âIt makes no sense, even if you were totally separate from this and take no sides of this and you were just an analyst, it doesnât make sense for Assad under these conditions to all of the sudden use poison gasses,â Paul continued. âI think itâs zero chance that he would have done this deliberately.â
Back in January, Paul said in an interview with The Daily Caller that false flag attacks could be used by both the so-called American âdeep stateâ and foreign actors to draw the Trump administration into foreign engagements.
âAll we need is a false flag and an accident and everybody will be for teaching them a lesson,â he told TheDCâs Alex Pfeiffer. âYou know the deep state is very very powerful and they have a lot of control.â
05.04.2017 - 23:15 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]
Itâs a shame that our elected representatives decided to prioritize corporate interests over our privacy rights. We shouldnât have to take extraordinary steps to limit how our personal information can be used, but that is clearly something that we are all forced to do now. EFF will continue to advocate for Internet usersâ privacy and will work to fix this in the future.
In the wake of Tuesdayâs alleged attack, the tone was quite different. The Trump administration and the corporate-controlled media wasted no time in declaring the guilt of the Assad regime to be beyond doubt.
Die Teilnehmer der internationalen Syrien-Geberkonferenz haben fĂŒr das laufende Jahr insgesamt sechs Milliarden Dollar an Hilfsgeldern zugesagt. Das teilte EU-Kommissar Christos Stylianides am Mittwoch zum Ende des Treffens von Vertretern aus rund 70 Staaten in BrĂŒssel mit.
Der libanesische Regierungschef Saad Hariri verwies bei der Konferenz auf die schwierige Lage durch rund eine Million FlĂŒchtlinge in seinem Land. «Die aktuelle Situation im Libanon ist eine tickende Zeitbombe», sagte er an der Konferenz. Hariri, mit dem sich Burkhalter traf, forderte die Teilnehmerstaaten auf, «in den Frieden zu investieren».
Following Tuesday‘s deadly chemical attack at Syria‘s Idlib province, Israeli officials strongly believe the Syrian regime has begun to rebuild Sarin manufacturing plants
05.04.2017 - 17:27 [ Verteidigungsministerium der Russischen Föderation ]
The parties discussed condition and prospects of Russia-Israel cooperation in the defence field, issues of global and regional security. They also exchanged their opinions about participation of the Israeli military delegation in the VI Moscow Conference on International Security.
The meeting was held in a climate of understanding.
Alle C-Waffen, die der syrische PrĂ€sident Baschar Assad jemals hatte, sind 2014 beschlagnahmt worden. Der ehemalige US-Staatschef Barack Obama berichtete davon persönlich, und die Organisation fĂŒr das C-Waffen-Verbot bekam dafĂŒr sogar den Nobelpreis.
Daran erinnerte Igor Nikulin, Ex-Mitglied der UN-Kommission fĂŒr Bio- und Chemiewaffen,vor dem Hintergrund der jĂŒngsten Giftgas-VorwĂŒrfe gegen Damaskus im Interview mit der Agentur Sputnik.
(4.4.17) Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is visiting Iraq to assess progress in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. He invited Kushner and the presidentâs Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert along to meet U.S. service members and see the effort, close up.
In AuslandseinsĂ€tzen soll es Auftrag der Truppe sein, die KommunikationskanĂ€le des Gegners zu ĂŒberwachen und zu stören. Ein mögliches Szenario: ZunĂ€chst forschen die Soldaten den Feind im Internet aus und hören ab. Dann könnte die Kommunikation des Gegners blockiert werden. Ein so isolierter Feind wĂ€re dann im echten Kampf ein leichteres Ziel, erklĂ€rte eine StaatssekretĂ€rin des Ministeriums bei einem Pressetermin.
Zu Berichten ĂŒber einen Giftgasangriff in der syrischen Provinz Idlib sagte AuĂenminister Gabriel heute (04.04.) am Rande seines Besuchs in London:
„Sollte es sich bestĂ€tigen, dass die Menschen in der syrischen Stadt Chan Scheichun Opfer eines Giftgasangriffs geworden sind, fĂŒr den das syrische Regime die Verantwortung trĂ€gt, wĂ€re dies ein Akt kaum zu ĂŒberbietender Grausamkeit. Und es wĂ€re ein weiterer Grund, warum wir im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus nicht auf das Assad-Regime setzen dĂŒrfen.
Wir setzen darauf, dass der Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen eindeutig Stellung bezieht, sollte sich der Verdacht bewahrheiten. Wer die Verantwortung fĂŒr solche Taten auf sich lĂ€dt, muss wissen, dass er frĂŒher oder spĂ€ter dafĂŒr zur Rechenschaft gezogen wird. Das ist einer der GrĂŒnde, warum Deutschland die Vereinten Nationen dabei unterstĂŒtzt, Beweise fĂŒr schwerste Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Syrien zu sammeln.
Der Einsatz von Chemiewaffen wie auch gezielte Angriffe auf medizinische Einrichtungen verstoĂen gegen das humanitĂ€re Völkerrecht, alle Standards der internationalen Gemeinschaft und insbesondere das Chemiewaffen-Ăbereinkommen, dem Syrien 2013 beigetreten ist.“
05.04.2017 - 16:58 [ Stefan Kuzmany / spiegel.de ]
In Syrien sterben MĂ€nner, Frauen und Kinder an Giftgas, und der Westen sieht zu, weil er sich nicht entscheiden kann und will zwischen dem Ăbel Assad und dem Ăbel Krieg gegen Assad.
Was in der syrischen Provinz Idlib geschehen ist, das wissen wir noch nicht genau.
05.04.2017 - 16:56 [ Seymour M. Hersh / London Review of Books ]
(19.Dezember 2013) In both its public and private briefings after 21 August, the administration disregarded the available intelligence about al-Nusraâs potential access to sarin and continued to claim that the Assad government was in sole possession of chemical weapons. This was the message conveyed in the various secret briefings that members of Congress received in the days after the attack, when Obama was seeking support for his planned missile offensive against Syrian military installations. One legislator with more than two decades of experience in military affairs told me that he came away from one such briefing persuaded that âonly the Assad government had sarin and the rebels did not.â Similarly, following the release of the UN report on 16 September confirming that sarin was used on 21 August, Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the UN, told a press conference: âItâs very important to note that only the [Assad] regime possesses sarin, and we have no evidence that the opposition possesses sarin.â
It is not known whether the highly classified reporting on al-Nusra was made available to Powerâs office, but her comment was a reflection of the attitude that swept through the administration. âThe immediate assumption was that Assad had done it,â the former senior intelligence official told me. âThe new director of the CIA, [John] Brennan, jumped to that conclusion ⊠drives to the White House and says: âLook at what Iâve got!â It was all verbal; they just waved the bloody shirt.
„When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action,“ declared Ambassador Nikki Haley. She addressed an emergency meeting of the Security Council, which was weighing a resolution condemning chemical weapons use in Syria. Russia, which has veto power, is opposed.
Under the move, the national intelligence director, Dan Coats, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, are again „regular attendees“ of the NSCâs principals committee.
FĂŒnf Tage nachdem die neue U.S.-Regierung nach sechs Jahren und Hunderttausenden von Toten den Umsturzversuch in Syrien aufgibt und damit die InvasionsmĂ€chte in der âEuropĂ€ischen Unionâ, GroĂbritannien, Frankreich und Deutschland mit dem EingestĂ€ndnis der offenen, epischen Niederlage in der Syrien-Invasion konfrontiert, einen Tag nach einem blutigen und heimtĂŒckischen Attentat in der U-Bahn von St. Petersburg, nach welchem der F.S.B. blitzartig den schon zuvor beobachteten Kopf eines 22-jĂ€hrigen zentralasiatischen EinzelgĂ€ngers aus der Tasche des âSelbstmordattentatsâ und die Aufmerksamkeit der russischen Ăffentlichkeit und russischen PrĂ€sidenten und Oberbefehlshabers auf sich zieht, und am selben Tag, an dem in BrĂŒssel die von âEuropĂ€ischer Unionâ und âVereinten Nationenâ getragene Syrien-Konferenz der InvasionsmĂ€chte Deutschland, Kuwait, Norwegen, Katar und GroĂbritannien beginnt, greift nach Angaben von âAktivistenâ, der berĂŒchtigten Ein-Mann-âSyrische Beobachtungsstelle fĂŒr Menschenrechteâ in London von Raed Al Saleh, dem Chef von 2851 âWeiĂen Helmenâ, und Augenzeugen der âBildâ-Zeitung ein russischer Jet die syrische Stadt Stadt Khan Sheikhoun (ážȘÄn Ć ayឫƫn, Chan Schaichun) an und bombardiert diese demnach mit Giftgas.
(30.3.2017) Unhappily, there are growing signs that this cycle is about to start anew. Rockets are fired by Salafist groups (hardliners such as those affiliated with Islamic State) into Israel, actions that Hamas either permits or fails to prevent, and Israel responds with carefully placed airstrikes. Few casualties have resulted on either side so far, but the exchanges are now coming every few days.
The Foreign Ministry lambasted the European Union on Tuesday for protesting a planned demolition of Palestinian buildings in the West Bank, saying Europe spends more time and energy on such demolitions than on genuine humanitarian crises worldwide.
05.04.2017 - 11:54 [ Raed Al Saleh / theguardian.com ]
We â like other Syrian civil society and humanitarian leaders â will not have a voice at the Brussels conference, but if we were in the room we would tell European leaders they should not ignore Assadâs crimes, but instead stand up for basic principles of humanity.
Until an inclusive political transition is underway in Syria, until the bombs stop raining down on schools and hospitals, until independent monitors are allowed unhindered access to the regimeâs detention centres, and the violence, sieges and forced displacement are ended, Europe should not countenance offering a single euro of reconstruction funding.
(2.8.2016) Many analysts have denied that the White Helmets have any links to extremists whatsoever. Even when presented with photographs that seem to prove a link, they deny it. Analysts were outraged when Raed Saleh was barred from entering the US to accept the InterAction Humanitarian award. They claimed that pro-Assad Americans were slandering the Syrian Civil Defense organization with zero evidence. This article will present a trove of evidence that proves involvement with extremist groups. Much of this evidence is new, apparently not spotted by Westerners until now.
Veröffentlicht am 29.04.2016
‚The White Helmets‘, fake ‚Syrian humanitarian group, exposed as an al Qaeda support group headed by a British military man and funded by the US Government. Short documentary by Steve Ezzedine, drawing on research by Vanessa Beeley.
Aged 32, he leads 2,851 search and rescue volunteers as head of Syria Civil Defence. Before the Syrian Revolution, Raed was a businessman who sold electrical equipment. After the start of the popular protests in Deraa in March 2011, he started organising peaceful protests and demonstrations in his home town Jisr Ashughour.
(7.10.2016) RT: The White Helmets are also referred to as the âSyria Civil Defense.â Is it the same thing?
VB: This is a complete criminal and illegal taking of copyright. The real Syria Civil Defense inside Syria has existed for 63 years; the White Helmets have existed for 3 years, they were founded in 2013. What we are seeing here is an eradication of Syrian state institutions and the implantation of a Syrian shadow state by predominantly the UK and the US, but also supported by EU governments.
Sources in Israel say they believe the assault in Syria was intended to convey a threatening message to rebel groups against the backdrop of growing confidence in the regime‘s stability.
Foreign ministers Boris Johnson of Britain and Jean-Marc Ayrault of France spoke during an international conference on Syria, which the European Union convened in Brussels in a bid to shore up stalled peace talks between Assad and his rivals.
(MĂ€rz 2007) Psychologist Philip Zimbardo talked about his book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, published by Random House. He explained how particular situations and group dynamics can lead normal, moral people to behave in immoral ways.
But although much of the book is rather dark in tone thanks to the detailed descriptions of how ordinary people succumb to evil, the final chapters of The Lucifer Effect offer a small ray of light by reminding us that, thankfully, some people are able to resist social influence and remain immune to the power of situational forces.
Zimbardoâs examples of such rare individuals include Christina Maslach, the graduate student who forced Zimbardo to end the Stanford Prison Experiment (and whom later became his wife), and Private Joe Darby, the soldier who blew the whistle on the abuses taking place at Abu Ghraib prison.
And in the final chapter, Zimbardo introduces a new concept of âThe Banality of Heroismâ where he asks the reader if they would be able to take on the role of âheroâ if the need ever arose.