The Rocket and The Bomb

[Thomas Eckhardt]

> Just for one bit (and I'm done with this),
> The UN HAS ALSO DOCUMENTED MANy USES OF CHEMICAL WARFARE 
>BY THE SYRIAN
> GOVERNMENT which, in his "objectivity"--
> the most hypocritical lie in this piece--he never 
>mentions.

Where does Howard lie?

Yes, he could have mentioned in the following paragraph 
that the UN holds the Syrian Army responsible for three 
chlorine attacks.

'Numerous incidents have been cited in the news, most of 
them small-time (meaning crude attacks with no 
casualties), all of them blamed on the government. And yet 
the UN has documented numerous cases in which terrorist 
outfits, including ISIS, used chemical weapons against 
civilians and Syrian soldiers. It also heard testimony 
from witnesses on the ground that opposition fighters were 
staging chemical attacks with the goal of framing the 
Syrian military. And contrary to every major media outlet 
in the West, the UN did not blame Assad for the infamous 
sarin attack of August 2013, stating after an 
investigation that “surface-to-surface rockets containing 
the nerve agent sarin were used” by one of “the parties in 
the Syrian Arab Republic.” The culprit was not 
identified.'

Thanks for the link. Up to now I had only heard of this 
interesting debate.





> http://www.the-trench.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/UNSC-20170228-Syria-CW-debate.pdf
> 
> His sneering riding on half-truths is as bad as any he 
>condemns....and the
> world is full of real reporting and a logical 
>perspective on it.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Jochen Stremmel 
><jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Neither does Thomas say that there is reporting.
>>
>> Can only reporting be brilliant?
>>
>> 2017-05-03 14:58 GMT+02:00 ish mailian 
>><ishmailian at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Why trust Howard over a NYT journalist or a Guardian 
>>>journalist? The
>>> Times has brilliance, from time to time, so does the 
>>>Guardian. Not
>>> that we should trust either, generally, on geopolitics 
>>>or Washington
>>> politics, though they do a decent job on both. Also, 
>>>there's nothing
>>> brilliant in Howard's reporting here. In fact, there is 
>>>no reporting
>>> in what you describe as brilliant.
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
>>> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>> > Thank you very much for your recollections and 
>>>thoughts, Monte!
>>> >
>>> > As for the present situation, this may be of interest:
>>> >
>>> > 
>>>http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/medialibrary/2017/
>>> 04/21/94c24315/Beyond%20the%20Nuclear%20Threshold.pdf
>>> >
>>> > Including a reference to an incident in 1995 that I 
>>>was not aware of:
>>> >
>>> > 'A frightening example of things going terribly wrong 
>>>was provided by
>>> the
>>> > 1995 accident
>>> > involving the launch of a Norwegian geodesic rocket, 
>>>which was taken
>>> for a
>>> > Trident 2
>>> > missile, triggering the Russian early warning system. 
>>>The event was
>>> urgently
>>> > reported to
>>> > the president, the “Cheget” system was activated, and 
>>>Boris Yeltsin, as
>>> he
>>> > said later, for
>>> > several minutes held his finger “on the nuclear 
>>>button” – until the
>>> incident
>>> > was settled.'
>>> >
>>> > The tensions are, of course, fueled by a constant 
>>>barrage of atrocity
>>> > propaganda in the service of the empire:
>>> >
>>> > 
>>>https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/04/lets-call-wes
>>> tern-media-coverage-of-syria-for-what.html
>>> >
>>> > Howard's brilliant article makes abundantly clear why 
>>>many people on the
>>> > left, including myself, nowadays do not trust the NYT 
>>>(or the Washington
>>> > Post or the Guardian or the Zeit or the Spiegel) at 
>>>all when it comes to
>>> > geopolitics: "They keep pumping out the propaganda, 
>>>day in, day out,
>>> never
>>> > stopping to reflect on the potential consequences."
>>> >
>>> > The potential consequences, of course, include 
>>>thermonuclear war.
>>> > -
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>>>
>>
>>

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