June 27, 2017 CounterpunchJonathan CookVeteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the man who exposed the Mai Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the US military’s abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004, is probably the most influential journalist of the modern era, with the possible exception of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the pair who … [Read more...] about Hersh’s New Syria Revelations Buried From View
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US Prepares to Use Toxic Gases in Iraq
by Geoffrey Lean and Severin CarrellThe US is preparing to use the toxic riot-control agents CS gas and pepper spray in Iraq in contravention of the Chemical Weapons Convention, provoking the first split in the Anglo-US alliance. "Calmative" gases, similar to the one that killed 120 hostages in the Moscow theatre siege last year, could also be employed.The convention … [Read more...] about US Prepares to Use Toxic Gases in Iraq