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According to who? The OPCW? The UN? All of these organizations are compromised. Per Wikipedia: It was argued by The Guardian's columnist George Monbiot tha
by jstewartmobile 7y ago
According to who? The OPCW? The UN? All of these organizations are compromised.
Per Wikipedia:
It was argued by The Guardian's columnist George Monbiot that Director-General José Bustani was being forced out by the U.S. government, despite the convention insisting the OPCW "shall not seek or receive instructions from any government"; the US had tried to persuade Brazil to recall Bustani. Monbiot wrote that the U.S. had tried other measures, although the convention also indicates that states should "not seek to influence" staff.
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The removal was subsequently determined to be improper by an Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization and consequently Bustani was awarded €50,000 in moral damages, his pay for the remainder of his second term, and his legal costs
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 7y agoHow Bashar al-Assad Gassed His Own People | NYT - Visual Investigations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2X84JZINcI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2X84JZINcI
- jstewartmobile 7y agoBellingcat has received grants from Adessium, Digital News Initiative, Open Society Foundation, Pax, Porticus, National Endowment for Democracy, The Dutch Postcode Lottery, Zinc Network (funded by British foreign office) The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit soft power organization that was founded in 1983 with the stated goal of promoting democracy abroad. Bellingcat also receives funding via PAX which is directly funded by Netherlands Foreign Ministry. Soft-power apparati for three NATO members, funding some rando to look at videos and offer opinions on them... still have that bridge to sell. We know for certain that none of the pasty fucks at the NYT spent enough time in Syria to do their own actual investgation. If anyone has time to trace funding for the other orgs, I'm sure that even more gold will be struck.
- jstewartmobile 7y agoAlso.. [Elliot Higgins] previously worked in finance and administration. In 2012, when Higgins began blogging the Syrian civil war, he was unemployed and spent his days taking care of his child at home So I guess we're every bit as qualified to look at warzone videos in our underwear, make claims about whodunnit, then send off to the NYT?
- colinb 7y agoWhat would it take to persuade you that chemical weapons attacks were made? What would it take to persuade you that the government of Syria wanted/controlled/launched those attacks? There seems to be lots of sources that think these things are true. The top search result for `George Monbiot chemical weapons syria` yields [0] in which the third paragraph starts : "There is nothing surprising about this. The Syrian government has a long history of chemical weapons use, and the OPCW’s conclusions concur with a wealth of witness testimony. But a major propaganda effort has sought to discredit such testimony, and characterise the atrocity as a “false-flag attack”." [0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/15/lesson-from-syria-chemical-weapons-conspiracy-theories-alt-right https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/15/lesson...
- jstewartmobile 7y agoIt would take a first-hand report from an entity that I trust. MSM deserves zero trust. For the entire postwar period, we move from one false flag intervention to another--Korea, Iran in '53, Vietnam, Cambodia, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Iraq & Afghanistan, Libya--all mortal threats to the United States of America. Tell me, in which one of these instances did the media tell us to hold our horses at the outset, rather than the aftermath?