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Israel has opened its borders with Syria in order to provide medical treatment to Nusra Front and al-Qaida fighters wounded in the ongoing civil war, according to The Wall Street Journal. The prominent American newspaper reported that Nusra Front, the Sunni Muslim al-Qaida offshoot which is currently fighting the Iranian-backed axis of Bashar Assad and Hezbollah, “hasn’t bothered Israel since seizing the border area last summer” along the Golan Heights. When you lose the WSJ.…Defend...

Theresa May has issued a long legal justification for UK participation in an attack on a sovereign state. This is so flawed as to be totally worthless. It specifically claims as customary international law practices which are rejected by a large majority of states and therefore cannot be customary international law. It is therefore secondary and of no consequence that the facts and interpretations the argument cites in this particular case are erroneous, but it so happens they are indeed...

Hours after the overnight US-led missile strikes on Syria, WikiLeaks republished a crucially important diplomatic cable through its official media accounts confirming that Saudi Arabia's long term strategy in Syria has been to pursue regime change "by all means available." According to the leaked internal Saudi government document, this is the kingdom's proposed end-goal even should the United States at any point show "lack of desire" due to the threat of Russian response and possibility of...

People do not have much of an appetite for more war, and yet this is not reflected in the pages of the elite corporate media, TV or radio debates and discussions. Daniel Margrain takes a look at the news propaganda around Syria and why it does not stand up to a moments scrutiny. Documentation of media deception.Renegade, Inc.The ‘liberal’ media bringing us WW3 Daniel Margrain

Syria is not about dictatorship or building democracy. It is not about the alleged 70 victims of chemical weapons. It would take a complete idiot to believe that Washington and its European vassals, who have killed, maimed, orphaned, and displaced millions of Muslims in seven countries over the last 17 years to be so upset over the deaths of 70 Muslims that they are willing to risk war with Russia. Syria and Iran are an issue, because Syria and Iran supply the Lebanese millita, Hezbollah,...

Donald Trump is learning that it's a lot easier to criticize the commander-in-chief than to be the commander-in-chief. Politico Trump’s Syria identity crisis? Michael Crowley And Bryan Bender

Bolton spoke with his Israeli counterpart, Meir Ben Shabbat, to coordinate the U.S.-led attack on Syria early Saturday morning. HAARETZTrump Adviser Bolton Coordinated U.S.-led Strike in Syria With Israel Noa Landau

The number of countries involved in festering Middle East conflicts most closely resembles the situation before World War I. That's frightening.... Bloomberg View Syria War's Game Theory Is Too Complex to Predict Tyler Cowen | Holbert C. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and chairman and general director of the Mercatus Center

Best summary to date that I have seen. Detailed. Moon of AlabamaF.U.K.U.S. Strikes Syria - Who Won? bThe US version.BloombergWarship Ruse and New Stealth Missiles: How the U.S. and Allies Attacked Syria  Toluse Olorunnipa, Jennifer Jacobs, and Anthony CapaccioSee alsoUne parole franche The Morning After…Gilbert Doctorow | European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd.

International bodies are scrambling to meet in the wake of the US-led strike against Syria, which was conducted without a UN mandate, just hours before the OPCW was to begin its on-site inquiry into the Douma gas attack. US President Donald Trump's decision to rain missiles down on Damascus in the early hours of Saturday, along with the UK and France, was not sanctioned by the United Nations, and bypassed an on-the-ground fact-finding mission into the alleged April 7 gas attack in Eastern...