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Posts tagged with "Syria"

Peter Hitchens takes Andrew Neil apart over Syria bias on BBC This Week Global

Peter Hitchens takes Andrew Neil apart over Syria bias on BBC This Week

It's not often a guest gets the better of BBC This Week host Andrew Neil. But viewers seem to agree that Peter Hitchens achieved that this week. During a segment on Syria, Hitchens took apart Neil's arguments with clinical, rather than military, precision. It's not often that the left finds itself in agreement with Peter Hitchens. But...
Conservative Democrats could be about to make a warmonger America's chief diplomat US

Conservative Democrats could be about to make a warmonger America's chief diplomat

CIA director Mike Pompeo’s nomination as Secretary of State could go down in history as the first top diplomat to be confirmed after failing to get the public support of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And if he is confirmed, Pompeo will have one or more conservative Democrats to thank for it. Pompeo needs at least one...
A Conservative MP is now regretting the ‘disgraceful’ jolly he had in Iraq Global

A Conservative MP is now regretting the ‘disgraceful’ jolly he had in Iraq

A Scottish Conservative MP is under fire for 'disgraceful' behaviour on a recent trip to Iraq. The SNP has accused Ross Thomson of 'trivialising' Saddam Hussein's atrocities against the Iraqi people, which included using chemical weapons on them. Coming just after an alleged chemical attack in Syria, Thomson's behaviour couldn't be...
Caroline Lucas points out a glaring plot hole in Theresa May's Syria story Global

Caroline Lucas points out a glaring plot hole in Theresa May's Syria story

Caroline Lucas has spoken out over a glaring plot hole in Theresa May's Syria story. Along with France, the Prime Minister joined a US-led bombing campaign against three Syrian government sites that they claim stored or researched chemical weapons. Hold on... But Green Party co-leader Lucas pointed out that "two sites bombed overnight...
An ex-British Navy chief raises 'alarm bells' about the government's Syria story live on the BBC Global

An ex-British Navy chief raises 'alarm bells' about the government's Syria story live on the BBC

A former First Sea Lord of the British Navy has raised "alarm bells" about the UK government's Syria story. Alan West cast doubt on its claim that the Syrian government is responsible for an alleged chemical attack live on the BBC. He warned that someone may have "duped" the British government. "Alarm bells" The BBC interviewed...
A reporter finally entered the ‘chemical attack’ site in Syria. What he found is extraordinary. Global

A reporter finally entered the ‘chemical attack’ site in Syria. What he found is extraordinary.

Robert Fisk, winner of several national and international journalism awards, has visited the city of Douma in Syria, where Western governments say the chemical attack happened. By the look of things, he's got some extraordinary findings. "Suffering from hypoxia, not gas poisoning" The correspondent for The Independent reported the...
A Scottish MP asks the question on everyone's lips during the parliamentary debate on Syria Global

A Scottish MP asks the question on everyone's lips during the parliamentary debate on Syria

On 16 April, Theresa May faced questions from MPs about the 14 April airstrikes on Syria, which the prime minister undertook without parliamentary approval. And a Scottish MP asked the question on the lips of everyone who opposed the military intervention. Glasgow Central MP Alison Thewliss spoke about roughly how much the...
A renowned professor brings the West’s Syria propaganda crashing down, live on air Global

A renowned professor brings the West’s Syria propaganda crashing down, live on air

Renowned Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs has brought the Syria propaganda spread by Western governments crashing down, live on air. Sachs, who has won numerous awards and honours, was speaking to MSNBC about the ongoing Syrian conflict on 12 April. And he said: This is a US mistake that started seven years...
Jeremy Corbyn goes to town on Theresa May for bowing to the 'whims of a US President' Global

Jeremy Corbyn goes to town on Theresa May for bowing to the 'whims of a US President'

On 14 April, the US, the UK and France, launched airstrikes in Syria after a suspected chemical weapons attack in Douma on 7 April. The strikes took place only hours before an investigation by inspectors from the UN’s Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was due to start. Donald Trump, Theresa May and...
Nicola Sturgeon raises a crucial question about the Syria airstrikes Trending

Nicola Sturgeon raises a crucial question about the Syria airstrikes

A coalition of the US, UK and France launched airstrikes in Syria on 14 April. The intervention was a response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma. The UK Government claims the strikes were directed at targets that would limit the chemical weapon capacity of president Assad's regime in the country. Sturgeon condemns...
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