The new illegal US war on Syria (video)

DemocracyNow.org; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly

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Without congressional [rubber stamp] approval, last night the United States attacked Syrian in an airfield, marking the first military action by the U.S. against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces since the Syrian war began over six years ago.

The move comes after the U.S. [uses the pretext without proof or any independent investigation] accuses Assad’s forces of using the air base to carry out a chemical weapons attack that killed 86 people, including at least 30 children. Syria denies carrying out the attack.

• [But the attack would not justify a U.S. attack, except in the mind of armchair warmongers at home wanting the U.S. to bomb somebody for something instead of just staying on the sidelines as the mainstream media serves as the propaganda arm of the Pentagon and war-profiteering corporate donors.]

Pres. Assad with Russian Dictator Putin (AP)

"After six years of watching genocide…today I am very happy that there is one less airfield," says Lina Sergie Attar [who opposes war and U.S. military intervention, which she notes did not begin last night], a Syrian-American writer from Aleppo, in the first part of this roundtable discussion (see video).

Democracy Now! also speaks with Alia Malek, journalist and former human rights lawyer, and Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. "The hypocrisy of it from the vantage point of the Trump administration is staggering," Bennis says, calling the strike an act of war and arguing all sides in Syria have violated international law. More

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Roundtable discussion on Syria continues after U.S. attacks Syria, saying it was a retaliation response to a presumed chemical weapons attack that killed 86 people, including children. Syria denies carrying out the attack.

"Both these superpowers…do not give a damn about Syrian self-determination nor justice for Syrians," says Yazan al-Saadi, a Syrian-Canadian writer who joins us from Beirut.

"We do want something that will be positive for the Syrian people," adds Medea Benjamin, cofounder of CodePink.

"That means immediately lifting of the Trump ban on Syrian refugees coming to the United States, of funding of the $5 billion that the U.N. says is desperately needed to help the humanitarian crisis facing the Syrian refugees, and demand that the U.S. work with Russia to finally come to a ceasefire and work for a political solution."

DN! is also joined by Alia Malek, journalist and former human rights lawyer, and Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies: If Trump wanted to help Syrians, he would lift refugee ban and fund humanitarian aid, say peace activists. More

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