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'This Madman Must Be Stopped' - Syrian Chemical Weapons

By David Edwards

Last August, Barack Obama told reporters at the White House:

'We have been very clear to the Assad regime... that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilised.

'That would change my calculus; that would change my equation.'

This was a clear threat to repeat the 2011 Nato assault which resulted in the overthrow and murder of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

So what is the evid...

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‘The Stupidest And Most Extreme Section Of The British Left’

An Appeal For Your Support From Media Lens

In a media alert earlier this year, we described our under-resourced challenges of the corporate media as 'jousting with toothpicks'. Although the analogy was light-hearted, the work of Media Lens is serious and would not be possible without your support.

Our alerts and books are regularly cited and praised by readers, including journalists, academics and activists; but especially by so-called ordinary people wh...

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