WMD
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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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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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ICH 13 June 2013: Rebels Defeated – US Plays WMD Card
13 June 2013 — Information Clearing House As Rebels Defeated – US Plays WMD Card US to Give Military Support to Syrian Rebels as ‘Red Line’ Crossed By RT 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 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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Rewriting History – Iraq and the BBC Glove Puppets By Matt Carr
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a shallow and essentially reverential piece of telehistory. Within ten minutes I was ready to scream with frustration at the tv set, which is really a very futile activity. Continue reading
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The Chemical WMD Story is Being Used to Cover the Rebel Retreat in Syria By Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
Tel Aviv’s aerial strikes, via illegal use of Lebanese airspace, on the Syrian military research facility in the town of Jamraya, which is an urban galaxy of Damascus, clarifies Israel’s role in destabilizing Syria. 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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The Syria Chemical Weapons Saga: The Staging of a US-NATO Sponsored Humanitarian Disaster? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The following article first published in December 2012 [scroll down] documents how the Pentagon not only provided chemical weapons to Al Nusra, an affiliated Al Qaeda terrorist organization, but also provided training to the rebels in the use of these weapons. Continue reading
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West's WMD Lies Fray as Syrian Army Overruns Terrorist Proxies
Absurd “chemical weapons” claims begin to fall apart amidst NATO’s desperate bid to save its collapsing terror front in Syria. 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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GR Week in Review 28 April 2013: NATO’s Global Warfare, US-Sponsored Terrorism and WMD Lies
28 April 2013 — Global Research Fukushima’s Catastrophic Aftermath: The Dangers of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation, Stephen Lendman, April 28, 2013 In her book titled “No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth,” nuclear power/environmental health expert Rosalie Bertell (1929 – 2012) said: “Should the public discover the true health cost(s) of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise Continue reading
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Fabricated Intelligence and the WMD Pretext: Obama Heads Closer Closer to War on Syria By Stephen Lendman
A previous article discussed spurious allegations of Syrian chemical weapons use. Obama calls using them a “game changer.” He also said their use crosses a “red line.” Continue reading
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US Unveils Iraq WMD "Curveball-Style" Lies Vs. Syria By Tony Cartalucci
As NATO terror front collapses in Syria, US attempts to justify intervention by drumming up familiar WMD lies. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘The Stupidest And Most Extreme Section Of The British Left’
In a media alert earlier this year, we described our under-resourced challenges of the corporate media as ‘jousting with toothpicks’. Although the analogy was light-hearted, the work of Media Lens is serious and would not be possible without your support. Continue reading
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The BBC and Iraq Ten Years On By David McQueen
The tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq was marked in Baghdad with a wave of deadly bombings that killed at least sixty people and injured over two hundred. In Britain the anniversary brought on a wave of retrospectives and handwringing recollections by the likes of the BBC’s John Simpson. Simpson and other media pundits… Continue reading
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The Media Didn't Fail on Iraq; Iraq Just Showed We Have a Failed Media By Jim Naureckas
The real job of the media is not to sprinkle 1 percent truth amidst 99 percent bullshit, so that diligent researchers can search it out like Easter eggs. The job of the media is to present information so that when when its audience consumes it in the usual manner, that audience can get some sense… Continue reading
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The Media Didn’t Fail on Iraq; Iraq Just Showed We Have a Failed Media By Jim Naureckas
The real job of the media is not to sprinkle 1 percent truth amidst 99 percent bullshit, so that diligent researchers can search it out like Easter eggs. The job of the media is to present information so that when when its audience consumes it in the usual manner, that audience can get some sense… Continue reading
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West Drops Syria WMD Narrative As Evidence Points to Western-Armed Terrorists
A strange silence has fallen across the Western media regarding the chemical attack which Israel had even claimed to have “confirmed.” Now, a recent report published in the London Telegraph by Channel 4 journalist Alex Thomson has produced convincing evidence that implicates the West’s terrorist proxies as the perpetrators, and goes far in explaining the… Continue reading
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