Daily Archives: April 13, 2014

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On To Berlin! On To Paris! On to…..Oh, Yes….Kharkov: They Never Learn From History | David Stockman’s Contra Corner

A century ago, crowds in Paris were cheering, “on to Berlin!” Crowds in Berlin cried, “on to Paris.” World War I, the supreme example of nationalist/militaristic stupidity, was about to begin.

One hundred years later we hear cries across America to “get tough” with Moscow over fragmenting Ukraine. A dozen US F-16 fighters are being sent to the Baltic, a squadron of F-15’s to Poland, and a US warship to the Black Sea. In short, just enough to spark a war but certainly not enough to win one.

via On To Berlin! On To Paris! On to…..Oh, Yes….Kharkov: They Never Learn From History | David Stockman’s Contra Corner.

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False Flags and Imperial Facades: Tales of ‘Progressives’ in Power

WRITTEN BY CHRIS FLOYD
MONDAY, 07 APRIL 2014 21:02
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Sy Hersh has a long piece in the London Review of Books detailing the strong evidence indicating that the Turkish government worked with Syrian rebels in a “false flag” operation of the worst sort: staging a chemical weapons attack near Damascus in August 2013. The intent was to throw blame for the attack on the Assad regime, thereby drawing the United States directly into the conflict; the use of chemical weapons against the rebels was a “red line” repeatedly laid down by Barack Obama as the trigger for an American intervention.

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False Flags and Imperial Facades: Tales of ‘Progressives’ in Power.