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Ex-OPCW chief defends Syria whistleblowers and reveals he was spied on before Iraq war

Aaron Maté — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:51:46 +0000

Exclusive: former OPCW chief José Bustani defends the whistleblowers who challenged a cover-up of their Syria probe; reacts to the US and allies recently blocking his UN testimony; and reveals he was spied on before the Bush administration ousted him over the Iraq war. In a Grayzone exclusive, José Bustani, the former head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of […]

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Western efforts to frustrate Douma ‘attack’ whistleblower only underline importance of his UN testimony

Scott Ritter — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 03:08:25 +0000

NATO states responded with an unjustified certainty to the Douma incident two years ago, and have compounded the shame with their treatment of weapons expert Ian Henderson this week at the UN. Preordained conclusions At an ‘Arria-formula’ meeting of the Security Council convened on January 20, 2020 at the request of Russia, Ian Henderson – a former member of the […]

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Craig Murray: OPCW Leaks And the Rise of the Zombie State Narrative

Craig Murray — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:23:16 +0000

The ruling Establishment has learnt a profound lesson from the debacle over Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction. The lesson they have learnt is not that it is wrong to attack and destroy an entire country on the basis of lies. They have not learnt that lesson despite the fact the western powers are now busily attacking the Iraqi Shia majority […]

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Understand The OPCW Scandal In Seven Minutes

Caitlin Johnstone — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:03:03 +0000

One of the annoying things about continuing to write about the OPCW/Douma scandal in the near-total absence of mainstream media coverage is the fact that it’s difficult for a new reader to just jump in on this developing story without having followed it from the beginning. There are a lot of details to go over to introduce someone to the […]

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How the OPCW’s investigation of the Douma incident was nobbled

Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:24:30 +0000

If the Douma attack was staged the only plausible explanation for the deaths of the victims is that they were murdered as captives by the opposition group in control of Douma at the time.

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Top scientist slams OPCW leadership for repressing dissenting report on Syria gas attack

Aaron Maté — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 04:50:01 +0000

MIT rocket scientist Theodore Postol has accused the OPCW leadership of overseeing “compromised reporting” and ignoring evidence that challenged claims that the Syrian government carried out a chemical attack in Douma.

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The World: What is Really Happening

Craig Murray — Sun, 26 May 2019 13:52:47 +0000

If you want to understand what is really happening in the world today, a mid-ranking official named Ian Henderson is vastly more important to you than Theresa May. You will not, however, find anything about Henderson in the vast majority of corporate and state media outlets.

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Liberate Syria’s Idlib, precisely for the civilians that America fakes concern over

Eva Bartlett — Sat, 25 May 2019 21:30:11 +0000

The liberation of Idlib, and also Hama, Latakia and Aleppo countrysides, will mean not only an end to terrorists’ incessant bombing of civilians, but also an end to the savage rule of terrorists – rule which in every prior instance around Syria has meant imprisonment, torture, and public executions of civilians by sword or point-blank assassination, starvation, rape of women, and even organ theft.

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How We Were Misled About Syria: George Monbiot of The Guardian

Professor Tim Hayward — Sat, 25 May 2019 19:17:19 +0000

George Monbiot is an influential journalist, and his words on Syria over the past seven years will have carried weight in shaping public opinion. Some critical readers, however, have been concerned.

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The western media is key to Syria deceptions

Jonathan Cook — Fri, 24 May 2019 11:10:54 +0000

It is bad enough that our governments and our expert institutions deceive and lie to us. But it is even worse that we have a corporate media addicted – at the most charitable interpretation – to its own incompetence. The evidence demonstrating that grows stronger by the day.

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