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30 Aug, 7 tweets, 3 min read
I received some negative reactions to this statement below but no rebuttals. Here are my sources from the world's top orgs:

Before the dirty war, "Syria had one of the best-developed healthcare systems in the Arab world." WHO, 2015:
emro.who.int/images/stories…
Pre-dirty war, Syria had "universal, free health care for all its citizens," and "enjoyed some of the highest levels of care in the region." But war "overwhelmed the system, and created extraordinarily high levels of need."
(UN expert on sanctions, 2018)
ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…
Pre-dirty war, "the Syrian economy was one of the best performing in the region." Under state control of agriculture, "Syria was the only country in the Middle East region to be self-sufficient in food production." This led to a "thriving agricultural sector"...
...producing food that was "affordable" and able to provide Syrians a daily caloric intake "on par with many Western countries."
(UN expert on sanctions, 2018)
reliefweb.int/report/syrian-…
Per UNICEF, pre-war Syria had 97-percent school enrollment for primary-age children, and literacy rates for adults above 90 percent. This surpassed the regional average. (ourworld.unu.edu/en/loss-of-acc…)
To the UN Refugee Agency, Syria is a case study in how war can "reverse positive education trends." Child school enrollment plunged from 94% in 2009 to 60% in 2016, "leaving 2.1 million children and adolescents without access to education in Syria."
unhcr.org/en-us/news/pre…
The US and its allies spent tens of billions of dollars on weapons and fighters in their dirty war in Syria, which predictably decimated Syria's health/economic/food/education system. This is the reality that Dirty War dupes and sadists don't want to confront.

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21 Aug
The US regime should be held accountable for falsely accusing the Assad regime and concealing intelligence that pointed to the culpability of foreign-backed jihadi death squads in Syria. Ample reporting and open source-evidence backs this up. #noimpunity
Sy Hersh reported in LRB that US intel knew that Syrian insurgents acquired sarin from Turkey; UK tests found Syrian gov't stockpile didn't match the sarin used in Ghouta; Al Qaeda had a sarin production cell. (lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/…) (lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/…)
MIT's Ted Postol and ex-UN inspector Richard Lloyd found that the range of the Ghouta rockets was outside of Syrian gov't-controlled territory. (nytimes.com/2013/12/29/wor…) (s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentclo…)
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26 Jul
The expert sources I speak to are confident that we will not see *any* debunk efforts, just whining on social media. They're confident in the professionalism & accuracy of your study, which makes me confident too.
Happy to be proven wrong. Study is here: rootclaim-media.s3.amazonaws.com/syria2013evide…
As predicted, there will only be whining on social media. To illustrate, this THREAD from regime change troll @im_PULSE cites three old articles -- all written by himself (😂). None address or refute this study and the reporting that bolsters it.
This thread does however continue one of my favorite media sub-genres: people with zero journalism accomplishments thinking that they have grounds to scold and dismiss the reporting of Seymour Hersh.
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26 Jul
New @PushbackShow: A new open-source study concludes that Syrian insurgents carried out the Ghouta sarin chemical attack in August 2013 -- not the Syrian government, as the US and other Western sources publicly alleged.
Based on their trajectories, the study traces all 7 missile impact locations back to the most likely launch spot where they all intersected: a small area within insurgent-controlled territory. A video of insurgents firing Volcano rockets matches several features of that field.
The study finds major errors in reports from the UN, Human Rights Watch and the NATO troll farm Bellingcat that were used to pin the blame on the Syrian government. Most importantly, it provides new evidence that the US gov't put out false or unsupported claims to blame Syria.
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22 Jul
.@martinchulov's new Guardian article promoting more NATO-led sadism against Syria is titled "Syrian economy lies in ruins and China sniffs opportunity."

"China sniffs opportunity"? Who comes up with this sick stuff?
The article consists of cowardly, petulant "diplomats" hiding behind anonymity & state-funded "experts" trying to discourage China from helping Syria rebuild from the Dirty War. These sadists are livid that Syria could possibly try to rebuild what the US & friends destroyed.
"Syria is a poor investment for them."

"rebuilding infrastructure is not profitable at all."

"this regime has gone to extraordinary lengths to convince the entire world that Syria is just a terrible business proposition."

No mention that US sanctions target reconstruction.
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18 Jul
New evidence ties Jaysh-al-Islam -- the Saudi-funded "rebel" death squad involved in the staged chemical attack in Douma -- to the abduction and disappearance of Syrian lawyer and activist Razan Zaitouneh. dw.com/en/exclusive-h…
Two months her Dec. 2013 abduction, "a member of Jaish al-Islam accessed his social media accounts via a computer given to Zaitouneh and Khalil by a US State Department-funded program." The US gov't then traced the computer to a JAI prison in Douma.
The fact that Zaitouneh had a US gov't-supplied computer suggests that they were working together in some capacity. In any event, why didn't the US make this publicly known? Were they covering up for Jaysh-al-Islam, one of the key "rebel" groups in the Dirty War?
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29 Jun
I want to thank voices who not only covered but also criticized the McCarthyite TYT smear campaign against me & @jimmy_dore. To my surprise, more established lefty voices stayed silent. I appreciate @jacksonhinklle @vanguard_pod @LeeCamp @HardLensMedia for filling the void.
The fact that the US just bombed Syria & US troops are occupying it (along with imposing murderous sanctions) should underscore that it's derelict for left media to avoid it -- & avoid speaking out when those who do cover it are slandered for challenging the establishment line.
And the fact that no one took seriously the weaponization of MeToo to slander Jimmy (and cover-up for the slander of me) -- for a joke that he apologized for 7 years ago -- doesn't mean that it wasn't shameful, and worthy of condemnation. TYT's behavior shouldn't be tolerated.
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