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9 Apr, 4 tweets, 3 min read
😂. This is not a joke: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-pri…
Wow: BBC's @chloehadj, who produced a podcast whitewashing the UK state-funded White Helmets & the OPCW cover-up scandal, is nominated for an "Orwell Prize" too: orwellfoundation.com/journalist/chl…

On her Orwellian "reporting", see:
(thegrayzone.com/2020/11/30/que…)
&
(thegrayzone.com/2021/04/07/bbc…)
It's only fitting that @Bellingcat & @chloehadj get nominated for an "Orwell": after Bellingcat published false claims about the OPCW's Douma cover-up, Chloe recycled the same falsehoods. They also share UK state ties. Orwell would indeed be impressed. thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/aut…

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9 Apr
Members of @FDD -- a de-facto Israeli agent -- call on US to coerce states into targeting Russia & Syria at OPCW, based on dubious or discredited chemical weapons allegations.

Of course they omit OPCW's Syria-cover up scandal.(thenation.com/article/world/…) (thegrayzone.com/category/opcw-…)
FDD neocons call on Biden to bully states into expelling Syria from OPCW.

There's a good precedent for this bullying: in 2002, US ousted OPCW chief Jose Busani for impeding the Iraq war. Bolton threatened Bustani personally & OPCW's budget. thegrayzone.com/2020/10/18/ex-…
The compromise of the OPCW is so tragically cynical. It's been exploited regime change & poisoning a landmark area of US-Russia cooperation: the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons & Syria joining the OPCW. US & allies decided that the dirty war is more important than peace.
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7 Apr
Today is the 3rd anniversary of the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria.

NATO states & disinformation actors pretend that they care about the dead civilians in Douma, all while supporting the doctoring & suppression of the OPCW findings that exposed the truth: it was staged.
An example is @N_Waters89 of NATO troll farm Bellingcat. While pretending to care about the dead civilians in Douma, he's participated in a UK state-tied disinformation campaign against the OPCW whistleblowers who conducted the actual investigation:
Rather than being allowed to posture as investigators concerned about the facts & the loss of life, these NATO troll farm agents should be asked to explain their documented fraud in attacking the whistleblowers & whitewashing the OPCW cover-up. (thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/aut…)
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3 Apr
ASPI, Australian think tank funded by weapons makers & states including the US, just put out a hilarious report attacking @TheGrayzoneNews' Xinjiang coverage.

ASPI doesn't challenge a single fact. It instead tallies Chinese diplomats retweeting us. 🧐(aspi.org.au/report/strange…)
I urge you to read it. It's amazing it. It includes stuff like this: OMG, look we made a graphic showing that a WHO staffer gave a Grayzone article a retweet!!!!!!! 😱
ASPI, the think tank behind this report, is funded by totally objective & good faith sources like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, US, UK, NATO, Australia, and Israel. It is literally a troll farm paid to manufacture public support for war and hegemony:
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1 Apr
New Yorker's @yaffaesque continues a sacred media ritual: writing a Bellingcat puff piece that omits its state funding & role in OPCW Syria cover-up.

It's understandable: taking money from the NED -- a CIA cutout -- doesn't quite jibe w/ an "intelligence agency for the people."
.@yaffaesque lauds @EliotHiggins' "métier" for "long-distance digital forensics" in Syria. He omits the ongoing scandal over Douma, where Bellingcat has whitewashed an OPCW cover-up & smeared the whistleblowers who challenged it. (thegrayzone.com/2020/10/28/dra…)(thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/aut…)
.@yaffaesque focuses on Bellingcat's purported exposés of Russia via "open sources." Yet he is completely disinterested on what open sources expose about Bellingcat. On top of OPCW story, there's also Bellingcat partnering in a UK propaganda op vs Russia: thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reu…
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24 Mar
Last year, we caught @Bellingcat publishing falsehoods in a bid to smear an OPCW whistleblower.

That isn't all. Emails obtained by @TheGrayzoneNews now show that Bellingcat let a hidden, external author write its fraudulent material. #Bellingcaught

thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/aut…
Bellingcat's OPCW deception (thegrayzone.com/2020/10/28/dra…), was based on it claiming to have obtained an OPCW letter sent to Dr. Brendan Whelan, a whistleblower who challenged the Syria cover-up. We showed that Bellingcat's "letter" was never actually sent, and full of falsehoods.
New emails reveal more of Bellingcat's subterfuge.

It begins w/ another outlet. Months before Bellingcat's bogus October 2020 article, @ChrisDYork of @HuffPostUK first pursued the same story. He even told Wikileaks that he was about to publish. He ultimately never published.
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18 Mar
US state outlet Voice of America's "fact-checking website" @PolygraphInfo deems claims of an OPCW Syria cover-up "false" and a "conspiracy theory." They are obviously nervous that a group of eminent voices -- including five former OPCW officials -- just called out the cover-up. Image
For a supposed "fact-checking website," US state-run @PolygraphInfo gets the facts blatantly wrong. I'll correct tomorrow. But for now, note something curious: this "fact-check", unlike every other article I see on Polygraph, has no author. Who wrote it? archive.is/HXtK2 Image
I asked @PolygraphInfo why their error-ridden "fact-check" on the OPCW scandal doesn't identify its author, unlike every other article on the site that I checked. VOA's @jimfryVOA replied: "VOA does not always identify authors for their safety and that of their families abroad." Image
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