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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walk prior to their talks in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

The White House has finally released some “evidence” they claim shows Assad carried out last week’s chemical attack, and the “evidence” was mostly derived from social media accounts, sprinkled with the standard…”we have more intelligence, but we cannot release at this time” rhetoric.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has welcomed US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Moscow for the start of talks on a wide range of issues, said to include: counter-terrorism, Ukraine/Donbass, North Korea and perhaps most urgently, Syria.
In an opening meeting, Sergey Lavrov clarified Russia’s ‘consistent’ position which had been relayed numerous times, but said that he has many questions for the US side.

With Russia’s hopes for détente with President Trump dashed by his missile strike on Syria, the Kremlin looks askance at visiting Secretary of State Tillerson who it feels played the Colin Powell role for his boss, says Gilbert Doctorow. By…Read more →

G7 foreign ministers sit at the table during the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the G7 countries in Lucca, Italy, Monday, April 10, 2017. (Riccardo Dalle Luche/ANSA via AP)
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson led the charge at the G7 for sanctions to be brought against Moscow to no avail, as Germany, Italy and the wider European Union rejected his request.

After all the dust settled on Trump’s rah rah ‘America hits Assad and Putin’ missile attack hoopla, the new US commander and chief today got a very rude awakening in diplomacy, that has not only made him look like a complete fool, but also a total geo-political amateur.
All weekend long American mainstream media was hailing Trump’s big boy tomahawk gesture, and how Russia had no response for the US show of strength.

The mainstream media has yet again disgraced journalism by running false stories about Russia’s response to Donald Trump’s attack on Syria while omitted to tell the truth.

Wagging the dog, naming the names and dumping the data + this day in history w/the 'Book Of The Law' and our song of the day by Gorillaz on your Morning Monarchy for April 10, 2017.

Exclusive: The mainstream U.S. media now reports as “flat-fact” the Syrian government’s guilt in the April 4 chemical weapons incident, but the real facts are less clear and some point in the opposite direction, says Rick Sterling. By Rick Sterling…Read more →

That Friday’s missile strike on Sharyat air base was an impulsive and ill-judged move ordered by an inexperienced and emotional President after seeing television pictures of dead children gained further support on Sunday when US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the President’s National Security Adviser General H.R. McMaster both gave television interviews which bore all the hallmarks of a damage limitation exercise.