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Category Archives: middle east
More Hitchens on Douma
16
Dec
Yesterday in his Mail on Sunday column, Peter Hitchens wrote: The global chemical weapons watchdog is facing renewed questions after fresh details emerged about how it suppressed the findings of its own inspectors who raised serious doubts about an alleged poison … Read More »
Douma Hoax: Anatomy of a False Flag
8
Dec
The Nuremberg trials after WW2 found waging aggressive war to be not just a war crime but “the supreme war crime”. For years I have argued, on grounds I won’t revisit here, that what I and others call the West’s … Read More »
Peter Hitchens on Douma
28
Nov
Writing two days ago in the Spectator USA, Peter Hitchens begins: I suspect the Third World War will begin with a claimed atrocity — probably the use of poison gas by a ‘regime’ against ‘its own people’. Such things are … Read More »
Syria – how Trotskyism got it so wrong
20
Nov
Even an energetic contrarian like me has to pick his battles and know when to walk away. In the past month alone I’ve withdrawn from polemical discussions online with: an Extinction Rebel when he told me rather late in the … Read More »
Rising tensions within the OPCW
18
Nov
When it comes to Syria two ideas are widespread. One is that Assad uses chemical weapons (for no discernible gain, and at times most calculated to draw the world’s ire). The other is that the UN OPCW (Organisation for Prohibition … Read More »
The Diplomat and the White Helmet
16
Nov
Craig Murray’s name crops up every now and again on this blog. In the early noughties he was Tony Blair’s man in Tashkent, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. When Murray found that its boss, Islam Karimov, had … Read More »
Syria, the OPCW and the CIA renegade
12
Nov
“The public largely relies on mainstream media to find out what’s going on in the world, and is being fed these incredible lies that manufacture consent for more wars …” Elizabeth Murray was Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near … Read More »
Death of the White Helmets founder
12
Nov
Today on the blog of Caitlin Johnstone. I’m for once reproducing in full, without the colour font I normally use for verbatim quotes. What follows is pure Caity. Narrative Managers In Overdrive After Death Of White Helmets Founder James Le Mesurier, … Read More »
Sputnik on Syria
2
Nov
Most of my coverage of the Syria travesty, this for instance, seeks to show the big picture. But big pictures are made up of small details, like the alleged chemical attack at Douma. Details of this sort are vital to … Read More »