Back in 2003 the Guardian still remembered – sometimes – that facts are sacred and even occasionally spoke truth to power. Here it tells the story of the UK’s various conspiracies (there really is no other word) to overthrow the Syrian government in 1957, by means of false flags, “encouraging internal dissent” and assassination of key figures. Can Jonathan Freedland, Nick Cohen et al still claim the West has the moral high ground when fifteen years ago their own paper was proving it didn’t and never had?
SOURCE:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/sep/27/uk.syria1
UK prime minister Harold Macmillan and US president Dwight Eisenhower discuss intervention in Syria in 1957
Documents show White House and No 10 conspired over oil-fuelled invasion plan
Nearly 50 years before the war in Iraq, Britain and America sought a secretive “regime change” in another Arab country they accused of spreading terror and threatening the west’s oil supplies, by planning the…
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