New @PushbackShow: Crippling US sanctions imposed under the Caesar Act are decimating war-ravaged Syrian civilians, are illegal, and should be lifted, UN Special Rapporteur @AlenaDouhan says. Video/transcript: thegrayzone.com/2021/01/14/un-… via @TheGrayzoneNews
The US economic warfare against poor, war-ravaged Syria is egregiously ignored in the US media & political system. I asked the UN rapporteur on sanctions, Alena Douhan, if US sanctions on Syria are similar to the genocidal US sanctions on Iraq in 1990s. She says yes: Image
According to the UN Special Rapporteur, US sanctions on Syria are so crippling that they prevent import of staples like *toothpaste*, under the pretense that toothpaste could have a military use. They also seriously hinder the import of medicine & medical equipment. Pure sadism: Image
As the UN Special Rapporteur on sanctions tells me at @TheGrayzoneNews that US sanctions on Syria are illegal & causing mass suffering (thegrayzone.com/2021/01/14/un-…), ex-US envoy James Jeffrey brags that the US "crushed the [Syria]’s economy through sanctions." foreignaffairs.com/articles/middl… Image
FYI: in addition to ignoring the OPCW whistleblowers, @theintercept & @democracynow have produced a total of zero coverage on the impact of the US' sadistic Caesar Act sanctions on Syria. TI, co-founded by author of "Dirty Wars," continues to whitewash the Dirty War on Syria.

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12 Jan
.@mikepompeo claims that Iran is now Al Qaeda's Middle East home base. As he well knows, that distinction actually belongs to Syria's "rebel"-held Idlib province. Former US envoy Brett McGurk has called Idlib "the largest Al Qaeda safe haven since 9/11":
What US diplomats will be less candid about in public is the fact that Al Qaeda's Idlib province home base was established thanks to US TOW anti-tank missiles, weapons, and other support for Syrian "rebels." You can read all about it in mainstream sources: ImageImageImageImage
More on how US arming of and coordination with Syrian "rebels" helped Al Qaeda establish, in Syria, its largest safe haven since 9/11: ImageImageImage
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30 Dec 20
The Intercept has taken heat for mishandling the Reality Winner leak. In fairness, she would've gotten caught anyway. IMO, TI deserves far more criticism for mischaracterizing what the leak actually says, just to show liberals it can Russiagate. There, it's dishonest & shameless.
This artice is the latest example: theintercept.com/2020/12/30/rea…
Reality Winner is not a "whistleblower" -- what exactly did she expose? Nothing. The Intercept falsely claims her leak "was about Russian interference in U.S. elections" & detailed phishing attacks by Russian military intelligence", but it did nothing of the sort.
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24 Dec 20
While people are denied relief & healthcare, & Trump pardons Blackwater murderers & tries to provoke war w/ Iran, it would be a real sign of growth if we could refrain from hyperventilating about Manafort, whose real crime in was not validating Russiagate conspiracy fan fiction.
Manafort's prosecution was politically motivated. As his judges noted, charges had zero "to do with the [2016] campaign or with Russian collusion" & were "wholly irrelevant" to collusion. He was indicted on tax/lobbying charges that Russiagate hacks pretended amounted to treason.
To keep the collusion innuendo alive, Mueller team introduced a vague claim that Manafort's associate, Konstanin Kilimnik, has Russian intel "ties." That claim, plus the later Senate Intel claim that he's a spy, will now be revived. It's also a farce: realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/…
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21 Dec 20
If this guy is real, and he's not either trolling or compromised, then this is actual evidence that FSB poisoned Navalny. My skepticism would stand corrected. Because US-UK state-funded Bellingcat scam artists are involved, it was harder for me to believe.
cnn.com/2020/12/21/eur…
Why would FSB poison a marginal opposition figure, botch it so that he survives, & then get easily caught? Easier ways to kill someone if they want to. Perhaps it’s a Mafia-esque warning shot to people like Navalny they accuse of working w/ Western intel. Thuggish, but plausible.
If this guy is real, it's one more insanely implausible thing that would have to be true. Add to list below that a covert FSB officer involved in an assassination plot would be discussing it w/ an officer (with an invented name he hadn't heard before) over an unsecure phone line.
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15 Dec 20
Crazy how so many Western media outlets treat @bellingcat as a reliable, independent source without mentioning that it receives ample funding from Western states & cutouts. A UK gov't agency even privately noted that BC is "somewhat discredited."
I had my own brush w/ Bellingcat's "somewhat discredited" approach recently: they published a hoax in a pathetic bid to attack an OPCW whistleblower, and then accused me of hiding damning evidence that in reality didn't exist. thegrayzone.com/2020/10/28/dra…
Here's @democracynow credulously reporting the Navalny story from "the online investigative website Bellingcat", without mentioning that Bellingcat is a NATO member state-funded outlet. BC's funders include the US gov't regime change cutout, the National Endowment for Democracy:
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14 Dec 20
I think Reality Winner should be freed, but I want to be clear about something: she isn’t a whistleblower. She didn’t expose any wrongdoing. She leaked an evidence-free document that The Intercept, in a juvenile rush to prove that it could Russiagate, blew way out of proportion.
I explain the problems with TI's reporting of the Reality Winner leak in this thread:

Here's a one-paragraph summary:
If you want to see an Intercept reporter given the opportunity to explain what the Reality Winner leak actually says, but refusing to do so (because it shows nothing of substance), watch or read my 2018 interview with The Intercept's Jim Risen: therealnews.com/what-does-the-…
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