In the long-running nightmare of the Syrian civil war, the attack at Douma was a déjà vu atrocity with big consequences in Washington. On April 7, 2018, a working class neighborhood in greater Damascus suffered a chemical attack that killed at least 43 people. Six days later, President Trump ordered a cruise missile attack on...
Tag: Bashar al-Assad
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Tulsi Gabbard: Speak Out Against Wars
The Hawaii congresswoman and Iraq war veteran is the most anti-interventionist candidate in the race. As president Tulsi Gabbard says she would withdraw from foreign wars and redirect defense spending into domestic programs. On the Campaign Trail: In announcing her presidential bid Gabbard, declared she would “bring a soldier’s principles to the White House —...
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How Trump Got the Upper Hand on the Secret Agencies
Max Blumenthal is nothing if not provocative. When the independent journalist was scheduled to give a book talk earlier this month at Politics and Prose, Washington’s premier book chain, the prospect of a public discussion of his relentless new book, The Management of Savagery, provoked the Syrian-American Council to protest so vociferously that the event...
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False Flag Watch: Leaked OPCW Memo Questions Syria Chemical Attack
A leaked memo about a deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria in April 2018 differs from the official finding of the UN chemical inspections watchdog that the government of Bashar al-Assad was responsible. The sixteen-page document does not refute the official UN finding, published in March, that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe, that the...
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Social Media ‘Soft War’: The Syrian Presidency Says Its Instagram Account Has Been Blocked
The war of social media is heating up. The CIA will soon add an Instagram account to join its Twitter feed in dispensing Langley’s spin to the wold. Britain’s version of the NSA, the General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) already has an Instagram account. But woe to America’s foes. Iran’s state broadcasting outlets, including PressTV, have...
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