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Chemical weapons Syria

The UN OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism report regarding Khan Sheikhoun

The UN OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) report regarding Khan Sheikhoun has sharply divided opinion, largely because the US and some of its closest allies choose to maintain its central finding of “confidence” the Syrian Arab Republic was guilty is a finding of indisputable fact, whilst Russia (with the open or tacit support of others) […]

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Chemical weapons Syria

Seymour M. Hersh: Turkey and Erdogan planned Sarin attack in Syria

An article by Seymour Hersh in the London Review of Books provides some very interesting information pointing to Turkey as having been the prime mover behind the chemical weapons attack in Ghouta.

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Human Rights Watch and the UN chemical weapons report

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Executive Director, Ken Roth, and New York Times (NYT) journalist CJ Chivers, were quick to argue the UN report on the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ghouta proved the Syrian regime forces launched the attacks. However, analysis of the report suggests HRW and the NYT’s argument is flawed and illustrates […]

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How to start a war with Iran

This guy is a lobbyist for Israel and works as Director of Research for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (an AIPAC spin-off). He was on the “Working group on the phenomena of anti-Americanism” co-chaired by Suzanne Nossel.