US Preparing Sanctions Against Syria
Just hours after unleashing a missile strike on Syria, Steven Mnuchin announced that the US will announce sanctions “in the near future” against the Assad regime.
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Ex-UK Ambassador To Syria Questions Chemical Attack; "It Doesn't Make Sense, Assad Is Not Mad"
The former UK ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, has joined the chorus of folks implying that the chemical attack in Syria wreaks of a 'false flag' operation. Speaking on BBC Radio earlier, Ford said there is "no proof that the cause of the explosion was what they said it was" and that it simply wouldn't make sense for Assad to launch such an attack as it would be "totally self-defeating."
The Impending Clash Between the U.S. and Russia
The Impending Clash Between the U.S. and Russia
by MIKE WHITNEY
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/07/the-impending-clash-between-the-u-s-and-russia/
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Washington Has Crossed Russia’s Red Line
Washington Has Crossed Russia’s Red Line
Paul Craig Roberts
Russian PM: "US On Brink Of Military Clash With Russia"
In a statement on Friday morning, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the US missile strike violated not only international, and added that the attack “was on the brink of military clashes with Russia.”
“Instead of their much-publicized thesis about a joint fight with a common enemy, Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL], the Trump administration has proven that it will fiercely fight against the legal government of Syria,” Medvedev wrote on his Facebook page.