Gregory Sharkey
21st Century Wire
The attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, last week, has provided the UK a penalty kick, as they now take on the baton from the US, in this preposterous demonisation of Russia.
Russia-UK relations have hit dangerous levels amid a row over the poisoning hoax of a former spy and his daughter.
Award-winning journalist John Pilger tells RT that this is all propaganda, a “carefully-constructed drama”.
Unlike Russia, which has destroyed all its chemical weapons, Pilger notes that the US has yet to destroy its chemical weapons stockpiles and the UK’s chemical weapons factory is just a few miles down the street from where Skripal was found.
In retaliation to British Prime Minister Theresa May’s expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats expelled from the UK over the alleged poisoning of a retired USSR-UK double agent and his daughter, Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the Russian government has ordered reciprocal measures – with 23 UK diplomats ordered to leave on March 20th, according to Russian Ambassador to the UK, Alexander Yakovenko.
“Together with family members we are talking about some 80 people,” said Yakovenko.
CONSPIRACY THEORIST? Even British Prime Minster Theresa May cannot get her story straight.
By Manuel Ochsenreiter
The world audience should already be used to a certain news item: Whenever a chemical attack somewhere takes place, the Western leaders know exactly who is to blame even before the very first investigator has arrived on the scene.
Originally appeared at Consortium
Applying the principle of cui bono – who benefits? – to the case of Sergei Skripal might lead investigators away from the Kremlin as the prime suspect and towards Western intelligence agencies, argues James O’Neill.
British PM Theresa May claims to have identified the nerve agent ‘Novichok’ as the substance used in an alleged ‘chemical’ attack on retired double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter and Yulia in Salisbury, England. Beyond the hysteria and speculation, what is the real story?
British Prime Minster Theresa May has all but declared war on Russia over the alleged use of a chemical “Novichok” nerve agent against retired Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England. Meanwhile, the public are still waiting for some evidence to substantiate the UK government’s bold claims of a ‘Russian attack on British soil’.
