Sy Hersh: chemical attack last Aug was a false flag

[mhgaffney]

Even as we learn we were nearly stampeded into war last August under false pretenses -- Obama escalates his war rhetoric again...

MHG

Was Turkey Behind Syrian Sarin Attack?
By Robert Parry

April 07, 2014 "ICH" - "Consortium News" - Last August, the Obama administration lurched to the brink of invading Syria after blaming a Sarin gas attack outside Damascus on President Bashar al-Assad’s government, but new evidence – reported by investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh – implicates Turkish intelligence and extremist Syrian rebels instead.

The significance of Hersh’s latest report is twofold: first, it shows how Official Washington’s hawks and neocons almost stampeded the United States into another Mideast war under false pretenses, and second, the story’s publication in the London Review of Books reveals how hostile the mainstream U.S. media remains toward information that doesn’t comport with its neocon-dominated conventional wisdom.

for the rest
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/06...-sarin-attack/

Why is the US media not carrying this? Why did Sy Hersh have to post his latest in a UK rag?

[mhgaffney]

Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/04/06/seym...d-the-rat-line

[mhgaffney]

Obama Issues Threats To Russia And NATO
By Paul Craig Roberts

April 07, 2014 "ICH" - The Obama regime has issued simultaneous threats to the enemy it is making out of Russia and to its European NATO allies on which Washington is relying to support sanctions on Russia. This cannot end well.

As even Americans living in a controlled media environment are aware, Europeans, South Americans, and Chinese are infuriated that the National Stasi Agency is spying on their communications. NSA’s affront to legality, the US Constitution, and international diplomatic norms is unprecedented. Yet, the spying continues, while Congress sits sucking its thumb and betraying its oath to defend the Constitution of the United States.

In Washington mumbo-jumbo from the executive branch about “national security” suffices to negate statutory law and Constitutional requirements. Western Europe, seeing that the White House, Congress and the Federal Courts are impotent and unable to rein-in the Stasi Police State, has decided to create a European communication system that excludes US companies in order to protect the privacy of European citizens and government communications from the Washington Stasi.

The Obama regime, desperate that no individual and no country escape its spy net, denounced Western Europe’s intention to protect the privacy of its communications as “a violation of trade laws.”

Obama’s US Trade Representative, who has been negotiating secret “trade agreements” in Europe and Asia that give US corporations immunity to the laws of all countries that sign the agreements, has threatened WTO penalties if Europe’s communications network excludes the US companies that serve as spies for NSA. Washington in all its arrogance has told its most necessary allies that if you don’t let us spy on you, we will use WTO to penalize you.

So there you have it. The rest of the world now has the best possible reason to exit the WTO and to avoid the Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic “trade agreements.” The agreements are not about trade. The purpose of these “trade agreements” is to establish the hegemony of Washington and US corporations over other countries.

In an arrogant demonstration of Washington’s power over Europe, the US Trade Representative warned Washington’s NATO allies: “US Trade Representative will be carefully monitoring the development of any such proposals” to create a separate European communication network. http://rt.com/news/us-europe-nsa-snowden-549/

http://www.informationclearinghouse....ticle38148.htm

[cutthemdown]

Gaff does PCR preface all countries with "regime" like he does Obama? You know the Obama regime bs?

For instance would he say "The Putin Regime"?

[mhgaffney]

PCR's latest is another bull's eye. PCR reviews some history -- how the Soviet Union refused to publish Russian writer Boris Pasternak's masterpiece Dr Zhivago.

The manuscript was smuggled out to the West where it was finally published.

Why did the Soviets object to the book? Answer: Because of the book's message that every person deserves a private life and respect as an individual...

PCR points out the obvious parallel with today. But now it isn't the Soviet state that crushes privacy and respect for the individual but....yep...the US government.

Funny how things change the more they remain the same. MHG


How The CIA Made Dr. Zhivago Into A Weapon

By Paul Craig Roberts

April 08, 2014 "ICH" - American Cold War propaganda had little, if anything, to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, by dramatizing Soviet mendacity it made the world blind to Washington’s mendacity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse....ticle38166.htm

[BroncsRule]

Geez, dude - you really need to stop slobbering PCR's knob.

Or get a room, at least.

[mhgaffney]

Another stupid American.

[DenverBrit]

PCR has gone full blown looney, he's the troofer's Limbaugh!!

[mhgaffney]

PCR was spot on last August about the chemical weapons attack.

Sy Hersh Reveals Potential Turkish Role in Syria Chemical Strike That Almost Sparked U.S. Bombing

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/7...l_turkish_role

[mhgaffney]

The bottom line is the US (Obama) came within a whisker last August of seriously escalating the Syrian War.

A US decision to start bombing might have had grave consequences -- and as we now know -- would have been based on a lie. It would have been a replay of the 2003 attack on Iraq -- that is -- another war waged on false pretenses.

PCR was one of a few last August who called it correctly. Loonies like Brit and W*gs will never figure it out. MHG

[SoCalBronco]

Another stupid American.

You mean PCR?

[DenverBrit]

The bottom line is the US (Obama) came within a whisker last August of seriously escalating the Syrian War.

A US decision to start bombing might have had grave consequences -- and as we now know -- would have been based on a lie. It would have been a replay of the 2003 attack on Iraq -- that is -- another war waged on false pretenses.

PCR was one of a few last August who called it correctly. Loonies like Brit and W*gs will never figure it out. MHG

No he wasn't, he was wrong then and is even loonier today.

You swallow Putin's propaganda like a seal with a herring.

One gulp Gaffney.

[theAPAOps5]

You mean PCR?

No, he means Jews.

[mhgaffney]

I'm still waiting for a substantive comment about any of these events.

That would be a breath of fresh air -- and would actually begin to realize the incredible potential of the Internet as an educational medium.

As of now, this image beautifully sums up your collective bs. MHG

[DenverBrit]

As of now, this beautifully sums up my bs. MHG

How right you are.