Thread by @BenjaminNorton

This should be a huge scandal: A Western govt-funded regime-change org that collaborated with Syrian al-Qaeda, @CIJAonline, was accused by the EU of fraud.

So CIJA ran a dishonest sting op on a UK academic to discredit critics and cover up its corruption
thegrayzone.com/2021/03/27/cij…

.@CIJAonline was given tens of millions by the EU, UK, US, Germany, Canada, etc. to wage regime-change lawfare against Syria.

But the European Anti-Fraud Office investigated and found major corruption

So CIJA's pro-war friends in the media covered it up: thegrayzone.com/2021/03/27/cij…

The man who runs @CIJAonline, William Wiley, directs another Western govt contractor called Tsamota, which is named in the Panama Papers

He cashes in on conflicts that advance Western foreign policy interests, advising Canadian mining companies in Africa: thegrayzone.com/2021/03/27/cij…

In other words, an anti-war British scholar was entrapped in a deceptive sting operation run by an org funded with his own tax dollars - and which also happens to have been accused of large-scale fraud by the EU's own fraud regulator.

The rot goes so deep
thegrayzone.com/2021/03/27/cij…

What is most vile of all is that this corruption scandal shows how Western regime-change operatives have been getting filthy rich off of the imperialist dirty war on Syria, while the people of Syria are being impoverished and tortured by Western sanctions
thegrayzone.com/2021/01/14/un-…