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Where Was CIA's Pompeo on Syria? Robert Parry, 4/9/2017 With Syria Strikes, Trump Heads Into Wrong War in Wrong Country Doug Bandow, 4/9/2017
US Bombs Syria in Retaliation for Alleged Chemical Attackby Will Porter, 4/9/2017 Why Trump's Syria Strike Will Not End Wellby Trita Parsi, 4/8/2017
How Do Media Outlets Know Source of Chemical Attack Was Syrian Government?by Kevin Gosztola, 4/8/2017 Syria and the Call of the Quagmireby Paul R. Pillar, 4/8/2017
Will Washington's Hawks Get the Syria War They've Always Wanted?by Ted Galen Carpenter, 4/8/2017 Donald Trump's Biggest Problem Daniel McCarthy, 4/8/2017
Trump's New War for America Jacob G. Hornberger, 4/8/2017 Another Mideast War Eric Margolis, 4/8/2017
Democrats, Neoconservatives Unite in Support of Syria Strikes Kevin Gosztola, 4/7/2017 How Did It Start?by Uri Avnery, 4/7/2017
The Spoils of War: Trump Lavished With Media and Bipartisan Praise for Bombing Syria Glenn Greenwald, 4/7/2017 Trump's 'Wag the Dog' Moment Robert Parry, 4/7/2017
American Empire Will Not Be Stopped by a Blundering Semi-Isolationist President Lucy Steigerwald, 4/7/2017 Putin Through American Eyes Jim Miles, 4/7/2017
Here We Go Again! US Air Strikes in Syria Cross Russian 'Red Lines' and Risk Escalation to Nuclear Warby Gilbert Doctorow, 4/7/2017 The Bogosity of Trump's 'America First'by Sheldon Richman, 4/7/2017
The Bogosity of Trump's 'America First' Sheldon Richman, 4/7/2017 Use Latest Tragedy in Syria to End the War, Not Escalate It Medea Benjamin & Ann Wright, 4/7/2017
Why More Regime Change? Charles V. Peña, 4/7/2017 This Isn't the Foreign Policy Trump Campaigned On Robert W. Merry, 4/7/2017
It's WMD All Over Again. Why Don't You See It? Peter Hitchens, 4/7/2017 The Debacle of Mosul and Beyondby Robert Logan, 4/7/2017
The Case Against Another Intervention in Syria Daniel Larison, 4/6/2017 NYT Retreats on 2013 Syria-Sarin Claims Robert Parry, 4/6/2017
We'Re Asking the Wrong Questions About Syriaby Thomas Knapp, 4/6/2017 Trump Betrays Trumpism: Syria in the Crosshairsby Justin Raimondo, 4/6/2017
On Trump, McCarthyism, and the Russia Hacking Charges  Victor Navasky, 4/6/2017 Don't Jump to Conclusions in Syria Gas Attackby Vijay Prashad, 4/6/2017
Why Is Trump Embracing Establishment GOP Foreign Policy? Daniel McCarthy, 4/6/2017 Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas Vacy Vlazna, 4/6/2017
Did Assad Use Chemical Weapons on Khan Shaikhoun to Score an Own Goal in the International Arena?by Elijah J. Magnier, 4/6/2017 America Can't Right Every Wrong Harry J. Kazianis, 4/6/2017
Trump Is Right, America Isn't 'So Innocent.' Here's How We Can Right That Wrong in Syria Andrew J. Bacevich, 4/6/2017 The Ugly Underbelly of Russia-Gate James W. Carden, 4/6/2017
Believe the Autocratby Rebecca Gordon & Tom Engelhardt, 4/6/2017 The Troubling Legacy of World War I John C. McKay, 4/6/2017
Woodrow Wilson Killed Hundreds of Millions of People Doug Bandow, 4/6/2017 Why the Heck Is No One Talking About Nukes?by Alexander Zaitchik, 4/5/2017
Iran's 'Deep State' Could Unseat Rouhani With a Khamenei-Backed Hard-Liner in Upcoming Elections Muhammad Sahimi, 4/5/2017 Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syriaby Robert Parry, 4/5/2017
Normalization in the Name of Peace: How Israel Understands the Arab Peace Initiativeby Ramzy Baroud, 4/5/2017 Erdogan Isn't as Strong as He Looks – That's What Makes Him Dangerousby Conn Hallinan, 4/5/2017
The Amazing and Appalling Story of Darpa Jefferson Morley, 4/5/2017 Alternative Facts at the New York Times Robert W. Merry, 4/5/2017
Why US Troops May Fight Alongside Al-Qaeda in Yemen Michael Horton, 4/5/2017 A Hole in the Constitutionby Andrew P. Napolitano, 4/5/2017
How Washington's Hawkishness Made America a Terror Target Doug Bandow, 4/4/2017 Mainstream Media as Arbiters of Truth Robert Parry, 4/4/2017
For a New Isolationism by Murray Rothbard, 4/1/59 War is the Health of the State by Randolph Bourne, 1918
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