{"id":352622,"date":"2018-03-17T17:07:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T16:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-campaign-over-the-skripal-poisoning-an-international-war-provocation\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T17:07:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T16:07:05","slug":"the-campaign-over-the-skripal-poisoning-an-international-war-provocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-campaign-over-the-skripal-poisoning-an-international-war-provocation\/","title":{"rendered":"The campaign over the Skripal poisoning: An international war provocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The campaign over the Skripal poisoning: An international war provocation<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    17 March 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The campaign by the imperialist powers in Europe and the United States over the poisoning of former Russian spy and British double agent Sergei Skripal stinks to high heaven. The most far-reaching claims are being made, with the most far-reaching consequences, without any substantiation.<\/p>\n<p>The propaganda offensive is not about what may or may not have happened in a park in Salisbury, England on March 4. It is about creating the pretext for a massive escalation of the war drive in Syria, the broader Middle East, and against Russia itself.<\/p>\n<p>When Skripal and his daughter were first discovered on a park bench, the police declared that establishing what had happened would take weeks, if not months. The British government, however, has wrapped up the case far more quickly than any conventional criminal inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>On March 12, Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s declared that Russia was \u201chighly likely\u201d to have been responsible for \u201can indiscriminate and reckless act against the United Kingdom.\u201d This has been followed by the declaration of UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson Friday that \u201cour quarrel is with Putin\u2019s Kremlin, and with his decision<span>\u2014<\/span>and we think it overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision<span>\u2014<\/span>to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The assertions of the British government were endorsed by the US, France and Germany on Thursday, which declared the poisoning \u201cthe first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War.\u201d &#8220;It certainly looks like the Russians were behind it,\u201d Trump declared on Thursday, with the administration announcing new sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The rapidity with which the major imperialist policies have signed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/03\/17\/pers-m17.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The campaign over the Skripal poisoning: An international war provocation 17 March 2018 The campaign by the imperialist powers in Europe and the United States over the poisoning of former Russian spy and British double agent Sergei Skripal stinks to high heaven. The most far-reaching claims are being made, with the most far-reaching consequences, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}