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s” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_%28testimony%29">Nayirah testimony</a> used to justify the Gulf War, to the <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war-timeline/">lies about weapons of mass destruction</a> and the media propaganda campaign which married the unrelated concepts of Saddam Hussein and 9/11 so successfully in the minds of the public that six months after the invasion of Iraq <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-06-poll-iraq_x.htm">70 percent of them thought</a> Saddam was personally responsible for the September 11 attacks, to the <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/22/libya-and-the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention/">lies which magically transformed</a> America’s military involvement in Libya from a “humanitarian” effort into a deliberate regime change intervention, you can count on the US power establishment to lie and deceive at every turn to manufacture support for its military power grabs.</li><li>There are many, many reasons to be intensely skeptical of the notion that Assad has ever used chemical weapons on anyone at all. These include Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s <a href="https://readmedium.com/more-reasons-have-emerged-to-doubt-the-official-narrative-about-syria-54cdb584511f">brand new report</a> claiming that the Trump administration was fully aware that there was no evidence for Assad having used chemical weapons in the Idlib province on April 4 but was bound and determined to carry out the April 6 missile strike anyway, as well as Hersh’s <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin">2013 report</a> “Whose Sarin?” which strongly argued that it was the terrorist group Al-Nusra who used sarin gas on civilians that year, not the Syrian government. There’s also the fact that the UN’s Carla Del Ponte has <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-22424188">gone on record</a> stating that evidence seems to implicate the “rebel” forces fighting Assad as the ones who used sarin in 2013. Then there’s MIT professor Theodore A. Postol’s thorough analysis claiming to <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/04/66730.html">conclusively</a> <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-19/mit-scientist-debunks-false-flag-nerve-agent-attack-did-not-occur">disprove</a> the possibility that Assad was behind the Idlib attacks in April. There’s also the self-evident fact that it would have made no sense for Assad to carry out chemical weapons attacks in April, with the White House having <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/us/politics/trump-bashar-assad-syria.html">just relaxed its stance</a> toward him days earlier and Syrian forces having just <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-regaining-ground-in-northern-hama/5582313">scored major victories</a> over the terrorist forces which seemed to indicate imminent victory; the timing was so suspicious it prompted former Congressman Ron Paul <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/04/06/ron_paul_syria_gas_attack_could_be_false_flag_zero_chance_assad_is_responsible.html">to say</a> that there was “zero chance” that Assad was behind the attack. The White House statement made just today is perfect evidence of an escalation in hostility from the west that would have made such an attack an impossibly insane blunder to make. Just to name a few gaping plot holes in the official narrative about Syria.</li><li>America’s unelected power establishment has been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw">gunning for Syria for a long time now</a>, and there are many reasons for this. In addition to Syria’s <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-24/oil-gas-war-over-syria-4-maps">important strategic location in the oil and gas resource battle</a> that the US has been largely dominating via its military and economic might, Syria’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights#Israeli_annexation_and_civil_rule">border dispute</a> with Israel over the Golan Heights means that Israel has every reason to want to keep Syria in check, not only because the Golan Heights contains oil but because it <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14724842">provides a third of Israel’s water supply</a>. Assad also launched what he called his “Five Seas Vision” in 2004, a strategy to use Syria’s supreme geographic location to become an economic superpower. Needless to say, such a plan wouldn’t sit well with the current king of economic power, the United States, which can only maintain its hegemony by keeping other nations down. And of course, the involvement of Russia and Iran sets the stage for strategic battles with those rival nations as well.</li><li>The Trump administration has been <a href="https://readmedium.com/us-continues-to-attack-syria-in-sel
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f-defense-to-provoke-assad-retaliation-1230d9a584ad">working to provoke Assad and his allies into a war</a> with gradually increasing intensity and frequency.</li><li>Everything you hear about Syria in the legacy media is <a href="https://readmedium.com/you-only-hate-assad-because-your-tv-told-you-to-5e3c9a9d17f9">laced with lies and manipulations</a>. It’s impossible to know what kind of a leader Assad really is, because there’s just too much propaganda in the air. When CNN has gone so far as to <a href="https://readmedium.com/proof-that-your-government-is-lying-to-you-and-the-media-is-helping-them-107e673a4297">deliberately stage a fake interview</a> with a seven year-old Syrian girl who can’t speak English reciting scripted anti-Assad war propaganda, you know it’s impossible to tell which way is up. All we can really be sure of is that Syria is a sovereign country and is none of America’s business.</li><li>That bears repeating: <b>SYRIA IS A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY AND IS NONE OF AMERICA’S BUSINESS</b>. The concept of humanitarian warfare is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarian_bombing">very new invention</a>, and actualizing it never helps advance humanitarian interests. Libya is a shredded crater of a nation because of the US and NATO’s last “humanitarian” intervention, and now that it’s been chewed up and spat out you never hear anything about it despite the prevalence of <a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/sex-slavery-isis-illegal-arms-trade-libya-plunged-failed-state-us-invasion/227478/">vastly more humanitarian strife</a> than there ever was under Gaddafi. They took him out and they’re bound and determined to take out Assad as well, using the same lines and the same strategies, not for humanitarian reasons but for power and money. They make it about protecting children and civilians because they can’t just be honest and tell the American people that it’s about power and money. Unlike Russia and Iran, America is in Syria <a href="http://archive.is/HTVpV#selection-1105.0-1105.101">without the permission</a> of the Syrian government, and it has no business being there.</li></ul>
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</figure></iframe></div></div></figure><p id="6c1c">If the purpose of these announcements was to signal Syrian terrorist groups to launch a chemical weapons attack so that Assad can be overthrown, or a psy-op laying the groundwork for the media coverage that will follow a false flag chemical weapons attack planned by the US war machine itself, then America’s deep state may have made a major strategic error here. Because I can promise right here and now that the second any chemical weapons attack occurs in that nation I’ll be sharing this article around like mad yelling “See! They’re doing it! They’re doing that evil thing!” And I know many other clear-eyed rebels will be pointing at the same evidence and drawing attention to the evil.</p><p id="4f31">I really hope it doesn’t come to that, but if America’s unelected power establishment is really stupid enough to try and use another gas attack to justify yet another “humanitarian” regime change invasion, it will end them. We will make sure of it.</p><p id="a181">— — —</p><p id="b146"><i>Thanks for reading! If you enjoyed this, please consider helping me out by sharing it around, liking me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CaitlinAJohnstone/">Facebook</a>, following me on <a href="https://twitter.com/caitoz">Twitter</a>, or even tossing me some money on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4445783">Patreon</a> so I can keep this gig up.</i></p></article></body>