Powers & Principalities: Episode 47
Syria and the bigger picture
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Syria and the bigger picture
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By Norman Solomon
Politicians, pundits and activists who’ve routinely denounced President Trump as a tool of Vladimir Putin can now mull over a major indicator of their cumulative impacts. The U.S.-led missile attack on Syria before dawn Saturday is the latest benchmark for gauging the effects of continually baiting Trump as a puppet of Russia’s president.
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By Socilaist Project.
U.S., Britain, France Strike Syria with 100 Cruise Missiles; Chemical Warfare Is Pretext; Moscow Threatens “Consequences,” Hints Russian-Made Pantsir Air Defense System Was Effective Against Cruise Missiles; At UN, Haley Threatens Endless Bombing; Bolton’s Demand for Massive Attack Rebuffed; Deputy AG Rosenstein Does Not Fear Trump, Reports Say; Michael Cohen’s Computer Recordings Seen as Watergate [...]
By Aram Mirzaei for The Saker Blog Last night, Washington together with its British and French vassals launched an attack on Syria after days of threats and speculation. Initial reports
Politicians, pundits and activists who’ve routinely denounced President Trump as a tool of Vladimir Putin can now mull over a major indicator of their cumulative impacts. The U.S.-led missile attack on Syria before dawn Saturday is the latest benchmark for gauging the effects of continually baiting Trump as a puppet of Russia’s president.
By Yves Engler · April 14, 2018 The US has once again flagrantly violated international law. Without UN approval, they launched dozens of airstrikes on Syria. Ottawa immediately supported the US bombing. In a statement Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “Canada supports the decision by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France to take action […]
Thursday, A Progressive California, an independent PAC, aired its first television ad in support of Kevin de León for U.S. Senate. I watched it being played between segments on Chris Hayes' show and thought it was really great. Take a look above.With the help of their new coalition partners at the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United, the new TV ad, titled "Act Like Democrats," is airing all across Los Angeles on MSNBC and CNN.
Is It Russian Surrender that Is on the Agenda or World War 3?
Paul Craig Roberts
“As US President Donald Trump is said to be considering a full scale ground assault against the Syrian administration of President Bashar al-Assad, the top UN official has decried the onset of a new global Cold War and warned against “full-blown military escalation” in the war-torn region.” https://sputniknews.com/military/201804151063572249-UN-head-warns-of-escalation/
If the investigation does not find that a banned chemical was used by the Syrian Government in Douma, then incontrovertibly the US-and-allied invasion was a criminal one under international laws, though there may be no international court that possesses the authority to try the case.
President Trump ordered airstrikes on Syria as a team of experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was about to arrive on Saturday to determine whether a chemical weapons attack had even occurred. (CN) — President Donald Trump on Saturday (Syria time) ordered air strikes against Syria in retaliation for an alleged chemical weapons attack last weekend […]
(MEE) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the US-led strikes on Syrian targets on Saturday with a warning that Iran’s presence there further endangers Syria. US, British and French forces hit Syria with air strikes overnight in response to an alleged poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week. US President Donald Trump said he […]
Russia’s Humanity and Moral Conscience Are Leading to War
Paul Craig Roberts
It speaks to the humanity and moral greatness of the Russian government led by Vladimir Putin that Russia consented to a pretend attack in order that Donald Trump could save face. Unfortunately for us all, the consequences of Russia’s generosity will not be the thanks that the Russians deserve. Russia and Putin will get no credit for saving Trump from having to back down or have his naval flotilla sunk and his bombers shot down.
RT | April 14, 2018 Russia called the strikes that the US, the UK, and France carried out in Syria a “blatant disregard of international law.” Moscow’s envoy to UN said the three countries could have stopped the conflict in Syria within 24 hours. By acting without any mandate from the UN Security Council, the […]
World War 3
Sharing links unrelated to the reckless, criminal and unconstitutional act launched by Donald Trump and the U.S. government last night feels kinda inappropriate. As such, here are a few short paragraphs on what I think it all means. I'll have more next week.
OffGuardian | April 14, 2018 The illegal air strikes on Syria by the coalition of the guilty (US, France, UK) have happened, to no one’s great surprise. As such things go all current indications are that they were more token than anything else. The Russians are saying around 100 missiles were fired at an unclear […]
Last Friday night, the United States launched a series of missile strikes on Syria in retaliation for the alleged chemical attacks by the Syrian army in Douma, a town in northeast suburb of Damascus. Douma, which is part of the Ghouta district where a ferocious war has been raging between the Syrian government forces and … Continue reading "Who Is the Real Culprit Behind the Chemical Attacks in Syria? A Brief History"
On Thursday evening the Houston Chronicle reported that when Blake Farenthold slithered out of Congress last week he did so without repaying the $84,000 he stole from the taxpayers to cover up the charges that he had sexually harassed a female staffer.
RT | April 14, 2018 The Russian Foreign Ministry slammed a French intelligence report claiming that the Syrian government retained a chemical weapons program since 2013, asking why Paris decided “to remain silent on its findings” till now. On Saturday, the French Ministry of Defense published a report compiled by the intelligence services regarding the […]
Last night, President Trump announced his disgraceful decision to launch “precision” strikes targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a decision which was based entirely on fake news promulgated by the Jewish mainstream mass media and Western political establishment.
Below is a list of local emergency actions compiled by Women’s March on the Pentagon in response to US military aggression on Syria. If you are planning or attending an action that is not listed below, please email us to submit your event. US wars of aggression must end now! Click on the location to find the Facebook event […]
I have been watching and reading about the world's reaction to the heinous crime that the US committed against the innocent nation of Syria last night.....
Zerohedge’s article, “Syria Claims It Intercepted 71 Out Of 103 Cruise Missiles; Pentagon Denies” highlights the conflicting narratives as to the success of US missile strikes on Syria, coming out of the US Pentagon and the Russian Defense Ministry.
https://southfront.org/u-s-u-k-france-conduct-massive-missile-strike-on… On April 14, the US, the UK and France launched a joint massive strike on Syria justifying their actions with the alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma on
Retired U.S. Army Colonel, Douglas Macgregor was on Tucker Carlson Tonight dropping some powerful truth bombs minutes before Trump’s real bombs were launched against Damascus.
Col. Macgregor made some stunning statements about America’s war machine, and lifted much of the fog surrounding the current war in Syria.
Well, I woke up this morning and the world has not gone to heck, at least for now.... The US/UK/France "missile attack" of last night appears to be over for the moment, and right now there have been NO follow up attacks on the sovereign and innocent nation of Syria... Therefore it is time to assess the damage done from this attack and to try to make some sense as to WHY the US criminal President, Donald Drumpf, ordered this heinous and most illegal and illogical attack..One thing that I do want to make clear and everyone can easily observe it for themselves...
From Open Minds:
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Citing India's Patents Act of 1970, the Delhi High Court said that plant varieties and seeds cannot be patented
Trump Has Proven Himself To Be A Psychopathic Liar. His Presidency Is Finished.
Trump is over and done with. The next idiot will be even worse. War remains on the horizon.
https://russia-insider.com/en/trump-lied-american-people-last-night-23-times-7-minutes-destroying-his-presidency/ri23133
This news should NOT go unnoticed in the aftermath of the terror trio strike on Syria.And please read straight through to the very end- because the substance used in the Skripal incident, according to the Swiss lab, may connect back to the false flag chemical incidents in Syria. RT
Swiss lab says ‘BZ toxin’ used in Skripal poisoning, not produced in Russia, was in US & UK service
https://www.rt.com/news/424149-skripal-poisoning-bz-lavrov/
RT | April 14, 2018 A fact-finding mission by the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog will continue in Syria despite airstrikes carried out on the country hours earlier by the US, UK, and France. Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are in the country to investigate the circumstances surrounding reports of […]
If the executive agencies have their way, the NSA will have a record of every lock combination in use by every company—a skeleton key, if you will, to gain access to your digital home, papers, effects, and aspects of your person without warrant or probable cause—effectively mandating that companies hand over skeleton keys to the locks that they provide to their users, at any time: what they call “exceptional access.”
This is the Trojan horse the NSA means to use to gain access to your private data even when it is encrypted.
RT | April 14, 2018 The US and its allies attacked Syria in order to hamper the work of the OPCW inspectors, investigating the alleged chemical attack in Douma, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The “intimidation act” by the US, UK, and France was carried out “under an absolutely far-fetched pretext of the alleged use […]
It was a sad spectacle to see U.S. brass rubbishing the Constitution and trying to silence critics of the U.S. strike on Syria, says Ray McGovern in this commentary. By Ray McGovern Special to Consortium News The U.S. Constitution and international…Read more →
Forget the Novichok-Skripal narrative peddled out by Boris “the buffoon” Johnson, Theresa May and the Deep State mainstream media stenographers.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has just dropped a bombshell revelation that blows the Salisbury poisoning hoax apart…A Swiss lab says that ‘BZ toxin’ was used in Salisbury.
The toxin was not produced in Russia, but was in service in the US and UK, as well as other NATO member states.
Via RT…
14.04.2018 (12:00) http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12171300@egNews The US alongside its allies conducted a missile strike by its air and naval carriers targeting military and civil facilities of the Syrian Arab Republic on
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | April 14, 2018 The US President Donald Trump’s mind took a fourth U-turn in almost as many days on Friday since he began speaking about his decision to withdraw the American forces from Syria and leave it to “others” to handle the endgame in the conflict. He swung […]
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.
The illegal attack on Syria that the Trump administration has been threatening for the last week has started:
bu Sushi for the Saker Blog Observations on the OPCW Report The OPCW report dated April 12th, 2018 was released in two versions. The minimal public version is available here.
Are We Over the US/UK Fomented Crisis In Syria?
Paul Craig Roberts
As US President Donald Trump approved military strikes in Syria, in retaliation for a hoax chemical attack, Infowars founder Alex Jones held a live broadcast after the bombs started dropping.
Via The Duran…
Yup, he said “mission accomplished“, “perfectly executed” and that he was “so proud” of his “great military“. That considering that 71 out of 103 missiles were intercepted. That there were
Several law enforcement officers representing various lobbying groups testified during the House committee hearing. They swore asset forfeiture wasn’t about the money, but virtually all of their reasons for opposing reform revolved around the money.
On Fox News last night
“The only upside I can see is non-intervention.”
~ Col. Douglas MacGregor, former top planner for Gen. Wesley Clark (NATO commander), former commanding officer of H.R. McMaster
There have been a lot of protests lately demanding rights for a number of causes. There are demands for civil rights, women’s rights, labor rights, tenant rights, voting rights, disability rights, abortion rights, LGBT rights, immigrant rights, gun rights, welfare rights, minimum income rights, free college education rights, and … well, you get the idea.
Many of these “rights” (that is, the specific demands being made) aren’t rights as much as they are political movements to abridge someone else’s rights or to get some advantage from government and taxpayers.
Last night Trump and the globalist puppet duo of May and Macron, launched an illegal missile strike on Syria in an effort to cover up another chemical weapons false flag…this one apparently sponsored by the UK.
Here was Trump’s announcement of the strike…
Now as America wakes up to the news that the US has committed yet another war crime with zero evidence to justify the action, Trump is on twitter giving the world his “Mission Accomplish” moment.