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  1. The Balance of Probabilities
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Unlike the famous chemical weapons "attack" portrayed by the BBC in Saving Syria's Children, it does appear that in the latest incident at Idlib there was real horror inflicted by chemical attack of some kind. The question is who did it and why?
  2. Bolton calls on Al-Qaeda to stage more chemical attacks in Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The latest statements from the US, France and UK warning against the use of chemical weapons in Syria leave many skeptical and disbelieving of the alarm cries, having seen this song and dance before. Chemical weapons accusations are among the most overused war propaganda tactic used by the West during the war on Syria.
  3. The Chemical Weapons Pretext for War on Syria
    The Latest Pack of Lies?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Washington is digging deep to conjure up a pretext for yet another war of aggression in the Middle East. The White House claims that the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against rebel fighters.
  4. Debunking Obama's Chemical Weapons Case Against the Syrian Government
    Fact and Fiction

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The "U.S. Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013" is a poorly constructed attempt to justify the politically, militarily, and morally unjustifiable war against Syria.
  5. Dow complains
    7 News responds

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    Dow Chemical writes to 7 News complaining that one of its trademarks has been misused. 7 News editor Ulli Diemer responds.
  6. Eight reasons why the latest Syria chemical weapons attack allegations are almost certainly complete nonsense
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A discussion on the chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and why the allegations are likely false.
  7. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
  8. How Media Bias Fuels Syrian Escalation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The mainstream U.S. media now reports as "flat-fact" the Syrian government's guilt in the April 4, 2017 chemical weapons incident, but the real facts are less clear and some point in the opposite direction.
  9. How the British Government subjected thousands of people to chemical and biological warfare trials during Cold War
    Historians had previously thought that such operations were much less extensive

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    During the Cold War, the British Government used the general public as unwitting biological and chemical warfare guinea pigs on a much greater scale than previously thought, according to new historical research.
  10. Imperial Crusades
    Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.
  11. 'Incapacitating' chemical weapons threaten a new arms race
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    December's meeting of the Chemical Weapons Convention offers the opportunity to control very dangerous and often fatal chemical agents deemed 'incapacitating'.Currently a legal gray area, it's essential to bring the development and use of these substances before a full blown arms race breaks out.
  12. Israel spraying toxins over Palestinian crops in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - On January 7, 2016, a low-flying agricultural aircraft sprayed herbicides on to Palestinian farmlands along the eastern border, eradicating or damaging up to 162 hectares of crops and farmland along the Israeli border fence. The sprayed areas belong to Israel's unilaterally imposed and poorly delineated "buffer" or "no-go zone".
  13. It's WMD all over again. Why don't you see it?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Today’s frenzy over alleged use of poison gas in Syria is the 2017 version of Anthony Blair’s WMD in Iraq. Why can you not see it? Did you think they would do it in exactly the same way again? You are being assailed through your emotions, to act first and think long after, and far too late.
  14. The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
  15. Rogue State
    A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
  16. Security Equipment Corporation
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  17. A Short History of Bio-Chemical Weapons
    The Pot Calling the Kettle Black

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Chronology between 400 BC and 2013 of bio-chemical weaponry and foreign policy.
  18. The Subterfuge of Syrian Chemical Weapons
    Investigating a Forgone Conclusion

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    UN independent commission is investigating whether or not chemical weapons were used in Syria.
  19. Syria chemical warfare claims aim to provoke Western intervention
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The unsubstantiated charges that the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad carried out a chemical weapons attack outside Damascus killing large numbers of civilians have all the hallmarks of a staged provocation aimed at provoking Western intervention.
  20. Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Consider this: the only beneficiaries from the atrocity were the rebels, previously losing the war, who now have Britain and America ready to intervene on their side. While there seems to be little doubt that chemical weapons were used, there is doubt about who deployed them.
  21. Targeting Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
  22. The terrible legacy of Agent Orange and dioxin
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Agent Orange was manufactured by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemicals to use as a herbicide and defoliant in the Vietnam War.
  23. 'This Madman Must Be Stopped'
    Syrian Chemical Weapons

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The White House claims that US intelligence assessed 'with varying degrees of confidence' that 'the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin'.
  24. Won't Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria's WMD 'Threat'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Reading about crimes of state over many years, it is tempting to try to fathom the mind-set of political leaders. What actually is going on in their heads when they order sanctions that kill hundreds of thousands of children? What is in their hearts when they wage needless wars that shatter literally millions of lives? Similar questions come to mind as the US and UK governments once again raise the spectre of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ to demonise a target for ‘regime change’, this time in Syria.
  25. The World Without Us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.

Experts on Chemical Weapons in the Sources Directory

  1. NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  2. United Nations
  3. World Health Organization


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