WMD
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Media Lens: The Iraq War Was Not A Media Failure By David Edwards
It is a bitter, even surreal, irony that the media ‘failure’ on Iraq is being lamented by journalists who have since repeated the same performance on Libya, Syria, Israel-Palestine, Iran, Venezuela, WikiLeaks, climate change, and much else besides. Continue reading
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Mediachannel.org Travels Back In Time
Yesterday marked the 10-year anniversary of the Iraq War Crime. In the service of memory, we have uploaded my film, WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception, in its entirety, to the Mediachannel.org website. Perhaps some of you will open the New York Times this morning to a Michael Gordon byline and then remember how slavishly he… Continue reading
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Secret Memo by Donald Rumsfeld Proves Iraq War Started On False Pretenses
Indeed, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – just said that Powell knew that there were no WMDs: I wonder what will happen when we put 500,000 troops into Iraq and comb the country from one end to the other and find nothing Continue reading
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America’s WMD Pretext to Wage War on Iraq – Ten Years after Colin Powell By Michael Welch
Powell’s dossier included the testimonies of anonymous defectors, satellite images, schematics of mobile labs for biological weapons agents, intercepted phone conversations and a prop vial supposedly containing Anthrax powder. Continue reading
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America’s WMD Pretext to Wage War on Iraq – Ten Years after Colin Powell By Michael Welch
Powell’s dossier included the testimonies of anonymous defectors, satellite images, schematics of mobile labs for biological weapons agents, intercepted phone conversations and a prop vial supposedly containing Anthrax powder. Continue reading
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America’s Hype over WMD: Five Invasion Plots, Three Continents, Identical Lies By Felicity Arbuthnot
As the sabre rattling against Syria gets ever louder, the allegations ever wilder and double standards, stirring, plotting and terrorist financing (sorry: “aiding the legitimate opposition”) neon lit, it is instructive to look at the justifications presented by US Administrations for a few other murderous incursions in recent history. Continue reading
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Syria's Mobile Weapons Labs: Where Have We Heard This Before? By Peter Hart
If you were concerned that the Syria WMD stories didn’t already feel enough like the Iraq WMD reports,Washington Post columnist David Ignatius had one just for you (12/19/12). Ignatius reports that according to a Syrian defector, the Assad government’s chemical weapons are indeed on the move. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 16 December 2012: Al Qaeda in Syria and WMD Propaganda
16 December, 2012 — Global Research Gun Violence in America, Stephen Lendman, December 16, 2012 Continue reading
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Fabricating WMD “Evidence”: Israeli Covert Operation inside Syria to “Track Chemical Arsenal” By Julie Lévesque
Those involved in the Iraq WMD propaganda ploy are now applying their skills with a view to fabricating a WMD pretext to intervene in Syria. According to a report from the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, “Israelis ‘misread’ the Iraqi threat”. In 2003, the BBC wrote on the report’s findings: Continue reading
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The Syria Chemical Weapons Saga: The Staging of a US-NATO Sponsored Humanitarian Disaster? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Modeled on the Saddam Hussein WMD narrative, the propaganda ploy concerning the alleged threat of Syria’s chemical weapons has been building up over several months. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Won’t Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria’s WMD ‘Threat’ By: David Edwards
Reading about crimes of state over many years, it is tempting to try to fathom the mind-set of political leaders. What actually is going on in their heads when they order sanctions that kill hundreds of thousands of children? What is in their hearts when they wage needless wars that shatter literally millions of lives?… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Won't Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria's WMD 'Threat' By: David Edwards
Reading about crimes of state over many years, it is tempting to try to fathom the mind-set of political leaders. What actually is going on in their heads when they order sanctions that kill hundreds of thousands of children? What is in their hearts when they wage needless wars that shatter literally millions of lives?… Continue reading
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UN SECURITY COUNCIL SANCTIONS: THE REAL WMD IN IRAQ
Clarity Press is pleased to announce the publication ofGENOCIDE IN IRAQ: The Case Against the UN Security Council and Member States by Abdul-Haq al-Ani and Tarik al-Ani, a brilliant, detailed and comprehensive analysis of the illegality of the sanctions regime imposed on Iraq by the UN Security Council, leading to the deaths of over 500,000… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Constructing Consensus – The ‘Victims-And-Aggressor Meme’
Together, politics and media combine to provide an astonishingly consistent form of reality management controlling public perception of conflicts in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Alastair Crooke, founder and director of Conflicts Forum,notes how the public is force-fed a ‘simplistic victims-and-aggressor meme, which demands only the toppling of the aggressor’. Continue reading
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In Explaining Iraq War, WMD Hoax Becomes a Footnote
When it comes to the rationale for the entire war, things get a bit fuzzy. Like we pointed out recently about CBS Evening News, the main driver of the invasion–the threat of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction–is reduced to something like a footnote Continue reading
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WMD deja-vu: Iran replaces Iraq — RT
America’s whipping up hysteria over the Iranian nuclear program, with the same figures that used to accuse Iraq of possessing chemical and nuclear weapons now repeating themselves with frenetic conviction. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 23 August 2011
23 August 2011 — williambowles.info Syria’s Death Told Reaches Over 2200 People NPR by Michele Kelemen A top UN Human Rights official says the death toll in Syria has climbed to over 2200 people, 350 of whom have been killed since the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. High Commissioner Navi Pillay repeated Continue reading
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Video: Guilty as Charged
Lawrence Wilkerson Pt7: Before Powell’s UN presentation I wrote my resignation but didn’t submit it Continue reading
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An Empire of Lies: The CIA and the Western Media By Jonathan Cook
Last week the Guardian, Britain’s main liberal newspaper, ran an exclusive report on the belated confessions of an Iraqi exile, Rafeed al-Janabi, codenamed “Curveball” by the CIA. Eight years ago, Janabi played a key behind-the-scenes role — if an inadvertent one — in making possible the US invasion of Iraq. His testimony bolstered claims by… Continue reading