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16 March 2018

Russia, spies and nerve agents

Should anyone accept Theresa May's and the Labour right's version of events?
Corbyn has correctly cautioned against the rush to judgement to blame Russia for the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

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12 April 2017

Attacks ratchet-up Syrian conflict and fuel tensions between powers

Trump orders missile strikes against Shayrat air base: US president Donald Trump's decision to launch missile attacks against the Shayrat air base in Syria ratcheted up the long running conflict there and dangerously fuelled tensions between the US and Russia and Iran.

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Agent Orange in Vietnam: chemical weapons used by USA have now caused 150,000 childbirth defects according to the Vietnamese Red Cross, photo BBC i-player screen shot

11 September 2013

TV review: Vietnam's 'children of Agent Orange'

The deadly chemical Dioxin was 40 years ago dropped from airplanes by US troops over the countryside of Vietnam

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7 February 2003

Iraq: US threatens "nuclear option"

The US administration is discussing the possible use of nuclear weapons against the people of Iraq, according to William M. Arkin, writes Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers' International

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