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We live in a dystopian hell where Fox, one of the most biased right-wing outlets imaginable, is for once actually doing fair and balanced coverage of Syria

Meanwhile the (neo)liberal corporate media is ignoring or denying this massive OPCW Douma scandal
foxnews.com/world/syria-wa…
Neoliberal rag The Guardian of Blairism (which for years has spewed regime-change propaganda against Syria, whitewashing al-Qaeda) obediently echoed the OPCW -- while leaving out that, according to the whistleblower, the US pressured OPCW to cook the books
theguardian.com/world/2019/nov…
The second whistleblower says 3 US officials pressured the OPCW to alter its report to blame Syria for the "chemical attack"

At @GrayzoneProject, @AaronJMate spoke with veteran journalist Jonathan Steele, the first reporter to interview the whistleblower:
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The US is waging war on the Latin American left:

After presiding over a far-right coup in Bolivia, the US dubbed Nicaragua a “national security threat,” while Trump designated Mexican cartels “terrorists” and refused to rule out military intervention
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/ope…
The Trump White House issued a statement on Nov 25 absurdly calling Nicaragua an “extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States," extending a state of "national emergency"

The US is restarting its coup attempt there
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/ope…
The US OAS rep announced Trump is imposing new suffocating sanctions and declared "The pressure against Nicaragua is going to continue"

After a failed bloody coup attempt in 2018, the US is relaunching efforts to overthrow Nicaragua's elected leftist govt
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/ope…
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Ben Norton
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Trump is paving the way for even more aggressive US intervention in Mexico by absurdly labelling drug cartels as "terrorists"

This comes while Mexico's newly elected left-wing President AMLO and supporters have been warning of plans for a right-wing coup reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Just like how the US trained ISIS commanders like Omar al-Shishani, and gave birth to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, then helped AQ in Libya and Syria, the US has also trained some of the cartel leaders terrorizing Mexico

US imperialism is the root of terrorism
aljazeera.com/indepth/featur…
Genocidal mass-murdering ISIS commander Omar al-Shishani was trained by the US to fight Russia, before traveling to Syria to help serve US imperialist interests there
mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-wo…
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Ben Norton
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Surprise (not): right-wing neoliberal sellout Barack Obama is privately working to try to prevent Bernie Sanders from becoming the presidential candidate — when he's not getting $400,000 for each Wall Street speech & water skiing with billionaire oligarchs
thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Obama spoke at a lavish gala in 2018 with rich Republicans eating caviar, and he sent his message to Wall Street executives:

"Have you checked where your stocks were when I came in office, and where they are now?... Just say thank you, please!"
thegrayzone.com/2018/11/30/oba…
Here's video of king of neoliberalism Obama last year telling bankers they should thank him for helping them make so much money, and also boasting of making the US the world's largest oil producer
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Max Abrahms
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The mainstream narrative of the Syria conflict has imploded.

Every day there are new revelations that the “rebels” were in cahoots not only with Al Qaeda but also ISIS & official reports of Assad using chemical weapons were doctored according to the reports’ own authors.
Were you ever skeptical that Assad was authorizing chemical weapons attacks when they were the one thing that put his winning the war at risk?

Authors of the official reports linking him to chemical weapons usage have now supplied evidence that their own reports were doctored.
When I was interviewed about Syria's military using chemical weapons, I expressed skepticism Assad bucked the political science literature by engaging in the one conduct that would reverse his hard-fought victory.

But the media would excise me & the research from their stories.
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Seth Cotlar
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Live by Fox News and the conspiracy-addled right wing media ecosystem, die by Fox News.
If Trump's Fox News addiction ends up being one of the things that brought him down, that would be such a delicious historical irony.
So can we say that Trump and Fox News may be hoist on their own libtard?

I'll show myself out.
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Qalaat Al Mudiq
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#Syria: after days of intense bombardment & 1st assault repelled 2 days ago, pro-Assad forces opened today the SE. #Idlib front in apparent attempt to besiege Rebels in N. #Hama province. Battle in #Kabana (NE. #Latakia) continues (3rd front).
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Sascha Ruppert
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1/ Even if a potential review of the application for asylum of Kevork Almassian leads to no results, it is necessary to debate about his role as a pawn in a greater strategy of far-right populists in #Germany. While there are many sympathizers and supporters of Assad on the left
2/ or right side of the European party spectrum, in Germany the support for Assad comes from the far right, namely the #AfD. The party recently sent a "diplomatic delegation" to the regime to get first hand informations about the situation in #Syria spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
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Filomena Rocha
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Humanitarian Wars for democracy and freedom are false and lying - 9

#Syria #WarCrimes #FakeNews #lies #terrorism
1.
 What was the UN created for?
What was the United Nations charter created for?
What were human rights associations created for?
What was the International Criminal Court created for?

Enough of double standars and hypocrisy. Enough is enough.
2.
 The United States, in order to be able to carry out its wars with the slogan of freedom and democracy, has continually blatantly lied, over many years, to the permanent representatives of other United Nations countries.
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Thomas van Linge
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#Syria: for over two years the people of Maarat al-Numan have protested continuously against Jabhat al-Nusra (& synonyms #JFS, #HTS).

Now the city together with the whole Jabal al-Zawiya region of #Idlib are freed of jihadists, thanks to local #FSA & #JTS
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