb of Damascus on 21 August 2013. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Structural Inclinations – The Leaning Tower of Propaganda: Chemical Weapons Attacks In Ghouta, Syria By David Edwards
After years of unmissable, terrible carnage in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya – the Pew Research Journalism Project finds that ‘the No. 1 message’ on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, and Al Jazeera, was ‘that the U.S. should get involved in the conflict’ in Syria. It seems that no level of suffering and chaos are sufficient… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 22-28 September 2013
28 September 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation East Ghouta: False Flag Chemical Attack 28.09.2013 | 00:00 | Nikolai MALISHEVSKI The International Institute for Peace, Justice and Human Rights (ISTEAMS) has just published a comprehensive report on the chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of East Ghouta. The document is called The Chemical Attacks on East Ghouta to Continue reading
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