Thread by @aaronjmate

.@democracynow has ignored the OPCW scandal for over a year. This attempt to acknowledge it has several errors, starting w/ the title: it isn’t the “U.N.” that blocked the testimony: it’s the countries that bombed that Syria — US/UK/France — that blocked the testimony at the UN.

https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1313695044466028544

.@democracynow then misreports the scandal as: "leaked documents show two OPCW investigators have questioned the official findings."

No, the leaks show the OPCW team found evidence that Syria had not committed a chemical attack, but were censored & sidelined (under US pressure)

.@democracynow has made a visible editorial shift on Syria, excluding voices that challenge the pro-proxy war narrative. That's partly why DN last had on Stephen Cohen in April 2017. And that's why even when they finally acknowledge the OPCW scandal, they still get it wrong.

BTW, worth noting that they also decided to "balance" the end of their OPCW scandal boycott by including it along w/ a this lawsuit. They omit that this suit was brought w/ the help of Western government-funded regime change troll farm Bellingcat & similar orgs. More importantly,

.@democracynow also omits that allegations that Syrian gov't carried out chemical attacks in Khan Sheikhoun & Ghouta have, like Douma, come under serious question. DN only needs to consult its own archives, when it wasn't pushing a pro-proxy war narrative: democracynow.org/2016/4/25/is_t…

Another big error by @democracynow here: there is no "possible internal OPCW cover-up of a chemical attack in Douma, Syria, in 2018."

There's an alleged cover-up of the OPCW's *own investigation*, which found evidence that there was *no* chemical attack in Douma.