{"id":356690,"date":"2018-04-14T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/british-cabinet-agrees-on-action-against-syria-bypassing-parliament\/"},"modified":"2018-04-14T05:00:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T04:00:59","slug":"british-cabinet-agrees-on-action-against-syria-bypassing-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/british-cabinet-agrees-on-action-against-syria-bypassing-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"British cabinet agrees on \u201caction\u201d against Syria, bypassing Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>British cabinet agrees on \u201caction\u201d against Syria, bypassing Parliament<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Julie Hyland<br \/>\n    <br \/>13 April 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Britain will \u201ctake action\u201d against Syria, cabinet ministers unanimously agreed Thursday evening, based on fraudulent claims of the Assad government\u2019s responsibility for an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma April 7.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May convened her senior ministers with the express purpose of signing off on a major escalation in the seven-year US-led war for regime change in Syria. Having assembled in the manner of a criminal cabal, ministers skulked past waiting reporters after the two-hour meeting. No one would say a word about what had been discussed. May herself declined to make a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It was left to a government spokesperson to issue a perfunctory statement just before 9 p.m., announcing a decision that will worsen an already catastrophic situation in the Middle East and which threatens a military confrontation involving no less than four nuclear powers\u2014the US, Britain and France against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The same hoary lie of \u201chumanitarian\u201d intervention used to justify wars of aggression in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya was wheeled out again. The spokesman said the need to alleviate \u201chumanitarian\u201d suffering had decided the cabinet \u201cit was vital that the use of chemical weapons did not go unchallenged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Assad has a \u201ctrack record of the use of chemical weapons,\u201d he asserted, and cabinet agreed it \u201cis highly likely\u201d the \u201cregime is responsible for Saturday\u2019s attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHighly likely\u201d is the stock phrase employed by Britain to assert Russian responsibility for the alleged poisoning by nerve agent of double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal. As in that case, it signals that the government&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/04\/13\/brit-a13.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 British cabinet agrees on \u201caction\u201d against Syria, bypassing Parliament By Julie Hyland 13 April 2018 Britain will \u201ctake action\u201d against Syria, cabinet ministers unanimously agreed Thursday evening, based on fraudulent claims of the Assad government\u2019s responsibility for an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma April 7. Prime Minister Theresa May [&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-356690","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\/356690","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=356690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}