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Best of the Web: US Empire was caught in a lie and forced to bomb Syria the night before chemical weapons inspectors arrived

Eva Bartlett
RT
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 14:18 UTC
Scientific Research Center in Damascus
© Omar Sanadiki / ReutersA Syrian firefighter inside the destroyed Scientific Research Center in Damascus, Syria April 14, 2018
The US, Britain and France trampled international law to launch missiles against Syria, claiming to have "evidence" of the government's use of chemical weapons. That evidence is based on terrorist lies.

After a week of outrageous tweets and proclamations by POTUS Trump, which included continued accusations that Syria's president ordered a chemical weapons attack on civilians in Douma, east of Damascus, with Trump using grotesque and juvenile terminology, such as "animal Assad," the very evening before chemical weapons inspectors of the OPCW were to visit Douma, America and allies launched illegal bombings against Syria. The illegal bombings included 103 missiles, 71 of which Russia states were intercepted.

For the past week, we were told that the US had 'evidence' and the UK had 'evidence' that Syria had used chemicals. The 'evidence' largely relied on video clips and photos shared on social media, provided by the Western-funded White Helmets (that "rescuer" group that somehow only operates in Al-Qaeda and co-terrorist occupied areas and participates in torture and executions), as well as by Yaser al-Doumani, a man whose allegiance to Jaysh al-Islam is clear from his own Facebook posts, for example of former Jaysh al-Islam leader, Zahran Alloush.
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Best of the Web: Sergey Lavrov's interview with the BBC - Douma, Bombing of Syria, Skripals and Russia-US Relations


Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:41 UTC
Lavrov to BBC: The Douma event was staged and it did not involve any chemical weapons. The irrefutable proof is in the visiting of the place.
Sergey Lavrov.
© Maksim Blinov / SputnikRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Comment: More Lavrov from Vesti:



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Best of the Web: Peter Hitchens: How on earth would killing MORE people rescue Syria?

Peter Hitchens
Mail on Sunday
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:23 UTC
$200bn to reconstruct war-torn Syria… the US and its partners should pay
© Karam Almasri / Global Look PressAleppo, Syria
Why do so many people in politics and the media want to start wars? Since I toured a sordid hospital full of wounded people in Bucharest at Christmas 1989, and even more after I saw for the first time (in Vilnius in 1991) what a human head looks like after a bullet has passed through it, I have seen it as an absolute duty to warn against armed conflict. It is a filthy thing.

No doubt there are times when we must fight. But there are plenty more when we should not.

Any fool can kill a man in a second and ruin a city in a week. But it takes long years of nurture to raise a child to adulthood, and centuries to build a civilisation.

Yet I look around me and see the mouths of intelligent people opened wide, yelling for an attack on Syria, when the only certain outcome of that will be blood and screams and ruins, and the deaths of innocents in 'collateral damage'. What good will this do?

What is wrong with them? They are not cruel and stupid, yet they call for actions which are both.
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Best of the Web: Sky News anchor cuts off British general after he asks 'Why would Syria launch a gas attack now?'


RT
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:36 UTC
Sky news interview with General Shaw
© Screenshot from the aborted interview /YouTube
UK broadcaster Sky News cut short Major-General Jonathan Shaw, formerly one the British Army's most senior officers, in mid-sentence, as he cast doubt on London's narrative on the alleged Syrian government gas attack in Douma.

News presenter Samantha Washington asked Shaw a narrowly-worded question, asking if Russian denials about the government's responsibility would mean it's necessary for any UK intervention in Syria to be approved by parliament.

But Shaw, who retired in 2012 to become a security expert, wanted to take the discussion back a step.
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Best of the Web: Paul Joseph Watson lays it out: ANOTHER STUPID F**KING WAR

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:34 UTC
war is a racket
What could possibly go wrong? (Strong language)

Fuck Democracy...

Fuck Parliament...

Fuck Congressional approval...

Let's just declare war by tweets.

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Flashback Best of the Web: 20-year study of US legislation reveals bottom 90% of Americans have ZERO impact on what becomes law


Truthstream Media
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 00:00 UTC
congress representation graph
"When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy." - Gilens & Page (2014)
Remember the two guys that did the study which proved America is a oligarchy? (Not that those of us paying attention really needed a study to verify that.)

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders later even asked Fed Head Janet Yellen during a hearing on Capitol Hill if she thought America was an oligarchy; even she couldn't deny it.

Comment: Most politicians are owned by a handful of oligarchs, whose primary mission is the advancement of their interests regardless of the social consequences. Washington's elites also have a low opinion of the average American, believing that most are uninformed, misguided and that policy-makers should ignore them.

Democracy is just a word that politicians use freely to keep the wool pulled over the eyes of the unsuspecting sheeple, insuring that few realize the evil nature of those whose power and control keep them enslaved.

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Best of the Web: Syrian Army reports finding Saudi-made explosives at makeshift chemical weapons factory during Eastern Ghouta operation


Sputnik
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:09 UTC
The military also discovered rockets of the kind previously used by Ghouta militants to indiscriminately shell Damascus.
chemical weapons syria
© AFP 2018 / Youssef KARWASHAN
A Syrian Army field commander speaking to the Syrian Arab News Agency said that the ammo depots were found in the town of Zamalka, about 3.5 km northeast of central Damascus.

According to the commander, the Islamist Al-Rahman Legion militant group controlling the town effectively turned one of its neighborhoods into a network of factories and depots manufacturing and storing shells and the accompanying explosives, and turning spent tank shells into improvised explosive devices. These makeshift weapons production and storage facilities were all linked by a tunnel network.

Some of the explosive materials were Saudi-made, the commander said. Along with the explosives was equipment for mixing them with C4 or chlorine to increase the destructive power of the artillery shells which militants would lob into the capital's residential neighborhoods.

Comment: That right there is the true 'chemical weapons' story in Syria.

For the last 6 years, proxy-controlled 'rebels', embedded with Western troops, have been terrorizing Damascus with actual chemical weapons.

Now that their ruse has finally been uncovered thanks to the Syrian and Russian liberation of this suburb of Damascus, the Western media is actively attempting to pull the wool back over people's eyes by claiming that the Syrian forces have been doing this to Syrian civilians - the very opposite scenario to the one that took place in reality.

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Best of the Web: Rove's law: How the empire's "new realities" are reaching the end of the road

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:28 UTC
karl rove quote reality
"That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality-judiciously, as you will-we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Thus spake Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff in the Government of George W. Bush.
I do wish people would study Rove's words more carefully. Judiciously study them. If they did, then whenever the next alleged atrocity occurs and the United States, together with its coalition of supine vassals, starts yelling and hollering 10 minutes later for action to be taken, on the basis of a test-tube full of washing powder, or pictures of injured women and children in a war zone, and the entire media of dutiful stenographers shrieks that "something must be done", then perhaps we might pause and wonder if we are being played. Instead of falling into an emotional spasm, maybe we would instead reject the deafening drumbeats of war - wars that have a habit of killing immeasurably more women and children than the alleged incidents on which they are based, by the way - and ask ourselves whether "Rove's Law" has come into play.

As an aside, the West's interventionist wars remind me of that wonderfully cynical exchange in the film, The Man With Two Brains:
Dr. Hfuhruhurr: "The only time we doctors should accept death is when it's caused by our own incompetence!"

Dr. Necessiter: "Nonsense! If the murder of twelve innocent people can help save one human life, it will have been worth it!"
Here's Dr. Necessiter selling us into war in Iraq: "Nonsense! If it costs us the deaths of 500,000 people to topple the evil dictator Saddam Hussein, it will have been worth it!"
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Best of the Web: Syrian Girl Infowars interview: 'Saudi Arabia likely behind Syria chemical weapons false-flag'

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:56 UTC
Maram Susli SyrianGirl
© Syrian Girl/YoutubeSyrian-Australian blogger Maram Susli, who goes by Mimi Al Laham or 'Syrian Girl'
Syrian Girl sheds some light as to what is happening in Douma Syria, where a chemical weapons false flag threatens to plunge the world into nuclear war..

Syrian Girl explains how Saudi Arabia is behind the groups staging the hoax chemical attack in Douma.
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Best of the Web: Syrian army arrests British and other Western forces embedded with terrorist groups in Eastern Ghouta - Local reports


Sputnik
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:30 UTC
Pro government forces check tunnels
© AFP 2018/ STRPro government forces check tunnels used by the rebels over the past years during the siege in the recently conquered area of Jobar, in Eastern Ghouta on April 3, 2018
According to a report by Al-Mayadeen news channel cited by Fars News, a number of British troops have been captured during the Syrian Arab Army's operations in Eastern Ghouta.

They are believed to be a part of international military forces deployed in the region to launch a ground assault in Damascus in cooperation with the US. According to the report, the US and other NATO countries, Jordan and Israel planned to launch attacks from several fronts, but the plot failed as Syrian armed forces made a series of rapid advances in Eastern Ghouta in March. The plot allegedly involved massive airstrikes by US and Israeli planes that were supposed to pave the way for ground forces.

Comment: Interestingly, the US operations center at the al-Tanf base in southern Syria ordered the end of all operations by the aforementioned allied forces after the terrorists were defeated in Eastern Ghouta, following the collapse of two towns - al-Nashabiyeh and al-Mohammadiyeh - in the first days of the Syrian army's offensives in Eastern Ghouta.
Also the US CENTCOM urged withdrawal of allied forces from Eastern Ghouta to Arabayn, Zamalka and Douma before dividing Ghouta into three areas to pave the ground for their withdrawal from Ghouta region.

Militants allied to the US troops in Eastern Syria had revealed in March that the US planned to stage the attack in a different region further to the East between the provinces of Homs and Deir Ezzur.
This evacuation of thousands of terrorists and embedded Western troops from Ghouta appears to be this previously reported event:

Jaysh al-Islam militants - likely perpetrators of any chemical weapon attack in Douma - suddenly surrender to Syrian govt and leave E. Ghouta

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