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Tallies with Syrian Girl. The Gateway PunditUS Backed Syrian Rebels Caught Staging Corpses of Dead Children in Douma to Play on Western Emotions Jim Holt

Carlson and Massie’s sentiments are shared by most of Trump’s biggest supporters on social media. America Firsters don't see attacking Syria as leading to MAGA.The midterm election is approaching. The Democrats are all fired up. Are the Republicans. Doesn't seem that way. The Gateway Pundit Pro-Trump Congressman: It Doesn’t Make Sense That Assad Would Use Gas Cassandra FairbanksSee alsoTrump coalition coming apart? “It really makes me nervous that there seems to be some enthusiasm for the...

In this statement released Wednesday, a group of international law experts warn that a U.S. military strike on Syria would be illegal if not in self-defense or with U.N. Security Council authorization. Illegal aggression, torture, assassination? Meh. (Who's going to do anything about it, tell me?) Consortium NewsInternational Lawyers: Strike Against Syria Would Be Illegal

A more measured view. The day began with Trump responding in his usual overblown way to a needlessly provocative comment from the Russian ambassador to Lebanon, who is reported to have said that the Russians would shoot down all and every missile the US launched against Syria. This statement – by a relatively junior ambassador in Russia’s diplomatic hierarchy – goes far beyond what other far more senior Russian officials – notably Russia’s UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia – have been...

Speaking with EuroNews, Russia's ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizov, said "Russian military specialists have visited this region, walked on those streets, entered those houses, talked to local doctors and visited the only functioning hospital in Douma, including its basement where reportedly the mountains of corpses pile up. There was not a single corpse and even not a single person who came in for treatment after the attack." "But we've seen them on the video!" responds EuroNews...

There is no purpose in a military attack on Syria other than to attempt to help the jihadists overthrow Assad. Recall that all this began when Zbigniew Brzezinski convinced Jimmy Carter to arm and support jihadis in Afghanistan to draw Russia into a quagmire. Since then, the US has been caught in the quagmire itself. Here go for more. The crazies still have not learn their lesson. Craig Murray BlogThe Four Horsemen Gallop By Craig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and...

Where the oil is. Predictions are a tricky thing, but here’s one: Within a few years, America will gain nothing, and Washington will come to regret what turned into a messy, prolonged excursion in Syria. Pundits will wonder how it happened though it will have seemed preordained, just another unavoidable foreign policy disaster in an intractable region. And this is the optimistic scenario. The National InterestThe U.S. Military: Proud Owners of One-Third of Syria Danny Sjursen, fellow at...

I beseech you, sir, to consider the possibility that the supposed chlorine gas attack at Douma, Syria may have been a carefully constructed propaganda fraud on the part of the rebels encircled in Douma.... Sic Semper TyrannisAn appeal to James Mattis Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the...

3:49 minute video.Russia InsiderWhat Really Happened With the Gas Attack in Syria - SYRIANGIRL Is Back! Also Russians ready for war. The Russian view is simple: the West is ruled by a gang of thugs supported by an infinitely lying and hypocritical media while the general public in the West has been hopelessly zombified. The authority of the so-called “western values” (democracy, rule of law, human rights, etc.) in Russia is now roadkill.... The Vineyard of the SakerListening to...

The plot thickens. PoliticoSyria reports missile attack; U.S. denies launching strike APUpdate:ReutersSyria, Russia accuse Israel over strike on Syrian air base