(MEE) — The international community on Wednesday voted to boost the powers of the global chemical weapons watchdog to enable it to name those behind toxic arms attacks in Syria, delegations attending the talks said. “The #UK Decision at the @OPCW Conference of State Parties has passed with votes 82 in favour,” the British delegation, which tabled […]
Peter Ford
21st Century Wire
The Media are on trial. But what are they on trial for exactly? Not long ago the media were on trial in the form of the Leveson enquiry, for being too tabloidish. Poking in people’s dustbins, that sort of thing.
What happens when the entire mainstream media are in lockstep with NATO member states on the ‘WMD’ narrative? Recent history demonstrates this is usually a prelude to war.
Residents of Douma, after I interviewed them on April 29, 2018.
June 1, 2018, RT.com
Just a week after the alleged chemical weapon attack in Douma, the one that the US, France, and the UK announced that they have proof of, and that the proof unequivocally pointed at the Syrian government under Assad, they decided to join together as a coalition and to conduct a ‘precision strike’ on Damascus to destroy sites alleged to manufacture or to warehouse chemical weapons.
Failaq Al Rahman missile store next door to White Helmet headquarters in Saqba, Eastern Ghouta. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley)
Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
The Resistance Axis will soon have its eyes fixed on the occupied Golan, that Syria has never given up liberating by armed struggle – a right conferred by international law itself, this territory being recognized as Syrian by all the international community: any Syrian operation there is a legal and legitimate act of resistance against Israel’s 1967 aggression and subsequent occupation, even without further provocation.
PHOTO: Patrick Henningsen (in Syria, April 2017)
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Western powers appear perfectly relaxed about dealing painful blows to the Syrian army, which could open the gates to a resurgence of jihadists and possibly the decapitation of the Syrian state.
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In an exclusive interview with Greek newspaper Kathimerini, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad explained his country’s position on chemical weapons explicitly (“we gave it up in 2013”), his case for why he thinks the alleged chemical attack in Douma was ‘fake’, and his current distaste for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump.
