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Military Escalation? Sapping Assad’s Strength. Israel “Stirs the Pot” in Syria By Jonathon Cook
In recent weeks…Israel has moved from relative inaction to a deepening involvement in Syrian affairs. It launched two air strikes on Syrian positions last month, and at the same time fomented claims that Damascus had used chemical weapons, in what looked suspiciously like an attempt to corner Washington into direct intervention. Continue reading
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The Chemical Weapons Pretext for War on Syria: A Pack of Lies By Ben Schreiner
In the wake of having its illegal domestic surveillance dragnet exposed, laying bare (yet again) the utter duplicity and criminality of the U.S. ruling class, Washington is once again digging deep to conjure up a pretext for yet another war of aggression in the Middle East. Continue reading
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Sarin gas is as volatile as Washington’s promises by Thierry Meyssan
Did Syria or did she not use sarin gas against its armed opposition? After haunting newspaper columns, the question found a positive answer in Paris, London and Washington. The red line has apparently been crossed. War may therefore be imminent. In reality, this media game comes too late. In terms of international law, Syria is… Continue reading
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Deleted Daily Mail Online Article: “US Backed Plan for Chemical Weapon Attack in Syria to Be Blamed on Assad”
On January 29, 2013, Britain’s most popular Daily Newspaper, in its online version Dailymail.co.uk published an article titled: ‘U.S. ‘backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad’s regime’. A few days later they pulled the article. Continue reading
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Syria and Chemical Weapons: What Do We Know? By Peter Hart
If you watched ABC World Newslast night (6/13/13), the story of Syria and the use of chemical weapons had shifted pretty dramatically. AnchorDavid Muir declared at the top of the show: “The White House now confirming Syria’s president has in fact used chemical weapons to kill.” Continue reading
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War On Syria: "Exactly Like Iraq"
15 June 2013 — Moon of Alabama The New York Times and others try to paint a picture of a president Obama who only reluctantly took the decision to escalate the war on Syria by no longer just helping to arm the Syrian insurgency but to deliver its own weapons and to thereby commit the… Continue reading
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Syria Slams US Claims on Chemical Weapons in Civil War
The Syrian government on Friday called recent White House claims about the use of chemical weapons in Syria “a statement full of lies based on fabricated information.” Continue reading
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What We DO Know About Chemical Weapons In Syria
The U.S. is trying the same lame trick again. It has provided no evidence but statements from the insurgents for any chemical weapon use by the Syrian army. It provided no explanation why its assessment has changed. This “mushroom cloud” lie is used as an “excuse” to now provide weapons and ammunition to the insurgents. Continue reading
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Video: US to give military support to Syrian rebels as ‘red line' crossed
After concluding that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the country’s insurgency, thus crossing a ‘red line,’ the Obama administration has decided to start sending arms to anti-Assad rebels for the first time, officials say. Continue reading
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How damn convenient Syria Has Used Chemical Weapons
13 June 2013 How damn convenient! Syria Has Used Chemical Weapons Against Rebels, U.S. and European Officials Conclude American and European intelligence analysts now believe that President Bashar al-Assad’s troops have used chemical weapons against rebel forces in the civil war in Syria, an assessment that will put added pressure on a deeply divided Obama Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Limited But Persuasive’ Evidence – Syria, Sarin, Libya, Lies By David Edwards
Unsurprisingly, the same political executives who had fabricated the case for war on Iraq sought to fabricate reasons for ignoring peer-reviewed science exposing the costs of their great crime. More surprising, one might think, is the long-standing media enthusiasm for these fabrications. Continue reading
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US-NATO Supplying Syria Opposition Terrorists with Chemical Weapons
The Syrian army has seized two cylinders of the nerve agent sarin during an operation in the city of Hama. Continue reading
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Video: US Supported Jabhat al-Nusra Caught with Sarin Gas inside Turkey
Turkish security forces found a 2-Kg cylinder with sarin gas after searching the homes of jihadist militants from al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra (Nusra Front) who were previously detained, Turkish media reports. The gas was reportedly going to be used in a bomb. Continue reading
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Turkish Police find Chemical Weapons in the Possession of Al Nusra Terrorists heading for Syria By Gearóid Ó Colmáin
According to a report in Turkey’s state media agency Zaman, agents from the Turkish General Directorate of Security (Emniyet Genel Müdürlü?ü) ceased 2 kg of sarin gas in the city of Adana in the early hours of yesterday morning. The chemical weapons were in the possession of Al Nusra terrorists believed to have been heading… Continue reading
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Action Alert: Iraq Then, Syria Now? New York Times, sarin and skepticism
During the run-up to the Iraq War, the New York Times amplified erroneous official claims about weapons of mass destruction (FAIR Action Alert, 9/8/06). Looking at the paper’s coverage of allegations of chemical weapons use by Syria, some of the same patterns are clear: an over-reliance on official sources and the downplaying of critical or… Continue reading
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Syria: Al-Nusra With "Chemical Weapons" Sourced From Turkey
Two other attacks which Israel Britain and France alleged were done by the Syrian army and were somewhat mysterious. With collaboration of two bloggers and a photographer the incidents are now likely to be interpreted very different than Israel, Britain and France alleged. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘This Madman Must Be Stopped’ – Syrian Chemical Weapons By David Edwards
This really is astonishing, in the strange world of media propaganda, news reports contradict editorials and headlines contradict content. The guiding ethic: ‘I want to believe!’ It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that media performance is shaped by state-corporate forces that are deeply invested in decades of war and the spoils that go with… Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Syria Skepticism – Chemical claims should be investigated, not used as pretext for war
U.S. suggestions that the Syrian government could have used chemical weapons have been treated as fact by some media outlets, and are helping to fuel the case for greater U.S. military involvement. But subsequent reporting has called into question these early, credulous reports–and highlighted the continuing media failure to treat WMD claims with the skepticism… Continue reading
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Was the Syria Chemical Weapons Probe “Torpedoed” by the West? By Adam Larson
Since the perplexing conflict in Syria first broke out two years ago, the Western powers’ assistance to the anti-government side has been consistent, but relatively indirect. The Americans and Europeans lay the mental, legal, diplomatic, and financial groundwork for regime change in Syria. Meanwhile, Arab/Muslim allies in Turkey and the Persian Gulf are left with… Continue reading
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Was the Syria Chemical Weapons Probe “Torpedoed” by the West? By Adam Larson
Since the perplexing conflict in Syria first broke out two years ago, the Western powers’ assistance to the anti-government side has been consistent, but relatively indirect. The Americans and Europeans lay the mental, legal, diplomatic, and financial groundwork for regime change in Syria. Meanwhile, Arab/Muslim allies in Turkey and the Persian Gulf are left with… Continue reading
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