"A team of international inspectors on Tuesday accepted an invitation from Syria to examine the site of a suspected chemical attack on civilians ... [which] could complicate any forthcoming plans by the Trump administration to bomb" Syriahttp://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-syria-to-allow-inspectors-to-site-of-1523376073-htmlstory.html …
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@jason_a_w looks into why the most prominent and vocal American opponents of war on Syria are mostly on the righthttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/13/syria-intervention-conservative-rightwing-opposition-trump …Show this thread -
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@stephenkinzer: "The specter of a peaceful and prosperous Syria under Assad’s leadership terrifies [American military and security planers]. They believe that until he is gone, it is in America’s interest to keep Syria divided, unstable and impoverished."https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/04/12/the-doesn-even-care-about-syria-but-keep-war-going/8zj7aaBaOPltRApGzgyd9H/story.html …Show this thread -
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@ryanlcooper: "Here's an idea. Let's just stop all bombing, just to see how it works out. [...] One doesn't have to be a fervent anti-imperialist to question the value of the last 20 years of American foreign policy."https://theweek.com/articles/766889/america-should-just-stop-all-bombing …Show this thread -
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@GregShupak assesses what some mainstream media writers think about US intervention in Syria: "That Syrians might not want to be occupied by the US is never considered in any of these articles, such is the extent of the authors’ imperial hubris."https://fair.org/home/us-isnt-leaving-syria-but-media-lost-it-when-possibility-was-raised/ …Show this thread -
The Syrian American Medical Society receives millions in funding from USAID and functions as a lobbying powerhouse that functions to stimulate a US-led war of regime change in Syria, by
@MaxBlumenthalhttps://www.mintpressnews.com/al-qaedas-mash-unit-how-the-syrian-american-medical-society-is-selling-regime-change-and-driving-the-us-to-war/240393/ …Show this thread -
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@Alfreddezayas: “how can we possibly go to war on [...] no evidence at all? [...] those countries that should be the leaders in defending human rights are actually instrumentalizing human rights as weapons.”#stopthewar#deeskalationjetzthttp://therealnews.com/t2/story:21561:US-Attack-on-Syria-Would-Be-Illegal-Under-International-Law …Show this thread -
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@jricole: "In our age of politics as reality show, where we have hired the star of NBC’s “Apprentice” to play president (apparently in large part because he is both consistently awful and highly entertaining at once), even geopolitics is done for show." https://www.juancole.com/2018/04/reality-violence-striking.html …pic.twitter.com/KN9z3Us7ER
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@FAIRmediawatch: "On the issue of launching airstrikes against the Assad government, robust debate is nonexistent. Major publications take the bulk of the premises for war for granted [...] and simply parse over the details"https://fair.org/home/few-to-no-anti-bombing-voices-as-trump-prepares-to-escalate-syria-war/ …Show this thread -
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@MaxAbrahms on the pro-rebel bias among Western media outlets: "Although they have assiduously broadcast the blood on Assad’s hands, these outlets have also tended to whitewash the rebels to sell the case for regime change"#SyriaCrisishttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2017-10-30/syrias-extremist-opposition …Show this thread -
“Americans are not convinced the United States has a responsibility to do anything about the fighting in Syria – with both Republicans and Democrats divided on the question. Independents are clearly opposed.” https://today.yougov.com/news/2018/04/11/trumps-foreign-policy-battles-over-tariffs-concern/ …pic.twitter.com/41kaDEbjNt
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“Theresa May is facing a considerable backlash for authorising military action in Syria without the consent of parliament ... with public support for military action in Syria only at 22 per cent”https://www.ft.com/content/47e1e0f6-408e-11e8-803a-295c97e6fd0b …
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@Independent Mideast correspondent Robert Fisk reporting directly from Douma: Senior doctor says the patients in the video used to justify US/UK/France attacks were overcome by oxygen starvation, NOT by gashttps://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-chemical-attack-gas-douma-robert-fisk-ghouta-damascus-a8307726.html …Show this thread -
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@leninology: “Imperial decline is not primarily a matter of military decline, but of political degeneration ... Syria is something of a canary in the coalmine”https://www.patreon.com/posts/early-days-of-18190836?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare …Show this thread -
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@MaxBlumenthal: "Despite being subjected to a tidal wave of deceptions and a campaign of pro-war perception management of unprecedented scale, the Western public has managed to maintain an attitude of healthy distrust toward its media establishment."https://www.truthdig.com/articles/syria-controversy-dont-believe-the-official-narrative/ …Show this thread -
“The FFM will continue to carry out its independent and impartial mission based on interviews with relevant people, its findings from the site visits, analysis of the sample results, as well as any other information and materials collected.”https://twitter.com/opcw/status/989146968474750977?s=21 …
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@Jonathan_K_Cook “we are getting yet more revisions to a story that was originally presented as so cut-and-dried that it justified an act of military aggression by the US, UK and France against Syria, without authorisation from the UN Security Council.”https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2018-04-28/the-west-closes-its-ears-to-douma-testimony/ …Show this thread -
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@stephenkinzer: “Conveniently timed attacks that give pretexts for war, however, are not always what they seem. History suggests that we should await clear evidence before falling into well-laid traps.” https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/04/27/hoisting-false-flag/hRC63gFcq1zMUmd8UObqLM/amp.html …Show this thread
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