{"id":31103,"date":"2018-02-17T06:51:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T11:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31103"},"modified":"2018-02-17T06:51:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T11:51:53","slug":"falsehoods-and-lies-inciting-war-is-a-war-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31103","title":{"rendered":"Falsehoods and Lies: Inciting War Is a War Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Falsehoods<\/p>\n

Falsehoods and Lies: Inciting War Is a War Crime<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

The torrent of reckless false accusations against Russia made by the US and its NATO allies is hitting warp speed.<\/p>\n

This week saw more baseless\u00a0allegations<\/a>\u00a0of Russian cyber attacks on American elections and British industries.<\/p>\n

There were also crass\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0by US officials that Russia was behind so-called sonic attacks on American diplomats in Cuba.<\/p>\n

Then a Dutch foreign minister was forced to resign after he finally\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0telling lies for the past two years over alleged Russian plans for regional aggression.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0this week during a tour of the Middle East that \u201cthe primary goal\u201d of his nation\u2019s involvement in Syria is \u201cto defeat\u201d Islamic State (Daesh) terrorism.<\/p>\n

This is patently false given that the US forces illegally occupying parts of Syria are launching lethal attacks on Syrian armed forces who are actually fighting Islamic State and their myriad terrorist affiliates.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley\u00a0accused<\/a>\u00a0Russia of blocking peace efforts in Syria \u2013 another audacious falsehood to add to her thick compendium of calumny.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most barefaced falsehood transpired this week when French President Emmanuel Macron candidly\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0that his government did not have any proof of chemical weapons being used in Syria.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, our agencies, our armed forces have not established that chemical weapons, as set out in treaties, have been used against the civilian population,\u201d said Macron to media in Paris.<\/p>\n

His admission follows that of US Defense Secretary James Mattis who also fessed up earlier this month to having no evidence of chemical weapons being deployed in Syria.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have other reports from the battlefield from people who claim it\u2019s been used,\u201d\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Mattis to reporters at the Pentagon. \u201cWe do not have evidence of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Falsehoods and Lies: Inciting War Is a War Crime The torrent of reckless false accusations against Russia made by the US and its NATO allies is hitting warp speed. This week saw more baseless\u00a0allegations\u00a0of Russian cyber attacks on American elections and British industries. There were also crass\u00a0claims\u00a0by US officials that Russia was behind so-called sonic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1983,14515,18623,522,553,17177,694,8203,776,827,862,3047],"class_list":["post-31103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cuba","tag-cyberattacks","tag-inciting-war","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-rex-tillers","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31104,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103\/revisions\/31104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}